Show #8550 2022-01-07 (taped 2021-11-01) Regular

Amy Schneider game 28.Amy breaks the $1 million mark.

Contestants

Sean Sweeney — a speech language pathologist from Dorchester, Massachusetts

Patsy Lester — a social studies teacher from Patchogue, New York

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 27-day cash winnings total $977,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amy $8,000 $14,800 $32,400 $42,200
28-day champion: $1,019,600
$31,000
37 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Patsy $-600 $1,400 $1,000 $500
2nd place: $2,000
$1,000
7 R, 5 W
Sean $800 $1,000 $2,790 $290
3rd place: $1,000
$5,000
6 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS METAPHORS THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN MOVE IT! DOUBLE TIME
$200 [16]
"1 fish, 2 fishred fishblue fish.Black fishblue fish"this fish"new fish"
old fish
Amy
$200 [21]
A problem individual in an organization ruins things for everyone, as in the old saying this "spoils the barrel"
one bad apple (a bad apple)
Amy
$200 [1]
"California Girls" in 1985, the year he left Van Halen
David Lee Roth
Amy
$200 [3]
After she beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Sept. 20, 1973, Riggs admitted, "I underestimated you"
Billie Jean King
Amy
$200 [26]
Called the "move of the millennium", in 1999 one of these massive beacons was moved inland about 1,000 yards on Cape Hatteras
a lighthouse
Sean
$200 [11]
In this alliterative playground activity, 2 ropes are turned simultaneously in opposite directions
Double Dutch
Patsy
$400 [17]
"I am Sam Sam I am...do you like"this offering?
green eggs and ham
Patsy
$400 [22]
Literally, it's to exit with a gesture of lowering the head; it's often followed by "gracefully"
to bow out
Amy
$400 [2]
"Cry Me A River", by a former boy bander
Justin Timberlake
Patsy
$400 [7]
In 1973 he was minority leader of the House of Representatives but got 2 big job promotions by the end of the next year
Ford
Amy
$400 [28]
Historic London Bridge was taken apart beginning in 1968 & reassembled in this U.S. state as a tourist attraction
Arizona
Amy
$400 [12]
Worth twice as much as a pistole, this Spanish gold coin was once widely used in the Americas
a doubloon
Amy Patsy
$600 [18]
"...but the Grinch who lived just north of" this place "did not!" (like Christmas a lot, that is)
Whoville
Amy
$600 [23]
Stan Lee addressed Marvel Comics readers directly in the column "Stan's" this, once an actual crate that speakers would stand on
Soapbox
Patsy
$600 [4]
"Pillowtalk" in 2016, by a former boy bander
Zayn (Malik)
Amy
$600 [8]
On May 1, 1971 this service had its 1st run from N.Y. to Philly, just after midnight; really, at that time, it should have been to Georgia
Amtrak
Amy
$600 [27]
This first treasury secretary's former New York City home, the Grange, was jacked up & rolled to a new location nearby in 2008
Hamilton
Amy
$800 [14]
This double reed woodwind is played using a neck sling & separates into 6 parts, including the bass & boot joints
a bassoon
Amy Patsy
$800 [19]
"On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool" this guy "heard a small noise"
Horton
Amy
$800 [24]
Meaning achieving great success, grabbing this was originally a way to get a free ride on a merry-go-round
the brass ring
Amy
$800 [5]
"Cruisin'", in 1980 by this Motown legend
Smokey Robinson
Sean
$800 [9]
Paul Gann & Howard Jarvisled a revolt against these taxes that upset many Californians with big jumps every October
property taxes
Amy
$800 [29]
In the 1930s the 4th century Obelisk of Axum was taken to Italy, but in 2005 returned to this African nation & rebuilt there
Ethiopia
Amy
$1,000 [15]
This American Nobel Prize winner penned the book "The Double Helix"
Watson
Amy
$1,000 [20]
"Now, the star-belly" these "had bellies with stars. The plain-belly" these "had none upon thars"
Sneetches
Amy
$1,000 [25]
President Eisenhower saw Stalin's death as a chance "to crack" this barrier & thaw out the Cold War
the Iron Curtain
Amy
$1,000 [6]
Turning back time, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", in 1966
Cher
$1,000 [10]
On July 2, 1979 the U.S. Mint elected to release a coin honoring this woman; nearly 758 million were made that year
Susan B. Anthony
Amy
$1,000 [30]
The Ara Pacis, an altar built to honor this Roman emperor c. 9 B.C., was long forgotten, rescued in the 1930s & moved to a new home
Augustus
Patsy
DD $2,000 [13]
The 1946 article that coined this term for a brooding drama cited "Double Indemnity", starring Barbara Stanwyck, as an example
film noir
Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

4-LETTER BIRDS AWARDS & HONORS HIS WIDOW LIVED ON POP CULTURE MONIKERS THAT'S BORDER LINE WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS
$400 [16]
On a chessboard, this European black bird would be worth about 5 pawns
a rook
Amy
$400 [21]
The Nobel prizes are awarded in 6 categories, including this one for which Louise Gluck won in 2020
literature
$400 [26]
In 2019, 96-year-old Rachel Robinsonattended ceremonies at this stadium in her husband's centennial year
Dodger Stadium
Amy Patsy
$400 [6]
This "Avengers" actor was nicknamed "Hammer" before he played Thor
Chris Hemsworth
Sean
$400 [27]
Put it all on black in this principality that's surrounded by France & also just 5 miles from the Italian border
Monaco
Amy
$1,200 [13]
An ejection or an eviction
an ouster
Amy
$800 [17]
The canyon species of this bird is small, brown & chubby & a sweet whistler
wren
Patsy
$800 [22]
Marvin Minsky built the first neural network simulator & won the Turing Award in 1969 for helping create this 2-word field
artificial intelligence
Amy
DD $590 [7]
This former first lady died in Austin in 2007, having outlived her husband by 34 years
Lady Bird Johnson
Sean
$800 [2]
Maggie Smith gave the man seen here this flower-part nickname, an anagram of his last name
Petal
Amy
$800 [28]
Bordering Alaska & British Columbia, this territory has a population of 42,000, around 4,000 more than Fenway Park's capacity
the Yukon Territory
Amy
$1,600 [14]
This Japanese martial art aims to turn an attacker's strength & momentum against him
aikido
Amy
$1,200 [18]
You can tell the "mourning" species of this by its characteristic call & long, pointed tail
dove
Amy
$1,200 [23]
Hisfirst two Tonys honored his work in lighter fare; in 2018, his third was for his performance in "Angels in America"
Nathan Lane
Patsy
$1,200 [8]
Ruth Ziolkowski kept working on a monument to this Native American warrior long after her sculptor husband died in 1982
Crazy Horse
Amy
$1,600 [3]
The main character on this HBO comedy was called "Grizzly Madam" & "The Wicked Witch of the West Wing"
Veep
Amy
$1,200 [5]
Home to Brisbane, this "royal" Australian state is bounded to the west by, of course, the Northern Territory
Queensland
Sean
$2,000 [15]
The joker was invented for this card game & the 2 words may be related
Euchre
Amy
$1,600 [19]
A bufflehead, teal or merganser, for example
a duck
Amy
$1,600 [24]
John B. Glen began in veterinary science but won a 2018 Lasker Award for developing propofol, one of these for humans
an anesthetic
Sean
$1,600 [9]
Laura, shown with Timothy Leary, died in 2007; this husband who wrote "The Doors of Perception" back in 1963
(Aldous) Huxley
Amy
DD $2,000 [1]
Born on the South Side of Chicago, he originally had "Sense" behind his name in his early rap years
Common
Sean
$1,600 [11]
A hundreds-of-miles-long eastern border with Vietnam is part of what makes this nation landlocked
Laos
Patsy
$2,000 [20]
A "true" this is a member of the swift, predatory genus Accipiter
hawk
$2,000 [25]
In 2021, this longtime PBS anchor won a Peabody Award for her journalistic integrity
Judy Woodruff
$2,000 [10]
In 1994, nearly 60 years after his death, his wife Anna passed away still proclaiming his innocence in the Lindbergh case
Bruno Hauptmann
$2,000 [4]
The Victims is the fitting name for superfans of this hard-rocking Vegas band
The Killers
Amy
$2,000 [12]
You have a couple of choices if you're heading directly across the eastern border of Wyoming--these 2 states
South Dakota & Nebraska
Patsy

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY NONFICTION

"Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man

(Thor) Heyerdahl

Patsy "Who is Winston Churchill?" — wagered $500
Sean "Who is Hemingway?" — wagered $2,500
Amy "Who is Heyerdahl?" — wagered $9,800

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