Show #3035 1997-11-07 (taped 1997-10-12) Teen Tournament

1997-B Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Bea Vo — a senior from Reston, Virginia

James Sumner — a senior from Jackson, Mississippi

Meghan Arnold — a senior from Portland, Oregon

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

SALLY GOES TO SPACE CAMP 1997 MOVIE AD LINES THEME PARK FUN WHEN THEY WERE TEENAGERS "PICK" ME! DON'T PICK ME!
$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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN AUTHORS

Tourists may visit the Chawton, England home of this sensible 19th C. novelist, still popular today

Jane Austen

Meghan "Who is Jane Austen?" — wagered $2,499
James "Who is jane austen?" — wagered $4,850
Bea "Who is Jane Austen?" — wagered $1,998

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