1999-A Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 3.
Oliver Longwell — a junior from Sag Harbor, New York
Joan Williams — a senior from Chicago, Illinois
Brian Dunlap — a senior from Scotts Valley, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian | $600 | $1,300 | $1,500 |
$3,000
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$2,300
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joan | $1,600 | $2,900 | $7,100 |
$5,550
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$8,700
23 R, 9 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Oliver | $1,600 | $2,600 | $4,800 |
$9,600
Automatic semifinalist |
$4,800
17 R, 4 W |
| CLIMB IT | WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG | FLASHCARDS: THE ELEMENTS | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY | HERE COMES COLLEGE | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY |
|
$100
[7]
The route to the summit of this 12,388-foot Japanese peak includes 10 stages called gome
Mount Fuji
Joan
Oliver
|
$100
[17]
At 16, this "Jerry Maguire" co-star was breakdancing on stage with Lionel Richie at the 1984 Olympics
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Joan
|
$100
[1]
Zn
zinc
Joan
Oliver
|
$100
[22]
In 1998 this game celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge game using giant letter tiles at London's Wembley Stadium
Scrabble
Brian
Oliver
|
$100
[14]
Whether you're male or female, you're this kind of "man" as a first-year student
a freshman
Joan
|
$100
[6]
Make yourself useful & spell...
U-T-I-L-I-T-A-R-I-A-N
Brian
Joan
|
|
$200
[8]
"El Cap" is what climbers call this over 3,000-foot wall of rock in Yosemite
El Capitan
Brian
|
$200
[18]
As a teen he kept a diary detailing the minutiae of his life; later, as first director of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Oliver
|
$200
[2]
Fe
iron
Joan
|
$200
[23]
One of the world's most popular RPGs, role playing games, is D&D, this game
Dungeons & Dragons
Oliver
|
$200
[30]
From the Latin for "sleep", it's a building at a college for housing students
a dormitory
Oliver
|
$200
[12]
Don't be conservative as you spell...
F-U-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-M
Joan
|
|
$300
[9]
Some climbers call 27,800-foot Makalu the most beautiful peak in this Asian range
Himalayas
Oliver
|
$300
[19]
While playing basketball, this future Rolling Stone bit off the tip of his tongue & it changed his voice
Mick Jagger
Joan
|
$300
[3]
I
iodine
Brian
|
$300
[24]
Round the clock is a type of this game played in pubs & pizza parlors
darts
Brian
Oliver
|
$300
[29]
This graduation ceremony is not the "beginning" of your college career, it's the end
commencement
Oliver
|
$300
[13]
Overcome your opponents & spell...
N-E-M-E-S-I-S
Oliver
|
|
$400
[10]
There was a cause celebre in 1786 when Jacques Balmat had the savoir faire to climb it
Mont Blanc
Oliver
|
$400
[20]
Called "Stinky" at school, he says his life was "Rocky" until he moved to Philadelphia at age 15
Sylvester Stallone
Brian
|
$400
[4]
Kr
krypton
Oliver
|
$400
[26]
They're the 2 piles of cards from which players draw during a Monopoly game
Chance & Community Chest
Brian
|
$400
[28]
From the Latin for "half-yearly", these divisions of a college's academic year can be 15 to 18 weeks long
semesters
Joan
|
$400
[15]
We'll think of you as lustrous, colorful & brilliant when you spell...
I-R-I-D-E-S-C-E-N-T
Joan
|
|
$500
[11]
These Wyoming peaks include the South, the Middle & the most imposing Grand
Tetons
Joan
|
$500
[21]
This South African Nobel Peace Prize winner was named Rolihlahla, which in colloquial usage means "troublemaker"
Nelson Mandela
Brian
|
$500
[5]
Ag
silver (argentum)
Joan
|
DD
$800
[25]
You're on a roll if you know this dice game was invented by a wealthy couple to play on their luxury boat
Yahtzee
Brian
|
$500
[27]
For the college sports-minded, it's what NCAA stands for
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Oliver
|
$500
[16]
Resolve yourself to spelling...
D-E-N-O-U-E-M-E-N-T
Joan
|
| CLIMATE | TOUGH CAPITALS | POP MUSIC | KIDDY LIT | ART & ARTISTS | IN THE TEENS |
|
$200
[26]
In 1997 a severe example of these dry spells set the stage for devastating brush fires in Indonesia
droughts
Joan
|
$200
[8]
Bucharest
Romania
Joan
|
$200
[1]
Her recent hit songs include "Uninvited" from the "City of Angels" soundtrack & "Thank U"
Alanis Morissette
Brian
|
$200
[13]
His story "Yertle the Turtle" told of a tyrannical turtle king brought down by a lowly subject's burp
Dr. Seuss
|
$200
[3]
This American masterpiece has been widely satirized--the sign of a true classic
American Gothic
Joan
Oliver
|
$200
[21]
This film size is often used for making documentaries & low-budget features
16 mm
Oliver
|
|
$600
[28]
Frequent cyclones give a wide belt from Texas to Ohio this nickname that sounds like a street name
"Tornado Alley"
Brian
Joan
|
$400
[9]
Kiev
Ukraine
Oliver
|
$400
[2]
Name that completes the title of the debut solo album by the Fugees' singer, "The Miseducation of ..."
Lauryn Hill
Joan
|
$400
[17]
Her books for kids include "Blubber", "Freckle Juice" & "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing"
Judy Blume
Joan
|
$400
[4]
A Philadelphia museum devoted to this "Thinker" sculptor has a bronze cast of his "Burghers of Calais"
Auguste Rodin
Joan
|
$400
[22]
One of these "wheelers" is a large tractor-trailer truck rig
an 18-wheeler
Brian
|
|
$800
[30]
Emissions from the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in this country cooled the planet for 2 years
the Philippines
Joan
|
$600
[10]
Rabat
Morocco
Joan
|
$600
[14]
This group's song "One Week" includes the lines "Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes, big like LeAnn Rimes"
Barenaked Ladies
Joan
|
$600
[18]
This author's "In the Night Kitchen" was based on his own memories of New York as a child
Maurice Sendak
|
$600
[5]
She painted flowers big like the one seenhereso that even busy New Yorkers take time to see them
Georgia O'Keeffe
Oliver
|
$600
[23]
Like potassium-40, this radioactive isotope is used in archaeological dating
carbon-14
Oliver
|
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
(Al Roker presents the clue.) The 3 warmest years ever recorded globally were in this decade
the 1990s
Joan
|
$800
[11]
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Oliver
|
$800
[15]
Neneh Cherry's brother, he hit the charts in 1998 with "Save Tonight"
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Joan
|
DD
$600
[19]
A boy rides a magical train to visit Santa on Christmas Eve in this story by Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express
Joan
|
$800
[6]
His collections include "My Camera in Yosemite Valley" & "Portfolio Two: The National Parks"
Ansel Adams
Brian
Joan
Oliver
|
$800
[24]
The number of syllables used in the Japanese verse style known as haiku
17
Brian
|
|
$1,000
[29]
Nitrogen & oxygen are elements that have one of these circular environmental processes
cycles
Joan
|
$1,000
[12]
Asuncion
Paraguay
Joan
|
$1,000
[16]
This cat's orchestra swings with a 1998 version of "Jump Jive An' Wail"
Brian Setzer
Oliver
|
$1,000
[20]
This literal-minded housekeeper dusts the furniture (with powder) & dresses the chicken (in clothes)
Amelia Bedelia
Joan
|
$1,000
[7]
The "impression" that this artist painted the work seenhereis correct
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Joan
|
$1,000
[25]
This French king accurately predicted "After me, the deluge!"
Louis XV
Brian
Joan
|
In the 1879 Mathew Brady photo seen here, this structure was about 150 feet tall
the Washington Monument