1991 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.
Lauren Sager — a senior from Reston, Virginia
Agatha Feltus — a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
Chris Beckner — a senior from Mount Vernon, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $800 | $3,100 | $8,700 |
$9,701
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$8,700
20 R, 0 W |
| Agatha | $2,700 | $4,000 | $15,000 |
$12,500
Automatic semifinalist |
$12,600
26 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Lauren | $900 | $1,000 | $3,800 |
$7,600
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$3,800
11 R, 0 W |
| "B" IN GEOGRAPHY | MAGAZINES | COLORFUL SPORTS | RESTAURANT CHAINS | ZOOLOGY | VERY GRIMM FAIRY TALES |
|
$100
[18]
This region that includes parts of India & Bangladesh shares its name with a tiger
Bengal
Lauren
|
$100
[17]
PC Novice is a new magazine for beginning users of these
computers
Chris
|
$100
[1]
Though now it means just the area around the hole, it once meant the whole golf course
the green
Lauren
|
$100
[7]
The biggest of these chicken franchises is near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Chris
|
$100
[12]
An onager is a wild one of these & a burro is a small domesticated one
a donkey
Agatha
|
$100
[2]
One of the characters in this story cuts off part of her heel in a vain attempt to make a slipper fit
Cinderella
Lauren
|
|
$200
[19]
The color that describes a German "Forest", South Dakota "Hills" & a Eurasia "Sea"
Black
Agatha
|
$200
[27]
In 1990 this entertainment weekly had an unprecedented 4 "Fall Preview" issues instead of the usual 1
TV Guide
Agatha
|
$200
[23]
CBS lost millions in ad revenue when this team swept the 1990 World Series
the Cincinnati Reds
Chris
|
$200
[8]
Fast food franchise named for founder R. Dave Thomas' daughter, not Peter Pan's pal
Wendy's
Chris
|
$200
[13]
Few undertake "the taming of" this high-strung creature, the smallest insect-eating mammal
a shrew
Chris
|
$200
[3]
A king's son kills the dwarf who turned him into a bear in the story of this girl & Rose-Red
Snow White
|
|
$300
[20]
The huge Gateway of India Arch is a landmark in this port city
Bombay
Chris
Agatha
|
DD
$300
[28]
This magazine calls its contributing artists & writers "The Usual Gang of Idiots"
Mad magazine
Agatha
|
$300
[24]
Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis & Sugar Ray Robinson all fought in these amateur eliminations
the Golden Gloves
Chris
|
$300
[9]
No lie, it's the "Home of the Whopper"
Burger King
Chris
|
$300
[14]
There are 40 species of these land turtles that have stumpy legs instead of flippers & webbed feet
a tortoise
Agatha
|
$300
[4]
A witch takes this girl away from her parents & shuts her up in a tower; what a "let down"
Rapunzel
Lauren
|
|
$400
[21]
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland, & this is the capital of Northern Ireland
Belfast
Agatha
|
$400
[29]
Of 16, Seventeen & 18, the one not a U.S. magazine
18
Agatha
|
$400
[25]
More Super Bowls have been played at this Miami stadium than any other
the Orange Bowl
Chris
|
$400
[10]
Si, it's the only one of the top 10 fast food chains with a Mexican food in its name
Taco Bell
Agatha
|
$400
[15]
Alphabetically, this mammal, named "earth pig" by the Dutch, is first among animals
an aardvark
Agatha
|
$400
[5]
This little man demands a child as payment for helping the miller's daughter spin straw into gold
Rumpelstiltskin
Lauren
|
|
$500
[22]
On his 1492 voyage, Columbus landed at what is now San Salvador in this group of islands
the Bahamas
Chris
|
$500
[30]
For 20 years the Children's Television Workshop has been publishing this magazine for preschoolers
Sesame Street (Magazine)
Chris
|
$500
[26]
Term for the turbulent frothing rapids a river rafter navigates
white water rapids
Agatha
|
$500
[11]
These red-roofed restaurants are the world's largest users of Mozzarella cheese
Pizza Hut
Agatha
|
$500
[16]
The U.S. gov't urged a logging ban on 3 million acres in the northwest to save this threatened bird
the spotted owl
Agatha
|
$500
[6]
A king drowns while searching for 1 of these mythical beasts that's part eagle & part lion
a griffin
Agatha
|
| TEENS IN HISTORY | BOOKS & AUTHORS | 1990 MOVIES | ARTISTS | MATHEMATICS | VALENTINE'S DAY |
|
$200
[9]
This "Great" czar was 17 when his mother arranged for him to marry a beautiful girl named Eudoxia
Peter the Great
Chris
|
$200
[14]
This Dumas title team plus D'Artagnan are "All for one, one for all"
the Three Musketeers
Agatha
|
$200
[23]
Though set in the sewers of New York City, almost all of it was filmed in North Carolina
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Lauren
|
$200
[3]
He died on Oct. 4, 1669 & was interred in Amsterdam's Westerkerk
Rembrandt
Agatha
|
$200
[7]
It's the distance from the center of a circle to any point on its circumference
the radius
Lauren
|
$200
[1]
The chubby cherub who pierces hearts with his arrows
Cupid
Lauren
|
|
$400
[10]
Guinness says Henry Long, elected in the 15th c. at age 15, was the youngest member ever of this legislature
the British Parliament
Chris
|
$400
[15]
He wrote a total of 14 books about the land of Oz
Baum
Agatha
|
$400
[27]
1990 sequel to "Three Men and a Baby"
Three Men and a Little Lady
Chris
|
$400
[19]
Daniel Chester French made the huge marble statue of him that sits in his D.C. memorial
Lincoln
Agatha
|
$400
[8]
A secant is a straight line that intersects a circle at 2 points, this does it at 1 point
a tangent
Agatha
|
$400
[2]
English lore says a woman will do this in a short time to the first man she sees on Valentine's Day
marry
Chris
|
|
$600
[11]
By the time he was a teenager, Felix Mendelssohn was a respected composer from this country
Germany
Agatha
|
$800
[17]
He championed free trade in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
Adam Smith
Lauren
|
$600
[28]
The name of the maniacal doll in "Child's Play 2"
Chucky
Agatha
|
$600
[20]
Like Sr. Buonarotti, this was Sr. Caravaggio's first name
Michelangelo
Agatha
|
$600
[24]
In a triangle, if angle C is a right angle, angles A & B will add up to this many degrees
90
Chris
|
$600
[4]
In the past a man would "wear his heart"--his girl's name--on this part of his shirt
the sleeve
Lauren
|
|
$800
[12]
He was a student in Appolonia when he heard that his great-uncle Julius had been assassinated
Octavius
Agatha
|
$1,000
[18]
He refused the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded in 1926 for "Arrowsmith"
Sinclair Lewis
Chris
|
$800
[29]
It's what Phoebe Cates & Zach Galligan found a "New Batch" of
Gremlins
Chris
|
$800
[21]
While living in France, he produced his famous paintings "The Night Cafe" & "Sunflowers"
van Gogh
Agatha
|
$800
[25]
In a binary system you can tell when a number is odd, as it always ends in this
1
Chris
|
$800
[5]
Some trace the day to the Roman Lupercalia, held to insure protection against these beasts
wolves
Lauren
|
|
$1,000
[13]
This peasant girl was 14 when she saw her visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858
Bernadette
Agatha
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
In this novel, considered J. London's most popular, the dog Buck seems more human than animal
The Call of the Wild
Agatha
|
$1,000
[30]
His title roles in 1990 were "Cry-Baby" & "Edward Scissorhands"
Johnny Depp
Agatha
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
Aptly, Canaletto is most famous for his paintings of this, his native city
Venice
Agatha
|
$1,000
[26]
The general form of one of these equations is ax +bx + c = 0
a quadratic equation
|
$1,000
[6]
The city in which a "massacre" took place on that day in 1929
Chicago
Chris
|
The only one of the 50 states that has a 1-syllable name
Maine