1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.
Jill Young — a junior from Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Trucle Nguyen — a senior from Falls Church, Virginia
Dylan Fulmer — a senior from Alpharetta, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan | $1,300 | $1,700 | $6,300 |
$10,300
Automatic semifinalist |
$6,400
17 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Trucle | $1,000 | $2,600 | $4,000 |
$8,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$4,000
11 R, 1 W |
| Jill | $1,100 | $2,600 | $5,600 |
$8,850
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,600
19 R, 2 W |
| FISH | TV SITCOMS | INDIANS | FASHION HISTORY | GEOMETRY | COMPLETES THE PROVERB |
|
$100
[19]
An average-sized specimen of this fish can discharge about 400 volts
an electric eel
Dylan
|
$100
[1]
"As Long As we Got Each Other", sung by B.J. Thomas & Jennifer Warnes, is the theme to this ABC sitcom
Growing Pains
Jill
|
$100
[11]
After the Sioux began using these animals, they gave up permanent villages to follow the buffalo
horses
Jill
|
$100
[24]
In the 1770s some women piled this over a wire frame up to 3' high — & they didn't even have mousse yet
their hair
Dylan
|
$100
[6]
One simple axiom says through any two points, this can be drawn
a straight line
Trucle
|
$100
[14]
"Truth is stranger than..."
fiction
Jill
|
|
$200
[20]
This North Atlantic fish is prized for the oil in its liver
a cod fish
Trucle
|
$200
[2]
Sitcom on which you'd find bailiff Bull Shannon
Night Court
Jill
|
$200
[12]
The L.A. Times says 1991 revenues from this on U.S. reservations should reach $1 billion
gambling
|
$200
[27]
A farthingale was a hoop one of these
a skirt
Jill
|
$200
[7]
To find the area of a circle, you multiply this by the radius squared
pi
Jill
|
$200
[15]
"Spare the rod and..."
spoil the child
Trucle
|
|
$300
[21]
A federal law forbids the importation of this ferocious South American fish also known as a caribe
a piranha
Jill
|
$300
[3]
This sitcom title character has worked at Wellman Plastics, at a beauty salon & as a waitress
Roseanne
Dylan
|
DD
$200
[26]
The Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga & Mohawk were the 5 nations of this league
Iroquois
Dylan
|
$300
[28]
An old-fashioned covering for the shoe, it sounds like a nickname for a crocodile relative
a gaiter
Jill
|
$300
[8]
It's the longest side of a right triangle
the hypotenuse
Trucle
|
$300
[16]
"Do as I say..."
not as I do
Jill
|
|
$400
[22]
This small tropical pet was named for the scientist who introduced it to British aquariums in the 1800s
the guppy
Jill
|
$400
[4]
Daniel Stern provides the voice of the adult Kevin Arnold, who narrates this series
The Wonder Years
Jill
|
$300
[13]
Because they lived in the same types of dwellings, the Hopi & Zuni are often grouped with these tribes
the Pueblo Indians
|
$400
[29]
The dashiki, a loose, colorful garment worn chiefly by men, originated on this continent
Africa
Trucle
|
$400
[9]
Two angles are said to be supplementary when their sum equals this
180 degrees
Trucle
|
$400
[17]
"The way to a man's heart is..."
through his stomach
Trucle
|
|
$500
[23]
The bluefin, the largest species of this commercial fish, may weigh over 1800 pounds
a tuna
Trucle
|
$500
[5]
This sitcom is set in Washington, D.C. at the offices of the fictitious TV show "F.Y.I."
Murphy Brown
Dylan
|
$400
[25]
The Cherokees' 1st real contact with Europeans was with this explorer on his way to the Mississippi
de Soto
Trucle
|
$500
[30]
The trilby was a soft felt one of these named for an 1894 novel
a hat
|
$500
[10]
A pentagon is a polygon with 5 sides; this is a polygon with 7 sides
a heptagon
Dylan
|
$500
[18]
"A watched pot..."
never boils
Trucle
|
| MEXICO | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | FAMOUS FIRSTS | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | COMPOSERS | U.S. PRESIDENTS |
|
$200
[16]
Used in tortillas & tamales, this grain is grown on almost half of all farmland
corn
Dylan
|
$200
[3]
In a Stephen King novel, she avenges herself on classmates using telekinetic power
Carrie
Jill
|
$200
[1]
In 1914 he produced the first cars assembled completely on conveyor belts
(Henry) Ford
Dylan
|
$200
[11]
This Provo, Utah school has a campus on Oahu, Hawaii
Brigham Young University
Dylan
|
$200
[22]
His "Wiegenlied" or "Lullaby" was introduced to America in 1868
Brahms
Jill
|
$200
[26]
To date, he's the only elected U.S. president born in Missouri
Truman
Jill
|
|
$400
[17]
It's only 130 miles between these bodies of water across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
the Pacific Ocean & the Gulf of Mexico
Jill
|
$400
[4]
He was born John Clayton, the son of Lord Greystoke, a British nobleman
Tarzan
Dylan
|
$400
[2]
In 1911 she became the first person to win 2 Nobel Prizes
Marie Curie
Trucle
|
$400
[12]
A replica of a shrine at Lourdes, France sits on the campus of this school near South Bend, Ind.
Notre Dame
Dylan
|
$400
[23]
A trip to Europe inspired his 1928 piece "An American in Paris"
George Gershwin
Jill
|
$400
[27]
In 1950 he was named commander of NATO forces in Europe
Eisenhower
Jill
|
|
$600
[18]
Mexico City stands on the site of Tenochtitlan, their capital
the Aztecs
Dylan
|
DD
$600
[5]
After marrying Agnes Wickfield, this Dickens character settles down to become a novelist
David Copperfield
Dylan
|
$600
[8]
On Nov. 21, 1783 de Rozier & d'Arlandes made the first human free flight in one of these
a hot air balloon
Jill
|
$600
[13]
This Pasadena, Calif. school operates a seismological laboratory & 4 observatories
Caltech (the California Institute of Technology)
|
$600
[24]
Among his last compositions were "Fantaisie in F Minor" "Polonaise-Fantaisie"
Chopin
Jill
|
$600
[28]
He was known as the "Surveyor President"
George Washington
Dylan
|
|
$800
[19]
The name of this Mexican string band comes from the French word for marriage
a mariachi band
Jill
|
$800
[6]
Guilty of murder, Raskolnikov is sentenced to Siberia in this work by Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
Dylan
|
$800
[9]
This company's first Traveler's check was cashed for $100 at the Hotel Hauffe in Leipzig on August 5, 1891
American Express
Dylan
|
$800
[14]
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library stands on this university's campus
the University of Texas (at Austin)
Dylan
|
$800
[25]
In 1988, 161 years after his death, the 1st movement of his unfinished 10th symphony had its world premiere
Beethoven
Jill
|
$800
[29]
At his March 4, 1905 inaugural, he wore a ring containing a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair
Theodore Roosevelt
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1914 forces from this country seized Veracruz
the United States
Dylan
|
$1,000
[7]
At the end of this Hemingway novel, hero Robert Jordan is left to die after blowing up a Spanish bridge
For Whom the Bell Tolls
|
$1,000
[10]
This 1803 case was the first in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared a law unconstitutional
Marbury vs. Madison
|
DD
$1,200
[15]
The Harvard faculty provides all instruction for undergrads at this women's college
Radcliffe
Dylan
|
$1,000
[21]
This Austrian composer of the "Surprise Symphony" is often regarded as the "Father of the Symphony"
Haydn
Trucle
|
$1,000
[30]
It's Jimmy Carter's middle name
Earl
|
1 of 2 chemical elements whose symbol is a pronoun
(1 of) iodine or helium