Show #2702 1996-05-07 Teen Tournament

1996 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Joe Gurski — a junior from Roselle, New Jersey

Anthony Chiu — a sophomore from Louisville, Kentucky

Heather Burnett — a senior from Houston, Texas

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Heather	$400	$200	$3,800	$7,600 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$3,800 14 R, 4 W
Anthony	$1,300	$3,500	$7,100	$9,000 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$6,900 21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Joe	$2,300	$3,800	$7,000	$12,034 Automatic semifinalist	$7,400 17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MAMMALS	5-LETTER WORDS	U.S. STATES	TELEVISION	MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	DIALECTS
$100 [29] This extremely tall African mammal usually has 2 skin-covered horns a giraffe Anthony	$100 [8] Late to class tardy Heather	$100 [1] Alaska's state fossil is this mammoth; hey, it's cold there the woolly mammoth Joe	$100 [13] Tim Conway played Ensign Parker on "McHale's Navy" & Courtney Thorne-Smith plays Alison Parker on this Melrose Place Heather	$100 [30] The Scottish Lowland type of this instrument had a softer sound than the Highland bagpipes Anthony	$100 [18] Fu-chou, Amoy-Swatow, Mandarin Chinese Anthony
$200 [28] It's web-footed as well as being "duck-billed" a platypus Joe	$200 [9] It can mean sharp, or refer to an angle of less than 90 degrees acute Joe	$200 [2] Orleans is this state's largest parish in population Louisiana Anthony	$200 [14] "Step by Step"'s Brandon Call was the original Hobie Buchannon on this beach series Baywatch	$200 [4] The grand piano ranges in size from the baby grand to this large one used for performances the concert grand Heather	$200 [25] Castilian, Andalusian, Aragonese Spanish Heather
$300 [24] Each of the species of this equine has a distinctive stripe pattern a zebra Joe	$300 [10] Term for the claw of a bird of prey a talon Joe	$300 [5] With a population of 19,122, Moscow is one of this Spud State's 10 largest cities Idaho Anthony	$300 [15] As a Love Boat mermaid in 1985, she performed in production numbers; now she's Lois Lane Teri Hatcher Joe	$300 [27] Used in Indian music, a tabla is this type of percussion instrument a drum Anthony	$300 [26] Norman, Angevin, Champenois French Anthony
$400 [21] The tusks of a walrus are these teeth, elongated canine Heather Anthony	$400 [11] It's a boat used to carry passengers & vehicles across a river a ferry Joe	$400 [6] You'll find the Mystic Marinelife Aquarium in this "Nutmeg State" Connecticut Anthony	$500 [17] Roanne on "Phenom", Jennifer Lien now plays the alien Kes on this series Star Trek: Voyager	$400 [3] Les Paul developed & popularized the solid-body type of this instrument in the 1940s the electric guitar Anthony	$400 [23] Cretan, Tsakonian, Peloponnesian Greek Anthony
$500 [22] This great ape of Borneo uses its throat pouch as a resonator for its calls an orangutan Anthony	$500 [12] This punctuation mark has more uses than any other a comma Joe	$500 [7] Before the Civil War, it was nicknamed "Bleeding" from the battles over slavery there Kansas Joe	DD $1,000 [16] Hisshow is set in Cleveland: Drew Carey Joe	$500 [20] This vellum-bellied instrument typically has 4 full-length strings & a shorter fifth "thumb" string the banjo	$500 [19] Thuringian, Swabian, Swiss German

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL PEOPLE	WORLD FACTS	THE ELEMENTS	MUSEUMS	EXPLORERS	LITERARY HODGEPODGE
$200 [12] He was involved with a Philistine woman from Timnath & a Gaza harlot before taking up with Delilah Samson Heather	$200 [1] Indonesia is one of the world's leading producers of these beverage leaves tea Anthony	$200 [6] Ra-226, the most abundant isotope of this element, has a half-life of 1,620 years radium Heather	$200 [15] The original building of this Washington, D.C. complex is called the Castle the Smithsonian Joe	$200 [16] He was still a youth when his father, Eric the Red, was exiled from Iceland for killing a neighbor Leif Erikson Joe	$200 [21] His famous story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is told completely in the first person Edgar Allan Poe Anthony
$400 [13] It's the surname of the Judas who betrayed Jesus Iscariot Heather	$400 [3] The National Library of Turkey is in this capital city Ankara Heather Anthony	$400 [7] The name of this element comes from Greek meaning "water forming" hydrogen Heather	$400 [29] A Warrens, Wisconsin museum features hands-on exhibits pertaining to this red bog fruit a cranberry Anthony	$400 [5] This New Jersey-born explorer tried to climb the Colorado peak now named for him but failed (Zebulon) Pike Joe	$400 [25] "Frankenstein" author whose futuristic 1826 novel "The Last Man" describes how a plague destroys mankind (Mary) Shelley Heather
$600 [14] Japheth, one of his sons, was ancestor to the Gomer, Riphath & Ashkenaz nations Noah Anthony	$600 [2] Queen Beatrix's alma mater is the University of Leiden in this country the Netherlands Anthony	$600 [8] Compounds of this yellow element, symbol S, are responsible for the scent of skunks sulfur Heather	$600 [20] You can see a 2-headed calf at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in this oldest Florida city St. Augustine Heather	$600 [17] Thomas Livingstone Mitchell found a vast expanse of fertile ground in this country's Victoria state Australia Joe	$600 [26] She published her first book cf poetry, "April Twilights", in 1903, 10 years before "O Pioneers!" Willa Cather Anthony
$800 [23] Ishbosheth was the fourth son of this first king of Israel Saul Heather	DD $1,000 [4] In Gaelic this country's prime minister is known as the taoiseach; currently it's John Bruton Ireland Anthony	$800 [9] Compounds containing this element are called fluorides fluorine Joe	$800 [30] The Taos, New Mexico home of this frontiersman & guide for John C. Fremont is now a museum Kit Carson	DD $1,000 [18] In 1811 Thomas Manning became the first Englishman to reach this forbidden capital of Tibet Lhasa Joe	$800 [27] He wrote novels that were serialized in magazines before writing great plays like "Pygmalion" Shaw Anthony
$1,000 [24] Hushai remained faithful to this king during Absalom's attempted coup David Heather	$1,000 [11] This Canadian island province is named for a son of King George III Prince Edward Island Joe	$1,000 [10] This metal is used to make bullets because its high density meets little air resistance lead Heather	$1,000 [22] An Aquatic Hall of Fame Museum in this Manitoba capital has models of well-known sailing ships Winnipeg Heather Anthony Joe	$1,000 [19] In 1531 Diego de Ordaz set out to explore this Venezuelan river then called the Huyapari the Orinoco Anthony	$1,000 [28] He wrote his famous 1868 story "The Luck of Roaring Camp" for the Overland Monthly, which he edited Bret Harte Heather

Final Jeopardy!

THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Martial's "Book of Spectacles" in 80 A.D. was a book of poems published for this landmark's opening

the (Roman) Colosseum (Coliseum)

Heather "What is Roman the Coliseum" — wagered $3,800

Joe "What was the Coliseum?" — wagered $5,034

Anthony "What is the Colosseum?" — wagered $1,900

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