2014 Teen Tournament semifinal game 2.
Selena Groh — a junior from Arlington Heights, Illinois
Cooper Lair — a sophomore from Little Rock, Arkansas
Joe Taglic — a senior from Valley Stream, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe | $3,800 | $4,800 | $21,800 |
$37,595
2nd place: $10,000 |
$19,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Cooper | $4,400 | $10,200 | $23,200 |
$44,200
Finalist |
$17,800
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Selena | $800 | $1,800 | $3,000 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$3,000
6 R, 2 W |
| COMPUTER STUFF | "MAC" OR "P.C." | OLD TESTAMENT HEROES | COMPLETE THE LYRIC | TEEN CHOICE | AT THE GEORGIA AQUARIUM |
|
$200
[26]
A class in school, or a record of where you've gone in a web browser
history
Selena
|
$200
[6]
"Holy" this fish whose king species may lay several million eggs during spawning season
a mackerel
Cooper
|
$200
[5]
This prophet "prayed unto the Lord his god out of the fish's belly"
Jonah
Cooper
|
$200
[11]
Demi Lovato:"'Cause our love was made, made in the ____"
"U.S.A."
|
$200
[17]
Age mentioned in the 26th Amendment
18
Cooper
|
$200
[21]
(Sarah, start us off.) Hundreds of individual whale sharks have been identified due to their unique pattern of spots, which act like these oldest human biometrics, used since the 1880s
fingerprints
|
|
$400
[24]
A single processor sharing multiple jobs is doing this, like when Mom tries to drive & put on makeup
multitasking
Joe
|
$400
[7]
This vehicle is also called a "black & white"
a police cruiser
Cooper
|
$400
[4]
When he came to present the Israelites with the tablets of the law, they were dancing around a golden calf
Moses
Cooper
|
$400
[12]
Of Monsters & Men: "There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back /Tell her that I miss our ____ ____"
"little talks"
Joe
|
$400
[18]
Number of nights in a fortnight
14
Cooper
|
$400
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Georgia Aquarium.) The manta ray is generally harmless to humans, despite weighing up to 2 tons and having more than 300 rows of teeth, but because their cephalic lobes look like horns, they're known by this satanic name
devil rays
Joe
|
|
$600
[27]
Before a game's release, Joe Gamer may be asked to play a pre-version usually referred to by this Greek letter
beta
Joe
|
$600
[8]
American World War II general who was known as the "Napoleon of Luzon"
Douglas MacArthur
Cooper
|
$800
[1]
"When the Queen of Sheba heard of" his fame, "she came to prove him with hard questions"
Solomon
Cooper
|
$600
[14]
Bruno Mars: "Treasure, that is what you are, Honey, you're my ____ ____"
golden star
Joe
|
$600
[19]
The first point of a tennis game
15
Joe
Cooper
|
$600
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Georgia Aquarium.) Sea otters have up to a million hairs of fur per square inch, important, as they don't rely on this as an insulator, unlike a sperm whale
blubber
Joe
Cooper
|
|
$800
[28]
You may have worked with a newfangled cash register called a POS terminal, the POS standing for this
point of sale
Joe
|
$800
[9]
This Seattle mastermind is one of the three coaches to win a college national championship and a Super Bowl
Pete Carroll
Cooper
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
When presented with this son's bloodstained coat, Jacob assumed that "an evil beast hath devoured him"
Joseph
Joe
|
$800
[15]
fun.:"This is it boys, This is ____--What are we waiting for?"
"war"
Joe
|
$800
[13]
It's the title of Adele's debut album
19
Selena
|
$800
[23]
(Sarah, of the Clue Crew reports from the Georgia Aquarium.) Able to turn their heads up, down, & side to side, belugas can more easily catch prey as a result of these not being fused in their necks
vertebrae
Selena
|
|
$1,000
[25]
imgur.com has a button to make this four-letter cultural reference that often spreads online
a meme
Cooper
|
$1,000
[10]
Latin phrase meaning "for each person", as in "Americans eat 85 pounds of chicken..."
per capita
Cooper
|
$1,000
[2]
When a chariot of fire appeared, this prophet went up into heaven
Elijah
Joe
|
$1,000
[16]
Paramore:"Yeah, after all this time I'm still ____ ____"
"into you"
Cooper
|
$1,000
[20]
In Italy, it's considered unlucky; fear of it is sometimes called heptakaidekaphobia
17
Cooper
|
$1,000
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Georgia Aquarium.) Bottlenose dolphins can make up to 1,000 clicks per second during this process that bounces sound waves off targets
echolocation
Cooper
|
| TEENS RULE | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS | POETS & POETRY | SOUTH AMERICA | CROSSWORD CLUES "Q" |
|
$400
[27]
She was just 18 when she became queen consort of France in 1774
Marie Antoinette
Cooper
|
$400
[30]
A comic arc subtitled "God Loves, Man Kills" was the partial basis for this supergroup's "United" movie
the X-Men
Selena
|
$400
[29]
The proverbially soft or vulnerable part of the body exposed here
the underbelly
Cooper
|
$400
[28]
The first stanza of this poem mentions "Some visitor... tapping at my chamber door--only this and nothing more"
"The Raven"
Cooper
|
$400
[9]
This country's Ponta do Seixas is South America's easternmost point
Brazil
Cooper
|
$400
[21]
William Penn's religion(6)
Quaker
Joe
Cooper
|
|
$800
[1]
Evidence suggests that this boy king had malaria, perhaps why he died around age 18
King Tutankhamen
Joe
|
$800
[18]
He bested the 7 evil exes to win Ramona's heart on page & screen
Scott Pilgrim
Joe
|
$800
[23]
A verb meaning to transform from liquid to gas
evaporate
Joe
|
$1,200
[22]
"The Weary Blues" was the first volume of poetry by this leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Selena
|
$800
[10]
Ecuador is the primary source for this light wood used to make model airplanes
balsa
Joe
|
$800
[7]
To satisfy one's thirst(6)
quench
Joe
|
|
$1,600
[3]
This queen of Scots was briefly the queen consort of France--until she became a widow at 17
Mary, Queen of Scots
Joe
|
$1,200
[25]
In 2006 a graphic novel was created in order to boost interest in what would become this 2011 sci-fi western with Daniel Craig
Cowboys & Aliens
Joe
Cooper
|
$1,200
[6]
This word, the "S" in ASPCA, squeezes 4 syllables into just 7 letters
Society
Selena
|
$1,600
[19]
He began a famous poem, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself"
Walt Whitman
Joe
|
$1,200
[12]
The name of this country comes from the Latin for silver
Argentina
Cooper
|
$1,200
[15]
Little birdie seen here(5)
a quail
Selena
|
|
$2,000
[2]
Wudi, who became emperor around age 16, made this school of philosophy the state religion of China
Confucianism
Joe
|
$1,600
[5]
On film Chris Evans & Jeffrey Dean Morgan eschewed capes & masks in this movie based on a Vertigo mercenary team
The Losers
|
$1,600
[16]
This adjective means pertaining to the Earth
terrestrial
Joe
|
$2,000
[20]
This "Death Be Not Proud" poet was considered the greatest of England's metaphysical poets
John Donne
Selena
|
$1,600
[11]
Most of the precipitation that comes to this 600-mile-long desert is fog that blows in from the Pacific Ocean
the Atacama Desert
Cooper
|
$1,600
[8]
A sticky situation or boggy ground(8)
quagmire
Cooper
|
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
Juan II, a feeble teenage king of Castile in the 1420s, is best remembered as this queen's father
Isabella of Castile
Joe
|
$2,000
[24]
"Stardust" & "Coraline" are but 2 of this author's works that have made it as books, graphic novels & movies
Neil Gaiman
|
$2,000
[17]
Territory over which a court's authority is exercised
jurisdiction
Joe
|
DD
$6,200
[26]
Her poem No. 288 asks, "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you--Nobody--too?"
Emily Dickinson
Cooper
|
$2,000
[13]
This 1,700-mile-long Venezuelan river is home to piranhas, electric eels & 20-foot crocodiles
the Orinoco
Joe
Cooper
|
$2,000
[14]
Wharf(4)
a quay
Cooper
|
In Spanish & French, the word for Friday comes from Latin for "day of" this goddess
Venus