Show #8543 2021-12-29 (taped 2021-10-12) Regular

Amy Schneider game 21.

Contestants

Joanna Wu — a program manager from Boston, Massachusetts

Ben Walthall — a video game marketer from Brooklyn, New York

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 20-day cash winnings total $768,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Amy	$3,800	$11,600	$22,400	$37,400 21-day champion: $806,000	$20,200 28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Ben	$1,200	$400	$2,800	$401 3rd place: $1,000	$6,400 9 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Joanna	$1,000	$1,600	$2,600	$5,100 2nd place: $2,000	$3,600 11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE	PHILOSOPHY	TWENTY QUESTIONS	A PREFIX MENU	CELEBRITY DAUGHTERS & FATHERS	SHAKE YOUR BOOTY
$200 [30] Serving from 1809 to 1817, she set the bar for first ladies & popularized ice cream in the White House Dolley Madison	$200 [15] David Hume wrote that in any instance of "cause and" this, there's no necessary connection, just a sequence of events effect Amy	$200 [14] In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln used this synonym for 20 a score Amy Ben	$200 [16] From Greek for "on both sides", it precedes -bious & -theater amphi Amy	$200 [1] Zoe & Lenny Kravitz Amy	$200 [21] This area of Manhattan precedes "Shake" & "Shuffle" in the names of dances Harlem Joanna
$400 [26] A gift from this queen to President Hayes, the Oval Office desk was made from timbers of the HMS Resolute Victoria Joanna	$400 [10] Thomas Nagel's paper "What is It Like to Be" this says we can't know just by imagining eating bugs & hanging upside-down a bat Amy Ben	$400 [9] Having "twenty-twenty" this is the "ability" after an event to have full knowledge & understanding of it hindsight Ben	$400 [17] Meaning "against", it goes before -band to describe something against the law contra Amy	$400 [2] Carrie & Eddie Fisher Joanna	$400 [22] Allemandes are dances that originated in this country Germany Amy
$600 [27] First Lady Grace Coolidge set up aroomshe called her "Sky Parlor"; today's it's known as this, from the Latin for "sun" solarium Amy	$600 [11] Pascal's wager is that you may as well hold this belief because that gives you everything to gain & nothing to lose belief in God Amy	$600 [6] Traditionally, there are 20 grooved channels in a column of this oldest & simplest order of classical architecture Doric Ben	$600 [18] Arabic for "the", it's been incorporated into many math & science words al Amy	$600 [3] Willow & Will Smith Joanna	$600 [23] This "vulpine" dance alternates long & short steps the foxtrot Amy
$800 [28] Previously known as the "President's House" & "Executive Mansion", the White House got its official name in 1901 from this man Teddy Roosevelt Amy Ben	$800 [12] Rousseau argued that man is happier & morally better not in society but in a "state of" this, like wild plants & animals are nature Amy	$800 [7] Corresponding to "U" in English, it's the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet upsilon Amy	$1,000 [20] All meaning "half", these 3 rhyming prefixes combine before -quaver to describe a very, very short musical note demi, semi & hemi Amy	$800 [4] Mira & Paul Sorvino Ben	$800 [24] The Wham! song "Wake Me Up Before you Go-Go" begins with a few mentions of this "insectoid" dance of the 1940s the jitterbug Amy
$1,000 [29] Living there for only 5 months, this early first lady referred to the White House as "The Great Castle" Abigail Adams Amy Joanna	$1,000 [13] This adjective for a statement that can't be corrected, like if someone says, "My foot hurts", is also used of an always- misbehaving child incorrigible Amy	$1,000 [8] The 20th Century Limitedwas a luxury, overnight train between New York City & this major city, advertising a smooth, water-level route Chicago Ben	DD $3,000 [19] One of the few prefixes from German, it means "super" & now stands on its own as a proper noun uber Amy	$1,000 [5] Allison & Brian Williams Ben	$1,000 [25] Czardas is a national dance of this country; native son Liszt's Rhapsody No. 2 is perfect for one Hungary Joanna

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN AUTHORS	SCIENCE	COUNTRIES BY DIVISIONS	I AM WOMAN	PLAYING OPPOSITE YOURSELF	SPEAK LIKE A FRENCH CANADIAN
$400 [23] A bullfight aficionado, he wrote about the subject in "Death in the Afternoon" Hemingway Amy	$400 [10] Commonly expressed in grams per cubic centimeter, density is calculated by dividing mass by this volume Joanna	$400 [17] Bryansk, Omsk Russia Amy	$400 [24] Holding office for 11 years, she was British prime minister longer than any other in the 20th century Thatcher Ben	$400 [12] Tatiana Maslany played many, many clones on this "colorful" sci-fi drama Orphan Black Joanna	$400 [30] From what it's made of, robeur is this part of a car the tire Amy
$800 [19] Some ashes of this "Rabbit at Rest" author are at rest in Pennsylvania; some are in Massachusetts Updike Amy	$800 [9] In the body, an adductor is one of these that moves parts together or towards the center a muscle Amy	$800 [18] Catamarca, La Pampa Argentina Joanna	$800 [26] Korea-born Angela Buchdahlis the first Asian-American to be ordained a cantor, as well as this leader of a Jewish congregation rabbi Ben	$800 [11] On this FX show, Donald Glover wore makeup & prosthetics to play another role--Teddy Perkins Atlanta Amy	$800 [15] An expression that translates as "Rabbit skins are falling" means this is happening outside it's snowing Amy Joanna
$1,200 [14] This 3-named author of "Them" & "We Were the Mulvaneys" is a professor of creative writing, emerita at Princeton Joyce Carol Oates	$1,600 [6] This accelerator run by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, operates up to 575 feet below ground the Large Hadron Collider Ben	$1,200 [20] Limpopo, Eastern Cape South Africa	DD $1,000 [5] Taking her nickname from a baseball slugger, she was named the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century "Babe" Didrikson Joanna	$1,200 [1] Seen here, D'Arcy Carden played Janet, Bad Janet, & at one point, lots more Janets on this NBC show The Good Place Amy	$1,200 [16] Enjoy a hot dog at a casse-croute, literally "break crust" & basically this type of "soiled utensil" joint a greasy spoon Amy
$1,600 [7] A personal friend of this president, Nathaniel Hawthorne was appointed U.S. consul at Liverpool in 1853 Franklin Pierce Joanna	$2,000 [27] In a molecule of sulfuric acid, there are this many atoms of oxygen 4 Joanna	$1,600 [21] Lampang, Phuket Thailand Ben	$1,200 [4] In 2020 this trailblazing African-American ballerina published a book for kids called "Bunheads" Misty Copeland Joanna	$1,600 [2] On Netflix' "Living with Yourself", this funny actor is replaced by a better version of himself Paul Rudd Ben	$1,600 [25] Someone who quickly gets what's happening is "vite sur ses patins" or "quick on" this athletic footwear skates Amy
$2,000 [28] He won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Arrowsmith", but turned it down Sinclair Lewis	DD $3,600 [8] The Sun's corona propels this stream of particles continuously at hundreds of miles per second the solar wind Ben	$2,000 [22] Benghazi, Misratah Libya Amy	$2,000 [13] In 2021 she became the first female governor of New York state Kathy Hochul	$2,000 [3] Based on Wally Lamb's novel, HBO's "I Know This Much is True" finds this actor playing opposite himself Mark Ruffalo	$2,000 [29] "Je suis tired" is an example of this, a portmanteau of the French words for Canada's 2 official languages Franglais Amy Joanna

Final Jeopardy!

THE 20th CENTURY

In the morning of April 15, 1912 officer Charles Lightoller became the last of about 700 people to board this ship

the Carpathia

Joanna "What is the Carpathia?" — wagered $2,500

Ben "What is the Lusitania?" — wagered $2,399

Amy "What is the Carpathia?" — wagered $15,000

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