Show #7641 2017-11-27 (taped 2017-08-23) Regular

Contestants

Caity Willox — a course logistics specialist from Skokie, Illinois

Hilary Fried — a retired box office cashier from Milford, Connecticut

Marcus Gresham — a WRAP facilitator from Corydon, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,401)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Marcus	$2,200	$6,200	$15,600	$26,401 2-day champion: $46,802	$16,600 22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Hilary	$1,000	$4,200	$6,200	$1,599 3rd place: $1,000	$6,200 11 R, 3 W
Caity	$600	$2,400	$13,200	$8,200 2nd place: $2,000	$14,800 17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

KEEP IT DOWN	MOUNTAINS	RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN	NOTABLE NAMES	THINK PINK	RHYME TIME
$200 [26] "Rosebud" is whispered by this character shortly before his death in a 1941 movie Citizen Kane (or Charles Foster Kane) Caity	$200 [1] Its Sanskrit name, Sagarmatha, can be translated as "head above heaven" & deservedly so Everest Caity	$200 [6] The U.S. went to the polls for one of these on Nov. 8, 2016 a general election Hilary Caity	$200 [8] This Powhatan princess was a captive of English settlers when she converted to Christianity & took the name Rebecca Pocahontas Marcus	$200 [14] The marshmallow pieces in this cereal are called marbits, & the pink heart is the only original shape still used today Lucky Charms Marcus	$200 [13] A thick baseball stick a fat bat Caity
$400 [27] On "Seinfeld" Jerry is compelled to wear one of these after an encounter with a "low talker" the puffy shirt Hilary	$400 [2] "Mountain range mother" in Spanish, it's the collective name of 3 mountain ranges in Mexico Sierra Madre Marcus Hilary	$400 [7] A 96-mph-throwing Cleveland Indian had to work on his control "before he kills somebody" in this 1989 movie Major League Marcus	$400 [9] He's seenherea few years after selling out to J.P. Morgan's U.S. Steel Carnegie Caity	$400 [15] Mais oui, in the "Pink Panther" movies, Peter Sellers bumbles through as this detective (Inspector) Clouseau Hilary	$400 [22] A defensive ditch dug in Dijon a French trench Hilary
$600 [28] On "The Middle" Atticus Shaffer plays this kid in the Heck family known to whisper into his shirt Brick Heck Marcus	$600 [3] Let's put our 4 big heads together & come up with the name of this landmark just SW of Rapid City Mount Rushmore Marcus	$600 [16] Flogging or spanking gets this "rank" corporal punishment Hilary	$600 [10] In addition to his books on baby care, this pediatrician also wrote "Raising Children in a Difficult Time" (Benjamin) Spock Marcus	$600 [19] The pinking type of these are not yet included on a Swiss army knife pinking shears Marcus	$600 [23] An artificial New York strip or sirloin a fake steak Caity
$800 [29] Roger Maltbie's hushed golf commentary voice earned him the punning nickname this "Whisperer" the Course Whisperer	$800 [4] In 1938 Greece created its first national park around this famed peak Olympus Hilary	$800 [17] We'll be brief--this Dav Pilkey title hero just wears a cape & one other very important piece of clothing Captain Underpants Hilary	$1,000 [12] When she married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840, she insisted that the word "obey" be dropped from the vows Elizabeth Cady Stanton Marcus	$800 [20] Syd Barrett was the founder & namer of this psychedelic British rock band Pink Floyd Marcus	$800 [24] To unsettle cows rattle cattle Hilary
$1,000 [30] In "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", Garry Shandling whispers "hail" this to a conspirator hail Hydra Hilary	$1,000 [5] The trio seenheretops out just around 10,000 feet in this range of the Alps with the same name as a mineral the Dolomites	$1,000 [18] Bain Capital & Brookfield Asset Management are companies in this "non-public" field of investment private investment (or private equity) Marcus	DD $1,200 [11] This Scotsman came to the U.S. in 1871 at the invitation of Sarah Fuller, a teacher at a school for the deaf Alexander Graham Bell Marcus	$1,000 [21] The Casa Rosada, or Pink House, is the president's mansion in this second-largest South American country Argentina Marcus	$1,000 [25] Telecommunication device in a river flowing from Switzerland to the Mediterranean a Rhone phone Caity

Double Jeopardy! Round

WET SCIENCE	A MANIA FOR MANIAS	MAJOR THIRDS IN MUSIC	BOOKS & AUTHORS	RUSSIA "N"	CRIME TIME
$400 [6] This element, Mg, can be used in underwater flares because it can pull oxygen from the water when combusting magnesium Caity	$400 [21] While on a long vacation, you may experience nostomania, the strong desire to do this go home Marcus	$400 [1] If he'd used his full birth name, he'd have released "The Marshall Bruce Mathers III LP" Eminem Marcus	$400 [11] It begins, "How it happened that Maestro Cherry, Carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept & laughed like a child" ( The Adventures of ) Pinocchio Marcus	$400 [12] The II & last czar of this name was born near St. Petersburg in 1868 Nicholas Marcus	$400 [26] The Watergate break-in:June 17 of this election year 1972 Marcus
$800 [7] At sea level at this temperature Fahrenheit, the volume of water expands about 1,700 times into steam 212 Caity	$800 [22] Typically without need or profit, it's the recurrent impulse to steal kleptomania Caity	$800 [2] Benjamin Montmorency Tench III goes by Benmont as keyboardist in this band backing up Tom Petty The Heartbreakers Caity	$800 [17] He calls himself a "Giant of the Senate" in his memoir detailing his unlikely turn from comedian to politician Al Franken Hilary	$800 [13] Soviet foreign minister Molotov was famous for heavy use of this 1-syllable Russian word nyet Hilary	$800 [27] The 1929 massacre of 7 of Bugs Moran's guys:this day Valentine's Day Caity
$1,200 [8] A halocline occurs when fresh water sits on top of salt water, the separation caused by the difference in this specific gravity (or density) Caity	$1,200 [23] This abnormal interest in fire can be dangerous & destructive pyromania Marcus	$1,200 [3] Edward Louis Severson III, seen here, is better known as this impassioned singer Eddie Vedder Caity	$1,200 [18] This business handbook by Spencer Johnson has a question as its title & a parable about mice Who Moved My Cheese? Caity	$1,200 [14] After a 1955 novel brought him wealth, helived in an elegant Swiss hotel (Vladimir) Nabokov Marcus	$1,200 [28] The Black Dahlia murder:this decade the 1940s Marcus Hilary
$1,600 [9] The zebra type of this mollusk is so successful at filtering the Great Lakes, water clarity is causing algae blooms a mussel Caity	$1,600 [24] Similar to TV detective Monk, you have a compulsive desire to do this if you have arithmomania count objects	$1,600 [4] "The Man" singer Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III goes by this name that contains Aloe for smoothness Aloe Blacc Marcus	$1,600 [19] "The Encircling Sea" is a chapter in her nonfiction book "The Sea Around Us" Rachel Carson	$1,600 [15] He leapt to fame at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1907 Nijinsky Hilary	$1,600 [29] The Gardner Museum heist:this day in 1990, as Boston was sleeping off St. Paddy's Day March 18 Caity
$2,000 [10] The lake in the center of the Kawah Ijen this in Indonesia has a pH of less than 1 a volcano	DD $2,200 [25] Pontius Pilate probably had ablutomania, an obsessive need to do this wash hands Marcus	$2,000 [5] In 1973 singer Loudon Wainwright III didn't name his son Loudon IV but this Rufus Caity	$2,000 [20] Kind of like a Swedish Forrest Gump is the novel called "The 100-Year-Old Man" who did this "& Disappeared" 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	$2,000 [16] It follows "Nizhny" in the name of the Russian city formerly known as Gorky Novgorod	DD $1,600 [30] Jack the Ripper's ripping:this decade the 1880s Caity

Final Jeopardy!

GERMAN GEOGRAPHY

Of Germany's 16 states, these2 at opposite ends of the country begin with the same letter & are the largest & smallest

Bavaria & Bremen

Hilary "What are Bavaria & Brunhilda" — wagered $4,601

Caity "What are Bavaria & Baden?" — wagered $5,000

Marcus "What are Bavaria and Bremen" — wagered $10,801

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