2016 Teen Tournament semifinal game 2.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Alec Fischthal — a junior from North Woodmere, New York
Emily LaMonica — a senior from Sayreville, New Jersey
Connor Pierce — a freshman from Dallas, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connor | $-200 | $1,000 | $5,000 |
$2,000
2nd place: $10,000 |
$5,000
10 R, 3 W |
| Emily | $800 | $5,200 | $17,200 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$13,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Alec | $5,400 | $11,200 | $19,200 |
$3,999
Finalist |
$18,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| NEVER PRESIDENT | ANNUAL EVENTS | EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | MOVIE VILLAINS | TEXTING | IT'S "LIT" |
|
$200
[2]
This vice president starred in an Oscar-winning documentary & won a Nobel Prize, but missed out on the White House
Al Gore
Alec
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$200
[9]
In Nov. 1921 it was observed with the burial of an unknown soldier from World War I at Arlington National Cemetery
Veterans Day
Connor
|
$200
[12]
At about 840,000 square miles, this island near Canada is the world's largest
Greenland
Alec
|
$200
[5]
He observes, "Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now... release your anger"
Darth Vader
Connor
Alec
|
$200
[21]
SMS stands for this "message service", so keep your text brief
short
Connor
|
$200
[26]
Adept with an axe, Abraham Lincoln earned the nickname the "rail" this
splitter
Alec
|
|
$400
[3]
Carl Albert, holder of this House of Representatives leadership job, crept 1 heartbeat closer in 1974
Speaker of the House
Connor
|
$400
[4]
The Texas Cavaliers River Parade is a centerpiece of this annual San Antonio event, "party" in Spanish
fiesta
Emily
|
$400
[10]
In July 1913 this appropriately named California valley recorded the highest temperature ever in the U.S., 134°
Death Valley
Emily
|
$400
[11]
We wouldn't blame this "Wizard of Oz" villain if she had a severe case of hydrophobia
the Wicked Witch of the West
Alec
|
$400
[22]
In addition to emoji, you can use kaomoji, a Japanese type of this, which also starts with "emo"
emoticons
Emily
|
$400
[27]
You've probably used thisin a lab or science class
litmus paper
Emily
|
|
$600
[6]
In 2012 Jill Stein received 470,000 votes as the nominee of this "colorful" party
the Green Party
Alec
|
$600
[1]
If you're fasting on the 10th day of Tishri, you're observing this Jewish holiday
Yom Kippur
Connor
Alec
|
$600
[13]
Africa's highest mountain is this one whose "snows" were made famous in a short story
Kilimanjaro
Alec
|
$600
[16]
This "X-Men" character turned 2 D.C. landmarks into 1 when he dropped a stadium around the White House
Magneto
Emily
|
$600
[23]
This singer says her husband Russell Brand broke up with her via text message on New Year's Eve
Katy Perry
Emily
|
$600
[28]
It means to move lightly & swiftly from one place to another
flit
Emily
|
|
$800
[7]
Shewas a popular 20th century First Lady, & in a different era, might have eventually run for the job
Eleanor Roosevelt
Alec
|
$800
[19]
In many places in the South, this festive season opens on Twelfth Night & climaxes with Mardi Gras
Carnival
|
$800
[14]
Africa's Kariba Dam created the largest by volume of these man-made water-storing lakes, capacity 180 billion cubic meters
a reservoir
Alec
|
$800
[17]
This masked man tells Bruce Wayne, "When Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die"
Bane
Emily
|
$800
[24]
Text "IRL" & it stands for this, the opposite of the imaginary Internet world
in real life
Alec
|
$800
[29]
At home, these services, like water, gas & electricity really add up
utilities
Alec
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Henry Clay, who ran for president 5 times unsuccessfully, was a longtime senator from this state
Kentucky
Emily
Alec
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
The date of this annual event honors a June 14, 1777 resolution of the Continental Congress
Flag Day
Alec
|
$1,000
[15]
The longest river in southeast Asia, it flows 2,700 miles through Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam
the Mekong
Emily
|
$1,000
[18]
This leader of the Decepticons: "Humans don't deserve to live...join them in extinction!"
Megatron
Alec
|
$1,000
[25]
While working for Microsoft, Dean Hachamovitch invented this texting feature that suggests words for you
autocorrect
Connor
Emily
|
$1,000
[30]
It's another name for a courtroom lawyer
litigator
Alec
|
| THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 10-LETTER WORDS | BODY TALK | THE ANCIENT WORLD | "T" UP SOME ENTERTAINMENT | IT'S AMERICAN LIT |
|
$400
[12]
The original idea for this shrine in the Black Hills of South Dakota was to sculpt faces of Native American & Old West heroes
Mount Rushmore
Alec
|
$400
[24]
Rudimentary, or a type of school for young students
elementary
Connor
|
$400
[19]
Your 7 cervical vertebrae stiffen this part of your body where they're found
the neck
Alec
|
$400
[2]
After defeating the Shang dynasty around 1000 B.C., the Zhou dynasty ruled this empire for nearly 800 years
ancient China
Emily
|
$400
[30]
The debut album "A Beautiful World" was released under just this last name--no Robin
Thicke
Connor
|
$400
[1]
He began an 1854 work, "When I wrote the following pages... I lived alone, in the woods"
Thoreau
Alec
|
|
$800
[13]
Special observances are held annually at this battlefield on Memorial Day & November 19
Gettysburg
|
$800
[8]
Term for a movie based on a novel or another written work
an adaptation
Emily
|
$800
[20]
This word can be a synonym for number or finger
digit
Alec
|
$800
[7]
It was the chief city-state that whipped Athens in the Peloponnesian War
Sparta
Connor
|
$800
[17]
Russell Westbrook's NBA team
the Thunder
Connor
|
$800
[3]
In an Arthur Miller play, Biff & Happy are the sons of this unhappy salesman
Willy Loman
Emily
Alec
|
|
$1,200
[14]
This national park has the world's greatest concentration of geysers
Yellowstone
Alec
|
$1,200
[25]
The skill of choosing a path for a ship or aircraft to its destination
navigation
Alec
|
$1,200
[21]
About 4 inches long, these blood filters sit below your diaphragm
kidneys
Emily
|
$1,200
[9]
Tradition says Rome was founded by twins whose ancestors fled the Greek horseplay that destroyed this city
Troy
Alec
|
$1,200
[18]
In 2013 this No. 1 hit song made buying clothes at Goodwill a happening thing
"Thrift Shop"
Alec
|
$1,600
[5]
In this novel's final letter, Celie thanks God "for bringing my sister Nettie and our children home"
The Color Purple
Emily
|
|
$1,600
[15]
This Florida park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States
the Everglades
Connor
|
$1,600
[26]
A person with his or her thumb out, once more common on our highways than today
a hitchhiker
Emily
|
$2,000
[29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a skeleton diagram on the monitor.) You can see from its shape why a Latin word meaning "pipe" or "flute" gave us the name for this long front bone of the shin
the tibia
Alec
|
$1,600
[10]
They're the 2 calendar months named for Caesars
July and August
Emily
|
$1,600
[22]
As well as part of a Disney theme park, it's a 2015 George Clooney movie about our bright techie future
Tomorrowland
Emily
|
$2,000
[6]
Guilt, fear, photos & a diary are among the title possessions in this book by Tim O'Brien about the Vietnam War
The Things They Carried
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[16]
The monument seenherethat commemorates Perry's victory rises 352 feet above this lake
Lake Erie
Connor
Emily
|
$2,000
[27]
Like the tails of certain monkeys, a giraffe's tongue is said to be this, adapted for seizing & grasping
prehensile
Connor
Emily
Alec
|
DD
$8,600
[28]
This nerve carries impulses from the retina to the brain
the optic nerve
Emily
|
$2,000
[11]
Menes is credited with unifying the upper & lower sections of this kingdom around the 3rd millennium B.C.
Egypt
Alec
|
$2,000
[23]
With partner Kurt Schneider, he's racked up 500 million YouTube views with his cover & original songs
Sam Tsui
Emily
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
Ernest Hemingway took the title of this novel set during the Spanish Civil War from a line by John Donne
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Emily
|
Completed in 1943, this "city within a city" has outer walls over 900 feet long
the Pentagon