Show #8460 2021-08-06 (taped 2021-04-30) Regular

Matt Amodio game 13.Last game with David Faber as guest host.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to the Robin Hood Foundation.

Contestants

Madeline Birkner — a college access program coordinator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Patrick Pacheco — a labor and employment specialist from Denver, Colorado

Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 12-day cash winnings total $394,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $6,800 $10,400 $25,600 $35,600
13-day champion: $430,200
$25,200
34 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Patrick $2,400 $2,600 $4,200 $8,400
2nd place: $2,000
$4,200
8 R, 4 W
Madeline $200 $1,600 $5,800 $3,199
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD? TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS NOVELS SINCE 1900 OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS SOUVENIR ASH TREE
$200 [22]
Venture capital is aka this capital; others have an "aversion" to the 4-letter word
risk
Matt
$200 [14]
Moe Szyslak
The Simpsons
Patrick
$200 [26]
23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel
The Devil Wears Prada
Madeline
$200 [30]
A general term for seawater, it's also a way to prep your holiday turkey
brine
Madeline
$200 [27]
The Museum of the American Revolution sells a toy this instrument played by 2 marchers in the "Spirit of '76" painting
the drum
Matt Patrick
$200 [28]
For many years ash wood was the preferred material in making these for folks like Joe DiMaggio
baseball bats
Madeline
$400 [21]
It can come before "mass" in physics, or "care" in the hospital if your condition is serious
critical
Patrick Madeline
$400 [12]
Patrick Star
SpongeBob SquarePants
Matt
$400 [23]
"Texasville" & "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021
(Larry) McMurtry
Matt
$400 [24]
Seen here is a U.S. government global map of world these; redare the fastest
current
Matt
$400 [25]
"The Golden Door" is a spinner ornament to remind you of this great American landmark
the Statue of Liberty
Madeline
$400 [29]
Planted before 1911, "Old Granddad" is a landmark ash tree in the shade-hungry city of Modesto in this state
California
Matt
$600 [7]
This very unsafe word that can mean "traitorous" also starts with "tr"
treacherous
Matt
$600 [11]
Lovey Howell
Gilligan's Island
Patrick
$600 [16]
The name of this realtor & Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster
(George) Babbitt
Matt
$600 [18]
Underneath all that sediment, the ocean floor is primarily made of the pillow type of this substance
basalt (lava)
Matt
$600 [20]
You can get anything from scarves to keychains with the tartan of this, a Scottish family group--find your own
clan
Matt
$600 [19]
These priests of ancient Britain carried wands made of ash because of the wood's straight grain
(the) Druids
Matt
$800 [17]
It can refer to one who is fearful & lacking self-confidence, or a password that can be easily hacked
insecure (or weak)
Patrick
$800 [10]
Grandma Huang
Fresh Off the Boat
Patrick
$800 [8]
There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White
The Sword in the Stone
$800 [9]
Measuring the warmth of the water off the western coast of South America, the ONI is the "Oceanic" this Spanish word "Index"
Niño
Madeline
$800 [13]
You never saw this ox-like animal of Asia with a cold, did you? So try the nice warm Mongolian socks made from its wool
a yak
Patrick
$800 [15]
Ash trees are home to more than 500 species of these symbiotic organisms, including old man's beard
lichen
Matt
$1,000 [6]
2 ships about to hit each other are said to be on this alliterative path, so get the life jackets ready
a collision course
Madeline
$1,000 [3]
Jacksonville Jaguars fan Jason Mendoza
The Good Place
Matt
$1,000 [1]
Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel
All Quiet on the Western Front
Matt
DD $1,000 [2]
Term for the Pacific Ocean zone that forms a band as long as the equator & has about 75% of Earth's active volcanoes
Ring of Fire
Matt
$1,000 [4]
You can bring home the Czech crystal called this type of glass, named after a historical region where Prague is located
Bohemian
Matt
$1,000 [5]
In Norse myth, the squirrel Ratatoskr carries messages up & down this ash tree that supports the world
Yggdrasil
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT SYMBOLS HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS "G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE OLD SYNONYMS SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE
$400 [25]
Found in pagan lore & sometimes linked with evil, afive-pointed star in a circleis called this
pentagram
Matt
$400 [28]
The country gets re-hitched at Appomattox Court House; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" begin
1865
Matt
$400 [23]
Thomas Hovenden concentrated on everyday people like"The Village" this worker, a subject of 19th century poetry as well
blacksmith
Matt
$400 [5]
I'd love to visit some of its many islands, like Andros & Naxose
Greece
Matt Patrick
$400 [29]
Ahoy! It's a cethegrande or spouter, this mammal
whale
Matt
$400 [30]
Stephen Stills suggested, "If you can't be with the one you love, honey" do this
"Love The One You're With"
Matt
$800 [24]
The8-armed crosshas been associated in Christianity with this often earliest in life of the seven sacraments
baptism
Madeline
$800 [21]
The stock market crashes; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre goes down; Trotsky gets exiled from Russia... man, that's a rough year
1929
Matt
$800 [22]
Suzanne Valadon worked as this for Renoir & Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting her own works
model
Patrick
$800 [4]
One of the 7 holy cities of Hinduism, Varanasi has shrines, temples & palaces along the banks of this river
the Ganges
Madeline
$800 [26]
Sunrist was this direction
east
Matt
$800 [27]
John Mayer urged "fathers" to be good to these people; they "will love like you do"
(your) daughters
Matt
$1,200 [8]
Themerkabasymbol takes its name from a Hebrew word meaning this ancient battle transport
chariot
Matt
$1,200 [18]
John Kerry is nominated for president; the Spirit Rover lands on Mars
2004
Matt
$1,200 [17]
Meindert Hobbema is best known for the 1689workthat has two of these optical points--one down the road & one in the sky
vanishing points
Matt
DD $1,000 [1]
This historic city lies at the junction of the same-named lake & the Rhone River
Geneva
Madeline
$1,200 [19]
If you saw one of these, you might've called it a haunt, a shade or a wraith
ghost
Matt
$1,200 [20]
Tammy Wynette sang, "You'll have bad times, & he'll have good times", but you should still do this
"Stand By Your Man"
Patrick
DD $2,000 [6]
The symbol seenhereis a representation of this loud avian of Native American mythology
thunderbird
Matt
$1,600 [15]
The American Revolution ends; Washington Irving begins; Russia annexes Crimea, not for the last time
1783
Matt
$1,600 [16]
Jean Metzinger has been called the third artist in this movement & his 1912 treatise on it was one of the first
Cubism
Matt
$1,600 [2]
The majestic Alhambra is in this Spanish province
Granada
Madeline
$1,600 [10]
Syrup of soot & ninny-broth were 17th century words for this; go-juice & mud came later
coffee
Matt
$1,600 [12]
Therapists may chafe at this Melissa Manchester song that advises, "Just keep it inside & learn how to hide your feelings"
"Don't Cry Out Loud"
$2,000 [7]
Incorporating three stylized swords, thekhandais a symbol of this religion of the Indian subcontinent
Sikhism
Madeline
$2,000 [14]
Burr kills Hamilton non-musically; Lewis & Clark set out; Friedrich Schiller tells the tale of William Tell
1804
Matt Patrick
$2,000 [13]
Seen here, the work of Alphonse Legros may have influenced this man's most famous portrait; they were friends until an 1867 fight
(James) Whistler
Matt
$2,000 [3]
A huge legendary being is said to have created this causeway of basalt columns jutting into the sea from Northern Ireland
Giant's Causeway
Patrick
$2,000 [9]
An erring star or a wanderer was one of these
planet
Matt
$2,000 [11]
Corinne Bailey Rae says to be yourself: "Girl", do this, "tell me your favorite song, you go ahead, let your hair down"
"Put Your Records On"
Madeline

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series

a snake

Patrick "What is a snake?" — wagered $4,200
Madeline "What is Harry Potter?" — wagered $2,601
Matt "What is snake? [drawn caduceus]" — wagered $10,000

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