Responses for Show #1257 - Tuesday, February 6, 1990

1990 Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Wen Shen, a senior from Hillsborough, California

Beth Mullins, a senior from Mendenhall, Mississippi

Mike Grant, a senior from Kansas City, Missouri

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FILE UNDER "F"
FAIRIES & FOLKLORE
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
POP MUSIC
CIVIL WAR GENERALS
    $100 2
fingers

Wen
    $100 1
the Tooth Fairy

Wen
    $100 18
yards

Wen
    $100 12
William & Mary

Wen
    $100 7
Fine Young Cannibals

Beth
    $100 30
Ulysses S. Grant

Wen
    $200 3
a fiddle

Wen
    $200 14
Hawaii

Mike
    $200 19
circumference

Wen
    $200 13
Air Force Academy

Mike
    $200 8
Billy Joel

Wen
    $200 29
Sherman

Beth
    $300 4
figures of speech

Mike
    $300 15
brownies

Wen
    $300 23
a credit card

Wen
    $300 20
(Mike: What are carriages?)
(Wen: What are chariots?)
[The reference to Wells Fargo.]

stagecoaches

MikeWen
Triple Stumper
    $300 9
Debbie Gibson

Wen
    $300 27
Gettysburg

Wen
    $400 5
fringe benefits

Mike
    $400 16
you or someone in your family will die

Mike
    $400 28
milligrams

Mike
    $400 24
Harvard

Wen
    $900 10
(Wen: Sorry, I don't know.)
(Alex: Bet ya Beth knows--who is...)

Milli Vanilli

Wen
    $400 26
the presidency

Mike
    $500 6
frame

Beth
    $500 17
babies

Mike
    $500 22
the metric system

Mike
    $500 21
(3 of) Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar & Wellesley

Wen
    $500 11
(Beth: What is all day & all week?)
(Alex: We'll accept that.)

24 hours a day/7 days a week

Beth
    $500 25
(Alex: About a minute to go in the round, Wen.)

Memorial Day

Triple Stumper

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

Mike Beth Wen
$900 $1,100 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mike Beth Wen
$3,000 $1,300 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WOMEN IN HISTORY
MAGAZINES
ARCHITECTURE
SOUTH AMERICA
LITERARY QUOTES
BIOLOGY
    $200 30
Charlie

Beth
    $200 29
Time

Wen
    $200 19
United Nations

Wen
    $200 24
(Alex: Minute to go.)

Amazon

Wen
    $200 11
Chicago

Wen
    $200 1
Penicillin

Wen
    $400 18
Egypt

Beth
    $1,000 15
(M: What is Teen?)

Seventeen

Mike
    $400 23
Vault

Mike
    $400 28
Andes

Wen
    $400 9
Thomas Paine

Wen
    $800 2
(W: What are pigeons?)

Bats

Wen
    $600 17
Molly Pitcher

Wen
    $600 13
National Geographic Society

Wen
    $600 22
Roof

Beth
    $600 27
Rio de Janeiro

Beth
    $600 8
The Grapes of Wrath

Beth
    $600 5
Photosynthesis

Wen
    $800 16
(M: Who is Czarina Romanov?)
(A: Well...no...give us a more specific on that)
(M: Who is Anna Romanov?)
(A: No - I didn't think you knew the lady's name the 1st time.)

Alexandra

Mike
Triple Stumper
    $800 12
People

Beth
    $800 21
(W: What are casements?)

Louvers

Wen
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
Straits of Magellan

Mike
    $800 7
Stars

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
DNA

Beth
    $1000 14
(B: Who is Grandma Moses?)

Harriet Tubman

MikeBeth
    $1000 10
Reader's Digest

Mike
    $1000 20
Gazebo

Beth
    $1000 25
Guyana (formerly British Guyana)

Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
The Pumpkin

Beth
    $1000 3
(B: What are....?)
(W: What are order?)
(M: What are phylum?)

Families

MikeBethWen
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mike Beth Wen
$3,400 $5,300 $3,000

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LANDMARKS
[Mike did become a semifinalist.]
WenWhat is the Bastille?
$3,000
MikeWhat is the Bastille?
$2,000
BethWhat is the Bastille?
$1,000
The Bastille

Final scores:

Mike Beth Wen
$5,400 $6,300 $6,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mike Beth Wen
$4,400 $5,300 $4,700
13 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)
13 R,
2 W
24 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $14,400

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Game tape date: 1990-01-06
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