Show #6502 - Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Contestants

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Joe Emison, a chief technology officer from Asheville, North Carolina

Kevin Moser, an attorney from Fort Wright, Kentucky

Susan Jann, an operations coordinator from Bristol, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,800)

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Jeopardy! Round

SOCK IT TO ME
SPORTS TERMS
TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS
"BLOCK" PARTY
EAT PREY
LOVE
    $200 15
This term for a teenage girl of the 1940s refers to ankle socks folded over at the top
    $200 7
In basketball a helpful pass resulting in a score gets you this on the scoresheet
    $200 26
In 1797 Tennessee's William Blount became the first man expelled from this body & its only member impeached by the House
    $200 2
This company says it "has helped clients obtain nearly $50 billion in tax refunds" & other benefits
    $200 21
This bloodsucking insect preys on humans. Sleep tight
    $200 1
This character speaks the line "Be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet"
    $400 14
Unlike most other kinds, tube socks aren't shaped to fit this part of your foot
    $400 8
(Kelly of the Clue Crew walks on the beach at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.) This basic swimming stroke used by lifesavers was pioneered in Australia during a rescue approach; it's modified to keep the head out of the water & the rescuer's eyes on the victim
    $400 27
From 1913 to 1918 Chattanooga lawyer William McAdoo, this man's son-in-law, was also his Treasury secretary
    $400 3
It was Lucy's usual term of non-endearment directed at Charlie Brown
    $400 22
This "royal" predator of North America ran to about 40 feet long & 7 tons, but isn't around anymore
    $400 17
In an 1850 poem he wrote, "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
    $600 11
2-word term for an extra little Christmas gift; you can get some at the Starbucks store
    DD: $1,600 9
This term for a golf course is actually a Scottish word for sandy coastal land
    $600 28
Governor during reconstruction, William Brownlow mobilized the Tennessee guard to crush this then-new hate group
    $600 4
A hit movie, or an aerial bomb weighing several tons
    $600 23
Don't tread on this venomous predator seen here
    $600 18
A song by this composer says, "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's fall in love"
    $800 12
Originally green & white, these socks worn by the Campbell clan were named for a county in west Scotland
    $800 10
A cesta is the basket used to catch & throw the pelota, or ball, in this fast sport
    $800 29
In 1958 Tennessean William Anderson commanded this submarine on the first voyage under the North Pole's ice pack
    $800 5
Occupational name for a type of wood-topped table
    $800 24
One of the fiercest predators of penguins is the leopard variety of this mammal
    $800 19
In "The Prophet" he wrote, "Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea"
    $1000 13
In 1931 ankle socks caused a sensation when Mrs. Fernley-Whittingstall wore them playing this at Forest Hills
    $1000 16
This 6-letter German term means to make a straight downhill run on skis
    $1000 30
A real-life "Bones", forensic anthropologist William Bass founded the "Body Farm" at the U. of Tenn. in this city
    $1000 6
Alliterative term for a substance taken to reduce the heart rate or to prevent migraines
    $1000 25
Called the tiger of the sea, this streamlined ocean predator can be a threat to swimmers wearing shiny objects
    $1000 20
Around 413 A.D. this church father declared, "Love and do what you will"

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

Susan Kevin Joe
$4,400 $600 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Susan Kevin Joe
$6,600 $400 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 12th CENTURY
GRAMMAR
THE P-51 MUSTANG
ARCHITECTURE
(Alex: In honor of his centennial year...)
WOODY GUTHRIE
THIS ISLAND IS YOUR ISLAND
(Alex: We'll give you the island; you tell us the country it belongs to.)
    $400 26
Tradition has it that the first stone for this Paris cathedral was laid in 1163 by Pope Alexander III
    $400 25
In standard usage this equals a positive, so "I didn't do nothing" means "I did something"
    $400 1
The P-51 Mustang's reputation was so great, in the mid-'60s executives at this company named a youth-oriented coupe after it
    $400 14
Pendentives are used to place this vaulted circular roof atop a square room
    $400 7
Woody had a Gibson one of these on which he placed the sticker that read, "This machine kills Fascists"
    $400 2
Majorca
    $800 27
In 1181 this type of exploding star lit up the nighttime sky in Cassiopeia & remained visible for 185 days
    DD: $2,000 24
In English exactly 3 words, with a total of 6 letters, represent this part of speech
    $800 8
The Mustang was the main fighter of this international organization when it began fighting the Korean War
    $800 15
In a ribbed vault, the ribs provide support, or seem to, for this arachnid-sounding material between the ribs
    $800 10
Woody didn't like bosses, but this "Boss" gave a speech honoring him at 2012's South by Southwest music festival
    $800 3
Mindanao
    $1200 30
Berthold V founded this future Swiss capital in 1191 as a military post on the Aare river
    $1200 23
Some grammar mavens complain about the use of "hopefully" as a sentence one of these, modifying the whole sentence
    $1200 9
This sound barrier breaker flew a Mustang for most of his 12.5 aerial kills during World War II
    $1200 16
As in the home seen here, Desert Modernism thrived in the mid-20th century in this California desert city
    $1200 11
The aging, ailing Woody was visited by Joan Baez & other stars in the early-'60s revival of this 4-letter style of music
    $1200 4
Hispaniola
(2, please)
    $1600 28
One of the first books on this branch of medicine also practiced by barbers advocated molten lard
    $1600 22
To change a sentence from active to passive voice, you usually add a form of this common verb
    $1600 19
Often flying P-51 Mustangs, this distinguished African-American unit flew more than 1,500 missions during WWII
    $1600 17
Recipients of the Pritzker Prize receive a medallion based on designs by this Chicagoan, the "Father of the Skyscraper"
    $1600 12
In May 1939 Guthrie began writing his column "Woody Sez" for People's World, this party's newspaper
    $1600 5
Sakhalin
    DD: $1,500 29
This queen of France was divorced from Louis VII in March 1152 & married Henry Plantagenet 2 months later
    $2000 21
In "Der Ring Des Nibelungen", the -en ending indicates this grammatical case, also called the genitive
    $2000 20
In 1944 the P-51 gave the Luftwaffe hell with its new visibility-maximizing type of canopy named for this fragile object
    $2000 18
Inigo Jones restored St. Paul's cathedral from 1633 to 1642, before it burned & was rebuilt by this man
    $2000 13
Guthrie took the title for this 1943 autobiography from one of his songs about a train
    $2000 6
MacKenzie King Island

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Susan Kevin Joe
$17,100 $9,200 $8,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE IN BRITISH HISTORY
In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do"

Final scores:

Susan Kevin Joe
$19,600 $18,200 $16,800
2-day champion: $42,400 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Susan Kevin Joe
$20,600 $9,200 $7,400
24 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)		 11 R,
3 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $37,200

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Game tape date: 2012-09-05
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