2020 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 3.
Lauren Schneider Lipton — a high school health teacher from Seattle, Washington
Sam Matson — a high school English teacher from Cookeville, Tennessee
Ben Henri — a 7th through 12th grade vocal music teacher from St. Clair Shores, Michigan
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $1,800 | $8,400 | $20,800 |
$30,001
Finalist |
$20,800
27 R, 2 W |
| Sam | $1,400 | $2,400 | $7,200 |
$14,399
3rd place: $10,000 |
$5,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Lauren | $3,200 | $5,000 | $15,000 |
$30,000
2nd place: $10,000 |
$16,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? | BOULDER DASH | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS | MUSTARD OR MAYO | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? | "DE" PLUS 3 |
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$200
[10]
1976: "The Iron Lady of the Western world... a cold war warrior... well, yes"
(Margaret) Thatcher
Ben
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$200
[25]
In this 1937 animated classic, the wicked queen tries to kill the title septet with a boulder, but it ends up backfiring
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Ben
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$200
[11]
In Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries, "H is for" this killer crime
homicide
Lauren
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$200
[12]
Hampton Creek, maker of "Just Mayo", convinced the FDA to let it keep the name, though J.M. doesn't contain these
eggs
Lauren
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$200
[4]
Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work
the Parthenon
Lauren
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$200
[16]
Your first appearance on stage or screen
a debut
Lauren
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$400
[9]
1992: "I didn't like it, and didn't inhale"
Bill Clinton
Sam
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$400
[26]
He's been known to try & kill a certain roadrunner with boulders, but the big rocks usually end up coming his way
Wile E. Coyote
Sam
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$400
[21]
For his novel "Inferno", Dan Brown drew on a poem by this Italian
Dante
Ben
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$400
[13]
A red flag that says "Since 1904" means you're using this mustard brand
French's
Ben
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$400
[5]
No, but the 2-inch "Midnite Minichamp" version of this pocketknife comes with tools that perform 17 different functions
the Swiss Army knife
Lauren
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$400
[17]
A railway station, often a small & quaint one, as seen here
a depot
Ben
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|
$600
[1]
1848: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"
Marx
Lauren
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$600
[27]
In this 1981 movie Indiana Jones gets covered in webs while outrunning a large rock
Raiders of the Lost Ark (* Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark )
Ben
Lauren
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$600
[22]
After a fatal stabbing in this classic mystery, Hercule Poirot asks for "a plan of the Istanbul-Calais Coach"
Murder on the Orient Express
Sam
|
$600
[14]
Best Foods & this other brand of mayonnaise have the same ingredients & the same blue bow on their labels
Hellmann's
Ben
|
$600
[6]
Yes, & as the largest ships in the U.S. Navy, each is powered by 2 nuclear reactors & can displace 100,000 tons
an aircraft carrier
Ben
|
$600
[18]
The typically triangular mouth of a river
a delta
Ben
|
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
1950: "I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party"
McCarthy
Lauren
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$800
[28]
In a 2018 animated sequel, this superhero patriarch has to dodge rocks & stuff while trying to thwart the Underminer
Mr. Incredible
Ben
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$800
[23]
Time magazine named this Gillian Flynn thriller one of the "10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s"
Gone Girl
Ben
|
$800
[15]
Combining mustard & fruit, Mostarda di Cremona is often compared to this vinegar & fruit condiment that accompanies curries
chutney
Lauren
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$800
[7]
No--the bee variety of this is the world's smallest bird at only about 2 inches long
a hummingbird
Lauren
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$800
[19]
My god, your god, any god
a deity
Ben
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|
$1,000
[3]
1969: "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full"
Henry Kissinger
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$1,000
[29]
In "The Princess Bride" this big guy, as Fezzik, dashes a big rock at Westley
Andre the Giant
Ben
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$1,000
[24]
A review for this Ruth Ware bestseller set at sea says it "just may do to cruise vacations what 'Jaws' did to ocean swimming"
The Woman in Cabin 10
|
$1,000
[30]
This bulb is the key flavoring of the Provencal mayonnaise called aioli
garlic
Lauren
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$1,000
[8]
Yes, & the massive Three Gorges Dam generates 22,500 megawatts stretching 1.4 miles across this river
the Yangtze River
Sam
Lauren
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$1,000
[20]
Named for a city, it's a specific type of Dutch ear then ware
Delft
Ben
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| LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH | ABBREVIATIONS | OPERA & BALLET | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY | HOT STUFF! | FOUNTAINS |
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$400
[10]
It's what the symbolheremeans
greater than or equal to
Lauren
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$400
[15]
It's the "T" in the name of the international alliance abbreviated NATO
Treaty
Sam
Lauren
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$400
[3]
British choreographer Matthew Bourne took a differenttactic when restaging this Tchaikovsky ballet
Swan Lake
Ben
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$400
[20]
After the completion of this feat of engineering in 1914, ships had an 8,000-nautical-mile shorter journey from N.Y. to Calif.
the Panama Canal
Ben
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$400
[25]
In the 1930s Solomon Harper invented the electric curlers now called "hot" these
rollers
Ben
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$400
[26]
Lotta's Fountain in this city became a meeting place for survivors of the 1906 quake & is still the site of commemorations
San Francisco
Ben
|
|
$800
[9]
Conjure up this name for a grid in which the numbers add up to the same total in each column, row & main diagonal
a magic square
Ben
|
$800
[16]
When going on a journey, your ETA is this
your estimated time of arrival
Sam
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$800
[11]
This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s
Madame Butterfly
Lauren
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$1,200
[2]
In 1991 the IRA attacked John Major & his cabinet with mortar fire during a meeting at this address, Major's residence
10 Downing Street
Lauren
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$800
[23]
A massive atmosphere produces an enormous greenhouse effect, making this second planet the hottest in the solar system
Venus
Ben
|
$800
[27]
Beginning in 1998, the fountains at this Las Vegas casino shoot 460 feet in the air & dance to various songs nightly
the Bellagio
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In a Venndiagram, an upside down "U" is used to represent this set that contains all elements in common to both "A" & "B"
the intersection
Ben
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$1,200
[17]
Get there early if you hear FCFS, short for this
first come, first served
Ben
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$1,200
[12]
Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw
Billy the Kid
Sam
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$1,600
[4]
This future world leader was wounded in his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister in 1959
Saddam Hussein
Lauren
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$1,200
[22]
Regarded as one of the hottest of these, the Carolina reaper is rated at more than 1.6 million Scovilles
a pepper
Ben
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$1,200
[28]
Thislandmark Chicago fountain is named for a local steel family, not a London palace
Buckingham
Lauren
|
|
$1,600
[7]
The symbolhereis telling you to perform this calculus function
integration
Lauren
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$1,600
[18]
A college student may consult with this helpful member of the faculty abbreviated AA
academic advisor
Ben
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$1,600
[13]
Ramfis is the high priest in this opera
Aida
Lauren
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$2,000
[5]
In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean island & tourist destination; by December, most U.S. troops had left
Grenada
Ben
|
$1,600
[21]
In this book of the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but the intense heat does not harm them
the book of Daniel
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
Fittingly, the Latona Fountain built by Louis XIV in Versailles was named for the mother of this Roman god
Apollo
Lauren
|
|
$2,000
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a triangular array of numbers on the monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician & philosopher
(Blaise) Pascal
Ben
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$2,000
[19]
In a car, SRS is this system that serves as a backup to seat belts; your airbag is one
a supplemental restraint system
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$2,000
[14]
The 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet are "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice"
The Rite of Spring
Ben
Lauren
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DD
$2,400
[1]
In April 1946 this international org. formally gave up the ghost, though it did give a lot of its stuff to its replacement
the League of Nations
Sam
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$2,000
[24]
Scientists at CERN using this device have created perhaps the highest recorded temperature ever, 9.9 trillion degrees Fahrenheit
the Large Hadron Collider
Lauren
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$2,000
[30]
For centuries, barrels of water from this Roman fountain at the Palazzo Poli were sent across the Tiber to the Vatican
the Trevi Fountain
Ben
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As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window... two dark and massive towers"
Notre-Dame