Responses for Show #1262 - Tuesday, February 13, 1990

1990 Teen Tournament semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Wen Shen, a senior from Hillsborough, California

Avi Stadler, a senior from Atlanta, Georgia

Jamie Weiss, a junior from Fairfax, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
(Alex: Think back just a few years.)
U.S. STATES
CEREALS
MOVIES
VOLCANOES
SPELLING
(Alex: Each of you is expected to spell the important word in the response.)
    $100 21
The Cat in the Hat

Jamie
    $100 6
Florida

Wen
    $100 11
(Jamie: What is Fruity Pebbles?)

Pebbles

Jamie
    $100 1
The 'Burbs

Wen
    $100 25
(Alex: Guess what, fellas? You've been left with a category you've been trying to avoid: SPELLING!)

Lava

Avi
    $100 26
T-A-N-G-E-R-I-N-E

Wen
    $200 20
Verses

Wen
    $200 7
South Carolina

Wen
    $200 12
Trix

Avi
    $200 2
Elvira

Jamie
    $200 24
Vulcan

Wen
    $200 27
A-N-T-A-R-C-T-I-C-A

Wen
    $300 18
Charles Schulz

Avi
    $300 8
Colorado

Jamie
    $300 16
(Avi: Who is Tony the Tiger?)

Cornelius the Rooster

AviWen
    $300 3
Peggy Sue Got Married

Jamie
    $300 23
Pacific

Jamie
    $300 28
(Wen: What is E-S-O-P-H-A-G-A-U-S?)

E-S-O-P-H-A-G-U-S

JamieWen
    $400 17
a tiger

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
allow women to vote

Jamie
    $400 15
Barbie

Wen
    $400 4
Go to Heaven

Jamie
    $400 22
Mount St. Helens

Wen
    $400 29
(W: What is U-K-E-L-E-L-E?)

U-K-U-L-E-L-E

Wen
Triple Stumper
    $500 13
the Black Stallion

Wen
    $500 10
Pennsylvania

Jamie
    $500 14
Turtles

Wen
    $500 5
Barbra Streisand

Avi
    $500 19
Indonesia

Jamie
    $500 30
T-A-P-I-R

Jamie

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

Jamie Avi Wen
$2,200 $700 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jamie Avi Wen
$3,900 $800 $2,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

INVENTIONS
THE VIOLIN
(Alex: What an instrument!)
LANGUAGES
EXPLORERS
MEDICINE
NAME'S THE SAME
    $200 29
Sony

Avi
    $200 30
the bow

Avi
    $200 6
negative

Triple Stumper
    $200 8
Christopher Columbus

Wen
    $200 9
colorblindness

Wen
    $200 1
Bikini

Avi
    $400 27
Robert Fulton

Wen
    $400 28
Stradivarius

Avi
    $400 7
Swahili

Triple Stumper
    $400 11
Henry Hudson

Jamie
    $400 21
Chicken pox

Avi
    $1,000 2
(Alex: I have a feeling you knew that, even without the music, right?)

Bobby Brown

Avi
    $600 26
(Wen: Who is Thomas Dolby?)
(Alex: No.)
(Jamie: Who is Dolby?)
...
(Alex: Wen, you gave me the wrong first name.)

Ray Dolby

JamieWen
    $600 25
Chin

Avi
    $600 22
Vietnamese

Triple Stumper
    $700 12
Balboa

Jamie
    $600 18
a clone

Wen
    $600 3
Jim Davis

Avi
    $800 19
the Franklin Stove (or Oven or Furnace)

Wen
    $800 20
Yithzak Perlman

Avi
    $800 23
(Alex: Avi, you'll live it down, believe me!)
(Avi: I'll never live it down--sorry, Mom!)

Yiddish

Triple Stumper
    $800 13
Samuel de Champlain

Jamie
    $800 17
rapid eye movement

Jamie
    $800 4
The Washington Post

Avi
    $1000 16
the Polaroid camera

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Antonio Vivaldi

Wen
    $1000 24
(Wen: Who is Cyrillus?)
(Alex: No.)
(Wen: Or Cyrillic--)
(Alex: No. Jamie?)
(Jamie: Who is Cyrillic?)
...
(Alex: Both of you are giving me the adjective, instead of the saint's name.)
[Wen’s response was originally ruled incorrect, but was reversed before Final Jeopardy!, nullifying Jamie's response.]

St. Cyril (or his brother Methodius)

Wen
    $1000 14
Bartolomeo Diaz

Avi
    $1000 10
white blood cells

Jamie
    $1000 5
Victoria

Jamie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jamie Avi Wen
$9,200 $7,000 $6,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
(Alex: The American Revolutionary War, I might add.)
WenWho was Paul Revere?
$6,100
AviWho is Paul Revere?
$5,201
JamieWho is Paul Revere?
$4,800
Paul Revere

Final scores:

Jamie Avi Wen
$14,000 $12,201 $12,200
Finalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jamie Avi Wen
$9,100 $6,400 $6,100
19 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $21,600

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Game tape date: 1990-01-07
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