Responses for Show #7295 - Friday, May 6, 2016

2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Bill Knuth, a high school special education teacher from East Lansing, Michigan

Cory Harris, a high school English teacher from Mystic, Connecticut

Kaberi Chakrabarty, an elementary bilingual teacher from Joliet, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NON-ROCKET SCIENTISTS
TV EATERIES
(Alex: ...you have to identify the television program for us.)
THERE ARE STRINGS ATTACHED
WE APPRECIATE "U"!
NOT TO BE CONFUSED
FINISH THE LITERARY LINE
    $200 6
Pasteur

Cory
    $200 1
Seinfeld

Cory
    $200 13
a harp

Bill
    $200 9
an urn

Kaberi
    $200 20
read & write

Cory
    $200 8
struck out

Bill
    $400 7
(Jane) Goodall

Cory
    $400 2
2 Broke Girls

Triple Stumper
    $400 25
(Alex: You got in there ahead of Kaberi.)

a sitar

Bill
    $400 14
an undergrad

Bill
    $400 21
(Bill: Um... what is...)

immoral & immortal

KaberiBill
    $400 16
(Bill: What is to do or die?)
(Kaberi: What is do or die?)
(Cory: What is to fight and die?)
(Alex: No. It's not "do or die". It's [*]. Yeah, they were doomed from the get-go.)

do and die

KaberiCoryBill
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 10
(Mary) Leakey

Kaberi
    $600 3
Beverly Hills, 90210

Cory
    $600 28
a lyre

Cory
    $600 15
"Unfinished"

Kaberi
    $600 22
bluster

Cory
    $600 17
Sam-I-Am

Cory
    $800 11
(Cory: Who is Kepler?)

Galileo

Cory
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Alice

Kaberi
    $800 29
the ukulele

Cory
    $800 26
Uber

Cory
    $800 23
semolina

Bill
    $800 18
merely players

Cory
    $1000 12
Niels Bohr

Kaberi
    $1000 5
(Bill: What is The Bob Newhart Show?)
...
(Alex: [*] only. Yes. You picked the wrong one of his two very popular series.)

Newhart

KaberiBill
    $1000 30
(Kaberi: What is the mandolin?)

the lute

Kaberi
Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
umami

Bill
    $1000 24
Mollusca

Kaberi
    $1000 19
music they make

Triple Stumper

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

Kaberi Cory Bill
$4,600 $600 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kaberi Cory Bill
$4,600 $4,600 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE!
WHERE IN THE WORLD?
HOLIDAYS
PRONUNCIATION
QUEENS
MY FAVORITE BURRO
    $400 6
Air Force One

Cory
    $400 1
Florida

Bill
    $400 24
Veterans Day

Cory
    $400 18
Wednesday

Cory
    $400 15
Tudor

Cory
    $400 11
bray

Cory
    $800 7
World's End

Cory
    $800 2
Mexico

Bill
    $800 25
(Cory: What is New Year's Day?)

Martin Luther King Day

KaberiCory
    $800 19
a filet (or a fillet)

Bill
    $800 16
(Cory: What is "vicky"?)

regent

Cory
Triple Stumper
    $3,000 12
(Alex: Cory?)
(Cory: [Shakes head slightly])

the Grand Canyon

Cory
    $1200 8
Dragon

Kaberi
    $1200 3
South America

Bill
    $1200 26
(Susan B.) Anthony

Bill
    $1200 21
a colonel

Bill
    $1200 17
the Queen of Sheba

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Cory
    $1600 9
Leonidas

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Cory: What is Papua New Guinea?)

Borneo

Cory
Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
Hawaii

Bill
    $1600 22
(Bill: What is Hawaii?)
...
(Alex: ...not "nuh-VAH-da".)

Nevada

Bill
Triple Stumper
    $1600 27
Jordan

Bill
    $1600 14
Andrew Jackson

Bill
    $2000 10
(Kenneth) Branagh

Cory
    $2000 5
Edinburgh

Cory
    $2000 30
Arbor Day

Bill
    $2000 23
barbiturate

Cory
    $1,600 28
Sweden

Bill
    $2000 20
Bremen

Kaberi

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kaberi Cory Bill
$8,600 $8,400 $13,600

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
(Alex: [To Cory] Congratulations to you.)
(Cory: Thank you.)
(Alex: And now here are the other four players who won their games this week.)
(Chris: Chris Tempro, Allentown, Pennsylvania.)
(Jason: Jason Sterlacci, Somerset, New Jersey.)
(Jill: Jill Gilbert, Des Moines, Iowa.)
(Peter: Peter Buchholz, Minneapolis, Minnesota.)
(Alex: And now, ladies and gentlemen, those four wild card spots will go to these players.)
(Lauren: Lauren Gilmore, Lake Wales, Florida.)
(Nicole: Nicole Throckmorton, Williamsburg, Virginia.)
(Alex: And echoing something I said at the beginning of this program, these two will join them. Kaberi and Bill, come on over.)
[Applause]
(Alex: All right, folks, that's it for us for today. Remember, next week, we'll see you all in Washington, D.C. So long, everybody.)
CoryWho is Alcott
$8,398
KaberiWho was Alcott?
$3,000
BillWho is Wilde?
$3,601
Louisa May Alcott

Final scores:

Kaberi Cory Bill
$11,600 $16,798 $9,999
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Kaberi Cory Bill
$8,200 $11,400 $14,000
11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 21 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $33,600

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Game tape date: 2016-02-24
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