Show #1951 1993-02-15 (taped 1993-01-04) Teen Tournament

1993 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Carrie Pruett — a senior from Goochland, Virginia

Brent Keeling — a senior from Pewee Valley, Kentucky

Jessi Gile — a junior from Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jessi $1,500 $2,800 $1,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$4,000
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Brent $1,900 $3,300 $4,900 $900
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$4,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Carrie $100 $1,900 $10,900 $10,800
Automatic semifinalist
$10,700
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY SOAP OPERAS LANGUAGES THE CIVIL WAR COLLEGE STUFF LETTER PERFECT
$100 [14]
Though llamas are related to camels, they lack this distinctive camel feature
hump
Jessi
$100 [11]
On this Fox soap, Andrew Shue shares an apartment with Courtney Thorne-Smith
Melrose Place
Carrie
$100 [18]
The dialect of this city gradually became the national language of France
Paris
Brent Carrie
$100 [5]
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who unconditionally surrendered to this general, later was one of his pallbearers
U.S. Grant
Brent
$100 [12]
In college slang, a Greek isn't an Athenian but a member of one of these
fraternity
Jessi
$100 [1]
A type of shirt, or an "A-Team" Mr.
T
Jessi
$200 [19]
Australians call the monitor types of these creatures goannas
lizards
Brent
$200 [13]
John Beradino, who plays Dr. Steve Hardy, is the only actor who's been on this show since its 1963 premiere
General Hospital
Brent
$200 [27]
Sardinian is a distinct language; Corsican & Sicilian are dialects of this one
Italian
Jessi Brent
$200 [6]
In June 1861 the New York Tribune was urging the Army "forward to" this Confederate capital
Richmond
Jessi
$200 [23]
This West Coast university's school paper is called The Daily Trojan
U.S.C.
Carrie
$200 [2]
On a bowling scoresheet, it signifies a strike
X
Jessi
$300 [20]
The pockets, or pouches, on a pocket gopher's cheeks are lined with this covering
fur
$300 [15]
Lauralee Bell plays Cricket on this CBS soap created by her parents, William Bell & Lee Phillip Bell
The Young and the Restless
Jessi
$300 [28]
Major language families on this continent include Khoisan, Niger-Kordofanian & Nilo-Saharan
Africa
Jessi
$300 [8]
Though awarded for gallantry, this medal was offered to a Maine regiment to postpone its 1863 discharge
Medal of Honor
$300 [24]
Lisa Halaby was one of the first female cheer-leaders at this New Jersey univ.; now she's Queen Noor of Jordan
Princeton
Carrie
$300 [3]
It's the Roman numeral 500, or a barely passing grade
D
Jessi
$400 [21]
The "angler" type of this animal attracts its food with a fleshy bait that grows from its head
fish
Brent
$400 [16]
In 1992 former Flash John Wesley Shipp provided a deadly connection between "Loving" & this soap
All My Children
$400 [29]
The oldest form of this language dates from Old Testament poems, like the "Song of Deborah"
Hebrew
Carrie
$500 [10]
This 22nd & 24th President was labeled a Civil War draft dodger; he had paid someone to take his place
(Grover) Cleveland
Jessi
$400 [25]
On an alphabetical list of Ivy League schools, this "colorful" university comes first
Brown
Brent
$400 [4]
It's the first word of Canada's national anthem
O
Brent
$500 [22]
This order of mammals is divided into 2 suborders: anthropoids & prosimians
primate
Carrie
$500 [17]
Before the 1992 Daytime Emmy Awards, NBC aired a special prime-time version of this soap set in Bay City
Another World
Jessi
$500 [30]
The standard form of this major language arose in the 9th c. around the town of Burgos in Old Castille
Spanish
Brent
DD $700 [9]
In this first big battle July 21, 1861, each side had about 30,000 soldiers in the field
Bull Run (First Manassas)
Brent
$500 [26]
The first college graduate elected to U.S. President, he belonged to Harvard's class of '55—that's 1755
John Adams
Carrie
$500 [7]
It's the chemical symbol for potassium
K
Brent

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT GREEKS TRANSPORTATION NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FLOWERS & TREES PERU MISC.
$200 [1]
Polybius believed that in order to understand the present, you must study this
past
Brent
$200 [2]
Opened in 1914, it shortened the distance between Pacific & Atlantic ports
Panama
Carrie
$200 [18]
He received the Literature Prize primarily for "The Winter of Our Discontent", not "The Grapes of Wrath"
Steinbeck
Jessi
$200 [14]
The floating leaves of these lilies are called lily pads
water lilies
Jessi
$200 [11]
This sport Peruvians call futbol is the country's most popular sport
soccer
Carrie
$200 [12]
Dayaks are a people of Borneo & kayaks are these
kind of canoe (boat used by Eskimos)
Carrie
$400 [7]
Aristotle stayed at the Academy for 20 years, leaving only after this man died
Plato
Jessi Carrie
$400 [3]
This Japanese car maker surpassed Volkswagen in the volume of U.S. imports in 1975 & is still No. 1
Toyota
Brent Carrie
$400 [19]
Simon Kuznets won in this category in 1971 for his concept of using GNP to determine growth
economics
Carrie
$400 [15]
Fir trees belong to this tree family; don't let it "needle" you
pine tree
Jessi Brent
$400 [27]
Some islands off the coast had large deposits of guano that were mined for this use
fertilizer
Brent
$400 [13]
Last name shared by the discoverer of penicillin & the creator of James Bond
Fleming
Jessi
$600 [8]
He said, "As to diseases make a habit of two things—to help or at least to do no harm"
Hippocrates
Carrie
$600 [4]
In 1970 this state's first & only public deep water port was opened at Burns Harbor east of Gary
Indiana
Carrie
$600 [22]
Bark if you know that this Russian won the Physiology or Medicine Prize in 1904 for work on digestion
Pavlov
Jessi
$600 [16]
Fleabane is so named because people once believed it could do this to fleas
kill them
Carrie
$600 [30]
Peru shares this 3,200-square-mile lake with Bolivia
Lake Titicaca
Brent
$600 [17]
In 1990 this Seattle Mariner played alongside his dad in the outfield
Ken Griffey Jr.
Jessi
$800 [9]
This legendary warrior may have been stronger than dirt, but he was second in strength to Achilles
Ajax
Carrie
DD $1,000 [5]
The freighting firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell began this short-lived U.S. mail delivery service in 1860
Pony Express
Carrie
$1,000 [24]
This West German leader who won the Peace Prize in 1971 died in 1992
Willy Brandt
$800 [26]
This shrub that bears bright yellow flowers is named for British botanist William Forsyth
Forsythia
Carrie
$800 [29]
This Inca town discovered by Hiram Bingham overlooks the Urubamba river
Machu Picchu
Jessi
$800 [20]
Among birds, the wandering albatross holds this anatomical record
longest (widest) wing span
Jessi Brent Carrie
$1,000 [10]
He is associated with the lever, the water screw & displacement
Archimedes
Brent
$1,000 [6]
This highway extended 4,860 miles from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's, Newfoundland
Trans-Canada Highway
DD $2,800 [23]
Seaborg & McMillan won the Chemistry Prize for discovering this element, named for the 9th planet
plutonium
Jessi
$1,000 [25]
It's an evergreen with soft wood used for paper pulp as well as a verb meaning "to neaten up"
spruce
Carrie
$1,000 [28]
This president assumed dictatorial powers in April 1992
Fujimori
Brent
$1,000 [21]
Like his father, Sir Lancelot, he was one of King Arthur's knights
Galahad
Carrie

Final Jeopardy!

FLAGS

A flag bearing a white anchor & caduceus on a blue field represents this U.S. government official

Surgeon General of the United States

Jessi "Who is Secretary of the Navy? [smiley face drawn]" — wagered $1,200
Brent "Who is the Sec. of the Navy?" — wagered $4,000
Carrie "Who is the Secretary of Health & Human Services" — wagered $100

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