Responses for Show #7530 - Friday, May 12, 2017

2017 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Dennis McDonald, an elementary school math teacher from New Windsor, Maryland

Susannah Nichols, a high school English teacher from Ferndale, Michigan

Holly Cannon, a high school chemistry teacher from Klein, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ALMA MATERS
TITLE ANIMALS
TEXTBOOKS
THIS WEBSITE USES COOKIES
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS
(Alex: And finally, we want you to...)
GRADE THAT WORD
    $200 7
Yale

Susannah
    $200 1
a lion

Susannah
    $200 25
Buddhism

Dennis
    $200 15
Oreo

Dennis
    $200 2
New Delhi

Dennis
    $200 9
C-section

Dennis
    $400 8
(Holly: What is Harvard?)

MIT

HollyDennis
    $400 3
Kung Fu Panda

Holly
    $400 26
art history

Susannah
    $400 16
(Holly: What is vanilla wafer?)

Nilla wafers

HollySusannah
    $400 14
(Susannah: What is... Stockholm?)

Oslo

SusannahDennis
    $400 10
D-Day

Susannah
    $600 17
(Dennis: What is... Oxford?)

Cambridge

SusannahDennis
    $600 4
Reservoir Dogs

Holly
    $2,200 27
ethics

Susannah
    $600 22
(Holly: What is Little Debbie?)

Mrs. Fields

Holly
Triple Stumper
    $600 20
Moscow

Holly
    $600 11
a B-side

Susannah
    $800 18
(Holly: Uh... what is... Nebraska?)
...
(Alex: It's the other "N", [*].)

Notre Dame

Holly
Triple Stumper
    $800 5
Deer Hunter

Dennis
    $800 28
Aristotle

Triple Stumper
    $800 23
(Dennis: What is... Lorna Doone?)

Walker's Shortbread

Dennis
Triple Stumper
    $800 21
Panama (City)

Dennis
    $800 12
an A-frame

Dennis
    $1000 19
Stanford

Susannah
    $1000 6
duck soup

Susannah
    $1000 29
Gray's Anatomy

Dennis
    $1000 24
Famous Amos

Susannah
    $1000 30
Helsinki

Susannah
    $1000 13
(Alex: [*], fail.)

an F-stop

Holly

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

Holly Susannah Dennis
$1,600 $2,000 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Holly Susannah Dennis
$400 $8,600 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ALMA MATTERS
THE CIVIL WAR
MUSIC TO YOUR EARS
WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE?
IT'S A GROUP THING
CROSSWORD CLUES "N"
    $400 23
a soprano

Holly
    $400 1
Custer

Dennis
    $400 9
(Susannah: Who is Kanye West?)

Jay-Z

Susannah
Triple Stumper
    $400 14
Macbeth

Susannah
    $400 10
the Three Stooges

Holly
    $400 2
nimble

Holly
    $800 24
the Model U.N.

Dennis
    $800 7
(Dennis: What is a submarine?)

a torpedo

Dennis
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
"Stayin' Alive"

Dennis
    $800 15
Prospero

Dennis
    $800 11
Starbucks drinks

Holly
    $800 3
nuclear

Dennis
    $1200 26
the Pharaoh's daughter

Susannah
    $1200 8
(Holly: Who was... Lee?)
(Dennis: Who is... Pancho Villa?)

General Winfield Scott

HollyDennis
Triple Stumper
    $1200 21
(Dennis: Who is... Pharrell Williams?)

The Weeknd

Dennis
Triple Stumper
    $1200 16
(Alex: Yes, that's where he was battling.)

France

Susannah
    $1200 12
Benelux

Holly
    $1200 4
nonsense

Triple Stumper
    $1600 27
the Philippines

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
Robert E. Lee

Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
James Brown

Holly
    $3,000 17
(Alex: Yes, the two bad sisters. Nasty ladies.)

King Lear

Susannah
    $1600 13
the Four Horsemen (of the Apocalypse)

Dennis
    $2,000 5
nocturne

Dennis
    $2000 28
Pentecostalism

Dennis
    $2000 30
Missouri and Kentucky

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
"Love On The Brain"

Dennis
    $2000 18
Othello

Susannah
    $2000 20
(Susannah: What are state capitals?)

capitals of the United States

Susannah
Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
nacre

Holly

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Holly Susannah Dennis
$6,000 $14,000 $11,600

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PLACE NAMES
(Alex: [To Holly] The River Dart, the college in New Hampshire.)
...
(Alex: [To Susannah] She wins today; she will be a semifinalist. Come on over here, Susannah. As you know, the winners get to come back. Congratulations.)
(Susannah: Thank you so much.)
(Alex: And now, here are the other winners of the quarterfinal games earlier this week...)
(Gail: Gail Ansheles, Santa Fe, New Mexico.)
(Mary: Mary Parker, Rogers, Arkansas.)
(David: David Clemmons, Fort Worth, Texas.)
(Nan: Nan Cohen, Van Nuys, California.)
(Alex: And remember, there are always those four wildcard spots for the high-scoring non-winners. Here they are...)
(Michael: Michael Camp, Chicago, Illinois.)
(Sara: Sara Holub, Green Bay, Wisconsin.)
(Eduardo: Eduardo Sevilla, Vienna, Virginia.)
(Alex: That's only three; we need a fourth. I guess that would be you, Holly Cannon. Come on over here. The semifinals begin next week on Jeopardy! So long, everybody. Way to go, Holly.)
HollyWhat is Dartmouth?
$6,000
DennisWhat is Avon?
$500
SusannahWhat is Dartmouth?
$5,000
Dartmouth

Final scores:

Holly Susannah Dennis
$12,000 $19,000 $11,100
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Holly Susannah Dennis
$6,000 $11,000 $11,200
11 R,
5 W
17 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
19 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $28,200

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Game tape date: 2017-03-21
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