Show #5285 2007-07-27 (taped 2007-03-13) Teen Tournament

2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games final game 2.Last game of Season 23.

Contestants

Meryl Federman — a senior from Livingston, New Jersey (subtotal of $0)

Kyle Neblett — a senior from Beaverton, Oregon (subtotal of $18,000)

Greg Peterson — a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois (subtotal of $25,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Greg $3,000 $4,200 $6,800 $13,600 $11,400
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kyle $-1,000 $0 $9,200 $18,400 $10,200
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Meryl $3,400 $9,800 $22,000 $38,601 $20,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND NEW YORK STATE STUDENT & TEACHER A STRONG CONSTITUTION BIBLE BELTS YOUR PLANET MUST GO! WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
$200 [25]
Though it's 150 miles from the Atlantic, this capital of New York has an active port
Albany
Greg
$200 [1]
His teacher Ghirlandaio frescoed the Sistine Chapel's north wall; he frescoed the ceiling
Michelangelo (Buonarroti)
Greg
$200 [7]
"We the People of the United States" declare the principles of the Constitution in the preface called this
the Preamble
Kyle
$200 [6]
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that if someone "smiteth" you here, "offer also the other"
the cheek
Meryl
$200 [12]
Superman has problems with remnants of his destroyed planet, like the green & red varieties of this substance
kryptonite
Greg Meryl
$200 [20]
Bibliophobia, a fear of these, might hurt you if you want to continue your studies
books
Meryl
$400 [27]
This northernmost New York City borough boasts the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University
the Bronx
$400 [2]
Hermann Minkowski taught him math in the 1890s & couldn't believe it when he became a great scientist
(Albert) Einstein
Greg
$400 [8]
As the Vietnam War raged & men were drafted who couldn't vote, the 26th amendment made the voting age this
18
Meryl
$400 [13]
In Numbers 20, after the Israelites complained, Moses smote this object twice & water came out
the rock
Meryl
$400 [17]
A planet goes boom from the Genesis device as the crew searches for this guy in the third "Star Trek" movie
Spock
Kyle
$400 [21]
If you suffer from heliophobia, a fear of this, you might be a vampire!
the Sun
Meryl
$600 [28]
The Maid of the Mist is a fixture at this natural wonder located about 20 miles north of Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Meryl
$600 [3]
Isocrates didn't teach Iplato but did teach Timotheus, a great general for this city-state
Athens
Kyle
$600 [9]
The first 10 amendments, called this, establish every citizen's basic civil liberties
the Bill of Rights
Greg
$600 [14]
After striking down his brother in Genesis, this man said, "My punishment is greater than I can bear"
Cain
Greg
$600 [18]
This animated alien is known for trying to blow up Earth with his Illudium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator
Marvin (the) Martian
Kyle
$600 [22]
If you have pluviophobia, the fear of this weather condition, we probably won't find you "singin' in" it
rain
Meryl
$800 [29]
The museum for a N.Y. prison known by this double-talk name includes a replica electric chair made by prisoners
Sing Sing
Meryl
DD $1,000 [4]
Mozart & Haydn each taught this composer, briefly; maybe he just wouldn't listen
(Ludwig van) Beethoven
Kyle
$800 [10]
The 25th amendment states under what conditions the person in this office becomes the new leader
vice president
Kyle Meryl
$800 [15]
In an O.T. book named for Moses' successor, this man smites the Gibeonites, the Hebronites & the Eglonites
Joshua
Meryl
$800 [19]
Earth was spared thanks to this Nickelodeon "boy genius" who competed on "Intergalactic Showdown"
Jimmy Neutron
Meryl
$800 [23]
If you've got dendrophobia, a fear of these, we suggest not climbing any
trees
$1,000 [30]
This liberal arts college that went co-ed in 1969 is located in Poughkeepsie
Vassar (College)
Meryl
$1,000 [5]
Mikhail Botvinnik, a world champion at this, was a teacher of Garry Kasparov
chess
Greg
$1,000 [11]
Article 1 gave state legislatures the power to elect these officials; the 17th amendment overrode that
senators
Meryl
$1,000 [16]
In Judges, Samson whomped on 1,000 Philistines with this part of an ass
its jawbone
Greg
$1,000 [26]
To pave the way for a new hyperspace bypass, Vogons blow up the Earth in this 2005 film
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Meryl
$1,000 [24]
If you have stygiophobia, derived from the River Styx, you have a fear of this place, so act right!
hell
Meryl

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC ALL ABOUT ANIMALS WHAT A 19th CENTURY YEAR! WORLD OF WARCRAFT COMING AT YOU IN 3-D
$400 [1]
On an alphabetical list of world nations, it comes directly before Uzbekistan
Uruguay
Kyle
$400 [16]
"Royal" name of the singer & guitarist who was first popular in the 1980s & performed at the 2007 Super Bowl
Prince
Meryl
$400 [11]
The fish seenhereis named for its resemblance to this rodent
a porcupine
Greg
$400 [3]
Colorado, "The Centennial State" was admitted to the Union in this year
1876
Kyle
$400 [21]
Fokker triplanes were used by this country in dogfights in WWI
Germany
Meryl
$400 [26]
A famous presidential saying: "A house" this "against itself cannot stand"
divided
Kyle
$800 [2]
This South American country was named for a man born in 1451 in Genoa
Colombia
Meryl
$800 [17]
The song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by this band was a No. 1 hit way back in 1965
The Rolling Stones
Greg
$800 [12]
A type of beetle & a species of seal are named for this large land herbivore
an elephant
Greg
$800 [5]
Gold seekers who rushed to California were nicknamed for this year
1849
Kyle
$800 [22]
Stinger missiles are used against low-flying aircraft & are known as this-to-air
ground (or surface)
Greg
$800 [27]
The person seenhereis riding in this style
sidesaddle
Kyle
$1,200 [4]
The Jurua, the Japura & the Tapajos Rivers all flow into another much larger river in this country
Brazil
Meryl
$1,200 [18]
Of Alex Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen or David Lee Roth, the one who was the lead singer for Van Halen
David Lee Roth
Meryl
$1,200 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.) Though it has the name of an often fierce big cat, this type of sharkis a menace to clams but not to people
a leopard shark
Greg Kyle
$1,600 [8]
On August 24 of this year, British troops captured Washington, D.C. & burned the White House
1814
Greg Meryl
$1,200 [23]
Warships like the USS Missouri were armed with these missiles that bear the name of Captain Ahab's weapon
harpoon
Meryl
$1,200 [28]
Term covering people 45 to 65 years old (I'd advise you to be very careful in your response, players)
middle-aged
Meryl
$1,600 [6]
This country's almost 4,000-mile coastline is the longest of any in South America on the Pacific Ocean
Chile
Meryl
$1,600 [19]
This singer used religious imagery in her 1989 "Like A Prayer" music video & in her 2006 "Confessions" world tour
Madonna
Kyle
$1,600 [14]
Though its name comes from words meaning "river horse", it's more closely related to the hog than to the horse
a hippopotamus
Greg
$2,000 [9]
The decision in Marbury v. Madison (as in Secretary of State James) was handed down on Feb. 24 of this year
1803
Greg Meryl
$1,600 [24]
14th C. armies hurling plague-ridden bodies behind enemy lines were practicing this type of warfare
biological
Greg
$1,600 [29]
Impelled or prompted, as if by getting poked
prodded
Meryl
DD $4,600 [10]
It's the South American country whose capital city lies the closest to 0 degrees latitude
Ecuador
Greg
$2,000 [20]
This "Piano Man" has had hits with "Uptown Girl", "My Life" & "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me"
Billy Joel
Kyle
$2,000 [15]
Not a diving duck--it's the dabbling ducky seen here
a mallard duck
Kyle
DD $3,000 [7]
Lincoln's brief speech dedicating the Battlefield at Gettysburg as a cemetery was in November of this year
1863
Meryl
$2,000 [25]
This god, AKA Vulcan, made jewelry as well as arms & armor
Hephaestus
Greg
$2,000 [30]
It's the instrument heard here
a didgeridoo
Kyle

Final Jeopardy!

LANDMARKS

Some of its pieces, which weighed up to 50 tons, were quarried at Marlborough Downs, about 20 miles away

Stonehenge

Greg "What is Stonehenge?" — wagered $6,800
Kyle "What is Stonehenge?" — wagered $9,200
Meryl "What is Stonehenge?" — wagered $16,601

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