Matt Amodio game 38.Last game with Mike Richards as executive producer & writer.
Max Godnick — a producer originally from New York, New York
Claire Lyon — an engineer originally from Ashland, Kentucky
Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 37-day cash winnings total $1,467,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $11,000 | $14,200 | $43,800 |
$50,800
38-day champion: $1,518,601 |
$38,000
40 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Claire | $-200 | $0 | $5,600 |
$7,291
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
7 R, 2 W |
| Max | $1,800 | $3,600 | $7,600 |
$3,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,600
11 R, 0 W |
| OCTOBER | TALES OF HORROR | SURVIVING PROHIBITION | WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE | ACTOR-MOGULS | 4,4 |
|
$200
[22]
An important October campaign is this disease awareness month with fundraisers & other pink-themed events
breast cancer
Claire
|
$200
[29]
The kids of Kettle Springs are menaced not by "Scarecrow in a Cornfield" but worse, this smiley creature "In a Cornfield"
clown
|
$200
[28]
Many breweries tried making this rhyming product, like Schlitz Famo, with less than .5% alcohol content
near beer
Matt
|
$200
[27]
Utah sits directly atop this state
Arizona
Matt
|
$200
[20]
Co-created by this actress, MTM ruled the tube with shows like "Hill Street Blues" & "Newhart"
Mary Tyler Moore
Max
|
$200
[30]
The fur of this wild canine seenherecan be brownish, but it can also be indicative of its name
a gray wolf
Max
|
|
$400
[21]
Test your "metal" in the world championship of this mega-endurance event held in October in Hawaii
Ironman Triathlon
Max
|
$400
[23]
"Horror" is in the title of this book in which the Lutz family learned that, sometimes, buying a murder home isn't worth it
The Amityville Horror
Matt
|
$400
[24]
Unable to brew, Pabst started making Pabst-ett, a Velveeta-like cheese; eventually this competitor sued
Kraft
Matt
|
$400
[25]
Vermont is north of the western part of this state
Massachusetts
Matt
|
$400
[19]
Will Ferrell co-created this website where people could vote whether video clips were humorous or not
Funny or Die
Max
|
$400
[26]
A great American tradition: throw some clothes in the Chevelle, crank some tunes & go off on this, also a 2000 film
road trip
Matt
|
|
$600
[16]
The second Monday in October is celebrated as this day in Canada; ours comes a few weeks later
Thanksgiving
Matt
|
$600
[17]
It's the title vocation of Herbert West in a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft tale, & he needs fresh corpses to do it to
reanimator
Matt
|
$600
[14]
In 1925 this Milwaukee family couldn't sell its brewery but was living the "High Life" after Prohibition ended
Miller
Matt
|
$600
[15]
A big chunk of South Dakota is upstairs from it
Nebraska
Matt
|
$600
[9]
If you love the TV shows "Mannix" & "Mission: Impossible", thank this comedic actress & her Desilu Studios for producing them
(Lucille) Ball
Matt
|
$600
[18]
Similar to seltzer, it's carbonated water used as a mixer
club soda
Max
|
|
$800
[13]
Gandhi's birthday, October 2 is observed as the international day of this philosophy of his, also known as Satyagraha
non-violence
Matt
|
$800
[12]
Luke is the future heir of this Shirley Jackson title place; sadly for Luke, that title includes "The Haunting of..."
Hill House
Matt
|
$800
[8]
This brewery bought a Colorado ceramics company & sold porcelain under the brand name; the ceramics co. is worth billions today
Coors
Max
|
$800
[11]
Most of Virginia's southern border lies along this state
North Carolina
Claire
|
$800
[6]
Happy Madison, Adam Sandler's production company, combines these 2 Sandler movie titles
Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison
Matt
|
$800
[10]
If you can easily determine someone's feelings, you can read him or her like this
open book
Matt
|
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
In Catholic tradition, October is the month to celebrate this set of prayers recited with an accompanying physical aid
rosaries
Matt
|
$1,000
[2]
Malorie takes her kids on a terrifying, blindfolded river trip in this Josh Malerman novel
Bird Box
Matt
|
$1,000
[1]
Many breweries struggled but got by selling beer ingredients like syrup made from this, sprouted barley grains
malt
Matt
Claire
|
$1,000
[4]
Kansas is directly north of this state
Oklahoma
Matt
|
$1,000
[5]
Said about this studio founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford & others: "Lunatics have taken charge of the asylum"
United Artists
Max
|
$1,000
[7]
"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?", asks Shelley's "Ode to" this
West Wind
Matt
|
| THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN | THE FLYING... | TECHNOLOGY | I'D LIKE A WORD WITH "U" |
|
$400
[25]
In 1892 Buenos Aires & Bogota both hoped to open new opera houses named for this explorer; only Bogota's was inaugurated on time
Columbus
Matt
|
$400
[30]
Blue topaz is often created by exposing it to this--the gamma type works especially well
radiation
Claire
|
$400
[28]
President Émile Loubet pardoned this wrongly accused Jewish military officer in September 1899
(Alfred) Dreyfus
Max
|
$400
[27]
The flying wedge was first used in this sport by Harvard in 1892 but became illegal due to players being brutalized
football
Matt
|
$400
[20]
The 2 gases that make up the "plasma" in a plasma TV are usually these 2, Ne & Xe
neon & xenon
Matt
|
$400
[29]
From Latin for "further", it means deliberately hidden, like some motives
ulterior
Matt
|
|
$800
[22]
In addition to many operas, Paris' Palais Garnier hosted a very wicked villain in this 1910 Gaston Leroux novel
The Phantom of the Opera
Max
|
$800
[13]
In 1976 a large ruby was carved into a 4-pound replica of this historic American object, crack & all
Liberty Bell
Matt
|
$800
[26]
Pardoned in 1952, Henry Coston, one of these Nazi helpers, embarrassed France by living another 49 years
part of the Vichy government (a Vichy collaborator)
Matt
|
$800
[24]
We're not sure if this Bullwinkle pal is biologically a flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) or a regular gray squirrel who can fly
Rocky
Claire
|
$800
[19]
Jetronic increased power & mileage in 1967 as the first workable electronic system for this auto process, sending the gas to the engine
fuel injection
Claire
|
$800
[23]
The Declaration of Independence says we all have certain these rights
unalienable right
Max
|
|
$1,200
[1]
This opera house opened in Milan in 1778 with a performance of "Europa Recognized" by Salieri
La Scala
Matt
|
$1,600
[2]
This fossilized resin has one of the lowest densities among gems & it will often float in salt water
amber
Matt
|
$1,200
[21]
Bernard Boursicot was pardoned in 1987, shortly before the debut of this play inspired by his affair with an opera singer/spy
M. Butterfly
Matt
|
$1,200
[10]
Known as "The Flying Tomato", this snowboarder won his first Olympic halfpipe gold in 2006
(Shaun) White
Matt
|
$1,200
[18]
Pumping is the process of raising electrons to a higher energy state when creating one of these beams
a laser
Claire
|
$1,200
[9]
This adjective comes from Latin for "navel"
umbilical
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[3]
After World War I, upon the demise of this dynasty that ruled there, Vienna's Court Opera was renamed the State Opera
Habsburg
Matt
|
$2,000
[12]
Weighing in at 2.75 tons, the Empress of Uruguayis an almost 11-foot tall geode of this purple quartz
amethyst
Claire
|
$1,600
[15]
In 1964 France amnestied many of those who had committed crimes in opposition to this African country's independence
Algeria
Matt
|
$1,600
[7]
In 2005 she won a TV Land Award as "Favorite Airborne Character" for her 1960s work as "The Flying Nun"
(Sally) Field
Matt
|
$1,600
[6]
Elisha Otis' invention of the "safety" this led to its regular use for passengers
elevator
Matt
|
$1,600
[8]
It's what you call those dots over a German vowel
umlaut
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In 1973 Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first opera performed at this opera house very far south of Russia
the Sydney Opera House
Max
|
DD
$6,000
[4]
Dust & ash from a volcano in this state were used to create a new green type of gem called helenite
Washington
Matt
|
$2,000
[14]
Thanks to his sturdycell, Ludger Sylbaris survived the 1902 volcanic ruin of Saint-Pierre on this Caribbean island & was later pardoned
Martinique
Matt
|
$2,000
[16]
In song, "He floats through the air, with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on" this
flying trapeze
Matt
|
$2,000
[17]
First patented in 1952, center pivot devices used for this agricultural task caused thegreen circlesseen from planes
irrigation
Claire
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
This Japanese word for a type of flavor entered English in the early 1960s
umami
Matt
|
British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked
(the) duck-bill(ed) platypus