Show #8399 2021-05-13 (taped 2021-03-03) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Media Fellowship House.

Contestants

Susan Schulman — a baker from Alexandria, Virginia

Matt McAndrews — a marketer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Amanda Ganske — a product marketing manager from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amanda $1,800 $3,400 $9,800 $19,599
2-day champion: $33,599
$9,800
15 R, 2 W
Matt $2,000 $7,400 $15,000 $9,799
3rd place: $1,000
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $3,600 $6,800 $20,200 $10,200
2nd place: $2,000
$18,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FOR YOUR PIES ONLY SCIENCE THE DAILY TRIPLE FROM TV SHOW TO FILM NUMBERING THE NONFICTION BOOKS DEADLY SIN-ONYMS
$200 [3]
Pillsbury's "Perfect" this pie includes 6 cups of the main item as well as cinnamon & nutmeg; why, it's American as...
apple pie
Amanda
$200 [8]
Onezygotebecomes two & so on & before you know it, you have one of these, the result of fertilization
an embryo
Susan
$200 [14]
After being fitted out at Palos, Spain, these 3 ships left for the New World on August 3, 1492
the Nina , the Pinta & the Santa Maria
Amanda
$200 [1]
Not Jim Phelps but Ethan Hunt is the team leader played by this actor in the big screen versions of "Mission Impossible"
Tom Cruise
Matt
$200 [19]
"A History of the World in 6 Glasses" says this drink kept workers alert & was key to Britain's Industrial Revolution
tea
Amanda Matt Susan
$200 [24]
4 letters:jealousy
envy
Susan
$400 [5]
19th century confectioner, Elizabeth Goodfellow introduced this sweet & tart delight to America
lemon meringue pie
Amanda
$400 [9]
A 2020 study says that in the 2030s the Amazon tropical forest may go from a net absorber to a net emitter of this gas
carbon dioxide
Matt
$400 [15]
Unafraid to get his merry on, Old King Cole called for his bowl & then these musicians
fiddlers three
$400 [2]
On both TV & film Eliot Ness & "The Untouchables" battled ruthless mobsters in this city
Chicago
Susan
$400 [20]
All 7 continents are included in Patricia Schultz' "1,000 Places to See Before" this happens
You Die
Matt
$400 [25]
5 letters:anger
wrath
Susan
$600 [11]
Let's go nuts with this pie staple, a hickory genus member grown in Georgia with a fat content of (yipes!) over 70%
pecan pie
Susan
$600 [10]
Using binomial nomenclature, Linnaeus is considered the founder of this, the field of classifying organisms
taxonomy
Susan
$600 [16]
Similar to a shortstop, the third man is a fielding position in this sport
cricket
Matt
$600 [4]
In the movie "The A-Team", Quinton "Rampage" Jackson took on the role played by this actor on TV
Mr. T
Matt
$800 [22]
"13 Hours" is a tale of loss & heroism in the 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in this Libyan city
Benghazi
Susan
$600 [26]
5 letters:covetousness, rapacity
greed
Amanda
$800 [12]
Sour ones or Bings can be used to make this summer pie, & maybe spruce it up with a lattice crust
cherry pie
Matt
$800 [29]
Newly created nihonium is classified as a "trans-" this element
transuranium
$800 [17]
It's the third letter in the Greek alphabet
gamma
Amanda
$800 [6]
When this TV show magically came to the big screen, Nicole Kidman played Samantha Stephens
Bewitched
Susan
$1,000 [23]
The book subtitled "Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America" includes this South Dakotan who ran for president in 1972
McGovern
Susan
$800 [27]
4 letters:prurience, cupidity
lust
Matt
$1,000 [13]
Patti LaBelle is famed for this pie that can actually be made with yams instead of the tubers in its name
sweet potato pie
Amanda
$1,000 [30]
This type of supercomputer uses subatomic particles to help processing go quickly; Honeywell is making a really fast one
quantum
Matt
$1,000 [18]
The USA's 3 main credit Bureaus are Trans Union, Experian & this one that began with a grocer listing his credit-worthy customers
Equifax
$1,000 [7]
Will Smith took over Robert Conrad's role in this 1999 adaptation of a 1960s series
the Wild Wild West
Susan
DD $2,800 [21]
Hyeonseo Lee is one of the names of the author of "The Girl with Seven Names", about defecting from this country
North Korea
Matt
$1,000 [28]
5 letters:lethargy, indolence
sloth
Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY CLASS 2-LETTER FIRST NAMERS A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING OPERA "LIGHT" AT THE END THE TUNNEL
$400 [30]
"Colorful" clothing term describing office-working people
white-collar
Matt
$400 [29]
Beginning in 1973 he received 4 consecutive Oscar nominations for acting
Al Pacino
$400 [1]
On film he tells Christopher Robin, "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day"
Winnie the Pooh
Matt
$400 [3]
Mephistopheles is a bass in Gounod's opera about this title soul-selling philosopher
Faust
Matt
$400 [8]
We can drive it home with one this; maybe in song, but not according to section 24400 of the California vehicle code
one headlight
Amanda
$400 [13]
From Paris' Gare du Nord you can catch a train through this 31-mile engineering marvel
a Chunnel
Matt
$800 [21]
About 3/4 of the population of early medieval Europe was this very unfree lowest class of peasant farmer
serf
Amanda
$800 [25]
This actor played lovable Phil Dunphy on "Modern Family"
Ty Burrell
Amanda
$800 [2]
In the title of Jean-Paul Sartre's work, it's paired with "Nothingness"
Being
Susan
$800 [4]
In this opera, Lt. Pinkerton is already married to Cio-Cio-san when he turns up with an American wife named Kate
Madame Butterfly
Susan
$800 [9]
A line of players moves & stops on command in this game
Red Light, Green Light
Matt
$800 [14]
Its country's biggest engineering project, the 17-mile Guadarrama Tunnel is on the Valladolid-Segovia-this capital rail line
Madrid
Amanda Matt
$1,200 [22]
In the 300s B.C. Chinese society was divided into 4 classes: scholars, merchants, artisans & these rent collectors
landlords
Matt
$1,200 [26]
Thishumorist is often a guest panelist on "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"
Mo Rocca
Amanda
$1,200 [18]
A famous ad of the 1980s asked, "You want to know what comes between me and my" this brand of jeans? "Nothing"
Calvins
Amanda
$1,600 [6]
Her beloved Radames is sentenced to be buried alive; she joins him so the pair can die together
Aida
Susan
$1,200 [10]
As a verb it means trying to make someone think they're crazy
gaslight
Amanda
$1,200 [15]
A tunnel named for late House Speaker Tip O'Neill carries the route known as the Central Artery under this city's downtown
Boston
Susan
$1,600 [23]
Karl Marx' term for the working class, selling their own labor to survive
a proletariat
Matt
$1,600 [27]
Seen here, he asked tough questions on "60 Minutes"
Ed Bradley
Amanda
$1,600 [19]
Claudio initially leaves Hero at the altar in this Shakespeare comedy
Much Ado About Nothing
Amanda
$2,000 [7]
Female fickleness is the subject of this Mozart opera whose title can be translated as "all women do the same"
Così fan tutte
Susan
$1,600 [11]
17th century artist Georges de la Tour was known as the "Master of" this type of illumination
candlelight
$1,600 [16]
The world's longest sea bridge & tunnel connects Hong Kong & this other special administrative region to mainland China
Macau
Amanda Matt
$2,000 [24]
India's constitution made discrimination against this lower class illegal in 1949; "Scheduled Caste" is now the operative term
the Dalits (the Untouchables)
Matt
$2,000 [28]
One of rock's early pioneers, hewas known for his unusual guitars
Bo Diddley
$2,000 [20]
In 1856 this former president who ran on the Know-Nothing ticket received only 8 electoral votes
Millard Fillmore
Susan
DD $3,000 [5]
"Almaviva, or the Useless Precaution" was the original title of this Rossini opera; its current title honors Figaro's profession
The Barber of Seville
Susan
$2,000 [12]
With a maximum empty weight in the U.S. of 254 pounds, this kind of aircraft isn't just light, it's...
ultralight
Susan
DD $2,000 [17]
In 1920, work began on a NYC-NJ tunnel named for him; it was said he could make you think of a tunnel as a mole thinks of a burrow
Clifford Holland
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Amanda "What is Oh the Places you'll go?" — wagered $9,799
Matt "What is oh the places you will go" — wagered $5,201
Susan "What is The Lorax?" — wagered $10,000

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