Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Americans (5-5-16)
More triple stumpers from the fourth quarter-final match of the 2016 Teacher’s Tournament.
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN GERMAN ($800) Informatik (a thoroughly modern one)
A VICE PRESIDENT’S SURNAME ($200) Violence, murder & bloodshed provide it
($600) Bede, Smith & Clayton Powell, collectively
EYES ON THE PRIZE ($200) Shigeru Ban, a pioneer in the use of cardboard, won 2014’s Pritzker Prize in this field
($400) The XPrizes include a $10 million competition to make this Star Trek diagnostic device a reality
($600) Writers who explore the human condition can win a Humanitas Prize; Larry Kramer did for this drama about AIDS
A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE ($800) I’m Neil Degrasse Tyson. I got my first taste of stargazing as a 9-year-old kid in New York City when I took a trip to this facility at the American Museum of Natural History; later I took classes there & today I’m its director
TEACHERS ($1600) Seen here, former Philly high school teacher Jesse Williams is Dr. Jackson Avery on this TV drama
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo.
Gracias
That Vice-President Surname category was a toughie except for a couple. I liked the $1200 clue in All About Animals: “It’s not George W’s offspring but this tree-dwelling primate of Africa.” LOL! Probably didn’t need an image with that clue.
Tenaya and Terrie are out.
Actually no, those 2 are on the bubble right now. Lauren Gilmore with $11,000 and Nicole Throckmorton with $5,000 have clinched the 1st 2 wild-cards, which means that they can’t be caught tomorrow, while Dianne Lee with $100 and Hannah Krug with $1, it’s time to go back to teaching school, a place where some of your students have and have never graduated.