Show #3488 - Wednesday, November 3, 1999

1999-B Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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Kristi Jones, a junior from Warsaw, Ohio

Miguel Dickson, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky

Brittan Heller, a senior from West Covina, California

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Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY: THE 1970s
COMPUTERAMA
THE CIRCUS
POP QUIZ
FAMOUS NAMES
ANAGRAMMED COUNTRIES
    $100 2
The movie "Saturday Night Fever" & John Travolta helped feed this dance craze in 1977
    $100 7
It's what the abbreviation FAQ stands for
    $100 1
"The Human Volcano" may be the most dangerous stunt performed by these "eaters"
    $100 5
They've peppered the charts with hot hits like "Say You'll Be There" & "2 Become 1"
    $100 3
A little "bird" told us this English nurse was named for the Italian city of her birth
    $100 12
Moan
    $200 14
During the 1970s, Russia was part of this larger nation
    $200 8
The computer visual seen here is known by this "restaurant" term
    $200 17
A thick white type of theatrical makeup is named for these circus performers
    $200 6
In 1998 his "La Copa de la Vida" was the official song of the World Cup soccer games
    $200 4
Before becoming attorney general of the U.S., she was state attorney for Dade County, Florida
    $200 21
Yon war
    $300 19
The No. 1 TV program in 1979 was this CBS News program that's still on the air
    DD: $500 9
This programming language shares its name with an Indonesian island & a strong word for coffee
    $300 18
Jonathan Lee Iverson is the youngest ringmaster ever for this circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth"
    $300 13
Take a bow if you know that Babyface co-wrote & sang on her 1994 hit "Take a Bow"
    $300 24
He's the American hero seen here
(flying the "Spirit of St. Louis")
    $300 22
Nice lad
    $400 20
For her work in Calcutta, this tireless Catholic nun won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize
    $400 10
The last name of Charles, who built a precursor to the computer, the analytical engine, in the early 1800s
    $400 30
Funambulism is a fancy word for the art of "walking" this
    $400 15
Nirvana didn't sweat over the title of this 1991 song, they named it for a deodorant
    $400 27
His repertoire of about 140 military marches earned him the nickname the "March King"
    $400 25
Hug yarn
    $500 23
The 3 men who served as U.S. presidents in the 1970s
    $500 11
Examples of these research helpers include Hotbot & Altavista
    $500 29
Circus Oz, which turned 21 in 1999, is a zany, satirical circus from this country that's nicknamed "Oz"
    $500 16
(Hi, I'm Edwin McCain) My song "I'll Be" got a lot of play after it was featured on the May 1998 season finale of this WB TV series
    $500 28
In 1889 this great orator & former slave became the U.S. minister to Haiti
    $500 26
Road cue

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Brittan Miguel Kristi
$900 $600 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brittan Miguel Kristi
$2,400 $1,800 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE CLASSICS
SCOUTING BADGES
RAGING HORMONES
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
NEXT IN LINE, PLEASE
BAD NEWS
    $200 1
Author who sent Alice down the rabbit hole into Wonderland
    $200 20
A Boy Scout wearing this badge knows when a bee sting is life-threatening
    $200 2
Hypoglycemia can be caused by excess production of this hormone in the pancreas
    $200 3
Don't make a graven one of these of anything in heaven, in the earth or in the water
    $200 11
Mondale, Bush, Quayle...
    $200 4
For the last few years N. Korea has been suffering from one of the worst of these natural disasters in the 20th century
    $400 5
Title piece of furniture C.S. Lewis had the kids go through to reach Narnia
    $400 23
A boy must describe 4 kinds of tents to earn the merit badge named for this activity
    $400 16
Also called epinephrine, this hormone that's released in emergencies has been used to treat asthma
    $400 8
Don't take this in vain
    $400 12
Aries, Taurus, Gemini...
    $400 17
A new program installed to improve this internet auction site shut it down June 10-11, 1999
    $600 6
You should tumble to the fact she wrote "Rumble Fish" & "Tex"
    $600 24
The Brownie patch seen here is called "Me and my" this
    $600 21
Parathormone keeps up the level of this mineral in blood by stimulating its release from bone
    $600 10
It's the number of days thou shalt labor
    $600 13
The book of Mark,
the book of Luke,
the book of John...
    DD: $1,000 18
On July 17, 1998 3 of these, one of which was estimated at over 30 feet high, hit Papua New Guinea
    $800 7
He's the evil captain in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
    $800 26
Girls with the badge seen here have thought of better methods to sell these
    DD: $1,200 28
It's the organ that produces gastrin
    $800 22
Grand larceny breaks the commandment against doing this big-time
    $800 14
Deux,
trois,
quatre...
    $800 19
In July 1999 Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines was fined $18 million for doing this at sea
    $1000 9
In a Walter Farley tale, Alec Ramsay is stranded on an island with this title animal
    $1000 27
A boy must have the badge named for this vehicle before he earns the whitewater badge
    $1000 30
Some athletes have taken androstenedione to boost levels of this male hormone
    $1000 29
From the Latin for "to desire", it's what you're not supposed to do to your neighbor's things
    $1000 15
9 ladies dancing,
10 lords a-leaping,
11 pipers piping...
    $1000 25
A strain of this virus, named for a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed over 240 people in 1995

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brittan Miguel Kristi
$4,000 $4,000 $5,000

Final Jeopardy! Round

ADVERTISING
In Scandinavian countries these characters are known as Pif, Paf & Pof

Final scores:

Brittan Miguel Kristi
$7,999 $4,000 $6,500
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated 2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Brittan Miguel Kristi
$4,800 $3,800 $5,000
19 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $13,600

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Game tape date: 1999-09-13
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