1997-B Teen Tournament semifinal game 1.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
James Sumner — a senior from Jackson, Mississippi
Kathy Thompson — a senior from Gaithersburg, Maryland
Sahir Islam — a senior from Somers, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sahir | $1,600 | $4,900 | $10,500 |
$13,700
Finalist |
$7,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Kathy | $1,000 | $2,600 | $3,600 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$3,600
16 R, 3 W |
| James | $500 | $600 | $6,800 |
$13,598
2nd place: $5,000 |
$5,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| AT THE KENNEDY CENTER | NATIONAL MONUMENTS | THE CIRCUS | ON THE RADIO | CELEB STUFF | COMMON BONDS |
|
$100
[26]
Can you hear me? This rock opera by The Who was a big hit at the Kennedy Center in 1994
Tommy
Sahir
|
$100
[14]
George Custer's men are buried in a cemetery in the national monument named for this river
Little Bighorn
|
$100
[11]
Trainers shout, "Tail Up!" when they want these performers to follow each other trunk to tail
Elephants
Kathy
|
$100
[1]
Radio abbreviation that precedes the name of rap figures Quik, Pooh & Jazzy Jeff
DJ
Kathy
|
$100
[15]
On March 2, 1977 he made his first "Tonight Show" appearance; on May 25, 1992 he took over as host
Jay Leno
Kathy
|
$100
[25]
Door, Nobel, booby
prizes
Sahir
|
|
$200
[27]
In 1995 Luigi Bonino starred in a ballet about this "Little Tramp" of silent films
Charlie Chaplin
Sahir
|
$200
[7]
Scotts Bluff National Monument lies in western Nebraska on this pioneer trail
Oregon Trail
Kathy
|
$200
[10]
It's the familiar term for a circus' largest tent, where the main show appears
the big top
Kathy
|
$200
[2]
Robin Quivers is the radio consort of this self-proclaimed "King of All Media"
Howard Stern
Sahir
|
$300
[18]
People Magazine called his 1997 solo album "Destination Anywhere", "Tres Bon"
Jon Bon Jovi
|
$200
[24]
Inner tubes, doughnuts, the ozone layer
things with holes
James
|
|
$300
[28]
This president's 1972 visit to China inspired an opera that played at the Kennedy Center in 1988
Richard Nixon
Kathy
|
$300
[8]
Seminole Indian leader Osceola is buried at this fort where the Civil War began
Fort Sumter
Kathy
|
$300
[6]
Pink is the most popular color of this fluffy confection made from spun sugar
cotton candy
Sahir
|
$300
[3]
Call letters east of the Mississippi generally start with W; in the west, most start with this
K
Sahir
|
$400
[19]
In a 1997 issue of "George", he said his cousins Michael & Joseph were "poster boys for bad behavior"
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
James
|
$300
[23]
Peeling onions, watching Mel Gibson's film "Forever Young", missing Final Jeopardy!
things that make you cry
Kathy
|
|
$400
[30]
Every December, the Kennedy Center invites the public to a free sing-along of this composer's "Messiah"
G.F. Handel
Sahir
|
$400
[9]
This Wyoming monument contains an 865-foot-high fluted column of igneous rock
Devils Tower
|
$400
[12]
Antoinette Concello's triple somersault helped make her the "Queen of" this "flying" apparatus
trapeze
Sahir
|
$400
[4]
Detroit-born broadcaster who created "American Top 40" & now has his own weekly "Countdown"
Casey Kasem
Sahir
|
$500
[20]
Her 1988 major label debut album was "Y Kant Tori Read"
Tori Amos
Kathy
|
$400
[22]
Bobby, bowling, rolling
pins
Sahir
|
|
$500
[29]
A 1994 festival honoring this country featured the Tjapukai Aboriginal Dance Company
Australia
Kathy
|
$500
[13]
Castillo de San Marcos in this Florida city is the oldest masonry fort in the continental U.S.
St. Augustine
James
|
$500
[16]
This steam whistle organ draws crowds to circus parades because it can be heard from miles away:[audio clue]
calliope
Sahir
James
|
$500
[5]
The AAA format, featuring artists like The Cranberries & Tom Petty, stands for adult album this
alternative
|
DD
$1,500
[17]
(Hi, I'm Bob Eubanks.) Tea Leoni ran into this "X-Files" star at the Golden Globes & soon they were newlyweds
David Duchovny
Sahir
|
$500
[21]
Hollywood, salad, Super
bowls
Sahir
|
| THE OBLIGATORY POETRY CATEGORY | ART | THE REDCOATS ARE COMING! | "HIGH" SCHOOL | OFF TO A GOOD START | COLLEGE MASCOTS |
|
$200
[2]
The one word quothed by Edgar Allan Poe's raven
"Nevermore!"
Kathy
|
$200
[1]
You can't make a genuine tempera painting without breaking these
eggs
Kathy
|
$200
[10]
On Sept. 5, 1781, 24 of this country's ships engaged British ships in Cheaspeake Bay & turned them back
France
Kathy
|
$200
[21]
Chuck Taylor, from whom Converse named a line of these shoes, was a basketball star of the 1910s
high-tops
Kathy
|
$200
[17]
It's the go-ahead in a kid's game & for a car at an intersection
a green light
James
|
$200
[20]
[video clue]
Oregon State University
Kathy
James
|
|
$400
[3]
It follows "Poems are made by fools like me..."
"But only God can make a tree"
|
$400
[5]
Surrealists used odd juxtapositions in this form whose name is French for "gluing"
collage
Kathy
James
|
$400
[9]
During the war, this first signer of the Declaration of Independence commanded the Mass. Militia
John Hancock
Sahir
|
$400
[26]
The L.A. Dodgers & the U. of Louisville basketball team pioneered this gesture in the late '70s
the high five
Kathy
|
$400
[18]
A baker who never uses packaged mixes always "starts from" here
scratch
James
|
$400
[27]
[video clue]
the University of Florida
Kathy
James
|
|
$600
[4]
In preparing to write this poem, Longfellow used "An historical and statistical account of Nova Scotia"
Evangeline
Sahir
|
$600
[6]
Edward Steichen led the movement to recognize as art these images, whose name means "drawn with light"
photographs
Sahir
|
$600
[7]
In it, Thomas Paine wrote, "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind"
Common Sense
Sahir
|
$800
[22]
The HD in the new digital format HDTV stands for this
high definition
James
|
$600
[19]
It's a ship at home in the Arctic, or a remark that starts a conversation
an icebreaker
Sahir
|
$600
[28]
[video clue]
the University of Texas
Sahir
|
|
$800
[12]
In a poem titled for the date when Germany invaded Poland, W.H. Auden called this "A low dishonest decade"
1930s
James
|
$1,000
[14]
In 1920 this impressionist, known for his water lilies, painted another plant, "Wisteria"
Claude Monet
|
$800
[11]
The Battle of Long Island was fought in what is now this New York City borough
Brooklyn
Sahir
|
$1,000
[23]
Acolytes, a subdeacon & a choir take part in this Catholic service
high mass
James
|
$800
[24]
It begins a football game or a special event like a political campaign
the kickoff
Kathy
|
— |
|
$1,000
[15]
Observing pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Thomas Becket inspired him to write his greatest work
Geoffrey Chaucer ( The Canterbury Tales )
Sahir
|
DD
$1,800
[13]
17th century Flemish master known for painting women like the one seen here:
Peter Paul Rubens
James
|
$1,000
[16]
The British ferried 2,200 troops across this river to battle the Americans at Bunker Hill
the Charles River
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
Coastal waters beyond national jurisdiction, or the tops of some sopranos' ranges
High seas/C's
Sahir
|
$1,000
[25]
In a business project, it's the level investors try to "get in on"
the ground floor (or the ground level)
James
|
— |
Word completing the line "Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in" this
jeopardy