Show #2703 1996-05-08 Teen Tournament

1996 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Peter Friedman — a senior from Marlboro, New Jersey

Derek Bridges — a junior from Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Linda Alila — a sophomore from The Woodlands, Texas

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Linda $200 $1,600 $8,100 $15,500
Automatic semifinalist
$8,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Derek $1,400 $2,300 $7,700 $15,400
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$7,700
17 R, 1 W
Peter $1,500 $3,200 $6,400 $10,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$7,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STADIUMS CHILDREN'S SING-A-LONG STATE NICKNAMES BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WORLD HISTORY "POT"POURRI
$100 [21]
This baseball team will soon leave Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for a new home across the street
Braves
Linda
$100 [26]
He had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
Old MacDonald
Linda
$100 [10]
"The Grand Canyon State"
Arizona
Derek
$100 [16]
This company's stores now feature a specialty shop known as Books "R" Us
Toys "R" Us
Linda
$100 [1]
In 1975 this Cuban-leader sent several thousand troops to Angola
Fidel Castro
Peter
$100 [6]
It's at the end of the rainbow
pot of gold
Derek
$200 [22]
Maryland crab cakes are a specialty of this team's ballpark at Camden Yards
Orioles
Peter
$200 [27]
He has "a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal"
Frosty the Snowman
Linda
$200 [12]
"The Show Me State"
Missouri
Linda
$200 [17]
Like Levi Strauss, the Gap is headquartered in this California bay city
San Francisco
Derek
$200 [2]
When Mussolini came to power in the 1920s, he abolished all political parties in Italy except this one
Fascist
Peter
$200 [7]
It's a dish of braised meat, perhaps with added vegetables
pot roast or pot au feu
Peter
$300 [23]
When a member of this team homers at Shea Stadium, a big apple pops out of a hat in center field
Mets
Peter
$300 [28]
"There was a farmer who had a dog, and" this "was his name-o"
Bingo
Peter
$300 [13]
"The Gopher State"
Minnesota
Peter
$300 [18]
Created by a merger in 1892, this company has been bringing "good things to life" for 100 years
General Electric
Derek
DD $300 [3]
In 1975 Imelda Marcos became the first governor of the metropolitan area of this capital
Manila
Peter
$300 [8]
It's another name we use for the potpourri category
potluck
Derek
$400 [24]
Originally called the Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium, the Silverdome is home to this football team
(Detroit) Lions
Derek
$400 [29]
"His name is my name too. Whenever we go out and people always shout" this
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Peter
$400 [14]
"The Beehive State"
Utah
Derek
$400 [19]
This Pizza! Pizza! chain opened its 4,000th restaurant in 1992
Little Caesars
Linda
$400 [4]
In 1976 this Libyan leader put forth his principles of Arab nationalism in "The Green Book"
Qadhafi
Peter
$400 [9]
She painted watercolors of fungi in addition to art for her children's tales like "Peter Rabbit"
(Beatrix) Potter
Peter
$500 [25]
This Boston Park is Major League Baseball's only single-deck stadium
Fenway
Peter
$500 [30]
2 of the 8 things of mine the old man played "knick-knack" on
(2 of) thumb, shoe, knee, door, spine, hive, sticks & gate
Linda Derek
$500 [15]
"Heart of Dixie"
Alabama
$500 [20]
Henry Wells & this famous partner helped found American Express
(William) Fargo
Derek
$500 [5]
Goncalo Cabral claimed the Azores for this country in 1431 & the islands were soon colonized
Portugal
Derek
$500 [11]
Europeans first met this tribe in the 1600s around what's now Green Bay, Wisconsin
Potawatomi

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANATOMY U.S. PRESIDENTS RELIGION BODIES OF WATER SHAKESPEARE BY THE TEEN NUMBERS
$200 [2]
Your zygomaticus major is the muscle that allows you to do this; say cheese!
smile
Derek
$200 [7]
His mother's family, the Cassidys, emigrated from Ireland & settled in Arkansas
Bill Clinton
Peter
$200 [21]
The angel known as Jibril in the Koran is called this in the Bible
Gabriel
Linda
$200 [3]
The Bay of Biscay between Spain & France & Biscayne Bay in Florida are both inlets of this ocean
Atlantic
Linda
$200 [16]
In this play Mercutio is a kinsman to the Prince of Verona
Romeo and Juliet
Linda
$200 [26]
Add the number of red stripes on the American flag to the number of white stripes & you get this total
13
Linda
$400 [6]
The lacrimal glands secrete these
tears
Linda
$400 [8]
He published many books, including ones on the "Rough Riders" & "African Game Trails"
Teddy Roosevelt
Linda
$400 [22]
Some who practice the Zen form of this religion meditate on logical paradoxes called koan
Buddhism
Derek
$400 [11]
The "Blue" branch of this longest river contributes about 70% of the water
Nile
Linda
$400 [17]
In "Othello" it's this villain who says, "O beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster"
Iago
Linda
$400 [27]
Isotope of carbon used for dating
14
Linda
$600 [1]
It's the medical name for the shoulder blade
scapula
Linda
$600 [9]
In 1953 he resigned from the Navy to take over the family peanut business
(Jimmy) Carter
Derek
$600 [23]
Viracocha was the creator god of these South American Indians, many of whom lived in Peru
Incas
Linda
$600 [13]
Bordered by Ontario, New York, Penn., Ohio & Michigan, it's the shallowest of the Great Lakes
Erie
Peter
$600 [18]
The first gravedigger provides some much-needed comic relief in Act V of this tragedy
Hamlet
Peter
$600 [28]
The only teen number whose Roman numeral is 2 letters long
15
Derek
DD $700 [4]
About 10 inches long, it's the part of the alimentary canal that connects the pharynx with the stomach
esophagus
Linda
$800 [10]
He middle initial B. stood for Birchard
Rutherford B. Hayes
Derek
$800 [24]
The Kogoshui, or "Gleanings of Ancient Works", is a sacred text of this Japanese religion
Shintoism
Peter
$800 [14]
In China it's officially known as Chang Jiang or "Long River"
Yangtze
Linda
DD $1,000 [19]
Shakespeare's play about this Magna Carta king ends with his death by poisoning
King John
Peter
$800 [29]
The Nintendo Super NES is a this many bit system
16
Derek
$1,000 [5]
The duodenum is the shortest & widest portion of this
small intestine
Linda
$1,000 [12]
As the first President to die in office, he was also the first to lie in state at the White House
William Henry Harrison
$1,000 [25]
Vaikuntha is the heavenly abode of Vishnu, one of the principal deities of this religion
Hinduism
Peter
$1,000 [15]
Copenhagen, Denmark & Gdansk, Poland are major ports on this sea
Baltic
Peter
$1,000 [20]
This comedy about wooing a foul-tempreed female is based in part on the play "Supposes" by George Gascoigne
The Taming of the Shrew
Derek
$1,000 [30]
Number of gunshots in a salute for an arriving general; it's 4 fewer than the President gets
17
Derek

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICINE

Latin for "poison", it's a disease-causing agent smaller than a bacterium

virus

Peter "What is a virus" — wagered $3,600
Derek "What is virus?" — wagered $7,700
Linda "What is a virus?" — wagered $7,400

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