2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.
Rachel Rothenberg — a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Aidan Mehigan — a sophomore from McLean, Virginia
Solomon Howard — a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon | $800 | $2,000 | $12,000 |
$17,001
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$14,000
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Aidan | $4,200 | $6,800 | $16,400 |
$22,800
Automatic semifinalist |
$16,800
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Rachel | $2,200 | $3,000 | $11,800 |
$13,800
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,800
17 R, 2 W |
| ARCHAEOLOGY | NAME THAT GAME | 3-NAMED AUTHORS | MULTIPLE MEANINGS | FRENCH FOOD | STATES WITHOUT CONSONANTS |
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$200
[14]
Archaeologists are busy on Mount Lykaion & in a cave on Crete, 2 supposed birthplaces of this Greek ruler god
Zeus
Rachel
|
$200
[3]
Board game in which you might land on Short Line or St. James Place
Monopoly
Solomon
|
$200
[1]
She followed up "Little Women" with "An Old-Fashioned Girl" & "Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag"
Louisa May Alcott
Rachel
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$200
[18]
To think seriously, or to bend back light from a surface such as a mirror
reflect
Aidan
|
$200
[11]
Laitue (this) goes into une salade
lettuce
Aidan
|
$200
[26]
AAII
Hawaii
Rachel
|
|
$400
[15]
10,000-year-old seeds of this gourd have been found in Peru, where the veggie originated
a pumpkin (or squash)
Solomon
|
$400
[4]
Stack one piece on top of another to crown a king in this board game
checkers
Solomon
|
$400
[2]
Britannica says her 1852 novel helped "solidify both pro- and antislavery sentiment"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Solomon
|
$400
[19]
To coat or cover with a thin layer of metal, or a dish on which food is served
plate
Aidan
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$400
[12]
You can't have your gateau (this) & eat it too
cake
Rachel
|
$400
[27]
OUIIAA
Louisiana
Solomon
|
|
$600
[21]
Archaeologists have found Vespasian's country house--or as he'd have called it in Latin, this 5-letter word
a villa
Aidan
|
$600
[5]
This 2-team rope competition was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920
tug of war
Aidan
|
$600
[8]
One of his most famous heroes was an Ojibwa Indian who married Minnehaha
Longfellow
Solomon
Aidan
|
$600
[20]
To tease, or a young person
kid
Rachel
|
$600
[13]
Je suis le fromage, this
cheese
Rachel
|
$600
[28]
IIII
Mississippi
Solomon
Aidan
|
|
$800
[22]
Thermo-luminescence is a technique used to establish this for items exposed to heat, like fireplace stones
its date
Rachel
|
$800
[6]
"Colorful" schoolyard chain game in which one team might chant, "Send Alex right over"
Red Rover
Aidan
|
$800
[9]
This pal of Emerson was known for a little "Civil Disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
Rachel
|
$800
[24]
A burial place, or fraught with danger or harm
grave
Solomon
|
$800
[16]
Those crazy French: raisin is this fruit (what we call a raisin is raisin sec to them)
a grape
Solomon
|
$800
[29]
AAAA
Alabama
Solomon
Rachel
|
|
$1,000
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a stone sculpture on the monitor.) At Saqqra, Egypt, & probably from around 2500 B.C., the seated this worker was found; he still has hispapyrus roll, but someone took his brush
a scribe
Aidan
|
$1,000
[7]
In this Pop Cap game, the object is to swap one gem for another in order to form a vertical or horizontal chain
Bejeweled
Aidan
|
$1,000
[10]
This Devonshire-born man rhymed about an "Ancient Mariner"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aidan
|
$1,000
[25]
Saliva, or a slender, pointed rod on which meat is impaled for broiling
a spit
Aidan
|
$1,000
[17]
Riz (rice) is often paired with haricots (these)
beans
Solomon
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
EEEE
Tennessee
Solomon
|
| A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10,316 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE | THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 | PUBERTY RITUALS | FINISH THE OLD TESTAMENT QUOTE | ABBREV. |
|
$400
[26]
I give you 63,360 inches, you take this many miles
1
Solomon
|
$400
[21]
In a 2008 sequel this title action hero sought out "the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
Indiana Jones
Solomon
|
$400
[4]
(Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reads the clue.) This great American who used his pen to help make us independent was also the first Secretary of State
Thomas Jefferson
Rachel
|
$400
[7]
This ceremony marks a Jewish boy's entry into manhood
a bar mitzvah
Aidan
|
$400
[1]
Job:"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath..."
taken away
Solomon
|
$400
[16]
Imprison terror suspects in my state? NIMBY, "Not in my" this
backyard
Solomon
|
|
$800
[27]
In the equation 6x + 100=220, x equals this
20
Aidan
|
$800
[22]
"Revenge of the Fallen" is the follow-up to this film about robots
Transformers
Rachel
|
$800
[5]
On Nov. 18, 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for doing this; she refused to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty"
voting
Rachel
|
$800
[8]
Sensory deprivation is practiced on pubescent boys by Australia's indigenous people, called these
Aborigines
Aidan
|
$800
[2]
Exodus:"I have been a stranger in a..."
strange land
Rachel
|
$800
[17]
If you're ignorant of what IDK means, just say this
I don't know
Aidan
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Let's convert! (From Roman, that is) MMM + MDIII equals this 4-digit number
4,503
Solomon
Aidan
|
$1,200
[23]
This time it's about "Salvation" from the evil cyborgs in this 2009 film
Terminator Salvation ( Terminator accepted)
Aidan
|
$1,200
[6]
15 days after the Treaty of Ghent was signed setting an end to the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson beat the British at this city
New Orleans
Solomon
|
$1,200
[9]
Happening in the east every day, it's the name of the ceremony of Apache womanhood
the Sunrise
Rachel
|
$1,200
[3]
Leviticus:"Love thy neighbor as..."
thyself
Rachel
|
$1,200
[18]
Hearing about mom's dating life might make you say TMI, this
too much information
Solomon
|
|
DD
$1,700
[29]
It's the square root of 100,000,000
10,000
Aidan
|
$1,600
[24]
"X-Men Origins" was the story of this title superhero's beginnings
Wolverine
Solomon
|
DD
$1,500
[13]
In 1857 the Supreme Court denied this slave his freedom, bringing the U.S. closer to Civil War
Dred Scott
Aidan
|
$1,600
[10]
In Thailand Poy Sang Long temporarily makes boys into these religious men, including shaving their heads
monks
Aidan
|
$1,600
[14]
Genesis:"Bone of my bones, and...."
flesh of my flesh
Rachel
|
$1,600
[19]
Can't run your new software? Dude, RTM, "read" this
the manual
Solomon
|
|
$2,000
[30]
It's the number of degrees in the larger of the two angles seen here
270
Rachel
|
$2,000
[25]
Based on a video game franchise, this 2009 action fest is subtitled "The Legend of Chun-Li"
Street Fighter
Solomon
|
$1,600
[12]
The Mohawk Trail became less important after this waterway was completed in 1825
the Erie Canal
Aidan
|
$2,000
[11]
An essay by Walter Ong looks at the learning of this language as a puberty rite for well-off Renaissance boys
Latin
Rachel
|
$2,000
[15]
Psalms:"Thy rod and thy staff they..."
comfort me
Solomon
|
$2,000
[20]
Precede a digression with AON, this "of nothing"
apropos
Aidan
Rachel
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It's the densest of the planets in our solar system & the only one not named for a deity
Earth