Show #1953 1993-02-17 (taped 1993-01-04) Teen Tournament

1993 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Jesse Roach — a senior from Aiken, South Carolina

Colin Rafferty — a junior from Fairway, Kansas

Becky Pawlowski — a sophomore from Springfield, Missouri

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Becky $300 $1,600 $5,300 $7,500
3rd place: $1,000 if not wild card semifinalist
$7,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Colin $1,400 $2,100 $7,100 $9,000
2nd place: $1,000 if not wild card semifinalist
$7,100
16 R, 1 W
Jesse $1,500 $3,300 $8,300 $12,000
Automatic semifinalist
$8,100
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

KENTUCKY COMIC BOOKS HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES LIEUTENANTS SINGERS ANIMAL VERBS
$100 [16]
The State General Assembly consists of a House of Reps. with 100 members & one of these with 38
Senate
Becky
$100 [2]
Archie Comics is proud to announce all of its interior pages are made out of this
recycled paper
Colin
$100 [1]
Started in the U.S. by Mrs. Dodd of Spokane, Wash., it's the third Sunday in June
Father's Day
Colin
$100 [26]
On April 27, 1789 Lt. William Bligh was in command of this 215-ton ship; the next day, a 23-foot boat
the Bounty
Jesse
$100 [7]
Her detractors crushed a big pile of her music with a steamroller after she tore up a picture of the Pope
Sinead O'Connor
Jesse
$100 [11]
Tease the hair to make it look thicker
rat
Becky
$200 [18]
In 1955, many years before the nation followed suit, Kentucky lowered the voting age to this
18
Becky
$200 [3]
Among the wealthy characters with their own comics are Richie Rich & this relative of Donald Duck
(Uncle) Scrooge McDuck
Jesse
$200 [9]
A dab of ash seen on the foreheads of Christians lets you know this 40-day season has begun
Lent
Jesse
$200 [27]
A second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps Reserve, his May 1927 flight to Paris made him famous
Charles Lindbergh
Jesse
$200 [8]
Her parents were half of The Mamas & The Papas & she's one-third of Wilson Phillips
Chynna Phillips
Becky
$200 [22]
Flutter your eyelashes
bat
Becky
$300 [19]
Between 1980 & 1990, this largest city in the state lost almost 10% of its population
Louisville
Becky
$400 [5]
Youngblood's creator, artist Rob Liefeld, appeared in TV commercials for these items of apparel
Levi's jeans
Colin
$300 [10]
Some states combine this January federal holiday with Robert E. Lee Day
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
Colin
$300 [28]
In 1805 he named the wrong lake as the source of the Mississippi; his fame later "peaked" in Colorado
(Zebulon) Pike
Colin
$300 [14]
The singers known as Rob and Fab used to perform under this name, but they had to give that back, too
Milli Vanilli
Jesse
$300 [23]
Hold up or support the weight of something
bear
Jesse
$400 [20]
By the 1890s this had overtaken hemp as the state's leading crop
tobacco
Colin
DD $500 [4]
Hero whose December 1992 funeral is seen here:
Superman
Jesse
$400 [12]
In the U.S. October 9, 1977 was dedicated to this (as the proclamation put it) Norse person
Leif Erikson
$400 [29]
William Clark of Lewis & Clark served as a lieutenant under this "Mad" general
Anthony Wayne
Colin
$400 [15]
Luciano Pavarotti angered the BBC by doing this in a 1992 concert; he should have consulted with Rob & Fab
lip-synching
Colin
$400 [24]
Take more than one's share of the road
hog
Jesse
$500 [21]
Kentucky is 1 of 4 members of the union officially designated this, rather than a state
commonwealth
Jesse
$500 [6]
This Marvel super force is described in one of their titles as "Uncanny"
the X-Men
Colin
$500 [13]
The January 25 birthday of this poet has become a folk holiday for the Scots
Robert Burns
Jesse
$500 [30]
In 1842 Kit Carson met this second lieutenant & joined him in mapping & pathfinding
John C. Fremont
$500 [17]
Harry Connick, Jr. was a little boy when his father defeated Jim Garrison & became D.A. of this Louisiana city
New Orleans
Becky
$500 [25]
Gloat, boast or exult over
crow

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS INVENTORS & INVENTIONS WORLD GEOGRAPHY MODERN AUTHORS ASTRONOMY TEENS IN HISTORY
$200 [1]
This ancestral home of George Washington was named for a British admiral under whom his half-brother served
Mount Vernon
Jesse
$200 [6]
In 1869 Hippolyte Mege-Mouries of France invented this butter substitute by using beef fat
margarine
Jesse
$200 [23]
This city was founded in A.D. 43 as the Roman town of Londinium
London
Colin
$200 [11]
He created Holden Caulfield, one of the most popular teenaged characters in literature
J.D. Salinger
Becky
$200 [19]
If you missed this comet in 1986, you'll have to wait until 2061 to see it
Halley's Comet
Becky
$200 [15]
He wasn't yet 20 when he died in the 1300s B.C.; he'd been pharaoh since he was 9 or 10
Tutankhamun
Colin
$400 [2]
As a first baseman for Yale in 1947 & 1948, he had a total of 1 home run
George (H.W.) Bush
Becky
$400 [7]
This early 20th C. invention by Willis Carrier helps you keep a cool head on hot summer nights
air conditioner
Becky
$400 [24]
Cape Hafun in this famine-stricken country is the easternmost point on the African mainland
Somalia
Becky
$400 [12]
This writer, born Judy Sussman, has written many books for teens, including "Forever..."
Judy Blume
Colin
$400 [22]
This planet's Great Red Spot is only half the size that it was at the turn of the century
Jupiter
Jesse
$400 [16]
When this 16-year-old graduated from Paris' Ecole Militaire in 1785, he ranked 42nd in a class of 58
Napoleon Bonaparte
Becky
$600 [3]
In 1962 Richard Nixon held his "last press conference" after losing a race for this California office
governor
Jesse
$600 [8]
With $1300, Stephen Wozniak & this partner formed the Apple Computer Company in 1976
Steve Jobs
Becky Jesse
$600 [25]
Most of Vienna lies on the right bank of this river, Europe's second longest
the Danube
Becky
$600 [13]
She published "In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women" in 1973, 10 years before she won a Pulitzer Prize
Alice Walker
Jesse
$600 [28]
A planet's albedo is the ratio of the amount of this reflected by it to that falling on it
light
Jesse
$600 [18]
As a 16-year-old in 1837, this British nurse heard God tell her she had a mission in life
Florence Nightingale
Colin
$800 [4]
In 1829 he abandoned regular cabinet meetings in favor of discussions with his "Kitchen Cabinet"
Andrew Jackson
Colin
$800 [9]
In 1858 Cyrus Field laid the 1st transatlantic cable from Ireland to this Canadian province
Newfoundland
Jesse
DD $700 [26]
Mount Erebus on Ross Island is the largest of this continent's active volcanoes
Antarctica
Becky
$800 [14]
Her original name was Howard Allen O'Brien, as the vampire Lestat could tell you
Anne Rice
Colin
$800 [29]
The star he observed & described in 1572 is still called Tycho's Star
Tycho Brahe
Becky
$800 [20]
The Black Prince was only 16 when he commanded part of his father's army in this really long war
the Hundred Years' War
Becky
$1,000 [5]
This president campaigned for reelection in 1900 using the slogan "The Full Dinner Pail"
William McKinley
Jesse
$1,000 [10]
In 1769 he patented a "Method of Lessening the Consumption of Steam & Fuel in Fire Engines"
James Watt
Colin Jesse
$1,000 [27]
Rising over 14,000 feet, this dangerous pyramid-shaped peak lies near the village of Zermatt, Switz.
the Matterhorn
Jesse
$1,000 [17]
Her 1990 novel "Plains of Passage" continues the prehistoric love story of Ayla & Jondalar
Jean Auel
Colin
$1,000 [30]
Areography is the study of the geography of this planet
Mars
Becky
DD $1,600 [21]
She was 19 when her half-sister Mary Tudor became queen of England in 1553
Elizabeth (the 1st)
Becky

Final Jeopardy!

IN THE NEWS

Tennessee governor Ned McWherter chose Harlan Mathews to fill this man's Senate seat until 1994

Al Gore

Becky "Who is Al Gore?" — wagered $2,200
Colin "Who is Gore?" — wagered $1,900
Jesse "Who is Gore" — wagered $3,700

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