Show #6539 2013-02-07 (taped 2012-11-20) Teen Tournament

2013 Teen Tournament semifinal game 2.First tournament semifinal with no winner.

Contestants

Tori Amos — a sophomore from Englewood, Ohio

Joe Vertnik — a senior from Mound, Minnesota

Kelton Ellis — a junior from Macon, Georgia

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kelton $3,800 $3,400 $16,400 $0
$10,000
$12,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Joe $1,000 $7,200 $12,000 $0
$10,000
$12,000
18 R, 1 W
Tori $1,200 $2,800 $1,600 $0
$10,000
$4,000
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PIZZA-PALOOZA RELIGIONS MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES ACADEMIC ANAGRAMS YOUR FRIENDS, THE POLICE "A" "P" HISTORY
$200 [11]
While other cheeses can be used as the base for pizza, this one is the most popular in America
mozzarella
Kelton
$200 [1]
Shiite & Sunni are the 2 major branches of this religion
Islam
Kelton
$200 [24]
The Jaguars
Jacksonville
Joe
$200 [29]
It pays for some college tuition:CLIP SO HARSH
scholarship
Kelton
$200 [30]
If you're pulled over, one thing the officer will ask for is this, because he'd kind of like to know who owns the car
registration
Tori
$200 [6]
The people of this empire called themselves the Mexica or Tenochca
Aztecs
Tori
$400 [12]
In Japan favorite pizza toppings include unagi, this snakelike fish
eel
Joe
$400 [2]
In the 180s B.C. the orgiastic worship of this wine god was suppressed by the Roman Senate
Bacchus (or Dionysus)
Kelton
$400 [25]
The Blue Jays
Toronto
Joe
$400 [20]
Mom's bumper sticker says you're one:END TRUTH SOON
honor student
Joe
$400 [16]
You saw the sign, seen here; you disobeyed; you deserve to be cited for this
jaywalking
Tori
$400 [10]
On converting to Christianity, this daughter of Powhatan took the name Rebecca
Pocahontas
Kelton
$600 [13]
Hold the cheese & pepperoni! This chain also offers chicken wings for delivery from its Wing Street menu
Pizza Hut
Joe Tori
$600 [3]
The Talmud is a collection of writings on the laws of this religion
Judaism
Kelton
$600 [26]
The Kings (2 cities, please)
Los Angeles and Sacramento
Joe
$600 [21]
It may be just for the summer &, sadly, unpaid:RENT HIS PIN
internship
Kelton Joe
$600 [17]
The police had to break up your party because it was exceeding the legal noise limit of 50 of these units
decibels
Joe
$600 [7]
At age 20 he became king of Macedonia; by 32, his empire stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India
Alexander the Great
Tori
$800 [14]
In the 1940s Chicago's Pizzeria Uno originated this thick, hyphenated style of pizza
deep-dish
Joe
$800 [4]
The Assemblies of God is the USA's top denomination in this movement associated with speaking in tongues
Pentecostal
Kelton Joe
$800 [27]
The Grizzlies
Memphis
Joe
$800 [22]
Earn one of these & get 3 letters after your name:OCTET ROAD
doctorate
Joe
$800 [18]
If a city in crisis has a "dusk to dawn" one of these, the cops will make sure you obey it
curfew
Joe
$800 [8]
Byblos, from which we got the word "Bible", was one of the foremost cities of these ancient seafaring people
the Phoenicians
Kelton
$1,000 [15]
Now a frozen brand, it was introduced at a Wisconsin tavern across from a cemetery
Tombstone
Tori
DD $1,000 [5]
Members of this Indian religion are expected to join the Khalsa order & are not allowed to cut their hair
Sikhism
Kelton
$1,000 [28]
The Fire
Chicago
Joe
$1,000 [23]
Upcoming happy event:GAIT AROUND
graduation
$1,000 [19]
Abducted kids up to age 17 can be the subject of this type of alert named after a victim
AMBER Alert
Tori
$1,000 [9]
In ancient Rome the 2 main social classes were the aristocratic patricians & these common citizens
the plebeians
Kelton

Double Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LITERATURE THE VOICE... SKIP IT BIOLOGY COUNTRY FACTS CROSSWORD CLUES "E"
$400 [8]
In chapter 16 of this novel, Friday's father is rescued from cannibals
Robinson Crusoe
Tori
$400 [27]
That sang the 2012 hit "Die Young"
Ke$ha
Joe
$400 [29]
When you get a scare, you might say "my heart skipped" one of these
a beat
Joe
$400 [20]
In lactation, milk is produced; in lacrimation, these are produced
tears
Kelton
$400 [19]
Island groups belonging to this nation include the Antipodes, the Bounty Islands & the Auckland Islands
New Zealand
Kelton
$400 [22]
Enthusiastic, fervent (5)
eager
Tori
$1,200 [1]
She took part of her pen name from her friend, journalist George Henry Lewes
George Eliot
Kelton
$800 [28]
Behind the album (look carefully) "Mr. A-Z"
Jason Mraz
Joe
$800 [30]
It's money an accused criminal puts up to make sure he'll show up for trial; if he skips it, bye-bye money
bail
Tori
$1,200 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew takes a sponge out of a microwave oven.) Your microwave can be a weapon in the fight against germs; zapping a wet sponge in the microwave for 2 minutes should remove 99% of these organisms, like E. coli
bacteria
Kelton
$800 [18]
Go as far east as you can in South Africa & you'll wade into this ocean
Indian Ocean
Tori
$800 [23]
A crude representation made for hanging (6)
an effigy
Kelton
$1,600 [2]
Ralph Allen, a rich philanthropist, was the inspiration for Squire Alworthy in this author's "Tom Jones"
(Henry) Fielding
Tori
$1,200 [4]
Of this singer is heard here
Adam Levine
Tori
$1,200 [12]
If you skip a curling team, it means you're the captain & must be good at keeping your balance on this surface
ice
Joe
$1,600 [13]
For a giraffe, this, the period of pregnancy, is about 15 months
gestation
Kelton
$1,200 [15]
Muslims make up the largest religious group of this nation once part of Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Kelton
$1,200 [24]
Having keen vision (5-4)
eagle-eyed
$2,000 [3]
In "Kidnapped", this young boy discovers that his uncle Ebenezer has cheated him out of his inheritance
David Balfour
Tori
$1,600 [5]
Doing her own singing as young Juliette on TV's "Nashville"
Hayden Panettiere
Tori
$1,600 [11]
It means getting bumped up in army rank or school grade; if you skip a grade, you get a double one
promotion
Kelton
$2,000 [14]
Most of the water absorbed by a plant is given off by the leaves via this 13-letter process
transpiration
Kelton Tori
$1,600 [16]
It's the largest fruit export for Honduras
bananas
Kelton
$1,600 [25]
To make abnormally thin (8)
emaciate
Kelton Tori
DD $2,400 [9]
In this futuristic but not Orwellian novel, Mustapha Mond was called "the Resident Controller for Western Europe"
Brave New World
Tori
$2,000 [6]
That duetted with fellow country star Kenny Chesney on "Feel Like a Rock Star"
Tim McGraw
$2,000 [10]
Like moths, skippers belong to this order of insects
Lepidoptera
Kelton
DD $5,000 [21]
Normally, when the glucose level in the blood is high, the pancreas secretes this hormone to lower it
insulin
Kelton
$2,000 [17]
Decade in which North Korea invaded South Korea
1950s
Kelton
$2,000 [26]
White species of heron (5)
egret
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

CAPITAL CITIES

It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods

Belfast

Tori "What is Dublin" — wagered $1,600
Joe "What is Dublin?" — wagered $12,000
Kelton "What is Dublin?" — wagered $16,400

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