1990 Teen Tournament semifinal game 2.
Wen Shen — a senior from Hillsborough, California
Avi Stadler — a senior from Atlanta, Georgia
Jamie Weiss — a junior from Fairfax, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie | $2,200 | $3,900 | $9,200 |
$14,000
Finalist |
$9,100
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Avi | $700 | $800 | $7,000 |
$12,201
2nd place: $5,000 |
$6,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Wen | $1,400 | $2,500 | $6,100 |
$12,200
3rd place: $5,000 |
$6,100
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | U.S. STATES | CEREALS | MOVIES | VOLCANOES | SPELLING |
|
$100
[21]
This Dr. Seuss animal said, "'That is that.' And then he was gone with a tip of his hat."
The Cat in the Hat
Jamie
|
$100
[6]
The Bimini Islands of the Bahamas lie about 50 miles east of this state
Florida
Wen
|
$100
[11]
This cereal isn't named after the Flintstones' daughter but for the little bitty stones it resembles
Pebbles
Jamie
|
$100
[1]
Tom Hanks & Carrie Fisher were "Jeopardy!" fans in this black comedy of life in suburbia
The 'Burbs
Wen
|
$100
[25]
Magma that reaches the earth's surface is called this
Lava
Avi
|
$100
[26]
A native of Tangier or a citrus fruit
T-A-N-G-E-R-I-N-E
Wen
|
|
$200
[20]
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "A Child's Garden of" these
Verses
Wen
|
DD
$200
[7]
State that suffered the most severe damage from 1989's Hurricane Hugo
South Carolina
Wen
|
$200
[12]
Though the "Silly Rabbit" hopes otherwise, he's constantly reminded this cereal is "for kids"
Trix
Avi
|
$200
[2]
Cassandra Peterson co-wrote & starred in a 1988 film about this "Mistress of the Dark"
Elvira
Jamie
|
$200
[24]
The word volcano comes from the name of this Roman god of fire
Vulcan
Wen
|
$200
[27]
It's the continent that surrounds the South Pole
A-N-T-A-R-C-T-I-C-A
Wen
|
|
$300
[18]
He's the author & illustrator of "If Beagles Could Fly"
Charles Schulz
Avi
|
$300
[8]
This state has over 50 peaks above 14,000 feet but none over 14,500 feet
Colorado
Jamie
|
$300
[16]
Since 1984 this animal's been depicted on the front of the Kellogg's Corn Flakes box
Cornelius the Rooster
Avi
Wen
|
$300
[3]
Kathleen Turner fainted after she was elected queen of her high school reunion in this 1986 film
Peggy Sue Got Married
Jamie
|
$300
[23]
Of the world's active volcanoes, about 60% are along the perimeter of this ocean
Pacific
Jamie
|
$300
[28]
This muscular tube leads from the pharynx to the stomach
E-S-O-P-H-A-G-U-S
Jamie
Wen
|
|
$400
[17]
In "The Jungle Book" Shere Khan is one of these wild animals
a tiger
|
$400
[9]
Wyoming is nicknamed "The Equality State" because it was the first to do this
allow women to vote
Jamie
|
$400
[15]
After you've finished all of this doll's cereal, she can use the box as a coffee table
Barbie
Wen
|
$400
[4]
According to the title of an animated 1989 film, "All Dogs" do this
Go to Heaven
Jamie
|
$400
[22]
57 people died when this volcano in the Cascade range erupted in 1980
Mount St. Helens
Wen
|
$400
[29]
This small Hawaiian guitar was derived from a Portuguese instument
U-K-U-L-E-L-E
Wen
|
|
$500
[13]
Walter L. Farley wrote 20 novels about this dark horse
the Black Stallion
Wen
|
$500
[10]
Classified as a Mid-Atlantic state, this state doesn't touch an ocean, but it does border Lake Erie
Pennsylvania
Jamie
|
$500
[14]
In addition to being teenage, mutant & ninja-trained, these animals have a cereal
Turtles
Wen
|
$500
[5]
She not only starred in "Nuts", she produced it & wrote some of the music
Barbra Streisand
Avi
|
$500
[19]
This island nation has more than 100 active volcanoes including Krakatoa
Indonesia
Jamie
|
$500
[30]
A pig-like animal whose name sounds like a slender candle
T-A-P-I-R
Jamie
|
| INVENTIONS | THE VIOLIN | LANGUAGES | EXPLORERS | MEDICINE | NAME'S THE SAME |
|
$200
[29]
In 1979 technicians at this company's Shibaura plant in Tokyo developed the Walkman
Sony
Avi
|
$200
[30]
It's a curved, springy stick about 29 inches long with a flat ribbon of hair attached to it
the bow
Avi
|
$200
[6]
In French, sentences placing "ne" before the verb & "pas" after it make it this
negative
|
$200
[8]
He overestimated the size of Asia & underestimated the Earth, so he thought he'd reached the Orient
Christopher Columbus
Wen
|
$200
[9]
Common name for monochromatism, which makes the world seem black, white & gray
colorblindness
Wen
|
$200
[1]
An atoll in the south seas, or the 2-piece bathing suit named for it
Bikini
Avi
|
|
$400
[27]
He experimented with submarines before building the first commercially successful steamboat
Robert Fulton
Wen
|
$400
[28]
The finest violins ever made, they bear the Latinized form of their maker's name
Stradivarius
Avi
|
$400
[7]
An official language of Kenya, its name means "coast people"
Swahili
|
$400
[11]
He was hoping the river named for him would lead him to the Pacific, but he only got to Albany
Henry Hudson
Jamie
|
$400
[21]
Of measles, mumps or chicken pox, the one for which no vaccine is generally available
Chicken pox
Avi
|
$600
[3]
The actor who played Jock Ewing on "Dallas", or the cartoonist who created "Garfield"
Jim Davis
Avi
|
|
$600
[26]
A noise reduction system for audio tapes is named for this man, its inventor
Ray Dolby
Jamie
Wen
|
$600
[25]
The rest for this part of the body was invented about 1820, probably by violinist Ludwig Spohr
Chin
Avi
|
$600
[22]
Among languages spoken by more than 1 million people, it's the only one whose name begins with "V"
Vietnamese
|
DD
$700
[12]
He was standing on Darien Peak on the isthmus of Panama when he became the first European to see the Pacific
Balboa
Jamie
|
$600
[18]
An exact copy of a cell, a gene or an organism is called this
a clone
Wen
|
$800
[4]
A D.C. daily newspaper, or the march John Philip Sousa wrote for it
The Washington Post
Avi
|
|
$800
[19]
This invention was also called "The Pennsylvania Fireplace"
the Franklin Stove (or Oven or Furnace)
Wen
|
$800
[20]
This Tel Aviv-born violinist overcame polio & first performed in public at age 9
Yithzak Perlman
Avi
|
$800
[23]
You don't have to be crazy to know "meshugga" is from this language
Yiddish
|
$800
[13]
This founder of Quebec also discovered the large lake named for him
Samuel de Champlain
Jamie
|
$800
[17]
Nightmares occur during REM sleep, which is defined as this
rapid eye movement
Jamie
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
The current president of baseball's American League, or the singer heard here:
Bobby Brown
Avi
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Edwin Herbert Land first demonstrated this invention in 1947
the Polaroid camera
|
$1,000
[15]
Baroque composer whose most famous works are the violin concertos known as "The Four Seasons"
Antonio Vivaldi
Wen
|
$1,000
[24]
This saint should be praised for coming up with the script for the Russian alphabet
St. Cyril (or his brother Methodius)
Wen
|
$1,000
[14]
9 years before Da Gama, he led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeo Diaz
Avi
|
$1,000
[10]
Leukemia is marked by an uncontrolled proliferation of these cells
white blood cells
Jamie
|
$1,000
[5]
Roman goddess associated with the Greek Nike, or the capital of British Columbia
Victoria
Jamie
|
In April 1775 Gen. J. Warren made him an official messenger of the Committee of Safety
Paul Revere