2003 Back to School Week game 5.
Josh Woo — an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from River Ridge, Louisiana
Becca Portman — a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Deerwood, Maryland
Matt Bischoff — a twelve-year-old seventh-grader from Sicklerville, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $200 | $600 | $3,400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate |
$3,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| Becca | $1,000 | $2,400 | $11,200 |
$22,399
Winner: $22,399 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate |
$11,200
14 R, 1 W |
| Josh | $600 | $2,600 | $12,200 |
$11,799
2nd place: $2,000 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate |
$13,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| CLASSIC LITERATURE | HILARY DUFF STUFF | DINOSAURS | TRICKY QUESTIONS | YUM YUM! | "T" TIME |
|
$200
[3]
The horseman that terrorized Sleepy Hollow was this, not legless or armless
headless
Josh
|
$200
[1]
Hilary hit No. 1 with her hit "I Can't Wait" on this kids' radio network
Radio Disney
Becca
|
$200
[21]
This dinosaur "king" could run as fast as 25 MPH & recent evidence suggests it was warm-blooded
the Tyrannosaurus rex
Becca
|
$200
[14]
If you start with 30 marbles & lose all but 7 in a game, this is how many you have left
7
Matt
|
$200
[4]
Inspired by the Harry Potter books, these beans come in odd flavors like grass, sardine & earwax
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
Josh
|
$200
[5]
If you prefer a Butterfinger to a brisket you have a "sweet" one
a sweet tooth
Josh
|
|
$400
[18]
This character concocted the potion that created Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll
Matt
|
$400
[2]
On a Disney Channel series Hilary was occasionally very animated as this title character
Lizzie McGuire
Matt
|
DD
$400
[24]
This dinosaur of the late Cretaceous Period had 2 brow horns & one nose horn, as its name indicates
the Triceratops
Josh
|
$400
[15]
It's the technical reason you can't take a photograph of a man with a wooden leg
a wooden leg won't take a photograph
Matt
|
$400
[10]
Introduced in 2002, Slimy Ghoul is a glow-in-the-dark dispenser for this 3-letter candy
Pez
Matt
|
$400
[6]
When you're throwing a tantrum, it means you've lost this
your temper
Becca
|
|
$600
[22]
Another name for a mirror; Alice went "through" one
looking-glass
|
$600
[16]
In this 2003 film the assignment of a CIA spy Frankie Muniz is to get close to Hilary Duff
Agent Cody Banks
Becca
|
$600
[26]
One theory says the triangular plates on its back helped control body temperature; another says they attracted mates
the Stegosaurus
Becca
|
$600
[20]
Good students will know that this word is the one word that is mispelled in this question
misspelled
Josh
|
$600
[11]
York introduced these yummy "patties" in 1940, but they weren't distributed nationally until 1975
peppermint patties
Matt
|
$600
[7]
A witness is asked to tell this, the whole this & nothing but this
the truth
Becca
|
|
$800
[23]
After picking up his book "Moby Dick", you might be relieved to know he wrote short stories too
Herman Melville
Josh
|
$800
[17]
In 1998 Hilary played this young witch who meets Casper the Friendly Ghost
Wendy
|
$800
[27]
Made famous by "Jurassic Park", this 6-foot-long "swift robber" had a "killing claw" on each foot
a Velociraptor
Matt
|
$800
[25]
Number of F's in this flimsy formulation of a question
5
Matt
Josh
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$800
[12]
H.B. Reese made Johnny Bars & Lizzie Bars before coming up with these famous "Cups" in the 1930s
Peanut Butter Cups
Matt
|
$800
[8]
A pointer called a yad, Hebrew for "hand", is used when reading from this in synagogue
the Torah
Matt
Becca
|
|
$1,000
[29]
This character's squire was Sancho Panza
Don Quixote
Matt
|
$1,000
[19]
Hilary and this young rapper duetted on the song "Tell Me A Story"
Lil' Romeo
Josh
|
— |
$1,000
[28]
Minimum number of ducks required to have a line in which 1 duck is behind 2, 1 in front of 2 & 1 in the middle
3
Matt
|
$1,000
[13]
Pop Rocks pop in your mouth because they contain bubbles of this gas
carbon dioxide
|
$1,000
[9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew throws a crumpled up piece of paper into a wastepaper basket.) From the Latin for "to throw across", this path has to be very precise to make a basket
a trajectory
Matt
Becca
|
| LOUISIANA | SLOW-POURRI | FORMER WORLD LEADERS | PATRIOTIC SONG TITLES | MEDICINES | ENDS IN "OO" |
|
$400
[3]
In New Orleans you can jazz things up aboard the steamboat Natchez for a jazz cruise along this river
the Mississippi
Becca
|
$400
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shakes her head at a digitally reduced speed.) It's the two-word name for the special effect seen here
slow motion
Matt
|
$400
[13]
Former prime ministers of this country include Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath & John Major
England
Josh
|
$400
[8]
"What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming"
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Josh
|
$400
[10]
Motrin works to bring down this, which is simply an above-normal body temperature
fever
Josh
|
$400
[1]
In 1738 Franz Ketterer created the first one of these clocks that chirp the time
a cuckoo clock
Matt
|
|
$800
[4]
450 feet tall with 34 floors, the Capitol building in this Louisiana city is the tallest state Capitol
Baton Rouge
Becca
|
$800
[17]
In a fable, this animal tells the hare, "you are much faster than I, but... slow and steady wins the race"
the tortoise
Josh
|
$800
[14]
Indira Gandhi was the first & only female prime minister so far of this Asian nation
India
Josh
|
$800
[9]
"Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy"
"Yankee Doodle"
Josh
|
$800
[15]
A 2002 study found that eye drops treat "lazy eye" just as well as this item from a pirate costume
a(n) (eye) patch
Becca
|
$800
[2]
From an Inuit word for "house", this house is made from blocks of hard-packed snow
igloo
Josh
|
|
DD
$800
[18]
During the 1800s the growing of sugar & this fiber became big business in Louisiana
cotton
Josh
|
$1,200
[22]
In 1997 Dr. Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize for slowing down atoms using one of these amplified light beams
a laser
Matt
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$1,200
[21]
The first 3 emperors of this ancient empire were Augustus, Tiberius & Caligula
the Roman Empire
Josh
|
$1,200
[19]
"O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..."
"America The Beautiful"
Josh
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$1,200
[16]
81 milligrams is the standard children's dose of this popular pain-relieving drug made by Bayer
aspirin
Josh
|
$1,200
[5]
Capt. James Cook introduced this word to English speakers after he saw skin designs on Polynesian natives
tattoo
Becca
|
|
$1,200
[12]
During Carnival season, nearly a million visitors attend this Shrove Tuesday celebration in New Orleans
Mardi Gras
Matt
Josh
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
When called by God to lead the Israelites in Exodus, he says, "but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue"
Moses
Matt
|
$1,600
[25]
From 1953 until 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was the powerful leader of this large nation
Russia
Josh
|
$1,600
[20]
"From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam..."
"God Bless America"
Josh
|
$1,600
[27]
Boiron's Chestal Honey Base is a type of this liquid, & also soothes the throat
a cough syrup
|
$1,600
[6]
In many Asian countries, the shoots of this very tall grass are eaten as a vegetable
bamboo
Becca
|
|
$2,000
[26]
Louisiana was included in that famous purchase bought from this Frenchman in 1803
Napoleon
Josh
|
$2,000
[24]
The name of this slow-moving mammal seenherecomes from an Old English word for "slow"
the sloth
Becca
|
— |
$2,000
[28]
"Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring"
"America"
Matt
|
— |
$2,000
[7]
Its website has been called the first large-scale directory of the Internet
Yahoo!
Matt
Becca
|
Spud & Yam are 2 of the offspring of this toy introduced in 1952
Mr. Potato Head