Show #6375 2012-05-11 (taped 2012-04-20) Teen Tournament

2012 Teen Tournament final game 2.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Contestants

Rose Schaefer — a junior from Portland, Oregon (subtotal of $12,400)

Catherine Briley — a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana (subtotal of $10,000)

Elyse Mancuso — a junior from Omaha, Nebraska (subtotal of $23,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elyse $800 $3,600 $28,400 $56,400 $25,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Catherine $4,400 $10,200 $15,400 $21,000 $12,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Rose $2,000 $5,400 $11,800 $23,600 $9,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MAY DAYS BEVERAGES I LOVE METAL HISTORICAL ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE 1, 2, 3, "GO"
$200 [26]
On May 30, 1536, just days after his wife Anne Boleyn was beheaded, he married Jane Seymour
Henry VIII
Elyse
$200 [3]
Trumoo is a brand of flavored this, like chocolate
milk
Rose
$200 [1]
Vitamin C helps increase your absorption of this element, Fe, so drink some OJ with your eggs & toast
iron
Elyse
$200 [13]
The miniseries "Generation Kill" followed Marines at war in this Mideast country
Iraq
Catherine
$200 [21]
With "prayers and blessings", he sent his first tweet in 2011, announcing the launch of an online Vatican news portal
Benedict XVI
Rose
$200 [8]
I knew you 3 were going to be terrific contestants right from this, the beginning
the get-go
Catherine
$400 [27]
On May 29, 1953, this New Zealander & his guide Tenzingbecame the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest
(Edmund) Hillary
Rose
$400 [4]
The "D" in the drink Sunny D stands for this
Delight
Rose
$400 [2]
A fusible metal is an alloy for which this point is lower than tin's, 449 degrees
the melting point
Catherine
$400 [14]
On "Boardwalk Empire", this scar-faced Chicago gangster learns his trade from kingpin Johnny Torrio
Al Capone
Rose
$400 [22]
In Feb. 2012 New Jersey's governor ordered flags be flown half-staff during the funeral of this Newark-born singer
Whitney Houston
Elyse
$400 [9]
An aircraft that carries mainly goods, not people, is this type of plane
cargo
Catherine
$600 [28]
In May of 1607 captain John Smith arrived at the Virginia site where he would help establish this settlement
Jamestown
Catherine
$600 [5]
The 2011 winner of "The X Factor" got to star in an ad for this soda
Pepsi
Catherine Rose
$600 [16]
This common reddish-orange metal is the second-best conductor of electricity
copper
Elyse
$600 [15]
In the film "Invictus" Morgan Freeman plays this world leader
Nelson Mandela
Elyse
$600 [23]
Kim Jong Un has succeeded his father as the leader of this country
North Korea
Catherine
$600 [10]
It's a synonym for "do without"
forgo
Catherine
$800 [30]
Partly to expand U.S. territory, Congress declared war on this country May 13, 1846
Mexico
Rose
$800 [6]
This bottled water from the French Alps has pictures of them on its pink label
Evian
Rose
$800 [17]
According to the name, they're the 2 elements in a Ni Cad battery
nickel and cadmium
Elyse Catherine
$1,000 [20]
In HBO's "John Adams" Justin Theroux played this president of the Continental Congress
John Hancock
Catherine
$800 [24]
On his 2011 passing Apple said, "The world is immeasurably better because of" him
Steve Jobs
Elyse
$800 [11]
The jargon of a profession, or any weird-sounding foreign tongue
lingo
Rose
$1,000 [29]
She made history May 4, 1979 when she became Britain's first female prime minister
Margaret Thatcher
Rose
$1,000 [7]
A frappuccino is a trademarked blended beverage from this place
Starbucks
Catherine
$1,000 [18]
Bell metal, known for its sound, is a type of this "age"-old alloy
bronze
Catherine
DD $3,400 [19]
"The King's Speech" featured Timothy Spall as this quippy future prime minister
Winston Churchill
Catherine
$1,000 [25]
Thisfashion designer created dresses worn in the movie "Bride Wars" and in the TV series "Gossip Girl".
Vera Wang
Rose
$1,000 [12]
We hope you are mature enough for the rhythms of this dance[Sexy Latin music plays]
tango
Catherine

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA RECENT OLYMPIC MEDALISTS "B" WHERE? HODGEPODGE LITERARY CHARACTERS ALSO A MUSICAL TERM
$400 [26]
In October 1781 this British general tried to retreat from Yorktown, but a storm drove his forces back
Cornwallis
Catherine
$400 [4]
In 2008 Mariel Zagunis won gold in sabre, part of this sport
fencing
Elyse
$400 [15]
We've come to Western Europe to see this country
Belgium
Catherine
$400 [13]
Able to run more than 40 miles per hour, this bird is the fastest animal on 2 legs
an ostrich
Elyse
$400 [2]
This captain in "Moby Dick" has a wife & child waiting for him in Nantucket
Ahab
Rose
$400 [1]
These 2 words denote the bigger & smaller of the 2 Ursa constellations
minor & major
Rose
$800 [27]
In 1859 tightrope walker Charles Blondin carried a man on his back as he walked a cable 160 feet above this landmark
Niagara Falls
Rose
$800 [12]
HeMcTwisted his way to gold in 2010
Shaun White
Rose
$800 [16]
Thisdensely-populated republic borders India
Bangladesh
Elyse
$800 [14]
This place in New York Harbor is home to the American Family Immigration History Center
Ellis Island
Catherine
$800 [3]
In "Breaking Dawn", she says, "I'm one hundred percent sure about Edward"
Bella
Catherine
$800 [5]
An organized social cause, like the Civil Rights one
a movement
Elyse Catherine
$1,600 [29]
The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga & Seneca made up this Confederacy
the Iroquois Confederacy
Elyse
$1,200 [21]
This host nation struck gold in 2010 when Alexandre Bilodeau won the men's Moguls in freestyle skiing
Canada
Catherine
$1,200 [17]
Country of Central America shown here
Belize
Catherine
$1,200 [20]
It's traditional for paratroopers to yell this name of an Apache warrior when jumping from a plane
Geronimo
Catherine
$1,200 [9]
In a Victor Hugo novel, things start going bad for this bellringer during Epiphany celebrations
Quasimodo
Elyse
$1,200 [6]
A type of model with the same proportions as the larger object it copies
scale
$2,000 [30]
In this 1797 "Affair", 3 French agents demanded a bribe in return for a commerce treaty
the XYZ Affair
Elyse
$1,600 [22]
Fittingly, this2008 winner of the 100-meter dash is nicknamed "Lightning"
Usain Bolt
Elyse
$1,600 [18]
Thisnation is only about 50 miles from Florida
the Bahamas
Elyse
$1,600 [24]
Peleg Wadsworth, a revolutionary war general & congressman, was the grandfather of this poet
Longfellow
Elyse
$1,600 [10]
Emma is the first name of this bored & adulterous 1856 French title character
Madame Bovary
$2,000 [8]
Geometrically, it's a line segment that joins 2 points on a curve
a chord
Elyse Catherine
DD $4,000 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri.) St. Louis's Old Courthousewas the scene of 2 trials involving this slave; he won his freedom in the second trial, but the Supreme Court held otherwise, helping spark the Civil War
Dred Scott
Rose
$2,000 [23]
In 2010 Tora Berger won gold for Norway in this event that combines skiing & rifle shooting
a biathlon
Elyse
$2,000 [19]
Visit Siberia to take a dip in this lake
Lake Baikal
Elyse
$2,000 [25]
This fairy brought a little magic into Pinocchio's life
the Blue Fairy
Elyse
$2,000 [11]
When we first meet her, she's living in a house called Villa Villekulla with her monkey Mr. Nilsson & her horse
Pippi Longstocking
Catherine
DD $4,800 [7]
This adjective can mean "very useful" or "performed without vocals"
instrumental
Elyse

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President

Thomas Jefferson

Rose "Who isTaylorJefferson?" — wagered $11,800
Catherine "Who was Thomas Jefferson" — wagered $5,600
Elyse "Who is Jefferson?" — wagered $28,000

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