Show #7987 2019-05-07 (taped 2019-04-01) Teachers Tournament

2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Trevor Crowell — a high school Spanish teacher from Mountain View, California

Matthew Bunch — a middle school civics and world history teacher from Miami, Florida

Tara Baxter — a high school English teacher from Tucson, Arizona

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tara $1,400 $3,000 $1,000 $2,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$1,000
8 R, 4 W
Matthew $5,200 $6,400 $12,400 $9,600
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$12,400
21 R, 3 W
Trevor $-200 $7,000 $15,600 $15,500
Automatic semifinalist
$12,800
20 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY JUICE WORLD IN THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK SITCOMEDY ANAGRAM THE LAST WORD THAT'S THE TICKET!
$200 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) Using facilities in Spain, Australia & California, JPL can monitor all space missions beyond the orbit of the Moon from mission control; those stations are spaced by this many degrees longitude, one-third of the globe, to maintain constant contact
120
Trevor
$200 [21]
The "D" in the name of this tangy juice brand is short for "delight"
Sunny D
Tara
$200 [16]
The principal has confiscated several of these trading cards including 3 Squirtles
Pokémon cards
Trevor
$200 [11]
In this title precinct, Detective Rosa Diaz' formal leather jacket is "the one without any blood on it"
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Matthew
$200 [1]
Adjective for the chance of being struck by a meteor
remote
Matthew
$200 [6]
Tim Kaine
Hillary Clinton
Matthew
$400 [27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) A descent vehicle, like the one in this clean room, was used to create a soft landing using the sky crane maneuver to lower this inquisitive rover to the surface in 2012
Curiosity
Trevor
$400 [22]
This brand introduced its cranberry juice cocktail in the early 1930s
Ocean Spray
Tara
$400 [17]
The principal won't give back this toy--she doesn't care how well a kid can "rock the baby" or "around the world"
a yo-yo
Matthew
$400 [12]
This Jim Parsons character said, "Howard, you know me to be a very smart man. Don't you think if I were wrong, I'd know it?"
Sheldon Cooper
Tara Matthew
$400 [2]
It's time to be quiet & do this & not be so verbose
observe
Trevor
$400 [7]
Geraldine Ferraro
Walter Mondale
Matthew
$600 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) JPL's Juno probe needed a boost to get to its target; scientists designed its trajectory to come back to Earth & then use our gravity to slingshot to this planet, Juno's husband in mythology
Jupiter
Trevor
$600 [23]
Green Machine & Kale Blazer are 2 of the blends from this juice brand that sounds like it bares it all
Naked
Trevor
$600 [18]
This red, spherical firecracker with a fruity name was found in one of the bathrooms--thank heavens it didn't go off!
a cherry bomb
Trevor
$600 [13]
Mr. Peanutbutter, leading a dog's life on this streaming comedy: "Officer... what was I supposed to do? Not chase the mail truck?"
BoJack Horseman
Matthew
$600 [3]
I will not shed this for the beast we just killed--after all, he was a predator
a teardrop
Trevor
$600 [8]
Paul Ryan
Mitt Romney
Matthew
$800 [29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) In 2017 JPL was able to restart long-dormant thrusters on Voyager 1; that helped reorient the spacecraft, so it can maintain communication from 13 billion miles away in this 12-letter space between solar systems
interstellar
Trevor
$800 [24]
A juice brand is punningly named "Apple &" her
Eve
Matthew
$800 [19]
No kid is going to have this in school, even if it is the body spray as opposed to the weapon
Axe
Trevor
$800 [14]
Creator Mike Judge's own experiences as an engineer partly inspired this high-tech HBO sitcom
Silicon Valley
Matthew
$800 [4]
Who'd have imagined I'd catch one of these at the seaside?
a disease
Matthew
$800 [9]
Hubert Humphrey
Lyndon Johnson
Matthew
DD $2,000 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) To curate the best images, music & messages to put on the two golden records, time capsules of info about Earth the two Voyagers would send outside the solar system, the project created a committee headed by this astronomer & author
(Carl) Sagan
Trevor
$1,000 [25]
The name of this juice brand that comes in a pouch evokes a warm Italian island
Capri Sun
Trevor
$1,000 [20]
Several cans of this energy drink that "gives you wings" are in her desk, not all taken from students
Red Bull
Tara
$1,000 [15]
On "Extras", David Bowie made up a song about this British comic that began, "Little fat man who sold his soul" & got so very much worse
Ricky Gervais
Tara
$1,000 [5]
You consider me this adjective, I presume
supreme
Tara
$1,000 [10]
Lloyd Bentsen
Michael Dukakis
Tara Matthew

Double Jeopardy! Round

QUOTING THE CLASSICS ACTORS NOT ACTING CENTRAL AMERICA IN THE ORCHESTRA BACK"PACK" THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
$400 [21]
"Achilles was still in full pursuit of Hector, as a hound chasing a fawn"
the Iliad
Trevor
$400 [1]
Dude, where's my portfolio? A savvy tech investor, this star of "That '70s Show" was in on Skype in 2009; he did okay
Ashton Kutcher
Matthew
$400 [6]
Oil tankers & other ships pay a fee to take this 50-mile Central American shortcut
the Panama Canal
Trevor
$400 [26]
Called the player-coach of the orchestra, the concertmaster almost always plays this instrument
the violin
Tara Trevor
$400 [11]
Originally this celebrity group included Bogie & Bacall; Sinatra was famously a member
the Rat Pack
Matthew
$400 [16]
We were a multi-tasking nation--the first earth for the east- & westbound route was turned in this middle year of the Civil War
1863
Matthew
$800 [22]
Aesop's moral to this insect fable:"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow"
"The Ant and the Grasshopper"
$800 [2]
Shailene Woodley, who played Tris in this film series, has enjoyed making her own cheese, face oils & toothpaste
Divergent
Tara
$800 [7]
The city of Quetzaltenango in this nation is home to a large population of K'iche' people
Guatemala
Trevor
$800 [27]
This section in the back of the orchestra is sometimes referred to as the battery
percussion
Matthew
$800 [12]
Queen Helene says it uses natural English clay in this facial treatment
a mud pack
$800 [17]
Every 30 seconds 2 guys laid down a 500- to 700-lb. rail; then came men with sledgehammers driving these, 10 to each rail
a spike
Matthew
$1,200 [23]
Ovid:"Of bodies changed to various forms I sing"
Metamorphoses
Trevor
$1,200 [3]
In 2007 Chazz Palminteri brought this outer-borough story to Broadway; he's also got a restaurant on West 46th Street
A Bronx Tale
Matthew Trevor
$1,200 [8]
Puerto Cortes in Honduras, which handles much of the country's trade, was badly damaged in 1998 by one of these
a hurricane
Trevor
$1,200 [28]
The Sousaphone, a type of this brass instrument, wraps around the player
a tuba
Trevor
$1,200 [13]
Canine term for a group of German subs in WWII
a wolf pack
Tara
$1,200 [18]
Towns that sprang up with saloons, gambling & sometimes a murder a day got this nickname, also an AMC TV drama about the railroad
hell on wheels
DD $2,000 [24]
Plato:"Democracy passes into despotism"
The Republic
Trevor
$1,600 [4]
The first time Steve Martin publicly showed his art collection was in 2001 at this Las Vegas hotel
the Bellagio
$2,000 [10]
English is the official language of Belize, which was known by this 2-word name from 1862 until 1973
British Honduras
Matthew
$1,600 [29]
Orchestra these are a lot less dome-y than the church types
tubular bells
Tara Matthew
$1,600 [14]
The average blue-collar guy
Joe Sixpack
Matthew
$1,600 [19]
Near Laramie in this state, the railroad's highest point has amonumentto the Ames brothers, shovel millionaires who helped finance it
Wyoming
Trevor
$2,000 [25]
Aristophanes:"These impossible women...can't live with them, or without them!"
Lysistrata
$2,000 [5]
This "Jurassic Park" co-star made a No. 1 jazz album with his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
Jeff Goldblum
Matthew
DD $3,000 [9]
A fruit & a bean, they were once the basis of Central America's economy & are now its most important fair trade crops
coffee and banana
Trevor
$2,000 [30]
This standard orchestral woodwind is about 4 1/2 feet long with a curved metal piece called a crook or bocal
the bassoon
Tara
$2,000 [15]
Melting from one of these in the Sierra Nevada provides about 1/3 of California's water needs
the snowpack
Matthew
$2,000 [20]
Other workers drank ditch water & got ill; Chinese workers drank tea & became 90% of the workforce of this co. heading east from California
the Central Pacific

Final Jeopardy!

TEACHERS

As a teenager this woman regained her sight thanks to 2 surgeries in 1881 & 1882

Annie Sullivan

Tara "Who was Annie Sullivan? Hi Star!" — wagered $1,000
Matthew "Who was ?" — wagered $2,800
Trevor "Who is Hellen Keller?" — wagered $100

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