Show #5564 2008-11-13 (taped 2008-10-06) Teen Tournament

2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.Ask Alex #2: Mustache.

Contestants

Jay Schrader — a junior from Lexington, Kentucky

Sarah Marx — a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland

Haley Batz — a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Haley	$0	$1,600	$8,800	$6,800 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$9,600 10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah	$1,400	$2,600	$16,200	$12,400 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$16,600 23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jay	$2,600	$6,200	$15,000	$17,000 Automatic semifinalist	$15,000 19 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EEEUW...GROSS!	SPORTS TEAM HOMES	WHICH TIME ZONE?	TRANSPORTATION	ALL YOU NEED IS GOV.	YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT
$200 [17] Kitty coughs up these somewhat spherical masses because she licks herself a lot (hey, try combing her more often!) hairballs Sarah	$200 [2] The NFL's Titans tower over this town Nashville Jay	$200 [1] Portland, Oregon Pacific Jay	$200 [13] The Michauxes added pedals to the front wheel of a velocipede & became the "fathers of" this vehicle the bicycle Haley	$200 [5] Former presidential candidate Bill Richardson New Mexico Sarah	$200 [6] In her June 2008 concession speech she admitted, "Well, this isn't exactly the party I'd planned" Hillary Clinton Sarah
$400 [18] Some acne creams contain the slime of these coil-shelled gastropods famed for their slowness snails Sarah	$400 [3] College football's Cornhuskers battle in this burg Lincoln Jay	$400 [14] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Eastern Sarah	$400 [27] One line of the Montreal Metro, this type of transportation, passes beneath the St. Lawrence River a subway Sarah	$400 [10] Jeb Bush successor Charlie Crist Florida Jay	$400 [7] In 1901 he advised, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" Teddy Roosevelt Jay
$600 [20] When these medicinal worms finish sucking your blood, they drop off; alert your nurse when this happens leeches Haley	$600 [4] MLB's Rays shine over this place (St. Petersburg, specifically) Tampa (Bay) Sarah	$600 [23] Provo, Utah Mountain Jay	$600 [28] The Pan-American Highway's southernmost point is Puerto Montt, 560 miles south of Santiago in this country Chile Jay	$600 [11] Jon Corzine New Jersey	$600 [15] At her inquest this woman who inspired a rhyme said, "I knew there was an old axe down cellar, that is all I knew" Lizzie Borden Haley
$800 [21] In 2008, 2 teens from this Mass. cape went a little buggy & sold jewelry made from dead cicadas Cape Cod Sarah Jay	$800 [8] The NHL's Coyotes have a howling good time here (well, Glendale, actually) Phoenix Jay	$800 [24] Birmingham, Alabama Central Jay	$800 [29] First used in Japan in the 1870s, this 2-wheeled cart is pulled by a runner who may pull up to 30 miles a day a rickshaw Jay	$800 [12] Bobby Jindal, who replaced Kathleen Blanco Louisiana	DD $800 [16] This author concluded a famous novel with the line "After all, tomorrow is another day" Margaret Mitchell Haley
$1,000 [22] A tick bit me! I've got a blotchy rash! I'm vomiting! I may have this disease with a mountain range in its name! Rocky Mountain (spotted) fever Haley Sarah	$1,000 [9] The MLS' Earthquakes shake things up for this city (they play in Santa Clara & Oakland, really) San Jose Jay	$1,000 [25] Quebec City, Canada Eastern Sarah	$1,000 [30] This light Russian sleigh, whose name means "a group of 3", is pulled by 3 horses a troika	$1,000 [26] Rick Perry Texas	$1,000 [19] This British physicist has been quoted as saying, "My goal is simple, it is a complete understanding of the universe" Stephen Hawking Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

FLAGS	AN HOUR OF TV	NONFICTION	DIMENSIONS	ART	ABBREV.
$400 [26] The flags of Berlin, Germany & this Swiss capital both have bears on them Bern Sarah	$400 [1] Are you watching this CBS reality show that hit its 10th edition in 2008, or is it watching you? Big Brother Sarah	$400 [4] "She Would Not Be Moved" is the story of this woman & the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1950s Rosa Parks Jay	$400 [21] Hyphenated term used in math to describe a line, & in movie reviews to describe a character without depth one-dimensional Sarah Jay	$400 [2] Romantic painters liked nighttime, as in Friedrich's 1822 canvas showing this rising over the sea the Moon Sarah	$400 [3] The ASPCA is the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to these Animals Sarah
$800 [27] Until 2002 the flag of this African nation had a large "R" on it Rwanda Jay	$800 [16] This fall '08 Fox show kicked off with a plane landing at Logan Airport with no one on it alive Fringe Jay	$800 [5] This "Stuart Little" author also co-wrote the handbook "The Elements of Style" E.B. White Sarah	$800 [22] This basic geom. figure contains 2 dimensions: on a map surface they're normally longitude & latitude a plane Haley Sarah	$800 [10] The Byzantines kept busy making these, in which small pieces form big pictures on floors, walls & ceilings mosaics Sarah	$800 [9] In 1999 Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman astronaut, visited this, the ISS the International Space Station Jay
$1,200 [28] American Samoa's flag includes this American bird grasping symbols of Samoan authority the eagle Haley	$1,200 [17] This '80s teen actress plays a mom on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" Molly Ringwald Haley	DD $1,000 [6] This book that tackled the topic of football in a Texas town inspired a film & a TV series Friday Night Lights Sarah	$1,200 [23] (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a diagram on the monitor.) To model space in three dimensions, you have to go beyond Descartes' usual letters & label points along this axis the z -axis Sarah	$1,200 [13] This British artist, known for a famous "Boy", gave us the girl seen here Gainsborough Jay	DD $1,000 [11] nsec stands for this very brief amount of time a nanosecond Sarah
$1,600 [29] The stripes on Argentina's flag are in "celeste y blanca", this shade of blue & white sky blue Sarah	$1,600 [18] Sam & Dean cruise the U.S. in a '67 Impala battling demons (& gas prices?) on this drama Supernatural Haley	$1,600 [7] Mitch Albom's weekly visits with a dying teacher spawned this mega-bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie Jay	$1,600 [24] Don't lose the thread--there are 10 or so dimensions in this physics theory string theory Haley	$1,600 [14] A woodcut is this raised type of printing, also a kind of map a relief	$1,600 [12] When used of time, the abbreviation P.M. means this "meridiem" post Haley Jay
$2,000 [30] This North African nation's flag features a green... has a green... well, it's just all green Libya Sarah	$2,000 [19] Zooey's sister, this actress is the lovely "Bones" Emily Deschanel Haley	$2,000 [8] This 1950 classic by Thor Heyerdahl is subtitled "Across the Pacific by Raft" Kon-Tiki Sarah	$2,000 [25] (Jon of the Clue Crew displays an animation on the monitor.) The snowflake curve, a geometric pattern repeated at smaller scales, has fractional dimensions; it's this type of shape related to the word "fractional" a fractal Sarah	$2,000 [15] Otto Van Veen--here's his "Lamentation"--taught this greatest northern Baroque painter--here's his Rubens Jay	$2,000 [20] To look at soft tissue, you might need an MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance this imaging Haley

Final Jeopardy!

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Unveiled in 1923, the statue seenhereof this man is located on the south side of the Treasury Building

Alexander Hamilton

Haley "Who is Madison?" — wagered $2,000

Jay "Who is Hamilton?" — wagered $2,000

Sarah "Who is Jefferson?" — wagered $3,800

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