2002 Back to School Week game 2.
Neal Freyman — a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Anissa Chitour — a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
Maxwell Baldi — a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maxwell | $3,600 | $4,400 | $7,200 |
$4,200
Winner: $10,000 minimum + a Northstar Portable PC |
$7,200
12 R, 1 W |
| Anissa | $2,000 | $1,900 | $2,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 + a Northstar Portable PC |
$4,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 9 W (including 1 DD) |
| Neal | $600 | $1,600 | $7,600 |
$700
2nd place: $2,000 + a Northstar Portable PC |
$7,600
15 R, 5 W |
| NATURE | NICKELODEON KID'S CHOICE AWARDS 2002 | ACTIVITIES | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS | READING & 'RITING | 'RITHMETIC |
|
$200
[11]
These birds, which usually feed while hovering, flap their wings at a rate of 60-75 times a second
hummingbirds
Maxwell
|
$200
[26]
After coming out & getting the party started, she won for Favorite Song & Favorite Female Singer
Pink
Maxwell
Anissa
|
$200
[6]
In 2001 the president invited kids to the White House to play this game, hitting a ball off a stand
T-Ball
Maxwell
Neal
|
$200
[1]
If you can barely speak, you're said to have one of these amphibians "in your throat"
a frog
Maxwell
|
$200
[14]
Chapter 1 of this book is called "Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe"
"The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe"
Maxwell
|
$200
[19]
It's 1/4 of 100
25
Neal
|
|
$400
[12]
When frightened or excited, this largest African mammal may make a loud, shrill sound called trumpeting
elephant
Neal
|
$400
[27]
This California basketball team took front & center court as the Favorite Sports Team
Los Angeles Lakers
Neal
|
$400
[7]
Online games you can play include Quake & this ancient battle to capture the opponent's king
chess
Maxwell
|
$400
[2]
An easy target is a "sitting" one of these animals
duck
Maxwell
|
$400
[15]
This potions professor doesn't dislike Harry Potter--he hates him
Professor Snape
Maxwell
|
$400
[20]
It's 2128 divided by 7
304
Anissa
|
|
DD
$500
[24]
The Organ Pipe species of this desert plant is named for the long stems which resemble the pipes of an organ
cactus
Anissa
|
$600
[28]
Cowabunga, dude! It won the award for Favorite Cartoon Series
The Simpsons
Maxwell
Anissa
|
$600
[8]
In cooking class, you'll learn that an English muffin & tomato sauce are the starting points of a miniature this
pizza
Anissa
|
$600
[3]
The one thing that brings everything tumbling down is "the straw that" did this
broke the camel's back
|
$600
[16]
These "Tales" by Judy Blume are narrated by 9-year-old Peter Warren Hatcher
"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing"
Neal
|
$600
[21]
It's the square root of 196
14
Neal
|
|
$600
[13]
The Mormon cricket is a long-horned type of this jumper
grasshopper
Anissa
|
$800
[29]
Singer Michael's sister, she won the Wannabe Award for being the celebrity role model kids most "want to be" like
Janet Jackson
Anissa
|
$800
[9]
There are classes just for boys in this activity that begins with warmup at the barre
ballet
Anissa
|
$800
[4]
Someone who looks impressive or powerful but is in fact neither is said to be a "paper" one of these animals
tiger
|
$800
[17]
"The Beginning" was the title of the 54th & final book in this sci-fi series by Katherine A. Applegate
"Animorphs"
Anissa
Neal
|
$800
[22]
Number of inches in 3 yards
108
Anissa
Neal
|
|
$1,000
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Belize.) Popularly called a bill bird, this is the national bird of Belize
a toucan
Neal
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
Kids can be the ambassador from Kenya or Bulgaria in the "model" version of this organization founded in 1945
the United Nations
Maxwell
|
$1,000
[5]
An artist's last great work is often described as this bird's "song"
swan
Maxwell
|
$1,000
[18]
Completes the title of Mildred D. Taylor's book "Roll of Thunder..."
Hear My Cry
Neal
|
$1,000
[23]
.5 x .15
.075
|
| OH JOY! IT'S OPERA! | MOVIE STARS SPEAK | I MYTH YOU | COMMON BONDS | AMERICAN HISTORY | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY |
|
$400
[18]
Act IV of the opera "Moses in Egypt" features the miraculous parting of this sea
the Red Sea
Neal
|
$400
[21]
He admitted that he didn't read all of "The Lord of the Rings" before agreeing to play Frodo
Elijah Wood
|
$400
[5]
This Roman god shares his name with the smallest planet in our solar system
Pluto
Anissa
|
$400
[12]
White, shell, yolk
parts of an egg
Neal
|
$400
[1]
Contrary to myth, Washington didn't throw one of these across the Potomac; there weren't any when he was young
silver dollar
|
$400
[3]
Have belief in your power to spell...
C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-C-E
Neal
|
|
DD
$500
[23]
"Ib and Little Christina" & "The Emperor's New Clothes" are operas based on his fairy tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Anissa
|
$800
[22]
Believing in his "Will" power, he said, "If I set my mind to it, within...15 years, I would be the president"
Will Smith
|
$800
[7]
Of a dragon, a horse or a lion, the type of animal that the winged mythical creature Pegasus was
horse
Neal
|
$800
[13]
Baby grand, professional grand, concert grand
types of pianos
Neal
|
$800
[2]
In 1774 New Jerseyites dressed as Indians burned this in Greenwich; a similar "Party" occurred earlier in Boston
tea
Anissa
|
$800
[6]
Inquisitive minds will know how to spell...
C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-Y
Anissa
Neal
|
|
$800
[19]
In the 1983 opera named for him, this saint of Assisi preaches a sermon to the birds
St. Francis of Assisi
|
$1,200
[25]
When his kids ask him to talk like his "Shrek" donkey character, "it depends on what mood" they catch him in
Eddie Murphy
Anissa
Neal
|
$1,200
[10]
Also the name of a city in Arizona, this mythical bird dies in a fire & is reborn from the ashes
the Phoenix
Anissa
|
$1,200
[14]
Frosted Flakes, Expectations, Australia's Barrier Reef
things that are Great
Anissa
Neal
|
$1,200
[4]
In 1901 the Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, allowing the U.S. to build this in Central America
the Panama Canal
Maxwell
|
$1,200
[20]
One of your skills is spelling...
A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-M-E-N-T
Anissa
|
|
$1,600
[24]
A story by Edgar Allan Poe inspired Philip Glass' opera "The Fall of the House of" this
Usher
Anissa
|
— |
$1,600
[11]
This Roman messenger god is also the name of a liquid metal
Mercury
Anissa
|
$1,600
[15]
Decks of cards, baseball parks, engagement rings
things with diamonds
|
$1,600
[8]
On May 1, 1898 Commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at the battle of this Philippine bay
Manila Bay
Maxwell
|
— |
| — | — |
$2,000
[17]
The first woman in Greek mythology, she opens a box & lets out all the world's evils
Pandora
Anissa
|
$2,000
[16]
Stanley, Dixie, suction
cups
Neal
|
$2,000
[9]
On May 10, 1692 this colony founded by Cecil Calvert made the Anglican Church its official church
Maryland
Anissa
Neal
|
— |
In August 1959 a coin toss helped Hiram L. Fong become this state's senior senator
Hawaii