Show #8411 2021-05-31 (taped 2021-03-15) Regular

First game with Mayim Bialik as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Contestants

Kevin Hirsh — an attorney from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Eliza Cope — an elementary school science teacher originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Amanda Ganske — a product marketing manager from Austin, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $53,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amanda $5,000 $5,000 $12,600 $25,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
17 R, 4 W
Eliza $2,000 $5,100 $11,100 $9,599
3rd place: $1,000
$9,800
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Kevin $800 $5,600 $16,400 $25,201
New champion: $25,201
$15,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOUVENIRS HATS IN BOOKS THERE IS AN "I" IN TEAM NOT QUITE A CONSTELLATION THE SHAPE OF YOU MOTHER!
$200 [11]
Daruma dolls, which right themselves when tipped over, are associated with a Japanese phrase meaning "fall down seven times" do this "eight"
get up
Kevin
$200 [1]
Alice encounters this crazed craftsman at a tea party
the Mad Hatter
Amanda
$200 [21]
A sometime Coral Gables resident, singer Marc Anthony co-owns this NFL team
the Miami Dolphins
Kevin
$200 [16]
Regulus is part of the sickle, a star formation that is also the head of this maned constellation
Leo
Eliza
$200 [6]
Cordate & cordiform mean shaped like the common symbol for this body part
the heart
Amanda Kevin
$200 [26]
She was the first woman to be both wife & mom to a U.S. president
Abigail Adams
Eliza
$400 [12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from New York City.) A hippopotamus nicknamed William is the mascot of the 5th Avenue outpost of this venerable New York City museum; a replica ofhimmakes a good souvenir
the Met (the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Eliza
$400 [2]
To write his bestseller about this colorfully hatted group, Robin Moore trained with them & accompanied them to Vietnam
the Green Berets
Amanda
$400 [22]
There was no swash in this MLB team's buckle from 1993 to 2012, with no winning seasons
the Pittsburgh Pirates
Eliza
$400 [17]
This pair of "Big" & "Little" star clusters can be found in Ursa Major & Minor, respectively
the Big Dipper & the Little Dipper
Kevin
$400 [7]
A tetrahedron is sometimes described as a triangular one of these
a pyramid
Amanda
$400 [27]
Kathy Headlee founded MWB, Mothers Without these, to aid the world's orphaned & vulnerable kids
Borders
Eliza
$600 [13]
The lid keeps the beer cool, ja, in a traditional one of these German tankards
a stein
Amanda
$600 [3]
In a Dr. Seuss book title, Bartholomew Cubbins wears this many hats
500
Eliza
$600 [23]
In 1997 this NBA team changed its nickname & dropped its Bullets; capital idea!
the Washington Wizards
Kevin
$600 [18]
A group of 4 stars near Lyra is called this, like the center piece that holds an arch together
The Keystone
Eliza
$600 [8]
These 2 words that both start with the same 3 letters mean curving inward & curving outward
convex & concave
Amanda
$600 [28]
In 2018 Micheál Neeson changed his last name to this in honor of his late mother
Richardson
$800 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum store sells a Barbie doll of Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician who was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in this Oscar-nominated 2016 film
Hidden Figures
Kevin
$800 [4]
This colorfully dressed guy took Curious George from a life in the jungle to one in the city
the Man in the Yellow Hat
Amanda
$800 [24]
Dr. J, Charles Barkley & Allen Iverson all suited up for this NBA squad
the (Philadelphia) 76ers
Kevin
$1,000 [20]
Also known as the 3 Sisters, Alnitak, Alnilam & Mintaka make up this hunter's "Belt"
Orion
Kevin
$800 [9]
Often made with black paper, these 2-dimensional outlines of your profile show the shape of your face
silhouettes
Amanda
$800 [29]
In 1497 her reign in Spain turned tragic after the death of Juan, her only son
Queen Isabella (I)
Kevin
$1,000 [15]
When you visit the country just south of Kenya, you can bring home some of this mineral named for it
tanzanite
Eliza
$1,000 [5]
This French schoolgirl can often be found wearing a sailor hat; one of Ludwig Bemelmans' books is her "and the Bad Hat"
Madeline
Amanda
$1,000 [25]
Gordie Howe played for this NHL team from 1946 to 1971
the Detroit Red Wings
DD $1,300 [19]
The Winter Triangle spans stars in constellations from Betelgeuse to Procyon to this bright star in Canis Major
Sirius
Eliza
$1,000 [10]
The Earth is generally considered to be this 6-letter type of spheroid, as it is flattened at the poles
oblate
$1,000 [30]
Her son succeeded her as India's prime minister, a job that her dad once had as well
Indira Gandhi
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S ALL IN THE PAST POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER HE WON AN OSCAR PLAYING A REAL PERSON HORSE CENTS THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY
$400 [26]
"Et, tu" him--2 years after taking part in Caesar's murder, both he & Cassius killed themselves
Brutus
Eliza
$400 [7]
The story goes that Queens' College at this U.K. university has the apostrophe at the end, as it was founded by 2 monarchs
Cambridge
Amanda Kevin
$400 [12]
An accepted principle or maxim of religious faith
tenet
Kevin
$400 [1]
Eddie Redmayne as him in "The Theory of Everything"
Stephen Hawking
Eliza
$400 [2]
A Bermuda 10-dollar coin features one of these "horses", actually a pipefish relative
a seahorse
Kevin
$400 [22]
"Je pense, donc je suis" is how I originally wrote my best-known philosophical phrase
(René) Descartes
Amanda Kevin
$800 [23]
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ended this war
the Mexican-American War
Amanda
$1,200 [3]
In 1634 the first English settlement in what's now this state was called St. Mary's (but wasn't named for the same woman as the colony)
Maryland
Amanda Kevin
$800 [13]
The chief instigator of a group engaged in an illegal activity
a ringleader
Amanda
$800 [8]
Jamie Foxx as this R&B legend
Ray Charles
Kevin
$800 [17]
Cameroon produced a commemorative 500-franc "Happiness" coin in the shape of one of these, with a 4-leaf clover on the back
a horseshoe
$800 [27]
Oui, in a 1946 essay I expounded on the idea that "Existence precedes essence"
Jean-Paul Sartre
$1,600 [24]
In 1377 Gregory XI, the last French pope, returned the papacy to Rome from this city
Avignon
Amanda Eliza Kevin
$1,600 [5]
This capital of Newfoundland & Labrador is one of the oldest & most easterly in North America
St. John's
Eliza
$1,200 [14]
One who wanders aimlessly, or the classic American Motors car seen here
a Rambler
$1,200 [9]
Him as the title guy in "Capote"
(Philip Seymour) Hoffman
Amanda
$1,200 [18]
A bronc tries to buck a rider on a 2012 Canadian coin commemorating 100 years of this Calgary event
the Stampede
Eliza
$1,200 [28]
"God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!" Yep, I wrote that in 1882
Nietzsche
Amanda
DD $2,000 [20]
Mobutu Sese Seko amassed a $5 billion fortune ruling what's now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which he renamed this
Zaire
Eliza
DD $2,000 [4]
This Massachusetts island was likely named for the daughter of explorer Bartholomew Gosnold
Martha's Vineyard
Kevin
$1,600 [15]
The institutions & people of education taken as a whole
academia
Amanda
$1,600 [10]
Forest Whitaker as this Ugandan dictator in "The Last King of Scotland"
Idi Amin
Kevin
$1,600 [19]
A 1902 Australian 2-pound coin depicts St. George on horseback on the reverse & this newly minted king on the obverse
Edward VII
$1,600 [29]
"Now the cave or den is the world of sight, the fire is the sun, the way upward is the way to knowledge"--hey, that's mine!
Plato
Amanda
$2,000 [25]
From the 1920s to the 1940s Jordan was known by this name, 5 letters longer
Transjordan
$2,000 [6]
St. George's is the capital of this Caribbean "Spice Isle" much in the news in 1983
Grenada
Kevin
$2,000 [16]
The product of a body's mass & velocity
momentum
$2,000 [11]
Jeremy Irons as this hubby of Sunny in "Reversal of Fortune"
Claus von Bülow
Amanda
$2,000 [21]
A 1960s Austrian 5-schilling coin featured one of these renowned horses from the Spanish riding school
a Lipizzaner
Eliza
$2,000 [30]
I was born in Edinburgh in 1711, 28 years before I published the first volumes of "A Treatise of Human Nature"
(David) Hume
Amanda

Final Jeopardy!

THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION

The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland's 80th birthday

Bravo

Eliza "What is" — wagered $1,501
Amanda "What is Bravo?" — wagered $12,600
Kevin "What is Bravo?" — wagered $8,801

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