1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.
Adrienne Williams — a senior from Lanham, Maryland
Cori Van Noy — a sophomore from San Diego, California
Rob Marus — a junior from Little Rock, Arkansas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rob | $2,400 | $4,000 | $11,600 |
$11,200
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$11,800
26 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Cori | $700 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$11,600
Automatic semifinalist |
$5,800
14 R, 1 W |
| Adrienne | $800 | $1,700 | $1,300 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$1,300
13 R, 3 W |
| ENGLISH CLASS | SICKNESS & HEALTH | FEATHERED FRIENDS | STATE NICKNAMES | SPORTS | HEADS |
|
$100
[6]
It's the indirect object in the sentence "He gave me an apple."
me
Adrienne
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$100
[11]
Also known as cephalagia, they can be tension or migraine
headaches
Rob
|
$100
[23]
The males of these largest flightless birds have black & white plumage; the females are brownish
an ostrich
Adrienne
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$100
[1]
"The Aloha State"
Hawaii
Rob
|
$100
[21]
In 1991 this Chicago Bulls guard won his 5th straight NBA scoring title
Michael Jordan
Adrienne
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$100
[16]
The head of a high school, its name is from the same root as the titles of Charles & Diana
principal
Adrienne
|
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$200
[7]
It can be a noun or a pronoun, but every verb I has to have one
a subject
Rob
|
$200
[12]
They flow from the lacrimal glands, washing out impurities in the eye
tears
Rob
|
$200
[25]
The Adelie variety of these birds was named for a coast in Antarctica
penguins
Rob
|
$200
[2]
"The Tar Heel State"
North Carolina
Cori
|
$200
[22]
This tennis player ended her career in 1989 having won a record 157 singles tournaments
Chris Evert Lloyd (Mill)
Cori
|
$200
[17]
Talking about heads, he was the head of Talking Heads
David Byrne
Cori
|
|
$300
[8]
When writing, you do this to words you want the printer to italicize
underline them
Rob
|
$300
[13]
World Book says U.S. kids left breathless by this allergic disorder miss about 36 million school days a yr.
asthma
Rob
|
$300
[26]
This term for the sound a rooster makes is the name of another bird
a crow
Adrienne
|
$300
[3]
"America's Dairyland"
Wisconsin
Adrienne
|
$300
[24]
Every year, thousands of kids participate in programs of the AYSO, which stands for this
American Youth Soccer Organization
Cori
|
$300
[18]
In offices they're usually assistants, but in the president's cabinet they're heads of departments
secretaries
Cori
|
|
DD
$300
[10]
The inflection of verbs is called conjugation; the inflection of nouns is called this
a declension
Rob
|
$400
[14]
Meaning "without feeling", it's a drug used in surgery that should leave you that way
an anesthetic
Rob
|
$400
[29]
In names of birds, it follows cross, horn & spoon
bill
Adrienne
|
$400
[4]
"The Last Frontier"
Alaska
Adrienne
|
$400
[27]
He's the only American man to have won the Tour de France cycling race
Greg LeMond
Rob
|
$400
[19]
The head of a jury of 12, or the head of a group of factory workers
foreman
Adrienne
|
|
$400
[9]
Mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a contraction
an apostrophe
Rob
|
$500
[15]
The color of the blood cells that release disease-fighting proteins called antibodies
white
Cori
|
$500
[30]
This popular cage bird whose name starts with "bull" can learn simple tunes
a finch (bullfinch)
Rob
|
$500
[5]
"The Empire State of the South"
Georgia
Rob
|
$500
[28]
In 1988 he became the first man to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the long jump
Carl Lewis
Cori
|
$500
[20]
From Turkish for "ruler", it was a title given to the head of a Mongol tribe
Khan
Rob
Adrienne
|
| WORLD LEADERS | POETRY | U.S. HISTORY | CHEMISTRY | WORD ORIGINS | TAILS |
|
$200
[6]
In 1981 Francois Mitterand became the first socialist president of this country's Fifth Republic
France
Adrienne
|
$200
[8]
One word "quoth" by "The Raven"
Nevermore
Rob
|
$200
[1]
A constitutional amendment regarding the pay of members of these 2 bodies has been pending since 1789
the Senate & the House of Representatives
Rob
|
$200
[14]
It's the chemical symbol for ice
H2O
Rob
|
$200
[17]
Unmarried religious brother whose name comes from "monos", Greek for single
a monk
Cori
|
$200
[19]
In old schoolhouses these tails were dipped in the inkwells by nasty boys
pigtails (ponytails)
Adrienne
|
|
$400
[7]
This dictator has been in power since 1959, the longest of any current leader in the Western Hemisphere
Fidel Castro
Cori
|
$400
[10]
He was fired as a clerk in the Interior Dept. after the secretary heard he'd written "Leaves of Grass"
Walt Whitman
Cori
|
$400
[2]
This state entered the Union in 1817 with Washington, near Natchez, as its capital
Mississippi
Rob
|
$400
[18]
Treat glycerol with a mixture of concentrated nitric & sulfuric acids & you get this substance
nitroglycerin
|
$400
[22]
A work of art applied to a wall, it comes from Latin for "wall"
a mural
Cori
Adrienne
|
$400
[25]
It can have a plasma tail made of ionized gas or a dust tail or both
a comet
Rob
|
|
$600
[9]
Chancellor of the Exchequer who succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Britain's PM in November 1990
(John) Major
Adrienne
|
$600
[11]
3 who "one night sailed off in a wooden shoe— sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew"
Wynken, Blynken & Nod
|
$600
[3]
The George Washington was the first of these ships able to launch ballistic missiles
the nuclear submarines
|
$600
[20]
Bittern is the liquid left after you remove this compound from sea water
sodium chloride
Cori
|
$600
[24]
The Latin for "ninth hour" gave us this word for a time of day
noon
Cori
|
$800
[29]
Also called the bay lynx, it got this name from its stubby tail
the bobcat
Rob
|
|
DD
$600
[16]
In 1984 this descendant of Irish immigrants became Canada's prime minister
Brian Mulroney
Rob
|
$800
[12]
Her poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz" was a take-off from a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables"
Emily Dickinson
Cori
|
$800
[4]
In 1904 this bit of Central American territory was legally transferred to the U.S.
the Panama Canal Zone
Rob
|
$800
[21]
Three types of these which link atoms to form molecules are ionic, covalent & metallic
bonds
Rob
|
$800
[26]
Some claim this name for the South was coined from the $10 notes printed in New Orleans
Dixie
Adrienne
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
1986 film that featured thefollowing: "Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight"
An American Tail
Rob
|
|
$800
[15]
This country's king, Juan Carlos, is descended from France's Louis XIV
Spain
Rob
|
$1,000
[13]
He began his 1st major poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", with a quote from Dante's "Inferno"
(T.S.) Eliot
Cori
|
$1,000
[5]
The Banking Act of 1933 established the FDIC, which stands for this
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Rob
|
$1,000
[23]
Horizontal rows on a periodic table are periods, vertical columns of related elements are these
groups
Rob
Adrienne
|
$1,000
[27]
This word for one who professes beliefs he doesn't hold comes from Greek for "actor"
a hypocrite
Rob
|
$1,000
[30]
I don't care if you know this alternate title to "Jimmy Crack Corn"
the "Blue Tail Fly"
|
You'll find this Martin Hanford character is Charlie in France & Ubaldo in Italy
Waldo