Show #8519 2021-11-25 (taped 2021-10-04) Regular

Amy Schneider game 7.

Contestants

Ged Trias — an architect from Rockford, Illinois

Nancy Edelman — a high school English teacher from Teaneck, New Jersey

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 6-day cash winnings total $207,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Amy	$3,000	$9,200	$34,000	$50,000 7-day champion: $257,800	$28,400 33 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Nancy	$-400	$-600	$1,400	$2,799 3rd place: $1,000	$1,400 5 R, 3 W
Ged	$2,600	$5,400	$7,000	$4,200 2nd place: $2,000	$8,000 15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

A MATTER OF TRUST	OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR	IN THE ROOM	THE WOMEN	"COME" & "GO"	TALKING OF MICHELANGELO
$200 [26] 3 Columbia University profs were the main members of this president's depression-fighting "Brain Trust" FDR Ged	$200 [10] 1990:"Dances with Wolves" danced away with a win for him Kevin Costner Ged	$200 [21] It's named for stuff that gets on boots; the Brits call it a boot room a mudroom Amy	$200 [1] Women in the U.S. House of Representatives had only worn dresses & skirts until Charlotte Reid put these on in 1969 pants Amy	$200 [17] The home team was down by 10 in the 4th quarter but tied things up at the buzzer after mounting a furious one of these a comeback Amy	$200 [15] Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475 in the village of Caprese in the republic of this Italian city Florence Nancy
$400 [27] Britain's National Trust manages 2,100 acres of chalk grassland around this Salisbury site Stonehenge Ged	$400 [11] 1998:"Saving Private Ryan" won the war for this man Spielberg Ged	$400 [22] The rug seenhereis in this room the Oval Office Ged	$400 [2] In John 20 Jesus tells her to notify the Apostles that he was ascending to God Mary Magdalene Nancy	$400 [16] A Van Dyke is a type of this goatee Amy Nancy	$400 [7] This "Magnificent" Medici took teenage Michelangelo under his wing & gave him access to the family's art collection Lorenzo Amy
$600 [28] The U.S. government sued a sugar trust under the provisions of this 1890 act & lost in an 1895 Supreme Court decision the Sherman Antitrust Act Amy	$600 [12] 2006:"The Departed" gave him his long-anticipated Oscar Scorsese Amy	$600 [23] A hybrid operating room has the table plus imaging technology like the CT & MRI types of these scanners Amy	$600 [6] "Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States" is a 1932 work by this woman (Frida) Kahlo Ged	$600 [18] If a party invitation includes this 4-word phrase, it means to wear whatever you have on at the moment come as you are Amy	$600 [3] "My beard turns up to heaven... a rich embroidery bedews my face from brush drops", the artist wrote about the painting of this the Sistine Chapel (ceiling) Ged
$800 [29] A post-WWII U.N. trust territory covered this "tiny" 2,000-island region, including the Marianas, Carolines & Marshalls Micronesia Amy	$800 [13] 1989:This director cruised to victory for "Born on the Fourth of July" (Oliver) Stone Ged	$800 [24] No smelly boilers in the engine room of a super this yacht Ged	$800 [8] This Seven Sisters school in Northampton, Mass. bears the last name of Sophia, whose bequest founded the college in 1871 Smith College Nancy	$800 [19] Hyphenated word for an intermediary who conveys messages from one party to another a go-between Amy	$800 [4] The 1st of Michelangelo's largestatuesthat survive depicts a faun feeding on grapes held by this god Bacchus Amy
$1,000 [30] John D. Rockefeller was only one of this notorious trust's 9 founding trustees (the) Standard Oil (Trust) Amy	DD $1,000 [14] 2012:There are more letters in "Life of Pi" than in his name Ang Lee Ged	$1,000 [25] An enlarger, a fixer tray & a safelight are items you'll need in this room a darkroom Ged	$1,000 [9] These 70' pillars in New York & London do date to Ancient Egypt yet have no historic connection to the woman they are named for Cleopatra's Needle Ged	$1,000 [20] Tess of the d'Urbervilles was described as this, an old-timey word meaning good-looking comely Amy	$1,000 [5] The name of this great 1498-99 Michelangelo work is Italian for "compassion" Pietà Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

PILGRIMS' PROGRESS	THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU	THE STATE THAT...	WORLD HISTORY	AUTHORS OF TODAY	4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER
$400 [11] Dorothy Richardson's novel "Pilgrimage" uses this rambling style whose name begins with a type of waterway stream of consciousness Amy	$400 [21] The Righteous Brothers sang that "Rock And Roll" this place has a "hell of a band", including Otis & Janis Heaven Amy	$400 [16] Has the most members in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 53 in the 117th Congress California Nancy	$400 [4] In Xanadu (really Shangdu) did this man become emperor of the Mongols in 1260 Kublai Khan Ged	$400 [10] Mystery writer Caleb Carr is the son of Lucien Carr, who helped launch this movement by introducing Ginsberg to Kerouac the Beat Nancy	$400 [22] Boat's going down? Try a plea to a WWII organization that was a forerunner of the CIA SOSS Amy
$800 [12] Come as you are, pilgrims, & seek enlightenment at Mount Kailash, fabled realm of this Hindu destroyer deity Shiva Amy	$800 [27] The band Sparks paid affectionate tribute to The Smiths' singer with "Lighten Up", him Morrissey Ged	$800 [17] Has the Sitka spruce as its official state tree Alaska Amy	$800 [1] With the USSR crumbling, this Baltic nation in 1990 became the first Soviet republic to declare independence Lithuania Amy Nancy	$800 [9] Last name of Paulwho wrote the novel "The Mosquito Coast" & his nephew, who starred in the 2021 TV adaptation Theroux	$800 [23] The congresswoman who introduced the Green New Deal--I must say her initials repetitively because I have my condition AOCD Amy
$1,200 [13] "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" gives an example of this type of "hero" named for the poem's author a Byronic hero Amy	$1,200 [28] Eminem referenced this singer & Nick Cannon on "Bagpipes From Baghdad"; Eminem is the subject of her song "Obsessed" Mariah Carey Ged	$1,600 [19] Was where Diana Nyad completed her historic 53-hour effort in 2013 Florida Ged	$1,600 [3] As a result of his Munich conference with Hitler in 1938, this British leader promised, "Peace for our time" Chamberlain Ged	$1,200 [8] Ocean Vuong, author of "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous", got his name because the ocean touches the U.S. & this, his native country Vietnam Amy	$1,200 [24] Someone who gives urgent lifesaving care on the New York City subway system EMTA Amy
$1,600 [14] This town where Saint Bernadette claimed to have had 18 visions of the Virgin Mary is a major pilgrimage site Lourdes Amy	$1,600 [29] The title actress in this Kim Carnes song title was still with us in 1981 when the song came out "Bette Davis Eyes" Amy Ged	$2,000 [20] Was the birthplace of Ronald Reagan & was the site of Ray Kroc's first McDonald's franchise Illinois	$2,000 [5] In July 1776 he set sail from England aboard the Resolution in search of a Northwest Passage James Cook Amy Nancy	$1,600 [7] This New Yorker regular & bestselling author of "Talking to Strangers" co-hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast Malcolm Gladwell	$1,600 [25] Mikhail Baryshnikov was its director & also a member of the Seoul-based singing group ABTS Amy
$2,000 [15] One could make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land like St. Helena, mother of this first Christian Roman emperor, did Constantine Amy	$2,000 [30] "I don't care what they say about us anyway", sang Weezer about looking like this title guy; the girl looked like Mary Tyler Moore Buddy Holly Amy	DD $4,000 [18] Has a postal abbreviation consisting of 2 vowels Iowa Amy	DD $4,000 [2] In 1893 he went to South Africa to do some legal work; he stayed for 21 years to work for Indian rights Gandhi Amy	$2,000 [6] He covers people who create change with fresh thinking: about baseball in "Moneyball"; about medicine in 2021's "The Premonition" Michael Lewis	$2,000 [26] Inscription on the tombstone of a failed attempt to sell a new stock to the mass of investors RIPO Amy

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS DO'S & DON'TS

In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco chronicle reporter this now-famous "Don't"

"Don't trust anyone over 30"

Nancy "What is, "Don't trust anyone over 30."" — wagered $1,399

Ged "What is Dont?" — wagered $2,800

Amy "What is Don'ttrusttrust anyone over 30?" — wagered $16,000

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