2019 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 3.
Matthew Bunch — a middle school civics and world history teacher from Miami, Florida
Dave Rowswell — a high school art teacher from Cheyenne, Wyoming
Conor Quinn — a high school world history teacher from Albany, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conor | $2,400 | $5,000 | $12,500 |
$19,201
Finalist |
$10,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Dave | $1,200 | $4,800 | $15,200 |
$5,399
3rd place: $10,000 |
$13,200
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Matthew | $3,800 | $5,200 | $9,600 |
$9,300
2nd place: $10,000 |
$9,600
14 R, 0 W |
| RECENT POLITICS | MORE THAN 1 MEANING | FOOD STUFF | GEOGRAPHIC SEVENS | AS DESCRIBED IN THE PATENT | TEACHERS IN SONG |
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$200
[1]
TV ratings went through the roof on Feb. 27, 2019 when this attorney testified before the House Oversight Committee
Michael Cohen
Matthew
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$200
[6]
You can invest in shares of it, or you can use the beef or chicken type to make soup
stock
Matthew
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$200
[25]
One of Cracker Barrel's fancy fixin's is country fried (not chicken fried) this
steak
Dave
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$200
[18]
Current name of an organization leading industrial nations founded in 1975
the G7
Matthew
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$200
[11]
1947: "Helical spring toy which will walk on a... set of steps... without... external force beyond the starting force"
a Slinky
Dave
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$200
[30]
This hard-rocking group "Got it bad. Got it bad. Got it bad". They're "Hot For Teacher"
Van Halen
Dave
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$400
[2]
3 years after this Ohioan's days as House Speaker ended, he backed a marijuana startup going public in Canada in 2018
John Boehner
Conor
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$400
[7]
To emerge from an egg, or an opening or door on an aircraft
hatch
Conor
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$400
[24]
You don't need your oven to make this appetizer--a lime juice marinade does the cooking
ceviche
Matthew
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$400
[17]
Belgium, Norway & 5 other nations all border this arm of the Atlantic
the North Sea
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$400
[12]
1953:"Machines for smoothing and renewing the surface of the ice in a skating rink"
a Zamboni
Matthew
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$400
[22]
A "young teacher" in this song from The Police has to endure "strong words in the staffroom"
"Don't Stand So Close To Me"
Dave
|
|
$600
[3]
A new contest was ordered in 2019 due to election fraud in the 9th Congressional district in this Southern state
North Carolina
Matthew
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$600
[8]
Happening now, or the motion of the ocean
a current
Conor
|
$600
[23]
On this 5-letter diet, you eat like our ancient ancestors--more nuts, less wheat
the paleo diet
Conor
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$600
[16]
In 1991 Slovenia became the first of 7 independent nations that would emerge from this former federation
Yugoslavia
Conor
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$600
[13]
1866:"The arrangement of 2 wheels, the one directly in front of the other, combined with a mechanism for driving the wheels"
a bicycle
Matthew
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$600
[21]
This rapper shows little respect in "My Name Is..." where "my English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high"
Eminem
Conor
|
|
$800
[4]
In Feb. 2019 this N.J. Democratic sen. announced for pres. & hoped to "channel our common pain back into our common purpose"
Cory Booker
Matthew
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$800
[9]
It can mean to grow or sprout like a plant, or to engage in passive activity like kicking back & watching TV
vegetate
Dave
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$800
[26]
In the cuisine of this country of more than 100 million, injera is the bread & the dipping spoon all in one
Ethiopia
Dave
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$800
[19]
Ajman & Sharjah are 2 of the smaller of its constituent 7 emirates
the United Arab Emirates
Conor
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$800
[14]
1946:"Propulsion aircraft systems in which thrust is developed by... the expulsion of a stream of gas through a nozzle"
a jet engine
Dave
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$800
[29]
In the classic song "School's Out", this man mentions "No more teacher's dirty looks"
Alice Cooper
Matthew
|
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$1,000
[5]
In Feb. 2019 this GOP ex-Massachusetts gov. announced for pres. & urged "people of good will to take a stand & plant a flag"
William Weld
Matthew
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$1,000
[10]
It's the answer to a problem, or a homogenous liquid that's a mixture of 2 or more substances
a solution
Conor
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$1,000
[27]
The morel is Minnesota's state one of these
a mushroom
Dave
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$1,000
[20]
"Stan" comes from a word meaning place & this place is alphabetically last of the world's 7 "stan" countries
Uzbekistan
Conor
Dave
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
1893: "Automatically engaging or disengaging an entire series of clasps by a single continuous movement"
a zipper
Dave
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$1,000
[28]
"The teacher don't know about how to deal with the student body" is from this duo's 1984 hit "Adult Education"
Hall and Oates
Conor
|
| ANCIENT BATTLES | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS | STUDYING FOR THE TEST | ADD SOME CONSONANTS | MATH, TEACHERS | WOMEN AUTHORS |
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$400
[11]
This man defeated Vercingetorix at the 52 B.C. Battle of Alesia, & Gaul was Rome's
Julius Caesar
Conor
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$400
[22]
"Fist of Fury" & "The Way of the Dragon" are 2 movies starring this late legend
Bruce Lee
Matthew
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$400
[21]
Your score on this test is your mental age divided by your chronological age times 100
an IQ test
Matthew
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$400
[10]
Numbered explanatory comment at a page's bottom:OOOE
a footnote
Conor
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$400
[27]
It's the number of distinct digits that are used to represent numbers in a particular number system; you probably use 10
the base
Dave
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$1,200
[5]
Most of the known works of this ancient Greek poet are fragments; her 28-line "Ode to Aphrodite" is an exception
Sappho
|
|
$800
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) At the decisive 331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great's phalanxes opened ranks to let these wheeled Persian weapons pass through, then wipe them out
chariots
Dave
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$800
[3]
A razor slashes an eyeball in the avant-garde film "Un Chien Andalou", a co-production of Luis Bunuel & this surrealist
Dalí
Dave
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$800
[18]
Between 1951 & 1992 there were 928 nuclear explosive tests at the test site in this state
Nevada
Conor
Dave
|
$800
[9]
MPH indicator:EEOEE
speedometer
Conor
|
$800
[26]
The equation A(B + C) = AB + AC shows that multiplication is this with respect to addition
distributive
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$1,600
[6]
How about those Gilbert sisters--memoirist Elizabeth & this author of kids' books like "Heaven is Paved with Oreos"
Catherine Murdock
|
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$1,600
[14]
Cleopatra's galleys fled at the Battle of Actium, a victory for this soon-to-be emperor's fleet
Octavian
Conor
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$1,200
[1]
The 1989 action film "The Killer" was a thrill ride from this Hong Kong director
John Woo
Dave
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$1,200
[17]
A detectable increase in human chorionic gonadotropin is the key indicator in this test with 2 possible results
a pregnancy test
Dave
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$1,200
[8]
A John Lennon classic:IAIE
"Imagine"
Conor
|
$1,200
[25]
Math-minded cows might graze over this, the set of all the possible values that a function can take
the range
Conor
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— |
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$2,000
[15]
Muwatallis, not Uriah, led these people against the Egyptians in the 1274 B.C. Battle of Kadesh
the Hittites
Dave
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$2,000
[4]
Catherine Deneuve starred in "The Umbrellas of" this place
Cherbourg
Dave
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$1,600
[16]
You can take this test at The Ink Blot.com but you'll get a joke analysis about your personality
a Rorschach test
Conor
|
$1,600
[7]
A portable musical instrument:AOIO
an accordion
Matthew
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$1,600
[24]
This type of conic section is an open curve with 2 branches
a hyperbola
|
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|
DD
$3,500
[12]
Horses were terrified of these war beasts, which routed Roman cavalry at the 280 B.C. Battle of Heraclea
elephants
Conor
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DD
$3,600
[2]
In Bergman's "The Seventh Seal", a disillusioned knight plays a game of chess with this opponent
the Grim Reaper, or Death
Dave
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$2,000
[19]
This bogus "test" many had to take starting around 1890 was designed to make it impossible for African Americans to vote
a literacy test
Matthew
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$2,000
[20]
Old MacDonald had this point in a planet's orbit when it's nearest to the Sun:EIEIO
perihelion
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$2,000
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a coordinate system on the monitor.) To describe the position of a point in two dimensions, you can use the distance from an origin point & the angle from an axis, which are these paired coordinates with a chilly name
polar coordinates
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— |
A 1913 piece by him was conceived of as the symphonic equivalent of a pagan ritual, to be titled "Great Sacrifice"
Igor Stravinsky