Final Jeopardy: 8-19 to 8-23-19

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of August 19 through August 23, 2019, a rerun of the last week of the 2019 Teachers Tournament that originally aired in May 2019.

Mon, Aug 19 – Correct answers: 0
AMERICANA: John & Priscilla Alden lie in the USA’s oldest maintained cemetery, which like a poem about the couple, is named for this person show

Tue, Aug 20 – Correct answers: 2
AMERICAN WOMEN: In 2006 Arizona State University renamed its College of Law in honor of this history-making woman & longtime Arizona resident show

Wed, Aug 21 – Correct answers: 1
RUSSIAN COMPOSERS: A 1913 piece by him was conceived of as the symphonic equivalent of a pagan ritual, to be titled “Great Sacrifice” show

Thu, Aug 22 – Correct answers: 2
20TH CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, “In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage…who we are and where we have come from” show

Fri, Aug 23 – Correct answers: 3
PHOTO SHARING: Publishing its first photo in 1889, today it has more than 4 billion likes & 100 million followers on instagram show

Last May, we picked Wednesday’s clue as the hardest even though it produced one correct response while Monday’s was a triple stumper. However, our reasoning was that more people know more about colonial history than they do about classical music. Friday’s was the easiest for the finalists, although Thursday’s clue was a softball too.

Francois Barcomb won the whole tournament and the top prize and here is his Winner’s video.

All of the teachers who participated in the 2019 Teachers Tournament were winners. Here are the complete results:

$100,000 Francois Barcomb, New Paltz, NY, 11th Grade Physics Teacher
 $50,000 Conor Quinn, Albany, NY, High School World History Teacher
 $25,000 Sara DelVillano, Lanham, MD, Middle School Instrumental Music Teacher

$10,000 winners:
Matthew Bunch, Miami, FL, Middle School Civics World History Teacher
Trevor Crowell, Mountain View, CA, High School Spanish Teacher
Joe Rengstorf, Poulsbo, WA, Middle School Special Education Teacher
Julia Rosinski Bailey, Austin, TX,10th Grade Chemistry Teacher
Dave Rowswell, Cheyenne, WY, High School Art Teacher
Benjamin Schwartz, Stamford, CT, Middle School English Teacher

$5,000 WINNERS:
Tara Baxter, Tucson, AZ, High School English Teacher
Alexandra Bicks, Cambridge, MA, High School ESL Teacher
Vicki Leibeck-Owsley, Columbia, KY, High School English Teacher
Mariah Minges Klusman, Wyncote, PA, 12th Grade English Language Arts Teacher
Melissa Okey, Panorama City, CA, Elementary School Resource Teacher
Ellie Walsh, Nashville, TN, High School World History & US Government Teacher