1990 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.
Stacey White — a senior from Fullerton, California
Jamie Weiss — a junior from Fairfax, Virginia
Peji Ghanouni — a senior from Marietta, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peji | $900 | $3,200 | $10,600 |
$9,200
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$8,400
25 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W |
| Jamie | $800 | $1,800 | $10,800 |
$11,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$6,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Stacey | $2,000 | $2,900 | $5,100 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,100
15 R, 2 W |
| TEEN TRIVIA | WEAPONS | ANIMALS | NONFICTION | GEMS & JEWELRY | THE SENSES |
|
$100
[11]
You have to be at least 17 to be in this annual competition held in Atlantic City
Miss America Pageant
Stacey
|
$100
[17]
Contrary to popular belief, not all boomerangs do this
return to the thrower
Jamie
|
$100
[6]
Males of this Australian marsupial are called boomers
kangaroo
Stacey
|
$100
[1]
With over 39 mil. copies sold, his "Baby & Child Care" is the top U.S. paperback of all time
Dr. Spock
Peji
|
$100
[16]
Washington institution where you'd find the 45.5 carat Hope Diamond on display
Smithsonian
Peji
|
$100
[26]
Braille is meant to be "read" by this sense
touch
Jamie
|
|
$200
[12]
If your teen years seem tough, relax: you're only a teenager for this many years
7
Peji
Jamie
|
$200
[18]
Guinness won't print any new records for swallowing these: "Count Desmond" is the champ
swords
Peji
Jamie
|
$200
[7]
2 of 3 continents on which no wild bears live
(2 of) Africa & Australia (or Antarctica)
Peji
|
$200
[2]
Her 1984 memoirs were entitled "First Lady from Plains"
Rosalynn Carter
Peji
|
$300
[23]
The Ancient Chinese not only carved it into jewelry, they buried it with their dead
jade
Peji
|
$200
[27]
It's the location of these that allow the brain to determine the direction of a sound source
ears
Peji
|
|
$300
[13]
The punctuation mark found in the name of Teen Magazine in front of the letter T
apostrophe
Peji
Stacey
|
$300
[19]
According to legend, you can destroy a vampire by driving one of these thru his heart
stake
Jamie
|
$300
[8]
A male sheep is a ram; a female is this
ewe
Stacey
|
$300
[3]
This 1848 book closes with the words "Workers of the world, unite!"
The Communist Manifesto
Stacey
|
$400
[24]
Copper gives the bluish green color to this stone which is found in Iran & the South-Western U.S.
turquoise
Peji
Stacey
|
$300
[28]
The 2 senses you're supposed to activate at railroad crossings
sight & hearing
Peji
|
|
$400
[14]
People Magazine said this group's second album, "Hangin' Tough", "ignited a coast-to-coast teen frenzy"
New Kids on the Block
Stacey
|
$400
[20]
A weapon for Galahad's dad; it's a diminutive of his name
lance
Peji
|
$400
[9]
The U.S. Navy has trained these whales, Orcinus orca, to recover objects from great depths
killer whales
Peji
|
$400
[4]
Ernest Hemingway's 1932 book "Death in the Afternoon" is about this sport
bullfighting
Peji
|
$500
[25]
Those born on Valentine's Day don't have a red ruby for a birthstone but this purple quartz
amethyst
Stacey
|
$400
[29]
Sense receptors include the retina in the eye & these on the tongue
taste buds
Jamie
|
|
$500
[15]
As a teen he played J.R., a teenage murderer, in "Heathers"
Christian Slater
|
$500
[21]
"Fishy" name for a spear used by infantry during the renaissance
pike
Peji
Jamie
|
$500
[10]
Skins of this goat antelope are prized for polishing, but most cloths sold under its name are sheepskin
chamois
Stacey
|
$500
[5]
It was Linda Ellerbee's sign-off phrase on NBC News Overnight & the title of her 1986 book
And So It Goes
Jamie
|
DD
$1,200
[22]
Some of the finest of these gems are taken from the Persian Gulf between Oman & Qatar
pearls
Peji
|
$500
[30]
Closing off this sense affects the taste sense, too
smell
Jamie
|
| ISLANDS | AMERICAN WOMEN | ENGLISH LITERATURE | BOTANY | HISTORY | NUMBER, PLEASE |
|
$200
[25]
NYC's borough of Brooklyn & Queens are on this large island
Long Island
Peji
Stacey
|
$200
[17]
This model & wife of Billy Joel says she was a chubby & self-conscious teenager
Christie Brinkley
Peji
|
$200
[6]
She's called Joan la Pucelle in Shakespeare's "King Henry VI, Part I"
Joan of Arc
Peji
|
$200
[16]
New Jersey greenhouses surpass all others on the mainland in growing these corsage flowers
orchids
Stacey
|
$200
[2]
The reign of the Guptas, when Sanskrit lit. flowered, has been called the classical age of this country
India
Peji
|
$200
[1]
When a triumvirate rules, this many people are in charge
3
Peji
|
|
$400
[26]
This Texas city & island is named for a viceroy of Mexico, Bernardo de Galvez
Galveston
Peji
Stacey
|
$400
[19]
In 1984 she became the first woman nominated by a major party for Vice President of the U.S.
Geraldine Ferraro
Peji
|
$400
[7]
This was the only published work by Jonathan Swift for which he received payment--£200
Gulliver's Travels
Stacey
|
$400
[18]
To grow this fruit in California, at least 1 male palm is planted in each acre of 49 female palms
date
Jamie
Stacey
|
$400
[3]
Eamon de Valera, who was born in New York City, was prime minister & president of this country
Ireland
|
$400
[9]
Number of miles in the annual race held on Memorial Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
500
Jamie
|
|
$600
[24]
The 3 largest islands in this sea are Sicily, Sardinia & Cyprus
Mediterranean Sea
Peji
|
$600
[20]
Lynne Cheney chairs the Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities, & her husband, Richard, holds this cabinet post
Secretary of Defense
Peji
|
$600
[8]
This author was knighted in 1908 for his work in the Boer War, not for Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jamie
|
$600
[28]
When a seed sprouts, the first thing to break out of the coat is this part of the plant
root
Peji
|
$600
[4]
He was killed in the Philippines, but his ship went on to circumnavigate the earth
Magellan
Peji
|
$600
[10]
A sonnet is a poem of this many lines, usually written in iambic pentameter
14
Peji
|
|
$1,000
[22]
Now part of Papua New Guinea, this archipelago was named for the chancellor of Germany in 1884
Bismarck
|
$800
[21]
She was the Ghostbusters' receptionist on film & plays cute little Mary Jo on TV's "Designing Women"
Annie Potts
Jamie
|
$1,000
[15]
Charlotte Cradock, this novelist's wife, was the inspiration for "Amelia" & Sophia in "Tom Jones"
Henry Fielding
Peji
|
$800
[29]
In 1960 this green plant pigment was produced in the laboratory for the first time
chlorophyll
Jamie
|
$800
[5]
It was only after the Yalta Conference in 1945 that this country agreed to enter the war against Japan
Soviet Union
Stacey
|
$800
[12]
Boccaccio wrote "The Decameron", which literally means this many days' work
10
Jamie
Stacey
|
|
DD
$5,000
[23]
The island on whichthis1945 event took place:
Iwo Jima
Jamie
|
$1,000
[27]
Appointed by Ronald Reagan, she was the first woman to head the U.S. delegation to the U.N.
(Jeane) Kirkpatrick
Peji
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
He also wrote "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Peji
|
$1,000
[30]
A 4,600-year-old bristlecone variety of this tree is thought o be the world's oldest living thing
pine tree
Stacey
|
$1,000
[11]
After killing the defenders of the pass at Thermopylae, the Persians destroyed this city in 480 B.C.
Athens
Jamie
|
$1,000
[13]
If you know the First Congress met in 1789, you can figure out this is the number of the current one
101st
Peji
|
The only U.S. president who served previously as U.S. representative to the U.N.
George Bush