Monday, May 6, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 9:01 am
Game Recap for Show #7986, 2019-05-06
2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 1. Category names in the Jeopardy! Round are read by Amazon Alexa.
CONTESTANTS
Julia Rosinski Bailey, a 10th grade chemistry teacher from Austin, Texas
Joe Rengstorf, a middle school special education teacher from Poulsbo, Washington
Mariah Minges Klusman, a 12th grade English language arts teacher from Wyncote, Pennsylvania
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for that warm welcome. And Johnny, I hope you will not take this as a negative, but for the very first time in 35 years of hosting this program, I finally get to work with my own Vanna.
[Laughter as Alex gestures toward the Amazon Alexa]
Alex: And she has such a lovely name--Alexa.
[Laughter]
Alex: Our current champion, ladies and gentlemen, James Holzhauer, has the two weeks off. He'll be back with us in two weeks' time. But for now, for Julia, Joe, and Mariah, class is in session. Good luck. Let's go to work. Alexa, ask Jeopardy! what today's categories are, please.
Alexa: The categories are...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
PARENTHETICAL SONGS (4/5)
OCCUPATIONS (5/5)
GEOGRAPHY (4/5)
INITIALLY YOURS (4/5)
CLASSIC NOVELS (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
CLICHES (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Joe: 15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mariah: 6 R, 2 W
Julia: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,600
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Joe found the Daily Double on the 10th clue. Mariah had no money, Joe had $1,200, and Julia was at $1,400. Joe made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,200.
CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This Tolstoy title lady has a young son named Sergei
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Joe: $4,200
Julia: $2,000
Mariah: -$400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Julia Rosinski Bailey is from Austin, Texas. A 10th grade chemistry teacher who annually lets her students set her on fire. What's all that about?
Julia: I do. I bubble some methane through a secret solution. I don't want them to try it at home, so I don't tell them what it is. But it fills up the bubbles. Methane is flammable. So then I hold the bubbles. I give them a stick. They light it up, and I--
[Julia indicates an explosion with her hands.]
Alex: Oh, all right.
Alex: Joe Rengstorf from Poulsbo, Washington. You're a special ed teacher now here in America. But you taught in Thailand. I wanna hear about that.
Joe: I did. I taught English. I was in a classroom--about 50 kids. Fifth--fourth, fifth and sixth graders. It was my first teaching job. It let me know that teaching was for me.
Alex: Okay, good for you.
Alex: Mariah Minges Klusman is from Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Twelfth grade English language arts teacher who likes to start her classes off with a just-for-fun kind of activity. Give me an example.
Mariah: That's true. I've done some things like a Yuletide festival at the holidays when we were studying Shakespeare, and taught everybody to bring a mug and shout, "Wassail!"
Alex: Oh, hello. Party time in your class.
Mariah: Party time.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
GEOGRAPHY $1000: Within a former province of South Africa, you'll find the name of this river on its southern edge
(Mariah: What is the Zambezi?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]? Think of Transvaal.)
INITIALLY YOURS $400: In 1879 he founded his first 5-cent stores in Utica, New York & Lancaster, Penn.; the price ceiling was later raised to a dime
(Julia: Who is Woolsworth?)
CLICHES $800: A paper entitling the bearer to food, or a source of financial support, as in "That rich wife is his ____ ____"
PARENTHETICAL SONGS $400: Rihanna:
"(In The World)"
(Julia: What is "Girls"?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Joe: $9,800
Mariah: $2,400
Julia: $1,400
2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 1. Category names in the Jeopardy! Round are read by Amazon Alexa.
CONTESTANTS
Julia Rosinski Bailey, a 10th grade chemistry teacher from Austin, Texas
Joe Rengstorf, a middle school special education teacher from Poulsbo, Washington
Mariah Minges Klusman, a 12th grade English language arts teacher from Wyncote, Pennsylvania
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for that warm welcome. And Johnny, I hope you will not take this as a negative, but for the very first time in 35 years of hosting this program, I finally get to work with my own Vanna.
[Laughter as Alex gestures toward the Amazon Alexa]
Alex: And she has such a lovely name--Alexa.
[Laughter]
Alex: Our current champion, ladies and gentlemen, James Holzhauer, has the two weeks off. He'll be back with us in two weeks' time. But for now, for Julia, Joe, and Mariah, class is in session. Good luck. Let's go to work. Alexa, ask Jeopardy! what today's categories are, please.
Alexa: The categories are...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
PARENTHETICAL SONGS (4/5)
OCCUPATIONS (5/5)
GEOGRAPHY (4/5)
INITIALLY YOURS (4/5)
CLASSIC NOVELS (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
CLICHES (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Joe: 15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Mariah: 6 R, 2 W
Julia: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,600
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Joe found the Daily Double on the 10th clue. Mariah had no money, Joe had $1,200, and Julia was at $1,400. Joe made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,200.
CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This Tolstoy title lady has a young son named Sergei
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Joe: $4,200
Julia: $2,000
Mariah: -$400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Julia Rosinski Bailey is from Austin, Texas. A 10th grade chemistry teacher who annually lets her students set her on fire. What's all that about?
Julia: I do. I bubble some methane through a secret solution. I don't want them to try it at home, so I don't tell them what it is. But it fills up the bubbles. Methane is flammable. So then I hold the bubbles. I give them a stick. They light it up, and I--
[Julia indicates an explosion with her hands.]
Alex: Oh, all right.
Alex: Joe Rengstorf from Poulsbo, Washington. You're a special ed teacher now here in America. But you taught in Thailand. I wanna hear about that.
Joe: I did. I taught English. I was in a classroom--about 50 kids. Fifth--fourth, fifth and sixth graders. It was my first teaching job. It let me know that teaching was for me.
Alex: Okay, good for you.
Alex: Mariah Minges Klusman is from Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Twelfth grade English language arts teacher who likes to start her classes off with a just-for-fun kind of activity. Give me an example.
Mariah: That's true. I've done some things like a Yuletide festival at the holidays when we were studying Shakespeare, and taught everybody to bring a mug and shout, "Wassail!"
Alex: Oh, hello. Party time in your class.
Mariah: Party time.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
GEOGRAPHY $1000: Within a former province of South Africa, you'll find the name of this river on its southern edge
(Mariah: What is the Zambezi?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]? Think of Transvaal.)
INITIALLY YOURS $400: In 1879 he founded his first 5-cent stores in Utica, New York & Lancaster, Penn.; the price ceiling was later raised to a dime
(Julia: Who is Woolsworth?)
CLICHES $800: A paper entitling the bearer to food, or a source of financial support, as in "That rich wife is his ____ ____"
PARENTHETICAL SONGS $400: Rihanna:
"(In The World)"
(Julia: What is "Girls"?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Joe: $9,800
Mariah: $2,400
Julia: $1,400