2006 Back to School Week game 1.
Emily Love — from Overland Park, Kansas
Tommy Hoyt — from Winnetka, Illinois
Dianisbeth Acquie — from Brooklyn, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dianisbeth | $2,200 | $4,000 | $-1,200 |
$-1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-1,200
11 R, 6 W |
| Tommy | $1,000 | $4,200 | $21,800 |
$26,300
Winner: $26,300 |
$20,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Emily | $600 | $2,600 | $8,200 |
$16,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
11 R, 1 W |
| KID LIT | DISNEY CHANNEL | NUMBER, PLEASE | JEWELRY | BEEKEEPING | COLORFUL LANGUAGE |
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$200
[6]
A game of hide & seek leads Peter, Susan, Edmund & Lucy into this land that's "always winter & never Christmas"
Narnia
Dianisbeth
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$200
[1]
Sabrina Bryan & Raven-Simone play singing friends who "show their spots" in Spain in the 2006 sequel to this TV movie
The Cheetah Girls
Dianisbeth
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$200
[12]
It precedes "Minutes" in the title of a popular Sunday night TV news program
60
Emily
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$200
[13]
The "stack" type of this is narrow enough for you to wear several on one finger
a ring
Tommy
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$200
[19]
(Sarah Whitcomb of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Nebraska's Dept. of Entomology.) This familiar term for agroupof bees refers specifically to the group that flies from the hive to form a new colony
a swarm
Dianisbeth
|
$200
[11]
Classified advertising section of the phone book listing subscribers by type of business
the yellow pages
Dianisbeth
|
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$400
[7]
Leroy is the real first name of the boy detective with this bookish nickname
Encyclopedia Brown
Emily
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$400
[2]
The song heardherewas on the soundtrack to this 2006 Disney Channel movie"This could be the start of something new /It feels so right..."
High School Musical
Tommy
|
$400
[23]
Highest number you can throw with just one standard die
6
Tommy
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$400
[16]
In the South, this piece of jewelry is sometimes called an earbob
an earring
Dianisbeth
|
$400
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a swarm of bees.) Drones don't sting, & queens only sting other queens, so only worryabout a sting from these bees, but they are about 95% of a hive's population
worker bees
Dianisbeth
|
$400
[14]
A karate kid may aspire to this high rank, kuroi-obi in Japanese
a black belt
Dianisbeth
|
|
$600
[8]
This Louise Fitzhugh lass spies on her classmates & writes about them in her secret notebook
Harriet the Spy
Tommy
|
$600
[3]
Twin brothers play twin brothers who live in Boston's Tipton Hotel in this series
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
Dianisbeth
|
$600
[24]
Of 80, 800 or 1800, the approximate length in miles of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
800
Tommy
Emily
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$600
[25]
A simple strand of these mollusk gems has been a classic fashion accessory for hundreds of years
pearls
Dianisbeth
Emily
|
$600
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue with a tray of bees in front of her.) Honey isproducedby the evaporation of this liquid that bees collect from flowers & then regurgitate
nectar
Tommy
|
$600
[15]
Swift-of-foot critter seen here
a greyhound
Tommy
|
|
DD
$800
[9]
In a Frances Hodgson Burnett tale, Mary Lennox tends to this title place & Colin grows stronger as it blooms
the Secret Garden
Tommy
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$800
[4]
Miley Stewart, who moved to Malibu from Tennessee, leads a double life as this 14-year-old pop star
Hannah Montana
Tommy
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$800
[27]
By a cumulative count, you get a total of 364 gifts in this song, including 42 swans
"The 12 Days of Christmas"
Dianisbeth
|
$800
[26]
Many diamonds are cut in a shape named for this green gem
an emerald
Emily
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$800
[22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reveals the clue holding a tray with bees on it.) Glands on a bee's abdomen convert the sugar inhoneyto this building material
beeswax
Dianisbeth
Tommy
|
$800
[17]
A California national park is named for these tallest living trees
redwood
Tommy
|
|
$1,000
[10]
This 3-letter Kipling lad goes on a Himalayan journey with a Tibetan lama
Kim
|
$1,000
[5]
In a 2006 Disney Channel movie, Brenda Song starred as this girl: "Homecoming Warrior"
Wendy Wu
Dianisbeth
|
$1,000
[28]
Bill Clinton is officially listed as this number U.S. president
42
Dianisbeth
|
$1,000
[29]
This kind of pendant is a gold or silver case that opens to reveal a picture of a loved one
a locket
Tommy
|
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$1,000
[18]
This colorful name for the U.S. Army's Special Forces comes from their unique hats
Green Berets
Tommy
|
| OUR FOUNDING FATHERS | ANIMATED MOVIES | NAME THAT COUNTRY | I'M BORED | SNACK ATTACK | "Y" END IT? |
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$400
[2]
He began building Monticello in 1770 but it wasn't completed until after he left the presidency in 1809
Thomas Jefferson
Tommy
|
$400
[6]
RJ the raccoon & Verne the turtle are 2 of the forest critters who invade the suburbs for food in this 2006 film
Over the Hedge
Emily
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$400
[19]
This countryis not too worried if it gets the boot
Italy
Tommy
|
$400
[24]
Care to help me make sauerkraut? I need 25 pounds of this vegetable shredded up ASAP
cabbage
Dianisbeth
|
$400
[17]
A Fluffernutter is a sandwich of peanut butter & a creme named for this fluffy white pillowy confection
marshmallow
Tommy
|
$400
[14]
From the Latin for "daily journal", it's a private record of a writer's experiences
a diary
Tommy
|
|
$800
[3]
On April 24, 1778 this naval hero captured the Drake, the first British ship defeated in war by an American ship
John Paul Jones
Tommy
|
$800
[1]
The living, breathing, scary title creature of this 2006 movie is seen here
Monster House
Tommy
|
$800
[20]
Though a neighbor, this Caribbean nation has had a rocky history with the United States
Cuba
Tommy
|
$800
[27]
Blast off to Space Place & Starchild, 2 websites for kids sponsored by this government space agency
NASA
Tommy
|
$800
[11]
Yoplait makes this portable yogurt in a tube, a perfect snack when you're on the move
Go-Gurt
Tommy
|
$800
[15]
An elevated platform projecting from the wall of a building, or seats high in a theater
a balcony
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[4]
He served jointly with William Hunter as Postmaster General of the Colonies from 1753 to 1761
Benjamin Franklin
Emily
|
$1,200
[5]
A 10-year old boy becomes the size of an insect & adventure follows in this 2006 film
The Ant Bully
Tommy
|
$1,200
[21]
It's big... and it's cold
Russia
Emily
|
$1,200
[29]
How about memorizing all the capitals of South America, including Quito, the capital of this country
Ecuador
Tommy
|
$1,200
[12]
This brand of pudding & gelatin offers Smoothie Snacks & Pudding Bites
Jell-O
Tommy
|
$1,200
[18]
The Father, the Son & the Holy Ghost, as honored on the first Sunday after Pentecost
the Trinity
Dianisbeth
|
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
At age 15 he was a bellringer at the Old North Church; 25 years later he told the church sexton to light 2 lanterns
Paul Revere
Tommy
|
$1,600
[8]
This 1988 film is seen thorugh the eyes of Littlefoot, a baby Brontosaurus
The Land Before Time
Tommy
|
$1,600
[22]
44 million-strong African country seen here
South Africa
Tommy
|
$1,600
[30]
Maybe you can tesser & travel to new worlds like Meg, Calvin & Charles Wallace did in this 1962 L'Engle novel
A Wrinkle in Time
Tommy
|
$1,600
[13]
Nacho Cheese & Cool Ranch are 2 flavors of this Frito-Lay brand of tortilla chips
Doritos
Dianisbeth
Tommy
|
$1,600
[25]
This word is used in tennis & soccer for when you hit the ball before it bounces on the ground
volley
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Before he was on the $10 bill, this first Treasury Secretary was one of the 39 signers of the Constitution
Alexander Hamilton
Tommy
Emily
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$2,000
[7]
Paul Simon contributed the song "Father And Daughter" to the soundtrack of this "Wild" 2002 film
The Wild Thornberrys
Dianisbeth
Tommy
|
DD
$4,000
[23]
Thiscountry takes its name from a term for a precious metal
Argentina
Tommy
|
$2,000
[28]
How about taking up a new hobby like philately, which is the collecting of these
stamps
|
$2,000
[16]
"The Ultimate Crunch", this favorite in flavors like Chile Picante, Original & Ranch, is a no-no if you have braces
Corn Nuts
Emily
|
$2,000
[26]
Important elements in music are melody & this pleasing combination of tones, from the Greek for "joint"
harmony
Emily
|
Discovered in 1930, in August 2006 it was officially downgraded to a "dwarf"
Pluto