Show #796 - Monday, February 8, 1988

1988 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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David Javerbaum, a junior from Maplewood, New Jersey

Mia Diamond, a senior from Chicago, Illinois

Mark Wong, a senior from Los Angeles, California

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Jeopardy! Round

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
JOAN OF ARC
MUSIC APPRECIATION
NURSERY RHYMES
BASEBALL
4-LETTER WORDS
    $100 15
While Flag & Father's Day fall in June, Memorial & Mother's Day fall in this month
    $100 6
She was called the "Maid of" this city which she liberated from the English
    $100 27
The term for this choral form comes from "oratory", a chapel in a church, where it was developed
    $100 29
If you "Sing a Song of Sixpence", you'll get "a pocket full of" this
    $100 1
A club's farm system isn't its food supply, but this
    $100 7
Term for the joint where 2 separate pieces of cloth are sewn together
    $200 16
The 1st time his birthday was formally observed was February 12, 1866 in Washington, D.C.
    $200 18
Joan's ashes were eventually thrown into this river
    $200 28
In 1942, Stravinsky composed "Circus Polka" for the dancing elephants in this circus
    $200 30
Last word in the rhyme whose 3 lines each start with "Jack"
    $200 2
[clue unviewable or hearable on video]
    $200 8
It can be lamb, pork or karate
    $300 17
In the Fiesta de San Fermin at Pamplona, Spain, these animals are driven thru the streets
    $300 19
Though she lived in the 15th century, she wasn't formally declared a saint until this century
    $300 24
Grand opera differs from operetta in that all grand opera dialogue is performed this way
    $300 12
According to the rhyme, it's when Georgie Porgie made tracks
    $300 3
Of 7, 14 or 21, # of N.Y. Yankees who earned more money in 1987 than the U.S. president's base salary
    $300 9
According to Webster's, a fancy word for it that also starts with "P" is pinnacle
    $400 25
It's traditional for England's royal family to appear on a balcony here on the queen's official birthday
    $400 20
St. Michael, St. Margaret & St. Catherine, so Joan said
    $400 23
Composer most associated with lyricists Lorenz Hart & Oscar Hammerstein II
    $400 13
Riding a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, you'll see a lady with these on her fingers & these on her toes
    $400 4
Tom Lasorda once said, "We tried to teach him English, & the only word he learned was 'million'"
    $400 10
It's a sheet of ice for ice-skating, especially one artificially prepared
    $500 26
The emperor's birthday, on April 29, has been a national holiday in this country for over half a century
    $500 21
She was tried for witchcraft, heresy, & for wearing this type of clothing
    DD: $800 22
1791 opera whose title instrument, though not too often, is heard here:
    $500 14
"Little-eyed" 6-legged witness who saw Cock Robin die
    $500 5
In 1987 playoffs, the Cardinals replaced a pitcher without removing him from the game by doing this
    $500 11
It's worn on a boot & used in conjunction with "giddy up"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Mark Mia DJ
$1,000 $2,000 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mia DJ
$2,100 $2,900 $3,300

Double Jeopardy! Round

DINOSAURS
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
20TH CENTURY LITERATURE
AFRICA
LEGAL LINGO
WISE GUYS
    $200 25
Washington crossed the Delaware & surprised the Hessians at Trenton on this holiday
    $200 18
In a 1927 Thornton Wilder novel, this structure "of San Luis Rey" breaks
    $200 2
6000-year-old rock paintings of cattle grazing indicate this world's largest desert was once pastureland
    $200 14
A postponement of a legal action, you might receive one "of execution"
    $200 1
Reb, the Yiddish for Mr., comes from this Hebrew word for "my master"
    $400 29
This Saturday morning TV host has a dinosaur family living in the wall of his "Playhouse"
    $400 26
Just 1 year after it was passed in 1765, this hated British tax law was repealed
    $400 20
Though he also wrote poems & short stories, he's most famous for plays like "The Glass Menagerie"
    $400 10
Also known as Negrillos, they average 4 1/2 feet tall
    $400 15
A jury in this condition is deadlocked, but a crook in this condition is dead
    $400 4
A manuscript by this wise guy explaining his E=mc squared was sold recently for over $1 million
    DD: $600 28
The only continent where dinosaur remains have never been found
    $600 19
In 1781, the British Gen. Cornwallis surrendered to Washington's forces at this site
    $600 3
His 1st literary success, published in 1935, was "Tortilla Flat"
    $600 11
In this kingdom, the people called Basotho speak Sesotho
    $600 16
To examine or hear a case by judicial process or at least attempt to do so
    $600 7
This name for the human species literally means "wise man"
    $800 27
"Apatosaurus" is the new name for this "thunder lizard" whose old name was due to a scientific error
    $800 22
This Adams has been called the firebrand of the Boston Tea Party
    $800 5
This 1927 Sinclair Lewis novel is a shocking satire of religious evangelism
    DD: $2,000 12
Of the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn & the Equator, the number of parallels that cross Africa
    $800 17
From the Latin for "under penalty", it's a legal writ requiring you to appear in court
    $800 8
The "wise guy" among the 4 seasonings mentioned in "Scarborough Fair"
    $1000 24
We still don't know how, but this happened to dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic era
    $1000 23
After the war, Britain spent some 3 million pounds compensating these people for their losses
    $1000 6
Most of William Faulkner's novels are set in an imaginary county in this state
    $1000 13
Formed by Aswan High Dam, this, the world's 4th largest artificial lake, is named for an Egyptian president
    $1000 21
The opponents in a lawsuit, they enter the room at the start of "People's Court"
    $1000 9
It's someone who spoke prophecies at the shrine of Delphi as well as the shrine itself

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mia DJ
$5,700 $3,500 $9,700

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES
Before Washington, D.C., this city served longest as capital of the United States

Final scores:

Mark Mia DJ
$10,000 $1,300 $7,999
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $1,000 if not wild card semifinalist 2nd place: $1,000 if not wild card semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mark Mia DJ
$5,700 $4,100 $11,400
13 R,
1 W		 16 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 25 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $21,200

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Game tape date: 1988-01-04
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