Show #8516 2021-11-22 (taped 2021-10-04) Regular

Amy Schneider game 4.

Contestants

Mack Hayden — a copywriter from Irvine, California

Heidi Stumb — a freelancer from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $110,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amy $5,000 $11,600 $35,400 $45,400
4-day champion: $155,600
$30,200
37 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Heidi $0 $400 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $1,000
$-800
3 R, 2 W
Mack $2,600 $5,200 $11,600 $23,199
2nd place: $2,000
$9,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

MIX TAPE WHICH ENGLISH MONARCH? CHEW ON THIS BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS READING THE DETECTIVES GET THE H OUTTA HERE!
$200 [11]
In June 1927 4 million lined Broadway to view the ticker-tape parade in his honor after his return from France
Lindbergh
Amy
$200 [16]
Lost the 13 American colonies to independence
George III
Mack
$200 [26]
Some like them hard, but I really enjoy a Bavarian-style one of these twisty, chewy items with sweet mustard
a soft pretzel
Amy
$200 [6]
Paul McCartney said The Beatles wanted to be in a film, but wanted to make a good one--& did with this first film of theirs
A Hard Day's Night
Amy
$200 [1]
This novelist got right to the point with his book titles--"Detective Cross" & "Kill Alex Cross"
(James) Patterson
Amy
$200 [21]
A sharp-pointed part of a plant cuts away an H & also leaves our clothing ripped, or this synonym
torn
Amy
$400 [12]
President Obama's 2016 State of the Union address said some of this "needs to be cut"
red tape
$400 [17]
Crossed the English Channel in 1066
William the Conqueror
Amy
$400 [27]
The name of this hard-to-chew candy literally says it could fracture your mandible
a jawbreaker
Heidi
$400 [7]
"The Hours & Times" fictionalizes a real trip that John Lennon took to Spain with this Beatles manager in 1963
Epstein
Amy
$400 [2]
In 2006 this "artful" LAPD homicide detective took a trip to "Echo Park"
Bosch
Amy
$400 [22]
The fabric of the clergy renounces H & coagulates as this word
clot
$600 [13]
Seen here is a 19th century bit of what's known as tape this
lace
Amy
$800 [19]
Was the brother of Richard the Lionheart
John
Mack
$600 [28]
The first name of this chewy-center candied lolly is something you shouldn't call mom; the second name is OK for dad
a Tootsie Pop
Mack
$600 [8]
This director spent 3 years restoring footage & editing "The Beatles: Get Back", a 2021 docuseries
Peter Jackson
Mack
$600 [3]
1948 Los Angeles is the setting for "Devil in a" this, the first novel featuring Easy Rawlins
Blue Dress
Amy
$600 [23]
A proverbially lucky nationality drops the H & becomes this part of your eye
the iris (from Irish)
Amy
$800 [14]
It was paired with "Sex" & "Lies" in a 1989 Steven Soderbergh film title
Videotape
Amy
$1,000 [20]
Was sometimes known as "Crookback"
Richard III
Mack
$800 [29]
They're not always orange; some of the more interesting varieties of this taproot include purple dragon & solar yellow
carrots
$800 [9]
This 2019 film has Himesh Patel waking up in an alternate universe where he is one of the few who remembers The Fab 4
Yesterday
Amy
$800 [4]
K is for the P.I. Kinsey Millhone; this creator said Kinsey was herself, "only younger, smarter, & thinner"
Grafton
Amy
$800 [24]
A word meaning to make holy loses an H & gets permission to become this word meaning to permit
allow
Amy
$1,000 [15]
For auxiliary data storage, computers sometimes use this type of tape that often has iron oxide in it
magnetic tape
DD $2,400 [18]
Ruled at the start of the English Reformation
Henry VIII
Amy
$1,000 [30]
Adding an "A" to the middle of a California coastal city gives you this chewy confection
caramel
Amy
$1,000 [10]
Seen here, this record producer interviewed Paul for the series "McCartney 3, 2, 1"
Rick Rubin
Mack
$1,000 [5]
It was dark, & my head hurt. I was this guy from 7 Raymond Chandler novels, including "The Little Sister", & I needed a drink
Philip Marlowe
Mack
$1,000 [25]
Something fake loses an H & horses around as this
a pony
Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORICAL FICTION YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! TV COMEDY SKETCHES YOUR DESTINATION AWAITS VENUS YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT
$400 [1]
In "The March" by E.L. Doctorow, this general & his troops move through Georgia & the Carolinas
Sherman
Amy
$400 [11]
This "King of Tin Pan Alley" never learned how to read music but wrote classics like "Cheek To Cheek"
Berlin
Amy
$400 [6]
From this troupe, "Upper-Class Twit of the Year"
Monty Python
Amy
$400 [16]
Volcanic sand beaches & multi-colored cliffs await you on the Greek island of Santorini in this sea
the Aegean
Amy Mack
$400 [21]
Continent-sized land forms on Venus called terrae are named for Ishtar & this Greek counterpart of Venus
Aphrodite
Heidi
$400 [22]
I can't put my finger on it; she's got a certain this, literally "I don't know what" in French
je ne sais quoi
Heidi
$800 [2]
This historical romance from 1844 actually tells of 4 swashbuckling heroes during the reign of Louis XIII
The Three Musketeers
Mack
$800 [12]
In 1951 Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced this couple to death for espionage
the Rosenbergs
Amy
$800 [7]
On "The Ben Stiller Show", heras the B-Minus Time Traveler
Janeane Garofalo
Amy
$800 [17]
Why this city, you may ask? It has the Rock & Roll H.O.F. & the Great Lakes Science Center, & as far as I'm concerned, it rocks!
Cleveland
Amy
$800 [27]
Venus is shrouded in yellowish clouds mostly made of this acid, H2SO4
sulfuric acid
Amy
$800 [23]
She's got this; also the first name of the woman seen here
grace
Heidi
$1,200 [3]
Michelle Moran wrote of this beautiful woman, "Queen of Egypt, Daughter of eternity"
Nefertiti
Amy Mack
$1,200 [13]
Irving Thalberg, who has a building named for him on our Sony lot, produced "A Night at the Opera" for this comedy team in 1935
the Marx Brothers
Amy
$1,200 [8]
On "French and Saunders", "Modern Mother & Daughter", the origin of this Britcom
Absolutely Fabulous
Amy
$1,200 [18]
You won't soon forget Torres del Paine National Parkin the smaller part of Patagonia that lies in this country
Chile
Amy Heidi
$1,200 [28]
Early information about Venus was gathered when it made these, a term for when a planet crosses the Sun from Earth's view
transits
Amy
$1,200 [24]
Wanting good things for all, she's often described as this, from the Latin for "well wishing"
benevolent
Amy
$2,000 [5]
"A Tip for the Hangman" tells of this aspiring playwright, recruited from Cambridge to spy for Queen Elizabeth I
Marlowe
Amy Mack
$1,600 [14]
New Hampshire & Vienna have played big roles in the works of this '80s bestselling novelist who attended the universities of both
John Irving
Mack
$1,600 [9]
Thislate genius as an inept dentist & a very old man on "The Carol Burnett Show"
Tim Conway
Mack
$2,000 [20]
Here'sa glimpse of life on this 15-square-mile French Polynesian island whose double name means "first born"; yes, please
Bora Bora
Amy
$1,600 [29]
In 1610, this astronomer made the discovery that Venus, like the Moon, hadphases
Galileo
Amy
$1,600 [25]
I'd describe her with this word that means enthralling or fascinating; an old definition of it is "taking prisoner"
captivating
Amy
DD $3,600 [4]
Published in 1859, this novel takes place in Paris & London during the French Revolution
A Tale of Two Cities
Mack
$2,000 [15]
After getting 17 publisher rejections, Irving Stone hit it big in 1934 with this "bio-history" of van Gogh
Lust for Life
Mack
$2,000 [10]
Him as blind African-American white supremacist Clayton Bigsby
Dave Chappelle
Mack
DD $5,000 [19]
You down with VDG? I'd like to see Vasco da Gama Bridge, Vasco da Gama Tower & Vasco da Gama's tomb in this world capital
Lisbon
Amy
$2,000 [30]
Unlike Earth, Venus revolves in this 10-letter way; on a clear day, Venusians would see the Sun rise in the west
a retrograde
$2,000 [26]
Practical & grounded, she's described in this 3-word way & when my head is in the clouds, she "brings me" there
down to earth
Amy

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS

He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers

(Warren G.) Harding

Mack "Who is Harding?" — wagered $11,599
Amy "Who is Harding?" — wagered $10,000

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