2019 Teen Tournament final game 2.
Ryan Presler — an eighth grader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota (subtotal of $15,999)
Lucas Miner — a junior from Miami, Florida (subtotal of $14,800)
Avi Gupta — a senior from Portland, Oregon (subtotal of $24,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avi | $7,000 | $8,400 | $18,200 | $26,600 |
$19,200
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Lucas | $200 | $3,000 | $4,600 | $9,200 |
$5,600
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ryan | $1,800 | $3,000 | $17,400 | $26,402 |
$15,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| TAKING THE DRIVING TEST | ART SUPPLIES... | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES | HANGOUTS | FINISH THE CLASSIC AMERICAN LYRIC | "P"LACES ON THE MAP |
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$200
[1]
This state agency, the DMV for short, administers the test
the Department of Motor Vehicles
Avi
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$200
[6]
Art supplies humor, as in this type of drawing that exaggerates certain features
a caricature
Lucas
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$200
[11]
2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape
force quit
Avi
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$200
[16]
Let's chill at the New York public one; it has 92 locations & more than 55 million items, including DVDs
the library
Lucas
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$200
[26]
"Home, home on the range, where" these play
the deer and the antelope
Ryan
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$200
[21]
On some journeys, this artificial waterway can save ships 8,000 nautical miles
the Panama Canal
Avi
|
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$400
[2]
This alliterative method to get your car alongside the curb just might be on the test
parallel parking
Avi
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$400
[7]
...inspiration, as in "Prince of Peace", a vision of him by then 8-year-old Akiane Kramarik
Jesus
Avi
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$400
[12]
Meaning overhyped, this word suggests a grilled meat sandwich without anything inside it
a nothingburger
Avi
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$400
[22]
Be it Bondi in Sydney or Redondo in Cali, it's always a fun day at this geographic feature
the beach
Avi
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$400
[27]
"O beautiful for spacious skies..."
for amber waves of grain
Lucas
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$400
[20]
There are 35-foot-tall replicas of Heinz ketchup bottles at Heinz Field in this U.S. city
Pittsburgh
Avi
|
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$600
[3]
To take the test in most states, you'll need this proof of financial responsibility in case anything goes wrong
insurance
Avi
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$600
[8]
Art supplies fashion ideas--here's what 18th-century women wore for this outdoor activity (sidesaddle, of course)
riding
Avi
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$600
[13]
It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique
a dad bod
Avi
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$600
[23]
Sometimes it's fun to relax at home with your pals & listen to hits like "Natural" & "Believer" by this beastly band
Imagine Dragons
Avi
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$600
[28]
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when..."
skies are gray
Lucas
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$800
[19]
Confederation Bridge connects New Brunswick with this Canadian province
Prince Edward Island
Avi
|
|
$800
[4]
Mirrors aren't enough--look over your shoulder to check these areas before changing lanes
blind spots
Avi
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$800
[9]
...a new perspective, as in "Ma Jolie", his 1911 portrait of his girlfriend as a heap of triangles
Picasso
Ryan
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$800
[14]
Double-talk way of saying something or someone is insane or beyond understanding
cray-cray
Avi
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$800
[24]
In the '80s, teen gamers hung in arcades to see ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde chase this guy around a maze
Pac-Man
Lucas
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$800
[29]
"Doe, a deer, a female deer; ray, a drop of golden sun; me..."
a name I call myself
Lucas
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
Lieutenant Joseph Ives gave this name to a brilliantly colored Arizona desert, now partly within Petrified Forest National Park
the Painted Desert
Lucas
|
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$1,000
[5]
Failing to give this 3-word clearance to pedestrians can be an automatic failure
right of way
Ryan
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$1,000
[10]
...history lessons, as in Benjamin West'sdepictionof a 1755 battle in this North American war
the French and Indian War
Avi
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$1,000
[15]
A 2018 conference on computational linguistics included 4 papers on detection of this untrue stuff you read & hear
fake news
Avi
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$1,000
[25]
Nowadays, teen gamers hang using voice & text chat on this app with a name meaning strife or lack of harmony
Discord
Lucas
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$1,000
[30]
"Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine..."
you are lost and gone forever, oh my darling Clementine
Avi
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$1,000
[18]
This South African city was the capital of the Transvaal
Pretoria
Ryan
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| POETEENS | ROCKS & MINERALS | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS | IT'S TIME FOR TIME | EXPLORERS | DROP A LETTER |
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$400
[14]
In 2002 15-year-old poet Caroline Bird published her acclaimed debut volume, including "Spilt" this, over which she cries
milk
Avi
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$400
[26]
H2O below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it's considered a mineral if it's formed naturally
ice
Lucas
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$400
[6]
Winning 4-2, France claimed victory in the 2018 men's soccer World Cup final held in this Russian capital
Moscow
Ryan
|
$400
[1]
As a unit of time, an eon generally lasts for this many years
a billion
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$400
[17]
This carrot-topped Viking explorer colonized Greenland
Erik the Red
Lucas
Ryan
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$400
[11]
Drop an "E" from a lavish meal to get this verb meaning to abstain from food
fast
Avi
|
|
$800
[22]
John Keats, part of this passionate early 19th century movement, wrote his 1st known poem at about 18 & didn't live to see 26
Romanticism
Ryan
|
$800
[27]
Lodestone, a naturally magnetic rock, contains this elemental metal
iron
Avi
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$800
[7]
The oldest of pro tennis' 4 Grand Slam tournaments is this one held in England since 1877
Wimbledon
Ryan
|
$800
[2]
A standard "hour" of treatment with a therapist lasts this many minutes, 83.33% of an hour
50
Avi
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$800
[18]
In 1492 he was given the title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea"
Christopher Columbus
Lucas
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$800
[12]
Drop the "L" from a type of bedspread to get this verb that means "to resign"
quit
Ryan
|
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$1,200
[23]
The documentary "Louder Than a Bomb" follows teens competing in one of these violent-sounding poetry events
a poetry slam
Ryan
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$1,200
[28]
Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of this 4-letter substance, particles of soil smaller than .002 millimeter
clay
Ryan
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$1,200
[8]
The IJF is the International Federation for this martial art that gives belts of rank from white to black
judo
Lucas
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
Jet lag is a disruption in these rhythms of the body, from Latin words for "about the day"
circadian
Avi
|
$1,200
[19]
Once he started working for Spain in 1517, he was known by a Spanish form of his name, not the Portuguese Fernão
(Ferdinand) Magellan
Avi
Ryan
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$1,200
[13]
Drop the "T" from intense fear to get this mistake
error
Lucas
|
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$1,600
[24]
This Welshman was just 18 when he wrote "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
Dylan Thomas
Lucas
|
$1,600
[29]
To make quartz you need oxygen & this element--& lots of crystallization
silicon
Avi
|
$1,600
[9]
In 2018 Jessie Diggins & Kikkan Randall dashed across the snow for the 1st Olympic gold by U.S. women in this sport
cross-country skiing
Avi
|
$1,200
[3]
The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been traced back to 1425
30 days hath September
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$2,000
[21]
In 1911 local Quechua speaker Melchor Arteaga led Hiram Bingham to this "lost" Incan city
Machu Picchu
Ryan
|
$1,600
[15]
A synonym for "vision" drops its "T" & becomes this sound of relief or weariness
a sigh
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[25]
1760s teen Thomas Chatterton wrote of this astronomer's "System", "Our Earth supreme / rolls with the planets round the solar gleam"
Copernicus
Avi
Lucas
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$2,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows crystalline structures on the monitor.) Crystals fall into seven systems based on the arrangement of the axes they form; the three axes are equal length & all perpendicular in this this symmetric one, known by a 5-letter adjective
cubic
Avi
|
$2,000
[10]
A tournament in this sport named after a school is held yearly among Argentina, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand
rugby
Avi
|
$1,600
[4]
Leap seconds are sometimes added to clocks because this is slowing down
the rotation
Avi
|
DD
$4,000
[20]
He set sail from England in December 1577 & completed his circumnavigation of the world on Sept. 26, 1580
Drake
Ryan
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$2,000
[16]
Drop the "F" from a word meaning very cold & it comes this, stiff or unyielding
rigid
Lucas
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The first mention of this locale is in Chretien de Troyes' 12th century poem "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart"
Camelot