Show #6374 - Thursday, May 10, 2012

2012 Teen Tournament final game 1.
From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Contestants

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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon

Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana

Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska

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Jeopardy! Round

DINOSAURS
MAY I HAVE SECONDS?
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS
INTERNET SHORTHAND
A GRAY AREA
WHEEL OF MOVIE TAGLINES
    $200 1
Velociraptors had ossified tendons in their tails that helped them maintain this while striking & slashing at prey
    $200 23
St. Louis has the USA's second-oldest of these, trailing only the New York Philharmonic
    $200 6
The Pacific Aviation Museum & the USS Arizona Memorial
    $200 16
NVNG stands for "nothing ventured", this
    $200 21
A pale shade of gray, or the powdery residue left after something is burned
    $200 7
"The last man on earth is not alone"
    $400 2
(Sarah of the clue crew gives the clue) By examining the dinosaur's skeleton, we can see that the tail contains caudal vertebrae & is actually an extension of this structure
    $400 24
The basis for all proteins, fats & carbohydrates, this element makes up the 2nd-largest amount of you by mass
    $400 12
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site & CNN Center
    $400 17
Someone who types "MorF" is probably trying to determine this
    $400 22
Benjamin Moore bird-related gray paints include one named for this "bird of peace"
    $400 8
"Escape, or die frying"
    $600 3
Found in the gizzards of some dinosaurs, gastroliths are these, which helped in the digestion of plant matter
    $600 25
The second athlete to appear on a box of this cereal was first baseman Jimmie Foxx in 1934
    $600 13
The Wings over the Rockies Air & Space Museum & Four Mile Historic Park
    $600 18
Acronym for a website section with helpful info; at jeopardy.com it includes "how does one become a contestant?"
    $600 9
"Backstabbing. Spotlight-grabbing. Secret-blabbing. A cheerleader's life is all that"
    DD: $1,000 4
Tyrannosaurus Rex didn't live during the Jurassic period but rather in this one
    $800 14
The Grand Ole Opry & the Willie Nelson & Friends Museum & General Store
    $800 19
If someone texts CD9, it means "code 9", these are around
    $800 28
In the 1890s the U.S. Navy painted its war vessels gray--presumably this shade, also a term for the USS Iowa
    $800 10
"Some assembly required"
    $1000 5
You'll find the word "plod" in the name of this dino & at 30 tons, plod was probably what it did
    $1000 26
The second African-American Supreme Court Justice, he once considered becoming a priest
    $1000 15
Museo Chicano & the Desert Botanical Garden
    $1000 20
TBH, short for this, is used before a statement the recipient won't like
    $1000 27
As well as a shade of blond hair, this silver-like metal is a shade of gray
    $1000 11
The pirates map, the villainous crooks, the underground caverns, the booby traps, the skeletons

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Elyse Catherine Rose
$3,000 $2,200 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Elyse Catherine Rose
$7,400 $4,200 $0

Double Jeopardy! Round

COMPLETES THE POETIC LINE
FAMOUS FRENCH FOLKS
IN THE DICTIONARY
PHYSICS
FOREIGN FOOD
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER
    $400 21
"Responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, no stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas ___ at the bat"
    $400 16
Around 1916 this Impressionist built a new studio at Giverny to paint large versions of his water lilies
    $400 11
It's the more common word for a bird's furcula, a v-shaped bone that may bring a person good luck
    $400 22
A stapler is an example of this simple machine, with the hinge serving as the fulcrum
    $400 6
This power-packed veggie is espinacas en espana
    $400 1
Bay & Daphne who, as infants, went home from the hospital with the wrong parents
    $800 23
"Water, water, every where, nor any drop to ___ "
    $800 17
Not surprisingly the website for the American Foundation for the Blind features a bio of him
    $800 12
A group of newborn animals, or to toss trash on the ground
    DD: $3,000 30
This elementary particle that makes up light has no mass or electric charge
    $800 7
Blumenkohl is German for this cabbage family member
    $800 2
Abed & Troy, 2 of TV's finest nerds
    $1200 24
"Do not go gentle into that good ___"
    $1200 18
This "I think, therefore I am" philosopher invented analytic geometry
    $1200 13
This verb from the Latin for "to be empty" means to leave a job or office, or the premises
    $1200 27
This astronomer's constant is used for measuring the rate of expansion of the universe
    $1200 8
This piece of purple produce is melanzana in Italian
    $1200 3
Secretive Spencer, Aria, Hanna & Emily
    DD: $3,000 25
"For the children, they Mark, and the children, they know the place where the ___ ends"
    $1600 19
In 1851 he invented a pendulum that he'd use to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth on !ts axis
    $1600 14
You may want to ward off these strips of wood that make a barrel
    $1600 28
This isotope that's 3 times as heavy as ordinary hydrogen decays to form helium
    $1600 9
This vine fruit is known as pomidor in Polish
    $1600 4
Eco-conscious Peter & Nance, in Oregon's largest city
    $2000 26
"If you can meet with triumph and ___ and treat those two imposters just the same"
    $2000 20
Seen here is a wax figure of this woman who survived France's Reign of Terror to found her own
wax museum
    $2000 15
Take a word for cloth or material, add 3 letters & you get this word meaning to make up a story
    $2000 29
In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton published his 3 laws of motion in this Latin-titled work
    $2000 10
In Icelandic, agurka is this green-skinned gourd
    $2000 5
Dave Rose & his runaway bride, Alex Kerkovich

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Elyse Catherine Rose
$13,200 $7,400 $9,400

Final Jeopardy! Round

OLYMPICS HISTORY
Besides Antarctica, the 2 continents that have never hosted the Summer or Winter Olympic Games

Final scores:

Elyse Catherine Rose
$23,200 $10,000 $12,400

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Elyse Catherine Rose
$10,800 $7,400 $8,000
19 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W		 17 R,
4 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $26,200

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