Show #8525 2021-12-03 (taped 2021-10-05) Regular

Amy Schneider game 13.

Contestants

Andrew Rafner — a set decorator from Thousand Oaks, California

Brooke Sachs — a user experience designer from Washington, D.C.

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 12-day cash winnings total $483,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amy $4,200 $11,000 $33,400 $53,400
13-day champion: $536,400
$27,000
36 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Brooke $2,000 $4,400 $4,800 $801
3rd place: $1,000
$4,800
9 R, 0 W
Andrew $1,600 $3,200 $4,000 $2,000
2nd place: $2,000
$2,800
7 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR IT'S A SCIENCE ANIMAL MASCOTS TRENDING CANADIAN SPORTS YOU GET A "C"
$200 [10]
This emperor III declared war after his advisers told him Prussia was no match for France; wrong!
Napoleon
Amy
$200 [29]
Atmospheric sciences include climatology & this, the study & forecasting of the weather
meteorology
Amy
$200 [14]
Chuck E. Cheese
a mouse
Brooke
$200 [1]
Also called... a Victorian collar... this lace band... was in fashion in the 1890s... &... it's... tight
a choker
Amy Brooke Andrew
$200 [8]
Floridian Tim Raines learned "bonjour" & "merci beaucoup" as one of the greatest players in this MLB team's history
the Expos
Amy
$200 [30]
It's a movable object on a computer screen, not one who swears a lot
a cursor
Amy
$400 [11]
French minister Léon Gambetta escaped the 1870 Siege of Paris by floating over the German lines in one of these
a (hot air) balloon
Amy
$400 [28]
Marie Curie won Nobel prizes in these 2 categories
physics & chemistry
Brooke
$400 [13]
Qantas--a koala was in the commercials but this in the logo
a kangaroo
Andrew
$400 [18]
The '90s had it all--scrunchies, grunge, flannel, & seen here, this dress named for another garment
a slip dress
Brooke
$400 [7]
The first Canadian team in Major League Soccer was the "FC" of this city in 2007
Toronto
Amy
$400 [24]
This adjective relates to the brain or describes someone with great intellect like you right now, hopefully
cerebral
Amy
$600 [12]
The French thought they had the upper hand with arms like the mitrailleuse, an early one of these rapid-fire weapons
a machine gun
Brooke
$600 [27]
Thomas Carlyle called this study of the production, consumption & distribution of wealth "the dismal science"
economics
Amy
$600 [2]
Vlasic pickles
a stork
Andrew
$600 [23]
French perfume creator Ernest Beaux helped launch this game changer in 1921, a complex blend of florals
Chanel No. 5
Brooke
$600 [6]
In 2021 the shortened NHL season had an all-Canadian North Division, with 7 teams including Edmonton & this other Albertan one
(the) Calgary (Flames)
Amy
$600 [20]
It means unbroken & is used to describe the lower 48 U.S. states
contiguous
Andrew
$800 [16]
This "Iron Chancellor" goaded France into war by publishing a misleading account of a diplomatic exchange
Bismarck
Amy
$800 [26]
Petrology, the science of rocks, studies the 3 main classes: metamorphic, sedimentary & this one
igneous
Amy
$800 [4]
Jägermeister
a deer
Andrew
$800 [15]
Thisankle wear was big with young female Sinatra fans in the 1940s
bobby socks
Amy
$800 [5]
Won by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2019, this "colorful" trophy is awarded to the victor in the CFL championship game
the Grey Cup
Amy
$800 [21]
As a noun, it's a convent; as a verb, it means to confine
cloister
Amy
$1,000 [17]
The Germans got an early edge by being more efficient at this process of getting troops "on the move" & ready to fight
muster(ing) (mobilization)
Amy Andrew
DD $3,000 [25]
A German zoologist coined the name of this branch of biology that studies the relationship between organisms & their environments
ecology
Amy
$1,000 [3]
Kellogg's Honey Smacks--Dig'Em is his name
a frog
Brooke
$1,000 [19]
The trendy Telfar bag was inspired by the shopping bag of this venerable department store at 3rd Avenue & 59th Street
Bloomingdale's
Brooke
$1,000 [9]
In 2021 Damian Warner became Canada's first Olympic champion in this & the first Olympian to pass 9,000 points
the decathlon
Amy
$1,000 [22]
They're 2 alternate ways you can serve multiple prison sentences; one will get you out much sooner than the other
concurrent & consecutive
Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS PUT UP YOUR DUKES PULLING INTO "TOWN" IT'S HYPHENATED DENNIS QUAID MOVIE ROLES EPONYMS
$400 [8]
Based on the author's preface to this book, it could have been "The Last of the Wapanachki"
The Last of the Mohicans
Amy
$400 [14]
A London palace is named after the house built for John Sheffield, Duke of this
Buckingham
Amy
$400 [19]
The South African parliament meets in this city that dates back to 1652 with the construction of a Dutch east India refreshment station
Cape Town
Brooke
$400 [29]
These Germanic people ruled parts of Britain from the 5th century until the Norman conquest
the Anglo-Saxons
Amy
$400 [11]
Rev. Shaw Moore, in a movie remake, set in a town where dancing is banned
Footloose
Amy
$400 [30]
William Somers, who built an observation wheel on the Atlantic City boardwalk, thought the Somers Wheel was copied by this man
Ferris
Amy
$800 [9]
The narrator of this Ralph Ellison novel joins "The Brotherhood", which renames him, but we never learn his old or new name
Invisible Man
Andrew
$800 [15]
A bit surprising that a Frenchman, François Gérard, painted this duke, the reddest of all Redcoats
Duke of Wellington
Amy Andrew
$800 [23]
In 1871 the District of Columbia absorbed this town about 3 miles northwest of the Capitol
Georgetown
Amy
$800 [28]
Having length, width & height
3-dimensional
Amy
$800 [3]
Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper
The Right Stuff
$800 [4]
In 1897 this diva complained of thick bread, so the chef came back with thin, crisp slices of toast now named for her
(Nellie) Melba
Amy
$1,600 [12]
This Somerset Maugham novel whose title refers to the sharp & difficult path to salvation was Alex Trebek's favorite book
The Razor's Edge
$1,200 [16]
After abdicating the throne in 1936, Edward VIII was given this title
the Duke of Windsor
Amy
$1,200 [24]
This colony was established on May 14, 1607 but by 1610, starvation was a prime factor behind the death of 80% of its residents
Jamestown
Amy
$1,200 [20]
The Burlsworth Trophy is awarded to college football players who began as these, typically non-recruits
walk-ons
Amy
$1,200 [2]
World War II naval commander "Bull" Halsey
Midway
Amy
$1,200 [5]
Not even Yurchenko attempted the Yurchenko double pike in competition; in 2021 this gymnast was the first woman to do so
(Simone) Biles
Amy
$2,000 [13]
This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar
All the King's Men
Amy
$1,600 [17]
On his wedding day in 2011, Prince William was given the title Duke of this place
Cambridge
$2,000 [26]
Sleepy Hollow in New York's Westchester County was known as North this until 1996
North Tarrytown
$1,600 [21]
A stinging insect is in this adjective for a slender midsection
wasp-waisted
Amy
$1,600 [1]
High school baseball coach Jimmy Morris, who makes the Major Leagues
The Rookie
Andrew
$1,600 [6]
Survival rates are better with this lymphoma named for a Victorian physician than with the non-this type
Hodgkin's
Amy
DD $2,400 [10]
This Leon Uris novel portraying Israel's birth is about 10 times longer than the Bible book of the same name
Exodus
Andrew
$2,000 [18]
In 1717 this German-born man became resident composer to James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, & composed 11 "Chandos Anthems"
Handel
Amy
DD $6,000 [25]
In 1862 Confederate General John Magruder followed in Cornwallis' footsteps in having a very bad day in this historic place
Yorktown
Amy
$2,000 [22]
This vocal range of Marilyn Horne is higher than contralto
mezzo-soprano
Amy
$2,000 [27]
Smooth-talking New Orleans police detective Remy McSwain
The Big Easy
Amy
$2,000 [7]
Thisbullet, or ball, was named for a Frenchman, but Civil War soldiers pronounced it to sound like it was little
Minié
Amy

Final Jeopardy!

ORGANIZATIONS

In the U.S. & its territories, this nonprofit whose roots trace to 1980 fulfills a word in its name every 34 minutes

the Make-A-Wish Foundation

Andrew "What is IDK LOL" — wagered $2,000
Brooke "What is Feed the Children?" — wagered $3,999
Amy "What is Make A Wish?" — wagered $20,000

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