Show #7858 2018-11-07 (taped 2018-08-28) Teen Tournament

2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Maya Wright — a senior from Peachtree City, Georgia

Anish Maddipoti — a junior from Austin, Texas

Emma Arnold — a junior from Owings Mills, Maryland

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emma $0 $2,200 $15,400 $18,400
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$15,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Anish $3,400 $6,200 $6,400 $3,600
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$9,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Maya $2,400 $6,600 $18,200 $26,200
Automatic semifinalist
$18,200
23 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

YOUNG ADULT READING SPORTS ABBREV. ON THE CALENDAR WE WALKED TO SCHOOL IT WAS 10 MILES IN THE "SNOW"
$200 [30]
"Queen of Hearts" & "The White Rabbit Chronicles" were inspired by this 1865 work
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Maya
$200 [8]
It's also called a walk:BB
a base on balls
$200 [1]
Harry Truman had stars & stripes in his eyes when he designated June 14 as this annual "Day"
Flag Day
Anish
$200 [27]
Though I took the Harvard Bridge across the Charles River, it took me to this tech-savvy university
MIT (or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Anish
$200 [23]
A 10-mile-long aqueduct built by the Romans supplied Segovia, Spain with this resource for 2,000 years
water
Maya
$200 [21]
3-word phrase describing the fleece of Mary's lamb in a kids' song
white as snow
Emma
$400 [11]
4 friends share the stories of their adventures through the medium of a pair of jeans in this 2001 book
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Maya
$400 [9]
A boxer wants to be on the giving end:TKO
a technical knockout
Maya
$400 [2]
In 1908 founder Anna Jarvis gave birth to the first official observance of this May holiday
Mother's Day
Anish Maya
DD $600 [5]
The promenade down Volunteer Blvd., of course, led me to the University of this state
Tennessee
Anish
$400 [24]
Go 10 miles south of Arecibo, Puerto Rico to check out some nebulas using one of the world's largest of these devices
a (radio) telescope
Emma
$400 [19]
Maybe pick up this souvenir, a fluid-filled glass ball with the Hollywood sign enclosed
a snow globe
Anish
$600 [12]
We pledge to you that this is the third book in the "Divergent" series
Allegiant
Maya
$600 [6]
For a hoopster:PPG
points per game
Anish
$600 [3]
I do not like green eggs & ham, but I do like that Read Across America Day, March 2, is his birthday
Dr. Seuss
Maya
$600 [20]
Sometimes we walked down Westwood Blvd. to get to this California university founded in 1919
UCLA
Anish
$600 [15]
Not one but 2 Civil War battles took place at Cold Harbor, a mere 10 miles from this Confederate capital
Richmond
Anish
$600 [17]
Careful, or Mom could slide thesein your stir-fry
snow peas
Emma
$800 [13]
"Cinder" reworks a fairy tale, but the young woman is one of these--part human, part machine
a cyborg
Anish Maya
$800 [7]
He tries to sack the quarterback:DE
defensive end
Anish
$800 [4]
A June observance celebrates this U.S. national symbol, now back from the brink of extinction
the (bald) eagle
Anish
$800 [16]
Locust Walk was a fine way to get to class at the Wharton School, part of this university
University of Pennsylvania
Anish
$800 [25]
There's an annual race from the bottom of the Eiffel Tower to this royal chateau about 10 miles away
the Palace of Versailles
Anish
$800 [18]
urbandictionary.com says this term refers to "a very sensitive person"
snowflake
Maya
$1,000 [29]
"City of Bones" introduced the Shadowhunters, demon-dispatching warriors on Earth in this series
Mortal Instruments
Maya
$1,000 [10]
Part of baseball stats:WAR
wins above replacement
$1,000 [14]
This "colorful" shopping day is the day after Thanksgiving
Black Friday
Anish
$1,000 [26]
The walk through New Orleans' Audubon Park was a lovely way to get to this private university on St. Charles Ave.
Tulane
Maya
$1,000 [28]
Stuck downtown in this city? Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is only a 10-mile hike
Atlanta
Maya
$1,000 [22]
It's when you ski & make a "V" so you don't hit a tree
snowplow
Emma

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE TEEN MATH A WORD OF ADVICE QUOTING THE MOVIES OOPS ON STAMPS COMING OF AGE
$400 [5]
Enjoying mountain living, 12 major Greek gods called this place home; at nearly 9,600' up there, the gods did have a nice view
Olympus
Anish
$400 [9]
Book 13 of his "Elements" deals with regular solids
Euclid
Emma
$400 [30]
A friendly hint, or 20% for good service
a tip
Anish
$400 [14]
2015: "I gotta... grow 3 years worth of food... on a planet where nothing grows... luckily, I'm a botanist"
The Martian
Maya
$400 [22]
A 2007 stamp from Papua New Guinea misspelled this word, the inability to read (there was only one "L")
illiteracy
Maya
$400 [17]
This age came in with Britain's new queen in 1837
Victoria or the Victorian Age
Emma
$800 [4]
Heracles got in on an expedition with the Argonauts, led by this man
Jason
Maya
$800 [10]
A problem at the 2017 Intl. Math Olympiad for teens involved one of these lines touching a circle at a single point
a tangent line
Anish
$800 [29]
Advice on where to go; you might get it from the same type of high school counselor
guidance
Emma
$800 [12]
A 2003 cartoon:"All drains lead to the ocean"
Finding Nemo
Maya
$800 [23]
A stamp had this big landmark; not the original in N.Y. Harbor, but the lady in front of Vegas' New York-New York casino
the Statue of Liberty
Maya
$800 [18]
The golden age of this buccaneering activity began around 1650
piracy
Emma
$1,200 [3]
In addition to being god of the sea, he's also the god of earthquakes
Poseidon
Maya
$1,200 [6]
It's (13 + 14) x 15
405
$1,200 [27]
Leave this 10-letter advice in the box; maybe we'll take it
suggestion
Maya
$1,200 [13]
2009:"You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora"
Avatar
Maya
$1,200 [24]
On the stamp seen here, Monaco "oops"ed by putting 5 fingers & a thumb, too, on this New Deal U.S. president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maya
$1,200 [19]
Wet cultivation of this crop marks the start of Japan's Yayoi Period
rice
Maya
$1,600 [1]
Thought to be the center of the Earth, this town at Mt. Parnassus' foot was known for its oracle--ya see that coming?
Delphi
Emma
$2,000 [8]
In 1640 16-year-old Blaise Pascal came to math fame with an essay on these "sections"
conic sections
Anish
$1,600 [11]
Beginning & ending with "M", it's a wise saying or rule of conduct
a maxim
Maya
$1,600 [15]
2013, Clooney to Sandra Bullock:"Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up, thinking about you?"
Gravity
Anish
$1,600 [25]
A 1932 Philippine stamp honored Pagsanjan Falls but showed Vernal Falls in this California national park
Yosemite
Emma
$1,600 [20]
In history's stages per Karl Marx, feudalism gave way to this -ism, AKA the free market
capitalism
Emma
$2,000 [2]
Homer dubbed this war god "the blood-stained bane of mortals", & ol' Homie wasn't far wrong
Ares
Maya
DD $3,000 [7]
In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers
a prime number
Anish
$2,000 [28]
I'm going to give you my this, also an access point on a computer or the info that goes through it
input
Maya
$2,000 [16]
2017:"I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay & I was brought to life by Zeus"
Wonder Woman
Emma
$2,000 [26]
A 1968 Chinese stamp,"The Whole Country is Red", did not red out this island, & the authorities soon recalled it
Taiwan
Emma Anish
DD $2,000 [21]
For warships, the iron age began at the same time as the age of this type of power
steam
Emma

Final Jeopardy!

BROADWAY MUSICALS

Winner of 6 Tonys in 2017, it's the first Broadway musical to focus on the subject of teens & social media

Dear Evan Hansen

Anish "What is Hair" — wagered $2,800
Emma "What is "Dear Evan Hansen"?" — wagered $3,000
Maya "What is Dear Evan Hanson?" — wagered $8,000

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