2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
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
| 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 |
| THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY | JUICE WORLD | IN THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK | SITCOMEDY | ANAGRAM THE LAST WORD | THAT'S THE TICKET! |
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$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
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$200
[21]
The "D" in the name of this tangy juice brand is short for "delight"
Sunny D
Tara
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$200
[16]
The principal has confiscated several of these trading cards including 3 Squirtles
Pokémon cards
Trevor
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$200
[11]
In this title precinct, Detective Rosa Diaz' formal leather jacket is "the one without any blood on it"
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Matthew
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$200
[1]
Adjective for the chance of being struck by a meteor
remote
Matthew
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
|
| 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
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$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
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$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
|
As a teenager this woman regained her sight thanks to 2 surgeries in 1881 & 1882
Annie Sullivan