Show #8518 2021-11-24 (taped 2021-10-04) Regular

Amy Schneider game 6.

Contestants

Dan Brady — a retired market researcher from Edgewood, Kentucky

Madeline Hornsey — a teacher from Carrollton, Texas

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $170,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amy $3,400 $7,600 $26,400 $37,400
6-day champion: $207,800
$24,200
30 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Madeline $2,000 $4,000 $6,800 $3,000
2nd place: $2,000
$6,800
14 R, 1 W
Dan $1,000 $3,000 $5,200 $3,000
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL THIS & THAT TV RUFF CROWD PERIODS OF TIME IN THAT COUNTRY LATIN PHRASES
$200 [11]
Presidential brother Edgar Eisenhower was called "Big" this; Dwight was the "Little" version
Ike
Madeline
$200 [17]
Hannah Waddinghamwon an Emmy for playing Rebecca Welton, owner of AFC Richmond on this sitcom
Ted Lasso
Amy
$200 [12]
A Plano, Texas movie theater with this alphanumeric name is famous for letting you bring your dog to the cinema
K9 (Cinemas)
Amy
$200 [1]
The period in which a monarch rules; a 2020 book about Plantagenet England is "In" this "of King John"
the Reign
Madeline
$200 [22]
It is home to the Valley of the Kings& an ancient mortuarytemplein Abydos
Egypt
Madeline
$200 [6]
I'm so sorry! It's "through my own fault"!
mea culpa
Madeline
$400 [13]
A long-shot compromise candidate in 1844, James Polk is considered the first of these "equine" winners
a dark horse
Amy
$400 [18]
Kristen Bell returned to narrate the 2021 reboot of this soapy series about private school teens in New York City
Gossip Girl
Madeline
$400 [30]
This NFL team has a proud dog named SJ as a mascot; there are Dawgs in the stands, too
the Cleveland Browns
Amy
$400 [2]
It can be a type of oatmeal or an almost imperceptibly short bit of time
instant
Amy
$400 [23]
Angkor Thom, dating back to the 12th century, & Wat Leu temple
Cambodia
Amy
$400 [7]
There's carpe diem, but carpe vinum, meaning this, sounds even better
seize the wine
Amy
$600 [14]
He was a brigadier general when he demanded the "Unconditional Surrender" of Fort Donelson in February 1862
Grant
Amy
$600 [19]
On this series, Brandon Walsh worked at the Peach Pit
Beverly Hills, 90210
$600 [29]
When it was formed in 1884, this club created a constitution & rules for dog shows
the American Kennel Club
Amy
$600 [3]
Poet Stéphane Mallarmé wrote about one of these time periods "of a Faun"
The Afternoon
Madeline
$600 [24]
Villa Trapp, home of "The Sound of Music" family from 1923 to 1938, now a hotel
Austria
Madeline
$600 [8]
This 2-word phrase means going on endlessly, as the digits of pi do
ad infinitum
Amy
$800 [15]
3 recent presidents--Bush I, Clinton & Obama--shared this trait common to only about 10% of Americans
left-handedness
Amy
$800 [20]
This show about a vampire with a soul was a spin-off from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Angel
Amy
$800 [28]
This actress who played Sansa on "Game of Thrones" adopted the dog who played the direwolf "Lady" on the show
Sophie Turner
Madeline
$800 [4]
Usually a 4-hour shift, it's a set period of duty on a ship
the watch
Madeline
$800 [25]
San Francisco de Guayo & the homeland of the Warao or "Boat People" of the Orinoco delta
Venezuela
Amy
DD $1,000 [9]
Caveat venditor, this phrase, is the flip side to caveat emptor
let the seller beware
Amy
$1,000 [16]
Before becoming president, he helped his wife Lou translate "De re metallica", a 1556 text that detailed copper mining
Hoover
Dan
$1,000 [21]
This sitcom centers on a Korean-Canadian family that runs a store that rarely closes
Kim's Convenience
Amy
$1,000 [27]
Modern guide dogs were popularized by a school near Berlin that used this breed to help blinded soldiers
German Shepherds
$1,000 [5]
Thumb-sucking might be part of this, an infant's first stage of development, according to Freud
the oral stage
Amy
$1,000 [26]
Here is the Château Frontenac, &Peggy's Covein all its glory
Canada
Dan
$1,000 [10]
This legal Latin phrase means "at first sight"
prima facie
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

LET'S GO SEE THE BAND! THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES NAMED FOR A PLACE NEWS WEATHER SHORTZ
$400 [26]
It'sthe perfect place for a Gallagher concert
Oasis
Amy
$400 [6]
At the end of a D.H. Lawrence novel, this title thing "arched indomitable, making great architecture of light and color"
The Rainbow
$400 [27]
Mmm, I do love this type of pastry, & I don't even have to go to Europe to get one
a danish
Madeline
$400 [13]
On Feb. 1, 2021 the Myanmar military took power & a 1-year "state of" this was declared--& not surprisingly, soon extended
emergency
Amy
$400 [18]
Guinness noted that a 15-inch one of these fluttered down at Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887
a snowflake
Dan
$400 [30]
Fittingly for a crossword maven, Will presented a wordplay dice game whose name is these 2 prepositions
across & down
Amy
$800 [25]
Theyget around
The Beach Boys
Dan
$800 [7]
It's an "impartial selector" of Triwizard champions
the Goblet of Fire
Madeline Dan
$800 [4]
Named for an atoll, the site of nuclear testing, this then-daring 2-piece swimsuit exploded onto the scene in Paris in 1946
bikini
Madeline
$800 [14]
In 2021 one of these in Oregon covered 646 square miles & was causing dangerous pyrocumulus clouds
a fire
Amy
$800 [28]
A hygrometer measures this, the moisture content in the atmosphere
humidity
Amy
$800 [29]
One of Will's favorites from his NPR Sunday puzzle is the fact that this type of pain has the sequence "A-C-H" twice in a row
a stomachache
Dan
$1,200 [24]
No way of telling if this recon craft seenherehas found what it's looking for
U-2
Amy
$1,200 [10]
A container used to heat metals gave us the name of this 1953 play set in Massachusetts
The Crucible
Amy
DD $1,000 [2]
In 1898 the Curies discovered this radioactive element & named it for Marie's country of birth
polonium
Dan
$1,200 [15]
You may "recall" that September 14, 2021 was a good day for this Californian
Newsom
Amy
$1,200 [20]
Pellets of ice have a diameter of less than 5mm; if the ice's diameter is between 5mm & 15cm, it's called this
hail
Madeline
$1,200 [9]
In 2019 Will hosted the 10th world championship of this double-talk brainteaser created by Tetsuya Miyamoto
KenKen
Amy
$1,600 [22]
Great time for a concert here in this city? Saturday, in the park
Chicago
Amy
$1,600 [11]
Thornton Wilder wrote of one of these that collapses in Peru, killing 5 travelers
a bridge
$1,200 [3]
From a city in Morocco, it's the traditional hat seen here
Fez
Dan
$1,600 [16]
A computer chip shortage caused Peugeot to put old-fashioned analog these to tell you your km/h in some models
speedometers
Amy
$1,600 [8]
Most weather occurs in this 5-to-9-mile-thick layer of the atmosphere that's closest to Earth
the troposphere
Madeline
$1,600 [23]
Will's New York Times responsibilities include the P&A puzzle feature, short for these 2 types of wordplay
puns & anagrams
Amy
$2,000 [5]
It'snot a wicker man, but an...
Iron Maiden
Amy
DD $4,000 [12]
Not an actual accolade, it's received by the hero of an 1895 war tale after being hit on the head by a deserter
the red badge of courage
Amy
$1,600 [1]
Lyme disease derives its name from the town of Lyme in this state, where cases were first observed in the 1970s
Connecticut
Amy Dan
$2,000 [17]
A 1/16th size"little sister"has been unveiled at the Washington, D.C. residence of this person--in 2021 Philippe Étienne
the French ambassador
Amy Madeline
$2,000 [19]
Flooding in Venice has been aggravated by these Italian-named winds that originate in northern Africa
scirocco
Dan
$2,000 [21]
"5 little items of an everyday sort; you'll find us all in a tennis court", wrote Will for the Riddler, aka this in "Batman Forever"
Edward Nygma (E. Nygma)

Final Jeopardy!

AWARDS & HONORS

First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization

the Royal Society

Dan "What is the Caldecott" — wagered $2,200
Madeline "What is the Royal Academy?" — wagered $3,800
Amy "What is the Royal Society?" — wagered $11,000

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