Show #6459 2012-10-18 (taped 2012-08-07) Regular

Contestants

Erin McCready — a teaching artist from Brooklyn, New York

Glenn Fleishman — a technology journalist from Seattle, Washington

Meredith Lowmaster — a medical research technician from Quincy, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Meredith $0 $2,800 $6,000 $2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
8 R, 2 W
Glenn $3,200 $4,800 $7,600 $15,199
New champion: $15,199
$7,600
16 R, 3 W
Erin $-200 $2,800 $13,400 $11,599
2nd place: $2,000
$16,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN CELEBRITY COOKBOOKS IT'S ALWAYS "I", "I", "I" TV NETWORK NAMES ESCAPIST LITERATURE WORN UNDERNEATH
$200 [15]
The Capricorn highway lies on the Tropic of Capricorn in the state of Queensland in this country
Australia
Glenn
$200 [14]
A host of celebrities contributed to "in the Kitchen with" this Muppet Mademoiselle, "by Moi"
Miss Piggy
Glenn
$200 [1]
Baby Boom boys remember Annette Funicello & Ursula Andress splashing around wearing these
a bikini
Erin
$200 [7]
Idiomatically, you might be "as cunning as" one
Fox
Glenn
$200 [2]
Clark Howard's novel "Six Against the Rock" examines an ingenious plan for escape from this prison
Alcatraz
Glenn
$200 [10]
This belt with elastic bands & clips is used to hold up stockings
garters (or garter belts)
Glenn
$400 [16]
This South American behemoth is the only country crossed by both the Tropic of Capricorn & the equator
Brazil
Erin
$400 [24]
His "Knock-Out-the-Fat Barbecue and Grilling Cookbook" features recipes that won't make you a heavyweight
George Foreman
Meredith
$400 [13]
Of the 4 basic operations in arithmetic, the 2 that each fit the category
division & multiplication
Glenn Erin
$400 [8]
Nickname for the Magic Johnson/James Worthy-era Lakers
Showtime
$400 [3]
A magician himself, Sid Fleischman penned "Escape!: The Story of" this legend
Houdini
Glenn
$400 [11]
This company famous for brief men's briefs was founded by a retired minister, not a horse rider
Jockey
Erin
$600 [28]
The largest island through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes is this one off Africa's eastern coast
Madagascar
Meredith
$600 [25]
Chapters in "Cookin' with Coolio" include "Pasta Like a Rasta" & "It's Hard Out Here for" this seafood
a shrimp
Erin
$600 [19]
It's a citizen army activated during emergencies for local defense
a militia
Glenn
$600 [9]
To add liquor to a nonpotent potable like punch
Spike
Erin
$600 [4]
Married at 15 to a man with 5 wives, Susan Ray Schmidt later wrote "Favorite Wife: Escape from" this 8-letter practice
polygamy
Glenn
$600 [12]
Bear with us--this traditionally male first name is also used for a woman's one-piece underslip
a teddy
$800 [29]
In 2000 a monument marking the Tropic of Capricorn was built in this Chilean desert
the Atacama
Erin
$800 [26]
Her "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen" includes a foreword by hubby Garth Brooks
Trisha Yearwood
Erin
$800 [20]
Rum cocktail named for a Cuban village
a daiquiri
Erin
$800 [22]
In law it's the duty of the prosecution to share pretrial statements
Discovery
Glenn
$800 [5]
"The Road to En-Dor" (during WWI) & "Midnight Express" (later) are accounts of escaping a prison in this country
Turkey
Glenn
$800 [17]
Good sir knight, 'tis too hot for thy doublet; wear only this undershirt, also a piece of wrestling apparel
a singlet
Meredith
DD $800 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of the globe on the monitor.) The tropic of Capricorn separates two climatic zones--the tropical one & this zone that extends south to the Antarctic circle
the Temperate Zone
Erin
$1,000 [27]
She dedicated "My Father's Daughter" partly to her kids Apple & Moses, the "hearts of my artichoke"
Gwyneth Paltrow
Erin
$1,000 [21]
Symbol Ir, it's the most corrosion-resistant metal
iridium
Meredith
$1,000 [23]
In Italian it can mean "courage" or simply "good"
Bravo
Erin
$1,000 [6]
This 1950 Paul Brickhill book that inspired a film tells of a mass breakout from Stalag Luft III
The Great Escape
Glenn Erin
$1,000 [18]
It's a coarse, stiff petticoat worn under a hoop skirt
a crinoline

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS QUOTH THE POET THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS CLICHES EARLY AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION WHAT KIND OF MOVIE ANIMAL ARE YOU?
$400 [24]
Aptly, this author of "Tropic of Capricorn" was, in fact, a Capricorn
(Henry) Miller
Glenn Erin
$400 [11]
"But mostly he watched with eager search the belfry-tower of the Old North Church"
Longfellow
Glenn
$400 [19]
This military man with a famous plan bested Albert Schweitzer, among others, to win the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize
(George C.) Marshall
Glenn
$400 [6]
To "hitch" this conveyance "to a star" means to dream big
a wagon
Erin
$400 [13]
St. Luke's church in Va. is the USA's oldest continually standing building made of this--the third little pig had it right
brick
Meredith
$400 [1]
Mumble in "Happy Feet"
a penguin
Erin
DD $1,000 [25]
Capricorn is a goat who scales mountains, like this Capricorn who said in 1968, "I've been to the mountaintop"
Martin Luther King
Erin
$800 [12]
"April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land"
(T.S.) Eliot
Erin
$800 [20]
Nobody won the Peace Prize in 1939, but both Neville Chamberlain & this Munich Pact partner were nominated
Adolf Hitler
$800 [7]
To commit irrevocably is to "cross" this Italian stream
the Rubicon
Erin
$800 [17]
Now the governor's mansion, La Fortaleza in this U.S. territory was built by the Spanish in 1533
Puerto Rico
Erin
$800 [2]
Winter, who gets a new tail in a 2011 movie
a dolphin
Erin
$1,200 [26]
With the typical patience of a Capricorn, she studied & was accepted by mountain gorillas in Rwanda
(Dian) Fossey
Meredith Erin
$1,200 [14]
"The owl and the pussy-cat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat"
(Edward) Lear
Meredith Glenn
$1,200 [21]
In 1922 Fridtjof Nansen beat out this Brit economist who'd opposed harsh economic reparations against Germany
(John Maynard) Keynes
Glenn
$1,200 [8]
If you're in your birthday suit, you're "naked as" this bird
a jaybird
Meredith
$1,200 [18]
Built between 200 B.C. & 500 A.D., the earthworks called the Hopewell Mounds are in this Great Lakes state
Ohio
$1,200 [3]
Bonzo, one of Ronald Reagan's co-stars
a chimpanzee
Erin
$1,600 [27]
In emergencies, Capricorns are resourceful, like this woman who nursed the wounded in the 1st Battle of Bull Run
Clara Barton
Glenn Erin
$1,600 [15]
"But, if thou spare to fling Excalibur, I will arise and slay thee with my hands"
Tennyson
$1,600 [22]
Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler & this Hull House founder tied for first for the 1931 Peace Prize
Jane Addams
Erin
$1,600 [9]
A cook who's almost done with a dish might "put it on" this alliterative place until it's needed
the back burner
Erin
DD $2,000 [29]
This 16-letter science of tree-ring dating tells us a structure in Dedham, Mass. is the USA's oldest timber frame house
dendrochronology
Erin
$1,600 [4]
Ben & Socrates in "Willard"
rats
Glenn
$2,000 [28]
John C. Fremont was glad to have this sure-footed Capricorn guiding him along the Oregon Trail in 1842
Kit Carson
$2,000 [16]
"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle"
Walt Whitman
$2,000 [23]
In 1955 Dwight Eisenhower was a losing nominee despite his 1953 U.N. speech known as these "for Peace"
Atoms
$2,000 [10]
"Lay on" this man, a line from Shakespeare, means "do your damnedest"
Macduff
Meredith
$2,000 [5]
Polynesia in 1967's "Doctor Dolittle"
a parrot
Meredith

Final Jeopardy!

PLACE NAMES

From 1953 until 1990 Chemnitz, Germany was named for this man

Karl Marx

Meredith "Who is Oppenheimer" — wagered $4,000
Glenn "Who is Karl Marx?" — wagered $7,599
Erin "Who is B Wagner?" — wagered $1,801

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