Show #2189 1994-02-24 (taped 1994-01-04) Teen Tournament

1994 Teen Tournament final game 1.

Contestants

Peter Steffen — a senior from New Hampton, Iowa

Paul Loeffler — a senior from Los Banos, California

Matt Morris — a senior from Louisville, Kentucky

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $2,100 $2,400 $5,600 $3,600 $7,600
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Paul $700 $1,700 $6,300 $2,600 $6,900
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Peter $1,100 $2,500 $7,300 $4,600 $6,300
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE THE OSCARS 19th CENTURY FASHION NATURE AMERICANA "UP"s & "DOWN"s
$100 [6]
When asked the whereabouts of Abel, he replied, "I know not: am I my brother's keeper"
Cain
Matt
$100 [5]
This Steven Spielberg film about Peter Pan received a 1992 nomination for "Best Costume Design"
Hook
Peter
$100 [18]
Part of the body around which a cravat is worn
the neck
Matt
$100 [12]
Growing up to 65 feet these parts of a raffia palm are the longest on any plant
the leaves
Paul
$100 [11]
Nevada's Carson River is named for him
Kit Carson
Paul
$100 [19]
It's most often a nickname for Australia
Down Under
Matt
$200 [8]
Before his ministry, Jesus is believed to have practiced this trade taught to him by Joseph
carpentry
Matt
$200 [4]
In 1992 this Disney film became the first animated feature ever nominated for "Best Picture"
Beauty and the Beast
Peter
$200 [27]
One of the tallest of the top hats; honest Abe was known for his
stovepipe
$200 [14]
Among birds, hummingbirds are considered the most important in carrying out this process between plants
pollination
Matt
$200 [13]
There's an exhibit devoted to this late Muppeteer in Leland, Mississippi, near his birthplace
Jim Henson
Paul
$200 [20]
It's another term for a square dance
a hoedown
Peter
$300 [7]
Some of these mentioned in the Bible are Horeb, Carmel & Olives
mounts
Paul
$300 [1]
This actor won as "Best Director" for "Dances with Wolves", his directorial debut
Kevin Costner
Matt
$300 [28]
He put the blue in blue jeans
(Levi) Strauss
Paul
$400 [25]
Most breeds of domestic duck are descended from this common wild variety
the mallard
Peter
$300 [15]
This city is home to the Doo Dah Parade & the Tournament of Roses Parade
Pasadena
Peter
$300 [21]
Any article of clothing you might pass on to a younger sibling
a hand-me-down
Peter
$400 [9]
In addition to 6 sons, Leah bore him a daughter, Dinah
Jacob
Matt
$400 [2]
"Somewhere In My Memory" from this 1990 Macaulay Culkin film was nominated for "Best Song"
Home Alone
Matt
$400 [29]
A crinoline was used to stretch these garments to about 5 feet wide
skirts (*a dress)
Paul
$500 [26]
While weevils are a destructive type of this insect, the ladybird is considered beneficial
the beetle
Matt
$400 [16]
Kellogg's cereals made this Michigan city the "Breakfast Food City"
Battle Creek
Paul
$400 [22]
The Apache & Paiute Indians used brush & matting to make this simple hut
wickiup
Matt
$500 [10]
"To every thing there is a season", begins a famous passage from this book
Ecclesiastes
Peter
$500 [3]
Bruce Joel Rubin won an Oscar for writing this 1990 film in which Whoopi Goldberg played a medium
Ghost
Matt
$500 [30]
Popular styles of these included Hessian, jockey & Wellington
boots
DD $600 [24]
Developed from buried peat deposits, lignite is the first stage in the formation of this fuel
coal
Paul
$500 [17]
The first English colony in what's now this state was the Popham Settlement near the mouth of the Kennebec River
Maine
Peter
$500 [23]
"Beacon Hill" was similar to this British TV series about a wealthy family & its servants
Upstairs, Downstairs
Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

HAIL TO THE CHIEF COMPUTERS CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES CANADA GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
$200 [6]
His disputed electoral victory earned him the nickname "Rutherfraud"
Rutherford B. Hayes
Paul
$200 [25]
Device you use to click & drag
a mouse
Matt
$200 [30]
They're made of "frogs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails"
little boys
Paul
$200 [21]
Read all about it! It's an unscheduled edition of a newspaper printed when big news breaks
an extra
Matt
$200 [1]
Canada produces millions of gallons of this sweet syrup every year, more than any other country
maple syrup
Paul
$200 [13]
An outline of this sculpted monument appears on South Dakota license plates
Mount Rushmore
Peter
$400 [5]
He succeeded Thomas Jefferson as president of the U.S. & as rector of the University of Virginia
James Madison
Paul
$400 [26]
A monitor's resolution is measured in the number of these on the screen; a common one is 640 X 480
pixels
Matt
$400 [17]
"Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot", this many "days old"
nine
Matt Paul
$400 [20]
In 1993 this city's Herald won a Pulitzer gold medal for reporting on Hurricane Andrew
Miami
Paul
$400 [2]
The musical ride is a spectacular display of horsemanship performed by these police
the Mounties
Matt
$400 [14]
In the Roman calendar, this day fell on the 15th of March, May, July & Oct., & on the 13th of other months
the Ides
Matt
$600 [3]
For his efforts in founding the League of Nations, he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize
Woodrow Wilson
Paul
$600 [27]
To turn a computer into a multimedia machine; one of these players is added
CD-ROM
$600 [12]
At the end of the Grimms' version of the story, pigeons peck out the eyes of her stepsisters
Cinderella
Paul
$600 [22]
In 1974 this Radnor, Penn.-based magazine became the first weekly to sell a billion copies in a year
TV Guide
Paul
$600 [4]
This city in British Columbia is Canada's busiest port
Vancouver
Matt
$600 [11]
On Dec. 7, 1991 about 2,000 veterans of this event gathered for a 50th anniversary reunion
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Matt
$800 [7]
A few weeks after his birth, his mother wrote, "He is very large of his age and grows fat every day"
William Howard Taft
Peter
$800 [28]
It's considered fragmented when the spaces it allocates to a file are not contiguous, but scattered
a hard disk
$1,000 [16]
This character created by Antoine de Saint-Exupery came to Earth from an asteroid
the Little Prince
Matt
$800 [23]
Now edited by Helen Gurley Brown, this magazine began in Rochester, N.Y. in 1886
Cosmopolitan
Peter
$800 [9]
The annual Calgary Stampede in this province is world-famous for its chuck wagon races
Alberta
Matt
$800 [18]
On Oct. 31, 1961 his name was removed from Moscow's Red Square; his body was removed a day later
(Joseph) Stalin
Matt Paul
DD $2,000 [8]
After his fiancee Anne Coleman died, he apparently vowed never to marry, & he never did
James Buchanan
Peter
$1,000 [29]
The main or baseboard of most computers, it has expansion slots to extend the computer's capabilities
the motherboard
Peter
DD $2,000 [15]
Born in a flower, her cradle was a polished walnut shell
Thumbelina
Matt
$1,000 [24]
Harrison Salisbury, once this newspaper's Moscow correspondent, died in July 1993
the New York Times
$1,000 [10]
Over 15 of the islands in the Northwest Territories are larger than this island, Canada's smallest province
Prince Edward Island
Matt
$1,000 [19]
This great king of the Franks was probably born in Aachen in what is now Germany in 742
Charlemagne
Paul

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS WOMEN

A 1953 graduate of Mount St. Vincent College in NYC, she was a world leader 1986-1992

Corazon Aquino

Matt "Who is Buto?" — wagered $2,000
Paul "Who is Kim Campbell?" — wagered $3,700
Peter "Who is Benazir Bhutto?" — wagered $2,700

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