1998 Teen Reunion Tournament final.From the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.
Eric Newhouse — a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa
Chris Capozzola — a graduate student from Washington, D.C.
David Javerbaum — a Harvard graduate whose musical was produced off-Broadway originally from Maplewood, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $1,100 | $1,700 | $7,400 |
$2,199
1st runner-up: $15,000 + University Games' "Game of the Year" + Tigris Pyramid + Movana |
$5,500
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Chris | $1,400 | $2,100 | $6,300 |
$0
2nd runner-up: $10,000 + University Games' "Game of the Year" + Tigris Pyramid + Movana |
$6,300
18 R, 5 W |
| Eric | $1,000 | $2,100 | $8,000 |
$14,801
Tournament champion: $50,000 |
$5,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| BEFORE COLUMBUS | MUMMY DEAREST | twentysomething | DA BULLS | BEARS | THE STOCK MARKET |
|
$100
[2]
Centuries before Columbus, these people encountered Native Americans & called them skraelings
Vikings
David
|
$100
[26]
It's his portrayal of the Mummy that was used on the U.S. stamp seen here
Boris Karloff
David
Eric
|
$100
[24]
Usually you begin this game by asking, "Animal, vegetable or mineral?"
twenty questions
Eric
|
$100
[1]
"I never doubted myself", this Chicago Bulls star said after his title-winning jump shot in 1998
Michael Jordan
Chris
|
$100
[29]
Thick fur & a layer of blubber keep this northernmost species warm
a polar bear
Eric
|
$100
[7]
Stocks not listed on exchanges are said to be sold this way, like nonprescription drugs
over the counter
David
|
|
$200
[3]
Around 9000 B.C., herds of these large wild cattle dramatically increased & became a major food source
buffalo (or bison)
David
|
$200
[27]
"The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" is a top-seller in this kids' book series
Goosebumps
Eric
|
$200
[25]
At arrival or departure, this "salute" is fired for a U.S. president or a visiting head of state
a 21-gun salute
Chris
|
$200
[8]
In 1991 Scottie Pippen's defense on Magic Johnson helped the Bulls beat this team for their first title
the Lakers
David
|
$200
[30]
Bears' dormancy in this season isn't true hibernation, as their body temperature doesn't drop
winter
David
|
$200
[12]
These open-end investment "funds" began in the U.S. in the 1920s & now hold over $5 trillion
mutual funds
Eric
|
|
$400
[5]
In the 1100s the Awatovi Pueblos near what is now Tuba City in this state housed 1,000 people in 1,300 rooms
Arizona
Chris
|
$300
[23]
Ancient Egyptians worshipped these animals & now their "scans" are used to study mummies
cats
Chris
|
$300
[15]
It's the numerical designation for normal visual acuity
20/20
David
|
$300
[9]
This colorful rebounding champ was an airport janitor when he began playing organized basketball
Dennis Rodman
Eric
|
$300
[28]
The sloth bear is also called this "bear", after the food it & Pooh both crave
honey (bear)
Chris
|
$300
[20]
Known as S&P, it tracks the market with reports, guides & indices
Standard & Poor's
David
|
|
DD
$500
[4]
The name of this light axe used as both weapon & tool comes from the proto-Algonquin for "to cut off"
a tomahawk
David
|
$400
[14]
In the movies, 9 tana leaves have the power to do this
resurrect the dead (bring a mummy back to life)
Eric
|
$400
[11]
To the closest mile, it's the length of an Olympic marathon
twenty-six
Chris
|
$400
[16]
John Paxson clinched the title for the Bulls in 1993 with one of these shots instituted in the 1979-'80 season
three-pointer
David
|
$400
[19]
The "clan of" this animal, Ursus speleaus, became extinct about 10,000 years ago
a cave bear
Chris
|
$400
[21]
This printing term refers to funds deposited with a broker to protect the broker against loss
margin
Eric
|
|
$500
[6]
The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga & Seneca tribes made up this "League" founded around 1450
the Iroquois League
Chris
|
$500
[13]
In 1994 the Royal Mummy Room in this city's Egyptian Museum was reopened after 13 years
Cairo
David
Chris
|
$500
[10]
As Captain Kirk could tell you, the original "Star Trek" TV series was set in this century
the twenty-third century
Eric
|
$500
[17]
Artis Gilmore, a star at this position, twice started the All-Star Game against Kareem
center
Eric
|
$500
[18]
Thisspecies is named for its distinctive markings
the spectacled bear
|
$500
[22]
Short for "long-term equity anticipation securities", or what distraught investors took in the 1929 crash
LEAPS
Eric
|
| THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES | FILMS OF THE 1980s | POET-TREE | FILE UNDER "P" | PHYSICS | REUNIONS |
|
$200
[3]
Zane Grey's ancestor Betty Zane helped save Fort Henry, now the site of this state's city of Wheeling
West Virginia
David
|
$200
[6]
In this film Debra Winger gets to have a fling with John Lithgow before she dies
Terms of Endearment
David
|
$200
[13]
"So rested he by the tumtum tree, and stood awhile in thought" is a line from his "Jabberwocky"
Lewis Carroll
Eric
|
$200
[17]
In 1999 this will resume its rightful position as 9th planet from the Sun
Pluto
Chris
|
$400
[27]
This measure is used for radioactive decay because the time for all atoms to break down is unknowable
half-life
David
|
$800
[24]
Frank Sinatra brokered the reconciliation of these 2 on the 1976 Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin
Chris
Eric
|
|
$400
[4]
Its state fair is held in Columbia
South Carolina
Chris
Eric
|
$400
[26]
Stephen Hopkins, more recently "Lost in Space", directed the fifth installment of this Freddy Krueger series
A Nightmare on Elm Street
David
|
$400
[15]
He wrote "Tree at My Window" a few years after "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
(Robert) Frost
Chris
|
$400
[18]
Ling-Ling was a famous one
a panda
David
|
$800
[19]
In present-day accelerators, particles reach energies of over 1 trillion eV, this unit
electron-volt
|
$1,000
[23]
East met West with this country's October 3, 1990 reunion
Germany
Chris
|
|
$600
[22]
On this Maryland site, during the bloodiest Civil War battle, Commissary Sgt. William McKinley served coffee
Antietam
Eric
|
$600
[8]
In a 1985 spy movie, Timothy Hutton was "The Falcon" & Sean Penn was this cohort
the Snowman
Eric
|
$600
[16]
"O my palm-tree…rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare", she wrote in "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Chris
|
$600
[14]
Holiday for matzo, matzo men
Passover
Chris
|
$1,000
[11]
Also heard in economics, it's the property of a solid forced out of shape, then returning to its original form
elasticity
Eric
|
DD
$3,100
[25]
(Hey, what's happening? I'm Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray. The answer is…) While touring in 1996, we played with Johnny Rotten & this group who had reunited
the Sex Pistols
Eric
|
|
$800
[21]
Mary Pickford, Pearl White & Theda Bara were among those who made movies in Fort Lee in this state
New Jersey
Chris
|
$800
[7]
She was a sultry 16 when she starred in the 1981 romance "Endless Love"
Brooke Shields
Chris
|
$800
[2]
It was George Pope Morris who wrote, "Woodman," do this! "Touch not a single bough!"
spare that tree
Chris
|
$800
[10]
The tine of a fork, or the point of an antler
a prong
David
Chris
Eric
|
DD
$2,300
[20]
It's the study of the nature & behavior of light, & also the title of an Isaac Newton treatise
optics
David
|
— |
|
$1,000
[12]
With Raleigh & Durham, it forms North Carolina's "Research Triangle"
Chapel Hill
Chris
|
$1,000
[5]
Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" inspired this movie with Harrison Ford as an android hunter
Blade Runner
Chris
|
$1,000
[1]
Longfellow poem that begins in "The forest primeval" where "hemlocks… stand like Druids of eld"
Evangeline
Chris
Eric
|
$1,000
[9]
This "soup" didn't start your meal, it started you & all life on Earth
primordial (soup) (or the primeval soup)
David
Eric
|
— | — |
At the time of his 1902 nomination to the Supreme Court, he was Chief Justice of Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes