Teachers Tournament Rerun: 9-1-17 Quarterfinal No. 5

Today’s Jeopardy match originally aired on May 12, 2017. It was the last quarterfinal match of the 2017 Teachers Tournament. The players were: Holly Cannon, Susannah York and Dennis McDonald.

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There’s a list of clues over here from this match. The FJ category was Place Names, a fairly frequent category, although sometimes it is restricted to a specific geographical area as in the first set of clues below. The $1200 clue in both of these sets was a Daily Double that is on the game recap:

U.S. PLACE NAMES (6/1/2017) (A big runaway game for Joe Nguyen)
$400: This state capital was named for the fourth president of the United States
$800: This birthplace of FDR wasn’t named for the place in London but for a colonial governor of New York
$1600: The name of this Pennsylvania borough is from Algonquian for “town of gnats”, not groundhogs
$2000: Twin cities on the border of the “Lone Star State” & the “Natural State” share this name

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PLACE NAMES 5/21/2015 (When Andrew Haringer lost to Choyon Manjrekar)
$400: Mountains named for this color include Weissenstein, Dent-Blanche & Pizzo Bianco
$800: 8 U.S. counties are named for this tribe, including one in Oklahoma, where they were relocated in the 1830s
$1600: This Southeast Asian island nation was named for a 16th century Spanish king
$2000: This largest New Zealand city is named for a First Lord of the Admiralty, not a diving bird

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