2004 Teen Tournament semifinal game 3.
Courtney Bennis — a senior from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Matt Nordsten — a junior from Altadena, California
Oliver Sherouse — a junior from Montgomery, Alabama
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver | $3,000 | $5,000 | $13,400 |
$25,400
2nd place: $5,000 |
$13,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Matt | $-1,200 | $3,400 | $7,400 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Courtney | $1,400 | $5,400 | $17,600 |
$34,600
Finalist |
$16,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE... | ON THE SLOPES | ANNUAL EVENTS | NONPOTENT POTABLES | DINOSAURS | "B" PLUS |
|
$200
[17]
People went out & bought records; why, in 1956, this man sold 10 million singles, proving he was "The King"
Elvis (Presley)
Matt
|
$200
[4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Squaw Valley, California.) Some racers put the grip type of this on the middle part of the ski & the glide type on the front & back
the wax
Matt
|
$200
[1]
The Metropolis, Illinois festival honoring this fictional hero celebrated its 25th anniversary in June 2003
Superman
Oliver
|
$200
[12]
First bottled way back in 1826, its name is "naive" backwards
Evian
Matt
|
$200
[24]
Of geologist, paleontologist, or philologist, the one that most accurately describes a dinosaur scientist
a paleontologist
Courtney
|
$200
[3]
It can mean a spirited young man as well as the cutting part of a sword
a blade
Matt
|
|
$400
[18]
These devices, like the Univac, took up whole rooms
computers
Oliver
|
$400
[5]
In this sport, 90-meter and 120-meter hills refer to how far competitors go from takeoff to landing
ski jumping
Oliver
Matt
|
$400
[2]
During this city's Feast of the Redeemer, a parade of gondolas is held on its canals
Venice
Matt
Courtney
|
$400
[13]
You can get this beverage from llamas, reindeer, water buffalos & coconuts
milk
Oliver
|
$400
[25]
Some speculate that this "monster" of Scotland may be an aquatic dinosaur known as a Plesiosaur
the Loch Ness monster
Matt
|
$400
[8]
A U.S. Army brigade can be made up of a headquarters & 3 or more of these units
a battalion
|
|
$600
[20]
Baseball players didn't go on strike; they pulled off feats like this one by pitcher Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series
throwing a perfect game
Matt
|
$600
[23]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Colorado while skiing.) This type of skiing I'm doing gets its name from a Swiss mountain range
Alpine skiing
Oliver
|
$600
[6]
On March 26 this state celebrates Prince Kuhio Day to honor its first delegate to the U.S. Congress
Hawaii
Oliver
|
$600
[14]
The name of this orange pineapple soda sounds like it will refresh you in the desert
Cactus Cooler
Courtney
|
$600
[26]
This "roof lizard" famous for the triangular plates on its back had a brain the size of a ping pong ball
the Stegosaurus
Matt
|
$600
[9]
Some of the USA's first wells were dug for this salty water, perhaps for pickling purposes
brine
Oliver
|
|
$800
[21]
We didn't have SUVs, we had cars like this company's Edsel
Ford
Courtney
|
$800
[28]
The name of this bump on a slope can also refer to a rich businessman
a mogul
Matt
|
$800
[7]
A reenactment of the 1565 landing of Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles is an annual tradition in this Florida city
St. Augustine
Courtney
|
$800
[15]
This fruit juice drink is named for the fact it provides a full day's supply of a certain vitamin
Hi-C
Oliver
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
The Oviraptor dinosaur's name indicates that it is believed to have stolen these for food
eggs
Matt
|
$800
[10]
The cash or land someone left you in his will
a bequest
Courtney
|
|
$1,000
[22]
The Russians weren't sending tourists into space, they were sending this first manmade satellite to orbit the Earth
Sputnik
Courtney
|
$1,000
[29]
Eric Bergoust excels at aerial, a type of this form of skiing that includes a lot of stunts
freestyle
Matt
|
$1,000
[19]
A shooting contest tops the festivities at the Greenville, Ohio celebration of this female sharpshooter
Annie Oakley
Courtney
|
$1,000
[16]
A cardboard cutout of Shakira comes to life & tangos with a grocery clerk in a commercial for this soda
Pepsi
Courtney
|
$1,000
[30]
Dinosaurs lived in this era, from 225 to 65 million years ago, whose name means "middle life"
Mesozoic
Oliver
|
$1,000
[11]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew presents the clue from a race car at Indianapolis Speedway.) By increasing centrifugal force, a greater degree of this lets a car go faster in the turns; at Indy its 9 degrees, 12 minutes
banking
Matt
|
| BIOLOGY | WHO PLAYED 'EM? | WINTER READING | 21st CENTURY TRENDS | BEASTLY RHYME TIME | BALLET |
|
$400
[3]
In the 1940s a moldy cantaloupe in Peoria was found to yield a better strain of this drug than Dr. Fleming's
penicillin
Matt
|
$400
[4]
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Mike Myers
Matt
|
$400
[14]
Almanzo Wilder's trek for wheat saves the town of De Smet in "The Long Winter", part of this series
"Little House on the Prairie"
Courtney
|
$400
[21]
This type of phone now catching on as a cellular was introduced in clunkier form by AT&T in 1964
a picturephone
|
$400
[1]
An intellectually profound ewe
a deep sheep
Courtney
|
$800
[29]
3 ballerinas play this queen's tarts in Andrei Bossov's "Alice in Wonderland" ballet
the Queen of Hearts
Courtney
|
|
$800
[6]
In birds, the crop, a baglike swelling of this tube, is used to store food until there is room in the stomach
the esophagus
Courtney
|
$800
[5]
Aragorn (aka Strider), the heir to the throne of Gondor
Viggo Mortensen
Oliver
Matt
|
$800
[15]
In a Hans Christian Andersen tale, a little girl perishes trying to sell these on New Year's Eve
matches
Oliver
|
$800
[22]
Pacsun started as 1 store selling gear for this sport & has gotten hot along with it
surfing
Matt
|
$800
[2]
Something to serve a boa constrictor on his birthday
a snake cake
Oliver
|
$1,200
[27]
Maya Plisetskaya choreographed a ballet based on this Tolstoy novel & danced the title role herself
"Anna Karenina"
Oliver
|
|
$1,200
[10]
By definition, edentulous animals don't have these
teeth
Matt
|
$1,200
[9]
Storm, a mutant
Halle Berry
Matt
|
$1,200
[16]
T.S. Eliot's "Journey of" these 3 wise men says it was "the very dead of winter"
the Magi
Oliver
|
$1,200
[23]
This term applies to genetics, like Toyota's Prius, with both gasoline & electric power
a hybrid
Oliver
|
$1,200
[7]
An unfresh humpback
a stale whale
Courtney
|
$1,600
[26]
Ballet dancers must master this bending of the knees, which may be "grand" or "demi"
plié
Courtney
|
|
$1,600
[12]
The paramecium, a microscopic organism found in freshwater bodies, swims via these hairlike structures
ciliate
Courtney
|
$1,600
[11]
Elizabeth Swann, who is captured by pirates of the Caribbean
Keira Knightley
Matt
|
$1,600
[17]
In a Joyce story, snow is "falling faintly... upon all the living and" these title people
"the dead"
|
$1,600
[24]
What news channels use to provide extra info, or what the info does along the bottom of the screen
crawls
Courtney
|
$1,600
[8]
A goofy young female horse
a silly filly
Matt
|
$2,000
[28]
The official symbol of the New York City Ballet is this favorite musical instrument of the god Apollo
a lyre
Oliver
|
|
$2,000
[19]
This type of cell division takes place in 4 steps: prophase, metaphase, anaphase & telophase
mitosis
Matt
Courtney
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
Prison escapee Charlene Morton, who brings down the house
Queen Latifah
Courtney
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
Fitting name of the poet who wrote, "Winter when the bed might just be ice and the clothes snow"
Robert Frost
Oliver
|
$2,000
[25]
On March 15, 2003 the Dean campaign went online with the first official one of these for a presidential candidate
Weblog (or blog)
Matt
|
$2,000
[13]
Chirping insects' admission passes
crickets' tickets
Courtney
|
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On July 16, 1790 Congress created this area & some of its residents think that by now it should be a state
Washington, D.C.