Show #4940 2006-02-17 Teen Tournament

2006 Teen Tournament final game 2.

Contestants

Matt Klein — a senior from Pittsford, New York (subtotal of $11,800)

Papa Chakravarthy — a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky (subtotal of $4,000)

Andrew Kreitz — a senior from Huntington Beach, California (subtotal of $6,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $-1,000 $-600 $4,600 $9,199 $4,600
7 R, 1 W
Papa $3,800 $6,900 $23,000 $24,601 $22,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $3,800 $6,800 $8,400 $0 $8,400
19 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

VERTEBRATES ADAM SANDLER FILMS TEEN POTPOURRI SMALLVILLE TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER HOMOPHONES
$200 [30]
In the N. American species of this mammal, there are hundreds of microscopic barbs at the end of each quill
the porcupine
Matt
$200 [29]
Adam trained with ex-NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury to prepare for this 2005 comedy
The Longest Yard
Matt
$200 [15]
3 teens were on the Team USA that won gold in August 2005 at the 26th World Championships of Twirling these
batons
Matt
$200 [27]
Small cities in this state include Kinbrae (pop. 21) & Boy River (pop. 38); Minneapolis is much bigger
Minnesota
Papa
$200 [2]
Of Flash, Google or Alta Vista, the one that's not a popular Internet search engine
Flash
Matt
$200 [1]
It can be a blood vessel, or being excessively proud of oneself
vein/vain
Matt
$400 [12]
Known as a whooper, it's the tallest North American bird, reaching a height of nearly 5 feet
a whooping crane
Matt
$400 [7]
There must be 50 ways to name this 2004 comedy with Adam & Drew Barrymore, said to be "Memento-meets-Groundhog Day"
50 First Dates
Papa
$400 [17]
In New Hampshire (& many other states), you must be at least this age to marry without parental consent
18
Andrew Papa
$400 [28]
This Wyoming town, pop. 15, was named for a wish-making boy in "The Arabian Nights"
Aladdin
Papa
$400 [3]
This 2-letter Windows computer operating system was introduced in October 2001
XP
Matt
$400 [26]
An aroma, or transmitted
scent/sent
Papa Matt
$600 [13]
When rainbow species of this migrate to the sea, their color changes to silver; they're then called steelheads
trout
Matt
$600 [16]
Adam crooned his way into Drew Barrymore's heart in this "matrimonial" 1998 film
The Wedding Singer
Matt
$600 [18]
She turned 13 on Feb. 27, 1993--one month after her father became president
Chelsea Clinton
Matt
$600 [21]
The name of this city in Texas (pop. 1631) is found in Texas' traditional nickname
Lone Star
$600 [4]
Abbreviated BB, it's a popular data-transmission method capable of sending multiple channels at once
broadband
Matt
$600 [25]
Select, or masticates
choose/chews
Matt
$800 [10]
The golden species of this small rodent is often sold as a pet because it's clean & easy to care for
a hamster
Papa
$800 [9]
The price was very, very wrong when Bob Barker pummeled Adam on a golf course in this 1996 film
Happy Gilmore
Papa
$800 [19]
This national org. is now divided into 4 different age groups; Studio 2B is for females between 11 & 17
the Girl Scouts
$800 [22]
A Tennessee town, pop. 85, or a British sport similar to soccer & football
Rugby
Papa
$800 [5]
In computerese, it's what the P stands for in the abbreviation HTTP
protocol
Papa
$800 [11]
Writing paper, or standing still
stationery/stationary
$1,000 [14]
The Yapok, a species of this native to Central & South America, is the only marsupial adapted to living in water
an opossum
$1,000 [8]
Adam was kickin' it old school--elementary school--as this 1995 title character
Billy Madison
Andrew Matt
$1,000 [20]
This national literary magazine written for teens by teens has a writing fluid in its name
Teen Ink
Papa
$1,000 [24]
Eden (pop. 1152) in this state was chartered to a group of Green Mountain Boys
Vermont
Matt
$1,000 [6]
The forerunner to the Internet known as the ARPANET was a 1960s network by this U.S. government dept.
Defense
Papa
DD $1,500 [23]
Part of a horse's harness, or pertaining to a woman on her wedding day
bridle/bridal
Papa

Double Jeopardy! Round

FANTASY NOVELS BORN FIRST OPERA--IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! TEEN CUISINE LET'S LOOK TO THE STARS SEÑOR CLASS
$400 [1]
This author once wrote, "Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia... and then imagine what would happen"
(C.S.) Lewis
Papa
$400 [11]
John Milton, John Grisham, John Steinbeck
John Milton
Andrew Matt
$400 [10]
It's no fairy tale: Elvis Costello wrote & starred in a 2005 opera about this Danish fairy tale author
Hans Christian Andersen
Matt
$400 [25]
Banquet and Swanson's Hungry-Man are varieties of these meals that today you can nuke as well as bake
TV dinners
Andrew
$400 [18]
This nebula named for a crustacean is the remnant of a supernova from the year 1054
the Crab Nebula
Matt
$400 [24]
Math teacher Señor Nuñez taught us that una linea is made up of puntos, these
points
Andrew
$800 [6]
Chapter 8 of this popular L. Frank Baum work is entitled "The Deadly Poppy Field"
The Wizard of Oz
Matt
$800 [12]
Charles Darwin, Galileo, Max Planck
Galileo
Papa
$800 [5]
The poetry of this English lord inspired a number of operas, including "Lara" & "The Bride of Abydos"
Byron
Matt
$800 [30]
Nautical name for a sandwich made from a long roll cut horizontally
submarine
Papa
$800 [17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew draws a familiar constellation on a chalkboard.) The constellation outlined here is known by this name in the U.S.
the Little Dipper
Andrew Matt
$800 [14]
Chemistry teacher Señor Avalos taught us element names in Spanish: potasio, helio & this, for symbol Na
sodio
$1,200 [7]
L. Sprague de Camp & Robert Howard are 2 men who've novelized this swordsman played on film by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Conan the Barbarian
Andrew
$1,200 [26]
Percy Shelley, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda
Shelley
Papa
$1,200 [3]
Though this kind of soprano means "half-soprano", never tell one that she's only half as good as a coloratura
a mezzo-soprano
Papa
$1,200 [29]
Celebrating 75 years in 2005, these treats from Hostess originally had a banana filling
Twinkies
Papa Matt
$1,200 [15]
Many stars in the Milky Way are these kind of paired stars, from the Latin for "two together"
binary
Papa
$1,200 [23]
All semester, Señor Ortiz in phys ed had us playing baloncesto, this game
basketball
Papa
$1,600 [8]
In 1984 Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman began this "serpentine" series featuring the magician Raistlin
Dragonlance
$1,600 [20]
Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Mozart
Wolfgang Mozart
Papa
$1,600 [2]
Red Whiskers & Squeak serve aboard ship with this title character, Herman Melville's sailorboy
Billy Budd
Papa
$1,600 [27]
"Untidy" name for sandwiches made with ground beef cooked in tomato sauce & served on hamburger buns
sloppy joes
Matt
$2,000 [16]
In 1838 Friedrich Bessel first measured a star's distance by using parallax--using observations this many months apart
6
$2,000 [22]
In U.S. government with Señor Molina, we learned that this person, el Portavoz, presides over La Camara de Representantes
the Speaker of the House
Papa
$2,000 [9]
Roger Zelazny is known for the series of novels based on this land that shares its name with fossilized resin
Amber
Papa
$2,000 [19]
English kings:James I, Alfred the Great, George III
Alfred the Great
Andrew Papa
$2,000 [4]
One of the most popular Christmas operas is Menotti's classic about this boy "and the Night Visitors"
Amahl
Papa
$2,000 [28]
The popular snack known as "ants on a log" is made with raisins, peanut butter & this long green vegetable
celery
Papa
DD $3,500 [13]
In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the first White Dwarf, a companion of this star also called Alpha Canis Majoris
Sirius
Papa
DD $2,200 [21]
Señor Garcia's geography test included Cabo de Buena Esperanza, which is on this continent
Africa
Papa

Final Jeopardy!

FORMER WORLD CAPITALS

In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city

St. Petersburg

Andrew "What is St. Petersburg" — wagered $4,599
Matt "What is Stalingrad?" — wagered $8,400
Papa "What is St. Petersburg?" — wagered $1,601

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