Show #573 1987-02-18 (taped 1986-12-28) Teen Tournament

1987 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Cres Formey — a junior at Windsor Forest High School from Savannah, Georgia

Sara Stanchina — a freshman at Lionville Junior High School from Downington, Pennsylvania

Salil Kumar — a senior at Isidore Newman High School from Harahan, Louisiana

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Salil $1,100 $3,700 $6,500 $7,201
Automatic semifinalist
$7,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 2 DDs)
Sara $-500 $-600 $-600 $-600
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$-600
3 R, 4 W
Cres $600 $2,200 $4,800 $4,900
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$4,800
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

POP SINGERS RELIGION ICE CREAM GEOGRAPHY DIRTY WORDS METALS
$100 [9]
1st name of singers Grant, Money, & Rabbit
Eddy
Salil
$100 [20]
A transgression against God, it can be mortal or venial
sin
Sara
$100 [28]
This best-selling brand of cookies is also available as "cookies n' cream" ice cream
Oreos
Salil
$100 [7]
Once called "El-Khela", the emptiness, it covers about 1/3 of Africa
Sahara
Cres
$100 [25]
"Dirty" word that can precede pack, bath, or wrestling
mud
Salil
$300 [17]
Pb, it corrodes so little that words stamped on Roman water pipes made of it are still legible
lead
Cres
$200 [18]
Last name of singers Joe, Janet, & Jermaine
Jackson
Cres
$200 [21]
At Jim Bakker's Heritage USA, these are held every Tuesday afternoon at the hotel's pool
baptisms
Sara
$200 [10]
Though your stomach may not have room, the wide-brimmed "waffle" type of this holds a whole sundae
cone
Cres
$200 [1]
Though only about 16,000 sq. mi., this European country has over 5000 mi. of canals & navigable rivers
the Netherlands
Salil
$200 [24]
If a hog invites you home, it's appropriate to tell him his place looks like this
pig sty
Cres
$400 [16]
Though technically a metal, it becomes a solid only at temperatures below -38℉.
mercury
$300 [8]
Sporting pink glasses & a ponytail at Andy & Fergie's wedding, he was not asked to sing "Kiss the Bride"
Elton John
Cres
$300 [22]
Blown in Jewish rituals, the shofar is traditionally a horn of this animal
sheep (male sheep, a ram)
Salil
$300 [15]
Giving a yellowish tint, it's what makes French vanilla ice cream "French"
egg
Salil
$300 [2]
Of Tahiti, Samoa, or Guam, the one not in the Western Hemisphere
Guam
Salil
$300 [6]
If you get mad at your Barbie doll, you can drop her in a pit of this Mattel goo
Slime
Salil
$500 [26]
Common metal made from bauxite ore
aluminum
Salil
$400 [12]
Sting, U2 & Peter Gabriel headlined the "Conspiracy of Hope" tour to raise money for this organization
Amnesty International
Salil
$400 [23]
Shh...we hope we're not overdue in telling you St. Jerome is patron saint of this profession
librarians
Cres
$400 [13]
The texture is better if this process is done quickly, but that's impossible if there's too much sugar
freezing
Salil
DD $300 [4]
1 of 2 rivers that join at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River
(1 of) Allegheny (or Monongahela)
Salil
$400 [3]
In "A Visit from St. Nicholas", St. Nick's "clothes were all tarnished with ashes" & this
soot
Salil
$500 [11]
Of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the 2 who are pairing up for reunion of Buffalo Springfield
Stephen Stills & Neil Young
$500 [27]
Holy city whose sites include the Well of Zem-Zem, Abraham's Footprint, & a Great Mosque
Mecca
Sara Cres
$500 [19]
In case you didn't know, Kraft & Pillsbury are behind these 2 "Scandinavian" brands of ice cream
Häagen-Dazs & Frusen Glädjé
Sara
$500 [5]
This mountainous coastal country is South America's 3rd largest in area
Peru
Salil Sara
$500 [14]
From old High German for "foul", it can also describe someone very rich
filthy
Salil

Double Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY AMERICAN INDIANS WINTER SPORTS MACHINES FACTS & FIGURES POE-ETRY
$200 [11]
A marsupium is this part of a female marsupial, used to shelter her young
pouch
Cres
$200 [1]
Tribes which carve totem poles live in this part of the U.S.
Pacific Northwest
Salil
$200 [4]
# of intermissions during a normal hockey game
2
Salil
$200 [7]
# of spark plugs normally used in a V-8 engine
8
Salil
$200 [3]
At time of Shigechiyo Izumi's death at age 120 in 1986, he was listed in Guinness as being this
world's oldest man
Salil
$200 [8]
Not surprisingly, the heroines of Poe's "Lenore", "The Sleeper" & "Ulalume" are all in this condition
dead
Salil
$400 [5]
The name of this animal is a corruption of the Spanish "el lagarto", the lizard
alligator
DD $200 [6]
Colorful reason large number of whites flocked to Black Hills leading to war with the red man
gold
Salil
$400 [24]
Of jumping, hot dog, or slalom skis, the type that are longest & heaviest
jumping
$400 [15]
Whether you use the cylinder or agitator type of this, you still risk ring around the collar
washing machine
Cres
$400 [9]
The top grossing film of 1985, not 1955
Back to the Future
Salil
$400 [2]
Tho the poem's "To My Mother", he wrote for this relative, "mother to the one I loved so dearly"
mother-in-law
Cres
$600 [12]
The largest wild member of canidae, the dog family
wolf
Salil
$600 [13]
Bands of this Arizona tribe include the Tonto, Chiricahua & Mescalero
Apache
$600 [25]
What officials must do if you use brakes during a run in bobsled competition
disqualify you
Salil
$600 [18]
Some parts of this machine are the feed dog, presser foot, & bobbin winder
sewing machine
Cres
$600 [10]
It remains on the average, the most expensive state in which to buy a house
California
Salil Sara
$600 [14]
The "Poe"m named for them repeats this tintinnabulating word 59 times
bells
Sara
$800 [16]
Number of horns on an African rhinoceros
2
Cres
$1,000 [29]
Johnny Cash James Garner & Burt Reynolds are all partly descended from this tribe
Cherokee
Cres
DD $600 [28]
Name of the followingpiece, which features a winter sport in the title:
"The Skater's Waltz"
Salil
$800 [19]
Leonardo da Vinci developed a type of this device which measured distance traveled by carriages
odometer
Salil
$800 [20]
Parodied by Billy Crystal on SNL, this longest-running talk show host started his "Memory Lane" in 1953
Joe Franklin
Salil
$800 [22]
Its permanent perch was "on the pallid bust of Pallas"
"The Raven"
Salil
$1,000 [17]
The chameleon-like cuttlefish isn't really a fish but a species of this
squid
Salil
$800 [27]
In the 1968 Winter Games, this figure skater won the only gold for the U.S.
Peggy Fleming
Salil
$1,000 [26]
The "finned thingey" at the end of the Xerox machine that separates copies & keeps them in order
collator
$1,000 [21]
# of companies included in Dow Jones Industrial Average
30
$1,000 [23]
Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace" is quoted as if written by a character in the story of this doomed house
House of Usher
Salil

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORY

It arrived in the U.S. in June of 1885 in 214 cases aboard the French ship Isere

Statue of Liberty

Cres "What is the Statue of Liberty?" — wagered $100
Salil "What is the Statue of Liberty?" — wagered $701

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