Show #3340 1999-02-26 Teen Tournament

1999-A Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Nate Budde — a senior from Brush Prairie, Washington

Kitty Roberts — a junior from Columbia, South Carolina

Jeff Cary — a senior from Leavenworth, Kansas

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $1,400 $2,100 $14,800 $17,000
Automatic semifinalist
$12,500
26 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Kitty $1,600 $4,500 $8,700 $5,399
2nd place: $2,500
$8,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Nate $700 $2,100 $1,100 $0
3rd place: $2,500
$1,100
9 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

LIFE AFTER APPOMATTOX DISNEY FILM VOICES OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS MISS MANNERS MUSIC CLASS ABBREVIATIONS
$100 [1]
No longer Confederate raiders, he & his brother Frank began robbing banks out west
Jesse James
Kitty
$100 [7]
Lea Salonga, Broadway's "Miss Saigon", provided the singing voice of Jasmine for this 1992 film
Aladdin
Jeff
$100 [12]
On a ship to Italy, Paul found himself in deep water, about 20 of these units still in use today
fathoms
Jeff
$100 [23]
Never wear a white dress to a wedding; you'll look like you're competing with this person
the bride
Nate
$100 [19]
Total number of strings found in the instruments of a string quartet--2 violins, viola, cello
16
Kitty Nate
$100 [3]
An important high school exam:SAT
Scholastic Aptitude Test
Kitty
$200 [2]
In 1877 this former President retired to an estate near Biloxi to write "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government"
Jefferson Davis
Nate
$200 [8]
Jerry Orbach looked very animated when he sang "Be Our Guest" in this 1991 film
Beauty and the Beast
Nate
$200 [16]
Noah measured the ark in cubits of about 20 inches, or the distance from your middle finger to this joint
the elbow
Kitty
$200 [26]
At the prom, a gentleman "cuts in" by tapping a young lady's partner on this body part, not on the nose
the shoulder
Kitty
$200 [20]
l.h. written on a score suggests the player use this
the left hand
Kitty
$200 [13]
On television:CNN
the Cable News Network
Kitty
$300 [4]
Late in life this "Uncle Tom's Cabin" writer invested in Florida real estate
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jeff
$300 [9]
2 years before "The Birds", Rod Taylor went to the dogs as the voice of Pongo in this classic
101 Dalmatians
Kitty
$400 [18]
God told the Israelites to gather about an omer per person of this food He provided in the desert
manna
Nate
$300 [27]
To get guests to do this, rise, shake their hands & say, "You were so very, very kind to have visited me"
leave
Jeff
$300 [24]
It's probably Homer Simpson's favorite note on the tonic sol-fa scale
do
Nate
$300 [14]
A college:UNLV
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Nate
$400 [5]
Nicknamed "Yellow Hair", he was court-martialed for going AWOL in 1867 but rejoined the 7th Cavalry in 1868
George Armstrong Custer
$400 [10]
He was the voice of John Smith in "Pocahontas" but his brother Donal got the role in the direct-to-video sequel
Mel Gibson
Jeff
$500 [21]
After Solomon was born, this king captured the crown of Rabbah, which weighed about a talent, or 90 lbs.
King David
$400 [28]
No formal dinner should be without these on the table that tell you where you're sitting
a placecard
Kitty
$400 [25]
The term for a counterpoint composition like the one by Bach heard here
a fugue
Jeff
$400 [15]
In Canada, eh:the RCMP
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Kitty
$500 [6]
In 1865 this general accepted the presidency of Washington College in Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Jeff
$500 [11]
Kevin Kline was far from feeble as the voice of Phoebus in this 1996 version of a classic novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Kitty
DD $1,000 [17]
In the book named for her, she gleans about an ephah, or 2/3 of a bushel of barley from Boaz' field
Ruth
Kitty
$500 [29]
Miss Manners says these leaves are "claustrophobic" & hate "being stuffed into little bags", so serve the "loose" type
tea (leaves)
Nate
$500 [30]
By Italian terms, a cantata is a piece to be sung as contrasted to this, a sounded piece
a sonata
Kitty
$500 [22]
A former European nation:GDR
the German Democratic Republic
Kitty

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD POP IN '98 PUT 'EM IN ORDER ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON "AA" BATTERIES
$200 [1]
It's ruled by the Pope
the Vatican City State
Jeff
$200 [6]
Number one in June was "The Boy Is Mine", a duet by these single-named singers
Brandy and Monica
Kitty
$200 [11]
Oscar Winners "The English Patient","Unforgiven","Braveheart"
Unforgiven , Braveheart , The English Patient
Kitty
$200 [13]
Stevenson wrote "The Strange Case of" this pair as a shilling shocker
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jeff
$200 [21]
This African animal's tongue traps termites
the aardvark
Jeff
$200 [26]
It's the brand of Eveready battery that keeps the little pink bunny going & going & going...
Energizer
Jeff
$400 [2]
This long, narrow country stretches from Peru to the southern tip of South America
Chile
Nate
$400 [7]
The album "In My Life" has famous people like Jim Carrey & Sean Connery covering this band's songs
The Beatles
Jeff
$400 [12]
Hydrogen bomb, atom bomb, Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba"
atom bomb, hydrogen bomb, Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba"
Jeff Nate
$400 [17]
Stevenson got his first travel experience with his father, who built these beacons
lighthouses
Jeff
$400 [22]
He had 2,297 Major League RBIs
Hank Aaron
Kitty
$400 [27]
Ni Cad batteries are so named because their electrodes are made using these 2 elements
nickel & cadmium
Jeff
$600 [3]
This country that was once called Persia still has Persian as its official language
Iran
Jeff
$600 [8]
Nick, Brian, Kevin, A. J. & Howie D. "hit the road" as this group
The Backstreet Boys
Jeff
$600 [14]
Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft, James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant,James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft
Jeff
$600 [18]
Alison Conningham, his nurse as a boy, ws the "Cummy" to whom he dedicated "A Child's Garden of" these
Verses
Jeff
$600 [23]
The Biblical name for the area of Palestine
Canaan
Kitty
$600 [28]
Whether it's "C", "D" or "AA", an alkaline battery supplies this many volts
1.5
Jeff
$800 [4]
This country is home to many volcanoes including the explosive Krakatoa
Indonesia
Jeff
$800 [9]
New in the racks was a CD by Tatyana Ali, who played Ashley on this sitcom
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Jeff
$1,000 [16]
League of Nations, Hanseatic League, Iroquois League
Hanseatic League, Iroquois League, League of Nations
Jeff Nate
$1,000 [20]
Good & evil brothers are the leads in "The Master of" this
Ballantrae
Jeff
$800 [24]
Tanzania's capital is Dar es this
Salaam
Kitty
$800 [29]
If a light bulb shines after you wire it to a switch & battery, you've made a closed one of these
circuit
Jeff
$1,000 [5]
This small duchy is completely surrounded by Germany, Belgium & France
Luxembourg
Kitty
$1,000 [10]
Les Claypool "nose" that "Rhinoplasty" was a 1998 release from this group (he's its lead singer)
Primus
DD $2,000 [15]
Gemini Project, Apollo Project, Mercury Project
Mercury Project, Gemini Project, Apollo Project
Jeff
DD $1,900 [19]
Written in a matter of weeks in 1881, this pirate tale changed the face of children's literature
Treasure Island
Jeff
$1,000 [25]
"Godfather" actor James & his son Scott
James Caan
Jeff
$1,000 [30]
In a battery, an oxidation reaction occurs at the anode, & this type of reaction occurs at the cathode
a reduction reaction
Kitty

Final Jeopardy!

THE TITANIC

This man whose invention was used to call for help held a ticket for the voyage but changed his plans

Guglielmo Marconi

Nate "Who is Samuel B. Morse" — wagered $1,100
Kitty "Who was Samuel Morse?" — wagered $3,301
Jeff "Who is Marconi?" — wagered $2,200

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