Show #7866 2018-11-19 (taped 2018-08-29) Teen Tournament

2018 Teen Tournament final game 1.

Contestants

Maya Wright — a senior from Peachtree City, Georgia

Claire Sattler — a senior from Bonita Springs, Florida

Emma Arnold — a junior from Owings Mills, Maryland

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emma $2,200 $5,200 $15,600 $19,000 $15,600
17 R, 1 W
Claire $2,000 $4,000 $18,600 $21,800 $15,600
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Maya $3,600 $6,400 $12,800 $7,800 $12,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE GUYS MEDDLING IN YOUR BUSINESS ELEMENTAL WOMEN ON TV SOLVE THE MYSTERY "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS
$200 [1]
He seizes the crown of Scotland unlawfully but is done in by his ambition
Macbeth
Claire
$200 [26]
Opposing a court order to help the FBI in 2016, its CEO said, "The govt. is asking" this company "to hack its own users"
Apple
Claire
$200 [2]
This element's name is derived from the Greek for "water" & "born"
hydrogen
Claire
$200 [7]
At a reported salary of $25 million, in 2017 Katy Perry took a judging gig on this show
American Idol
Claire
$200 [15]
Time to interview one of these, someone who saw or heard what happened; one in court testifies under oath
a witness
Emma
$200 [21]
Command to Fido to retrieve a ball
fetch
Maya
$400 [12]
A comic sidekick who appears in 3 different plays; his death is mentioned in another
Falstaff
Emma
$400 [27]
VZ on the Dow, this company took its new name after Bell Atlantic merged with GTE in 2000
Verizon
Maya
$400 [3]
When you're talking about an organic compound, you're talking about one based on this element
carbon
Maya
$400 [8]
On Netflix as a P.I. in Hell's Kitchen, this alliterative Marvel superhero wrestles with personal demons & very real ones too
Jessica Jones
Claire Maya
$400 [17]
Someone the police want to talk to is a person of interest; someone accused of the crime is this word
a suspect
Maya
$400 [22]
It's a story that teaches a moral, like the one about "The Tortoise and the Hare"
a fable
Emma
$600 [13]
This guy's tricked into thinking his spouse is unfaithful & then makes a murderous mistake
Othello
Emma
$600 [28]
This automaker drives in with its Sorento SUV
Kia
Maya
DD $600 [4]
The first letter of the medication Klor-Con tells you that it's helping those with low levels of this element
potassium
Maya
$600 [9]
In 2017 it was the end of a fairy tale for Emma Swan when Jennifer Morrison said she wouldn't be coming back to this drama
Once Upon a Time
Maya
$600 [18]
Let's not go accusing Johnny Gilbert just yet; we haven't found this "M" word, the reason he did that
motive
Emma
$600 [23]
It's located between your hip & your knee
the femur
Maya
$800 [14]
Antonio is the title Italian businessman in this play
The Merchant of Venice
Claire
$800 [29]
"America's Diner", as of 2017 it put its slams & skillets on a new on demand app
Denny's
Claire
$800 [5]
This element is alphabetically first among the noble gases
argon
Maya
$800 [10]
Rebecca & Kate are 2 of the Pearsons who will make you sob uncontrollably on this NBC show
This Is Us
Maya
$800 [19]
An Old Norse term for "tracking" gave us this 6-letter word for a detective who tracks down clues
a sleuth
Maya
$800 [24]
These 2 5-letter words are used to refer to the plant & animal life of a particular region
flora and fauna
Maya
$1,000 [16]
Valentine & Proteus are the title Italian friends in this comedy
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Emma
$1,000 [6]
Described as silver white, this precious metal, No. 78, is combined with iridium to make surgical pins
platinum
Claire
$1,000 [11]
In 2018 her new "Project" was playing Priya on "Champions", which she also co-created
Mindy Kaling
Emma
$1,000 [20]
Solve the case with this type of reasoning from the general to the specific; a kids' book is called this kind of "Detective"
deductive
Claire Maya
$1,000 [25]
It's the official language of Iran; versions of it are spoken in Afghanistan & Tajikistan
Farsi
Emma

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART SUBJECTS VEGGIE IDIOMS NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY FLAGS TYLER, THE CREATOR ODD FUTURE
$400 [2]
Arthur Rackham's work depicting this young heroine was one of his manyillustrationsfor children's tales
Little Red Riding Hood
Claire
$400 [7]
"Small" these are insignificant; a "hot" one is an incendiary topic
potatoes
Emma
$400 [16]
In 1992 George H.W. Bush, Brian Mulroney & Carlos Salinas signed this 5-letter trade pact
NAFTA
Emma
$400 [17]
After the end of apartheid, this country introduced a new flag in 1994
South Africa
Claire
$400 [12]
Mabel Simmons, AKA Madea, was created by this writer/actor for the stage & hit it big in the movies
Tyler Perry
Maya
$400 [1]
The University of Puerto Rico studies possibly habitable faraway planets; a key requirement is surface this substance
water
Emma
$1,200 [4]
Here's Bernini's sculpture of this monstrous mythological personality
Medusa
Maya
$800 [8]
You're crazy if you're described as "out of your" this type of plant that includes squash
gourd
Claire Maya
$800 [19]
The Y2K bug scared the world in the 1990s because many feared computers would read the year 2000 as this year
1900 (or 00)
Maya
$800 [23]
The only country without a rectangular flag is this Himalayan nation
Nepal
Claire
$800 [13]
In this 2008 film Liv Tyler is cellular biologist Betty Ross, in love with a guy who's not the same when he's angry
The Incredible Hulk
Maya
$800 [27]
This 3-letter word precedes "pack" in a word for a long-awaited solo flying suit
jet
Claire
$1,600 [5]
German master Lucas Cranach the Elder painted this Biblical dancer with John the Baptist's severed head
Salome
Emma
$1,200 [9]
This alliterative phrase referring to one's calm suggests a certain amount of refrigeration
cool as a cucumber
Maya
$1,200 [20]
In 1995 Colin Firth played this character in "Pride & Prejudice" on a TV miniseries--ask your mom about it
(Fitzwilliam) Darcy
Claire
$1,600 [25]
Turkey's flag has but 1 star & this on it; Turkmenistan's has it too, but with 5 stars
a crescent moon
Maya
$1,200 [14]
Thisactor created a lot of howls playing Scott McCall on MTV's "Teen Wolf"
Tyler Posey
Maya
$1,200 [28]
Drug-resistant bacteria could end the 70-year medical era of these, such as amoxicillin & the good old Z-Pak
antibiotics
Claire
DD $2,000 [3]
1-word term for the Virgin Mary; there are paintings of her "and Child with Saints" & "...with Angels"
Madonna
Claire
$1,600 [10]
You are trying to tempt someone to your cause if you "dangle" one of these in front of him
a carrot
Emma
$1,600 [21]
In 1992, 8 years after it hosted the Winter Olympics, this Bosnian capital was shelled by Yugoslav forces
Sarajevo
Emma
$2,000 [26]
The motto "Hardships there are, but the land is green and the sun shineth" goes with theflagof this West Indies nation
Jamaica
Emma
$1,600 [15]
Tyler Florence helps up-&-coming chefs hit the road in Food Network's "Race" of these mobile kitchens
food trucks
Emma
$1,600 [29]
Inbreeding is a problem if humans move to autogamy, AKA self-this, like some flowers & some worms
fertilization
Claire Maya
$2,000 [6]
Crayon, charcoal & watercolors were all used to paint 1939's"Head of an Old Peasant"by this Mexican muralist
Diego Rivera
Emma
$2,000 [11]
Bryce Harper says Mickey Mantle was "a typical" this-fed "kid from Oklahoma"
corn
Claire
$2,000 [22]
Boasting a whopping 32 MB of space, the first portable device that could play these music files came out in 1998
mp3s
Emma
DD $3,000 [24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a flag on the monitor.) The flag shows the sun setting over wavy blue & white stripes that represent the Pacific Ocean, a reminder that this is Canada's westernmost province
British Columbia
Claire
$2,000 [18]
This Utah band that sang "Everybody Talks" was co-created by Tyler Glenn
the Neon Trees
Claire

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN WRITERS

In a twist of irony, he accidentally set fire to some 300 acres of woods at Fair Haven Pond near the Concord River in 1844

Henry David Thoreau

Maya "Who is Emerson?" — wagered $5,000
Emma "Who is Henry David Thoreau?" — wagered $3,400
Claire "Who is Thoreau?" — wagered $3,200

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