2009 Teen Tournament semifinal game 3.
Rachel Rothenberg — a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gabe Orlet — a senior from Belleville, Illinois
Lindsay Oxx — a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindsay | $0 | $-400 | $4,000 |
$7,999
3rd place: $10,000 |
$4,000
8 R, 2 W |
| Gabe | $0 | $1,400 | $11,800 |
$23,598
2nd place: $10,000 |
$13,600
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rachel | $4,400 | $7,200 | $15,900 |
$23,600
Finalist |
$20,400
29 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| ASTRO-QUIZ | HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | MUSEUMS | AMERICAN IDLE 2009 | MEDICINE | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER |
|
$200
[16]
The body of a comet is called this, just like the center of an atom
a nucleus
Gabe
|
$200
[21]
The Alabama High School Athletic Association says the most important health safeguard during workouts is plenty of this
water
Gabe
|
$200
[1]
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is part of this museum complex
the Smithsonian
Rachel
|
$200
[10]
With businesses hurting, not as many people bought office supplies from this company, stock symbol SPLS
Staples
Rachel
|
$200
[11]
The Chinese discovered that this practice using needles could work as an anesthetic
acupuncture
Rachel
|
$200
[26]
If a woodchuck could chuck wood (it could happen!), it'd still also be known as this, even on February 2
a groundhog
Rachel
|
|
$400
[17]
After the Sun & Moon, this planet, aka the "Morning Star" & "Evening Star", is the brightest object in the sky
Venus
Rachel
|
$400
[22]
In 1985 Dirk Borgognone of Reno High set a record that still stands with a 68-yard one of these
a field goal
Gabe
|
$400
[2]
In April 2009 the glass pyramid at this Paris museum celebrated its 20th anniversary
the Louvre
Rachel
|
$400
[9]
This Pittsburgh ketchup maker saw lower sales because of less demand in foreign markets
Heinz
Gabe
|
$400
[12]
The traditional Snellen chart used to measure this contains only the letters C, D, E, F, L, O, P, T & Z
eyesight
Rachel
|
$400
[27]
This word from the French means "again", so get back onstage, Bono!
encore
Gabe
|
|
$600
[18]
Copernicus' belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun is known as a this-centric view of the cosmos
heliocentric
Lindsay
|
$600
[23]
In this state, high school football is a big deal & Longview vs, Marshall is one of the great rivalries
Texas
Rachel
|
$600
[3]
The Temple of Dendur is in the Sackler Wing of this ginormous NYC museum
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rachel
|
$600
[6]
Geoffrey the Giraffe from this company went toy shopping & bought struggling FAO Schwarz
Toys "R" Us
Rachel
|
$600
[13]
Today these bloodsucking creatures are sometimes used by physicians to treat hematomas
leeches
Gabe
|
$600
[28]
To concoct a scheme, or bring forth young from an egg
hatch
Rachel
|
|
$800
[19]
In 1801 Ceres became the first of these to be discovered
asteroids
Rachel
|
$800
[24]
Total number of regulation minutes in most high school football games
48
Gabe
|
$800
[4]
In Denver, you can visit the home of Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of this in 1912
the Titanic
Rachel
|
$800
[7]
This American car company declared bankruptcy & was rescued by Fiat
Chrysler
Gabe
|
$1,000
[15]
In 2003 scientists announced the completion of this program that sequenced human DNA
the Human Genome Project
Rachel
|
$800
[29]
Informal word meaning "OK"; a pirate's was "Jolly"
roger
Rachel
|
|
$1,000
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Abbreviated A.U. & about 93 million miles in length, it's the average distance between the Earth & the Sun
the astronomical unit
Gabe
|
$1,000
[25]
In 2007 the Supreme Court ruled high school coaches can be kept from contacting 8th graders for this purpose
recruitment
Rachel
|
$1,000
[5]
Sue, the largest, most complete & best preserved T. rex, makes her home at the Field Museum in this city
Chicago
Rachel
|
$1,000
[8]
Following a stress test, this large U.S. bank was told by regulators that it needed to raise $34 billion
Bank of America
Rachel
|
DD
$1,800
[14]
In the 1870s germs of this disease of cattle became the first microorganism identified as a cause of illness
anthrax
Gabe
|
$1,000
[30]
Not flammable
fireproof
Lindsay
|
| "T"EOGRAPHY | STAR TREK | -OLOGIES | A DAY WITH GRANDMA | CLASSIC LIT | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES |
|
$400
[11]
This Iranian capital lies at the foot of the Elburz mountains
Tehran
Gabe
|
$400
[2]
In the original TV series, he played Captain Kirk
William Shatner
Rachel
|
$400
[16]
It shouldn't surprise you that nasology is the study of this body part
the nose
Lindsay
|
$400
[21]
You stopped for some alpaca chunky, grandma's favorite type of this wool knitting essential
yarn
Lindsay
|
$400
[1]
Captain Nemo takes Pierre Aronnax on a yearlong submarine voyage in this Verne novel
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Rachel
|
$400
[26]
In the U.S. we have astronauts: in Russia they're called this
cosmonauts
Lindsay
|
|
$800
[12]
This North American city is home to the Rogers Centre & the CN Tower
Toronto
Rachel
|
$800
[3]
In the 2009 movie, he played Captain Kirk
Chris Pine
Rachel
|
$800
[17]
Traditionally, biology is divided into 2 major fields: botany & this study of animals
zoology
Gabe
|
$800
[22]
Grandma slipped you a $10 bill, the redesigned one with this new fire-bearing symbol of freedom on it
the torch of the Statue of Liberty
Lindsay
|
$800
[7]
The Morlocks are an evil race in this H.G. Wells story
The Time Machine
Rachel
|
$800
[27]
If you're using a balalaika, you're trying to make beautiful this
music
Lindsay
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The Turkish city of Batman is near where this river enters Iraq
the Tigris
Rachel
|
$1,200
[4]
This actor is the only member of the original cast who appeared in the 2009 film, where he encounters his younger self
Leonard Nimoy
Rachel
|
$1,200
[18]
It's the science dealing with the relationship between organisms & their environment
ecology
Rachel
|
$1,200
[23]
It was awkward when Grammy asked about your sister's this--you thought she meant archery, but she meant a boyfriend
a beau
Lindsay
|
$1,200
[8]
In this novel, Toad claimed that Toad Hall was the "finest house on the whole river"
The Wind in the Willows
Rachel
|
$1,200
[28]
This 3-letter word means "peace" or "village" in Russian; the space station named for it fell to Earth in 2001
Mir
Rachel
|
|
DD
$1,500
[14]
This Indian name for Mount Rainier is also the name of a major city nearby
Tacoma
Rachel
|
$1,600
[5]
In the 2009 film, Karl Urban took over for DeForest Kelley & darnit, Jim, played this doctor, not a bricklayer!
Dr. McCoy
Rachel
|
$1,600
[19]
Margaret Mead, who studied how culture affects human behavior, had a Ph.D. in this, from Columbia University
anthropology
Gabe
Rachel
|
$1,600
[24]
Had to hit the drugstore for grandma's pills for this rash disease common in the elderly, aka herpes zoster
shingles
Gabe
|
$2,000
[10]
Way before "Lost", this William Golding novel told of plane crash survivors on a deserted island
The Lord of the Flies
Gabe
|
$1,600
[29]
If I consider you a tovarich, I think of you as one of these, so come closer
a friend
Lindsay
|
|
$2,000
[15]
This small West African country is wedged between Ghana & Benin
Togo
Gabe
|
$2,000
[6]
In the original series, Mr. Spock suggests this race, the bad guys in the 2009 movie, is an offshoot of his Vulcan race
the Romulans
Rachel
|
$2,000
[20]
From the Greek for "growing in", it studies the development of organisms in their earliest stages before birth
embryology
Lindsay
|
$2,000
[25]
Back to the drugstore--grandma forgot her vacation photos from Pike County in these NE Pennsylvania mts.
the Poconos
Rachel
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
Edmund Dantes is unjustly accused of aiding the exiled Napoleon & imprisoned for life in this novel
The Count of Monte Cristo
Rachel
|
$2,000
[30]
It's the Soviet-era system of forced labor camps
gulags
Gabe
|
This peninsula was divided when Japan surrendered to the U.S. below the 38th parallel & to the Soviet Union north of it
the Korean Peninsula