Show #8451 2021-07-26 (taped 2021-04-28) Regular

Matt Amodio game 4.First game with LeVar Burton as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Reading is Fundamental.

Contestants

Kathleen McHugh — a retired legal assistant originally from Detroit, Michigan

Patrick Pearce — a product specialist from Fountain Valley, California

Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 3-day cash winnings total $101,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $9,200 $13,000 $17,000 $21,000
4-day champion: $122,400
$13,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Patrick $-1,400 $-200 $-7,400 $-7,400
3rd place: $1,000
$-5,400
10 R, 11 W (including 1 DD)
Kathleen $800 $1,600 $10,200 $17,200
2nd place: $2,000
$13,200
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY TV WORKPLACES WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE BUSINESS IN THE FRONT PARTY IN THE BACK NICE "MUL" IT
$200 [25]
Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific saw the first use of this powerful new weapon in 1952
an H-bomb
Matt
$200 [3]
Greendale is this title type of college
community
Patrick
$200 [29]
Andalusia's Doñana National Park in this country is one of the only places to find the Iberian imperial eagle
Spain
Matt
$200 [22]
Jimmy Kimmel gave a rough idea of the length of the receipts given by this 3-letter pharmacy chain--"the equator"
CVS
Matt
$200 [15]
This "numerical" party game traditionally begins with learning the objective is "animal, vegetable or mineral"
Twenty Questions
Patrick
$200 [30]
This 6-letter word denotes a riot or turmoil
tumult
Matt Patrick
$400 [10]
This 1815 battle was called the Battle of Mont St. Jean by the French, but the victorious English & allies picked the name that stuck
Waterloo
Patrick
$400 [24]
On this drama, Dr. John Carter worked at County General
ER
Kathleen
$400 [26]
The tundra hare, seenherein its seasonal lights, is native to this state
Alaska
Matt
$400 [21]
This tech company incorporated on June 25, 1981; 5 years later, it moved to Redmond, Washington & its stock went public
Microsoft
Kathleen
$400 [27]
Are you going to be shy all night & act like this proverbial yellow perennial plant or are you going to cut loose & dance?
wallflower
Matt
$400 [28]
It's a golf do-over after a lousy shot
mulligan
Matt
$600 [9]
Overthrown by the U.S., this Panamanian dictator was convicted in Miami of federal drug & racketeering charges in 1992
Manuel Noriega
Matt Patrick
$600 [17]
Vought International employs this show's ethically challenged superheroes
The Boys
Matt Patrick
$600 [20]
Now found mostly in a single national park, the Kashmir stag used to roam these 2 countries
India & Pakistan
Patrick
$600 [16]
On January 13, 2021 the stock price of this company opened around $20; on January 29, $380 & by February 5, $54
GameStop
Patrick
$600 [19]
Our '80s party wouldn't be complete if we didn't crank this Billy Idol hit! "It's a nice day for" it
"White Wedding"
Matt
$600 [23]
It's a protective covering to enrich soil; hardwood chips or grass clippings are organic types
mulch
Matt
$800 [4]
Not Peter or Catherine but a "Great" ruler of this name won independence for Moscow from the Golden Horde in 1480
Ivan (the Great)
$800 [11]
The FBI behavioral analysis unit on this show took its last case on CBS in 2020
Criminal Minds
Matt
$1,000 [7]
General term for aground squirrel, such as a woodchuck; in Vancouver Island, oneis found only in Canada, pita
marmot
Matt Patrick Kathleen
$800 [13]
In 1911 this oil company got its trust busted & had to divest itself of 33 companies
Standard Oil
Matt Patrick
$800 [14]
Got my king cake, mask, beads & pralines! I'm ready to party & celebrate this, which will fall on Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Mardi Gras
Kathleen
$800 [18]
A great number; the Bible says love covers a this "of sins"
a multitude
Patrick
$1,000 [1]
A tool of mariners by the 1400s, this instrument aided navigation by determining the position of the Sun & other stars
astrolabe
Matt
$1,000 [2]
On this show, Mae Whitman works at Fine & Frugal, but helps rob it
Good Girls
Kathleen
DD $4,200 [12]
The North Island brown is a variety of this flightless bird
kiwi
Matt
$1,000 [8]
The National Union Life & Limb Insurance Company evolved into this one with a snappier name that still includes "Life"
Met Life
Patrick
$1,000 [5]
I'm busting out my spinach & this veggie dip--it's a version of the one at Applebee's
artichoke
Matt
$1,000 [6]
To openly proclaim a new doctrine or law
promulgate
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARABIA TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS POPES OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES NAMES IN LITERATURE U.S. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
$400 [4]
Arabia is separated from Africa by this body of water along its west
the Red Sea
Kathleen
$400 [26]
This word can refer to a craving or an Asian currency
yen
Matt
$400 [18]
One theory says the first pope, St. Peter, had nerve damage that led to the traditional gesture of this with 2 fingers curled in
a blessing
Kathleen
$400 [12]
When she won for "Tootsie", Jessica Lange said she felt real lucky to have this man "as my leading lady"
Hoffman
Matt
$800 [24]
Thisauthor created the characters Jonathan Harker & Dr. Van Helsing
(Bram) Stoker
Matt
$1,200 [25]
Our ambassadors such as JFK's sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, have lived in the little place seenhereon 62 acres in this city
Dublin
Patrick Kathleen
$800 [5]
This city in the Sirat Mountains commands the attention of the devout 5 times a day
Mecca
Matt Patrick
$1,200 [22]
It almost sounds like a symptom of sleepiness, but this word means to deviate from a ship's course
yaw
Matt
$800 [19]
Alexander III convoked 1179's Third Lateran Council, which gave this "College" the task of electing a new pope
the College of Cardinals
Patrick
$1,200 [10]
In 2021 this "Nomadland" Best Director quoted a Chinese work that begins, "People at birth are in here ntly good"
(Chloé) Zhao
Kathleen
$1,200 [16]
In "Gulliver's Travels", some of these greedy & violent humanoids have been tamed by the Houyhnhnms
Yahoo(s)
Matt
$1,600 [1]
Ariel Rios, who died battling the flow of cocaine, is honored with his name on the D.C. headquarters of this bureau named for other substances
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Patrick
$1,200 [14]
In Yemen Iran & Saudi Arabia are waging this type of war where others do the fighting
proxy
Matt
$1,600 [6]
This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto
Sic
Matt Patrick
$1,200 [17]
In 993 John XV was the first pope to take this step, honoring Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg, dead just 20 years
bestowing sainthood
Kathleen
$1,600 [9]
Winning for this "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" character, Louise Fletcher said, "I've loved being hated by you"
Nurse Ratched
Kathleen
$1,600 [15]
He's the scrawny schoolteacher who gets frightened by the headless horseman
Ichabod Crane
Matt
$2,000 [21]
What's now afederal centerin this Michigan city was once the sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg
Battle Creek
Kathleen
$1,600 [3]
Animals in the region include camels, a main mode of transport, & these 2 farm animals known there as khiraf & ma'iz
sheep & goats
Patrick Kathleen
$2,000 [23]
A depression in the path of a mountain's summit; Hillary climbed Everest's "South"
a Col
Patrick
$1,600 [2]
Pope Francis is the first pontiff to have been a member of this religious order that pope Clement XIV abolished in 1773
Jesuits
Matt
$2,000 [20]
In 1952 he said, "It's a very long way from the heart of the Belgian Congo to the stage of the Pantages Theater"
Humphrey Bogart
Matt
$2,000 [13]
Tom & Laura Wingfield are brother & sister in this play
The Glass Menagerie
Kathleen
DD $2,000 [7]
This emirate, a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast, has taken a more independent line than its neighbors in recent years
Qatar
Patrick
$2,000 [8]
Pius XI revived the custom of giving this blessing whose Latin name means "to the city and to the world"
Urbi et Orbi
Patrick
DD $3,000 [11]
This "Moonstruck" actress said, "Okay, Michael, let's go!" referring to her cousin running for president
Olympia Dukakis
Kathleen

Final Jeopardy!

NOTABLE NAMES

Following his death in 2018, his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey between the remains of fellow scientists Darwin & Newton

Stephen Hawking

Kathleen "Who is Stephen Hawking?" — wagered $7,000
Matt "Who is Hawking?" — wagered $4,000

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