2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 1.Category names in the Jeopardy! Round read by Amazon Alexa.
Julia Rosinski Bailey — a 10th grade chemistry teacher from Austin, Texas
Joe Rengstorf — a middle school special education teacher from Poulsbo, Washington
Mariah Minges Klusman — a 12th grade English language arts teacher from Wyncote, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mariah | $-400 | $2,400 | $2,400 |
$4,795
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$2,400
8 R, 5 W |
| Joe | $4,200 | $9,800 | $16,000 |
$20,401
Automatic semifinalist |
$10,200
26 R (including 3 DDs), 5 W |
| Julia | $2,000 | $1,400 | $10,200 |
$15,200
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,200
14 R, 6 W |
| PARENTHETICAL SONGS | OCCUPATIONS | GEOGRAPHY | INITIALLY YOURS | CLASSIC NOVELS | CLICHES |
|
$200
[23]
Beyonce:"(Put A Ring On It)"
"Single Ladies"
Julia
|
$200
[3]
Roughnecks, roustabouts & drillers all work on these structures
oil rigs
Joe
|
$200
[1]
In this state, not far from Mount Hood, there's a town that's Boring (that's its name, really)
Oregon
Joe
|
$200
[18]
He directed "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" & "Star Trek Into Darkness"
J.J. Abrams
Mariah
|
$200
[5]
He wrote that a hobbit-hole "means comfort"
Tolkien
Joe
|
$200
[8]
To achieve a pair of goals with a single effort is to do this, perhaps using a slingshot
kill two birds with one stone
Joe
|
|
$400
[27]
Rihanna:"(In The World)"
"Only Girl"
Julia
|
$400
[4]
No secret handshake required these days to be this professional who uses bricks, blocks or natural stones to build structures
a mason
Julia
|
$400
[2]
Lahore, this country's second-largest city, is the capital of the Punjab province
Pakistan
Mariah
Julia
|
$400
[19]
In 1879 he founded his first 5-cent stores in Utica, New York & Lancaster, Penn.; the price ceiling was later raised to a dime
F.W. Woolworth
Julia
|
$400
[6]
Mark Twain's childhood sweetheart Laura Hawkins was the basis for Becky Thatcher, beloved of this title character
Tom Sawyer
Mariah
|
$400
[9]
Making a wrong assumption is doing this, like when dogs pursuing their prey go to an incorrect oak
barking up the wrong tree
Joe
|
|
$600
[28]
Eurythmics:"(Are Made Of This)"
"Sweet Dreams"
Joe
|
$600
[13]
These 2 words come before "cook" to describe one in a diner making simple, quick meals
short order
Mariah
|
$600
[12]
This Florida lake is the third-largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the United States
Okeechobee
Julia
|
$600
[20]
We're sure this author, noted for a 1951 classic, would not have liked to have his picture seen by millions of people
J.D. Salinger
Mariah
|
$600
[7]
A Lithuanian immigrant named Jurgis Rudkus works in the Chicago stockyards in this classic novel
The Jungle
Julia
|
$600
[24]
This type of message predicting disaster comes from the book of Daniel
the writing's on the wall
Joe
|
|
$800
[29]
Otis Redding:"(Sittin' On)"
"The Dock Of The Bay"
Joe
|
$800
[16]
U.S. News included this mapmaking occupation one of its 25 Best Jobs of 2019, anticipating a rise in demand
a cartographer
Joe
|
$800
[14]
This Italian region that includes Pisa & Florence gets its name from the Etruscan people
Tuscany
Joe
|
$800
[21]
This guy started out with a 3-page flyer advertising his Maine hunting shoe; the catalog is bigger now
L.L. Bean
Joe
|
$1,000
[11]
Chapter 1 of this Verne novel informs us that in 1872 Phileas Fogg lived on Saville Row
Around the World in Eighty Days
Joe
|
$800
[25]
A paper entitling the bearer to food, or a source of financial support, as in "That rich wife is his ____ ____"
meal ticket
|
|
$1,000
[30]
U2:"(In The Name Of Love)"
"Pride"
Joe
|
$1,000
[17]
Nurses can be RNs, registered nurses, or LPNs, this type
a licensed practical nurse
Mariah
|
$1,000
[15]
Within a formerprovinceof South Africa, you'll find the name of this river on its southern edge
the Vaal
Mariah
|
$1,000
[22]
Via the White Star Line, the Titanic was owned by this U.S. banking tycoon, who had a private suite he never got to use
J.P. Morgan
Mariah
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
This Tolstoy title lady has a young son named Sergei
Anna Karenina
Joe
|
$1,000
[26]
This "effort" made in an ultimate attempt to prevent disaster comes from a final military defensive position
last-ditch effort
Joe
|
| IOWA IN ENTERTAINMENT | THE PLANETS | ARCHAEOLOGY | BALLOONS | THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY | DOOMED TO REPEAT "IT" |
|
$400
[25]
In this film when asked, "Is this heaven?", Kevin Costner answers, "It's Iowa"
Field of Dreams
Joe
|
$400
[1]
Like Earth, this planet has polar ice caps--the Planum Boreum & the Planum Australe
Mars
Joe
|
$400
[6]
Evidence suggests that this ancient monument on Salisbury Plain was once a burial site for cremated remains
Stonehenge
Joe
|
$400
[16]
The U.S. Balloon Corps was established during this war & observed enemy movements in support of the Army of the Potomac
the Civil War
Mariah
Joe
Julia
|
$400
[20]
Ignoring this commander's experience 129 years earlier, in the winter of 1941, the Germans attacked Moscow
Napoleon
Joe
|
$400
[11]
A player who swings from both sides of the plate, like Mickey Mantle
a switch hitter
Julia
|
|
$800
[26]
Thisbrotherly duo of "Bye Bye Love" fame got their start singing on Iowa radio stations
The Everly Brothers
|
$800
[2]
It was the first planet discovered in modern times; William Herschel thought it was a comet when he first saw it
Uranus
Mariah
Joe
Julia
|
$800
[7]
Artifacts & the remains of colonial leaders have been found at the site of this first permanent English settlement in America
Jamestown
Joe
|
$800
[17]
At first, the giant balloons in this 90+year-old parade were set afloat & whoever found them, days later, won a prize
the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Mariah
|
$800
[21]
In 1968 Bernard Montgomery said the U.S. had broken the second rule of war:"Don't go fighting with your land army" on this continent
Asia
Joe
|
$800
[12]
Uh-oh, my Visa's maxed out--I must've reached this
credit limit
Julia
|
|
$1,200
[27]
Iowa native Fred Grandy played Gopher on this TV show for 9 years & later was a U.S. rep from the state
The Love Boat
Julia
|
$1,200
[3]
Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured this phenomenon around the north pole of Jupiter
aurora borealis
Joe
|
$1,600
[9]
Before massive digging began, Sir Arthur Evans bought the site of this Minoan city on the island of Crete
Knossos
Joe
|
$1,200
[18]
This high-flying 2009 film took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film
Up
Julia
|
$1,200
[22]
The Soviet Union invaded this "graveyard of empires" in 1979 & suffered 50,000 casualties before withdrawing in 1989
Afghanistan
Joe
|
$1,200
[13]
"To boldly go" is this grammatical construction
a split infinitive
Julia
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Filmed partly in tornado-prone Iowa, this 1996 film starred Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton
Twister
Julia
|
$2,000
[5]
This Italian-born astronomer discovered the gap in Saturn's rings & a probe named for him orbited the planet for 13 years
Cassini
Julia
|
$2,000
[10]
The body ofthis2,000-year-old man was discovered in a bog in Denmark in 1950
the Tollund Man
|
$1,600
[19]
An L.A. government agency says mylar helium balloons that fly free cause around 200 of these in the city every year
power outages
Julia
|
$1,600
[23]
WWI leaders didn't learn from the terrible effect of these weapons, like the Maxim, in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War
machine guns
Mariah
|
$1,600
[14]
Restaurants like Da Nico & Il Cortile line Mulberry Street in this section of Manhattan
Little Italy
Joe
Julia
|
|
$2,000
[30]
George Reeves from Woolstock, Iowa was a trained boxer & in 1952 became the first actor to play this character on TV
Superman
Mariah
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
Some have more than 60, but these 2 planets have no known moons
Mercury and Venus
Joe
|
DD
$5,200
[8]
In 2018 it was announced that the world's oldest intact shipwreck was found off the coast of Bulgaria, at the bottom of this sea
the Black Sea
Joe
|
$2,000
[28]
In 1783 these brothers sent a sheep, a duck & a rooster aloft in a hot-air balloon over Versailles
the Montgolfier brothers
|
$2,000
[24]
In World War I Italy attacked this northeast neighbor in 12--yes, 12--battles of the Isonzo River & got whupped repeatedly
Austria
Joe
Julia
|
$2,000
[15]
Dissociative identity disorder is more colloquially known as this psychological condition
split personality
Joe
Julia
|
A poem by him includes, "It was grassy and wanted wear;/though...the passing there/had worn them really about the same"
Robert Frost