Show #1500 1991-02-22 (taped 1991-01-20) Teen Tournament

1991 Teen Tournament final game 2.

Contestants

Dana Bacon — a senior from Leader, Minnesota (subtotal of $3,000)

Andy Westney — a senior from Atlanta, Georgia (subtotal of $9,600)

Julie Knauer — a senior from Newtown, Connecticut (subtotal of $7,992)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Julie $900 $1,500 $3,500 $6,000 $4,000
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Andy $1,700 $1,500 $4,700 $7,900 $5,700
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Dana $700 $2,600 $7,200 $14,400 $11,200
24 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WILD WEST ANIMALS KID STUFF LAKES & RIVERS HERE COMES THE BRIDE HOMOPHONES
$100 [11]
His first & middle names were James Butler, but he was known as "Wild Bill", not "Wild Jim"
Hickok
Dana
$100 [16]
These short dogs are known as Pekes for short
Pekingese
Julie
$100 [1]
According to Mattel, 95% of girls aged 3 to 11 own at least one of these dolls
Barbie
Andy
$100 [21]
Oceangoing ships can travel 1,000 miles up this river to the Brazilian port of Manaus
the Amazon
Julie
$100 [22]
At the end of the ceremony, this can be removed from the bride's head or thrown back over her hair
the veil
Julie Andy
$100 [6]
To make money, or a vase to stash ashes
earn/urn
Julie
$200 [12]
In a conflict that raged for years, cattlemen killed thousands of these farm animals
sheep
Julie
$200 [17]
Baby beavers are sometimes known by this feline term, & we're not being catty
kittens (kits)
Dana
$200 [2]
The Japanese co. that makes "My First" stereo cassette player for tots, & Walkman for teens
Sony
Julie
$200 [30]
Fed by the snows of Mt. Hermon, this river flows through the Sea of Galilee & into the Dead Sea
the Jordan
Dana
$200 [23]
"Superlative" term for the principal groomsman at a wedding
the best man
Dana
$200 [7]
Antagonistic & adverse, or a supervised shelter for young travelers
hostile/hostel
Andy
$300 [13]
Missouri-born bank robbing gang leader whose mother & wife were both named Zerelda
Jesse James
Andy
$300 [18]
For a warthog, it's only 12 to 15 years
the lifespan
Dana
$300 [3]
It's what you have to ask "it" before you can take those baby & giants steps
Mother, may I?
Andy Dana
$400 [28]
The Shatt-al-Arab begins where the Tigris meets this river in Iraq
the Euphrates
Julie
$300 [24]
In some weddings a male child carries this on a satin or velvet cushion
the ring
Andy
$300 [8]
Inscribed on paper, or a routine way of doing something
wrote/rote
Andy
$400 [14]
Virgil Earp was fired from his job as this town's marshal after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tombstone (Arizona)
Julie Andy
$400 [19]
The collared type of this mammal known for feeding on insects is also called the tamandua
the anteater
Dana
$400 [4]
"Moonwalker" is the video game in which this rock legend outdances bad guys
Michael Jackson
Dana
DD $500 [29]
In Hindu myth this river springs from the foot of the god Vishnu
the Ganges
Julie
$400 [25]
Years ago it was considered bad luck for the bride to participate in this & a stand-in was used
the rehearsal of the wedding
Dana
$400 [9]
An ursine creature, or any naked creature for that matter
a bear/bare
Julie
$500 [15]
Some say M. J. Canary earned this nickname by her willingness to help those in trouble
Calamity Jane
Andy
$500 [20]
Some of the largest & most beautiful of these insects belong to the swallowtail family
butterflies
Dana
$500 [5]
Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner were the youngest pair to represent the U.S. in this sport
figure skating
Andy
$500 [27]
This Great Lake, the smallest, is almost as big as the state of New Jersey
Lake Ontario
Andy Dana
$500 [26]
At the reception the bridal party often forms one of these lines to greet the guests
a receiving line
$500 [10]
To impose a tax, or an embankment built along a river
levy/levee
Dana

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES OLD TESTAMENT STATE TREES CLASSICAL MUSIC ECONOMICS REVOLUTIONARY WORDS
$200 [13]
He proposed that the mind is made up of three parts: the id, the ego & the superego
Freud
Andy
$200 [2]
Joshua had the troops march around this city once a day for 6 days & 7 times on the seventh
Jericho
Dana
$200 [21]
The redwood & sequoia are its 2 state trees
California
Dana
$200 [30]
In 1830, at his last performance in this polish capital, Chopin debuted his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
Warsaw
Andy
$200 [11]
In Nov. 1990 this German currency hit an all-time high against the U.S. dollar
the Deutsche Mark
Dana
$200 [1]
This author opened the Declaration of Independence with "When in the course of human events..."
Thomas Jefferson
Andy
$400 [14]
The son of Increase Mather, he increased the population by fathering 15 children
Cotton Mather
Dana
$400 [3]
In Genesis 37 he was stripped of his coat by his brethren & thrown into a pit
Joseph
Dana
$400 [22]
Surprisingly, this state designated the live oak, not the peach, as its official state tree
Georgia
Andy
$400 [29]
This term came from the Italian "musica da camera", "room music"
chamber music
$400 [12]
To determine your net worth, take your total assets & subtract these
your debt
Andy
$400 [7]
He had the "Common Sense" to say, "These are the times that try men's souls"
Thomas Paine
Julie
$600 [15]
When California gold miners wouldn't buy his canvas tents, he used the material to make jeans
Levi Strauss
Andy
$600 [4]
Though Adonijah plotted to take the throne, it was this son who succeeded David
Solomon
Andy
$600 [23]
A horse chestnut, this state tree of Ohio has given the state its nickname
the buckeyes
Dana
$600 [26]
A direction of "largo" or "lento" on your score means you should play this way
slowly
Dana
$600 [18]
It's defined as the interest rate commercial banks charge their most creditworthy customers
prime rate
Julie
$600 [8]
In Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere advises, "If the British march tonight, hang" one of these "in the belfry arch"
a lantern
Dana
$800 [16]
Pleased by his round-the-world voyage, Queen Elizabeth I dined on his ship, the Golden Hind
(Sir Francis) Drake
Dana
$800 [5]
It was "more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made"
the serpent
Dana
$800 [24]
Texas' state tree is this one whose nut is used in pralines & pies
pecan
Andy
$1,000 [28]
In 1747 this composer visited the court of Frederick the Great, where his son was harpsichordist
Johann Sebastian Bach
$800 [19]
Term for an income tax where the rate increases as one's taxable income increases
a progressive rate
Dana
$800 [9]
"Father of the American Navy" whose "I have not yet begun to fight" is 1 of the Navy's battle cries
John Paul Jones
Andy
$1,000 [17]
A D.C. medical center is named for this man who helped conquer yellow fever
(Walter) Reed
Dana
$1,000 [6]
The Philistines stole this & took it to the idol Dagon's house & the next day found Dagon decapitated
the Ark of the Covenant
Dana
DD $1,000 [25]
1 of 4 states whose state tree is the sugar maple
(1 of) Vermont, New York, Wisconsin & West Virginia
Andy
DD $4,000 [27]
Thomas Arne's 1740 masque "Alfred" included this song often played today:
"Rule, Britannia"
Dana
$1,000 [20]
This French phrase refers to an economic philosophy in which gov't doesn't interfere with commerce
laissez-faire
Julie
$1,000 [10]
Completes the quote "I know not what course others may take; but as for me..."
Give me liberty, or give me death!
Dana

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

This capital completely surrounds a separate, independent country

Rome

Julie "What is Rome?" — wagered $2,500
Andy "What is Rome?" — wagered $3,200
Dana "What is Rome?" — wagered $7,200

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