1997-B Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 5.
Bea Vo — a senior from Reston, Virginia
James Sumner — a senior from Jackson, Mississippi
Meghan Arnold — a senior from Portland, Oregon
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meghan | $1,000 | $1,900 | $2,500 |
$4,999
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$2,500
11 R, 2 W |
| James | $2,300 | $3,500 | $4,900 |
$9,750
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,900
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bea | $600 | $1,300 | $11,800 |
$13,798
Automatic semifinalist |
$10,300
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| SALLY GOES TO SPACE CAMP | 1997 MOVIE AD LINES | THEME PARK FUN | WHEN THEY WERE TEENAGERS | "PICK" ME! | DON'T PICK ME! |
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$100
[26]
Sally chose to attend this state's camp over Alabama or California to be near Kennedy Space Center
Florida
James
Bea
|
$100
[1]
"Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe"
Men in Black
James
|
$100
[14]
The Slidewinder is a free-flow flume ride down a mountainside at her theme park, Dollywood
Dolly Parton
Bea
|
$100
[18]
This star of "The Nanny" was once first runner-up in the Miss New York Teenager pageant
Fran Drescher
Bea
|
$100
[6]
Restaurant counter pick-me-up to dig that piece of broccoli out from between your incisors
a toothpick
James
|
$100
[11]
The card you don't want to pick in this children's game is the odd queen
Old Maid
Bea
|
|
$200
[27]
Looking to the future, Sally found out what it might be like to travel to this neighbor planet, like Sojourner
Mars
Meghan
|
$200
[2]
"Protecting the jungle from the scum of the Earth"
George of the Jungle
Meghan
|
$200
[15]
You'll get wet when you ride the Grand Canyon Rapids at MGM Grand Adventures in this Nevada city
Las Vegas
Bea
|
$200
[20]
In 1973, at age 15, she made her Broadway debut in "Irene", which starred her mom, Debbie Reynolds
Carrie Fisher
James
|
$200
[7]
A person who separates a man from his wallet
a pickpocket
Bea
|
$200
[12]
A sign on the road to Carlsbad Caverns reads, "Do not pick up" these; "prison facilities in this area"
hitchhikers
James
|
|
$300
[28]
Sally's interest was sparked by the 1986 film "Space Camp" with this "Caroline in the City" star
Lea Thompson
Meghan
Bea
|
$300
[3]
"Come celebrate the wedding of the summer!"
My Best Friend's Wedding
James
|
$300
[23]
The Universal Studios ride named for this extraterrestrial might make you want to "phone home"
E.T.
James
|
$300
[21]
This beefy Desert Storm general went to Valley Forge Military Academy on a football scholarship
General Norman Schwarzkopf
Bea
|
$300
[8]
Literally meaning to pluck lice eggs, it also means to complain about the smallest details
a nitpick
James
|
$300
[13]
It's the crust of fibrin & serum that forms on a wound & then dries
a scab
Meghan
|
|
$400
[29]
At space camp, Sally learned astronauts call spacewalks EVAs, which is short for this
extravehicular activity
|
$400
[4]
"In order to trap him, he must become him"
Face/Off
James
|
$400
[24]
Spookyworld, a scary theme park in Berlin, Massachusetts, is only open this one full month
October
James
|
$400
[19]
She was a teenager when she recorded her first solo album, "Liza! Liza!", in 1964
Liza Minnelli
James
|
$400
[9]
Nickname of the following:
a cherry picker
James
|
$400
[16]
After 5 Emmys, this "Murphy Brown" star took herself out of the running for 1996 to give others a chance
Candice Bergen
Meghan
|
|
$500
[30]
Sally was the commander when her team simulated a mission on this reusable spacecraft
the Space Shuttle
James
|
$500
[5]
"The coast is toast"
Volcano
James
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
You'll freefall more than 20 stories if you ride the Dungeon Drop at Six Flags Astroworld in this city
Houston
James
|
$500
[22]
Winona Ryder was a teenage ingenue when she co-starred with Johnny Depp in this Tim Burton fantasy film
Edward Scissorhands
James
|
$500
[10]
On the third day at Gettysburg, over 3,000 Confederate men lost their lives in this single assault
Pickett's Charge
Meghan
|
$500
[17]
The robber hopes his victim doesn't pick him out of this police parade of prisoners
a lineup
Bea
|
| BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | BLACK AMERICANS | SHAKESPEARE | MUSIC APPRECIATION | TREE VERBS | seventeen. |
|
$200
[10]
This weapon Buffy uses on attackers was once used to fasten potential vampires to the ground
a stake
James
|
$200
[1]
This agricultural scientist treated polio victims with peanut oil & massages
George Washington Carver
James
|
$200
[4]
Title teenager who says, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet"
Juliet
James
|
$200
[15]
It's the section of a symphony orchestra in which you'll find the tuba & the trombones
brass
Bea
|
$200
[20]
To stopper a bottle with material from the bark of the oak of the same name
cork
Meghan
|
$200
[21]
Cover stories in July 1997 included "Celeb Trauma-Rama" & "How To Deal" with this when it's "Frizzy"
Hair
Meghan
|
|
$400
[11]
Giles, who holds this post at Buffy's high school, hit old books to analyze the latest demonic foe
librarian
James
|
$400
[2]
In 1994 this "Color Purple" author was recognized by California for being a "state treasure"
Alice Walker
Bea
|
$400
[5]
Act III, Scene I of this play takes place on March 15, also known as the Ides of March
Julius Caesar
James
|
$400
[16]
In the 1890s Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem based on this Cervantes novel
Don Quixote
James
|
$800
[23]
It's the verb one might use for tidying up the needles dropped by the tree of the same name
sprucing
Meghan
Bea
|
$400
[22]
As 1 in 7 girls don't get enough of this mineral, Seventeen recommends they eat potatoes with skins
iron
Meghan
|
|
$600
[12]
Buffy likes a guy named Angel, who's handsome & kind but has one big drawback
he's a vampire
Bea
|
$600
[3]
This abolitionist & publisher of "The North Star" ran a station of the Underground Railroad in Rochester
Frederick Douglass
Meghan
|
$600
[6]
This queen likes to play billiards when she's not playing around with Antony
Cleopatra
Bea
|
$600
[17]
Pianists know it's also called the F clef
the bass clef
Meghan
James
|
$1,000
[26]
To make sticky or to clog, perhaps with the substance taken from the tree
gum (up)
James
|
$600
[24]
We found this "Growing Pains" & "Marvin's Room" star in every issue from February to July 1997
Leonardo DiCaprio
Meghan
|
|
$800
[13]
In a June 1997 episode, an army of vampires menaces humanity on the night of this big dance
prom
Bea
|
$800
[8]
On Feb. 20, 1996 former Congressman Kweisi Mfume was sworn in as head of this organization
NAACP
Bea
|
$1,000
[18]
When Othello decides he wants to poison Desdemona, this villain suggests that he strangle her instead
Iago
Bea
|
$800
[19]
This Norwegian composed his "Norwegian Peasant Dances", Opus 72, in 1902
Edvard Grieg
|
— |
$800
[27]
Seventeen thinks these "look really cool" & there's no need to fade them, but you can blend them with makeup
freckles
|
|
$1,000
[14]
Buffy suspects something's amiss when a girl trying out for this squad spontaneously combusts
cheerleading
Bea
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
In 1933 this future Supreme Court justice was first in his class at Howard University Law School
Thurgood Marshall
Bea
|
DD
$1,300
[7]
Shakespearean character who speaks the lines heard here:"O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: ...the rest is silence"
Hamlet
Bea
|
— | — |
$1,000
[25]
Seventeen's readers' least favorite commercial for 1997 was for this fresh mint
Mentos
Bea
|
Tourists may visit the Chawton, England home of this sensible 19th C. novelist, still popular today
Jane Austen