Show #5281 2007-07-23 (taped 2007-03-13) Teen Tournament

2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinal game 1.

Contestants

Kyle Neblett — a senior from Beaverton, Oregon

Rachel Gottesman — a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York

Andy Hutchins — a senior from Rockledge, Florida

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andy $2,200 $7,000 $13,800 $27,600
2nd place: $10,000
$13,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Rachel $1,200 $2,800 $4,400 $4,421
3rd place: $10,000
$4,400
10 R, 1 W
Kyle $1,800 $4,600 $15,300 $29,300
Finalist
$19,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS COLLEGE TEAM NICKNAMES NOW THAT'S EXPENSIVE! THE LARGEST IN AREA THEY USED TO BE CHEERLEADERS GIVE ME A "K"!
$200 [6]
In early April 1775 William Dawes, Samuel Prescott & this man rode to warn Patriots to move military stores from Concord
Paul Revere
Andy
$200 [1]
UC Berkeley's teams are known as the golden these, & there's one on the state flag
a bear (or Bears)
Rachel
$200 [7]
A Louis XVI one of these that showed phases of the moon as well as the seconds & minutes sold in 1999 for $3 million
a clock
Andy Kyle
$200 [14]
Mexico, United States, Canada
Canada
Kyle
$200 [13]
She probably wrote about her cheerleading days at Katy High School in Texas in her own diary, not Bridget Jones's
(Renée) Zellweger
Andy
$200 [8]
In the 1930s it was advertised as "the handkerchiefs you can throw away"
Kleenex
Kyle
$400 [18]
3 years after writing the Declaration of Independence, he succeeded Patrick Henry as Virginia governor
(Thomas) Jefferson
Rachel
$400 [2]
Pepperdine's nickname is this, & some lap not too far away from the campus
Waves
Andy
$400 [24]
Some of this early Rock & Roll singer's hair (maybe his sideburns?) sold in 2002 for $115,120
Elvis Presley
Rachel
$400 [15]
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh
India
Kyle
$400 [22]
This ex-Eastern Regional High cheerleader must have let out a cheer when she became Regis Philbin's co-host
Kelly Ripa
Kyle
$400 [9]
Feline term for a pool of money to which many have contributed
the kitty
Andy
$600 [19]
On 7/3/76 he wrote to his wife Abigail that the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states"
John Adams
Andy
$800 [4]
The University of Texas at Arlington uses this nickname shared by the NBA team closest to them
Mavericks
Andy Kyle
$600 [25]
In 2001, an anonymous buyer paid more than $6 million for a 1623 "first folio" of this English author's plays
(William) Shakespeare
Kyle
$600 [16]
Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Kyle
$600 [23]
Mandy Moore spent years as a cheerleader before playing one in this "regal" Anne Hathaway film of 2001
The Princess Diaries
Andy
$600 [10]
The "K" is silent in this word meaning complicated, as in a difficult problem; the word also describes ropes & trees
knotty
Andy
$800 [20]
In 1724, at the age of 18, he left Philadelphia for England to train as a printer; he stayed there 2 years
(Benjamin) Franklin
Andy
DD $1,000 [3]
This word describing Penn State's Lions comes from an Algonquian term meaning "single mountain"
Nittany
Andy
$800 [26]
In 2000 a set of books about these critters "Of America" by John James Audubon sold at auction for $8.8 million
birds
Kyle
$800 [17]
Spain, Germany, France
France
Andy
$800 [29]
These 2 stars of "Desperate Housewives" were high school cheerleaders (hint: they're both brunettes)
Eva Longoria & Teri Hatcher
Rachel
$800 [11]
We may put you to sleep telling you its standard dimensions are an impressive 76 x 80 inches
a king-sized bed
$1,000 [21]
In "Public Good", this pamphleteer called for Virginia to cede land needed to form a strong central government
(Thomas) Paine
Andy
$1,000 [5]
This University of Idaho nickname is from an old Germanic tribe whose name has come to mean troublemakers
Vandals
Kyle
$1,000 [27]
The world's most valuable one of these instruments is one made by Antonio Stradivari in 1716 worth $18 million
a violin
Andy
$1,000 [28]
Libya, Egypt, Tunisia
Libya
Andy Kyle
$1,000 [30]
Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar. If you know this Phillips Academy cheerleader, stand up and holler!
George W. Bush
Andy
$1,000 [12]
The colors of Hawaii Pacific Universityare Columbia blue and this shade of green
kelly
Rachel

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHS & LEGENDS BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES ADVENTURES IN THE AIR ISLANDS A MAKEUP EXAM PREFIXES
$400 [1]
Around 400 B.C. the Greek Ctesias described it as having a white body with a straight cubit-long horn
a unicorn
Rachel
$400 [6]
This 2003 "Lord of the Rings" installment has Frodo & Sam approaching Mount Doom to destroy the one ring
The Return of the King
Rachel
$400 [11]
Hitting a speed of about 800 miles per hour, Chuck Yeager broke this barrier in October 1947
the speed of sound
Andy
$400 [16]
This U.S. commonwealth lies about 70 miles across the Mona Passage from the Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Rachel
$400 [22]
Don't be embarrassed to use the Cargo Beach or Suede type of this cheek makeup
blush
Andy
$400 [21]
Hemi-
half
Rachel
$800 [2]
The earliest ballads of this outlaw say that his activities took place in the South Yorkshire, not Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood
Kyle
$800 [7]
James Cameron also won an Oscar for editing this 1997 blockbuster
Titanic
Kyle
$800 [12]
August 1983 saw the first night launch of this reusable U.S. orbital vehicle
the space shuttle
Kyle
$800 [17]
Russia's Wrangel Island & Canada's Prince Patrick Island lie in this ocean
the Arctic (Ocean)
Andy
$800 [27]
Spanish for "mask", this cosmetic is used to color the eylashes
mascara
Kyle
DD $500 [25]
Circum-
around
Kyle
$1,200 [3]
This steel drivin' man beat a steam drill in a race to make a railroad tunnel but died with his "hammer in his hand"
(John) Henry
Andy Kyle
$1,200 [8]
Jack-Jack Parr is the baby of the family of superheroes in this animated film
The Incredibles
Kyle
$1,200 [13]
Taking 16 hours, in 1919 British aviators Alcock & Brown became the first to cross this large body of water nonstop
the Atlantic Ocean
Andy
$1,200 [18]
A chain of shoals known as Adam's Bridge stretches between India & this island nation
Sri Lanka
Kyle
$1,200 [28]
Talk about killer looks--Egyptians used toxic plants called fucus on this facial part; Lancome's Juicy Wear is safer
the lips
Kyle
$800 [23]
Di-as in dicephalous
two
Kyle
$1,600 [4]
In some legends it's the influence of the full moon that changes a man into one of these, also called a lycanthrope
a werewolf
Andy
$1,600 [9]
The title guys of this 1997 sci-fi comedy are "protecting the earth from the scum of the universe"
Men in Black
Kyle
$1,600 [14]
In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a plane over this between Great Britain & France
The English Channel
Andy
$2,000 [20]
This large Italian island in the Mediterranean lies just 7 miles south of Corsica
Sardinia
Andy Rachel Kyle
$1,600 [29]
In the 1930s Max Factor introduced pan-cake, which was this makeup base
foundation
Kyle
$1,200 [24]
Contra-
against
Kyle
$2,000 [5]
This hero of mythology cleaned the Augean stables by diverting the courses of 2 nearby rivers
Hercules
Kyle
$2,000 [10]
"I see dead people" is a line from this Bruce Willis film
The Sixth Sense
Andy
$2,000 [15]
In 1907 Paul Cornu became the first man to fly freely in one of these horizontally rotored aircraft
a helicopter
Kyle
DD $3,000 [19]
This large island's 2 highest peaks lie in the Maoke Mountains on the Indonesian side
New Guinea
Kyle
$2,000 [30]
Some makeup shades come in one of these containers named for a board on which artists mix paints
palette
Rachel
$2,000 [26]
Dys-(of several definitions, give us a simple 3-letter word)
bad
Andy Kyle

Final Jeopardy!

ITALIAN INVENTORS

In 1910 his new invention helped Scotland Yard catch a murderer escaping to North America across the Atlantic

Marconi

Rachel "Who is Marcone? Congrats guys, Hi Sarah" — wagered $21
Andy "Who is Marconi" — wagered $13,800
Kyle "Who is Marconi" — wagered $14,000

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