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Casey Kelly-Walter
Framingham, MA
Former teacher, left to become an actress

Her husband, her mother, and her sister are in the audience.

Topic Tree: (randomized)

Southern Cities
Get Off the Stage
Famous Families
Stinkfest
Life of the Party
Actual Inventions
$10,000
(jumped)
$1,000
$3,000

Bank: $14000
One lifeline (JTQ) remains

Question 5 - Actual Inventions
Invented in 1994, U.S. Patent 5523741 is for a device that may be hung by the chimney to detect the yearly arrival of whom?
A. Easter Bunny B. Tooth Fairy
C. Great Pumpkin D. Santa Claus

Answer and value

D. Santa Claus
Value: $100
Bank: $14100

Question 6 - Life of the Party
A neat party trick, U.S. president James Garfield was known to simultaneously do what with his left and right hands?
A. Comb his hair and buckle his pants B. Play a violin and a piano
C. Write in Latin and Greek D. Lift his wife and chop wood

JTQ 2

You can't play a violin in one hand, so that is out
writing in Latin and Greek makes sense
Really not sure

Answer and value

C. Write in Latin and Greek
Value: $7000 jumped
Bank: $14100

Question 7 - Stinkfest
Using his knowledge that mosquitoes are attracted to stinky foot odor, scientists hope to build a trap that will eradicate what disease?
A. Rabies B. Malaria
C. Lyme disease D. German measles

Answer and value

B. Malaria
Value: $25K!
Bank: $39100

Question 8 - Famous Families
In 2000, noted feminist Gloria Steinem became the stepmother of what actor?
A. Jason Bateman B. Christian Bale
C. Hugh Jackman D. Ryan Reynolds

Spoiler

really stuck between A and D, wants to go for it, as A is jumping out, but will walk. "Sorry!"

Answer and value

B. Christian Bale
Value: not shown
Bank: Walk-$19550

Commercial break

Question 6 - Life of the Party
A neat party trick, U.S. president James Garfield was known to simultaneously do what with his left and right hands?
A. Comb his hair and buckle his pants B. Play a violin and a piano
C. Write in Latin and Greek D. Lift his wife and chop wood

JTQ 2

You can't play a violin in one hand, so that is out
writing in Latin and Greek makes sense
Really not sure

Answer and value

C. Write in Latin and Greek
Value: $7000 jumped
Bank: $14100

That's some trick! He must have had amazing right-left brain hemisphere coordination. Wow!

My mother could write backwards with her left hand while simultaneously writing normally with her right. She had excellent penmanship and the lefthanded, backwards writing was nearly as perfect as her normal writing. It always amazed me.