Show #2411 1995-02-13 (taped 1995-01-04) Teen Tournament

1995 Teen Tournament semifinal game 1.

Contestants

Halla Yang — a junior from Knoxville, Tennessee

Chuck Truesdell — a senior from Tollesboro, Kentucky

Susannah Batko-Yovino — a junior from Altoona, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Susannah $2,600 $3,300 $9,200 $13,700
Finalist
$8,300
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Chuck $800 $3,900 $6,700 $0
3rd place: $5,000
$6,700
23 R, 4 W
Halla $0 $300 $4,800 $7,800
2nd place: $5,000
$5,100
8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS HEARTTHROBS MARSUPIALS WORD ORIGINS THE CLASS TRIP TO WASHINGTON ODDS & ENDS
$100 [9]
This Michael Crichton novel concerns the cloning of dinosaur DNA
Jurassic Park
Chuck
$100 [8]
He plays Blossom's brother Joey Russo — whoa!
Joey Lawrence
Chuck
$100 [1]
This Australian tree dweller has only 30 teeth, unlike most marsupials which have 40 to 50
the koala
Susannah
$100 [6]
The word nerd may come from a character in this children's author's "If I Ran the Zoo"
Dr. Seuss
$100 [14]
The tour of this bureau includes a visit to the crime labs & a demonstration on the shooting range
the FBI
Chuck
$100 [26]
He published "Poor Richard's Almanack" under the pseudonym Richard Saunders
Ben Franklin
Chuck
$200 [10]
"There was something vampiric about rock music" is a quote from her novel "The Vampire Lestat"
Anne Rice
Chuck
$200 [20]
She steams up the screen as the scheming Amanda on "Melrose Place"
Heather Locklear
Chuck
$200 [2]
The red species of this animal is the largest living marsupial
the kangaroo
Susannah
$200 [7]
The Algonquin word pocohiquara gave us the name of this hardwood tree
hickory
Chuck
$200 [15]
When visiting Arlington National Cemetery, be sure to see the changing of the guard at this site
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Susannah
$200 [27]
In 1950 the Minnesota Valley Canning Co. took its name after this advertising symbol—Ho ho ho!
Green Giant
Chuck
$300 [11]
Part one of this Victor Hugo epic is called "Fantine"
Les Miserables
Susannah
$300 [21]
On this sitcom Steven Q. Urkel uses boss sauce to transform himself into suave heartthrob Stefan Urkel
Family Matters
Chuck
$400 [4]
This Tasmanian marsupial eats all of its prey, including the skin & bones
the Tasmanian devil
Susannah
$300 [16]
The Latin caedere, "to cut", gave us the name of this 2-bladed snipping implement
scissors
Halla
$300 [19]
This plane flown by "Lucky Lindy" is suspended from the ceiling of the National Air and Space Museum
the Spirit of St. Louis
Susannah
$300 [28]
This fabulist gave us the moral "Slow and steady wins the race"
Aesop
Susannah
$400 [12]
His original title for "Of Human Bondage" was "Beauty from Ashes", a misquotation from Isaiah
Somerset Maugham
Susannah
$400 [22]
He played a teen named Todd on "Sister Kate", but his most famous TV role is Brandon Walsh
Jason Priestley
Chuck
DD $500 [3]
This marsupial has the most northerly range, reaching as far north as Canada
the opossum
Susannah
$400 [17]
This unit of length equal to 1,760 yards comes from the Latin for "thousand"
the mile
Chuck
$400 [24]
Visitors may ride a subway that connects this building with the Senate & House office buildings
the Capitol Building
Susannah Chuck
$400 [29]
About half the size of a flute, this woodwind is the highest-pitched instrument in an orchestra
the piccolo
Chuck
$500 [13]
His novel "Ivanhoe" opens "In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the River Don"
Sir Walter Scott
Chuck
$500 [23]
Chad Allen appears on this frontier series as Dr. Mike's adopted teenage son Matthew
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Chuck
$500 [5]
Besides Australia, wallabies can be found on this large island just north of it
New Guinea
Susannah
$500 [18]
This word for the science that deals with food & nourishment comes from the Latin meaning "to suckle"
nutrition
Chuck
$500 [25]
From 1877-1895 this ex-slave & orator lived in a house that's now a popular tourist attractions
Frederick Douglass
Susannah
$500 [30]
It's the only one of the Great Lakes that doesn't border Canada
Lake Michigan
Chuck

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY JOURNALISM AROUND THE WORLD HEALTH & MEDICINE ARTISTS COMPUTERS
$200 [2]
Pioneer James W. Marshall discovered gold at this California mill in 1848
Sutter's Mill
Chuck Halla
$200 [26]
It was the only paper in the world to print the entire WWI peace treaty; it was all fit to print
the New York Times
Chuck
$200 [21]
Though Quechuan & Jivaroan are spoken in Ecuador, this is the country's official language
Spanish
Chuck
$200 [16]
The battery for one of these heart regulators operates for 7 or 8 years before it needs replacing
a pacemaker
Susannah
$200 [8]
He arranged the folded hands in the "Mona Lisa" so the subject formed a pyramid shape
Leonardo da Vinci
Halla
$200 [1]
In 1984 Apple Computer introduced this model line
Macintosh
Susannah Chuck
$400 [3]
On Nov. 20, 1789 New Jersey became the first state to ratify this group of constitutional amendments
the Bill of Rights
Halla
$600 [27]
The newspaper uses this page to declare its opinions
the editorial page
Susannah
$400 [22]
This famous desert covers the northern half of Mali
the Sahara
Susannah
$400 [17]
Tetracycline is one of the most common of these drugs used to fight bacterial infections
antibiotics
Susannah
$400 [12]
This artist's Rose Period is characterized by paintings harlequins & circus performers
Picasso
Susannah
$400 [7]
This term for a single point in a graphic image is short for "picture element"
a pixel
Susannah Chuck
DD $500 [5]
In 1736 John & Charles Wesley visited this colony at the invitation of James Oglethorpe
Georgia
Halla
$800 [29]
A conventional news story has 2 parts: the body & this, which summarizes the story
the lede
Susannah
$600 [23]
Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, lies on this beautiful island
Tahiti
Susannah
$600 [18]
This doctor's "Home Guide to Emergency Medical Situations" has a section on his own "Maneuver"
Henry Heimlich
Susannah
$600 [13]
He painted "Starry Night" while confined to the asylum of Saint-Paul in Saint-Remy
Vincent van Gogh
Chuck
$600 [9]
Term for the small picture that represents an object on a display screen
an icon
Chuck
$600 [4]
In 1934 Pres. Roosevelt nationalized this metal & set the purchase price at 50 cents per ounce
silver
Susannah Chuck
$1,000 [30]
Name for the group of reporters whose beat is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
the White House press corps
$800 [24]
The name of Zihuatanejo, a resort town in this country, is Nahuatl for "beach of the women"
Mexico
Susannah
$800 [19]
While women are the carriers of this hereditary bleeding disorder, they rarely develop it themselves
hemophilia
Halla
$800 [14]
In 1934 this "American Gothic" artist became a professor of fine arts at the University of Iowa
Grant Wood
Chuck
$800 [10]
A trackball is basically one of these control devices lying on its back
a mouse
Halla
$1,000 [6]
U.S. Army General Leslie Groves was chief administrator of this program to build the atom bomb
the Manhattan Project
Halla
DD $1,100 [28]
It can be a regular feature or a division of a page
a column
Susannah
$1,000 [25]
It's the religion of 97% of the people of Luxembourg
Catholic
Susannah
$1,000 [20]
This tick-borne disease accompanied by fever, aches & a rash was first identified in Conn. in 1975
Lyme disease
Chuck
$1,000 [15]
After years of apprenticeship this Dutch artist of "The Night Watch" began signing his own works in 1625
Rembrandt
Susannah
$1,000 [11]
This unit relating to the speed of a modem is named for Jean Maurice Emile Baudot
baud
Halla

Final Jeopardy!

ORGANIZATIONS

The name of this organization comes from the phrase "philosophia biou kubernetes"

Phi Beta Kappa

Halla "What is Phi Beta Kappa?" — wagered $3,000
Chuck "What are the Cub Scouts?" — wagered $6,700
Susannah "What is Phi Beta Kappa?" — wagered $4,500

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