Monday, May 7, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 2:39 pm
Game Recap for Show #7756, 2018-05-07
2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 1.
CONTESTANTS
Larry Martin, a second grade teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
Lee DiGeorge, a middle school English and technology teacher from Bayside, New York
Claire Bishop, a high school Latin teacher from Lexington, Kentucky
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to Jeopardy!'s annual tribute to those marvelous people who sometimes get to spend more quality time with our children than we the parents do. We have three talented teachers with us today. Larry, Lee and Claire, good luck. Let's go to work. Here are the categories you have to deal with today as you face our test...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE SHAPE OF WATER (5/5)
ANTIQUES (5/5)
SHORT ANSWER TEST (3/5)
STOCK MARKET INDEXES (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
PRESIDENTIAL POSSESSIVES (5/5) (Alex: I'll give you an example: "Donald's winning cards." "What are Trump's trumps?")
WRECKING THE CURVE (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Larry: 11 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Claire: 7 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Lee: 8 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,000
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Larry: $4,000
Lee: $2,800
Claire: $1,800
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Welcome back. Throughout this tournament, you're gonna be hearing about what our teachers, the contestants in this tournament, are doing with the awards they have received through the Thank America's Teachers program, presented by Farmers Insurance. And just a note that if you are a teacher and you would like to apply for one of these rewards, there's nothing holding you back. All right, Larry Martin is the first player we introduced on our program today. At the end of each school year, you do something that is a little different. I wanna hear about that.
Larry: Well, we're Martin's Marvels, and so I have over 500 Marvel graduates now. For each one, I've done a caricature, framed, that says, "Follow your dreams," and it shows them doing something they hope to do someday.
Alex: All right, that's wonderful. Good. I should get you to do a caricature of me.
Larry: I'd be happy to.
Alex: Lee DiGeorge from New York, middle school teacher. Two of your students came up with a great power presentation. What was it about?
Lee: Well, they found out that I was going to be on Jeopardy! And they know that I'm really terrible at art. I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler or graph paper. So they said, "So you don't mess up on Jeopardy!, here's a PowerPoint of all the art you need to know."
Alex: Okay.
Alex: Claire Bishop is from Kentucky. She teaches Latin.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: I love it. I love it. Now you also have a Twitter account which you use to great effect. How?
Claire: I take pictures of Latin if I ever see it out in books or in movies or on random signs in advertisements, and then I post it for my students to show that Latin is still alive. It's not a dead language like most people think.
Alex: Absolutely.
Claire: It's used in the world.
Alex: Good for you, too.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Claire found the Daily Double on the 26th clue. Claire had $2,800, Lee had $3,800, and Larry was at $6,200. Claire wagered $2,000.
STOCK MARKET INDEXES $800: The SOFIX tracks the 15 biggest stocks on this Eastern European country's exchange
(Alex: Capital is Sofia.)
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
SHORT ANSWER TEST $200: In Japanese hai means this
(Larry: What is hi?)
WRECKING THE CURVE $1000: A curve thrown to Manny Ramirez became the longest home run hit in this city's Skydome (now Rogers Centre)
SHORT ANSWER TEST $400: Britain's oldest type of noble title is this, like Lord Snowdon
STOCK MARKET INDEXES $400: From Chinese for "ever growing", the Hang Seng compiles an index of stocks on this region's exchange
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Larry: $6,200
Claire: $5,200
Lee: $4,800
2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 1.
CONTESTANTS
Larry Martin, a second grade teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
Lee DiGeorge, a middle school English and technology teacher from Bayside, New York
Claire Bishop, a high school Latin teacher from Lexington, Kentucky
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to Jeopardy!'s annual tribute to those marvelous people who sometimes get to spend more quality time with our children than we the parents do. We have three talented teachers with us today. Larry, Lee and Claire, good luck. Let's go to work. Here are the categories you have to deal with today as you face our test...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE SHAPE OF WATER (5/5)
ANTIQUES (5/5)
SHORT ANSWER TEST (3/5)
STOCK MARKET INDEXES (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
PRESIDENTIAL POSSESSIVES (5/5) (Alex: I'll give you an example: "Donald's winning cards." "What are Trump's trumps?")
WRECKING THE CURVE (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Larry: 11 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Claire: 7 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Lee: 8 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,000
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Larry: $4,000
Lee: $2,800
Claire: $1,800
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Welcome back. Throughout this tournament, you're gonna be hearing about what our teachers, the contestants in this tournament, are doing with the awards they have received through the Thank America's Teachers program, presented by Farmers Insurance. And just a note that if you are a teacher and you would like to apply for one of these rewards, there's nothing holding you back. All right, Larry Martin is the first player we introduced on our program today. At the end of each school year, you do something that is a little different. I wanna hear about that.
Larry: Well, we're Martin's Marvels, and so I have over 500 Marvel graduates now. For each one, I've done a caricature, framed, that says, "Follow your dreams," and it shows them doing something they hope to do someday.
Alex: All right, that's wonderful. Good. I should get you to do a caricature of me.
Larry: I'd be happy to.
Alex: Lee DiGeorge from New York, middle school teacher. Two of your students came up with a great power presentation. What was it about?
Lee: Well, they found out that I was going to be on Jeopardy! And they know that I'm really terrible at art. I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler or graph paper. So they said, "So you don't mess up on Jeopardy!, here's a PowerPoint of all the art you need to know."
Alex: Okay.
Alex: Claire Bishop is from Kentucky. She teaches Latin.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: I love it. I love it. Now you also have a Twitter account which you use to great effect. How?
Claire: I take pictures of Latin if I ever see it out in books or in movies or on random signs in advertisements, and then I post it for my students to show that Latin is still alive. It's not a dead language like most people think.
Alex: Absolutely.
Claire: It's used in the world.
Alex: Good for you, too.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Claire found the Daily Double on the 26th clue. Claire had $2,800, Lee had $3,800, and Larry was at $6,200. Claire wagered $2,000.
STOCK MARKET INDEXES $800: The SOFIX tracks the 15 biggest stocks on this Eastern European country's exchange
(Alex: Capital is Sofia.)
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
SHORT ANSWER TEST $200: In Japanese hai means this
(Larry: What is hi?)
WRECKING THE CURVE $1000: A curve thrown to Manny Ramirez became the longest home run hit in this city's Skydome (now Rogers Centre)
SHORT ANSWER TEST $400: Britain's oldest type of noble title is this, like Lord Snowdon
STOCK MARKET INDEXES $400: From Chinese for "ever growing", the Hang Seng compiles an index of stocks on this region's exchange
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Larry: $6,200
Claire: $5,200
Lee: $4,800