1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 5.
Melissa Murray — a junior from Port St. Lucie, Florida
April McManus — a senior from Woodbury, Minnesota
Jason Colby — a junior from Clifton, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $800 | $2,600 | $4,200 |
$8,300
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,400
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| April | $2,700 | $3,600 | $6,800 |
$9,401
Automatic semifinalist |
$6,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Melissa | $100 | $1,700 | $4,700 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$4,700
12 R, 2 W |
| STATE CAPITALS | SEWING | STAR TREK: TNG | WEATHER | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | ANIMAL PHRASES |
|
$100
[6]
The U.S. mint in this Rocky Mountain capital is the USA's second-biggest gold depository
Denver
Jason
|
$100
[12]
This cuplike cover protects your finger when you want to push a needle through material
a thimble
Jason
|
$100
[1]
Sarek, an ambassador from this planet, has appeared in both the old & new series
Vulcan
April
|
$100
[7]
The primary one of these is caused by 2 refractions & 1 reflection of light by each raindrop
a rainbow
Melissa
|
$100
[14]
There are this many items in a score
20
Jason
|
$100
[22]
Someone's breaking point is often referred to as "the straw that broke" this animal's "back"
the camel
Melissa
|
|
$200
[8]
The fort of pioneer settler John A. Sutter has been restored in this capital city
Sacramento
April
|
$200
[27]
The "running" one of these is the most basic; it's used for gathering
a stitch
Melissa
|
$200
[2]
Middle name of Eugene (yes, it's Eugene) Roddenberry or 1st name of Wil Wheaton's character
Wesley
April
|
$200
[13]
It's a glass tube in which a column of mercury changes height with changes in temperature
a thermometer
Jason
|
$200
[15]
This metric unit of distance is sometimes called a klick
a kilometer
Jason
|
$200
[23]
To something quickly is to do it in "two shakes of" this young animal's tail
a lamb
Jason
April
|
|
$300
[9]
This Iowa capital is headquarters to more than 50 insurance companies
Des Moines
April
|
$300
[28]
These come in envelopes that contain pieces of paper shaped like sections of a garment
patterns
April
|
$300
[3]
An associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Patrick Stewart
April
|
$300
[19]
"Absolute" this is the term for the amount of moisture in the air
humidity
Jason
|
$300
[16]
This unit of measurement is equal to .083 feet
an inch
Jason
|
$300
[24]
To look guilty but smug is to "Look like the cat that ate" this
the canary
Melissa
|
|
$400
[10]
The Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum is located in this capital
Nashville
April
|
$400
[29]
When the "invisible" type of this fastener is closed, the teeth are concealed
a zipper
April
|
$400
[4]
This facility aboard the Enterprise can recreate Victorian London or alien planets
the Holodeck
Jason
|
$400
[20]
On the Earth, Cu is copper; in the sky, Cu is this type of cloud
cumulus
Jason
|
$400
[17]
There are 16 tablespoons in one of these
a cup
Jason
|
$400
[25]
One who's clever in a sneaky sort of way is "Crazy like" this animal
a fox
April
|
|
DD
$700
[11]
This capital was named for a British city on the English Channel
Dover, Delaware
April
|
$500
[30]
Skirtmarkers are used to mark these lines
hemlines
Melissa
|
$500
[5]
When the current Enterprise met a previous Enterprise in a time rift, she returned to play Tasha Yar
Denise Crosby
April
|
$500
[21]
More common name for the tropical easterlies
the trade winds
|
$500
[18]
The name of this system of weights & measures comes from Old French meaning "goods of weight"
avoirdupois
Jason
|
$500
[26]
To be unusually brave is "To beard" this animal "in his den"
the lion
Melissa
|
| 19TH CENTURY AMERICA | ASTROLOGY | POETS | WORLD GEOGRAPHY | LIBRARIES | LETTER PERFECT |
|
$200
[7]
William Gillette's plays "Held by the Enemy" & "Secret Service" were set in this war
the Civil War
April
|
$200
[1]
As you might expect, the name of this sign means "bull" in Latin
Taurus
Jason
|
$200
[10]
"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was his first published collection of poems
Robert Burns
April
|
$200
[12]
It's also the capital of Cape Province, South Africa
Cape Town
Melissa
|
$200
[29]
Appropriately, the National Library of Medicine is in this state abbreviated Md.
Maryland
Jason
|
$200
[18]
It precedes ray, rated & marks the spot
X
Melissa
|
|
$400
[8]
After the Spanish-American war, the U.S. paid Spain $20 million for this Pacific island group
the Philippines
April
|
$400
[3]
Green is a harmonious color for people born under this sign; wearing it might make them less "crab"by
Cancer
Jason
|
$400
[2]
Years before his 1st volume of poetry was published in 1913, he was a chicken farmer in Derry, N.H.
Robert Frost
April
|
$400
[13]
Among this country's 9 provinces are Liege, Luxembourg & Antwerp
Belgium
April
|
$400
[30]
The Folger Shakespeare Library is on this famous hill
Capitol Hill
Jason
|
$400
[19]
Something done to perfect exactness is said to be "Done to a" this
T
April
|
|
$600
[9]
On May 10,1876 the Centennial Exposition opened in Fairmount Park in this Pennsylvania city
Philadelphia
Jason
|
$600
[4]
It's the only sign symbolized by a cat
Leo
Melissa
|
$600
[11]
Poet & Lincoln biographer who wrote about Lincoln's death in "Cool Tombs"
Sandburg
Melissa
|
$600
[20]
This country's Great Victoria Desert was first crossed in 1875 by Ernest Giles, who named it
Australia
Jason
Melissa
|
$600
[28]
George Bush selected this univ. in College Station, Texas as the site of his presidential library
Texas A&M
Jason
|
$600
[25]
With a line over it, this Roman numeral for 5 turns into 5,000
V
April
|
|
DD
$600
[14]
In 1852 this party selected General Winfield Scott as its presidential candidate
the Whig Party
April
|
$800
[5]
Boldness, not sheepishness, is a major characteristic of this sign represented by a ram
Aries
Melissa
|
$800
[16]
While England's poet laureate, he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Tennyson
Melissa
|
$800
[21]
At 1550 sq. miles, this country's Lake Nasser is one of the world's largest artificial lakes
Egypt
Jason
|
$800
[24]
Samuel Pepys left his library to his alma mater, Magdalene College at this university
Cambridge
Melissa
|
$800
[26]
The only letter not used in spelling any of the 50 states
Q
Jason
|
|
$1,000
[15]
In the War of 1812 the British captured this ship captained by James Lawrence
the Chesapeake
|
$1,000
[6]
This sign is connected to the myth of Eros & Aphrodite, who turned into fish to escape a monster
Pisces
April
|
$1,000
[17]
This Quaker poet's "Snow-Bound" tells the story of a family isolated during a blizzard
John Greenleaf Whittier
|
DD
$1,200
[22]
2 nations occupy this island, the second-largest in the West Indies
Hispaniola
Jason
|
$1,000
[23]
The library of King Ashurbanipal was in Nineveh, the last capital of this empire
the Assyrian
April
|
$1,000
[27]
With a little circle on top of it, this letter stands for a unit of length for wavelengths of light
A
Jason
|
In November 1991, 2 people from this country were indicted for the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing
Libya