Show #4024 2002-02-14 (taped 2001-12-18) Teen Tournament

2002 Teen Tournament final game 1.

Contestants

Seth Disner — a senior from Los Angeles, California

Bernard Holloway — a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland

George Nelson — a senior from Montgomery, Alabama

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
George $600 $3,000 $13,600 $20,000 $16,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Bernard $0 $3,200 $11,600 $22,000 $11,600
13 R, 2 W
Seth $3,200 $5,000 $16,600 $27,300 $18,600
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION I GOT AN "F" TENNIS STARS STUDENT BODY AMERICAN HEROES ISN'T IT ROMANTIC?
$200 [21]
Department statistics show the average for this is 24 students in public secondary school, 19 in private
class size
George
$200 [1]
Baskin-Robbins has 31 of them
flavors
Seth
$200 [16]
These sisters played against each other in the 1998 Australian Open
the Williams sisters (Venus & Serena)
Bernard
$200 [11]
Found in your head, each one consists of a crown & a root
a tooth
Seth
$200 [6]
Korean War Sgt. Tony Burris received this in Congress' name for "heroism and gallant self-sacrifice"
the Medal of Honor
Seth
$200 [26]
In 1993 Hershey's introduced these "snuggly" candies that go well with Kisses
Hugs
Seth
$400 [22]
The department took over the Migrant Worker Education Program of this cabinet department
Labor
George
$400 [2]
(Cheryl is holding something.) An interjection meaning "nonsense", it's a plural of this
"Fiddlesticks!"
$400 [17]
In October 2001 these 2 tennis stars got married in Las Vegas
Steffi Graf & Andre Agassi
George Bernard
$400 [12]
In this organ you have a tympanic canal, bone & membrane
the ear
George
$400 [7]
This man seenherewon admiration across the country in the fall of 2001
(Rudolph) Giuliani
George
$400 [27]
www.princesspies.com specializes in cheesecakes in this romantic shape
a heart
Bernard
$600 [23]
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is also called "the nation's" version of this "card"
a report card
George
$600 [3]
In literature, these include Titania & Tinker Bell
fairies
Seth
$600 [18]
This Slovakian-born Swiss player was the youngest to be ranked No. 1 by the WTA, at age 16 in 1997
Martina Hingis
Seth
$600 [13]
This tendon that attaches muscles to the heel bone bears the name of an ancient Greek
the Achilles tendon
George
$600 [8]
This Arizona pitcher seenhereraises money to fight Lou Gehrig's disease & named his son "Gehrig"
Curt Schilling
Seth
$600 [28]
Young ladies once pinned bay leaves to these on the eve of Valentine's Day to see their future husbands in their dreams
their pillows
Seth
$800 [24]
Children with disabilities are helped by the office of this type of education "and Rehabilitative Services"
Special
Seth
$800 [4]
("Riverboat" Jimmy is hustling at cards.) Ha, ha! I beat you! I've got this hand.
a flush
George Seth
$800 [19]
She was born to Alla & Sergei on June 7, 1981
Anna Kournikova
George
$800 [14]
(Sofia and Sarah demonstrate the clue.) From the Latin for "bent back" it's the involuntary response I'm testing on Sarah
a reflex
Seth
$800 [9]
The real WWII heroes of the 101st Airborne came to TV in this 2001 HBO series
Band of Brothers
Seth
$800 [29]
By shooting arrows that made folks fall in love, this son of Venus made some people very, very happy
Cupid
Seth
$1,000 [25]
In 2001 the Dept. announced new support for these schools named for the document by which they operate
charter schools
Bernard
$1,000 [5]
In 1952 Pete Harman of Utah became the first to sell Kentucky Fried Chicken under this type of license
a franchise
Seth
$1,000 [20]
This Californian won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games & was the Women's champ at Wimbledon in 1999
Lindsay Davenport
Bernard
DD $2,000 [15]
The second-longest bone in the body, it's also called a shinbone
the tibia
Seth
$1,000 [10]
Railroad worker & ballader Wallace Saunders immortalized this heroic engineer who save lives in 1900
Casey Jones
$1,000 [30]
In a poem, this "Canterbury Tales" author wrote about birds choosing their mates on Valentine's Day
Chaucer
Bernard

Double Jeopardy! Round

DEPARTMENT OF KNOWLEDGE TEENS IN LITERATURE RECENT CINEMA A SHAPELY CATEGORY 10-LETTER WORDS VALENTINO'S DAY
$400 [21]
Prevent Blindness America sponsors a month for safety in the use of these that runs from June 1 to July 4
fireworks
$400 [16]
In "The Playmaker", set in 1597, young actor Richard Malory gets to work with this "Bard of Avon"
Shakespeare
George
$400 [9]
In 2001 TV Guide featured 4 different covers of characters from this film, including Hagrid & Hermione
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
George Bernard Seth
$400 [6]
In the White House, the Blue Room & the President's Office are this shape
oval
George
$400 [1]
In August 1999 a 7.4 one of these struck Turkey along the North Anatolian fault
an earthquake
George
$400 [26]
In 1922 Joseph Stalin was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of this party
the Communist Party
Bernard
$800 [22]
The duck scientifically named Dendrocygna arborea gets its name from spending time here
the trees
Bernard
$800 [17]
A teen outcast mysteriously disappears in "The Body of Christopher Creed", set in this "Garden State"
New Jersey
Seth
$800 [10]
In this George Clooney remake of a 1960 film, gangsters rob 3 Las Vegas casinos at the same time
Ocean's Eleven
Seth
$1,200 [8]
"Fair and" this geometric shape mean honestly or according to the rules
square
Bernard
$800 [2]
One who writes another' life story
a biographer
George Bernard
$800 [27]
The first ever Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in this country
France
Bernard
$1,200 [23]
It's a Spanish dance as well as the title of thefollowing
Bolero
Seth
$1,200 [18]
In this Tolstoy novel, Princess Drubetskoy's teenage son Boris expects to marry Natasha
War and Peace
George
$1,200 [11]
Sully, a big blue creature, is the leading scream producer in this animated Pixar release
Monsters, Inc.
Seth
$1,600 [14]
In the U.S., traffic "yield" signs are this shape
triangular
Bernard
$1,200 [3]
To shorten, like ND for North Dakota
abbreviate
George
$1,200 [28]
A 1920 article in Scientific American exclaimed that this fireproofing fiber "makes life safer"
asbestos
Seth
$1,600 [24]
(Alex: Take a look at the monitor.) Whoooa! This bird-like woman seen here won for Best New Artist Clip at the 2001 Billboard Music Video Awards
Nelly Furtado
George
$1,600 [19]
"Stuck in Neutral" is a journey into the world of a teen with CP, this disorder
cerebral palsy
Seth
$1,600 [12]
As astronaut Leo Davidson in this film, Mark Wahlberg utters the line "Never send a monkey to do a man's job"
Planet of the Apes
Seth
$2,000 [15]
A parallelogram whose sides are equal in length but not at right angles is called this
rhombus
Seth
DD $2,000 [4]
Slow down, as in a car
decelerate
George
$1,600 [29]
(Alex: Take a look.) This burger chain opened in 1921; one of its first outlets is seen here
White Castle
Seth
$2,000 [25]
In Matthew's gospel, these 4 words follow "With men this is impossible; but with God..."
"all things are possible"
George
$2,000 [20]
Gene Forrester recalls his prep school friend Phineas in this 1960 John Knowles book
A Separate Peace
Bernard
$2,000 [13]
This "Shallow" Jack Black character falls in love with 300-pound Gwyneth Paltrow's inner beauty
(Shallow) Hal
George
DD $3,000 [7]
It can be a utensil useful in pouring liquids or the shape of a forming tornado
a funnel
George
$2,000 [5]
From the Latin for "sugar", this adjective means sugary or exaggeratedly sentimental
saccharine
George
$2,000 [30]
Promotions for the land boom in this state even had William Jennings Bryan touting the joys of Coral Gables
Florida
Bernard

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

German officer Johann Rall led this group when they were defeated in battle in December 1776

the Hessians

Bernard "Who were the Hessians?" — wagered $10,400
George "Who are the Hessians?" — wagered $6,400
Seth "Who are the Hessians?" — wagered $10,700

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