Responses for Show #6479 - Thursday, November 15, 2012

2012-B Teachers Tournament semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama

Marcia Edmundson, a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia

Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland

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Jeopardy! Round responses

EDUCATION ABBREVIATION
QUICK HISTORY
APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES
CROSSWORD CLUES "A"
THE JUNIOR VARSITY
2 PEOPLE, SAME POSITION
    $200 7
read

Marion
    $200 6
(Alex: Yes, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.)

1945

Kate
    $200 24
a stone's throw

Marion
    $200 1
[Marcia pronounced [*] "ay" as in "day".]

aye

Marcia
    $200 19
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kate
    $200 12
(Marcia: What is point guard?)
(Kate: What is center?)
...
(Alex: [*], not point guard. You don't have a point guard in football.)

guard

MarionMarciaKate
    $400 8
privacy

Kate
    $400 15
Calcutta

Kate
    $400 25
a lump

Marion
    $400 2
autobiography

Kate
    $400 20
Ken Griffey Jr.

Marion
    $400 13
(Marcia: What is center?)
(Marion: What is defender?)

forward

MarionMarcia
Triple Stumper
    $600 9
ACT

Marcia
    $600 16
Martin Luther

Marion
    $600 26
(one) scoop

Kate
    $600 3
(Marion: [*], what is [*]?)

anniversary

Marion
    $600 21
tanks

Marion
    $600 14
goalie

Kate
    $800 10
pathologist

Kate
    $2,000 17
the Holy Roman Empire

Marion
    $800 27
(Alex: You're doing a [*].)

stretch

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Aspen

Marion
    $800 22
(Linda) Brown

Kate
    $800 29
closer

Marcia
    $1000 11
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
(Alex: In American history that would be [*].)

the Whig Party

Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
a bundle

Marcia
    $1000 5
aviary

Marcia
    $1000 23
William F. Buckley Jr.

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Marcia: What is shortstop?)

manager

Marcia
Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Marion Marcia Kate
$1,400 $1,200 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Marion Marcia Kate
$5,600 $2,000 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES
LEADING INTO THE SONG TITLE
ESSAYS
GET "REAL"!
SYSTEMS OF THE BODY
(Alex: And finally, join me from the National Geographic Museum...)
SAMURAI: THE WARRIOR TRANSFORMED
    $400 1
(Kate: What is Suriname?)

Venezuela

MarionKate
    $400 13
"Born To Run"

Marcia
    $400 21
the press

Kate
    $400 6
realtors

Marion
    $400 7
the circulatory system

Kate
    $400 26
Teddy Roosevelt

Kate
    $800 2
France and Germany

Marion
    $800 14
"California Girls"

Marcia
    $800 22
(Jean-Paul) Sartre

Marion
    $800 8
reality

Marion
    $800 12
reproductive system

Marcia
    $800 27
(Alex: [After Kate selects the next clue] Less than a minute to go now.)

cherry blossoms

Kate
    $1200 3
Gaza

Kate
    $1200 15
(Marcia: What is someone I used to know?)
(Marion: What is somebody I used to know?)

"Somebody That I Used To Know"

MarionMarcia
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 23
(Marion: Uh, I have no idea.)
(Alex: Oh, my favorite author, closely associated with Hartford, [*], [*]. He was being sarcastic. The Art of Lying.)

Mark Twain

Marion
    $1200 9
borealis

Kate
    $1200 18
the immune system

Kate
    $1200 28
silk

Kate
    $1600 4
South Africa

Marcia
    $1600 16
"Manic Monday"

Kate
    $1600 24
Zora Neale Hurston

Triple Stumper
    $1600 10
(Kate: What is... [**]?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double at clue 23]

reallocate (or realign)

MarionKate
    $1600 19
(Marion: Um...I can't remember.)

the endocrine system

Marion
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 29
the chrysanthemum

Kate
    $2000 5
Andorra

Marion
    $2000 17
"Separate Ways"

Marion
    $2000 25
the Federalist Papers

Kate
    $2000 11
Realpolitik

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
skeletal system

Marcia
    $2000 30
(Alex: That is correct, and that takes you to $8,400, and it takes me into a position of thanking the National Geographic Society once again for assisting us in the preparation of some of these clues.)

the katana

Marcia

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Marion Marcia Kate
$9,600 $8,400 $17,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MATH MEN
MarciaWho is Venn?
$8,400
MarionWho is Venn
$9,000
KateWho is Venn?
$1,401
(John) Venn

Final scores:

Marion Marcia Kate
$18,600 $16,800 $19,201
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Marion Marcia Kate
$10,400 $8,400 $17,400
18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
4 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2012-10-02
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