Show #8225 2020-05-29 (taped 2020-02-24) Teachers Tournament

2020 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Allison Thomas — a 7th grade civics teacher from Port St. Lucie, Florida

Anne Pulju — a high school English teacher from Sandy Spring, Maryland

Jong Ho Kim — a high school math teacher from Lombard, Illinois

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jong Ho	$4,800	$9,656	$25,512	$23,370 Automatic semifinalist	$20,800 25 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Anne	$1,400	$3,400	$13,800	$11,599 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$13,800 17 R, 1 W
Allison	$1,400	$1,600	$3,200	$0 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$5,200 11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PICTURE THE MOVIE	COOL NEWS	LAB PARTNERS	I HAVE MY DOUBTS	MUSICAL THEATRE	MULTIPLE "CHOICE" QUIZ
$200 [6] Take a ride with this recent Oscar-winning movie Green Book Jong Ho	$200 [17] 17-year-old Wolf Cukier discovered a planet just 3 days into his internship with this government agency NASA Anne	$200 [29] Marie gets a Nobel! Pierre gets a Nobel! Irene gets a Nobel! Frederic gets a Nobel! Everybody in this family gets a Nobel! Curie Anne	$200 [30] Proverbially, "He who" does this "is lost" hesitates Anne	$200 [11] In the title of a politically incorrect show, it's the New York avenue on which some puppets live Avenue Q Allison	$200 [25] In this kind of poker, the player holding the deck picks the game dealer's choice Allison
$400 [5] Costner, for the win Dances with Wolves Allison	$400 [16] M.I.T. researchers used a solar still, evaporation & condensation in this process to make ocean water drinkable desalinization Allison	$400 [10] Thomas Francis was the guy who tested Jonas Salk's vaccine against this vicious disease through the double-blind method in 1954 polio Anne	$400 [13] Let's check your "Q" rating--this word pluralized denotes sudden misgivings or questions qualms Anne	$400 [12] In 2019, Christie Brinkley starred on Broadway as Roxie Hartin this musical Chicago Jong Ho	$400 [1] If you are safe at first base because the out was made on the runner at second, it's scored as this fielder's choice Jong Ho
$600 [7] A Kubrick classic A Clockwork Orange Jong Ho	$600 [26] In 2020 this sports league & its players association reached a deal that will pay top centers & point guards in excess of $500,000 a year the WNBA Anne	$600 [19] Thomas Watson worked in the lab with this man & in 1876 was on the other end of a very important phone call (Alexander Graham) Bell Allison	$600 [22] Heisenberg's 1927 indistinct principle? Irresolution? Hold on, I got it! It was called this principle! That's it Uncertainty Jong Ho	$600 [14] Songs in this musical based on a film include "Omigod You Guys" & "The Harvard Variations" Legally Blonde Anne	$600 [2] Conagra started this frozen food brand after its CEO had a heart attack in 1985 Healthy Choice Jong Ho
$800 [8] The jury is in 12 Angry Men Allison	$800 [27] In 2019 Tunisia held its second straight election that was considered to meet the alliterative criterion "free &" this fair Allison	$800 [20] Howard Florey & Ernst Chain followed up Alexander Fleming's work on this antibiotic & they all shared a Nobel Prize in 1945 penicillin Jong Ho	$800 [23] If you cast a wary or cynical eye on things, you may be a this, like the ancient Greek philosophy adopted by Plato's school a skeptic Anne Allison	$800 [15] An outdoor production of this musical set in Asia featured an actual Huey helicopter landing nightly Miss Saigon Jong Ho	$800 [4] The title of a 1979 novel, this is a decision where either option will end in sacrifice Sophie's Choice Jong Ho
$1,000 [9] It's 2019 in L.A. Blade Runner Jong Ho	$1,000 [28] A sort of "Epi Pen" for spinal cord injuries could thwart paralysis by using these microscopic "particles" nanoparticles Jong Ho Anne Allison	DD $3,456 [21] In 1942 at the University of Chicago, Leo Szilard helped this Italian create the first nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi Jong Ho	$1,000 [24] Some folks unsure of a higher power are this word from the Greek for "not known" agnostic Anne	$1,000 [18] Among the great songwriting teams were Rodgers & Hammerstein & this pair who gave us "My Fair Lady" Lerner & Loewe Jong Ho	$1,000 [3] The horse closest to the stable door or nothing Hobson's choice

Double Jeopardy! Round

RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF	DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE	AMERICAN HISTORY	ATHLETES WHO TEACH	SAILING THE 5 SEAS	"Mc"PEOPLE
$400 [6] Natasha Rostov & Pierre Bezukhov are characters in this Tolstoy masterpiece War and Peace Anne	$400 [17] There are a limited number of I's--3--in this word meaning endless... or unlimited...or... infinite Jong Ho	$400 [29] (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) One of my heroes is Wild Bill Hickok, who before moving west & becoming a legendary lawman & gunfighter helped escaping slaves at his family's Illinois farm, which served as a stop on this the Underground Railroad Jong Ho	$400 [30] NFL quarterback Jon Kitna traded Xs & Os for the Xs & Ys of this branch of math with a name from Arabic algebra Jong Ho	$400 [1] Travel from Colombia to Jamaica across this sea the Caribbean Sea Allison	$400 [22] On Sept. 6, 1901 he was shot at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo & died 8 days later McKinley Allison
$800 [7] Early in a Pasternak novel, this title man stands "in the corridor of the gynecological section of the hospital" Doctor Zhivago Anne	$800 [19] This adjective meaning warmly appreciative is in the name of Bob Weir's band grateful Jong Ho	$800 [14] New York statesman DeWitt Clinton promoted the idea of this waterway & was the commissioner who oversaw its construction the Erie Canal Jong Ho	$800 [5] In 2012 Ken Dryden began teaching a course at McGill in these national "Studies" Canadian Jong Ho Anne	$800 [2] Odessa & Sochi are ports on this sea that looks dark in winter due to heavy fogs the Black Sea Allison	$800 [23] Once known as the bad boy of tennis, todayhe's a respected commentator, both here & abroad (John) McEnroe Jong Ho
$1,200 [8] This19th century poet, playwright & unsuccessful duelist is considered afounderof modern Russian literature Alexander Pushkin	$1,600 [26] If you're this "fallacy" of attributing emotions to objects, you're this, & there's no "em-" at the start of the word pathetic Anne	$1,200 [15] The only clue to this colony's disappearance was the word "Croatoan" on a post; hasn't helped much Roanoke Jong Ho	$1,200 [11] The first woman to win three gold track medals in a single Olympics, 1960, shetaught second graders in Tennessee Wilma Rudolph Jong Ho	$1,600 [4] In 1822 a Russian navy captain named this sea off his nation's east coast for a Danish explorer the Bering Sea Jong Ho	$1,200 [24] In February 2020 the Duchess of Cambridge paid tribute to this designer on the 10th anniversary of his death, wearing one of his outfits Alexander McQueen
$1,600 [9] Woody Allen's film "Love and Death" parodies Russian novels & its title echoes "Crime and Punishment" & this 1862 Turgenev title Fathers and Sons Anne	$2,000 [27] Though it sounds like 5 things you really require, it actually describes the perfect embodiment of something quintessential Anne	$1,600 [16] This 2-word concept was used to justify the acquisitions of Oregon territory, California & Mexican land in the southwest Manifest Destiny Anne	$1,600 [12] This former Knick & onetime presidential candidate taught at Maryland & Stanford Bill Bradley Jong Ho	DD $2,000 [3] The Germans call this bordering sea Ostsee; the Swedes', Ostersjon the Baltic Allison	$1,600 [25] She's best remembered by sci-fi readers for her "Pern" novels, many written with son Todd Anne McCaffrey Anne
$2,000 [10] This 1970 Literature Nobel Prize winner spent time in the gulag & was deported from the Soviet Union in 1974 Solzhenitsyn Jong Ho	DD $3,456 [20] Desolate & raw, or a title description of a novel "House" with Ada Clarek bleak Jong Ho	$2,000 [18] This education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery Horace Mann Allison	$2,000 [13] Mike Doleac went to the Final Four with this state U., won an NBA title & came home to teach physics at Park City High Utah Jong Ho	$2,000 [21] On the other side of Greece from the Aegean, this sea is the Mediterranean's deepest, maxing at more than 16,000 feet the Ionian	$2,000 [28] After his 1960s gig as Secretary of Defense, he became president of the World Bank Robert McNamara

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS

Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other

Texas

Allison "What is Virginia?" — wagered $3,200

Anne "What is Virginia?" — wagered $2,201

Jong Ho "What isOhio? California" — wagered $2,142

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