Show #8456 2021-08-02 (taped 2021-04-30) Regular

Matt Amodio game 9.First game with David Faber as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to the Robin Hood Foundation.

Contestants

Anna Hendrick — a private investigator from Queens, New York

Kent Easter — a management consultant from San Diego, California

Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 8-day cash winnings total $291,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $5,200 $14,200 $34,200 $19,200
9-day champion: $310,400
$25,200
32 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Kent $2,000 $3,000 $7,400 $4,800
2nd place: $2,000
$7,400
11 R, 1 W
Anna $800 $2,000 $400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
9 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE STATE I REP IN THE SENATE FROM TV TO FILM KNOTTY BY NATURE HODGEPODGE SCIENCE HILL & MOUNTAIN IDIOMS
$200 [26]
Cory Booker
New Jersey
Matt
$200 [28]
The 2000 movie version of this TV show added "Viva Rock Vegas" to the title
The Flintstones
Kent
$200 [29]
The knot called this hitch or bend is used to ensure your boat's rope stays attached to a certain heavy object
anchor
Matt
$200 [30]
Irony alert: owners of a Noah's Ark replica in Kentucky sued insurers for not covering damage done by this 4-letter word
rain
$200 [27]
Argentiferous means containing or producing this metal
silver
Matt
$200 [25]
Someone at the top is this monarch, the title of an animated sitcom
king of the hill
Matt
$400 [20]
Marco Rubio
Florida
Anna
$400 [9]
"Nemesis" & "First Contact" are films based on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", with Patrick Stewart reprising this role
Picard
Matt
$400 [24]
ties.com says a half this "is medium in size, nearly symmetrical &... produces a deep & substantial dimple"
a Windsor
Kent
$400 [22]
In 1985 the Cubs' speedy Davey Lopes had 47 of these, failing only 4 times--not bad for a 40-year-old!
stolen base
Kent
$400 [23]
Crabs reabsorb calcium carbonate from their old shells and secrete enzymes toshed them in this process of getting new duds
molting
Anna
$400 [21]
A course of action with the potential for greater difficulties is this alliterative downhill course
a slippery slope
Anna
$600 [15]
Mitt Romney, but it's not the state he governed
Utah
Matt
$600 [8]
This actor took on the role of Dr. Richard Kimble, innocent & on the run in the film version of "The Fugitive"
Harrison Ford
Anna
$600 [17]
It's similar to a noose knot & is used as the first loop in knitting; it's also a Corey Taylor metal band
slip knot
Matt
$600 [19]
parents.com's "Key to Soothing Fussy Infants" is to mimic this place; "Swaddling... may trigger a calming reflex"
the womb
Matt
$600 [16]
Tonic water contains a small amount of this alkaloid used in the treatment of malaria
quinine
Matt
$800 [5]
Reaching one's highest level of efficiency; you don't want to be doing it "too soon"
peaking
Matt
$800 [11]
Ben Sasse, of the western Midwest
Nebraska
Matt
$800 [7]
In 2 film versions of a TV sitcom, Shelley Long played this character
Carol Brady
Matt Anna
$800 [13]
A type of double overhand knot used in fishing is named for this kind of doctor
surgeon
Matt
$800 [14]
Here'sthe Appennine Colossus, Giambologna's 16th century statue in this region of Italy that includes Pisa & Florence
Tuscany
Matt
$800 [12]
This disease was first identified due to a 1976 convention in Philadelphia
Legionnaires
Matt
$1,000 [3]
Be flexible: "If the mountain won't come to" this prophet, he "must go to the mountain"
Muhammad
Anna
$1,000 [1]
Tim Kaine, who ran for vice president; remember that?
Virginia
Matt
$1,000 [4]
Futuristic assassin Aeon Flux, who started on an animated series on MTV, came to the movies played by this actress
Charlize Theron
Kent
$1,000 [6]
Improperly tied, this type of knot is called a granny knot
a square knot
Anna
$1,000 [10]
Looking like they're sent from heaven, a translucent sea this can stay attached to a mate for four hours & still hunt prey together
sea angel
Anna
$1,000 [2]
Also known as a thunderhead, this 12-letter type of cloud extends through all 3 levels of altitude classification
cumulonimbus
Kent
DD $6,400 [18]
To do this means to exaggerate a problem into something much larger
make a mountain out of a molehill
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN RIVERS INSTRUMENTAL TO THE SONG PLAYS "Y" IN THE MIDDLE THRONE OUT AT HOME
$400 [20]
The largest river to empty into the Pacific in North America, it makes a huge gorge in the Cascades
the Columbia
Matt
$400 [27]
He plays piano on "Clocks"(2002)
Chris Martin
Anna
$400 [14]
Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play "Machinal" explores how a woman can be driven to murder & end her days in this seat
the electric chair
Matt
$400 [30]
Pumpernickel is a cousin to this bread
rye
Matt
$400 [29]
Liliuokalani was the first & last reigning queen of these islands
the Hawaii Islands
Kent
$400 [28]
When it's late at home, I'll use my Kindle Oasis or Nook Glowlight, which are these, to catch up on my Flaubert
e-reader
Matt
$800 [19]
This river forms part of the border between Kansas & the state it shares a name with
the Missouri
Kent
$800 [24]
Electric guitarist on "Roll Over Beethoven"(1956)
Chuck Berry
Kent
$1,200 [5]
A critic called Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" a "comedy of menace", punning on this phrase for plays about high society
a comedy of manners
Matt Kent
$800 [25]
You can have fun for one in this type of boat
a kayak
Kent
$1,200 [8]
King Louis-Philippe was ousted in 1848--France never liked him walking around like a British businessman, in a suit & carrying this
an umbrella
Matt Anna
$800 [26]
Some prefer sheets with this measure of more than 1,000; ours are comfy enough
thread count
Matt
$1,200 [4]
This word comes before "Bow" in a Wyoming river & before "Lodge" in a Kansas river
Medicine
Matt Kent
$1,200 [16]
Saxophonist on "Jungleland" (1975) & "Dancing In The Dark" (1984)
(Clarence) Clemons
Matt
$1,600 [2]
In a Ben Jonson play Voltore ("vulture") hopes to inherit the fortune of this title character whose name means "fox"
Volpone
Matt
$1,200 [23]
Bartholomew in Arkansas & Louisiana is the longest this type of sluggish body of water, at over 350 miles
bayou
Matt
$1,600 [7]
Oliver Cromwell's defeat of the 2 kings of this name ended the English Civil Wars
Charles
Matt
$1,200 [12]
I like to make popcorn with this Indian clarified butter; I swear it makes it crispier
ghee
Anna
$1,600 [3]
Before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, the Pearl Riverflows through this capital
Jackson, Mississippi
$1,600 [15]
Drummer on"Come As You Are" (1991)
Grohl
Matt
$2,000 [1]
This person's "Play" by Charles Fuller about Sgt. Waters & Captain Davenport arrived on B'way in 2020, 38 years after winning a Pulitzer
A Soldier's Play
Anna
$1,600 [22]
A triangle is the simplest form of this type of closed plane figure bounded by straight lines
polygon
Matt
$2,000 [9]
In 1944 King Michael ousted premier Ion Antonescu in this country; Communists tossed Michael in 1947
Romania
Matt
$1,600 [10]
At home, we like varietals at different temperatures, so we've invested in a dual zone one of these
a wine refrigerator
Kent Anna
$2,000 [6]
The "rap" on this river: it's entirely in Virginia & its name is from Algonquian for "stream with quick rising waters"
Rappahannock
Matt
$2,000 [17]
Keyboardist on"You Make Loving Fun" (1977)
Christine McVie
DD $2,400 [13]
In the Czech play "R.U.R.". which gave the world this word, one of them says, "Mankind is no more. Mankind gave us too little life"
robot
Anna
$2,000 [21]
It's sometimes referred to as a long-horned grasshopper
katydid
Matt
DD $4,000 [18]
This world leader renounced his throne on March 15, 1917; 16 months later, he was dead
Nicholas II
Matt
$2,000 [11]
I'll relax to some patriotic jazz with the 2021 album "The Democracy! Suite" from this man's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra septet
Wynton Marsalis

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN

Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784

(John Jacob) Astor

Anna "Who is Bayer?" — wagered $400
Kent "Who is ?" — wagered $2,600
Matt "Who is Morris?" — wagered $15,000

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