Responses for Show #8230 - Friday, June 5, 2020

2020 Teachers Tournament final game 2.

Contestants

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Will Satterwhite, an 8th through 12th grade band and choir teacher from Vinton, Virginia (subtotal of $6,000)

Meggie Kwait, a middle school humanities teacher from New York, New York (subtotal of $7,600)

Ben Henri, a 7th through 12th grade vocal music teacher from St. Clair Shores, Michigan (subtotal of $7,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

JUST DESSERTS
LITERARY HODGEPODGE
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS
CONTROL "ALT" "DEL"
(Alex: "A-L-T" or "D-E-L" coming up in each correct response.)
SOME QUARTER GIVEN
OTHER SPORTS
    $200 2
pound cake

Will
    $200 16
Macbeth

Meggie
    $200 17
a platform

Meggie
    $200 5
alter ego

Will
    $200 23
a peach

Meggie
    $400 3
strudel

Meggie
    $400 15
a typewriter

Meggie
    $400 18
(Gerald) Ford

Ben
    $400 6
a waltz

Meggie
    $400 24
a Minuteman

Will
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Alex: And I'll beat him at it, too.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: I'm very lightheaded.)

log rolling

Ben
    $600 4
cheesecake

Will
    $600 12
Baloo

Meggie
    $600 19
the Ku Klux Klan

Ben
    $600 8
indelible

Ben
    $600 25
New Jersey

Meggie
    $600 1
(Will: What's the long jump?)

pole vaulting

MeggieWill
    $800 7
an eclair

Ben
    $800 13
(James Fenimore) Cooper

Ben
    $800 20
(Will: Who is Cleveland?)

(Ulysses) Grant

BenWill
    $800 9
salt flats

Will
    $3,000 26
(Alex: [As Daily Double uncovered] Less than a minute now.)
...
(Alex: You said it with conviction, too.)
(Meggie: They mean it.)

Live Free or Die

Meggie
    $800 22
jai alai

Meggie
    $1000 11
flan

Ben
    $1000 14
(George) Eliot

Meggie
    $1000 21
the War Democrats

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Zinfandel

Meggie
    $1000 27
the palmetto

Will
    $1000 28
pentathlon

Meggie

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

Ben Meggie Will
$3,200 $4,400 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Meggie Will
$5,400 $10,400 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

JUST DESERTS
PUBLISHERS
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
PHYSICS GLOSSARY
ALL ABOUT ART
WORDS COINED IN THE 1920s
    $400 18
(Meggie: What is Arizona?)

Nevada

Meggie
Triple Stumper
    $400 13
Penguin

Will
    $400 3
(Scarlett) Johansson

Will
    $400 8
a proton or a neutron

Ben
    $400 1
Samson

Will
    $400 28
Kleenex

Ben
    $800 19
China

Ben
    $3,400 14
[Laughter and applause]
(Alex: Piece of cake for a teacher.)
(Meggie: Comfortable right there.)
(Will: Yeah.)

Scholastic

Will
    $800 4
Prince Charles

Will
    $800 9
ultraviolet

Ben
    $800 2
Monet

Ben
    $800 26
(Meggie: What is... android?)

robot

BenMeggie
    $1200 20
(Meggie: What are the Pampas?)

the Patagonian Desert

Meggie
Triple Stumper
    $1200 15
Tarzan

Ben
    $1200 5
Awkwafina

Will
    $1200 10
an accelerator

Ben
    $1200 22
The Last Judgment

Triple Stumper
    $1200 24
fascism

Meggie
    $1600 21
the Negev

Will
    $1600 16
(Meggie: What is Hearst?)

Harper

MeggieWill
    $1600 6
Chalamet

Will
    $1600 11
hydrogen

Ben
    $1600 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

(Georgia) O'Keeffe

Meggie
    $1600 25
estrogen

Ben
    $2000 23
(Will: What's the Sahara?)

the Namib (Desert)

BenWill
    $2000 17
Lena Dunham

Meggie
    $2000 7
(Alan) Arkin

Ben
    $2000 12
quarks

Meggie
    $2,500 27
(Alex: [After the wager] With less than a minute to go.)

QWERTY

Ben

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Meggie Will
$21,500 $13,200 $11,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

18th CENTURY NOVELS
(Alex: [To Ben] Came up with [*]. What did he risk? $5,001; that takes him to $26,501, a little shy of the lead. But yesterday, he accumulated $7,500, and that means he's the winner with $34,001, which gets bumped up to $100,000. What a match. Well done, well done. Congratulations.)
(Ben: Thank you.)
...
(Alex: And we're back to our regular games on Monday. I hope you enjoyed this tournament. It was a great one, believe me. So long, everybody.)
WillWhat is ?
$11,200
MeggieWhat is Gulliver's Travels? (Thanks, Mom + Dad!)
$8,200
BenWhat is 😬 Gulliver's Travels?
$5,001
Gulliver's Travels

Final scores:

Ben Meggie Will
$26,501 $21,400 $0

Cumulative scores:

Ben Meggie Will
$34,001 $29,000 $6,000
Tournament champion: $100,000 1st runner-up: $50,000 2nd runner-up: $25,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben Meggie Will
$21,000 $11,000 $8,600
21 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $40,600

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Game tape date: 2020-02-25
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