Show #3337 - Tuesday, February 23, 1999

1999-A Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Elizabeth Nyman, a sophomore from Jacksonville, Florida

Sam Sanker, a sophomore from North Bergen, New Jersey

Katie Halliday, a junior from Raleigh, North Carolina

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Jeopardy! Round

STAR WARS
THE GREAT SEAL OF THE U.S.
MATH CLASS
FAMOUS EX-TEENAGERS
COUNTRIES BY REGION
BODY LANGUAGE
    $100 3
This character was "the Hutt"
    $100 24
The eagle is holding a ribbon with this Latin phrase on it
    $100 21
The area of a 12-inch square
    $100 1
He was in the National Honor Society at Benton Harbor High -- good training for "Celebrity Jeopardy!"
    $100 4
Damietta,
Suez,
Gharbiya
    $100 15
Landing an entry-level job is one way of getting this extremity "in the door"
    $200 5
At times integral parts of the plot, they're the 2 main droids in the first 3 "Star Wars" films
    $200 27
Number of arrows or number of leaves on the olive branch
    $200 22
The degrees in a circle divided by the degrees in a right angle
    $200 2
She was only 18 when she sang with her mom Judy Garland at the London Palladium in 1964
    $200 6
Corse,
Auvergne,
Bretagne
    $200 17
To unburden yourself of a problem is to "get it off" this -- the body part, not the bureau
    $300 10
A great sidekick when in hairy situations, Chewbacca was one of these creatures
    $300 28
First ordered on this historic date, a design wasn't approved until June 20, 1782
    $300 23
It's the square root of the square root of 16
    $300 13
At age 16, this current NBC anchorman had an after-school job as a radio announcer in Yankton, S.D.
    $300 7
Roraima,
Maranhao,
Amazonas
    DD: $600 18
(Hello, I'm Jay Leno) A boxing expression says a person who suffers a setback "takes it" on this body part
    $400 11
Han Solo won this spaceship of Corellian design from Lando Calrissian on a bet
    $400 29
The base of this geometric solid is inscribed MDCCLXXVI
    $400 25
1/15 + 1/45 = this
    $400 14
As a teen on "Silver Spoons", he had a "Y" in his first name; as Danny Sorenson on "NYPD Blue", he doesn't
    $400 8
Cordoba,
La Pampa,
Tierra del Fuego
    $400 19
A driver who slows down to look at a car wreck has a rubber one
    $500 12
The first 10 words on the screen at the beginning of the film
    $500 30
On the seal's reverse side this body part of "Providence" is seen
    $500 26
It's what y equals if 44y=484
    $500 16
Kathie Lee knows this co-host is a proud graduate of Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx
    $500 9
Ostergotland,
Vasterbotten,
Uppsala
    $500 20
Your granny might remember when you were this high "to a grasshopper"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Katie Sam Elizabeth
$900 $1,800 $1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Katie Sam Elizabeth
$1,500 $2,300 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

WAR STARS
AMERICAN LITERATURE
EVEN YOUNGER THAN YOU
(Alex: You three.)
NEWTONIAN PHYSICS
20th CENTURY AMERICA
CROSSWORD CLUES "Z"
    $200 6
This young star played the title role in "Saving Private Ryan"
    $200 9
Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23
    $200 21
As a 3-year-old in 1979, he broke 50 for 9 holes of golf
    $200 23
In 1666 it occurred to Newton that apples & the moon might both be subject to this force
    $200 16
On May 22, 1964 this president told America, "The great society rests on abundance and liberty for all"
    $200 1
Eastern route to enlightenment
(3)
    $400 7
Casper Van Dien played one of the young gung ho warriors of the future in this 1997 release
    $400 12
Reading is out as books go up in smoke in this Ray Bradbury classic
    $400 22
8-year-old Maria de Sautuola discovered 15,000-year-old paintings on the ceiling of one of these
    $400 27
Newton believed light was made of particles called these, like red & white blood cells
    $400 17
On April 1, 1976 2 engineers with $1,300 in capital began this computer company in Cupertino, California
    $400 2
Striped equine
(5)
    $600 8
As Lt. Jordan O'Neil, Demi Moore was the first female to undergo Navy SEAL training in this film
    $600 13
This Upton Sinclair expose of the meatpacking industry led to the passage of a Pure Food & Drug Act
    $600 24
In 1861 11-year-old Charlie Miller was the youngest rider in this service; he lived to be 105
    DD: $1,800 28
(Hi, I'm Nate Newton of the Dallas Cowboys) Newton's second law of this tells you how much a linebacker accelerates when I hit him
    $600 18
This tanker leaked 1.26 million barrels of crude oil into Prince William Sound in March 1989
    $600 3
The last word in veggies
(8)
    $800 10
In this 1987 film Schwarzenegger led an elite squad against a deadly alien in a jungle
    DD: $1,000 14
Daisy Buchanan's cousin, he narrates "The Great Gatsby"
    $800 25
The diary begun in 1991 by 10-year-old Zlata Filipovic of this war-torn city became a bestseller
    $800 29
It's the inward force that a string exerts on a ball whirling on the end of it
    $800 19
On April 11, 1951 President Truman relieved this general of his U.N. command in Korea
    $800 4
Remotely change the channel
(3)
    $1000 11
In a 1987 film this Minn. governor was part of an elite squad led by Schwarzenegger against a deadly alien in a jungle
    $1000 15
Sethe, a former slave, is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, whom she killed, in this Toni Morrison novel
    $1000 26
His first published work, a sonata for keyboard, appeared in Paris around the time of his eighth birthday
    $1000 30
Usual translation of Newton's words "Actioni contrariam semper et aequalem esse reactionem"
    $1000 20
This 1935 act set up a system of old-age benefits for Americans
    $1000 5
"Taylor-made" president
(7)

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Katie Sam Elizabeth
$5,500 $10,900 $6,200

Final Jeopardy! Round

SYMBOLS
In 1972 programmer Ray Tomlinson chose it to separate an e-mail user's name from the computer's name

Final scores:

Katie Sam Elizabeth
$11,000 $12,401 $8,700
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Katie Sam Elizabeth
$5,500 $10,700 $5,900
12 R,
1 W		 29 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $22,100

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