Show #1734 1992-02-27 (taped 1992-01-03) Teen Tournament

1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Jill Young — a junior from Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Trucle Nguyen — a senior from Falls Church, Virginia

Dylan Fulmer — a senior from Alpharetta, Georgia

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE

1 of 2 chemical elements whose symbol is a pronoun

(1 of) iodine or helium

Trucle "What is Iodine?" — wagered $4,000
Jill "What is iodine?" — wagered $3,250
Dylan "What is Helium?" — wagered $4,000

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