2018 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 2.
Claire Bishop — a high school Latin teacher from Lexington, Kentucky
Rachel Niegelberg — an elementary school special education teacher from Trumansburg, New York
Judy Tymkiw — an 8th grade English teacher from Fortescue, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judy | $-200 | $1,600 | $7,600 |
$15,200
3rd place: $10,000 |
$9,600
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rachel | $5,000 | $6,200 | $15,900 |
$25,900
2nd place: $10,000 |
$15,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Claire | $2,600 | $10,000 | $16,000 |
$31,801
Finalist |
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| I NEED A VACATION! | MUSIC | EDUCATIONAL ANAGRAMS | IT'S ONLY AN ALLUSION | MEN ON THE MOON | FROM "B" TO "Y" |
|
$200
[1]
Got my skis, but I hope I'm over my fear of heights when we make it to this nation
Switzerland
Judy
|
$200
[4]
In 2018 he announced that his 3-year "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour would be his last
Elton John
Rachel
|
$200
[21]
Where the magic happens:MASS COLOR
the classroom
Rachel
|
$200
[10]
A source of perpetual vigor; legend has it that Alexander the Great found one, but Ponce de Leon did not
the fountain of youth
Claire
|
$200
[26]
Setting one of these up on a tripod, Alan Bean inadvertently pointed it at the Sun & wrecked it
a camera
Judy
|
$200
[9]
It floats; in fact, it is a float
a buoy
Claire
|
|
$400
[2]
There's more to this Texas city than Paseo del Rio, or the River Walk, especially in its tricentennial year of 2018
San Antonio
Claire
|
$400
[5]
This "Chained To The Rhythm" singer is a judge on the 2018 version of "American Idol"
Katy Perry
Judy
Rachel
|
$400
[22]
A document of the content to be covered:SAYS BULL
syllabus
Rachel
|
$400
[11]
A revelatory realization, it's applied to the presentation of the infant Jesus to the 3 wise men
epiphany
Rachel
|
$400
[27]
John Young raced the LRV, this vehicle, through a "Grand Prix" test
a lunar rover vehicle
Rachel
Claire
|
$400
[12]
2-word term for overdue wages
back pay
Rachel
|
|
$600
[3]
I can't stop dancing now that we're in Trinidad, where this style of music originated & later had steel drums added
calypso
Rachel
|
$600
[6]
The song "Remember Me" from this animated film won an Oscar for Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
Coco
Rachel
|
$600
[23]
Test that may be the same statewide:DAZED IN DARTS
standardized
Judy
|
$600
[18]
Women who submit to their husbands as perfect, servile spouses, like those in a 1975 horror movie
Stepford wives
Claire
|
$600
[28]
He & Neil Armstrong spoke via telephone link with President Nixon
Buzz Aldrin
Claire
|
$600
[13]
It describes small & round eyes
beady
Rachel
|
|
$800
[16]
No more hot sauce for me after sampling the fare in Cayenne, capital of this French territory
French Guiana
Judy
|
$800
[7]
Their song "Back In Black" was a tribute to lead singer Bon Scott, who had just died
AC/DC
Claire
|
$800
[24]
Get this & you're licensed to teach:ARTIFICE TONIC
certification
Claire
|
$1,000
[20]
If you have to steer between 2 terrors, they may be identified as a rock & a whirlpool, this & Charybdis
Scylla
Claire
|
$800
[29]
Last man on the moon Eugene Cernan echoed MacArthur, saying "we" these 2 words
shall return
Judy
|
$800
[14]
If you're having this 3-word episode, you might have to explain that you're not going for a mohawk or mullet
a bad hair day
Rachel
|
|
$1,000
[17]
My feet hurt; there's no way I'm walking the entire length of this from Mount Hu to Jiayu Pass
the Great Wall of China
Claire
|
$1,000
[8]
In a Khalid song about high school kids, these 2 title adjectives follow "Young"
dumb and broke
Rachel
|
$1,000
[25]
The concepts behind the way you teach:MODEL HOG TOY
methodology
Judy
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
The name of this duo Alice meets in "Through the Looking Glass" refers to a pair so alike they're near indistinguishable
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Claire
|
$1,000
[30]
Alan Shepard got in a little practice in this sport
golf
Rachel
|
$1,000
[15]
A medieval book of animals
a bestiary
Claire
|
| A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE | WORLD CAPITALS | TRIPLE RHYME TIME | BIG MOUTH | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS | THE KING'S ENGLISH |
|
$400
[26]
In 1982 Atari went up an order of magnitude from Centipede to this sequel
Millipede
Rachel
|
$400
[7]
The Amstel flows under some 1,300 bridges & viaducts in this capital
Amsterdam
Claire
|
$400
[12]
A washed haricot vert
a clean green bean
Judy
|
$400
[17]
The Dragon's Mouth is the name of a strait that separates the island of Trinidad from this continent
South America
Judy
|
$400
[2]
Strange deaths in a London park command the attention of this police force in 2017's "Garden of Lamentations"
Scotland Yard
Judy
|
$400
[6]
This English king roared into the world in Oxford in 1157
Richard the Lionhearted
Rachel
|
|
$800
[27]
Bad Piggies is a spin-off of this popular mobile game
Angry Birds
Claire
|
$800
[8]
You want pyramids, we got pyramids! Come to Teotihuacan near this capital & see the Pyramid of the Sun
Mexico City
Claire
|
$800
[22]
Chubby flying mammals are having a little fight
a fat bat spat
Rachel
|
$800
[18]
The French surely love 1967's "The Big Mouth", with goofy antics involving this actor chased by gangsters
Jerry Lewis
Judy
|
$800
[13]
In Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian", a young woman discovers she may be a descendant of this infamous Romanian
Vlad the Impaler (or Dracula)
Claire
|
$800
[5]
The first English king of this name was born in Yorkshire in 1069; there would be VII more
Henry
Claire
|
|
$1,200
[30]
On PlayStation Crash is a genetically mutated type of this mouselike marsupial
a bandicoot
Rachel
|
$1,200
[9]
Rent yourself a van in Yerevan, this country's capital, then shoot through Turkey to the Black Sea
Armenia
Rachel
|
$1,200
[23]
The bag into which the very dark commemorative tablet goes
the black plaque sack
Judy
Rachel
|
$1,200
[19]
The basking variety of this creature can grow to 50 feet long & open its mouth a yard wide
the basking shark
|
$1,200
[14]
A.J. Finn's "The Woman in" this was inspired by watching a movie in which Jimmy Stewart spies on his neighbors
the window
Claire
|
$1,200
[1]
Born in The Hague, this future king married his English cousin Mary in 1677
William (of Orange)
Claire
|
|
$1,600
[29]
If you aren't careful, these title rodents will march to their deaths in a 1990s computer game
lemmings
Judy
|
$2,000
[11]
At the foot of the Elburz Mountains lies this capital whose name you can spell with or without an "E" in the middle
Tehran
|
$1,600
[24]
The mother in a movie about a guy & a girl overcoming obstacles to end up together
a mom rom-com
Rachel
|
$1,600
[20]
This song by The Smiths says, "Sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head"
"Bigmouth Strikes Again"
|
$1,600
[15]
Anne Hillerman continues dad Tony's series about cops of this Southwest nation in books like "Song of the Lion"
Navajo
Judy
Rachel
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
The third English king of this name was the first born in England; the first 2 were born in Lower Saxony
George
Judy
|
|
$2,000
[28]
In addition to the people type, you must face zombie dogs in this game, called "Biohazard" in Japan
Resident Evil
|
DD
$2,500
[10]
You need to use 2 hyphens when spelling the name of this Caribbean capital founded in 1749
Port-au-Prince
Rachel
|
$2,000
[25]
Non-alcoholic lager produced aboard the Russian space station
Mir near beer
Judy
|
$2,000
[21]
Thefrog-mouth helmetwas primarily used by knights in these events, not on the battlefield
jousts
Rachel
|
$2,000
[16]
"The Thin Man" by this author is about a former detective & his rich wife solving a murder amid high society
Dashiell Hammett
|
$2,000
[4]
He came to the throne in 978 around age 10; you could say he wasn't prepared for the job
Aethelred the Unready
Judy
|
Of the 6 official U.N. languages, it's the one that is written in a cursive form only
Arabic