Show #6458 2012-10-17 (taped 2012-08-07) Regular

Stephanie Jass game 8.

Contestants

Meredith Lowmaster — a medical research technician from Quincy, Massachusetts

Jan Walkenhorst — a university athletic department tutor from Lincoln, Nebraska

Stephanie Jass — a history professor from Milan, Michigan (whose 7-day cash winnings total $147,570)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Stephanie	$0	$6,400	$16,400	$14,000 2nd place: $2,000	$16,400 23 R, 3 W
Jan	$1,000	$2,400	$7,200	$3,000 3rd place: $1,000	$8,800 12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Meredith	$1,800	$2,600	$9,000	$16,000 New champion: $16,000	$6,600 10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHERE'S WALDO	QUOTABLE NOTABLES	THE BEATLES: THE EARLY YEARS	MAKE ME A DRINK, BARKEEP!	LIVING IN TENTS	"OCC"-UPYJEOPARDY!
$200 [1] In acrowd with their eyes to the skies, Waldo's inthisU.S. state Florida Stephanie	$200 [3] After leaving the Philippines in March 1942 he vowed, "I shall return" MacArthur Jan	$200 [4] "I think you'll understand" that the Beatles invaded America with this song, their first to top the U.S. charts "I Want To Hold Your Hand" Meredith	$200 [9] This one named for a piece of New York: 1/2 oz. each of several spirits; add a splash of Coke & a twist a Long Island iced tea Stephanie	$200 [23] The dwelling sometimes called a wickiup is called this "w"ord in the abenaki language wigwam	$200 [18] This vegetable that your kid may shun is a variety of cabbage broccoli Stephanie
$400 [2] Waldo would look good in the headgear ondisplayat this Buckingham Palace event changing of the guard Jan	$400 [7] In his 1932 autobiography, this architect wrote, "No house should ever be on a hill... it should be of the hill" Frank Lloyd Wright Stephanie	$400 [13] In 1962, when this original drummer was replaced, fans chanted "Ringo never, Pete forever" Pete Best Stephanie	$400 [17] Another of these, starin' slowly cross the bar: 1 1/2 oz. Patron, 1/2 oz. grenadine, 3 oz. orange juice a tequila sunrise	$400 [24] 3 or 4 poles acted as the keystone of the conical framework of this much-used tent of the Plains Indians a teepee Stephanie	$400 [19] Be careful dialing 212; you could get Manhattan or this North African country Morocco Stephanie
$600 [5] Waldo joins other Americans in pondering beside this body of water in Washington, D.C. the Reflecting Pool Stephanie Meredith	$600 [10] It was Thomas Edison who said genius is 1% inspiration & 99% this perspiration Stephanie	$600 [14] This man was at Heathrow in 1963 & was amazed at a crowd waiting for the lads; he put them on his show Feb. 9, 1964 Ed Sullivan Stephanie	—	$600 [25] Described by Thoreau, a baker tent gets its name because it's open to the fire on one end & is warm as this inside an oven Stephanie	$600 [20] I'm jealous--more letters come to my house addressed to this person than to me occupant Jan
$800 [6] It's May 21, 1927, & Waldo has to fight thecrowdto pick up a friend at this city'sairfield Paris Stephanie Jan	$800 [11] A maxim from Friedrich Nietzsche says, "What does not kill me, makes me" this stronger Jan	$800 [15] In 1960 the Beatles played at the Indra & the Kaiserkeller in this German seaport; they got their trademark hairstyle there Hamburg Jan	—	$800 [26] Showman J. Purdy Brown was the first to use this type of enclosure, in 1825 as he traveled around entertaining a circus tent Stephanie	$800 [21] Cousin to the copperhead, it lives in Southern swamps the water moccasin Meredith
$1,000 [8] Wait your turn, Waldo, in thecrowdof pilgrims who've come to bathe in this river the Ganges (in India) Meredith	DD $1,200 [12] To Ptolemy I, he said, "There is no royal road to geometry", & he should know Euclid Jan	$1,000 [16] Thisman, who died in 1962, left the group to go to art college, which was just as well, as Paul wanted to move to bass Stu Sutcliffe Stephanie	—	$1,000 [27] This word for the tentlike home of central Asian nomads means "home" in Turkish a yurt Stephanie	$1,000 [22] Staph is short for this infectious bacterium & easier to say too staphylococcus Stephanie

Double Jeopardy! Round

A NOVEL DEATH	FORMERLY MARRIED	ASTRONOMY	MAKE THE PHRASE	L'HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE	SAFETY IN NUMBERS
$400 [1] A raised black flag signals she's no longer of the d'Urbervilles Tess Meredith	$400 [11] Sean Penn & this singing superstar Madonna Stephanie	$400 [14] On the Moon, Hell, Billy & Julius Caesar are these craters	$400 [6] A boxer trying to get down to, say, 135 pounds for a fight is attempting to "make" this weight Meredith	$400 [22] In 1456, 25 years after her execution, the Pope declared this woman innocent; she'd later become an Orleans saint Joan of Arc Jan	$400 [19] The American Heart Association says that for adults, this should normally be less than 120/80 blood pressure Stephanie
$800 [2] In "Little Women" scarlet fever keeps her from becoming a bigger woman Beth Meredith	$800 [12] Ryan Reynolds & this actress Scarlett Johansson Stephanie	$800 [15] The Cassini Division is a dark gap between these structures orbiting the sixth planet the rings (of Saturn) Meredith	$800 [7] To discern, to complete writing a check or to engage in kissing, you "make" this out Stephanie	$800 [23] The first stone of what would become this Paris prison was laid on April 22, 1370 the Bastille Jan	$800 [27] To perform this, the Mayo Clinic says an untrained person should do about 100 chest compressions a minute CPR Stephanie
$1,200 [3] Bob Ewell's ribs don't take a kitchen knife too well in this novel To Kill a Mockingbird Jan	$1,200 [13] Emilio Estevez & this singer & reality show judge Paula Abdul Meredith	$1,200 [16] The magnitude of Algol, a binary star, changes every 69 hours as the fainter star does this, passes in front of its pal eclipses Meredith	$1,200 [8] To act with speed, you "make" this, also said to make waste haste Stephanie	$1,200 [24] In WWI this man, later president of France, spent 2 years & 8 months as a prisoner of war de Gaulle Jan	—
$1,600 [4] Myrtle Wilson is but a speed bump in this driver's road in "The Great Gatsby" Daisy Buchanan	$1,600 [20] Julia Roberts & this "official Texas state musician for 2011" (Lyle) Lovett Stephanie	$2,000 [18] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Also a term for a part of speech, it's when the Earth, a heavenly body like Venus, & the Sun are all nearly in a straight line conjunction	$1,600 [9] An attempt that'll end in success or utter disaster is described in the rhyming phrase "make or..." break Jan	$1,600 [25] This French city's Palace of the Popes was the center of the Catholic church for much of the 14th century Avignon Stephanie	—
DD $1,600 [5] This title guy dies "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage" Dorian Gray Jan	$2,000 [21] Alec Baldwin & this Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger Stephanie	DD $4,000 [17] In March 1930 its discovery was announced at Lowell Observatory in Arizona Pluto Meredith	$2,000 [10] Something that serves as a substitute, especially of an expedient nature, is "make-" this do (makeshift accepted) Stephanie	$2,000 [26] Francois Mitterrand became France's president in 1981; this Francois became president in 2012 François Hollande Jan	—

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES & POPULATIONS

If it were a nation, a state with a 2-word name in this country would be the world's 6th most-populous at 200 million

India

Jan "What is New Je" — wagered $4,200

Meredith "What is India" — wagered $7,000

Stephanie "What is Outer Mongolia?" — wagered $2,400

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