Show #3343 1999-03-03 Teen Tournament

1999-A Teen Tournament semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Joan Williams — a senior from Chicago, Illinois

Lina Ghosh — a senior from Evansville, Indiana

Elizabeth Nyman — a sophomore from Jacksonville, Florida

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Elizabeth	$1,200	$2,100	$6,100	$12,100 Finalist	$6,600 18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Lina	$-400	$-1,000	$400	$250 3rd place: $5,000	$1,000 7 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Joan	$500	$800	$6,000	$10,599 2nd place: $5,000	$6,000 16 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 50 STATES	HOW TO BE A BAD SPORT	BRAND NAMES	THE 20th CENTURY	CLASSIC STAR TREK	RHYMES WITH TEEN
$100 [1] Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula is this state's westernmost mainland point Alaska Joan	$100 [21] When keeping score in this sport, "forget" to add your opponent's next pin score to his spare Bowling Lina	$100 [2] Mass production of these in the U.S. can be traced back to Donald F. Duncan in the 1920s Yo-yos Joan	$100 [7] Shortly after taking power, he nationalized millions of dollars of American-owned property in Cuba Fidel Castro Elizabeth	$100 [28] From the Old Germanic for "legs", it's Dr. McCoy's nickname "Bones"	$100 [12] Nasty or stingy; or the average Mean Joan
$200 [3] Among its nicknames are "The Prairie State" & "The Land of Lincoln" Illinois Joan	$200 [25] If you're playing midfield in this sport & the center is dribbling the ball towards you, kick at his shins Soccer Lina	$200 [17] Joseph McVicker invented this after seeing the trouble kids had with modeling clay Play-Doh Joan	$200 [8] On December 1, 1959, 12 nations signed a treaty setting aside this continent as a preserve for scientific research Antarctica Elizabeth	$400 [23] Suave Ricardo Montalban played this sultry superhuman on the TV series & on the big screen Khan Lina	$200 [13] Just one Boston baked veggie Bean Elizabeth
$300 [4] In 1845, after nearly 10 years of independence, it became the 28th state Texas Elizabeth	$300 [27] Get a leg up in this sport by stepping on your opponent's ball in the fairway Golf Elizabeth	$300 [18] In 1930 General Mills introduced this mix to make biscuits quickly Bisquick Elizabeth	$300 [9] In 1917 he called for a declaration of war against Germany saying that "The world must be made safe for democracy" Woodrow Wilson Elizabeth	$500 [22] Captain Kirk shares this name, his middle name, with a first century Roman emperor Tiberius	$300 [14] Jack Sprat's wife couldn't eat any Lean Joan
$400 [5] The atomic age began with a blast on July 16, 1945 in this state New Mexico Lina Joan	$400 [24] If your opponent asks for the "3s" you really do have in your hand, tell him this, the name of the game Go fish Elizabeth Joan	$400 [19] This cereal's name used to end in "oats" & its "I" is dotted with a piece of the product Cheerios	$400 [10] In January 1926 in London, John L. Baird demonstrated this new invention which used a cathode ray tube Television Elizabeth	—	$400 [15] "Lois & Clark" actor Cain Dean Elizabeth
$500 [6] 2 of the 4 states officially called commonwealths (2 of) Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia Elizabeth Joan	$500 [26] If you're cornered in Kamchatka, end this board game by bumping your opponent's armies off the board Risk	DD $500 [20] This VCR brand's name came from the Latin for "great voice" Magnavox Elizabeth	$500 [11] In 1992 this former Panamanian dictator was found guilty of drug trafficking by a Miami jury Manuel Noriega	—	$500 [16] Noor, to her Jordanian subjects Queen Lina Joan

Double Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL SCIENCE	COLLEGE FOOTBALL	TEENS OF THE PAST	OPERA & BALLET	AUTHOR! AUTHOR!	"KNIFE", "FORK" OR "SPOON"
$200 [2] This method of preserving food by killing bacteria was developed by a French chemist in the 1860s Pasteurization Lina Joan	$200 [23] This Dallas bowl game has been played at the same site consecutively longer than any other major bowl game Cotton Bowl	$200 [9] In the 1870s this teenage outlaw was sometimes referred to as Kid Antrim Billy the Kid Joan	$200 [11] Choreographer Frederick Ashton played one of the ugly stepsisters when this ballet debuted in 1948 Cinderella Elizabeth	$200 [12] "Voyage of the Beagle" Charles Darwin Elizabeth	$200 [17] A diver bends in midair to touch the toes before entering the water in this dive Jackknife Joan
$400 [3] In 1906 she succeeded her husband as professor of physics at the Sorbonne Marie Curie Joan	$400 [24] In the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, quarterback Tee Martin led this school to the national title by defeating Florida State, 23-16 Tennessee Elizabeth	DD $200 [6] "At 15 I set my heart on learning", wrote this great Asian sage in his "Analects" Confucius Lina	$400 [15] Though a tenor now, Placido Domingo began singing in this vocal range below tenor Baritone Lina	$400 [13] "This Side of Paradise" F. Scott Fitzgerald Joan	$400 [18] Blushing crow for crushing blow, for example Spoonerism Elizabeth
$600 [4] The "master plan of all life", it consists of thymine, adenine, guanine, cytosine, phosphate & deoxyribose DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) Lina	$600 [25] This Utah school's Ty Detmer holds the NCAA career record for yards passing with 15,031 Brigham Young University	$400 [8] She was a teenager when she married Ferdinand in 1469 Isabella Elizabeth	$600 [26] This composer of "The Nutcracker" said, "The music of a ballet is not invariably bad" Tchaikovsky Joan	$600 [14] "The Mayor of Casterbridge" Thomas Hardy Joan	$600 [19] It's a truck with a pronged platform at the front that raises & moves loads Forklift Lina
DD $800 [5] Of the noble gases, it's first, alphabetically, was the first discovered & is the most abundant in air Argon Lina	—	$600 [7] In his teens in the 1860s this "bright light" of inventors worked as a roving telegraph operator Thomas Edison Elizabeth	$800 [27] A governess fears that her charges are communicating with ghosts in an opera based on this Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw	$800 [21] "The Day of the Locust" Nathanael West Joan	$800 [16] In the 1998 movie "Pleasantville", she played a '90s teen transported into a 1950s sitcom Reese Witherspoon Elizabeth
$1,000 [1] This tiny planet's thin atmosphere is mostly composed of helium & sodium thought to come from the solar wind Mercury Lina Joan	—	$1,000 [10] As a teenager this "Great" guy ruled Russia jointly with his sickly half-brother Ivan Peter the Great Joan	$1,000 [28] The ballet "Les Sylphides" is danced to music by this Polish-French composer Frederic Chopin Joan	$1,000 [22] "Northanger Abbey" Jane Austen Elizabeth	$1,000 [20] Its nest is a platform of sticks in a low bush or tree Spoonbill

Final Jeopardy!

THE PRESIDENCY

In 1998, the highest-ranking person in the line of presidential succession who could not legally be president

Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State)

Lina "Who is Newt Gingrich?" — wagered $150

Joan "Who is the Secretary of State?" — wagered $4,599

Elizabeth "Who is Albright" — wagered $6,000

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