2011 Kids Week game 1.
Charlotte Scott — a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
Aria Gerson — an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
Graham Doskoch — a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graham | $5,000 | $4,600 | $21,800 |
$21,800
Winner: $21,800 |
$21,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Aria | $1,400 | $1,000 | $9,800 |
$6,401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,800
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Charlotte | $400 | $1,200 | $3,200 |
$1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,400
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| CLASSIC KIDS' POEMS | NAME THE SPORT | TWEETS | THE ONE & ONLY | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD |
|
$200
[6]
Longfellow: "there was a little girl, who had a little" this, "right in the middle of her forehead
a curl
Charlotte
|
$200
[1]
One team member runs post patterns & buttonhooks
football
|
$200
[26]
You may recognize this bird as a cartoon...here's one of the 175 species in real life
a woodpecker
Aria
Charlotte
|
$200
[8]
It's the only mammal that can fly
a bat
Aria
|
$200
[16]
Sharing its name with a garment, it's a piece of land that juts into a body of water, like the one of Good Hope
Cape
Graham
|
$200
[21]
"Easy as" this, be it farmhouse raisin or double berry icebox
pie
Graham
|
|
$400
[7]
Charles Kingsley: "And round the world away; young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog his"
every dog his day
Graham
Charlotte
|
$400
[2]
Complete requirements: wall, fist, rubber sphere
handball
Graham
|
— |
$400
[9]
It's the only one of the Great Lakes to lie entirely within the United States
Lake Michigan
Aria
|
$400
[17]
Arabia is the world's largest one of these pieces of land nearly surrounded by water
a peninsula
Charlotte
|
$400
[22]
When you "spill" these, tell us if they are Jacob's cattle or moth types
beans
Aria
|
|
$600
[13]
T.S. Eliot: "Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw--for he's the master criminal who can defy" this
the law
Graham
|
$600
[3]
As Landon Donovan knows, using hands is a no-no for the majority of the players
soccer
Charlotte
|
— |
$600
[10]
It remains the only Communist country in the Americas
Cuba
|
$600
[18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) After noticing theareawhere the Nile River drains into the Mediterranean resembles a Greek letter, Herodotus was the first to use this term for the deposit of mud & sand at the mouth of a river
a delta
Aria
|
$600
[23]
"Cool as a" this; the English variety can grow up to 2 feet long
a cucumber
Charlotte
|
|
$800
[14]
Ogden Nash: "A child need not be very clever / To learn that 'Later, dear' means" this
Never
Graham
|
$800
[4]
Depending on the distance, field goals can be worth 2 or 3 points
basketball
Graham
|
— |
$800
[11]
With its last notable eruption in 1944 (nothing like 79 A.D.). it's the only active volcano on the European mainland
Vesuvius
Aria
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
It's the 2-word term for the Rocky Mountain ridge that separates rivers flowing east & west
the Continental Divide
Aria
|
$800
[24]
"Life is just a bowl of" these; one sour type is the dark mahogany red morello
cherries
Graham
Aria
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Robert Louis Stevenson: "A child should always say what's true / And speak when he is" this
spoken to
|
$1,000
[5]
Teams of 6 each hit the ball back & forth over a high net
volleyball
Graham
|
— |
$1,000
[12]
Forget Pluto--this farthest planet from the sun is the only planet that can't be seen without a telescope
Neptune
Graham
|
$1,000
[20]
From a French word meaning "mound", it's a steep-sided, flat-topped hill like the one seenherein Wyoming
a butte
Graham
Aria
|
$1,000
[25]
"The proof is in" this, which can be thickened with anything from eggs to cornstarch to flour
the pudding
Graham
|
| THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | WHATCHA WATCHIN'? | GO FIGURE | IN THE DICTIONARY | REALLY BIG COUNTRIES | IT'S A SMALL WORLD |
|
$400
[1]
In April 1778 this American naval hero attempted to kidnap the Earl of Selkirk; it didn't work--the earl wasn't home
John Paul Jones
Aria
|
$400
[18]
This "Big Red dog" on PBS
Clifford
Graham
|
$400
[6]
55 + 25 - 5
75
Graham
|
$400
[11]
It's the flag of an army or a country, not just a star-spangled one
a banner
Graham
|
$400
[16]
Nearly twice as large as Canada, it covers 11% of the Earth's land surface
Russia
Graham
|
$400
[24]
It's the smallest unit into which matter can be divided & still keep the properties of an element
an atom
Charlotte
|
|
DD
$400
[4]
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 extended the border of the U.S. west to this river
the Mississippi
Charlotte
|
$800
[22]
This "so random!" Disney series starring Demi Lovato
Sonny with a Chance
Charlotte
|
$800
[7]
5 + 6 - 16
-5
Aria
|
$800
[12]
A thesaurus lists antonyms & these, just the opposite
synonyms
Graham
|
$800
[17]
Laos, Nepal & North Korea are among the 14 nations that border it
China
Aria
|
$800
[27]
The unit of length called the angstrom is equal to one 10 billionth of one of these units that's a bit more than a yard
a meter
Graham
|
|
$800
[2]
To save ammunition during this 1775 battle, Patriots were ordered, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
Bunker Hill
Aria
|
$1,200
[23]
Zack & Cody & friends on this series set on board the S.S. Tipton
The Suite Life On Deck
Graham
|
$1,200
[8]
3 x 7 x 11
231
Aria
|
$1,600
[14]
The name of this type of teeny tiny blood vessel comes from the Latin for "pertaining to hair"
capillary
Graham
|
$1,200
[19]
The people of this country, home to the world's largest tropical rain forest, speak Portuguese
Brazil
Aria
|
$1,200
[28]
This smallest recognized dog breed may derive from another tiny animal, the fennec fox
a chihuahua
Charlotte
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In February 1778 Baron Friedrich von Steuben arrived at this Pennsylvania site to train the Continental Army
Valley Forge
Charlotte
|
$1,600
[25]
Reruns of this sitcom with John Stamos as uncle Jesse & the very young Olsen twins as Michelle Tanner
Full House
Aria
|
$1,600
[9]
325÷5÷5
13
Graham
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
A deep red color: as a verb, it means "to abandon on an island"
maroon
Graham
|
$1,600
[20]
This country's highest point, Mount Kosciuszko, lies in the state of New South Wales
Australia
Graham
Aria
|
$1,600
[29]
Discovered in a swamp in 2006, a new species of this is less than a third of an inch long, fins & all
a fish
Aria
|
|
$2,000
[5]
This Connecticut native was a general in both the American & British armies during the war
Benedict Arnold
Graham
|
$2,000
[26]
"Cats 101" followed by "Whale Wars" on this Discovery cable channel
Animal Planet
Aria
Charlotte
|
$2,000
[10]
1/3 + 1/4
7/12
Graham
|
$2,000
[15]
These segmented sensory appendages on the heads of insects are thought to be touch & smell receptors
antennae
Graham
|
$2,000
[21]
The territory of this largest U.N. member country situated only on islands includes Bali & the Molucca islands
Indonesia
Aria
|
$2,000
[30]
Guinness says the smallest footprint made by one of these, back in the Jurassic period, is just .7 inches long
a dinosaur
Aria
|
Introduced in 1963, this internationally known character wears a size 29EEE shoe
Ronald McDonald