Responses for Show #6478 - Wednesday, November 14, 2012

2012-B Teachers Tournament semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington

Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York

Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN MOVIE IDOL
5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y
(Alex: Different spellings for "gray", obviously.)
MY PHONE CAN DO THAT
ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES
THE MAYA
"TW", EH?
    $200 19
Warren Beatty

John
    $200 2
J. Edgar Hoover

Whitney
    $200 18
a camera

Michael
    $200 8
Orlando

John
    $200 13
(Michael: What is sugar?)
(Whitney: What is cocoa?)

honey

MichaelWhitney
Triple Stumper
    $200 1
tweak

John
    $400 20
Morgan Freeman

Whitney
    $400 3
Mars & Venus

Michael
    $400 27
a date

Michael
    $400 9
Los Angeles, California

John
    $400 14
zero

John
    $400 4
a tween

Whitney
    $600 21
(Robert) Redford

John
    $600 24
Canadian football

John
    $600 28
a Zippo

Whitney
    $600 10
Bangor

Michael
    $600 15
a jaguar

John
    $600 5
Twitter

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
Brad Pitt

Michael
    $800 25
Earl Grey

Michael
    $800 29
Pandora

Michael
    $800 11
Bozeman

Whitney
    $1,200 16
obsidian

John
    $800 6
tweed

Michael
    $1000 23
James Dean

Whitney
    $1000 26
Zane Grey

Whitney
    $1000 30
voice-activated dialing

Whitney
    $1000 12
Fort Wayne, Indiana

John
    $1000 17
Tikal

Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
twang

Michael

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Michael Whitney John
$2,600 $1,200 $4,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Whitney John
$5,600 $5,200 $5,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FUN WITH SCIENCE
TEACH ME A SONG
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
THE MAP OF EUROPE
VERB-AL NAMES
BEFORE & AFTER
    $400 9
my density

Michael
    $400 1
Van Halen

Michael
    $400 17
The Great Gatsby

Triple Stumper
    $400 11
Portugal

Michael
    $400 15
bill

Whitney
    $400 2
the Oakland Raiders of the Lost Ark

Michael
    $800 10
(Michael: What is the Genome?)

the Gene Pool

MichaelJohn
    $800 7
Coke

Whitney
    $800 18
Zelda

Whitney
    $800 25
(Michael: What are the Apennines?)

the Alps

MichaelWhitney
    $800 16
buck

Michael
    $800 3
Neanderthal Man of La Mancha

Michael
    $1200 12
arthropods

Michael
    $1200 8
Gwen Stefani

Michael
    $1200 21
Princeton

Whitney
    $1200 26
Turkey

Michael
    $1200 24
skip

Michael
    $1200 4
comic strip poker

Whitney
    $5,000 13
zinc

Michael
    $1600 19
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

John
    $1600 22
This Side of Paradise

Triple Stumper
    $1600 27
the Baltic states

John
    $1600 29
drew

Michael
    $1600 5
the Sermon on the Mount Olympus

Michael
    $2000 14
Charles Messier

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
brick in the wall

John
    $2,000 23
(Whitney: What is A Moveable Feast?)

Tender is the Night

Whitney
    $2000 28
Kiev

John
    $2000 30
sally

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
(Michael: What is a ball-and-socket committee?)

a ball-and-socket Joint Chiefs of Staff

MichaelWhitney

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Whitney John
$18,200 $10,400 $13,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. PRESIDENTS
(Alex: And what could possibly cause a president not to give a State of the Union address? Does the word death mean anything?)
...
(Alex: [To Whitney] I believe you struggled with this, but what did you write down?... I--I don't know what you were going for, but it's incorrect.)
...
(Alex: This would be wild if Whitney won this game with a buck.)
[Whitney holds up her hands and laughs.]
...
(Alex: [To Michael] No, he gave a State of the Union address, but [*] was assassinated before he could give one, did not give one.)
WhitneyWho is Wili Ta
$10,399
JohnWho is Zachary Taylor
$13,400
MichaelWho is George Washington?
$8,601
James Garfield

Final scores:

Michael Whitney John
$9,599 $1 $0
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Michael Whitney John
$14,800 $12,400 $13,000
22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)
15 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $40,200

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Game tape date: 2012-10-02
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