Show #8449 2021-07-22 (taped 2021-04-23) Regular

Matt Amodio game 2.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Be The Match.

Contestants

Pete Wisniewski — a math teacher from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Rekha Rajkumar — a stay-at-home parent from Oak Park, Illinois

Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $40,400)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Matt	$7,400	$9,400	$31,000	$41,000 2-day champion: $81,400	$28,200 32 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Rekha	$5,000	$4,800	$9,600	$5,100 2nd place: $2,000	$11,600 16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Pete	$-800	$400	$-400	$-400 3rd place: $1,000	$-400 7 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD	MLB MASCOTS	LIT BITS	IT'S A TRAP!	HOWARD'S END	DOWN TO "RTH"
$200 [29] Tuxtla Gutierrez is the capital city of Chiapas, the southernmost state in this nation Mexico Matt	$200 [27] Wally the Green Monster & his sister Tessie the Boston Red Sox Pete	$200 [30] Emily Bronte paid 50 pounds to have this novel published in 1847 Wuthering Heights Matt	$200 [28] These literary siblings find a house with "a roof made of cake, & the windows were made of clear sugar" but... it's a trap! Hansel & Gretel Matt	$200 [26] In 2015 this radio host ended his time judging "America's Got Talent" Stern Matt	$200 [25] It precedes Pole, Sea & Star North Rekha
$400 [22] These 2 largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea are both autonomous regions of Italy Sicily & Sardinia Matt	$400 [20] A fuzzy green guy named Southpaw, born on the South Side White Sox Matt	$400 [13] A 12-line poem from 1913 ends with "but only God can make a" this a tree Matt	$400 [18] Here's this perennial that has a special diet; it can close shop in about half a second the Venus flytrap Pete	$400 [23] As of 2021 the once-vast empire of restaurants named for this Howard is down to a single one in Lake George, N.Y. Howard Johnson Matt	$400 [24] Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking a hearth Rekha
$600 [21] Where's the beef? One place is this city of 1.6 million on Osaka Bay Kobe Rekha	$600 [19] Ace, a colorful bird whose genus name is Cyanocitta Toronto Blue Jays Pete	$600 [4] In the 1920s this novelist ran the University of Mississippi post office... until they made him quit Faulkner Matt	$600 [17] The now-heavily memed Admiral Ackbar discovers, "It's a trap!" in this 1983 film Return of the Jedi Rekha	$800 [7] The very brief marriage of Henry VIII to this woman ended in 1542 Catherine Howard Matt	$600 [9] Time to go to sleep on the train? Do you want the upperoneor the lower one? a berth Rekha
$800 [2] This ecologically vital region also called the Selva reaches its northern limits in Colombia & Venezuela the Amazon rainforest Matt	$800 [1] Billy, who measures 44 inches from the tip of his bill to the tip of his back fin Marlins Matt	$800 [3] It's Mary Norton's 1952 children's classic about a family living under the floorboards The Borrowers Rekha	$800 [5] In Greek myth Minos used the labyrinth designed by this man to imprison him & his son Icarus; the 2 escaped, at a price Daedalus Rekha Pete	$1,000 [15] In 1939 it was Hodgkin's disease, not King Tut's curse, that did in this archaeologist Carter Rekha	$800 [8] It's the distance around something, like a middle-aged waist girth Rekha
$1,000 [14] Dagestan is between the Caspian Sea on its east & this independence-seeking Russian Republic to its west Chechnya Matt	$1,000 [11] A lime green parrot hatched in 1979 Pirates Matt	$1,000 [12] This author, Harvard class of 1852, never exactly wore rags himself but loved the "to riches" part Alger Rekha	$1,000 [6] The 2010 collapse of a gold & copper mine would end up trapping 33 workers for 69 days in this country Chile Matt	DD $2,000 [16] Some cried fowl when this Marvel comic book hero flew away in 1979, but he would return Howard the Duck Rekha	$1,000 [10] In Scotland it's an inlet like Moray or of Clyde firth Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

EYE-DEOLOGY	3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES	"MM" POP	MARK YOUR CALENDARS	ANCIENT HISTORY	SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!
$400 [17] Dehydration of this transparent eye part can cause vision changes; swab the lower lid to stimulate tears & hydrate it the cornea Matt Rekha	$400 [18] The wall seenhereis covered in it ivy Pete	$400 [19] This rap artist got his stage name due to his resemblance to a baseball home run king MC Hammer Pete	$400 [21] Introduced in 1582, this calendar wasn't adopted by the Brits until 1752 & by the Russians until 1918 Gregorian Matt	$800 [26] Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great Matt	$800 [28] The wingspan of the royal species of this seabird of the South Pacific can reach more than 10 feet albatross Matt
$800 [16] Floaters & reduced peripheral vision can indicate that this membrane has become detached the retina Rekha	$800 [14] It can mean the self or conceit ego Matt	$800 [1] Lionel Richie played some sax but also "ranked" as a singer for this hit-making R&B group Commodores Matt	$800 [27] Using a biblical chronology, Archbishop James Ussher determined that this event occurred on Oct. 22, 4004 B.C. the creation of the Earth Matt	$1,200 [10] The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. a sundial Pete	$1,200 [22] 555 passengers can fly comfortably aboard the A380 from this European manufacturer Airbus Matt
$1,200 [15] Known by a 5-letter acronym, it's the most popular vision correction procedure performed in the United States LASIK Rekha Pete	$1,200 [13] Physiologically speaking, it's plural for egg cells ova Rekha	$1,200 [8] First name of 1960s singers Roe & James Tommy Matt	$1,600 [3] Messidor was the tenth month of the calendar associated with this event at the end of the 18th century the French Revolution Matt	$1,600 [2] Secretary to emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & wrote "The 12" these rulers Caesars	$1,600 [7] The term "juggernaut" comes from a massivevehiclepulled by thousands of pilgrims to honor this avatar of Vishnu Jagannath (Krishna) Matt Rekha
$1,600 [5] The lens loses clearness with this eye disease noted for a gray-white film behind the pupil cataracts Rekha Pete	$1,600 [4] Guy Picciotto & his band Rites of Spring pioneered this subgenre of alternative music emo Matt	$1,600 [9] This "planet-devouring" band went straight for "The Middle" in a 2001 tune Jimmy Eat World Matt	$2,000 [24] North Korea uses the Juche calendar, counting from the birthdate of this man in 1912 Kim Il-sung Matt	DD $2,000 [23] This queen of Egypt, Akhenaton's wife, was a symbol of fertility, bolstered by the 6 daughters she bore Nefertiti Matt	$2,000 [25] 2/3 of a mile long, the world's longest passenger train, the Ghan, travels 1,850 miles coast to coast across this continent Australia Rekha Pete
$2,000 [6] The eyeballs may protrude abnormally in people with Graves disease, a disorder of this gland thyroid Matt	$2,000 [20] It's an atom with a negative or positive charge an ion Pete	$2,000 [11] Till Lindemann is the frontman of this metal band that doubles the "M" of a U.S. Air Force base in Germany Rammstein Matt	DD $4,000 [12] Many of the days of the week bear the name of Germanic gods, but this one is from this name of a Roman deity Saturday Matt	—	—

Final Jeopardy!

1970s MOVIE SCENES

Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out

Alien

Rekha "What is The Exrorscist ?" — wagered $4,500

Matt "What is Alien?" — wagered $10,000

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