Show #5523 2008-09-17 (taped 2008-08-12) Kids Week

2008 Kids Week Reunion game 3.

Contestants

Anjali Tripathi — a senior from MIT

Kendra Pettis — a junior from Oberlin College

Curtis Joseph — a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Curtis $600 $1,800 $6,500 $7,700
2nd place: $5,000
$7,000
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kendra $800 $2,200 $4,600 $600
3rd place: $2,500
$4,600
12 R, 5 W
Anjali $400 $2,200 $5,200 $7,800
Winner: $25,000
$7,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY THE REAL MTV 19, 20, 21 & 22 THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY ANNUAL EVENTS IN "B"ETWEEN
$200 [21]
He dedicated the 1922 poem "The Waste Land" to his friend Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
$200 [2]
Jabba WockeeZ stomped the competition on the first season of this Randy Jackson floor show
America's Best Dance Crew
Kendra
$200 [7]
He was only 21 when he won the 1997 Masters golf tournament by 12 strokes, the biggest margin in its history
Tiger Woods
Curtis
$200 [22]
Cairo, Kampala, Cape Town
Cairo
Kendra
$200 [1]
Each year in October, this New Mexico city hosts the world's largest hot air balloon festival
Albuquerque
Kendra
$200 [10]
Genesis 11:9 says that at this city the Lord did "confound the language of all the Earth"
Babel
Anjali
$400 [24]
His "Divine Comedy" is 100 cantos written in terza rima
Dante
Anjali
$400 [3]
This most popular Myspacer gave dating shows a "Shot at Love"
Tila Tequila
Kendra
$400 [8]
This U.S. state stretches from 19 to 22 degrees north latitude, making it the southernmost in the U.S.
Hawaii
Curtis Kendra Anjali
$400 [23]
New Delhi, Ottawa, Wellington
Ottawa
Curtis
$400 [20]
From 1939 to 1941 it was celebrated on the second to last Thursday in November
Thanksgiving
Kendra
$400 [9]
Scientifically speaking, this 2-handled device with one tire used for moving loads is a second class lever
a wheelbarrow
$600 [25]
A poem says, "Death, be not" this "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so"
proud
$600 [4]
Diddy helped form Danity Kane on this show
Making the Band
Curtis
$600 [14]
In John 20 this woman finds that the boulder in front of Jesus' tomb has been rolled away & that he is gone
Mary Magdalene
Anjali
$600 [30]
Mexico City, Monrovia, Moscow
Moscow
Anjali
$800 [18]
In recent years, descendants of these 2 feuding families from Kentucky & W.V. have gathered for an annual festival
the Hatfields & the McCoys
Kendra
$600 [11]
For Sputnik 1, it lasted slightly more than 96 minutes
orbit
Anjali
$800 [26]
A poem of hers says, "I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
$800 [5]
Lauren left the burbs of this reality show & headed for "The Hills" of Los Angeles
Laguna Beach
Kendra
$800 [15]
The USAF's Stealth fighter aircraft known as the F-22 also bears the name of this "robbing" dinosaur
the Raptor
$800 [29]
Caracas, Tunis, Jakarta
Tunis
Curtis Anjali
DD $1,000 [17]
For over 40 years, St. Albans in this state has hosted an annual Maple Festival
Vermont
Anjali
$800 [12]
Kelly Slater is best known for riding this piece of equipment
a surfboard
Curtis Anjali
$1,000 [27]
This poet took melancholy journeys like the ones in his long narrative poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Lord Byron
$1,000 [6]
On "The Gauntlet" you got these 2 shows for the price of one
The Real World & Road Rules
Curtis
$1,000 [16]
During this war, Gen. Winfield Scott landed 10,000 U.S. troops at Veracruz & took the city in 19 days
the Mexican War
Kendra
$1,000 [28]
Warsaw, Tokyo, Lisbon
Warsaw
Kendra
$1,000 [19]
It's the date of Martinmas, of Angola's Independence Day & of Veterans Day in the U.S.
November 11th
$1,000 [13]
From the Latin for "shake", it's a synonym for earthquake
a temblor

Double Jeopardy! Round

HANCOCK LITERARY VILLAINS' PERSONAL ADS INVENTORS & INVENTIONS MOVIE COMEDY COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES DIA-GRAMMAR
$400 [24]
With a fancy flourish, John Hancock became the first to do this July 4, 1776
sign the Declaration of Independence
Curtis
$400 [6]
Are you Tolkien to me? I'm the "eye" in your sky! But you have to give me & my Black Riders a ring to win my love!
Sauron
Kendra Anjali
$400 [19]
The World Almanac's list of inventions goes from Pascal's adding machine to a 1913 improvement of this fastener
a zipper
$400 [1]
Mike Myers comes to bring nirvana to North America as Pitka, this title character
The Love Guru
Curtis
$400 [11]
It's nicknamed "Old Eli"
Yale
Anjali
$400 [16]
A 19th c. book says diagrams clarify each clause in the sentence, each phrase in the clause & each this in the phrase
word
Kendra
$800 [25]
In 1775 Hancock replaced Peyton Randolph as the president of this body
Continental Congress
Anjali
$800 [7]
Turn-ons: Type O-positive personalities; turn-offs: Dutch metaphysicians who try to kill me
Dracula
Kendra
$800 [18]
Around 1870 Christopher Sholes & 2 friends invented the 1st practical one of these, including a QWERTY keyboard
typewriter
Anjali
$800 [2]
This visitor from Central Asia tells an American rodeo crowd, "We support your war of terror!"
Borat
Curtis
$800 [12]
The oldest college in the Southern U.S. is named for this royal pair who founded it in 1693
William & Mary
Anjali
DD $500 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates the monitor.) A verb phrase can be either just Vi or Vt plus a noun phrase; the "I" & the "T" stand for these opposites
transitive & intransitive
Curtis
$1,200 [8]
Back on market after a bad breakup with my ex-GF, Nancy; okay, I killed her, but she betrayed Fagin!
Bill Sikes
$1,200 [17]
In June 1974 a package of Wrigley's gum became the first product scanned having one of these
a barcode
Kendra
$1,200 [3]
In 2 movies Martin Lawrence has impersonated tough granny Hattie Mae Pierce, better known as her
Big Momma
Kendra
$1,600 [15]
This Baltimore university's hospital formally opened in 1889
Johns Hopkins
Anjali
$800 [23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates five Latin sentences, all translating to "dog bites man", on the monitor.) In Latin, word order doesn't affect meaning; canis is this in each sentence because it's in the nominative case
subject
Kendra
$1,600 [9]
"Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me", especially when I'm enjoying having people for dinner
Hannibal Lecter
$1,600 [21]
In 1971, 3 engineers invented this company's 4004 chip, the world's first single-chip microprocessor
Intel
Kendra Anjali
$1,600 [4]
On DVD, this sequel in which Jason Biggs & Alyson Hannigan tie the knot sold 3 million copies in 3 days
American Wedding
Curtis
$2,000 [14]
Martha Stewart & Anna Quindlen are graduates of this women's college that's affiliated with Columbia
Barnard
$1,200 [22]
You do this, from the Latin for "part", when you break a sentence down
parse
$2,000 [10]
I'm a brilliant academic but I tend to leave the deerstalker caps & hard drugs to a certain arch-nemesis
Moriarty
$2,000 [20]
This "hip" communications device got its present form in a 1974 Motorola version, but it had no display
a pager
Anjali
$2,000 [5]
Bruce, played by this man, was almighty before Evan was
Jim Carrey
Curtis
DD $3,000 [13]
This Louisiana univ. with a famed marching band began as the Colored Industrial & Agricultural School in 1901
Grambling
Anjali
$2,000 [27]
Sentence diagrams visually represent this, the way words are arranged & relate within sentences
syntax

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GEOGRAPHY

It's 277 miles long, it's up to 18 miles wide, it's 6 million years old & at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees

the Grand Canyon

Kendra "What isMt. St. HelensMis" — wagered $4,000
Anjali "What is the Grand Canyon?" — wagered $2,600
Curtis "What is The Grand Canyon" — wagered $1,200

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