2020 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Sam Matson — a high school English teacher from Cookeville, Tennessee
Katie Labarge — a high school science teacher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meggie Kwait — a middle school humanities teacher from New York, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Meggie | $2,800 | $7,800 | $16,400 |
$21,601
Automatic semifinalist |
$19,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Katie | $1,000 | $1,600 | $9,200 |
$18,400
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,200
10 R, 3 W |
| Sam | $800 | $3,600 | $10,800 |
$16,402
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| FROM PAGE TO SCREEN | 21st CENTURY ROYALTY | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB | STUDY GROUPS | BUY YOUR OWN | ACCORD |
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$200
[11]
Harrison Ford plays John Thornton, rescuer of sled dog Buck, in the 2020 adaptation of this Jack London novel
The Call of the Wild
Sam
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$200
[21]
Elizabeth II was 2 when women in England won the right to do this, but she doesn't
vote
Meggie
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$200
[12]
To follow in pursuit, perhaps to the bank of the same name
chase
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[6]
Pulmonologists--this organ
the lungs
Meggie
Sam
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$200
[1]
You can buy Bonefish Cay, one of these in the Bahamas, for a mere $7 million
an island
Meggie
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$200
[16]
The 1995 Dayton Accords ended the war in Bosnia that followed the breakup of this Balkan republic
Yugoslavia
Sam
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$400
[27]
Meryl Streep brought to life Miranda Priestly, magazine editor & the boss from hell, in this movie based on a bestseller
The Devil Wears Prada
Sam
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$400
[22]
In 2012 Queen Margrethe of Denmark celebrated her ruby one of these celebrations
jubilee
Meggie
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$400
[13]
To sing Christmas songs
to carol
Meggie
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$400
[7]
Hippologists--these animals
horses
Meggie
Sam
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$400
[2]
A Brunswick Brooklyn table for this, with drop pockets & rubber cushions, can be yours for $5,800
pool
Meggie
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$400
[17]
These 1978 accords named for a presidential retreat led to a 1979 peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
the Camp David Accords
Katie
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$600
[28]
When "One Shot" by Lee Child came to the big screen, it was named this, after the main character
Jack Reacher
Katie
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$600
[23]
Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg is by marriage also a princess of this petite nation sometimes mixed up with Luxembourg
Liechtenstein
Meggie
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$600
[14]
To tap gently with affection; you can also "stand" there by staying firm on a choice
pat
Meggie
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$600
[8]
Areologists--this planet
Mars
Meggie
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$600
[3]
One of the first of its kind, this 4-letter private jet can sell for $5 million (used)
a Lear
Sam
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$600
[18]
In 1951 the Treasury Department reached an accord with this other institution allowing the latter to pursue its own monetary policy
the Federal Reserve
Sam
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$800
[29]
Michael B. Jordan played lawyer Bryan Stevenson & he was wrongly convicted death row inmate Walter McMillian in 2019's "Just Mercy"
Jamie Foxx
Katie
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$800
[24]
He's been king of Sweden since 1973 & XVI properly comes between Carl & this name
Gustaf
Meggie
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$800
[15]
To make a visible impression, like the one on Cain
mark
Katie
Sam
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$800
[9]
Thanatologists--this bummer of a subject
death
Sam
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$800
[4]
A $1,500 Lehman's stainless steel this type of beverage press requires 34 apples to the gallon
a cider press
Katie
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$1,000
[20]
The 1989 Taif Accord ended a long civil war between Muslims & Christians in this Mideast nation
Lebanon
Sam
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$1,000
[30]
Just like the second book about this British diarist, the second film about her was subtitled "The Edge of Reason"
Bridget Jones
Meggie
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$1,000
[25]
In 2009 French President Sarkozy threatened to quit as co-prince if this country didn't make its banking laws more transparent
Andorra
Meggie
Sam
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$1,000
[26]
To bestow something formally, like a charter or money for college students
grant
Meggie
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$1,000
[10]
Pteridologists study these plants such as bracken that reproduce using spores
ferns
Meggie
Katie
Sam
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$1,000
[5]
Maybe you need one of these made by Specialized, with Shimano derailleurs & airless tires that won't go flat
a bicycle
Meggie
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DD
$1,600
[19]
The 1985 Plaza Accord devalued the dollar in relation to this, the currency of the only Asian G-5 member
the yen (of Japan)
Sam
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| CANADIAN PLACES | WOMEN'S FIRSTS | SONG SUNG BLUE | SHAKESPEARE | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS | E_I_E_I UH OH! |
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$400
[16]
Completed in 1818, Province House in Halifax in this province is Canada's oldest Parliament building
Nova Scotia
Sam
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$400
[1]
She'sthe woman being sworn intohernew post in 1981
Sandra Day O'Connor
Katie
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$400
[13]
In 1986 she had a Top 10 hit with the title track to her "True Blue" album
Madonna
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$400
[17]
Desdemona's lady-in-waiting, Emilia is the wife of this villain
Iago
Meggie
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$400
[6]
I tried to lather up with this soft greasy stone that's mostly talc, but teacher said not to use it as shampoo
soapstone
Meggie
Katie
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$400
[25]
Traditional number of piano keys, or mph needed for time travel in "Back to the Future"
eighty-eight
Meggie
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$800
[15]
Mt. Robson & Mt. Columbia are the highest peaks in the Canadian section of this mountain range
the Rockies
Sam
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$800
[2]
Elizabeth Blackwell made history in 1849 when she became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a degree in this
medicine
Katie
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$800
[14]
Isabella Rossellini sings this song in the 1986 David Lynch film of the same name
"Blue Velvet"
Sam
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$1,200
[19]
King Lear's daughters are Regan, Cordelia & her
Goneril
Sam
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$800
[7]
Today's lesson is that marble is this class of rock whose name also starts with "M"
metamorphic
Meggie
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$800
[26]
This hyphenated "aural" term can describe a very harsh type of scream
ear-piercing
Sam
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$1,200
[10]
(Christopher Plummer presents the clue.) In the 1950s & '60s I played many parts at the Shakespeare Festival in this Ontario town; in 1993 I celebrated the festival's 40th anniversary with a one-man show which I call "A Word or Two"
Stratford
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$1,200
[3]
In 1924, long before Ann Richards, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson was elected this state's first woman governor
Texas
Meggie
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$1,200
[22]
That Dishwalla song from the '90s that says, "Tell me all your thoughts on God" is actually titled "Counting Blue" these
"Cars"
Sam
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$1,600
[20]
This cousin of Juliet kills Mercutio
Tybalt
Meggie
Sam
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$1,200
[8]
We learned that this rock is pretty cool, like the recent Eddie Murphy movie character with the sound-alike name
dolomite
Katie
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$1,200
[27]
Presidents may invoke this 2-word right to withhold information from Congress & the courts
executive privilege
Meggie
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$1,600
[11]
"Man and His World" was the theme of Expo 67 in this city
Montreal
Meggie
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$1,600
[4]
In 1988shebecame the first woman in modern times to lead a majority Muslim nation--Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
Katie
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$1,600
[23]
In a 1984 Top 10 hit, he "just met a girl named Blue Jean"
David Bowie
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$2,000
[21]
Dogberry is a constable in this comedy set in Messina
Much Ado About Nothing
Meggie
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$1,600
[9]
We also learned that this 5-letter rock is a major source of the world's natural gas & oil deposits
shale
Sam
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$1,600
[28]
2-word term for the state's legal ability to take private property for public use
eminent domain
Sam
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DD
$4,000
[12]
Look above the Arctic Circle to find most of this largest Canadian island, which shares its name with a large bay
Baffin Island
Meggie
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$2,000
[5]
Depicted in "Hidden Figures", she was the 1st woman in the NASA flight research division credited as an author on a research report
Katherine Johnson
Katie
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$2,000
[24]
E.L.O. asked this title guy, "Tell us why you had to hide away for so long... where did we go wrong?"
Mr. Blue Sky
Katie
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DD
$5,000
[18]
In "Henry IV, Part 2", Doll Tearsheet calls this knight a "sweet little rogue"
Falstaff
Meggie
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$2,000
[30]
Today we learned about this alliterative rock noted for its beautiful color
lapis lazuli
Sam
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$2,000
[29]
What's called photographic memory may actually be this type of "imagery", the ability to describe an image no longer present
eidetic
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If it had physically existed, it would have stretched some 500 miles from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea
the Iron Curtain