1990 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Wen Shen — a senior from Hillsborough, California
Beth Mullins — a senior from Mendenhall, Mississippi
Mike Grant — a senior from Kansas City, Missouri
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $900 | $3,000 | $3,400 |
$5,400
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$4,400
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Beth | $1,100 | $1,300 | $5,300 |
$6,300
Automatic semifinalist |
$5,300
13 R, 2 W |
| Wen | $100 | $2,000 | $3,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$4,700
24 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| FILE UNDER "F" | FAIRIES & FOLKLORE | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | POP MUSIC | CIVIL WAR GENERALS |
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$100
[2]
Index, long, ring & little
fingers
Wen
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$100
[1]
You might have left one of your deciduous canines under a pillow so this fairy would give you some money
the Tooth Fairy
Wen
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$100
[18]
In cloth measure, this is divided into 4 quarters, not 3 feet
yards
Wen
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$100
[12]
George Washington received his surveyor's license in 1749 from this school named for a king & queen
William & Mary
Wen
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$100
[7]
FYI, for your information, FYC is this group that gave us the album "The Raw And The Cooked"
Fine Young Cannibals
Beth
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$100
[30]
Driving the Confederates off Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga in Nov. 1863 made him a national hero
Ulysses S. Grant
Wen
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$200
[3]
You're in fine fettle if you're as fit as one of these
a fiddle
Wen
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$200
[14]
The magical little people called Menehune are believed to work at night in this U.S. state
Hawaii
Mike
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$200
[19]
To find this, multiply the diameter by pi
circumference
Wen
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$200
[13]
580 sites were visited before Colorado Springs was selected for the campus of this service academy
Air Force Academy
Mike
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$200
[8]
"Wheel of Fortune" is mentioned in his 1989 hit "We Didn't Start The Fire"
Billy Joel
Wen
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$200
[29]
He was originally named after the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, the William was added later
Sherman
Beth
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$300
[4]
These include similes, metaphors & puns
figures of speech
Mike
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$300
[15]
Some gifts offend these "colorful" fairies; if you give them clothing, they may disappear
brownies
Wen
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$300
[23]
If Mom & Dad let you borrow one of these, you'll find it's probably 3 3/8" x 2 1/8" & has a limit
a credit card
Wen
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$300
[20]
Since 1868 Wells College seniors have traveled to commencement exercises in these horse-drawn vehicles
stagecoaches
Mike
Wen
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$300
[9]
Parts of her "Electric Youth" video were filmed on the stage next to ours
Debbie Gibson
Wen
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$300
[27]
A few days after being made head of the Union's Potomac army, Gen. Geo. Meade had to run this Penn. battle
Gettysburg
Wen
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$400
[5]
The little extra perks that go with the job
fringe benefits
Mike
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$400
[16]
Legend says if you hear a banshee wail, this will happen
you or someone in your family will die
Mike
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$400
[28]
There are 1 million of these in a kilogram
milligrams
Mike
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$400
[24]
Our first honorary degree was bestowed in 1692 when this college awarded a doctorate to Increase Mather
Harvard
Wen
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$500
[11]
It's what the numbers in the title of Dino's hit "24/7" refer to
24 hours a day/7 days a week
Beth
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$400
[26]
In 1864 Geo. McClellan left his campaigns on the battlefield to campaign for this
the presidency
Mike
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$500
[6]
Term for a single exposure on a reel of motion picture film
frame
Beth
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$500
[17]
Fairies sometimes steal these & leave changelings in their place
babies
Mike
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$500
[22]
The "Systeme International d'Unites" is commonly referred to as this
the metric system
Mike
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$500
[21]
3 of the schools known as the 7 Sisters, a group considered the feminine version of the Ivy League
(3 of) Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar & Wellesley
Wen
|
DD
$900
[10]
In 1963 Eydie Gorme sang "Blame It On The Bossa Nova"; in 1989 this group sangthe following:"Blame it on the rain..."
Milli Vanilli
Wen
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$500
[25]
John Logan, a volunteer who rose to Union general, helped establish this observance to honor war dead
Memorial Day
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| WOMEN IN HISTORY | MAGAZINES | ARCHITECTURE | SOUTH AMERICA | LITERARY QUOTES | BIOLOGY |
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$200
[30]
Flora McDonald helped this "Bonnie Prince" escape from Scotland disguised as a woman
Charlie
Beth
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$200
[29]
It was the first successful newsmagazine & it's still the best-selling
Time
Wen
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$200
[19]
Materials from all over the world were used to build the assembly hall in this NYC complex
United Nations
Wen
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$200
[24]
7 of this river's more than 1,000 known tributaries exceed 1,000 miles in length
Amazon
Wen
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$200
[11]
Carl Sandburg called this city "Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat"
Chicago
Wen
|
$200
[1]
The world's first antibiotic; it was discovered in 1929
Penicillin
Wen
|
|
$400
[18]
Hatshepsut, who ruled this country 1503-1482 B.C., claimed to be the daughter of the god Amon
Egypt
Beth
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$600
[13]
Exhibitions by Peary & Byrd were partly financed by this D.C.-based society & its magazine
National Geographic Society
Wen
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$400
[23]
The curved part of a ceiling, or a locked room in a building where valuables are kept
Vault
Mike
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$400
[28]
Only the Himalayas are higher than this South American mountain range
Andes
Wen
|
$400
[9]
In 1776 he criticized "The Summer Soldier And The Sunshine Patriot" in his pamphlet "The Crisis, No. 1"
Thomas Paine
Wen
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$600
[5]
In this process 8 photons of light break down 2 H2O molecules to yield an O2 molecule
Photosynthesis
Wen
|
|
$600
[17]
This Revolutionary War water-bearer was the daughter of German immigrants
Molly Pitcher
Wen
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$800
[12]
Weekly magazine whose features include "Picks & Pans", "Take One" & "Chatter"
People
Beth
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$600
[22]
Part of a building on which you'd find a dormer or a cupola
Roof
Beth
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$600
[27]
The name of this city is Portuguese for "River of January"
Rio de Janeiro
Beth
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$600
[8]
Steinbeck novel containing the lines, "Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now, it means you're scum."
The Grapes of Wrath
Beth
|
DD
$800
[2]
When Lazzaro Spallanzani blinded them, they still flew; when he plugged their ears, they were disoriented
Bats
Wen
|
|
$800
[16]
This Russian empress was shot to death in 1918
Alexandra
Mike
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DD
$1,000
[15]
It's the top-selling magazine written specifically for teens
Seventeen
Mike
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$800
[21]
Word for the moveable glass slats in Jalousie windows, or the often stationary wooden ones in shutters
Louvers
Wen
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$800
[26]
This waterway separates the islands of Tierra Del Fuego from South America's mainland
Straits of Magellan
Mike
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$800
[7]
Cassius says, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in" these "but in ourselves, that we are underlings"
Stars
|
$800
[4]
To figure out its structure, Watson & Crick used the scientific equivalent of Tinker Toys
DNA
Beth
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$1,000
[14]
Her life inspired the historical novel "A Woman Called Moses"
Harriet Tubman
Mike
Beth
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$1,000
[10]
This monthly, started in 1922, now sells over 29 million copies a month worldwide
Reader's Digest
Mike
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$1,000
[20]
A latticework pavilion or summerhouse usually built to take advantage of a view
Gazebo
Beth
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$1,000
[25]
This country is the only one in South America to belong to the Commonwealth of Nations
Guyana (formerly British Guyana)
|
$1,000
[6]
According to James Whitcomb Riley, "When the frost is on" this, "the fodder's in the shock"
The Pumpkin
Beth
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$1,000
[3]
Similar species are grouped into genera; similar genera into these
Families
Mike
Beth
Wen
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Slated for demolition, it held 2 madmen, 4 forgers & a nobleman when the mob came for its gunpowder
The Bastille