2020 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 3.
Lauren Schneider Lipton — a high school health teacher from Seattle, Washington
Will Satterwhite — an 8th through 12th grade band and choir teacher from Vinton, Virginia
Jenna Hall — a high school English teacher from Seaside, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenna | $0 | $1,000 | $9,000 |
$16,500
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,000
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Will | $2,800 | $5,400 | $22,400 |
$22,400
Automatic semifinalist |
$19,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Lauren | $400 | $-400 | $7,600 |
$14,001
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,600
10 R, 2 W |
| GEOGRAPHY | SAY IT IN FRENCH | A HIT RECENTLY | YO HO HO | A WRITER'S LIFE | FORM "E" |
|
$200
[9]
Extending for more than 1,200 miles off the northeastcoastof Australia is this natural wonder
the Great Barrier Reef
Jenna
|
$200
[3]
Coffee with milk
cafe au lait
Jenna
|
$200
[8]
On the country side, Dan + Shay hit it big recently with a little help from this Canadian superstar
Justin Bieber
|
$200
[1]
From "Treasure Island" comes the refrain "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, yo-ho-ho" & one of these
a bottle of rum
Will
|
$200
[17]
Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976
Agatha Christie
Jenna
|
$200
[7]
A triangle with sides A, B & C all equal in length is in this form
equilateral
Jenna
|
|
$400
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The border between the Greek regions of Macedonia & Thessaly is the location of this legendary home of the gods
Mount Olympus
Will
|
$400
[4]
My God!
mon dieu
Will
|
$400
[14]
In December 2019 her "All I Want For Christmas Is You" completed the longest trip from release to Billboard No. 1: 25 years
Mariah Carey
Jenna
|
$400
[2]
These sailor songs helped pass time during strenuous labor, like the halyard type sung when hoisting sails
a sea shanty
Lauren
|
$600
[19]
Born 1919, came through the rye to fame in 1951, & we're not too sure what he did from 1965 to his death in 2010
Salinger
Lauren
|
$400
[10]
The parts of a roof that stick out over the edge of a building form these
eaves
Will
|
|
$600
[22]
Three nations--Uganda, Kenya & Tanzania--border this lake
Lake Victoria
Lauren
|
$600
[5]
Great prize
grand prix
Will
|
$600
[16]
Real name Austin Post, he has been running "Circles" around the competition
Post Malone
|
$600
[6]
"They send you to New Bedford" in "Blow Ye Winds", a song about this maritime activity
whaling
|
$800
[23]
Born in 1903 with the initials E.A.B., took his pen name from an English river in 1933, passed away in 1950, 34 years early
George Orwell
Jenna
|
$600
[11]
Take a look from above & you'll see why anareajust south of the White House has this geometric name
the Ellipse
|
|
$800
[26]
Thismajor river runs all the way across northern Italy from the western frontier with France to the Adriatic in the east
Po
|
$800
[20]
Literally, white card
carte blanche
Will
|
$800
[28]
Complemented by its lush video, "Rare" from this former TV wizard was a singular hit in the new decade
Selena Gomez
Will
|
$800
[25]
Captain Quint in "Jaws" sang the lament, "Farewell, and adieu to" these women
the Spanish ladies
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
Born 1898, taught at Oxford & Cambridge, chronicled big cats, enchantresses & closets, died 1963
C.S. Lewis
Jenna
|
$800
[12]
It's the protective housing of a crustacean
an exoskeleton
Will
|
|
$1,000
[27]
The Saharacovers most of North Africa, including these two neighboring countries that both start with the letter "M"
Mauritania and Mali
Jenna
Lauren
|
$1,000
[21]
That's life
c'est la vie
Will
|
$1,000
[29]
In her cover of "Doin' Time", she reimagines Gershwin & Sublime
Lana Del Rey
|
$1,000
[30]
"A drop of Nelson's blood won't do us any harm"; "Nelson" referring to Admiral Horatio & "blood" being this 4-letter potent potable
grog
|
$1,000
[24]
Born 1709 in England, wrote a dictionary, got bio'd, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1784
Samuel Johnson
Lauren
|
$1,000
[13]
This young form of an eel sounds like it might have pointed ears
elver
Jenna
|
| WE HAVE A SITUATION | TV PERSONALITIES | SCIENCE NOW! | THE RENAISSANCE | CHANGE A LETTER | OF TEACHERS & TESTS |
|
$400
[25]
In this country ha-matzav, "the situation", refers to the security threats it has faced since the day of independence in 1948
Israel
Will
|
$400
[4]
He logs a lot of miles hosting "American Idol" on one coast & co-hosting with Kelly Ripa on the other
(Ryan) Seacrest
Will
|
$400
[20]
In 2019, using the Event Horizon Telescope, the first of these cosmic objects was photographed
a black hole
Will
|
$400
[1]
In the early 1500s Botticelli & Leonardo da Vinci both lived in this Arno River city, a leading renaissance center
Florence
Lauren
|
$400
[6]
Change a letter in the color of money into the rapacious desire for said money
green & greed
Will
|
$400
[11]
I can read you like this 2-word term for an exam in which students are allowed to consult notes & texts
an open book
Will
|
|
$800
[27]
Zero-sum is an alternative to this happier type of double-talk situation
win-win
Will
Lauren
|
$800
[5]
In 2019, sheleft "The Talk" to concentrate on executive producing & starring on "The Conners"
Sara Gilbert
|
$800
[21]
A study at Johns Hopkins suggests that being around dogs at an early age may lessen the risk of this "split mind" disorder
schizophrenia
Lauren
|
$800
[2]
One of the great Renaissance buildings is the Biblioteca Marciana, meaning St. Mark's this, in Venice
Library
Will
|
$800
[7]
A word meaning mild or not very flavorful spices things up by becoming a verb meaning to mix
bland & blend
Will
|
$800
[12]
Doctoral students write dissertations; a master's degree usually requires one of these, from the Greek for "proposition"
a thesis
Will
|
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1950 he spoke about the situation in Korea: "a small country, thousands of miles away, but... important to every American"
Truman
Jenna
|
$1,200
[18]
This entrepreneur & shark from "Shark Tank" is the majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks
Mark Cuban
Will
|
$1,200
[22]
Observed in 2019, 2I/Borisov is the first identified one of these bodies of rock & ice to visit from outside our solar system
a comet
Will
|
$1,600
[9]
Seen here in a sculpture from around 1410 is the Renaissance master Donatello's version of this biblical king
David
Lauren
|
$1,200
[8]
With a change of just one letter, to burn slightly becomes a single-named superstar singer/actress
char & Cher
Lauren
|
DD
$1,200
[13]
We'll gamble you know that this word for an exam supervisor once meant a Roman governor
a proctor
Will
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Churchill's June 4, 1940 speech on the war situation narrates this evacuation of 335,000 troops from the shores of France
Dunkirk
Jenna
|
$1,600
[19]
In 2019, 20 years after the original premiered, hewas back in the kitchen with "Good Eats: The Return"
Alton Brown
Jenna
|
$1,600
[23]
RBBP6, one of these compounds that contain amino acids, has proven effective against Ebola
a protein
Lauren
|
$2,000
[10]
Martin V, first pope of the Renaissance, was offered digs in this French city where the alternate papacy had been based, but said no
Avignon
Will
|
$1,600
[16]
A word meaning of short duration turns very sad as one denoting sharp sorrow over a death
brief & grief
Jenna
|
$1,600
[14]
An experienced teacher who helps guide a new teacher; also, the name of a guide in the "Odyssey"
a mentor
Lauren
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Demosthenes spent years convincing Athenians they were in a crisis situation due to the threat from this dad of Alexander
Philip (of Macedon)
Will
|
$2,000
[26]
She can talk football or the fandango as a sports reporter & a co-host of "Dancing with the Stars"
Erin Andrews
|
$2,000
[24]
Developers of this hyphenated type of battery that powers smartphones & electric cars won the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize
lithium-ion
Jenna
|
DD
$3,800
[3]
Erasmus was the "Prince of" this -ism that uses classical learning to gain knowledge of man's nature
Humanism
Will
|
$2,000
[17]
Change a letter in the opposite of illuminated to get a word for unpleasantly damp & chilly
dark & dank
Will
|
$2,000
[15]
This synonym of proficiency describes a type of learning that allows students to progress at the rate at which they master skills
competency
|
A familiar chant in this fairy tale continues, "Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread"
"Jack and the Beanstalk"