Show #8542 2021-12-28 (taped 2021-10-12) Regular

Amy Schneider game 20.

Contestants

Chas Abdel-Nabi — a learning developer from Decatur, Georgia

Josette Curtis — a registered dietitian from Anacortes, Washington

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 19-day cash winnings total $745,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Amy	$5,000	$12,400	$23,400	$23,400 20-day champion: $768,600	$29,600 34 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Josette	$1,800	$4,400	$11,200	$5,599 2nd place: $2,000	$11,200 12 R, 1 W
Chas	$1,000	$1,600	$8,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$8,400 10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

STREETS OF AMERICA	TOOLS	ASHES TO ASHES	THE "C" TEAM	OLD WORDS	THE SPACE PROGRAM
$200 [19] This raucous Big Easy street wasn't named for a liquor, but rather for the ruling French family of the time in 1721 Bourbon Street Amy	$200 [13] This L-shaped metal wrench with hexagonal ends bears a manufacturing company's name an Allen wrench Josette	$200 [1] Ash Wednesday, a holy day of repentance & fasting, directly follows this day Mardi Gras Josette	$200 [7] This team has won 17 NBA titles the Celtics Amy	$200 [14] Elflock was tangled this, perhaps mussed by mischievous sprites hair Amy	$200 [2] This Moon mission after Armstrong's suffered a lightning strike 36 seconds in & all 3 fuel cells in the service module went offline Apollo 12 Chas
$400 [20] Streets in his hometown of Portland include Van Houten & Flanders; he gave Milhouse & Ned those as surnames Groening Amy	$400 [24] Wood or stone can be shaped using a hammer & this metal tool with a beveled edge & a name from Latin for "cut" a chisel Amy	$400 [12] Highland, the estate of this fifth president, was formerly called Ash Lawn, due to the trees on the grounds Monroe Josette	$400 [8] They play their home games in Busch Stadium the Cardinals Amy	$400 [15] A cordwainer made these paired leather items shoes Amy	$400 [3] Celebrating its 30th anniversary with amazing style in 2020, thisNASA equipment snapped the cosmic reef seen here the Hubble Space Telescope Amy
$600 [21] In Lewes in this state, "The First Town in the First State", don't miss the shops & fun of... Second Street Delaware Chas	$600 [25] Tin is one type of these metal cutters, also found in a list of what little boys are made of snips Amy	$600 [28] This memoir by Frank McCourt depicts his life up to the time he was 19, when he left Ireland for America Angela's Ashes Josette	$600 [9] Because of them you'll be seeing red if you're in Lincoln, Nebraska on a fall Saturday the Cornhuskers Amy	$600 [16] An expergefactor was someone or something that did this to you, like a rooster woke you up Amy	$800 [5] We've got this Mars rover that landed in Gusev crater on Jan. 3, 2004, yes we do! We've got this Mars rover, how 'bout you? Spirit Amy
$800 [22] Sixth Street in this Texas city keeps things weird with places like Lazarus Brewing, started by a pastor who loves beer Austin Amy	$800 [26] The bolted-in bench type of this clamp that holds an object in place is often used in metalworking a vise Amy	$800 [29] Makes sense that this ingredient in fertilizer was originally made by putting wood ashes in a vessel potash Amy	$800 [10] They represent D.C. in the NHL the Capitals Chas	$800 [17] A gossip was one of these, a sponsor at a child's baptism a godparent Amy	DD $1,000 [4] The 2-person capsule used in this followup program to Mercury flew on a Titan II rocket that was first designed as a missile Gemini Amy
$1,000 [23] Beale Street in this city has historically served as a magnet for blues musicians Memphis Josette	$1,000 [27] It can be the weight used to determine that a line is vertical, or the quality of being vertical itself plumb Josette	$1,000 [30] "Ashes" is an 1895 work by this Norwegian painter who often dealt with intense emotional themes (Edvard) Munch Amy	$1,000 [11] The coach of this Columbus MLS team hopes they don't mutiny the Crew Amy	$1,000 [18] To be pot valiant was to be brave when in this condition drunk Amy	$1,000 [6] It was "Mae" in September 1992 when she became the first African-American woman in space onboard the Endeavour (Mae) Jemison Josette

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN HISTORY	2-WORD BOOK TITLES	MY GOVERNMENT JOB	YOU NEED A VITAMIN BOOST	THAT'S BOGUS	THE SPACE PROGRAM
DD $200 [29] Into the 20th century, Uzbekistan had rulers with this title reminiscent of the Mongols; the Soviets finally got rid of them khan Amy	$400 [24] This 1850 book was pure magic & Dickens' "favourite child" David Copperfield Josette	$400 [23] Jesse Ventura, wrestling with politics from 1999 to 2003 governor of Minnesota Amy	$400 [17] Ghosts of pirates said a collective "Arrr, too late" after vitamin C was identified as a cure for this disease in 1932 scurvy Amy	$400 [9] A trick, or an ornamental cushion covering a sham Chas	$400 [4] Pedro Pascal made the removal of his helmet a major moment in this show, but hey, "This is the Way" The Mandalorian Chas
$400 [30] In 1620 the 2nd Tokugawa shogun cemented his power by marrying his daughter off to the guy with this important title emperor Chas	$800 [25] This 1936 novel was pure Faulkner, Faulkner! Absalom, Absalom! Josette	$800 [12] Future world leader Boris Johnson, from 2008 to 2016 mayor of London Amy	$800 [18] Night blindness may result from a lack of this vitamin that helps to activate rhodopsin, which aids in maintaining light sensitivity vitamin A Amy	$800 [10] This word for an act of deception is thought to be an alteration of part of a conjuror's rhyming phrase a hoax Chas	$800 [5] James Doohan, who played this role on "Star Trek", was wounded in multiple places on D-Day; one bullet took off his right middle finger Scotty Amy
$1,200 [1] In the 1960s, many Indian farmers transitioned for a mix of crops to high-yieldwheatas part of this colorful revolution the Green Revolution Amy	$1,200 [26] This Thackeray book arrived in 1848; the first version of what is now the same-named magazine, 11 years later Vanity Fair Amy	$1,200 [15] "Law & Order" man Fred Dalton Thompson, from 1994 to 2003 U.S. senator Chas	$1,200 [19] A thiamin deficiency can lead to this this, a disease whose name derives from Sinhalese for "extreme weakness" beriberi Josette	$1,200 [11] German for "substitute" , it's an inferior imitation, as of food that's in short supply ersatz Chas	$1,200 [6] After sending Bender home on this show, a God-like being says, "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" Futurama Chas
$1,600 [2] The Javanese Wars of Succession involved local potentates & this Dutch entity the Javanese called "Kumpeni" the Dutch East India Company Chas	$1,600 [27] Published in the U.S. in 1962, this William S. Burroughs "meal" was not easily digested by some Naked Lunch Amy	$1,600 [16] Celebrity in his own right if only for his facial hair, C. Everett Koop, from 1982 to 1989 U.S. surgeon general Josette	$1,600 [20] Take your B6 to avoid microcytic this, where red blood cells are smaller than normal anemia Josette	$2,000 [14] The first part of this fancy 13-letter word for a lie derives from Latin for "before" prevarication Amy	$1,600 [7] Let's not frak around; Lorne Greene & Edward James Olmos led this title ship, but not at the same time Battlestar Galactica Amy
$2,000 [3] Today the victims of persecution in China, this Muslim group had a Central Asian empire from about 750 to 850 A.D. the Uyghurs Amy	$2,000 [28] V-2 rockets play a crucial role in this "colorful", award-winning Pynchon novel Gravity's Rainbow Amy	$2,000 [22] Political patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, from 1938 to 1940 ambassador to the U.K. Chas	$2,000 [21] Usually from a lack of vitamin D, the disease that softens bones in children is called this; for adults, it's osteomalacia rickets Josette	DD $6,000 [13] This word for a fake once meant the craft of metalmaking a forgery Amy	$2,000 [8] Will Robinson was once again in danger in the 2018 reboot of this show, with the appropriately named Brian Steele as the robot Lost in Space Amy

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN RIVERS

The flooding of this river in 1966 destroyed or damaged some 14,000 works of art, many of them priceless

the Arno

Chas "What is the Seine?" — wagered $8,400

Josette "What is the Seine?" — wagered $5,601

Amy "What is the Arno?" — wagered $0

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