Show #1731 - Monday, February 24, 1992

1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Adrienne Williams, a senior from Lanham, Maryland

Cori Van Noy, a sophomore from San Diego, California

Rob Marus, a junior from Little Rock, Arkansas

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Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH CLASS
SICKNESS & HEALTH
FEATHERED FRIENDS
STATE NICKNAMES
SPORTS
HEADS
    $100 6
It's the indirect object in the sentence "He gave me an apple."
    $100 11
Also known as cephalagia, they can be tension or migraine
    $100 23
The males of these largest flightless birds have black & white plumage; the females are brownish
    $100 1
"The Aloha State"
    $100 21
In 1991 this Chicago Bulls guard won his 5th straight NBA scoring title
    $100 16
The head of a high school, its name is from the same root as the titles of Charles & Diana
    $200 7
It can be a noun or a pronoun, but every verb I has to have one
    $200 12
They flow from the lacrimal glands, washing out impurities in the eye
    $200 25
The Adelie variety of these birds was named for a coast in Antarctica
    $200 2
"The Tar Heel State"
    $200 22
This tennis player ended her career in 1989 having won a record 157 singles tournaments
    $200 17
Talking about heads, he was the head of Talking Heads
    $300 8
When writing, you do this to words you want the printer to italicize
    $300 13
World Book says U.S. kids left breathless by this allergic disorder miss about 36 million school days a yr.
    $300 26
This term for the sound a rooster makes is the name of another bird
    $300 3
"America's Dairyland"
    $300 24
Every year, thousands of kids participate in programs of the AYSO, which stands for this
    $300 18
In offices they're usually assistants, but in the president's cabinet they're heads of departments
    $400 9
Mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a contraction
    $400 14
Meaning "without feeling", it's a drug used in surgery that should leave you that way
    $400 29
In names of birds, it follows cross, horn & spoon
    $400 4
"The Last Frontier"
    $400 27
He's the only American man to have won the Tour de France cycling race
    $400 19
The head of a jury of 12, or the head of a group of factory workers
    DD: $300 10
The inflection of verbs is called conjugation; the inflection of nouns is called this
    $500 15
The color of the blood cells that release disease-fighting proteins called antibodies
    $500 30
This popular cage bird whose name starts with "bull" can learn simple tunes
    $500 5
"The Empire State of the South"
    $500 28
In 1988 he became the first man to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the long jump
    $500 20
From Turkish for "ruler", it was a title given to the head of a Mongol tribe

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

Rob Cori Adrienne
$2,400 $700 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Rob Cori Adrienne
$4,000 $2,200 $1,700

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS
POETRY
U.S. HISTORY
CHEMISTRY
WORD ORIGINS
TAILS
    $200 6
In 1981 Francois Mitterand became the first socialist president of this country's Fifth Republic
    $200 8
One word "quoth" by "The Raven"
    $200 1
A constitutional amendment regarding the pay of members of these 2 bodies has been pending since 1789
    $200 14
It's the chemical symbol for ice
    $200 17
Unmarried religious brother whose name comes from "monos", Greek for single
    $200 19
In old schoolhouses these tails were dipped in the inkwells by nasty boys
    $400 7
This dictator has been in power since 1959, the longest of any current leader in the Western Hemisphere
    $400 10
He was fired as a clerk in the Interior Dept. after the secretary heard he'd written "Leaves of Grass"
    $400 2
This state entered the Union in 1817 with Washington, near Natchez, as its capital
    $400 18
Treat glycerol with a mixture of concentrated nitric & sulfuric acids & you get this substance
    $400 22
A work of art applied to a wall, it comes from Latin for "wall"
    $400 25
It can have a plasma tail made of ionized gas or a dust tail or both
    $600 9
Chancellor of the Exchequer who succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Britain's PM in November 1990
    $600 11
3 who "one night sailed off in a wooden shoe— sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew"
    $600 3
The George Washington was the first of these ships able to launch ballistic missiles
    $600 20
Bittern is the liquid left after you remove this compound from sea water
    $600 24
The Latin for "ninth hour" gave us this word for a time of day
    DD: $1,000 28
1986 film that featured the following: "Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight"
    $800 15
This country's king, Juan Carlos, is descended from France's Louis XIV
    $800 12
Her poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz" was a take-off from a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables"
    $800 4
In 1904 this bit of Central American territory was legally transferred to the U.S.
    $800 21
Three types of these which link atoms to form molecules are ionic, covalent & metallic
    $800 26
Some claim this name for the South was coined from the $10 notes printed in New Orleans
    $800 29
Also called the bay lynx, it got this name from its stubby tail
    DD: $600 16
In 1984 this descendant of Irish immigrants became Canada's prime minister
    $1000 13
He began his 1st major poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", with a quote from Dante's "Inferno"
    $1000 5
The Banking Act of 1933 established the FDIC, which stands for this
    $1000 23
Horizontal rows on a periodic table are periods, vertical columns of related elements are these
    $1000 27
This word for one who professes beliefs he doesn't hold comes from Greek for "actor"
    $1000 30
I don't care if you know this alternate title to "Jimmy Crack Corn"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Rob Cori Adrienne
$11,600 $5,800 $1,300
(lock-tie game)

Final Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
You'll find this Martin Hanford character is Charlie in France & Ubaldo in Italy

Final scores:

Rob Cori Adrienne
$11,200 $11,600 $0
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Rob Cori Adrienne
$11,800 $5,800 $1,300
26 R
(including 3 DDs),
2 W		 14 R,
1 W		 13 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $18,900

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