Show #8454 2021-07-29 (taped 2021-04-28) Regular

Matt Amodio game 7.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Reading is Fundamental.

Contestants

Bryan Cracchiolo — an assistant registrar from White Plains, New York

Dana Rosner — a sales manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 6-day cash winnings total $194,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $11,400 $15,200 $44,000 $74,000
7-day champion: $268,800
$39,000
43 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W
Dana $0 $1,200 $4,400 $4,400
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
7 R, 1 W
Bryan $-1,000 $-400 $-1,200 $-1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$-1,200
4 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE HELP! HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE SOMETHING LET "IT" BE HELLO, GOODBYE
$200 [28]
"Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out; they leave the West behind, & Moscow girls make me sing & shout"
"Back In The U.S.S.R."
Matt
$200 [29]
Go to the .gov of this treasury agency & it will tell you how to get some tax counseling for free
the IRS
Dana
$200 [30]
D'oh! It may seem like there's a town named this in every state, but the USGS says it's only 34, including Missouri & Oregon
Springfield
Matt
$200 [23]
On December 31, 2020 this company stopped supporting its once popular Flash Player
Adobe
Matt
$200 [26]
It can precede greyhound, parsley & sonnet
Italian
Bryan
$200 [27]
Born around 1820, heroically conducted a "railroad", passed in 1913
Tubman
Matt
$400 [20]
"All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"
"Eleanor Rigby"
Matt
$400 [24]
In college dorms R.A. is short for this helper, who could be of use if a neighbor won't keep his music down
resident assistant (resident advisor)
Matt
$400 [21]
For a change of changing of the guards, check out the one in this city at the mausoleum of Uruguayan hero Jose Artigas
Montevideo
Matt
$400 [22]
Not surprisingly, this future host of "The Daily Show" was voted Best Sense of Humor at his New Jersey high school
Jon Stewart
Bryan
$400 [25]
A Hershey's candy bar, or a synonym for a thingamajig
Whatchamacallit
Dana
$400 [7]
Originally formed in 1761, was an art tutor at Versailles & was as alive as a wax figure in 1850
(Madame) Tussaud
Matt
$600 [14]
"They've been going in & out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
$600 [15]
Launched in 1991, the bestselling book series "For" these people also has online tools with handy videos
Dummies
Matt
$600 [16]
Fly over the southern portion ofthis1,250-mile-long natural wonder to see the heart-shaped formation here
Great Barrier Reef
Matt
$600 [17]
In 2006 a first-of-its-kind museum of this language opened in Sao Paulo
Portuguese
Matt
$600 [18]
A wimple is a traditional part of this religious outfit
a habit
Dana
$600 [19]
Premiered in 1685, wrote "Mass in B Minor", fathered some 20 kids, began decomposing in Leipzig in 1750
Bach
Matt
$800 [8]
"I think I'm gonna be sad; I think it's today, yeah; the girl that's driving me mad is going away"
"Ticket To Ride"
Matt
$800 [9]
If you need help with this on your teeth, go to a dentist; for the same-named branch of math, get a tutor
calculus
Matt
$1,000 [3]
Isak Dinesen wrote this Kenyan seaport is like "a picture of paradise... the deep sea-arm round the island forms an ideal harbour"
Mombasa
Matt
$800 [11]
At its peak, usually in mid-August, you can see more than 60 shooting stars an hour during this meteor shower
Perseids
Matt
$800 [12]
From Latin for "to fold together", it means involved in a crime or other wrongdoing
complicit
Matt
$800 [13]
Born around 247 B.C. & followed in footsteps of Carthaginian general dad Hamilcar Barca; conquered by death around 183 B.C.
Hannibal
Matt
$1,000 [1]
"I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade"
"A Day In The Life"
Matt
$1,000 [2]
The Red Cross helps teach the public about CPR & how to use an AED, or automated external one of these heart starters
defibrillator
Matt
DD $5,000 [10]
These 2 countries each border 14 other countries, including each other
Russia & China
Matt
$1,000 [4]
In 2020 a grandson of this 10th president passed away at 95 (yes, you heard that right & no, they never met)
John Tyler
Matt Dana Bryan
$1,000 [5]
The "P" in a PET scan stands for this subatomic particle
positron
Matt
$1,000 [6]
Was Scot-free in 1835, steel-ed himself in America, sold off his shares for good in 1919
Carnegie
Dana

Double Jeopardy! Round

A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT OLD MILITARY ABBREV. IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD & HANDS THE STATE'S RICHEST PERSON PLAYING THE PART TAKE A FEW LETTERS
$400 [27]
A tale of 1920s betrayal, murder & redemption, Toni Morrison's "Jazz" takes place mostly in this area of Manhattan
Harlem
Dana
$400 [30]
Union veterans of the Civil War made up the G.A.R., the Grand Army of this, which they'd fought to save
the Republic
Matt
$400 [29]
Have the good sense to know if you have jaw pain & swollen gums, this third set of molars may have impacted your life, & they'll have to go
the wisdom teeth
Bryan
$400 [28]
Washington:Sorry, Bill Gates, it's this guy
Jeff Bezos
Matt
$400 [24]
He was Dan Conner on TV in the '80s & '90s & again since 2018
Goodman
Matt
$400 [1]
In the season we also call fall, you can catch this 4-letter fish
tuna
Matt
$800 [21]
"Captains Courageous" & "Kim" were penned by this 1907 winner
Kipling
Matt
$800 [26]
Capable of firing 650 rounds a minute, the B.A.R., or Browning this, was in service with the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1957
automatic rifle
Matt
$800 [20]
In palmistry, the mount of this Greek sun god seenheredeals with hopefully sunny things like happiness & success
Apollo
Matt
$800 [25]
Nebraska:This Berkshire Hathaway billionaire
Buffett
Matt
$800 [22]
Alfonso Ribeiro's character of Carlton Banks on this sitcom inspired a famous dance
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Bryan
$800 [23]
The letters of a U.S. Army rank that goes up to 5 stars can form this color
green
$1,200 [13]
This German-Swiss author's 1919 novel, "Demian", was published under the pen name Emil Sinclair
(Hermann) Hesse
Matt
$1,200 [19]
During the occupation of Japan, MacArthur was CINCFE: commander-in-chief for this 2-word directional term for the region
the Far East
Dana
$1,200 [16]
It's the 2-word term for the point where the optic nerve enters the eye, or the point where your car's mirror is no help
blind spot
Matt
$1,200 [15]
Kansas:Charles, one of the ultra-conservative brothers with this last name
Koch
Matt
$1,200 [4]
Heplayed Sergeant Matt Eversmann in the movie "Black Hawk Down" & Ethan Chandler on "Penny Dreadful"
Hartnett
Matt
$1,200 [14]
A 200-year anniversary provides the letters for this water source for a soldier or hiker
canteen
Matt
DD $2,000 [2]
His novel "Rites of Passage" echoed the survivalist theme of an earlier work about boys marooned on a remote island
(William) Golding
Matt
$1,600 [18]
The B.E.F., which crossed the Channel in both World War I & World War II, was this force
British Expeditionary Force
Matt
DD $2,000 [6]
Appropriately, the skin on the edge of this facial feature is called the vermilion border
lips
Matt
$1,600 [5]
Wyoming & Virginia: M&M's from this candy family
Mars
Matt
$1,600 [3]
Before starring as Nurse Jackie, she was Carmela on "The Sopranos"
Edie Falco
Dana
$1,600 [12]
Winesap is a variety of one, inside of which you'll find this bell sound
peal
Matt
$2,000 [7]
Incomplete at his death, Albert Camus' novel "The First Man" is set in France & this country of his birth
Algeria
Matt
$2,000 [17]
To sailors in the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam, PBR wasn't beer, butthis2-wordvesselproceeding "river", many on the Mekong
patrol boat
Matt
$2,000 [10]
She was lookin' kinda dumb with her fingers & her thumb connected to her wrist by these 5 long palm bones
metacarpals
Matt Bryan
$2,000 [8]
Tennessee:Thomas of this family, brother to former Senate majority leader Bill
Frist
Matt
$2,000 [9]
In the 1979 film "The Prisoner of Zenda", heplayed three parts:Rudolf IV, Rudolf V & Syd Frewin
Peter Sellers
$2,000 [11]
Digging into the hardest naturally occurring substance brings up this type of acid that makes up protein
amino
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CITIES

This Colombian port of 1 million people gets its name from Phoenician for "new town"

Cartagena

Dana "What is Bogota?" — wagered $0
Matt "What is Cartagena?" — wagered $30,000

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