Show #2708 1996-05-15 Teen Tournament

1996 Teen Tournament semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Julee Baber — a senior from Winchester, Kentucky

Ben Healy — a junior from Hinsdale, Illinois

Derek Bridges — a junior from Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Derek $800 $2,300 $9,500 $19,000
Finalist
$8,100
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Ben $1,700 $3,400 $10,200 $1,399
3rd place: $5,000
$8,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Julee $1,300 $2,600 $2,600 $2,600
2nd place: $5,000
$2,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE INSECT WORLD RAIDS BAKING RECREATION GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ANAGRAMS
$100 [21]
In some female insects, the ovipositor, made to deposit these, may also be used as a stinger
eggs
Derek
$100 [1]
Shih Huang-ti is credited with building this structure for protection against nomadic raiders
the Great Wall of China
Julee
$100 [23]
Refrigerator & drop are 2 types of this sweet treat
a cookie
Ben
$100 [4]
Pitch and putt is a shorter version of this game
golf
Derek
$100 [11]
This Civil War general never held elective office prior to being elected president in 1868
Grant
Derek
$100 [16]
I like to eat a sub when I ride this vehicle
a bus (from sub)
Julee
$200 [22]
The codling type of this insect is known for destroying fruit, not clothes
the moth
Derek
$200 [2]
In 1895 Sir Leander Starr Jameson led a raid into the Transvaal region of this present country
South Africa
Derek Julee
$200 [26]
The Italian bread known as focaccia is liberally drizzled with this oil before baking
olive oil
Julee
$200 [7]
In this sport, if you "ride a roller coaster" you go up & down the face of a wave
surfing
Ben
$200 [12]
This current Speaker of the House received a Ph.D. in European history from Tulane
Newt Gingrich
Julee
$200 [17]
This Ms. Moore makes far more than a dime per film
Demi (from dime)
Ben
$300 [24]
The brown-banded type of this kitchen pest is one of the most common
a cockroach
Ben
$300 [3]
Frederick Douglass tried unsuccessfully to talk this man out of raiding Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Ben Julee
$300 [27]
Lady Baltimore, a 3-layered one of these, was first mentioned in an Owen Wister novel
a cake
Ben
$300 [8]
This form of hiking is so named because you carry all of your equipment in a knapsack
backpacking
Ben
$400 [14]
On Sept. 25. 1995's "Larry King Live", he announced a drive to launch a new political party
Ross Perot
Derek
$300 [18]
Someone who helps change this baby garment should be repaid with a kindness
a diaper (from repaid)
Derek
$400 [25]
This "royal" food that queen bees eat forms inside glands in the heads of worker bees
royal jelly
Derek
$400 [5]
In the Bible he was captured in a raid on Sodom & was rescued by Abraham
Lot
$400 [29]
This Jewish sabbath bread can be spelled beginning with "ch" or "h"
challah
Ben
$400 [9]
This backyard game grew out of an earlier version known as battledore & shuttlecock
badminton
Ben
DD $500 [13]
It's the number of associate justices on the U.S. Supreme Court
8
Julee
$400 [19]
It's a good ole name for a lion or a pope
Leo (from ole)
Ben
$500 [28]
True flies belong to the order Diptera, whose name is from the Greek for "two" of these body parts
wings
Julee
$500 [6]
Named for Augusto Sandino, the Sandinistas conducted raids in this country in the 1960s & the 1970s
Nicaragua
Ben
$500 [30]
Choux pastry is used to make cream puffs & these oblong chocolate pastries topped with icing
an eclair
Julee
$500 [10]
Large ones of these are used for acrobatics & jumping; mini ones are good for jogging
a trampoline
Julee
$500 [15]
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is an agency in this cabinet department
the Interior
Julee
$500 [20]
David Hyde Pierce knows all his lines as this character on "Frasier"
Niles (from lines)
Derek

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHARLES DICKENS CAPITAL CITIES NOTABLE WOMEN COMPUTERS GEMS & JEWELRY THE 5th
$200 [3]
"Nicholas Nickleby"' Mr. Squeers "had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of" this many
two
Julee
$200 [2]
This German city is serviced by a subway, the U-Bahn & an elevated train, the S-Bahn
Berlin
Ben
$200 [13]
In 1995, for her work on literacy, this former first lady received the Freedom Forum's Free Spirit Award
Barbara Bush
Julee
$200 [10]
These small, portable computers are divided into clamshell & lunchbox types based on shape
laptops
Derek
$200 [24]
Flaws are considered desirable in this green beryl gem
an emerald
Julee
$200 [30]
This French emperor died in exile on St. Helena May 5, 1821
Napoleon Bonaparte
Julee
$400 [4]
The name of this "A Christmas Carol" character has become synonymous with avarice
Ebenezer Scrooge
Ben
$400 [7]
Capital in which you'd find the Baths of Diocletian & the Capitoline Museum
Rome
Julee
$400 [14]
Before establishing her famous wax museum, she was an art tutor to King Louis XVI's sister
Madame Tussaud
Ben
$400 [11]
This device converts digital data into analog signals for transmission over telephone lines
a modem
Ben
$400 [26]
The Koh-i-Noor is one of the best known of these gems
the diamond
Derek
$600 [27]
Serving a total of 8 years, 7 months & 25 days, he resigned as British prime minister April 5, 1955
Churchill
Derek
$600 [5]
In 1824 Dickens' father was sent to this kind of prison
a debtor's prison
Ben
$800 [8]
In population, it's the largest Scandinavian capital by far
Copenhagen (in Denmark)
Derek Ben Julee
$600 [15]
This temperance leader taught primary school before receiving her "divine call" to smash saloons
Carrie Nation
Derek
$600 [16]
H&R Block, Inc. has announced it's spinning off this large online service
CompuServe
Derek Ben Julee
$600 [23]
The fire type of this gem is red; the prase, green
an opal
Ben Julee
$800 [21]
Since the 4th was a Sunday, this 5th president was sworn in for his 2nd term March 5, 1821
Monroe
Julee
$800 [6]
In 1960 this Dickens novel about a foundling was turned into a musical play
Oliver Twist
Derek
$1,000 [9]
One legend says this Ukrainian capital was founded by 3 brothers: Kii, Shchek & Khoriv
Kiev
Derek
$800 [17]
This author of "The Joy Luck Club" sometimes performs in a band with Stephen King
Amy Tan
Ben
$800 [19]
Many computer operations, such as the speed of memory chips, are measured in this unit, ns
nanoseconds
Ben
$800 [25]
Montana & Cape rubies are actually this January birthstone
the garnet
Ben
$1,000 [22]
He was in custody November 5, 1605 after preparing to blow up the British Parliament
Guy Fawkes
Derek
$1,000 [12]
This 1854 work attacks the utilitarian philosophy fostered by industrialization
Hard Times
Ben
DD $2,000 [1]
This capital's Government Palace stands on the site of Pizarro's palace, which inspired its architecture
Lima (Peru)
Derek
$1,000 [18]
She became Pakistan's 1st female prime minister after spending most of the early 1980s under arrest
Benazir Bhutto
Derek
$1,000 [20]
Times & Helvetica are examples of this, a complete set of characters belonging to one typeface
a font
Derek
$1,000 [28]
Non-blue examples of this corundum gem are called fancy
sapphires
Ben
DD $2,000 [29]
It ended December 5, 1933 after Utah ratified the 21st Amendment
the Prohibition
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

PATRIOTIC PLACES

This site on the Schuylkill River was named for a small ironworks nearby

Valley Forge

Julee "What is Sandy Stults" — wagered $0
Derek "What is Valley Forge?" — wagered $9,500
Ben "What is Bull Run?" — wagered $8,801

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