Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (5-28-20)
In the fourth quarter-final of the Jeopardy!’s 2020 Teachers Tournament (5/28/2020), the players got all the clues in I’M A CHICK, except the last one:
($400) The third iteration of this game named for the virtual people created has an add-on where you fight with Charles the evil chicken
($800) A fictional radio senator named Claghorn influenced this bombastic animated rooster
($1200) In the opening of this stop motion Adult Swim show, a mad scientist breathes life into a recently smooshed fowl
($1600) On “The Muppet Show” the love of this Muppet’s life was Camilla the Chicken
*($2000) In one punishment of this truTV reality game show, Sal had to match wits with some chickens on the loose
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — THE LANGUAGE OF DE-FEET
($200) Directly confront someone & you’re going this-to-this with them
($400) This lingual “disease” of making in appropriate statements has 2 body parts
($600) A curved part of the foot is a crucial part of this term for your chief rival
($800) A soldier’s small trunk
($1000) A babyface is a good-guy pro wrestler; this is the term for the bad guy
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Ben has a brother named Damian Henri. He was on the show in October 2-4, 2013. He’s a two day champion.
Is Damian Ben’s older brother or younger brother?
Younger brother.
Thanks, Richard.
Semifinalists:
Ben Henri: $23,678
Will Satterwhite: $22,400
Meggie Kwait: $21,601
Amanda Baltimore: $17,600
Wild Cards:
Katie LaBarge: $18,400
Jenna Hall: $16,500
Sam Matson: $16,402
Lauren Schneider Lipton: $14,001
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Matt Joyal: $9,400
Peter Gouveia: $6,399
Mary Kate Trausch: $3,199
Ivory Johnson: $0
It just wasn’t Mary’s day today but I am happy that she got final right. But still though this is the second time a science teacher missed a simple science clue about faraday. Come on now science has to be their forte especially on magnetism? Today’s daily doubles weren’t that hard. Ben was pretty quick on the buzzer so now tomorrow I will see what the teacher of Connecticut can do.
Since science is so varied a subject, it’s easy for some fields to not be in the purview of a regular ol’ school teacher. After all, some science teachers at the high school level are certified for biological sciences, others for physics, etc. Kind of like some English teachers might be strong in American literature but weaker in foreign writers, or some math teachers can teach calculus while others do better with geometry. It’s not like Neil deGrasse Tyson is getting up there as a leader of his field and missing a question about the stars in Orion’s Belt. We don’t know what classes Mary Kate teaches, so maybe she’s an anatomy teacher instead of physics. Plus, things slip through the cracks sometimes, especially when under pressure on stage like that.
I hope your Connecticut teacher measures up to your expectations.
Thanks, and you made a great point. I agree with you. I hope that the Connecticut teacher can build up a strong win to get in the semi finals. Still though other subjects like geometry and algebra are our strong points but calculus isn’t in my alley unfortunately. Foreign languages are always my favorite to stick with so it just needs more time to learn.