Responses for Show #2871 - Monday, February 10, 1997

1997-A Teen Tournament semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Justin Powell, a junior from Charleston, South Carolina

Tanis O'Connor, a senior from Clearwater, Florida

Matthew Burgess, a freshman from Louisville, Kentucky

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ZOOLOGY
VIDEO GAMES
TEACHERS
CINEMA SEQUELS
SPAIN
FAMILIAR PHRASES
    $100 16
zebra

Matthew
    $100 1
Game Boy

Justin
    $100 7
at home

Matthew
    $100 2
Home Alone

Tanis
    $100 17
Madrid

Justin
    $100 19
a haystack

Tanis
    $200 18
spider

Tanis
    $200 12
Space Jam

Justin
    $200 8
Eleanor Roosevelt

Matthew
    $200 3
Homeward Bound

Justin
    $200 28
Pyrenees

Matthew
    $200 20
book

Justin
    $300 21
rodents

Matthew
    $300 13
Mortal Kombat

Justin
    $300 9
The Academy

Tanis
    $300 4
Beethoven's 2nd

Justin
    $300 29
El Cid

Justin
    $300 22
(Justin: What is sharp?)

clean

TanisJustin
    $500 26
(Alex: The dreaded [*]!)

yak

Justin
    $400 14
Nintendo

Tanis
    $400 10
adult education

Triple Stumper
    $400 5
Sister Act 2

Tanis
    $400 30
Barcelona

Matthew
    $400 23
oil

Matthew
    $500 27
lamprey

Justin
    $500 15
(Tanis: What is BattleTech?)

Magic: The Gathering

TanisJustin
    $500 11
guru

Tanis
    $500 6
Hot Shots!

Tanis
    $500 25
Bourbon

Justin
    $500 24
the piper

Matthew

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

Matthew Tanis Justin
$300 $1,700 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matthew Tanis Justin
$2,200 $2,300 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1996 ELECTION
ESSAYS
THE CIVIL WAR
SYMPHONIES
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
"V"OCABULARY
    $200 2
New Hampshire

Matthew
    $200 20
movies

Justin
    $200 1
the Monitor

Justin
    $200 14
the Pulitzer Prize

Justin
    $200 8
the Rocky Mountains

Tanis
    $200 19
villain

Justin
    $400 7
Utah

Tanis
    $400 21
Baltimore

Tanis
    $400 3
Jefferson Davis

Matthew
    $400 15
(Matthew: What is Petrograd?)
[Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double at clue 22]

Leningrad

MatthewTanis
    $400 9
Michigan

Tanis
    $400 23
varsity

Tanis
    $700 11
(Alex: Says the young man from Charleston, South Carolina--well done! You realize, of course, you couldn't have gone home if you missed that one!)

Strom Thurmond

Justin
    $600 27
Henry David Thoreau

Tanis
    $600 4
Admiral David Farragut

Justin
    $600 16
Psalms

Tanis
    $600 10
Maui

Justin
    $600 24
valor

Tanis
    $800 12
John Kerry

Justin
    $800 28
Dave Barry

Justin
    $800 5
Harriet Tubman

Matthew
    $800 17
Unfinished

Justin
    $4,000 22
(Alex: A change in scoring affects Matthew: the clue a while ago on Shostakovich's 7th Symphony--I looked at the clue and it said "The once & future St. Petersburg". That part of the clue makes it acceptable, so Matthew gets $800 back.)

the Ozark Mountains

Tanis
    $800 25
vessel

Tanis
    $1000 13
Calvin Coolidge

Justin
    $1000 29
(Matthew: Who is John Locke?)

Francis Bacon

Matthew
Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

Justin
    $1000 18
Franz Joseph Haydn

Matthew
    $1000 30
the Great Dismal Swamp

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
verbose

Tanis

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matthew Tanis Justin
$4,000 $12,100 $10,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE SOLAR SYSTEM
(Pluto only has one moon.)
MatthewWhat are Mercury & Venus?
$4,000
JustinWhat are Mercury & Venus?
$10,498
TanisWhat are Mercury & Pluto?
$9,000
Mercury & Venus

Final scores:

Matthew Tanis Justin
$8,000 $3,100 $20,998
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Matthew Tanis Justin
$4,000 $8,900 $10,300
13 R,
1 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 24 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $23,200

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Game tape date: 1997-01-09
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