Show #7763 2018-05-16 (taped 2018-03-21) Teachers Tournament

2018 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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

Jake Allen — a K-12 gifted and talented teacher from Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Larry Martin — a second grade teacher from Kansas City, Missouri

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Larry	$3,600	$6,800	$21,400	$25,400 Finalist	$20,000 24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jake	$1,600	$3,400	$12,600	$3,600 2nd place: $10,000	$13,600 16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Katherine	$600	$2,800	$9,200	$200 3rd place: $10,000	$11,200 14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FER SURE, IT'S THE VALLEY, DUDE	FAST FOOD	I HEAR VOICES	ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES	ETIQUETTE	THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS
$200 [19] You didn't need a jacket in the summer of 1996 in this California valley; 40 days saw temperatures top 120 degrees Death Valley Katherine	$200 [10] This company uses fresh pollock for its Filet-o-Fish McDonald's Larry	$200 [24] The force will always be with this late, great woman who voiced Angela, Peter's brewery boss on "Family Guy" (Carrie) Fisher Jake	$200 [30] That loop on a needle eye Jake	$200 [5] One of Reader's Digest's "50 Little Etiquette Rules" is with 8 or fewer people at a table, wait until all are served to do this eat Larry	$200 [6] By the 600s B.C. the Etruscans were more advanced than these neighbors who eventually absorbed them Romans Larry
$400 [20] The 1912eruptionof Katmai's Mount Novarupta created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokesin this state Alaska Jake	$400 [25] If you're not into the original recipe, as of 1995 this place serves chicken pot pies KFC Jake	$400 [18] In "Justice League Action" shorts, Tara Strong shows range both as Harley Quinn & as this alliterative reporter Lois Lane Katherine	$400 [28] To be under obligation to repay something owe Jake	$400 [12] One of Emily Post's "Ten Conversation Stoppers" is asking a woman, "When are you" this 3-letter word due Larry	$400 [4] The Etruscan custom of staging fights to the death at funerals led to the arena combats of these fighters gladiators Jake
$600 [21] Unhealthy for one archduke, this city lies in the valley of the Miljacka River Sarajevo Larry	$600 [26] If you haven't had the Sriracha Curly Fry Burger Munchie Meal from this eatery, you don't know... Jack in the Box Katherine	$600 [11] Kari Wahlgren took over for this "Maleficent" actress as Tigress for the TV version of "Kung Fu Panda" Angelina Jolie Katherine	$600 [9] Mr. Sheep's missus ewe Jake	$600 [13] In a traditional wedding recession, the bride & groom bat leadoff, then the flower girl & a young person with this job ringbearer Jake	$800 [1] Etruscans gave the world the Tuscan order of architecture, most like this one that uses simple & austere columns Doric Larry Katherine
$800 [22] Woodstock & New Paltz, listed among the "12 Best Places to Live", are in this river valley Hudson Larry	$800 [27] Chicken fries & BK caramel frappes are real things you can have at this chain Burger King Larry	$800 [16] Phil Lamarr tried to get back, back to the past voicing this magic sword-wielding title guy who took on the wicked Aku Samurai Jack	$800 [7] It appears in many Dutch place names, as when it follows "Zuider" zee Larry	$800 [14] It's often said to those with hay fever, & columnist Miss Conduct says it's okay to say it to an atheist God bless you Katherine	DD $1,000 [3] The Etruscans mainly lived between the Arno River &this historic river farther south the Tiber Jake
$1,000 [23] The Alleghenies are on the west side of the Shenandoah Valley; these "colorful" mountains, east Blue Ridge Mountains Larry	$1,000 [29] Chicken comes star-shaped like the logo from this chain with the same parent company as Hardee's Carl's Jr. Katherine	$1,000 [17] Maurice LaMarche said the voice for this "take over the world" mouse is "70% Welles, 20% Vincent Price" & 10% "something else" Brain Jake	$1,000 [8] The book "Man's Search for Meaning" says that he who has this word to live can bear almost any "how" the why	$1,000 [15] Miss Manners says not "Miss" but this Joe Friday palindrome works for a woman "old enough to do her own banking" ma'am Larry	$1,000 [2] Like a certain Greek divinity, Tinia wielded this, a discharge of lightning thunderbolt Jake

Double Jeopardy! Round

CITY OF THE NOVEL	FLAGS	MOVIE QUOTES	SOCIOLOGY	EUROPEAN PAINTINGS	SORTA BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [3] "Thank You for Smoking" & "Murder in the Smithsonian" Washington, D.C. Larry	$400 [2] This term for a tapering or triangular flag is also used to mean a baseball league championship a pennant Katherine	$400 [1] 2012: "Let's do a head count...the demigod, a super-solider...a man with breathtaking anger management issues..." The Avengers Jake	$400 [30] This 5-letter plural follows "social" to refer to platforms like Twitter that have changed communication media Larry	$400 [18] In 1902 Camille Pissarro painted this art museum "Under Snow" the Louvre Larry	$400 [22] Action star known as "The Muscles from Brussels" who's a Broadway musical with the song "Whatever Lola Wants" Jean Claude Van Damn Yankees Katherine
$800 [5] "Interview with the Vampire" & "A Confederacy of Dunces" New Orleans Jake	$800 [20] Gilbert Baker designed this flag first seen at 1978 gay pride activities the rainbow flag Larry	$800 [19] 1969:"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Katherine	$800 [29] First communion can be this type of 3-word ritual representing a change from one role to another rite of passage Larry	$800 [17] Botticelli's "La Primavera" originally hung in the summerhouse of this family as a companion piece to "Birth of Venus" the Medici Larry	$800 [23] Lead singer of the Four Seasons who is Jacqueline Susann's novel about pill-popping starlets Frankie Valley of the Dolls Jake
$1,200 [4] "The Jungle" & "The Man with the Golden Arm" Chicago Jake	$1,200 [6] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a flag flying on the monitor.) The part of the flag farthest from the staff is called the fly; the part closest to the staff, used to raise the flag, is called this, also a verb meaning "to raise a flag" hoist Larry	$1,200 [13] 2007: "Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does, can he swing, from a web, no he can't, he's a pig" The Simpsons Larry	$1,200 [28] Trobriand islanders trade these items, important in the plots of "Titanic" & "Anastasia" necklaces Larry Katherine	$1,200 [16] This artist, who gave us "This is Not a Pipe", combined 2 of his most famous images here (René) Magritte Larry	$1,200 [24] "Only you can prevent wildfires", says the Forest Service spokesfigure who's a song from "The Jungle Book" Smokey "The Bear Necessities" Katherine
DD $2,000 [9] "Fifty Shades of Grey" & "The Art of Racing in the Rain" Seattle Katherine	$2,000 [11] The blue triangle on theflagof this relatively new nation represents the Nile South Sudan Jake	$1,600 [8] 2003:"Santaaaa! Oh my God! Santa here? I know him! I know him" Elf Katherine	$1,600 [21] Back in 1868 N.Y.'s gov. made note of homelessness among these men; now there's a whole Cabinet dept. to help them veterans Katherine	$1,600 [14] This 17th century Spaniard's portraits of Philip IV "On Horseback" & "In Hunting Garb" are in the Prado Velazquez Larry	$1,600 [25] Prairie style architect who had a No. 1 hit singing "I'm too sexy for my shirt... so sexy it hurts" Frank Lloyd Right Said Fred Katherine
$2,000 [10] "Tales of the City" & "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" San Francisco Jake	DD $3,000 [7] The flag of the United Nations has a map of the world framed by 2 of these olive branches Larry	$2,000 [12] 1993:"I didn't kill my wife!";"I don't care!" The Fugitive Larry	$2,000 [27] In 1977 the A.S.A. president defined it as "a set of norms & values ...that sharply contradict the dominant" ones counterculture Larry	$2,000 [15] One of the most expensive still lifes ever sold at auction was this Frenchman's"Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit" Cezanne Katherine	$2,000 [26] Russian president who's an Irving Berlin song that says, "Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks" Vladimir "Puttin' On The Ritz" Jake

Final Jeopardy!

MYTHOLOGY

Ulysses & Menelaus were among those who emerged from the "womb" of this, called "tall as a mountain, ribbed with pine"

the Trojan Horse

Katherine "What is Athena?" — wagered $9,000

Jake "What is Vesuvius?" — wagered $9,000

Larry "What is the Trojan Horse? Yay, Marvels!" — wagered $4,000

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