1990 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.
Kate Veksler — a senior from Lower Merion High School
Andrew McGeorge — a senior from Topeka, Kansas
Jennifer Dikes — a junior from Eleanor Roosevelt High School
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer | $500 | $2,200 | $6,000 |
$4,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$8,000
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Andrew | $3,000 | $4,200 | $10,000 |
$10,002
Automatic semifinalist |
$8,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Kate | $600 | $2,600 | $5,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,000
17 R, 2 W |
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | COOKING | TV PLANETS | FICTION | FIRST AID | ANAGRAMS |
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$100
[1]
Country that occupies about 85% of the Iberian Peninsula
Spain
Kate
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$100
[2]
A cooking device equipped with a rotating spit on which meat is roasted
rotisserie
Kate
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$100
[8]
On "Star Trek" one of Mr. Spock's parents was from Earth, the other from this planet
Vulcan
Kate
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$100
[26]
Book in which "Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash & a long-handled brush"
( The Adventures of ) Tom Sawyer
Jennifer
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$100
[21]
Victims of this condition caused by extreme cold should never be treated with excessive heat
hypothermia
Kate
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$100
[13]
Sometimes Brian acts like he doesn't have one of these in his head
brain (from Brian)
Andrew
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$200
[4]
This island, the world's fourth largest, is separated from Africa by the Mozambique Channel
Madagascar
Andrew
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$200
[3]
If you don't have the energy to "pull" this type of candy, you can buy a candy hook
taffy
Andrew
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$300
[18]
"Goodbye" in the native language of this planet is "nanu nanu"
Ork
Jennifer
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$200
[27]
Harriet Beecher Stowe classic subtitles "Life Among the Lowly"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Andrew
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$200
[22]
Chemical burns should be treated by doing this for at least 5 minutes before bandaging
running under cold water (washing)
Kate
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$200
[14]
Teresa was born on this holiday
Easter (from Teresa)
Andrew
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$300
[5]
An arbitrary separation between these 2 oceans has been placed at the longitude of Tasmania--147°E
Pacific Ocean & Indian Ocean
Andrew
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$300
[9]
Please pronounce the final "Z" sound when you give us the name of this potato & leek soup
vichyssoise
Kate
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$400
[19]
In this show's second season in 1989, a second wave of aliens, from Mor-Tax, invaded the earth
War of the Worlds
Andrew
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$300
[28]
In "Alice in Wonderland", it was described as "beautiful soup so rich & green, waiting in a hot tureen"
turtle soup
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$300
[23]
A seriously injured person usually suffers from this condition of very low blood pressure
shock
Kate
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$300
[15]
Miles looked disgusting when he was covered with it
slime (from Miles)
Andrew
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$400
[6]
Major city that's divided by the Amstel River
Amsterdam
Andrew
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$400
[10]
From Japanese for "fire bowl", it's a portable charcoal-burning brazier with a grill
hibachi
Andrew
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$500
[20]
On "Dr. Who", the Doctor is part of a race of these from the planet Gallifrey
Time Lords
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$400
[29]
This sailor is the narrator of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"
Ishmael
Jennifer
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$400
[24]
A substance that counteracts a particular poison is called this
antidote
Kate
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$400
[16]
Rosa doesn't have both of these in the water
oars (from Rosa)
Jennifer
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$500
[7]
1 of the 2 South American countries that don't border Brazil
Ecuador (or Chile)
Jennifer
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$500
[11]
A traditional New England seafood picnic where bivalves are cooked over hot stones & under seaweed
clam bake
Andrew
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DD
$1,000
[12]
Planet on which the alien in thefollowingwas born:
Krypton
Andrew
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$500
[30]
In a sequel to his best-known novel, Thomas Hughes wrote about this school boy's days at Oxford
Tom Brown
Kate
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$500
[25]
A paste made with this cooking ingredient, NaHCO3, is effective on some insect bites
baking soda
Kate
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$500
[17]
This popular guest host may not know that his name is an anagram of "Joy Lane"
Jay Leno (from Joy Lane)
Jennifer
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| IN THE NEWS | SCIENCE | 19th CENTURY AMERICA | RELIGION | POETS | ESKIMOS |
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$200
[4]
Several U.S. entrepreneurs are selling pieces of this wall that began to crumble in 1989
Berlin Wall
Jennifer
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$200
[8]
Your body has 23 pairs of these, & if you're a girl, one pair is XX
chromosomes
Jennifer
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$200
[16]
On Jan. 23, 1845 Congress said from now on this will be held on the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in Nov.
presidential elections
Jennifer
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$200
[21]
Followers of Islam & Judaism believe in the existence of these heavenly beings, as do Christians
angels
Andrew
Kate
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$200
[1]
This author of "Evangeline" was the American honored in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey
Longfellow
Jennifer
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$200
[26]
Collier's Encyclopedia says the name of this one-man canoe rhymes with "sly yak"
kayak
Andrew
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$400
[7]
Pilots & flight attendants ended their 8-month strike against this airline in November 1989
Eastern Airlines
Kate
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$400
[9]
This form of an element has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons
isotope
Kate
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$400
[17]
Robert E. Lee graduated from here second in his class & later served as its superintendent
U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Andrew
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$400
[22]
St. John Lateran Cathedral is his seat as Bishop of Rome
the Pope
Jennifer
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$400
[2]
This American poet began the 1st poem in his 1st collection with the line "I celebrate myself"
Walt Whitman
Jennifer
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$400
[27]
These homes of Alaskan Eskimos can be made of wood, sod or stone as well as snow
igloos
Kate
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$600
[11]
Responding to protests in Wenceslas Square, Miles Jakes resigned as pres. of this country
Czechoslovakia
Andrew
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$600
[10]
English chemist Sir Walter Haworth coined this acid name for vitamin C
ascorbic acid
Jennifer
Andrew
Kate
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$600
[18]
These for "The Star-Spangled Banner" & "America the Beautiful" were taken from other sources
musical notes
Kate
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$600
[23]
The formal name of the Quaker Church is the "Religious Society of" these
Friends
Jennifer
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$600
[3]
On the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this Illinois poet addressed a joint session of Congress
Carl Sandburg
Andrew
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$600
[28]
In its entry on this subject, Encyclopedia Americana brings up the nose rubbing business
kissing
Jennifer
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$1,000
[13]
Rene Moawad was assassinated just 17 days after he became president of this country
Lebanon
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$800
[14]
Alloys containing this metal, symbol Hg, are called amalgams
mercury
Andrew
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$800
[19]
He got the Missouri Compromise thru the House & helped arrange the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Andrew
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$800
[24]
He was born to a noble family circa 563 B.C. in the region of the Indian-Nepalese border
the Buddha
Jennifer
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$800
[5]
This poet's "MS. Found in a Bottle" won a Baltimore short story contest in 1833
Edgar Allan Poe
Jennifer
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$800
[29]
Meaning "people", it's the Eskimo name for themselves
Inuit
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DD
$2,000
[12]
Teri Smith became the first living donor of this organ when her daughter Alyssa received part of hers
liver
Andrew
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$1,000
[15]
The idea that maggots could develop from decaying meat is one example of this now discarded theory
theory of spontaneous generation
Kate
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$1,000
[20]
Though Eugene Debs had this lawyer defending him in 1894, he still got 6 months
Clarence Darrow
Kate
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$1,000
[25]
This feast day commemorates the adoration of Jesus by the 3 Wise Men
Epiphany
Jennifer
Kate
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$1,000
[6]
In 1786 this poet was toasted as "Caledonia's Bard" by the Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland
Robert Burns
Jennifer
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DD
$2,000
[30]
The first time Eskimos met Europeans was back around 1000 A.D. on this island
Greenland
Jennifer
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One of the most famous questions in history, it was asked in 1871 in the village of Ujiji
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"