Show #6462 2012-10-23 (taped 2012-08-08) Regular

Contestants

Martin Powell — a chemical engineer from Bowie, Maryland

Susan Petracco — an e-commerce consultant from Viera, Florida

Betsy Chisolm — a volunteer storyteller from Greeley, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Betsy $4,400 $9,400 $18,600 $20,800
2-day champion: $25,999
$20,600
27 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $1,000 $1,400 $9,200 $6,799
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Martin $200 $-600 $5,800 $2,400
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE ENGLISH BEAT LITERARY HOUSES SEND ME A TEXT THE HUDSON RIVER SHRINK RAP BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS
$200 [11]
"Charlie's good tonight, isn't he?" Mick Jagger asks the crowd on a live album, referring to this drummer
Charlie Watts
Betsy
$200 [1]
Scarlett O'Hara's plantation home
Tara
Martin
$200 [7]
MLAS:These "are sealed"
my lips
Susan
$200 [6]
A cantilever bridge named for this Washington Irving sleeper stretches almost a mile across the Hudson at Catskill
Rip Van Winkle
Susan
$200 [21]
This development of close relationships with family members & friends sounds like you're gluing them together
bonding
Betsy
$200 [20]
Tom Colicchio turned down the job of judge on this Bravo show 3 times before saying yes
Top Chef
Susan
$400 [12]
Pete Thomas is the longtime drummer for this English Elvis
Elvis Costello
Betsy
$400 [2]
This title gal's Manderley, which had an "iron gate leading to the drive"
Rebecca
Betsy
$400 [8]
SLAP:"Sounds like" this
a plan
Betsy
$400 [16]
Seen here is the original cell block of this institution on the banks of the Hudson
Sing Sing
Betsy Susan Martin
$400 [22]
This adjective refers to basic urges & emotions; in a form of therapy, it precedes "scream"
primal
Betsy
$400 [27]
"Flashdance" composer Giorgio Moroder suggested that this chef call his restaurant Spago
(Wolfgang) Puck
Betsy
$600 [13]
Topper Headon laid down the big beats on this band's "Safe European Home" & "Rock The Casbah"
The Clash
Betsy
$600 [3]
Title place where Hindley hates Heathcliff
Wuthering Heights
Betsy
$600 [9]
WOTAM:"Waste of" this valuable pair
time & money
Susan
$600 [17]
In 1945 this First Lady moved from the White House to Val-Kill, a mansion near the Hudson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Martin
$600 [23]
A psychological event that affects one's behavior, it also refers to a single installment of a TV series
an episode
Susan
$600 [28]
Chicago's Grant Achatz used his kitchen discipline to beat back cancer of this, a horror for a chef
the tongue
Betsy Martin
$800 [14]
Mick Avory pounded the skins on this band's "Come Dancing" & "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"
The Kinks
Betsy
$800 [4]
Jane Eyre met Mr. Rochester at this hall
Thornfield Hall
$800 [10]
PMFJI:"Pardon me for" doing this
jumping in
$800 [18]
The natural beauty of the Hudson River has given it the nickname "America's" this, a comparison to a German river
the Rhine
Martin
$800 [24]
German for "fear", it's a deep philosophical & existential dread
Angst
Betsy
$800 [29]
French food isn't moist inside & crunchy outside, so Michel Richard "discovered texture" at this fast food place
KFC
Betsy
$1,000 [15]
Perhaps Euterpe inspires Dominic Howard when he drums for this "Black Holes And Revelations" band
Muse
$1,000 [5]
An Iranian colonel & a troubled young woman fight over Andre Dubus III's "House of" these 2 things
Sand & Fog
Betsy
$1,000 [26]
OOO:These 3 words, so maybe on vacation
out of office
Betsy
DD $1,200 [19]
This Italian explorer reached the Hudson River in 1524, 85 years before Henry Hudson
Verrazano
Martin
$1,000 [25]
One of the 3 divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory, it's ruled by the reality principle
the ego
Betsy
$1,000 [30]
If you know what mesclun & arugula are, it's because she opened Berkeley's Chez Panisse in 1971
Alice Waters
Betsy

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ENGLISH BEAT INKS & DYES WHO "R-U"? THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS TRUNK SHOW
$400 [16]
...this American general at the 1776 battle of Long Island
Washington
Susan
$400 [21]
This 15th century German created a special oil-based ink to go along with his printing press
Gutenberg
Betsy
$400 [11]
The cube this Hungarian developed proved a useful tool for teaching algebraic group theory
Rubik
Martin
$400 [1]
The character of Beckmesser in this composer's "Die Meistersinger" is a caricature of music critics
Wagner
Martin
$400 [6]
This crime is in Nevada's capital
arson (in C arson City)
Susan
$800 [28]
In an animated series on Disney Junior, this elephant king has a grandson named Badou
Babar
Betsy
$800 [17]
...this German Air Force in 1940's Battle of Britain
the Luftwaffe
Betsy Martin
$800 [22]
The ancient Phoenicians developed Tyrian purple dye from the glands of this gastropod
a snail
Betsy Susan
$800 [12]
You better work if you want to name this Glamazon
RuPaul
Martin
$800 [2]
Beppe, a harlequin, is a character in this 1892 opera
Pagliacci
Betsy
$800 [7]
This wind in Maine's
gust (in Au gust a)
Susan
$1,200 [27]
Jim Carrey voiced the title pachyderm who discovers voices coming from a speck of dust in this 2008 film
Horton Hears a Who!
Martin
$1,600 [19]
...these invaders from the north at the 1513 Battle of Flodden, "England's revenge for Bannockburn"
Scotland
Betsy
$1,200 [23]
Chamomile, turmeric & saffron have been used to produce natural dyes of this primary color
yellow
Martin
$1,200 [13]
This author of "The Satanic Verses" played himself in "Bridget Jones's Diary"
Salman Rushdie
Betsy
$1,200 [3]
The land on which this London "Garden" opera house sits was once part of a monastery
Covent Garden
Betsy
$1,200 [8]
This noodle in California's
ramen (in Sac ramen to)
$1,600 [26]
Tai played an elephant named Rosie in this circus-set romance based on a Sara Gruen novel
Water for Elephants
Betsy Susan
DD $2,000 [18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram of the Battle of Agincourt on the monitor.) At the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, French cavalry charged across a muddy field & were cut down in waves by English archers, leading to an overwhelming victory for this king & his band of brothers
Henry V
Betsy
$2,000 [24]
"Never say dye... say" this 3-letter fabric dye company founded in 1917
Rit
Susan
$1,600 [14]
In 1960 this sprinter became the first American woman to win 3 track-&-field gold medals in a single Olympics
Wilma Rudolph
Martin
$1,600 [4]
The only opera this Finn ever composed was "The Maiden in the Tower"
(Jean) Sibelius
Martin
$1,600 [9]
This tree in Tennessee's
ash (in N ash ville)
Susan
$2,000 [25]
"I've seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band" are lyrics from the song in "Dumbo" "When I See" this
"An Elephant Fly"
Susan
$2,000 [20]
...a fleet at the 1798 Battle of the Nile, leaving this general's invading army trapped in Egypt
Napoleon
Betsy
$2,000 [15]
Abe Lincoln was fond of this New Salem girl who died in 1835, but a grand romance is not supported by historical evidence
Ann Rutledge
$2,000 [5]
Characters in this operetta include captain Richard Warrington & Marietta d'Altena
Naughty Marietta
DD $3,000 [10]
This Roman poet in Rhode Island's
Ovid (in Pr ovid ence)
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S RHYMES

Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Martin "Who is" — wagered $3,400
Susan "Who is Jack Sprat?" — wagered $2,401
Betsy "Who is Fuzzy Wuzzy?" — wagered $2,200

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