Show #8486 2021-10-11 (taped 2021-09-09) Regular

Matt Amodio game 39.Jonathan Fisher game 1.Jessica Stephens game 1.First game with Michael Davies as executive producer.

Contestants

Jonathan Fisher — an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida

Jessica Stephens — a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee

Matt Amodio — a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 38-day cash winnings total $1,518,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $7,400 $9,800 $10,600 $5,600
3rd place: $1,000
$10,600
23 R, 5 W
Jessica $2,200 $2,400 $14,400 $28,799
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
14 R, 0 W
Jonathan $1,200 $4,000 $14,600 $29,200
New champion: $29,200
$13,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CITY NICKNAMES POTPOURRI THIS ONE GOES TO 2011 SPORTY ANAGRAMS BIOGRAPHIES THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"
$200 [29]
Oxford is called "The City of Dreaming Spires", while this other U.K. place is "The City of Perspiring Dreams"
Cambridge
Matt
$200 [23]
The HT in HTML & HTTP stands for this
hypertext
Matt
$200 [21]
In December 2011 the last U.S. troops left this country, ending a war that began in 2003; they later returned to fight ISIS
Iraq
Matt
$200 [30]
Often unpopular on a diamond:IMPURE
the umpire
Jessica
$200 [28]
"Empire State of Mind" tells how this man became a rap mogul
Jay-Z
Matt
$200 [2]
You've been described as fastidious, so you're too this
finicky
Jonathan
$400 [22]
Back when it was Constantinople, this Turkish city was known as "Second Rome"
Istanbul
Jonathan
$400 [27]
In the Disney film he's alphabetically last of Snow White's seven dwarfs
Sneezy
Matt
$400 [20]
From the early 1800s until 2011, these busy workers carried messages & assisted members in the House of Representatives
pages
Jonathan
$400 [26]
He sometimes runs the football:FLAB HACK
halfback
Matt
$400 [18]
"Hiding in Plain Sight" is the subtitle of Julia Sweig's biography of this first lady born in Karnack, Texas
(Lady Bird) Johnson
Jonathan
$400 [3]
Before "wicket" it refers to a muddy part on the cricket pitch, or any awkward problem
sticky
Matt
$600 [15]
Looking down Capitol Boulevard, you can see whythisU.S. city--whose French-derived name means "wooded"--is the "City of Trees"
Boise
Matt
$600 [17]
A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this
gaggle
Matt
$800 [14]
As this store chain closed, the CEO wrote, "My sincerest hope is that we remain in the hearts of readers for years to come"
Borders
Matt
$600 [25]
A big shot in basketball:HERE TO RIP NET
three pointer
$600 [10]
Jon Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" tells of this man who left the NFL for the Army & was killed in Afghanistan
(Pat) Tillman
Jessica
$600 [16]
Your pasta has too much of the plant bulb Allium sativum, so it's overly this
garlicky
Matt
$800 [12]
Once gently funned as "Brisvegas" for its anemic nightlife, it now prefers "Australia's New World City"
Brisbane
Matt
$800 [13]
This appetizer has flowered on the Outback Steakhouse menu since 1988--it accounts for 1 in 4 apps ordered there
the Bloomin' Onion
Jessica
$1,000 [6]
Hisdecades of rule ended in Egypt, & though bedridden, he went on trial for crimes including abuse of power
Mubarak
Matt
$800 [24]
Multi-gender tennis:EDIBLE MUD SOX
mixed doubles
Matt
$800 [9]
"Radioactive... a Tale of Love & Fallout" is about the relationship between this couple with real chemistry
Marie & Pierre Curie
Jessica
$800 [11]
A fussy baby who cries excessively is often described this way
colicky
Matt
$1,000 [4]
With the hub airport & some of the most glorious beaches of the French Riviera, it's the "City of Angels"
Nice
Matt
$1,000 [7]
Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music to the songs in "Jesus Christ Superstar"; this man wrote the lyrics
Rice
Matt
DD $1,600 [19]
With a landing in July 2011, the 135-mission program using these came to an end
the Space Shuttles
Jonathan
$1,000 [8]
Olympic event with ropes & ribbons:CATCHY STRING SHIMMY
rhythmic gymnastics
Matt
$1,000 [1]
"His Truth Is Marching On" tells about this late, great Georgia congressman & "the Power of Hope"
John Lewis
Jonathan
$1,000 [5]
A list of "10 Most" this adjective "Auto Features" included "cabin perfume dispensers"
gimmicky

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT MED. ABBREV. NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE TALK LIKE A FARMER RECENT MOVIES
$400 [30]
On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware; the battle of this now-state capital was the next day
Trenton
Matt
$400 [1]
After a major surgery, you may end up in the ICU, which stands for this
the intensive care unit
Jessica
$400 [27]
A detective is hired to track down the missing sister of the secretive Miss Wonderly at the beginning of this hard-boiled novel
The Maltese Falcon
Jonathan
$400 [28]
Women fought for this, a word which is not derived from "pain", rather from the Latin for "to publicly show support"
suffrage
Jessica
$400 [29]
2 main kinds of farming are subsistence farming & growing these alliterative items to sell
cash crops
Jonathan
$400 [24]
It's what "The Meg" is in the Jason Statham aquatic actioner
a megalodon
Jessica
$800 [26]
Before he was president, George presided over this months-long meeting in the summer of 1787
Constitutional Convention
Matt
$800 [2]
IDDM stands for this-dependent diabetes mellitus
insulin
Jessica
$1,200 [19]
This guy is the magnanimous title Greek in Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about living life to the fullest
Zorba
Jonathan
$800 [25]
From the Greek for "song", this type of "drama" sounds like it's really easygoing, but it features exaggerated emotion
melodrama
Matt
$800 [14]
This 7-letter layer of earth used for cultivation usually contains more organic matter than the layers beneath it
topsoil
Jonathan
$800 [10]
Anthony Ramos took over Lin-Manuel Miranda's singing bodega owner role in the film adaptation of this stage musical
In the Heights
Jessica
$1,600 [4]
On May 28, 1754 Lt. Colonel George ordered an attack on the troops of Ensign Coulon de Jumonville, starting this conflict
the French and Indian War
Jonathan
$1,200 [3]
In med speak, a heart attack is an M.I., this infarction
myocardial
Matt
$1,600 [17]
Meryl Streep starred in a film of this John Fowles novel
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Matt
$1,200 [20]
Noisome sounds like it offends the ears, but it means something offensive especially to this other sense organ
the nose
Matt
$1,200 [13]
Though it's not for tea & conversation, an area that may put the cows in a tandem or rotary setup is this activity's "parlor"
the milking parlor
$1,200 [9]
Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote
Venom
Matt Jonathan
DD $2,000 [22]
A 1791 proclamation by President George ordered the first this of the District of Columbia; a young George would've done it himself
a survey
Jonathan
$1,600 [6]
A blow to the head could cause TBI, short for this
a traumatic brain injury
Jessica
$2,000 [18]
A home built by the VanHoebeek family gives this 2019 Ann Patchett bestseller its title
The Dutch House
Jessica
$1,600 [15]
Belladonna means "fair lady", but is actually a type of plant called "deadly" this
nightshade
Jessica
$1,600 [12]
This unit of measure varies with its content: for wheat it's 60 pounds & for oats, 32
a bushel
Matt Jonathan
$1,600 [8]
This word/genre completes the title of a movie with Riz Ahmed as a drummer going deaf, "Sound of..."
Metal
Jonathan
$2,000 [21]
At 26 George married a woman with this last name of her first husband
Custis
Jonathan
$2,000 [7]
P.E. is this type of blood clot in the lungs
a pulmonary embolism
Jonathan
DD $3,000 [23]
In this Michael Ondaatje novel, a badly burned plane crash victim remembers a fateful love affair
The English Patient
Jonathan
$2,000 [16]
As a noun this word refers to a gallant mounted knight; as an adjective, it can mean disdainful or offhand
cavalier
Matt
$2,000 [11]
Despite its name, it's not a frog relative, it's a microscopic worm such as an eelworm that may damage plant roots
a nematode
Matt Jessica
$2,000 [5]
The 2020 film "Resistance" saw Jesse Eisenberg play this mime working for the French resistance
Marcel Marceau
Jessica

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors

Austria

Matt "What is [a few letters crossed out] Poland?" — wagered $5,000
Jessica "What is Austria?" — wagered $14,399
Jonathan "What is Austria?" — wagered $14,600

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