2016 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Apurva Kanneganti — a senior from Germantown, Tennessee
Porter Bowman — a junior from Darien, Connecticut
Lily Allingham — a sophomore from Wilmington, Delaware
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lily! | $3,200 | $3,800 | $13,000 |
$15,601
Automatic semifinalist |
$13,000
13 R, 2 W |
| Porter | $1,200 | $400 | $5,300 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,000
17 R, 6 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Apurva | $2,400 | $4,600 | $7,800 |
$10,800
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,800
16 R, 3 W |
| MONEY, MONEY, MONEY | 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW | THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA | POP CULTURE | DON'T YOU KNOW | THERE'S A WAR ON |
|
$200
[21]
The name of this British monetary unit comes from a unit of weight
a pound
Apurva
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$200
[26]
By any measure this object is 36 inches long
a yardstick
Porter
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$200
[6]
He's the title lion in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", the first Narnia book
Aslan
Apurva
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$200
[1]
Beyonce has more than 60 million followers on this photo-sharing app whose logo looks like a Polaroid camera
Instagram
Apurva
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$200
[16]
Oxford says this preposition is the 7th-most common word in English; it's in this clue twice
in
Apurva
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$200
[11]
A "conflict":1950 to 1953
the Korean War
Apurva
|
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$400
[22]
From 1792 to 1873 the U.S. issued silver 5-cent coins called not nickels but "half" these
dimes
Apurva
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$400
[27]
Thissymbolseenright before our name
a copyright
Lily!
Apurva
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$400
[7]
Miraz, the king of Narnia, is the uncle of this title royal of the second book in the series
Prince Caspian
Porter
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$400
[2]
Twenty One Pilots "wish we could turn back time to the good old days... but now we're" this title
"Stressed Out"
Porter
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$400
[17]
Because of metal shortages, from 1943 to 1945 these famous award statuettes were made of plaster
Oscars
Porter
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$400
[8]
1846 to 1848:Starring Zachary Taylor
the Mexican-American War
Porter
|
|
$600
[23]
The Lincoln Memorial is on the back of this U.S. bill
the $5
Porter
|
$600
[28]
This word is a synonym for versus
against
Apurva
|
$600
[13]
In the fifth book of the chronicles, Bree, a talking one of these, & a boy named Shasta ride to Narnia--& freedom
a horse
Apurva
|
$600
[3]
Creepers love the gaming channel stampylonghead & its devotion to this ubiquitous Mojang game
Minecraft
|
$600
[18]
The traditional "Big 3" of U.S. automakers are Chrysler, General Motors & this one
Ford
Apurva
|
$600
[9]
1618 to 1648:Duh
the Thirty Years' War
Lily!
|
|
$1,000
[25]
English settlers in the New World used this word from Algonquian for beads used as Indian money
wampum
|
$800
[29]
It's a belief, not based in reason, that something bad will happen if you perform a particular action... or if you don't
superstition
Porter
Apurva
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$800
[14]
Digory is the title relative of this sixth book that also features his "enchanting" Uncle Andrew
The Magician's Nephew
Lily!
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$800
[4]
In 2016 this member of One Direction became a dad to a lad named Freddie
Louis Tomlinson
Lily!
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$800
[19]
This state's richest man is French fry tycoon Scott Simplot
Idaho
|
$800
[10]
April-December 1898
the Spanish-American War
Apurva
|
|
DD
$1,200
[24]
A silver tetradrachm from the 300s B.C. features a "Great"portraitof him
Alexander the Great
Porter
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$1,000
[30]
One definition is a stitched-together type of publication having between 5 & 48 pages
a pamphlet
Apurva
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$1,000
[15]
"Farewell to Shadowlands" is the last chapter of this seventh & "Last" book in the chronicles
The Last Battle
Apurva
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$1,000
[5]
Avicii, a 26-year-old superstar in EDM, this type of music, has announced he is retiring
electronic dance music
Lily!
|
$1,000
[20]
This alloy of copper & tin gave its name to a cultural "Age"
bronze
Lily!
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$1,000
[12]
In America:1754 to 1763
the French and Indian War
Apurva
|
| WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES | SCIENCE GUYS | WASHINGTON JARGON | BODIES OF WATER | NOTABLE TEENS | X GAMES |
|
$400
[9]
My favorite part of going is watching the previews called these, like something a car pulls
trailers
Porter
|
$400
[26]
This Austrian monk found pairs of genes separate in a random fashion when a plant's gametes form
Mendel
Porter
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$400
[10]
A hole in a boat, or information given to the press without permission
a leak
Porter
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$400
[18]
A land bridge called al Lisan separates this "corpselike" body of water into a southern basin & a northern basin
the Dead Sea
Porter
|
$400
[15]
Teen emperor Elagabalus forced all important Romans to worship Elah-gabal, a sun type of this
a god
Porter
|
$400
[21]
This number is represented by the Roman numeral X
10
Lily!
|
|
$800
[8]
I love this format that gives "up to 40% more image" & "highest quality 3D"
IMAX
Lily!
Porter
|
$800
[27]
Surely this rings a bell: the name of this physiologist who studied the secretory activity of digestion from 1890 to 1900
Ivan Pavlov
|
$800
[11]
It's a "g"ift from the "g"overnment to an organization; block is one type
a grant
Lily!
|
$1,200
[20]
This second-longest African river takes its name from a kingdom that once existed near its mouth
the Congo River
Apurva
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$800
[3]
This Shoshone teen was an asset in many ways for Lewis & Clark, including finding edible plants during the journey
Sacagawea
Apurva
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$800
[22]
In a letter or message, an X symbolizes one of these
a kiss
Lily!
|
|
$1,200
[6]
The ticket guy knows me, so I'm front row center for this 2016 monster movie sequel with an address for a title
10 Cloverfield Lane
|
$1,200
[28]
This Swede's original scale had water's boiling point at 0 degrees & its freezing point at 100
Celsius
Lily!
|
$1,200
[12]
An envoy such as an ambassador; it can also mean anyone who's tactful & avoids outright conflict
a diplomat
Lily!
|
DD
$1,500
[19]
This ocean's greatest depth, about 18,000 feet, lies at around 82 degrees north latitude
the Arctic Ocean
Porter
|
$1,200
[2]
In 2016 a British 15-year-old got $250,000 for winning a new race of these remote-controlled craft around a track
drones
|
$1,200
[23]
This male first name starting with "X" is also a Jesuit university in Cincinnati
Xavier
Porter
|
|
$1,600
[5]
I scream, you scream for these bite-sized chocolate-covered ice cream treats with a double talk name
bonbons
Porter
|
$1,600
[29]
This giant of modern physics was diagnosed with ALS as a graduate student at Cambridge
Hawking
Apurva
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$1,600
[13]
Though they weren't mounting pictures, the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution are known as this
the Framers
Lily!
|
$1,600
[16]
The Gulf of Mannar between India & this island nation is noted for its pearl banks & the sacred chank, a gastropod mollusk
Sri Lanka
Porter
|
$1,600
[1]
He was just 18 when he joined brother Frank & the Younger Gang to rob his first bank in 1866
Jesse James
Porter
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
In the 1637 work "Geometrie" he introduced the use of X, Y & Z as symbols of unknown quantities
Descartes
Porter
|
|
$2,000
[7]
Before we go, we should check out the ratings on this website that sounds like something you throw at a bad film
Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com)
Porter
|
$2,000
[30]
This Rome-born physicist designed the first nuclear reactor
(Enrico) Fermi
Apurva
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$2,000
[14]
Once there were hopes for an overall budget agreement between Obama & the GOP, the "grand" this type of deal
a bargain (a compromise accepted)
Lily!
|
$2,000
[17]
The Strait of Tiquina connects the northern & southern parts of this lake in the Andes
Lake Titicaca
Lily!
|
$2,000
[4]
As a teen, this "Birds of America" artist conducted the first bird-banding on the continent by using thread
Audubon
Porter
|
$2,000
[25]
X Division at this New Mexico national lab is the USA's center for the physics of nuclear weapons
Los Alamos
Porter
|
It was constructed in the Paris foundry of Gaget, Gauthier & Co. from 1875 to 1884
the Statue of Liberty