2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.
Emily Lever — a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
Bonny Jain — a senior from Moline, Illinois
Will Dantzler — a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will | $5,000 | $9,800 | $20,000 |
$20,801
Automatic semifinalist |
$17,600
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bonny | $400 | $3,200 | $10,400 |
$4,134
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,400
16 R, 3 W |
| Emily | $2,200 | $2,600 | $8,600 |
$11,600
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,600
10 R, 1 W |
| BOOK ENDS | THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS | iPHONE APPS | EXPLORATION | HOW MANY YEARS? | TEEN RHYMES |
|
$200
[1]
This Twain hero is going to the territory because he doesn't want Aunt Sally to civilize him
Huckleberry Finn
Will
Bonny
|
$200
[11]
Agent K, Agent J, Jack Jeebs
Men in Black
Will
|
$200
[29]
You can use your iPhone as one of these that'll show you where magnetic north is
a compass
Bonny
|
$200
[13]
In 1493, during his second voyage to the New World, he built a trading post called Isabela on Hispaniola
Columbus
Will
|
$200
[21]
Centennial
100
Bonny
|
$200
[6]
A surface on which pictures are projected for viewing
a screen
Bonny
|
|
$400
[2]
In this Orwell book, looking from pig to man & man to pig, it's impossible to say which is which
Animal Farm
Emily
|
$400
[12]
Brian O'Conner, Johnny Tran, Dominic Toretto(it's the first movie)
The Fast and the Furious
|
$400
[30]
Don't know the name of a song? Use Midomi or this app, whose logo is seen here
Shazam
|
$400
[14]
Mactan warriors killed this explorer, spoiling his circumnavigation of the world
Magellan
Bonny
|
$400
[22]
Triennial
3
Will
Emily
|
$400
[7]
Brooke Mueller is the latest wife to try & tame this sitcom star
Charlie Sheen
Will
|
|
$600
[3]
In his "The House at Pooh Corner", "A little boy and his bear will always be playing"
(A.A.) Milne
Will
|
$600
[18]
Carl Fredricksen, Charles Muntz, Russell
Up
|
$600
[27]
Several apps are available to test this, IQ for short
the intelligence quotient
Bonny
|
$600
[17]
When Henry Hudson entered Hudson Bay, he mistakenly thought he had found this route
the Northwest Passage
Will
|
$600
[23]
Septennial
7
Will
|
$600
[8]
To remove a young mammal from breast feeding
wean
Will
|
|
$800
[4]
He wrote, "It is not often... someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both"
(E.B.) White
Emily
|
$800
[19]
Holly, Matt Lauer, Chaka
Land of the Lost
|
$800
[26]
Lex, seen here, is the title character of this word game
Bookworm
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1769 this British captain charted the coast of Tahiti & then set sail for New Zealand
Captain Cook
Will
|
$800
[24]
Quadricentennial
400
Bonny
|
$800
[9]
To swerve a car dangerously from side to side
careen
Will
|
|
$1,000
[5]
In this Norton Juster novel, Milo wants to drive his car through the title entry but it's gone because others need it
The Phantom Tollbooth
Emily
|
$1,000
[20]
Link Larkin, Amber Von Tussle, Wilbur Turnblad
Hairspray
|
$1,000
[28]
You can figure out square roots & find coordinates on the x- & y-axes with the app called "Graphing" this
Calculator
Will
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
Lewis & Clark began their expedition on May 14, 1804 by traveling up this river on a keelboat
the Missouri
Will
|
$1,000
[25]
Novennial
9
Bonny
|
$1,000
[10]
Once used in corsets, it's a jaw material from certain whales
baleen
Will
|
| "C" CREATURES | POP CULTURE | ALSO A CHESS PIECE | OBJECTS IN MYTHOLOGY | A WORLD OF PLACES | STARTS WITH A PAST TENSE VERB |
|
$400
[16]
It's hump isn't a water reservoir but an energy reserve
a camel
Bonny
|
$400
[23]
"Some Hearts", her debut CD, was the best-selling female country album of 2005, 2006 & 2007
Carrie Underwood
Will
|
$400
[11]
To leave something as a guarantee in return for money
pawn
Bonny
|
$400
[2]
Also a capital city, he fired the arrow into Achilles' heel
Paris
Will
|
$400
[6]
The world's highest mountain, it was known as Peak XV before it was renamed in 1865
Mount Everest
Bonny
|
$400
[30]
Diana Prince of comic books was called this kind of woman
won der
Emily
|
|
$800
[20]
This knuckle-walker is as closely related to humans as it is to the gorilla
a chimpanzee
|
$800
[24]
A squad of guinea pigs tries to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world in this 2009 animated film
G-Force
Will
|
$1,200
[14]
1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu was this in Johannesburg
a bishop
Will
|
$800
[1]
Oenomaus died in a race--seems the axle pin was removed from this
his chariot
Will
|
$800
[7]
Belgium, Luxembourg & Germany all border this country
France
Emily
|
$800
[29]
Often seen on pianos, this mechanical timekeeper has an adjustable pace
a met ronome
Will
|
|
$1,200
[21]
This bird, often kept as a pet, gets its name from a group of Spanish islands
a canary
Emily
|
$1,200
[25]
This rapper born Chris Bridges dueted with Mary J. Blige on "Runaway Love"
Ludacris
Emily
|
$1,600
[12]
A black bird
a rook
Will
|
$1,200
[3]
Buzyges invented this to harness oxen
a yoke
Bonny
|
$1,200
[8]
The city of Wagga Wagga in this Down Under nation straddles the Murrumbidgee River
Australia
Bonny
|
$1,200
[28]
Nationality of Bela Bartok & Franz Liszt
Hung arian
Bonny
Emily
|
|
$1,600
[22]
This predator seenherehas been clocked at over 60 miles per hour when it hunts
a cheetah
Will
|
$1,600
[26]
This "Hero"-ic actress is working with the Whaleman Foundation to try to stop all commercial whaling
Hayden Panettiere
Bonny
Emily
|
$2,000
[13]
A paladin
a knight
Bonny
|
$1,600
[4]
No one could undo this creation of Gordius
the Gordian knot
Will
|
$1,600
[9]
Take a gamble--Monte Carlo is one of this small European country's 4 quartiers
Monaco
Bonny
|
$1,600
[19]
Adjective for a union of states under a central government
fed eral
Bonny
|
|
$2,000
[17]
The name of this sea bird comes from the Latin Corvus marinus, "sea raven"
a cormorant
Bonny
|
$2,000
[27]
A team of 6 friends tries to keep quiet while one endures a hysterical task on this MTV show hosted by Zero Kazama
Slient Library
|
DD
$5,000
[15]
2 historical books in the Old Testament
Kings
Will
|
DD
$4,000
[5]
Memory-erasing fruit eaten by Odysseus' men
lotus
Will
|
$2,000
[10]
This gulf is the westernmost extension of the Atlantic Ocean
the Gulf of Mexico
Will
|
$2,000
[18]
They're feelings, especially highly emotional ones; you might say, "my" these "exactly"
sent iments
Will
Emily
|
On July 11, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, "This is a mortal wound"; he died the next day
Alexander Hamilton