2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinal game 5.
Deborah Steinberger — an associate professor of French literature from University of Delaware in Newark
Alisa Hove — a botany professor from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina
J.P. Allen — a professor of business and innovation from University of San Francisco
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.P. | $4,000 | $4,200 | $17,400 |
$14,799
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$17,400
22 R, 3 W |
| Alisa | $1,600 | $3,000 | $16,400 |
$20,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$15,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Deborah | $1,600 | $6,200 | $14,800 |
$9,800
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| WINTER HOLIDAYS | TEXTING SHORTHAND | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? | YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN | U.S. GEOGRAPHY | GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW |
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$200
[16]
A February holiday commemorates the Buddha reaching the final state of this goal of the Buddhist path
nirvana
J.P.
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$200
[27]
Too funny!LMSO, I'm "laughing" these garments "off"
socks
Deborah
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$200
[6]
"Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: but Brutus says he was ambitious"
Mark Antony
Deborah
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$200
[20]
This Philly duo--2 guys, 1 mustache--hit No. 1 in 1982 with "I Can't Go For That"
Hall & Oates
Deborah
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$200
[5]
The Pecos River is a major tributary of this river that it empties into in Texas
the Rio Grande
Alisa
|
$200
[25]
East to west by birthplace:Holliday, Rivers, Severinsen
Docs
|
|
$400
[13]
Twelfth Night precedes the feast of this, also known as Three Kings' Day
the Epiphany
Deborah
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$400
[8]
DHYB, "don't" do this, meaning something is not likely to happen anytime soon
hold your breath
J.P.
|
$400
[7]
"Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love"
Juliet
J.P.
Alisa
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$400
[21]
This ex-Commodore sailed to the top of the charts in 1983 with "All Night Long"
(Lionel) Richie
J.P.
|
$400
[4]
It's about 130 miles long & in July 2021, it reached about 130 degrees
Death Valley
J.P.
|
$400
[26]
By era of popularity: rolltop, tanker, standing
desks
J.P.
|
|
$600
[17]
Celebrated Dec. 23, Festivus includes "the airing of" these; "I got a lot of problems with you people! Now, you're gonna hear about it"
the airing of grievances
J.P.
|
$600
[9]
.02, this amount of opinion I'm sharing
two cents
J.P.
|
$600
[11]
"I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island"
Caliban
J.P.
Deborah
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$600
[22]
M is for moonlight, as in "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck, as well as this xylophone with an unexpected--& amazing!--solo
a marimba
Alisa
|
$600
[1]
The Three Sistersin Oregon is a trio of volcanic peaks in this mountain range
the Cascades
J.P.
|
$600
[28]
Biggest to smallest:Uno, tarot, pinochle
decks
J.P.
Deborah
|
|
$800
[18]
The Jewish festival of trees, Tu Bishvat includes eating fruit, like this one that according to tradition has 613 red seeds
a pomegranate
Alisa
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$800
[10]
Put down your phone & go outside! All this texting is CWOT, a "complete" this
waste of time
Deborah
|
DD
$800
[14]
"'Tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well"
Othello
Deborah
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$800
[23]
You can always right your ship with "Hey Nineteen" & "Deacon Blues" by this jazzy soft-rock band
Steely Dan
Deborah
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$800
[2]
In the 1800s this Michigan island was the headquarters for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company
Mackinac
J.P.
|
$800
[29]
In royal succession: Cambridge, Sussex, York
Dukes
J.P.
Deborah
|
|
$1,000
[19]
On December 13 Scandinavians celebrate this female saint; young girls wear white & wear lighted wreaths on their heads
Lucia
Deborah
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$1,000
[12]
That was WTMI, meaning this, a lot more facts than I needed
way too much information
Alisa
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$1,000
[15]
"I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain today instead of him"
King Richard III
|
$1,000
[24]
Grover Washington Jr. was so smooth with this title, "building castles in the sky", this title again, "you & I"
"Just The Two Of Us"
Deborah
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$1,000
[3]
This region of foothills between the Appalachians & the Atlantic coastal plain is named for a similar area in Italy
the Piedmont
J.P.
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$1,000
[30]
In construction order: Afsluit, NIeuwebildt, Omring
dikes
|
| GOING MEDIEVAL | FAMOUS PROFESSORS | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS | ORGAN RECITAL | WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL | "EX"AM TIME |
|
$400
[9]
Weapons made of this steel named for a Syrian city were highly prized by medieval knights
Damascus steel
J.P.
|
$400
[16]
Teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati, was one further step for this man
Armstrong
J.P.
|
$400
[11]
M.I.T.'s domed Maclaurin Building is where this actor works as a janitor in a 1997 film
(Matt) Damon
J.P.
|
$400
[21]
The largest internal organ in humans, it destroys old red blood cells
the liver
Deborah
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$400
[1]
Head to Kyoto, where you can visit this type of forest
bamboo
Alisa
|
$400
[30]
5-letter verb meaning to put forth effort
exert
Alisa
|
|
$800
[8]
In the 6th century Dionysius Exiguus began using this system with a 2-word Latin name to date things since Christ's birth
Anno Domini
Deborah
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$800
[7]
In 1979 Stephen Hawking was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at this university
Cambridge
J.P.
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$800
[25]
This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School
The Paper Chase
Deborah
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$800
[17]
Each of these has a hilum, the point where the bronchi enter
the lungs
Deborah
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$800
[2]
Go to Nicaragua & help build a house through this global nonprofit founded in 1976
Habitat for Humanity
Alisa
|
$800
[29]
Archaeologists learn to do this, from Latin for "hollow out"
excavate
J.P.
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Before he became a monk & she became a nun, these medieval lovers had a son named Astrolabe
Heloise & Abelard
Alisa
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$1,200
[13]
Thisman, who rose to fame in the 1950s, taught poetry at Brooklyn College from 1986 to 1997
(Allen) Ginsberg
J.P.
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$1,200
[22]
Set at a fictional Ivy League university, "Dear White People" was filmed at this school's Twin Cities campus
the University of Minnesota
Deborah
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$1,200
[18]
Producing & secreting hormones, the hypothalamus is part of this organ
the brain
Alisa
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$1,200
[3]
Follow in Darwin's footsteps & study the wildlife on these islands also called the Archipiélago de Colón
the Galápagos
Alisa
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$1,600
[27]
A Latin word, this old-timey stage direction means it's time for 2 or more characters to exit a scene
exeunt
Deborah
|
|
$1,600
[10]
In the 14th century this Italian poet lost the love of his life, Laura, to the black death
Petrarch
Alisa
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$1,600
[14]
Math professor John Nash, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, was the subject of this Oscar-winning film
A Beautiful Mind
J.P.
|
$1,600
[23]
Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers"
Hidden Figures
Alisa
|
$2,000
[20]
The jejunum, part of this organ, gets its name from the Latin for "fasting" because it was often found empty after death
the small intestine
Alisa
|
$1,600
[4]
Try this city, where the iconic Hallgrímskirkja Churchcan be seen for miles
Reykjavik
J.P.
|
$2,000
[28]
In physics this principle means no 2 particles in an atom can share the same set of quantum numbers
the (Pauli) exclusion principle
J.P.
|
|
$2,000
[12]
In medieval times this order of monks translated medical texts in their library at Monte Cassino in Italy
the Benedictines
|
$2,000
[15]
"Nine Nasty Words" is a 2021 book by this man, who teaches linguistics at Columbia & hosts the podcast "Lexicon Valley"
John McWhorter
|
$2,000
[24]
2 films shot at Notre Dame were "Knute Rockne: All American" & this one starring Sean Astin as an unlikely football player
Rudy
J.P.
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
The outer cortex of these paired organs contains follicles & oocytes
ovaries
Alisa
|
$2,000
[5]
To Canada to visit some of the national parks including Banff in Alberta & this larger, adjoining park to the north
Jasper
J.P.
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
It's an unofficial name for Britain's treasury
the Exchequer
Deborah
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She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels
(Mary) Shelley