Matt Amodio game 9.First game with David Faber as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to the Robin Hood Foundation.
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)
| 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) |
| 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
|
| 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
|
Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784
(John Jacob) Astor