Show #4254 2003-02-13 (taped 2002-12-17) Teen Tournament

2003 Teen Tournament final game 1.

Contestants

Tyler Allard — a senior from Garrett Park, Maryland

John Zhang — a junior from Lexington, Kentucky

Anthony Valente — a senior from Staten Island, New York

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Anthony $3,200 $5,000 $15,800 $8,999 $15,800
20 R, 2 W
John $800 $2,400 $22,600 $15,200 $17,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Tyler $3,600 $4,800 $9,200 $18,400 $9,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICANS FEMALE ATHLETES WEBSITES ___ OG ENDLESS SUMER VACATION FUN
$200 [3]
In February 1865, 2 months before surrendering, he became general in chief of all the Confederate armies
Robert E. Lee
John
$200 [1]
This soccer player whose real first name is Mariel is one of 4 women to have scored over 100 goals in international play
Mia Hamm
John
$200 [26]
An official website for this state is www.state.nm.us
New Mexico
John
$200 [21]
Hey, "don't just sit there like a bump on" one of these
a log
Tyler
$200 [15]
The Sumerian name for the Mesopotamian plain may have given us this name of a Biblical garden
Eden
Anthony Tyler
$200 [10]
Watch out for sewer rats inside the "Sewer Adventure" at the Aquaria Water Museum in this Swedish capital
Stockholm
Tyler
$400 [4]
It was the famous nickname of frontiersman & scout Christopher Carson
Kit
John
$400 [2]
This track star was nicknamed "Flo-Jo"
Florence Griffith Joyner
Tyler
$400 [27]
Instead of .com, Amnesty International's website is www.amnesty. this
.org
John
$400 [22]
"Pea Soup" describes a dense one
fog
Anthony
$400 [17]
Utu, who judged the dead at the end of each day, was the Sumerian god of this celestial body
sun
Tyler
$400 [11]
Ride the Nutmobile thru macadamia orchards at the Big Pineapple, a top attraction in this "Down Under" country
Australia
Anthony
$600 [5]
Dismissed from West Point for "deficiency in chemistry", he went on to paint a famous portrait of his mother
James Whistler
John Tyler
$600 [8]
A student at Great Neck North High School, she's the golden girl of the ice seen here
Sarah Hughes
Anthony
$600 [28]
At whitehouse.gov you can learn all about Air Force One as well as this Maryland presidential retreat
Camp David
Tyler
$600 [23]
One of the teeth in a gear
cog
Anthony
$600 [18]
The ancient Sumerian civilization flourished in the "Fertile Crescent" region between these 2 rivers
Tigris & Euphrates
Anthony
$600 [13]
Wow! You can see what you'd look like in one of Ms. Parton's wigs at this theme park named for her
Dollywood
John
DD $1,000 [6]
Her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1981 to replace Potter Stewart was history-making
Sandra Day O'Connor
Tyler
$800 [9]
This tennis player won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 2000 & 2001, but lost to her little sister in 2002
Venus Williams
Tyler
$800 [29]
Seen here, Arfie fetches results at this metasearch engine
Dogpile
$800 [24]
Something can do this to your bad memory; it's also a wheel on a Sony Clie
jog
John
$800 [19]
Dating from around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians used this writing system seen here
cuneiform
John
$800 [14]
For a fabulous view of Barcelona, take the elevator to the top of the Monument a Colom, built to honor him
Christopher Columbus
Tyler
$1,000 [7]
In one of its reading rooms, you can read up on Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this religion
Christian Science
Anthony
$1,000 [12]
This basketball star whose name rhymes with hoops named her son Jordan, after Michael Jordan
Sheryl Swoopes
Anthony
$1,000 [30]
"Sari Says" is an advice column in the online version of this teen magazine
Teen People
John
$1,000 [25]
A fad in the '90s was this game from Hawaii that used bottle stoppers
pogs
Anthony
$1,000 [20]
The Sumerian kingdom ended when this enemy king famous for his code conquered the city of Larsa
Hammurabi
John
$1,000 [16]
Soar above the treetops on the Skyfari aerial tram at this West Coast's city's famous zoo
San Diego
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

BALLET COMIC & CARTOON CRITTERS OFFICIAL STATE THINGS ALL IN YOUR MIND SCIENCE CLASS IN THE DICTIONARY
$400 [6]
The ballet "Jeu de Cartes" features dancing playing cards, & this one is the "trickster" of the pack
the joker
Anthony
$400 [26]
Alvin, Simon & Theodore
chipmunks
Anthony
$400 [11]
"Swing your partner" & "do-si-do"; it's the state dance of Oregon & Alabama
square dance
Anthony
$400 [16]
You can have a deja entendu, meaning "already heard" in addition to this, "already seen"
deja vu
Anthony
$400 [1]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Colorado) As snowflakes are frozen water vapor, they're made up of these 2 chemical elements
hydrogen & oxygen
John
$400 [21]
This car name may come from an abbreviation of "general purpose vehicle"
jeep
John
$800 [7]
The longer "romantic" version of this ballet garment was inspired by the one Taglioni wore in the 1830s
tutu
Anthony
$800 [27]
Heathcliff
cat
Anthony
$800 [12]
Its state song is "The Old North State"
North Carolina
John
$800 [17]
Some people won't give blood due to belonephobia, fear of these
needles
John
$800 [2]
The forked type of this runs unobstructed between the clouds & the ground
lightning
John
$800 [22]
The name of this social insect comes from the Latin word vespa
wasp
$1,200 [8]
A ballet blanc, such as "La Sylphide", traditionally features costumes of this color
white
Anthony
$1,200 [28]
Pumbaa
warthog
Anthony
$1,200 [13]
If you "Show Me" some mozarkite, I'll tell you that it's this state's state rock
Missouri
Tyler
$1,600 [19]
By definition, a hypnagogic hallucination occurs while you're about to do this
fall asleep
Anthony
$1,200 [3]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park) Autumn leaves turn golden red as shorter days & cooler nights cause the breakdown of this green pigment
chlorophyll
John
$1,200 [23]
This adjective can mean extremely ornate or refer to the music from 1600 to 1750, including that of Vivaldi & Handel
Baroque
Anthony
$1,600 [9]
From the French meaning "to bend", this basic bending movement prepares a dancer to spring high into the air
plie
$1,600 [29]
Babar
elephant
Tyler
$1,600 [14]
This "sweet" state tree of Vermont is an important source of syrup
sugar maple
John
$2,000 [20]
Erik Erikson's concept of this type of "crisis", in which you're not sure who you are, is associated with adolescence
identity crisis
Anthony
$1,600 [4]
The frequency of a note is measured in this, abbreviated Hz
hertz
Anthony
$1,600 [24]
This process is the diffusion of a fluid through a semipermeable membrane; some students seem to learn by it
osmosis
Tyler
$2,000 [10]
French sculptor whose art inspired "The Eternal Idol" (hmmm...that's a "Thinker")
Auguste Rodin
John
$2,000 [30]
Franklin on Nickelodeon
turtle
Anthony
DD $3,200 [15]
The juice of this bog fruit is Massachusetts' state beverage
cranberry
John
DD $5,000 [18]
This measurement was originally measured by dividing mental age by calendar age
IQ (intelligence quotient)
John
$2,000 [5]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports) Botanists divide a flower into four main parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these
pistils
John
$2,000 [25]
This word used to describe a type of school also means "narrow in outlook"
parochial
John

Final Jeopardy!

FIRST NAMES

Once considered too sacred to use, it was later the top girl's name from 1880 to the 1940s

Mary

Tyler "What is Mary" — wagered $9,200
Anthony "What is Virginia?" — wagered $6,801
John "What is Rebecca?" — wagered $7,400

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