Tuesday, May 10, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #7297, 2016-05-10
2016 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 2.
From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
CONTESTANTS
Bill Knuth, a high school special education teacher from East Lansing, Michigan
Jill Gilbert, a middle school English teacher from Des Moines, Iowa
Chris Tempro, a ninth grade math teacher from Allentown, Pennsylvania
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the second of our semifinal games. Kaberi Chakrabarty was very, very good on yesterday's show, winning that game. And who of these three will get to join her as a finalist? Will it be Bill, Jill, or Chris? Let's start finding out right now. Here comes the Jeopardy! round for you. And here are the categories.
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE NEW TESTAMENT (5/5)
2016 STAMPS (2/4)
"ON" THE MIDDLE (3/5) (Alex: Notice the quotation marks. The letters "O-N" will be exactly in the middle of each correct response.)
JOBS (5/5)
GATES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jill: 10 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Chris: 10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Bill: 3 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 6
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,600
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Jill: $3,800
Chris: $2,200
Bill: -$400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Bill Knuth is a special education teacher from Michigan whose school is spearheading a country-wide intervention strategy. Tell me about that.
Bill: Yeah, actually it's our district is spearheading that. And what we do is we try and get to the kids at a very young age and intervene in reading--and starting out reading and also math, so that we can find any problems really early.
Alex: Okay, and you say you get them at a very young age. What are we talking about?
Bill: Um, kindergarten, first---I mean, it starts in early childhood, actually.
Alex: Okay.
Bill: And works its way.
Alex: Okay. Good for you.
Alex: Jill Gilbert, middle school English teacher, whose family was involved in education also.
Jill: Yes. Both my parents are teachers. My mom's mother was a teacher, two of her sisters were also teachers, and my brother teaches AP government.
Alex: Okay.
Alex: Chris Tempro is a ninth grade math teacher from Pennsylvania. Your school district is currently celebrating something very important?
Chris: Yes, our sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the school district, but I have the great pleasure of working in the newest school in the district. It just opened this year. It's called Building 21, and it's a partnership with the community and business in Allentown, together with the school district, to try and---try some new reforms in the district.
Alex: Okay.
Chris: Yeah.
Alex: Good for you.
Chris: Thank you.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Chris found the Daily Double on the 18th clue. Chris had $2,800, Jill had $3,800, and Bill had a deficit with -$400. Chris wagered $1,500.
GATES $600: In 1989 black steel gates were installed at the entrance to this street to protect Margaret Thatcher from attack
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
"ON" THE MIDDLE $800: Type of "reading" that alternates a line by a pastor & by the congregation
"ON" THE MIDDLE $1000: To scold in a mild manner
(Bill: What is remonstrate?)
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY $600: Bobby Murphy was a co-founder of this conversation app once known as Picaboo
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY $800: In 2014 co-founder John Zimmer shaved the pink mustaches off the grills of its rides when it began servicing New York City
(Chris: What is Uber?)
...
(Alex: With less than a minute now.)
2016 STAMPS $600: Stand and deliver the name of this man, honored on a stamp and in film for teaching calculus to his inner-city students
2016 STAMPS $800: This natural wonder of the Pacific Northwest, a canyon through the Cascades, is depicted here on a 2016 stamp
[End-of-round signal sounds]
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Jill: $6,600
Chris: $4,300
Bill: $0
2016 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 2.
From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
CONTESTANTS
Bill Knuth, a high school special education teacher from East Lansing, Michigan
Jill Gilbert, a middle school English teacher from Des Moines, Iowa
Chris Tempro, a ninth grade math teacher from Allentown, Pennsylvania
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the second of our semifinal games. Kaberi Chakrabarty was very, very good on yesterday's show, winning that game. And who of these three will get to join her as a finalist? Will it be Bill, Jill, or Chris? Let's start finding out right now. Here comes the Jeopardy! round for you. And here are the categories.
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE NEW TESTAMENT (5/5)
2016 STAMPS (2/4)
"ON" THE MIDDLE (3/5) (Alex: Notice the quotation marks. The letters "O-N" will be exactly in the middle of each correct response.)
JOBS (5/5)
GATES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jill: 10 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Chris: 10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Bill: 3 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 6
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,600
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Jill: $3,800
Chris: $2,200
Bill: -$400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Bill Knuth is a special education teacher from Michigan whose school is spearheading a country-wide intervention strategy. Tell me about that.
Bill: Yeah, actually it's our district is spearheading that. And what we do is we try and get to the kids at a very young age and intervene in reading--and starting out reading and also math, so that we can find any problems really early.
Alex: Okay, and you say you get them at a very young age. What are we talking about?
Bill: Um, kindergarten, first---I mean, it starts in early childhood, actually.
Alex: Okay.
Bill: And works its way.
Alex: Okay. Good for you.
Alex: Jill Gilbert, middle school English teacher, whose family was involved in education also.
Jill: Yes. Both my parents are teachers. My mom's mother was a teacher, two of her sisters were also teachers, and my brother teaches AP government.
Alex: Okay.
Alex: Chris Tempro is a ninth grade math teacher from Pennsylvania. Your school district is currently celebrating something very important?
Chris: Yes, our sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the school district, but I have the great pleasure of working in the newest school in the district. It just opened this year. It's called Building 21, and it's a partnership with the community and business in Allentown, together with the school district, to try and---try some new reforms in the district.
Alex: Okay.
Chris: Yeah.
Alex: Good for you.
Chris: Thank you.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Chris found the Daily Double on the 18th clue. Chris had $2,800, Jill had $3,800, and Bill had a deficit with -$400. Chris wagered $1,500.
GATES $600: In 1989 black steel gates were installed at the entrance to this street to protect Margaret Thatcher from attack
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
"ON" THE MIDDLE $800: Type of "reading" that alternates a line by a pastor & by the congregation
"ON" THE MIDDLE $1000: To scold in a mild manner
(Bill: What is remonstrate?)
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY $600: Bobby Murphy was a co-founder of this conversation app once known as Picaboo
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY $800: In 2014 co-founder John Zimmer shaved the pink mustaches off the grills of its rides when it began servicing New York City
(Chris: What is Uber?)
...
(Alex: With less than a minute now.)
2016 STAMPS $600: Stand and deliver the name of this man, honored on a stamp and in film for teaching calculus to his inner-city students
2016 STAMPS $800: This natural wonder of the Pacific Northwest, a canyon through the Cascades, is depicted here on a 2016 stamp
[End-of-round signal sounds]
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Jill: $6,600
Chris: $4,300
Bill: $0