Show #7759 2018-05-10 (taped 2018-03-20) Teachers Tournament

2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Katherine Saxby — a high school English and French teacher from Alameda, California

Indi Ekanayake — an 8th grade science teacher from Seattle, Washington

Beth Binder — a 6th grade teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Beth	$3,200	$5,600	$6,800	$2,800 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$6,800 10 R, 2 W
Indi	$1,600	$3,400	$2,500	$500 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$7,000 16 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Katherine	$2,400	$3,800	$7,000	$13,601 Automatic semifinalist	$6,800 16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOBBIES & PASTIMES	GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS	SHALL WE "DANCE"?	TITLES MADE METRIC	ALL EYES	ON YOU
$200 [9] A 3-ball cascade is the most basic pattern used in this hobby, but one day you might attempt a flying disco drop juggling Katherine	$200 [8] It's alternately titled "Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" Little Women Indi	$200 [1] You probably "take" this at the start of every class attendance Katherine	$200 [6] "Celsius 233" (a dystopian classic) Fahrenheit 451 Indi	$200 [24] Theeyeson ancient Greek drinking vessels are called apotropaic, meaning they're supposed to ward off this evil spirits Katherine	$200 [21] Verruca is another word for this benign but contagious growth on the skin a wart
$400 [11] The British version of this board game changes Tennessee Ave. into Marlborough & Boardwalk into Mayfair Monopoly Beth	$400 [10] The battle in this Stephen Crane novel is believed to have been based on the Battle of Chancellorsville Red Badge of Courage Indi	$400 [2] Good this to that piece of trash! riddance Katherine	$400 [7] "1.83 Meters Under" (funeral home hijinks on TV) Six Feet Under Beth	$400 [25] You could get an idea of how the world might look to a sturgeon with one of these wide-angle lenses a fisheye Indi	$400 [22] You'll phind your philtrum just below this organ nose Indi
$600 [12] Come up out of the basement & tell us you know "Final Fantasy" is an RPG, short for this role-playing game Indi	$600 [15] Chief Bromden, a Native American who feigns muteness, is the narrator of this Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Indi Katherine	$600 [3] Civilian job of Madison Clark on "Fear the Walking Dead"; she might have career suggestions for teen zombies a guidance counselor Beth	$600 [18] "Hedwig and the Angry 2.54 Centimeters" (rock opera) inch Beth	$600 [26] The Righteous Brothers & the Rascals were exponents of the '60s musical genre "blue-eyed" this soul Katherine	$600 [23] Before "under", this joint means to surrender knuckled Katherine
$800 [13] If you can bear it, spelunking is this active hobby exploring caves Indi	DD $1,000 [16] This Dreiser novel lives up to its title: Clyde dies in the electric chair for murdering his pregnant girlfriend An American Tragedy Katherine	$800 [4] It's an overflowing amount of something an abundance Beth	$800 [19] "12.9 Kilometer" (Detroit drama) 8 Mile Beth	$800 [27] Tiger eye quartzis formed by the alteration of crocidolite, this type of fire-resistant fibrous mineral asbestos	$800 [29] Your stratum corneum, or "horny layer", is the external part of this top skin layer the epidermis Indi
$1,000 [14] Looking for something exotic? You could try raising one of these snakes like a ball or a Burmese python Beth	$1,000 [17] This Heinlein novel begins, "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" Stranger in a Strange Land Katherine	$1,000 [5] 2 things that are in agreement are also "in" this with each other accordance Katherine	$1,000 [20] "14,515 kilograms" (What do you get?) Sixteen Tons Beth	$1,000 [28] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a hurricane on the monitor.) When a tropical storm reaches hurricane strength, an eye appears in the storm's outer layer made of these wool-like clouds, from Latin for "curl" cirrus clouds	$1,000 [30] When a skin product calls itself noncomedogenic, that means it won't clog these pores Indi

Double Jeopardy! Round

AN APPELLATION FOR THE TEACHER	TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM?	ASIAN GEOGRAPHY	RHETORICAL DEVICES	QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC	FAST COMPANY
$400 [22] Thomas Jackson, an artillery tactics instructor at VMI in the 1850s, later acquired this famous nickname Stonewall Jackson	$400 [21] Frances on "Divorce" & Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City" Sarah Jessica Parker Indi	$400 [6] The Temple of Buddha's Tooth is found in this island nation off India Sri Lanka Indi	$400 [16] Metaphors & similes both make comparisons, but similes specifically use either of these 2 words to do so like or as Katherine	$400 [11] When asked what this is, Louis Armstrong famously replied, "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know" jazz Katherine	$400 [1] Janne Laitinen set a speed record for this surface when he drove an Audi with studded tires 209 MPH across a Finnish gulf ice Indi
$800 [23] Scottish prof Archie Roy, who researched haunted houses, got a movie-based alliterative tag--"the Glasgow" this ghostbuster Beth Katherine	$800 [27] Peggy Olson on "Mad Men" & Offred on "The Handmaid's Tale" Elisabeth Moss Beth Katherine	$800 [7] Just east of the Caspian Sea is the city-sized Tengiz supergiant one of these, part of Kazakhstan & part of Chevron oil field	$800 [17] Asyndeton is a rhetorical device in which these parts of speech are omitted, as in "I came, I saw, I conquered" conjunctions Indi	$800 [12] On his partnership with this man, Oscar Hammerstein said, "I hand him a lyric and get out of the way" (Richard) Rodgers Katherine	$800 [2] In 1997 Andy Green broke 760 MPH in Thrust SSC, the first land vehicle to officially break this the speed of sound Indi
$1,600 [25] Historian & professor Lord "Acton the Severe" is best remembered for the line that this "tends to corrupt" power Indi	$1,200 [28] Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon & crime fighter Michael Knight David Hasselhoff Katherine	$1,200 [8] With 260 million, mostly Muslim, it's the world's fourth-most populous country Indonesia Indi	$1,200 [18] Black & white keys side by side on a piano are an analogy for racial harmony in this Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder hit "Ebony And Ivory" Indi	$1,200 [13] In this Shakespeare comedy Duke Orsino delivers the line "if music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night Beth	$1,200 [3] Kilian Jorent has set multiple speed records in this, AKA Alpinism mountain climbing Indi Katherine
DD $2,000 [24] A Yorkshireman, Alcuin was "schoolmistress to France" & taught this first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne Indi	$1,600 [29] Oz on "Breaking In" & "Mr. Robot" Christian Slater	$1,600 [9] The lawless border region where Laos, Myanmar & Thailand meet has this "shapely" 2-word nickname the Golden Triangle	$1,600 [19] Tennyson said oxymoronically of Lancelot that "faith unfaithful kept him falsely" this true Beth	$1,600 [14] Thoreau wrote, "In a world of peace and love music would be the universal" this language Katherine	$1,600 [4] Francois Garbart holds the record for doing this solo, just under 43 days--an average of 27.2 knots sailing around the world
$2,000 [26] This 19th century educator became "the schoolmaster of the nation" for his "readers" that sold more than 100 million copies William McGuffey	$2,000 [30] Tami Taylor of "Friday Night Lights" & Rayna James on "Nashville" Connie Britton Katherine	DD $2,500 [10] A large region of Turkey, also known as Asia Minor, is called this, from the Greek for "east" Anatolia Indi	$2,000 [20] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents a photo of two boats.) The photo here showing two contrasting ideas is an example of this 13-letter rhetorical device, also used by Dickens when he wrote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" juxtaposition Katherine	$2,000 [15] Pablo Casals compared this instrument to "a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time" the cello Indi	$2,000 [5] (Jay Leno presents the clue.) Back around World War I when you wanted to go fast, you put a big aircraft engine in a lightweight car; my 1915 Hispano-Souza uses the same kind of aircraft V8 as the S.P.A.D. flown by this race-car driver & top-scoring U.S. ace of World War I Eddie Rickenbacker

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN WRITERS

On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as "an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold" (but funnier)

Nora Ephron

Indi "Who is" — wagered $2,000

Beth "Who was Fannie Flagg?" — wagered $4,000

Katherine "Who is Nora Ephron" — wagered $6,601

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