Show #8515 2021-11-19 (taped 2021-09-28) Regular

Amy Schneider game 3.

Contestants

Chi-Nhan Vo — a Catholic seminarian from Portland, Oregon

Gordon Spates — a poster librarian from Los Angeles, California

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $65,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amy $3,800 $12,200 $29,800 $44,800
3-day champion: $110,200
$27,000
32 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Gordon $1,400 $1,600 $4,800 $8,800
2nd place: $2,000
$4,800
9 R, 2 W
Chi-Nhan $3,200 $5,200 $-2,000 $-2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$2,400
14 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE ESSAYS SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES ALSO IN YOUR BATHROOM THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS INTO THE J*E*T STREAM
$200 [20]
Nicknamed "Mutti", she said auf wiedersehen in 2021 after 16 years as chancellor
(Angela) Merkel
Amy
$200 [30]
He shared "A Brief History of a Brief History" in his "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays"
Hawking
Gordon
$200 [29]
Consolidated this inventor, your history in New York goes back almost 200 years, to before he was even born
Edison
Amy
$200 [28]
Melodramatic daytime TV "opera"
soap
Amy
$200 [1]
He won an AMA in 2020 &performed"Holy", perhaps in tribute to wife Hailey
Justin Bieber (Biebs)
Chi-Nhan
$200 [6]
To use a syringe to put a drug into a person's body
inject
Amy
$400 [16]
He was interred in a giant mausoleum called the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid in 1975 but was moved to a family crypt in 2019
Franco
Amy
$400 [14]
A book of essays by Joan Didion has this same title as a plain-covered Beatles LP
The White Album
Amy
$400 [26]
Pacific Gas & Electric, we hear you're going to do this with 10,000 miles of power lines to keep them from sparking wildfires
bury them
Amy
$400 [27]
To drop down fast into water
sink
Amy Chi-Nhan
$400 [2]
In 2019 he & Camila Cabello gave a sizzling performance of their award-winning"Señorita"
Shawn Mendes
Chi-Nhan
$400 [7]
A member of the Society of Jesus
the Jesuits
Chi-Nhan
$600 [17]
In June 2021 Naftali Bennett made news by replacing this man who had a 12-year run as prime minister
Netanyahu
Chi-Nhan
$600 [15]
A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Ebert
Chi-Nhan
$800 [24]
Vistra, sorry to pick on you, but you had problems as this state where you're based froze in the dark in February 2021
Texas
Amy
$600 [12]
Biological cell mass like cartilage or muscle
tissue
Amy
$600 [3]
A triple winner in 2018, she performed"I Like It"with J Balvin & Bad Bunny
Cardi B
Chi-Nhan
$600 [8]
Adjective meaning too willing to criticize others & say they are wrong or deficient
judgmental
Gordon
$800 [18]
On Dec. 17, 1989 Nicolae Ceausescu had forces fire on demonstrators in this country; 8 days later it was Nicolae being fired on
Romania
Chi-Nhan
$800 [21]
The title of his "Me Talk Pretty One Day" comes from him trying to master French in Paris
Sedaris
Amy
$1,000 [25]
Knoxville Utilities Board, you get your power from this agency set up under the New Deal in 1933
the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Amy
$800 [11]
Horny lizard covering
scale
Amy
$800 [4]
She lit up the stage with a medley of hits including"Man! I Feel Like A Woman!"
Shania Twain
Gordon
$800 [9]
The suspension of a court proceeding
adjournment
Amy
$1,000 [19]
In February 2011, this world leader refused to step down from power; he was dead by October
Gaddafi
Chi-Nhan
$1,000 [22]
Alice Walker's 1975 essay "Looking for Zora" sparked new interest in this author who was largely forgotten at her death
Zora Neale Hurston
Amy
DD $3,000 [23]
Florida Power & Light, given your state's nickname it makes sense that you have 42 major plants for this type of energy
solar
Amy
$1,000 [13]
In a George Eliot novel title, a mill is on this river
the Floss
Amy
$1,000 [5]
Last name Smyers + Mooney, this country duo won 3 AMAs in 2020
Dan + Shay
$1,000 [10]
From the Latin meaning "again" & "young", it means to make someone youthful & vital again
rejuvenate
Chi-Nhan

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY STUFF STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE BARRIERS IN LIFE YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN
$400 [16]
Seen here is a key for this technological innovation that changed life in the 19th century
a telegraph
Chi-Nhan
$400 [6]
Named for Ponce de Leon, Leon County
Tallahassee
Amy
$400 [1]
Desert & New England are species of this rabbit named for a fluffy appendage
a cottontail
Gordon
$400 [11]
Do you know how fast you were going? 670,616,629 mph, or the speed of this; in theory, you can't go faster, but you still get a ticket
light
Amy
$400 [21]
The Yiddish word naches means "joy", usually from the achievements of these relatives
children
Gordon
$400 [26]
Last name of Dutch-born "Real Housewife" Yolanda, mom of Gigi & Bella, who got her U.S. citizenship in 2013
Hadid
Chi-Nhan
$800 [17]
In the 1850s a gold rush slogan was this Colorado mountain "or Bust"
Pikes Peak
Amy
$800 [7]
Maricopa County
Phoenix
Amy
$800 [2]
Rabbits are born fur-less & blind; these close relatives are born fully developed, with fur & open eyes
hares
Amy
$800 [12]
Let's shatter this metaphoric barrier to high-level advancement for women in the workplace
the glass ceiling
Chi-Nhan
$800 [22]
This coarse adjective can be a verb--if you ruin my good mood, you do it to "my mellow"
to harsh
Chi-Nhan
$800 [27]
Canadian-born singer, seenherein 2005, the year she became a U.S. citizen
Alanis Morissette
Gordon
$1,200 [18]
Themortsafe bars were not meant to stop zombies, but to prevent these criminals from getting in
grave robbers
Gordon Chi-Nhan
$1,200 [8]
Kent County (one of only 3 in the state)
Dover, (Delaware)
Amy Chi-Nhan
$1,200 [3]
Like deer, rabbit genders are divided into does & these
bucks
Amy Chi-Nhan
$1,200 [13]
Electric barriers were built in the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal to stop the spread of the invasive this 4-letter fish
carp
Amy
$1,200 [23]
Add 2 letters to a body organ to get this verb meaning to encourage or lift spirits
hearten
Amy
$1,200 [28]
Sofia Vergara moved to the U.S. from this, her native country
Colombia
Gordon Chi-Nhan
$1,600 [19]
Tchaikovsky guest conducted during the May 1891 opening week of this New York City concert hall
Carnegie Hall
Chi-Nhan
$1,600 [9]
Merrimack County
Concord, New Hampshire
Amy
$1,600 [4]
In 1859 a few European rabbits were released on this continent; by the 1920s there were billions
Australia
Amy
DD $2,000 [14]
The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate said no general could lead an army out of his province, so the 49 B.C. crossing of this stream... huge
the Rubicon
Amy
$1,600 [24]
To increase the seriousness of a crime, or to annoy me with petty actions
aggravate
Amy
$1,600 [29]
British-born, in 2020shebecame a U.S. citizen--naturally, in the city of New York
Kim Cattrall
Gordon
DD $4,400 [20]
In 1899 the queen laid the cornerstone for this London arts & design museum
the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V & A)
Chi-Nhan
$2,000 [10]
Travis County
Austin, (Texas)
Gordon
$2,000 [5]
An area where rabbits breed goes by this male first name
Warren
Amy
$2,000 [15]
A type ofroad barrieris named for this state where they were used on US Highway 22 in the 1950s
New Jersey
Amy
$2,000 [25]
Latin vocare, "to call", is one origin of this word meaning to irritate someone into action
provoke
Amy Chi-Nhan
$2,000 [30]
This South African-born woman got a one-way ticket to California from her mom, so her 2007 naturalization was kind of inevitable
Charlize Theron
Gordon

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS

The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends

(Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote

Gordon "Who are Harper Lee & Truman Capote?" — wagered $4,000
Amy "Who are Lee andCapoteCapote?" — wagered $15,000

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