Show #8479 2021-09-30 (taped 2021-08-25) Regular

Matt Amodio game 32.

Contestants

Andrew Fox — a museum web and interactive developer from Novato, California

Abigail Noy — a screen printer from New York, New York

Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 31-day cash winnings total $1,158,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $7,400 $10,200 $39,400 $54,400
32-day champion: $1,212,401
$30,200
37 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W
Abigail $1,400 $2,200 $7,000 $4,999
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
11 R, 1 W
Andrew $2,800 $3,000 $9,000 $10,000
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
8 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHAPTER & VERSE HOMOPHONES THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME GETTING SPORT "E" LADIES & GENTLEMEN THE WEEKEND
$200 [25]
The penultimate chapter in a Nathaniel Hawthorne work is "The Revelation of" this title object
the Scarlet Letter
Abigail
$200 [28]
An empress' tenure & a downpour
reign/rain
Matt
$200 [26]
Launched into space in 1961, Ham was one of these primates
a chimp
Andrew
$200 [30]
A 3 on the par 5 6th hole at Pebble Beach
eagle
Abigail
$200 [27]
The Eisenhower Institute says Ike was in retirement "an amateur painter, & a gentleman" this man of the land
a (gentleman) farmer
Abigail
$200 [29]
If you've had a damp autumn, a weekend chore is to clean the leaves out of these areas with a special scoop named for them
gutters
Matt
$400 [20]
In Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn", this "is truth, truth" this, "that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know"
beauty
Matt
$400 [23]
An oracle & a monetary yield
a prophet/profit
Abigail
$400 [19]
Hotfoot Teddy, a cub that survived a fire, was renamed this for a character who promoted fire safety & became his living symbol
Smokey Bear
Matt
$400 [24]
A double, triple or homer is this type of hit
extra base
Matt
$400 [21]
In 1919 Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat in this body & kept the chair until 1945
House of Commons
Matt
$400 [22]
A Saturday in the park can be fun for this breed that has a scary rep but is loyal & fearless
a Doberman
Matt Abigail
$600 [3]
Chapter 128 of "Moby Dick" is this ship "Meets the Rachel"
Pequod
Matt
$600 [18]
A sense of style & a sudden solar explosion
flair/flare
Matt
$600 [14]
Orangey seenheresigning a contract in 1951, later played this simply named role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Cat
Abigail
$600 [15]
In Canadian football, it's called the goal area
end zone
Matt
$600 [16]
Gentleman Jim Corbett picked up this sporting title in New Orleans in 1892 but lost it in Nevada 5 years later
heavyweight champion
Matt
$600 [17]
On a fall Sunday, you can head to "Duuuval" County to check out QB & mane man Trevor Lawrence, who plays for this NFL team
the Jacksonville Jaguars
Abigail
$800 [2]
In a Tennyson poem this "Lady" is imprisoned in a castle, not far from Camelot
Lady of Shalott
Matt
$800 [13]
A church singing group & an enclosure for horses
a chorale/corral
Andrew
$800 [5]
Dr. Penny Patterson taught Koko the gorilla this method of communication
sign language
Matt
$800 [12]
This NHL tough guy will drop the gloves at the drop of a hat
an enforcer
Abigail
$800 [10]
The death sentence for treason had been suspended in 1553 for this lady--a teen, really--but after dad rebelled in '54... not so much
Lady Jane Grey
Matt
$800 [11]
Time to put an extra "B" in a Sunday BBQ! I grill a mean this, the breast section beef cut under the 1st 5 ribs, & Texas-style, if you like!
brisket
Matt
$1,000 [1]
Byron's "Pilgrimage" of this "Childe" noted he "was sore sick at heart, and from his fellow bacchanals would flee"
Harold
Andrew
DD $2,600 [8]
A sculpted decoration on a wall near the ceiling & the act of keeping prices or wages at a fixed level
frieze/freeze
Matt
$1,000 [4]
Bucephalus carried this man on many of his 4th century B.C. conquests
Alexander the Great
Andrew
$1,000 [9]
In the NFL, a defender who makes contact with an opponent before the ball is snapped is guilty of this infraction
encroachment
$1,000 [6]
We're big fans of this 1892 Oscar Wilde title character who has some serious mother issues
Lady Windermere
Matt
$1,000 [7]
Kick back with a Sunday read of "Blood & Treasure", a look at this 18th century Kentucky frontiersman
(Daniel) Boone
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES "ST" FOR A START JACK HISTORIC STRUCTURES FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM THE GEOGRAPHY
$400 [28]
Philippe-Laurent Roland did things the hard way, taking a 1787 selfie in this rock
marble
Matt
$400 [29]
Caffeine is one of these pick-me-up substances
stimulant
Matt
$400 [30]
Jean-Louis was the original first name of this Beat Generation writer
Jack Kerouac
Matt
$400 [27]
Opened in 1883, the Russian State Historical Museum sits on this square
Red Square
Matt
$400 [25]
The movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" was based on a novel with this other character in the title
Charlie
Abigail
$400 [26]
Found between Austria & Italy, Tyrol is a region in these mountains
Alps
Matt
$1,200 [17]
But of course, this Postimpressionist posed in a beret for an 1890 selfie
Cézanne
Matt
$800 [24]
It starts about 6 miles up from the ground
the stratosphere
Abigail
$800 [19]
At age 60, fitness pioneer Jack Lalanne swam, handcuffed, to Fisherman's Wharf from this S.F. Bay island--towing a boat behind him
Alcatraz
Matt
$800 [8]
Built in England in the 2nd century by Romans, it measured some 70 miles & became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987
Hadrian's Wall
Matt
$800 [9]
Released in 1961, this live-action Disney film that was remade in 1998 was based on the German novel "The Double Lottie"
The Parent Trap
Matt
$800 [23]
The name of this fashionable coastal European resort area is from the Italian for "shore"
Riviera
Matt
$1,600 [16]
Thisgreat Spaniard needed just oil & canvas to snap a selfie 17th century style
(Diego) Velázquez
Andrew
$1,200 [14]
This section once held the cheapest accommodations on passenger ships
steerage
Matt
$1,200 [11]
Jackon the left, was the youngest but best known of these siblings who made a lasting mark in Hollywood
the Warner Brothers
Andrew
$1,200 [6]
Fort William in Calcutta is seenherearound the time a small cell inside became infamous under this name
the Black Hole of Calcutta
Andrew
$1,200 [3]
Centered on an evil puzzle box, "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker scared up this 1987 horror movie, you pinhead
Hellraiser
Matt
$1,200 [22]
The Levant is a Mediterranean region that includes this nation & its ports of Tyre & Sidon
Lebanon
Matt
$2,000 [18]
Elongated figures are characteristic of works by this Italian painter who depicted himself that way as seen here
Modigliani
Matt
$1,600 [13]
Frankfurt's Börse, for one
a stock exchange
$1,600 [10]
This titan of comic book art collaborated with Stan Lee to create the Fantastic Four & many more
(Jack) Kirby
Matt
$1,600 [4]
In the 1960s Egypt's Abu Simbel temple complex was relocated so it would not be submerged by the creation of this
Aswan High Dam
Matt
$1,600 [1]
This prolific author's "A Princess of Mars" transported itself to the silver screen as the more masculine "John Carter"
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Abigail
$2,000 [21]
Until 1957, what is today this West African country was known as the Gold Coast
Ghana
Matt
DD $3,000 [20]
After returning to Paris in the 1890s, hetook a selfie in his Polynesian-themed studio
(Paul) Gauguin
Matt
$2,000 [15]
This adjective means dark & hellish, like a journey to Hades
Stygian
Matt Andrew
$2,000 [12]
Engineer Jack Kilby shared a 2000 Nobel Prize for helping to invent the integrated this
circuit
Matt
$2,000 [7]
This expansive fortress in Granada, Spain contains courtyards with names like "The Court of the Sultana's Cypress"
Alhambra
Matt
$2,000 [2]
"Northern Lights" is the U.K. title of Philip Pullman's book; the film used this title more familiar to American readers
The Golden Compass
Abigail
DD $7,000 [5]
The Sudd is an almost impenetrable papyrus swamp from which this river emerges
Nile
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale"

The Wizard of Oz

Abigail "What is Shrek?" — wagered $2,001
Andrew "What is The Wizard of Oz?" — wagered $1,000
Matt "What is Wizard of Oz" — wagered $15,000

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