Thursday, May 16, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 10:12 am
Game Recap for Show #7994, 2019-05-16
2019 Teachers Tournament final game 1.
CONTESTANTS
Sara DelVillano, a middle school instrumental music teacher from Lanham, Maryland
Francois Barcomb, an 11th grade physics teacher from New Paltz, New York
Conor Quinn, a high school world history teacher from Albany, New York
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. At long last, the final. The first half today. These three people--Sara, Francois and Conor--have a lot of extra pressure on them today. They want to do well because they know their students are watching them back home. That's a lot of pressure. Good luck to you, though. Let's go to work right now in the first half of the finals. Today, the first round has these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE ACCESSORIZED TEACHER (5/5)
CROSSWORD CLUES "L" (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
DANCING BACK TO DISCO (5/5)
PLANTS & FLOWERS (5/5)
TEXT (5/5)
BOOKS (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Francois: 10 R, 0 W
Conor: 10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Sara: 7 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,600
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Conor found the Daily Double on the 8th clue. Conor had $2,400, Francois had $600, and Sara was at $1,000. Conor made it a True Daily Double, wagering $2,400.
CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $800: Fungi & algae combo
(6)
(Conor: Yeah.)
(Alex: Yeah?)
(Conor: Nothing.)
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Sara: $2,200
Conor: $1,600
Francois: $1,600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Sara DelVillano is from Maryland. Now, each year in our Teachers Tournament, we see some of the students cheering on their teachers.
Sara: Mm-hm.
Alex: How did your students inspire you for this tournament?
Sara: Post--Post-It notes, Alex. They--actually, I have them here.
[Sara shows an envelope full of Post-It notes.]
Sara: They left them all over my classroom.
Alex: Oh, gosh.
Sara: With facts about everything that they know about. And they just left them everywhere around my classroom. So they're--they're here with me today.
Alex: Now, have any of those notes come up in the games that you've seen?
Sara: Some of the Bible information.
Alex: Oh, really?
Sara: Yeah. Yeah.
Alex: All right. Well, good for you and your students, then.
Alex: Francois Barcomb from New Paltz, New York. One thing I've been meaning to ask you about. You seem to be in pretty good shape.
Francois: Well, thank you.
Alex: And I understand that you work out with other teachers. What do you guys do?
Francois: We converted a garage to our own little gymnasium that we use, and--but it's mostly teachers after school getting together.
Alex: So it's social time rather than exercise time.
Francois: Yes, we've been known to rehydrate.
Alex: Conor Quinn, the bit of information I have on you is that you cried the first baseball game you went to. How old were you then?
Conor: I was six. So it's--
Alex: Why did you cry?
Conor: May of 1996, I went down to Yankee Stadium. And at that time, all I wanted--I wanted more than anything in the world to have a baseball signed by Darryl Strawberry. And he was signing autographs and he stopped at the person right before me. And I was so distraught that I barely noticed when some rookie that I had never even heard of came over and signed the ball. And my dad was trying to convince me. He was like, "Maybe this guy will be really good." And I looked down, and I was like, "I don't even know who Derek Jeter is."
[Laughter]
Alex: You do now.
Conor: Yeah.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
BOOKS $600: It's the term for an illustration facing a book's title page
BOOKS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a book and its ISBN.) On the back of every book there's a code; on the one here, the 0 denotes the book is from an English-language country, & the number here stands for the publisher; the whole series is called an ISBN, this type of book number
(Sara: What is International Serial Book Number?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Francois: $7,200
Sara: $2,800
Conor: $2,200
2019 Teachers Tournament final game 1.
CONTESTANTS
Sara DelVillano, a middle school instrumental music teacher from Lanham, Maryland
Francois Barcomb, an 11th grade physics teacher from New Paltz, New York
Conor Quinn, a high school world history teacher from Albany, New York
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. At long last, the final. The first half today. These three people--Sara, Francois and Conor--have a lot of extra pressure on them today. They want to do well because they know their students are watching them back home. That's a lot of pressure. Good luck to you, though. Let's go to work right now in the first half of the finals. Today, the first round has these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE ACCESSORIZED TEACHER (5/5)
CROSSWORD CLUES "L" (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
DANCING BACK TO DISCO (5/5)
PLANTS & FLOWERS (5/5)
TEXT (5/5)
BOOKS (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Francois: 10 R, 0 W
Conor: 10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Sara: 7 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,600
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Conor found the Daily Double on the 8th clue. Conor had $2,400, Francois had $600, and Sara was at $1,000. Conor made it a True Daily Double, wagering $2,400.
CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $800: Fungi & algae combo
(6)
(Conor: Yeah.)
(Alex: Yeah?)
(Conor: Nothing.)
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Sara: $2,200
Conor: $1,600
Francois: $1,600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Sara DelVillano is from Maryland. Now, each year in our Teachers Tournament, we see some of the students cheering on their teachers.
Sara: Mm-hm.
Alex: How did your students inspire you for this tournament?
Sara: Post--Post-It notes, Alex. They--actually, I have them here.
[Sara shows an envelope full of Post-It notes.]
Sara: They left them all over my classroom.
Alex: Oh, gosh.
Sara: With facts about everything that they know about. And they just left them everywhere around my classroom. So they're--they're here with me today.
Alex: Now, have any of those notes come up in the games that you've seen?
Sara: Some of the Bible information.
Alex: Oh, really?
Sara: Yeah. Yeah.
Alex: All right. Well, good for you and your students, then.
Alex: Francois Barcomb from New Paltz, New York. One thing I've been meaning to ask you about. You seem to be in pretty good shape.
Francois: Well, thank you.
Alex: And I understand that you work out with other teachers. What do you guys do?
Francois: We converted a garage to our own little gymnasium that we use, and--but it's mostly teachers after school getting together.
Alex: So it's social time rather than exercise time.
Francois: Yes, we've been known to rehydrate.
Alex: Conor Quinn, the bit of information I have on you is that you cried the first baseball game you went to. How old were you then?
Conor: I was six. So it's--
Alex: Why did you cry?
Conor: May of 1996, I went down to Yankee Stadium. And at that time, all I wanted--I wanted more than anything in the world to have a baseball signed by Darryl Strawberry. And he was signing autographs and he stopped at the person right before me. And I was so distraught that I barely noticed when some rookie that I had never even heard of came over and signed the ball. And my dad was trying to convince me. He was like, "Maybe this guy will be really good." And I looked down, and I was like, "I don't even know who Derek Jeter is."
[Laughter]
Alex: You do now.
Conor: Yeah.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
BOOKS $600: It's the term for an illustration facing a book's title page
BOOKS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a book and its ISBN.) On the back of every book there's a code; on the one here, the 0 denotes the book is from an English-language country, & the number here stands for the publisher; the whole series is called an ISBN, this type of book number
(Sara: What is International Serial Book Number?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Francois: $7,200
Sara: $2,800
Conor: $2,200