2008-A Teen Tournament final game 2.
Rachel Horn — a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio (subtotal of $26,801)
Rachel "Steve" Cooke — a senior from Fishers, Indiana (subtotal of $18,400)
Zia Choudhury — a senior from Paducah, Kentucky (subtotal of $18,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zia | $-1,800 | $2,000 | $4,000 | $0 |
$14,800
16 R, 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| "Steve" | $600 | $1,000 | $8,400 | $6,600 |
$11,400
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rachel | $5,000 | $5,800 | $9,800 | $14,800 |
$9,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| BIBLICAL QUOTES | ON THE RADIO | WHAT'S FOR DESSERT? | SOUTH PARK | BORN FIRST | DOUBLE TALK |
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$200
[2]
The Philistines took him "and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass"
Samson
Rachel
|
$200
[19]
I like to crank up the radio whenever I hear her sing "Sk8er Boi" or "Girlfriend"
Avril Lavigne
Rachel
|
$200
[7]
Buche de Noel, a cake decorated to resemble a Yule log, is a tradition for this holiday
Christmas
"Steve"
|
$200
[1]
Everglades National Park in this Southern state is the USA's largest subtropical wilderness
Florida
Rachel
|
$200
[18]
Zachary Taylor, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Zia
Rachel
|
$200
[12]
In a popular children's song, it's followed by "little star, how I wonder what you are"
Twinkle, twinkle
Rachel
|
|
$400
[3]
Ecclesiastes 11:1 says, "Cast" this "upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days"
thy bread
|
$400
[20]
You can't "Get The Party Started" without this singer whose hair color sometimes matches her stage name
Pink
Zia
|
$400
[8]
A well-known simile is "as American as mom &" this dessert
apple pie
"Steve"
|
$400
[17]
National parks in the south of this state include Sitka and Glacier Bay
Alaska
Zia
Rachel
|
$400
[25]
Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, Guglielmo Marconi
Alexander Graham Bell
"Steve"
|
$400
[13]
Something that you are expressly told not to do
a no-no
Rachel
|
|
$600
[4]
Jesus called to this fisherman & his brother Andrew, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men"
(Simon) Peter
Rachel
|
$600
[21]
"Gold Digger" was one of the big hits from his Grammy-winning album "Late Registration"
Kanye West
Rachel
|
$600
[9]
The Suzette type of these pancakes are so exquisitely thin, it's a shame to set them on fire for dessert
crêpes
Rachel
|
$600
[24]
S. Montana's Electric Peak, named for the electrical charge experienced by climbers in 1872, is in this natl. park
Yellowstone
"Steve"
Rachel
|
$600
[26]
Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Fenimore Cooper, Ernest Hemingway
James Fenimore Cooper
Zia
"Steve"
|
$600
[14]
Oh, goody goody! It's a French term for a chocolate candy with a nut center
a bonbon
Rachel
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
The land of Canaan is described as "flowing with" these 2 items mentioned some 20 times in the Bible
milk & honey
Rachel
|
$800
[22]
In 2007 Justin Timberlake hit the radio with this R&B diva in a remix of "Until The End Of Time"
Beyoncé
|
$800
[10]
The name of this dessert is from the French for "to blow" or "to puff"; the hot air trapped inside is what makes it rise
soufflé
Zia
"Steve"
Rachel
|
$800
[29]
Southeast of Mt. Rushmore lies Badlands National Park in this state
South Dakota
Zia
|
$800
[27]
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms
Bach
Zia
|
$800
[15]
It's another name for miniature golf
putt-putt
"Steve"
|
|
$1,000
[6]
God told Abraham that he would bless this wife "and she shall be a mother of nations"
Sarah
Zia
Rachel
|
$1,000
[23]
Gwen Stefani & Eve cashed in on this hit that was adapted from a song in "Fiddler on the Roof"
"Rich Girl"
"Steve"
|
$1,000
[11]
This type of light cake soaks up syrup, as its name says
a sponge cake
Rachel
|
$1,000
[30]
Eisenhower's home in southern Pennsylvania is next to this national military park, site of an 1863 battle
Gettysburg
Zia
|
$1,000
[28]
Elizabeth I of England, Louis XIV of France, Nicholas II of Russia
Elizabeth I of England
Zia
"Steve"
|
$1,000
[16]
Poet cummings
e. e.
Zia
|
| THE 20th CENTURY | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME SOCCER? | NERDS RULE! | NAME THAT BOOK | METAL | "B" SHARP |
|
$400
[25]
This Nobel Prize winner & world leader was imprisoned from 1962 to 1990
(Nelson) Mandela
Rachel
|
$400
[19]
It's the length in minutes of a standard half of a Major League soccer game
45
"Steve"
|
$400
[7]
Mick Jagger was a finance student at the London School of Economics before cashing in with this band
The Rolling Stones
Rachel
|
$400
[1]
1831:Cathedral bellringer falls for a Gypsy beauty
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"Steve"
|
$400
[26]
This radioactive metal is Niger's No. 1 export
uranium
Zia
|
$400
[13]
Snoopy's breed
a beagle
Rachel
|
|
$800
[24]
On April 6th, 1909, this American Arctic explorer wrote in his diary, "The pole at last. The prize of three centuries."
Peary
Zia
"Steve"
|
$800
[18]
Maximum number of players on each team on the field at the start of a FIFA game
11
Rachel
|
$800
[8]
In college, Larry Page, co-founder & co-pres. of this Internet search company, built an inkjet printer out of Legos
Google
Zia
Rachel
|
$800
[2]
1851:Whalers encounter a beastly bad time
Moby-Dick
Rachel
|
$800
[27]
The ore pyrargyrite is associated with veins of this precious metal, symbol Ag
silver
"Steve"
|
$800
[14]
A type of unglazed china, or a thick cream soup often made with lobster
bisque
Zia
|
|
$1,200
[23]
On September 21st, 1981 the U.S. Senate confirmed her as a Justice of the Supreme Court in a 99-0 vote
Sandra Day O'Connor
Zia
|
$1,200
[17]
In 2010 this country is scheduled to host the World Cup, the first African country to do so
South Africa
"Steve"
|
$1,200
[9]
He tells his "Inconvenient Truth" via a slide show with bar graphs
Al Gore
"Steve"
|
$1,200
[3]
c. 1300:A poet tours Hell, Purgatory & Heaven
The Divine Comedy
Zia
"Steve"
|
$1,200
[28]
This metal makes up 5% of the Earth's crust but only .004% of a person
iron
Zia
Rachel
|
$1,200
[20]
This hero rode Pegasus
Bellerophon
|
|
$1,600
[6]
In August 1936 this Zeppelin took off from Lakehurst, N.J. & headed over to Frankfurt, Germany
the Hindenburg
"Steve"
|
$1,600
[12]
Forward, midfielder, defender & this are the 4 basic positions in soccer
goalkeeper
Rachel
|
$1,600
[10]
Dave Arneson & Gary Gygax created geek heaven with this '70s fantasy tabletop role-playing game
Dungeons & Dragons
"Steve"
|
$1,600
[4]
1962:A teen hoodlum named Alex narrates this futuristic tale by Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Zia
|
$1,600
[29]
Lady Liberty's skin is made of this
copper
"Steve"
|
$2,000
[22]
Gaborone is the capital of this southern African country
Botswana
Zia
|
|
DD
$10,800
[16]
In Dec. 1989 this playwright was elected president of Czechoslovakia, the 1st non-Communist since 1948
Václav Havel
Zia
|
$2,000
[15]
This country has won soccer's World Cup more times than any other nation
Brazil
Zia
|
$2,000
[11]
This current British Prime Minister was the youngest person since WWII to go to the U. of Edinburgh
(Gordon) Brown
Zia
|
$2,000
[5]
1900:A naval officer tries to live down the cowardly act of abandoning a ship he thought was sinking
Lord Jim
Zia
|
$2,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on a monitor.) The elements in green on the periodic table are the metals; the ones grouped here in between, similar to other metals but not quite fitting in, are classified as these metals or elements
transition(als)
"Steve"
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
This ethnic group lives in the Pyrenees & speaks Euskera
the Basques
"Steve"
|
This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history
John Adams