Show #2409 1995-02-09 (taped 1995-01-03) Teen Tournament

1995 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Halla Yang — a junior from Knoxville, Tennessee

Deborah Sager — a senior from Reston, Virginia

Courtney Donovan — a senior from Houston, Texas

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Courtney	$800	$1,900	$2,500	$0 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$2,500 8 R, 1 W
Deborah	$2,300	$4,300	$12,100	$7,399 Automatic semifinalist	$11,500 28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Halla	$800	$2,500	$8,400	$7,300 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$8,700 18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY	THE LION KING	BEVERAGES	THE 50 STATES	NAMES IN THE NEWS	ENDS IN "END"
$100 [19] In Mesopotamia irrigation was practiced along these 2 rivers by 5000 B.C. the Tigris & Euphrates Deborah	$100 [12] The voice of young Simba was provided by Jonathan Taylor Thomas of this Tim Allen TV series Home Improvement Deborah	$100 [21] Jasmine flowers are sometimes used to scent these beverage leaves tea leaves Halla	$100 [7] Jackson & Yellowstone are the largest natural lakes in this state Wyoming Halla	$100 [1] Descendants of this 1865 assassin claim the wrong man was shot & buried & want the body dug up John Wilkes Booth Deborah	$100 [2] A street with a way in & no way out a dead end Deborah
$200 [20] In Periclean Greece, Athens was the leading power at sea & this city-state, the strongest on land Sparta Courtney	$200 [13] Cheech Marin, Jim Cummings & Whoopi Goldberg whooped it up as the voices of a trio of these animals hyenas Courtney	$200 [22] This nut that gives its name to a common soft drink has a bitter taste a kola nut Courtney	$200 [8] This "Garden State" is named for the Channel Island birthplace of Sir George Carteret New Jersey Deborah	$200 [14] In October 1994 U.S. skater Jill Trenary married this partner of Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean Courtney	$200 [3] If you go crazy you may "go off" this the deep end Deborah
$300 [25] Built in the 400s B.C., it's the largest building on the Acropolis the Parthenon Halla	$300 [16] It took animators & technicians more than 2 years to create the stampede of these animals also known as gnus a wildebeest	$300 [28] Mate, a beverage drunk extensively on this continent, is also called yerba mate South America Courtney	$300 [9] Adopted in 1895, the constitution of this state prohibits polygamy Utah Halla	$300 [15] Coup leader Lt. General Raoul Cedras was ousted in 1994 as leader of this country Haiti Deborah	$300 [4] You may "stick things out to" this, the conclusion of an unpleasant situation the bitter end Deborah
$400 [26] In 586 B.C. this Babylonian king captured Jerusalem & destroyed the city Nebuchadnezzar Halla	$400 [17] The title of this song from the film is a popular Swahili expression that means "no worries" "Hakuna Matata" Deborah	$400 [29] Wendy Kaufman is the woman behind the desk in TV ads for this maker of Mango Madness cocktail, etc. Snapple Courtney	$400 [10] Portsmouth is this "Granite State"'s only seaport New Hampshire Courtney	$400 [23] His book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" was a bestseller in November 1994 Pope John Paul II Halla	$400 [5] Part of a deal that hasn't yet been completed a loose end Halla
DD $500 [27] In 54 A.D. Claudius was poisoned by his wife, Agrippina; this man, her son, became emperor Nero Halla	$500 [18] This British actor's appearance as well as his voice inspired the look of Simba's Uncle Scar Jeremy Irons Deborah	$500 [30] To get one of these thick, sweet dairy drinks in New England, ask for a frappe or a cabinet a milkshake Deborah	$500 [11] This "Mountain State" has the highest mean elevation of any state east of Mississippi West Virginia Deborah	$500 [24] Andrew Wiles says he now has the full proof to this man's last theorem; his 1993 version was incomplete (Pierre de) Fermat Deborah	$500 [6] If you're utterly perplexed you're "at your" this wit's end Deborah

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIRDS	LANGUAGES	PEAKS & VALLEYS	PHYSICS	COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE
$200 [12] Beep! Beep! This New Mexico state bird belongs to the cuckoo family the roadrunner Deborah	$200 [7] Inscribed tablets found on this island famous for colossal stone heads have never been deciphered Easter Island Deborah	$200 [22] About 60 tombs have been discovered in this valley in Western Thebes the Valley of the Kings Halla	$200 [6] The neutrino, an elementary particle of zero charge & no measurable mass, travels at this speed the speed of light Deborah	$200 [18] This Ivy League institution is Connecticut's oldest school of higher education Yale Halla	$200 [1] This Washington Irving character falls asleep in the Catskills while hunting with his dog, Wolf Rip Van Winkle Halla
$400 [13] The brain of the red-headed species of this bird is subject to a force of 10 Gs when its beak hits a tree the woodpecker Deborah	$400 [8] The residents of Liechtenstein speak Alemannic, a dialect of this language German Halla	$600 [25] Sir James Ross named Mount Erebus on this continent after one of his ships Antarctica Halla	$400 [23] Colors are considered saturated if there is little of this "color" in them white Courtney	$400 [19] This school has campuses in Fayetteville, Little Rock, Monticello & Pine Bluff the University of Arkansas Deborah	$400 [2] After the death of St. Clare, Uncle Tom is sold to this drunken planter Simon Legree Halla
$600 [14] The newly hatched young of the bee species of this smallest bird are no larger than honeybees the hummingbird Deborah	$600 [9] Breton, spoken in Brittany, has borrowed a large number of words from this romance language French Deborah	$800 [28] This California mountain, the tallest in the lower 48 states, was named for a geologist Mount Whitney Halla	$600 [26] It's defined as the study of the production & properties of sounds acoustics	$600 [20] This university was founded as the Arizona Territorial Normal School at Tempe in 1885 Arizona State University	DD $500 [4] This Hawthorne heroine has a beautiful, mischievous daughter named Pearl Hester Prynne Halla
$800 [15] Species of this bird include harpy, Ayres' & golden the eagle Deborah	$800 [10] Alexander Pushkin had great influence on the development of this language Russian Deborah	DD $1,000 [24] A spot near Badwater in this valley is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere Death Valley Deborah	$800 [27] The Roentgen is a unit of radiation of X-rays & these rays gamma rays Deborah	$800 [21] The nation's first university hospital was founded in 1869 at this Ann Arbor school the University of Michigan Deborah	$600 [3] Deerslayer Natty Bumppo received this nickname because of his long deerskin leggings Leatherstocking
$1,000 [16] This largest parrot is native to Central & South America a macaw Courtney	$1,000 [11] The 2 surviving Baltic languages are Latvian & this one Lithuanian Deborah	$1,000 [30] They're the only 2 mountains in the world taller than Kanchenjunga Mount Everest & K2 Halla	$1,000 [29] The attraction between molecules on top of a liquid, it explains why mercury gathers into globules surface tension (*cohesion) Deborah Halla	$1,000 [17] This private NYC university had its beginning in the schoolhouse vestry of Trinity Church in 1754 Columbia Deborah	$1,000 [5] In this essay Thoreau asserted, "that government is best which governs not at all" "Civil Disobedience" Halla

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GOVERNMENT

Its 4 statutory members are the President, Vice President & Secretaries of Defense & State

the National Security Council (the NSC)

Courtney "What is the Cabinet?" — wagered $2,500

Halla "What is theCabinet? Exec. Council?" — wagered $1,100

Deborah "What is the Kitchen Cab" — wagered $4,701

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