2003 Back to School Week game 2.
Max Siegel — from Goldens Bridge, New York
Courtney Biscan — from Manhattan, Illinois
Miri Baker — a ten-year-old from Warner Robins, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miri | $2,000 | $3,800 | $3,000 |
$5,990
2nd place: $2,000 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate |
$3,000
11 R, 2 W |
| Courtney | $200 | $1,400 | $-1,400 |
$-1,400
3rd place: $1,000 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate |
$-1,400
9 R, 4 W |
| Max | $2,800 | $6,000 | $12,700 |
$18,700
Winner: $18,700 + Classroom Jeopardy! + a $1,000 Dell Computer gift certificate |
$21,200
21 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| THE 1900s | WE WANT SECONDS | MY AUNTIE THE POET | ANIMATED MOVIES | NON-VIDEO GAMES | EASY SPANISH |
|
$200
[16]
This major world sporting event was held in Atlanta, Georgia in the summer of 1996
the Olympics
Courtney
|
$200
[21]
In 1787 Pennsylvania was the second state to ratify this important U.S. government document
the Constitution
Max
|
$200
[26]
Auntie named her cat Emily, after this poet who died in 1886
Emily Dickinson
Miri
|
$200
[1]
This 1992 Disney film features a magic carpet ride through the Cave of Wonders
Aladdin
Courtney
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$200
[8]
This singing game in which we "all fall down" may have originally referred to a deadly plague of the 1300s
Ring Around the Rosie
Courtney
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$200
[6]
No means "no"; this 2-letter word means "yes"
sí
Miri
|
|
$400
[17]
Causing $1 billion in damage, this weather phenomenon named Fran hit the southeastern U.S. in 1996
a hurricane
Max
|
$400
[22]
"Our consolation aboundeth by Christ", says the Bible's second of these to the Corinthians
letters (or epistles)
Courtney
|
$400
[27]
I had bad dreams when Auntie read me Browning's poem about this guy who gets rid of the rats--& children
the Pied Piper
Miri
|
$400
[2]
The tagline to this 2001 movie was "the greatest fairy tale never told"
Shrek
Miri
|
$400
[12]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew presents in front of a blackboard.) It's the old favorite we're playing here; "L"? Ooh, sorry, you lose
hangman
Courtney
|
$400
[7]
La escuela is this, a place where you should learn what it means
school
Max
|
|
$600
[18]
In 1995 ex-President Jimmy Carter helped arrange a ceasefire in Sudan, the largest country on this continent
Africa
Courtney
|
$600
[23]
Marie Curie won her second of these international achievement "prizes" for her work in chemistry
the Nobel Prize
Miri
|
$600
[28]
Auntie's tired of explaining to you / Why her poems don't do this, like a limerick or this clue
rhyme
Miri
|
$600
[3]
Sully returns Boo to her own bed & Mike saves the factory at the end of this 2001 film
Monsters, Inc.
Max
|
$600
[13]
If I open this game by sinking a left-handed hook shot & you miss the same shot, you get an "H"
H-O-R-S-E
Miri
Courtney
|
$600
[9]
Me is "me", mes is "month" & mesa is this, a piece of furniture
table
|
|
$800
[19]
In 1993 this woman seenherebecame the first First Lady to have an office in the West Wing of the White House
Hillary Clinton
Max
|
$800
[24]
In 1968 the Green Bay Packers won the second one of these games, beating Oakland 33 to 14
the Super Bowl
Max
|
— |
$800
[4]
A muscle-bound cretin named Gaston has designs on Belle in this 1991 film
Beauty and the Beast
Miri
|
$800
[14]
A version of this popular board game was played in India over 1500 years ago
Parcheesi
Max
|
$800
[10]
If you took a Spanish test & scored ciento por ciento, you got this amount right
a hundred percent
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1998 the Hubble space telescope photographed the first one of these orbiting objects outside our solar system
a planet
Max
|
$1,000
[25]
With a population of about 950,000, Birmingham is the second-largest city in this European nation
England
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Animated feature film in which you'd hear the line "Waiter, I'm in my soup"
A Bug's Life
|
$1,000
[15]
When playing Geography, if your opponent says "Maryland" you can say this state that borders Maryland
Delaware
Max
|
$1,000
[11]
La impresora for la computadora is this
a printer for the computer
|
| WORLD CITIES | RESEARCH | NOW THAT'S BIG! | AMERICAN LITERATURE | STATES BY SCHOOL | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY |
|
$400
[11]
To visit the real Luxor, not the one in Las Vegas, you have to go to this country
Egypt
|
$400
[6]
Oral history is obtained by conducting these, tape recorder in hand
interviews
Courtney
|
$400
[21]
This largest land animal also has the largest ears at 5 feet across each
an elephant
Courtney
|
$400
[23]
His scary 1842 story "The Masque of the Red Death" begins, "The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country"
Edgar Allan Poe
Max
|
$400
[13]
Harvard University & Tufts University
Massachusetts
Max
|
$400
[1]
It doesn't take sleight of hand to spell...
M-A-G-I-C-I-A-N
Courtney
|
|
$800
[12]
Take the cable car up to Monserrate Peak to get a good view of this Colombian city
Bogota
|
$800
[7]
In a research paper, a number like the one that appears in our clue¹ refers the reader to this
a footnote
|
$800
[22]
With an audience of more than 2 billion, the final match in this sport's World Cup is the most watched TV event
soccer
Miri
|
$800
[24]
Jim Smiley kept this "celebrated" animal of a Mark Twain story in "a little lattice box"
the jumping frog of Calaveras county
Courtney
|
$800
[14]
Stanford University & Whittier College
California
Miri
Max
|
$800
[2]
It'll be business as usual when you spell...
T-Y-P-I-C-A-L
Max
|
|
$1,600
[19]
This French Riviera city's name is spelled like a wonderful word, but pronounced like a relative
Nice
|
$1,200
[8]
You can search the New York Public Library catalog by title or this, like "food allergy" & "Idaho aged care"
subject
Max
|
$1,200
[25]
Making up to 85 percent of the total weight, the cerebrum is the largest part of this organ
the brain
Max
|
— |
$1,200
[15]
Cornell University & Syracuse University
New York
Miri
|
$1,200
[3]
If you've run for student body president you should know how to spell...
C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N
Max
|
|
$2,000
[20]
This largest port in New Zealand was named for a British First Lord of the Admiralty, not a bird
Auckland
Miri
|
$1,600
[9]
A good place for a summary of a person's life is this newspaper article that you never get to read about yourself
an obituary
Courtney
Max
|
DD
$4,000
[26]
With a wingspan up to one foot, the world's largest of these insects is the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing
a butterfly
Max
|
— |
$1,600
[16]
Bethune-Cookman College & the University of Miami
Florida
Max
|
$1,600
[4]
Take an educated guess and spell...
S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C
Miri
Courtney
Max
|
|
DD
$4,500
[18]
Germany's third-largest city in population & Switzerland's first, they both end in "ich"
Munich & Zurich
Max
|
$2,000
[10]
"American Memory" is the History section of the website loc.gov, LOC standing for this
Library of Congress
Max
|
— | — |
$2,000
[17]
Miami University & the University of Toledo
Ohio
Max
|
$2,000
[5]
Stick to your principles & spell...
C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E
Max
|
This planet has the shortest year, 88 days
Mercury