Show #1732 1992-02-25 (taped 1992-01-03) Teen Tournament

1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Raj Raghavan — a junior from Plano, Texas

Muffy Morris — a sophomore from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

K.C. Harris — a senior from South Hill, Virginia

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
K.C. $-100 $-200 $1,000 $2,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$2,200
11 R, 9 W (including 1 DD)
Muffy $2,700 $4,700 $7,300 $8,300
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$6,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Raj $1,500 $2,200 $4,400 $8,800
Automatic semifinalist
$6,000
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LANDMARKS THE MOVIES GEMS & JEWELRY FAMOUS JOHNS SINGING PUNCTUATION MARKS
$100 [11]
This famous Massachusetts rock is engraved with the date 1620
Plymouth Rock
Raj
$100 [1]
This 1991 Steven Spielberg film is based on the premise "What if Peter Pan grew up?"
Hook
Muffy
$100 [16]
A few of these green gems are mined near Stony Point, North Carolina
emeralds
Raj
$100 [17]
In 1804 this ornithologist became the first known person to band birds
John Audubon
Muffy
$100 [26]
Some singing voices are described as "lyric", a word derived from the Greek for this instrument
lyre
Raj
$100 [6]
In printing this punctuation mark is also known as a full stop
period
Raj
$200 [12]
New geological evidence suggests this Giza, Egypt statue may be twice as old as previously thought
The Sphinx
Muffy
$200 [2]
Anna Chlumsky to Macaulay Culkin, according to the title of a 1991 film
My Girl
Muffy
$200 [18]
The freshwater type of these can be found in the Mississippi & its tributaries
pearls
Raj
$200 [19]
From 1735-37 this founder of Methodism was a missionary to the American colony of Georgia
John Wesley
K.C. Raj
$200 [27]
An arietta is a short one of these
*solo (**aria)
K.C. Muffy
$200 [7]
They enclose the exact words of a speaker
quotation marks
Muffy
$300 [13]
Lakehurst Naval Air Station in this state was the site of the Hindenburg explosion
New Jersey
Muffy
$300 [3]
Steve Martin starred in the 1991 remake of this 1950 Spencer Tracy film
Father of the Bride
K.C.
$300 [23]
You'd wear your diadem on this body part
head
K.C. Muffy
$300 [20]
In 1736 this New York Weekly Journal publisher printed an account of his freedom of the press trial
John Peter Zenger
Raj
$300 [28]
A "decorative" note or group of notes such as a trill, or a generic term for a Christmas tree decoration
ornament
K.C.
$300 [8]
It's the strongest mark we have to indicate emotional emphasis at the end of a sentence
exclamation point
Raj
$400 [14]
His Washington, D.C. memorial was dedicated April 13, 1943, the 200th anniversary of his birth
Thomas Jefferson
K.C. Muffy
$400 [4]
She starred as the mother of a child prodigy & made her directorial debut in "Little Man Tate"
Jodie Foster
Muffy
$500 [25]
This stone that's green in sunlight & red under artificial light is named for a czar
alexandrite
K.C.
$400 [21]
Middle name of crime fighter John Hoover
Edgar
Raj
$400 [29]
Vibrato is Italian for "vibrating" & this is Italian for "trembling"
tremolo
$400 [9]
Compound words are sometimes joined together by this punctuation mark
hyphen
Muffy
$500 [15]
This French engineer designed the interior support tower for the Statue of Liberty
Eiffel
Muffy
$500 [5]
He played a corporate raider known as Larry the Liquidator in "Other People's Money"
Danny Devito
Raj
DD $900 [24]
Turquoise is the state gem of these two southwestern states
Arizona & New Mexico
Muffy
$500 [22]
This 10th U.S. Pres. was elected to the Confederate House of Reps. but died before taking office
John Tyler
$500 [30]
As a noun, it's a high-pitched voice; as an adjective, it often precedes "clef"
treble
Muffy
$500 [10]
You'll commonly find this mark before a list or after a business letter's salutation
colon
Raj

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPAIN BLACK AMERICA MATH COINS ANCIENT HISTORY QUOTES
$200 [26]
These animals are specially bred near Salamanca to participate in Spain's national spectacle
bulls
Raj
$200 [1]
In 1989 David Dinkins was elected this city's first black mayor
New York City
Raj
$200 [2]
The standard abacus uses a system of this base number
10
K.C.
$200 [21]
In 1946 his portrait was first placed on the U.S. dime
Franklin Roosevelt
K.C.
$200 [4]
The Persians & the Medes were considered barbarians, people who didn't speak this language
Greek
K.C. Muffy
$200 [12]
Naturalist John Ray first recorded the proverb "Blood is thicker than" this
water
Raj
$400 [27]
Forms of this dance include the Alegrias, the Bulerias & the Farruca
flamenco
K.C.
$400 [3]
President Bush credited much of Desert Storm's success to this chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
Muffy
$400 [13]
The number of scruples in 6 drams or the number of inches in half a yard
18
Raj
$400 [22]
An Egyptian bronze coin of the 1st century B.C. depicts this queen as Aphrodite
Cleopatra
K.C. Raj
$400 [5]
You don't have to consult an oracle to know the Pythian Games were held here
Delphi
Raj
$400 [17]
Completes Julius Caesar's declaration "I came, I saw,..."
I conquered
Raj
$600 [28]
This city on the Mediterranean is known for it citrus fruit & La Seo Cathedral
Valencia
K.C.
$600 [8]
In 1931 this botanist refused an offer from the Soviet Union to supervise its cotton plantations
George Washington Carver
Muffy
$600 [14]
The name for these numbers less than zero came from the Latin for "to deny"
negative
Raj
$600 [23]
The gold ducat of this Italian city showed the Doge receiving a banner from St. Mark
Venice
K.C.
$600 [6]
In the 5th century the Magyars were called the "On Ogur", which is where we get this country's name
Hungary
Muffy
$800 [19]
John Keats called this American statesman "a philosophical Quaker full of mean and thrifty maxims"
Benjamin Franklin
K.C.
DD $1,200 [29]
In 1992 Spain is set to host the Olympics in Barcelona & a world's fair in this city
Seville
K.C.
$800 [10]
At the 1988 Summer Olympics Jackie Joyner-Kersee & this sister-in-law won six medals between them
Florence Griffith-Joyner
Muffy
$800 [15]
A logarithm is an example of this symbol
exponent
$800 [24]
The commemorative Columbian Exposition coin of 1892 & 1893 bore an engraving of this ship
Santa Maria
Raj
$800 [7]
In 201 B.C. he was the ruler of Carthage but Rome wanted him as a prisoner
Hannibal
K.C.
$1,000 [20]
George Bernard Shaw called this condition "the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes"
poverty
K.C. Muffy
$1,000 [11]
W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of the Niagara Movement, was the 1st black to receive a Ph.D. from this Ivy League university
Harvard
Muffy
$1,000 [16]
It's the next prime number above 23
29
Raj
$1,000 [25]
In 1658 this Lord supplied Maryland with a coin with his portrait on it
Lord Baltimore
K.C.
$1,000 [9]
Although this city was Amenhotep III's capital he was buried in the nearby Valley of the Kings
Thebes
K.C.
DD $1,600 [18]
It's to whom Edwin Stanton was referring when he said, "Now he belongs to the ages"
Abraham Lincoln
Raj

Final Jeopardy!

ASTRONOMY

Areology is the scientific study of this planet

Mars

K.C. "What is Mars?" — wagered $1,000
Raj "What is Mars?" — wagered $4,400
Muffy "What isMars?" — wagered $1,000

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