Show #8551 2022-01-10 (taped 2021-11-02) Regular

Amy Schneider game 29.

Contestants

David Petersen — a boiler operator from Dunbarton, New Hampshire

Jenni Govea — an operations generalist from Schaumburg, Illinois

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 28-day cash winnings total $1,019,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Amy	$3,200	$7,400	$25,800	$15,800 29-day champion: $1,035,400	$23,400 28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jenni	$2,200	$3,800	$7,400	$400 2nd place: $2,000	$7,400 11 R, 3 W
David	$2,000	$3,400	$4,600	$1 3rd place: $1,000	$8,400 10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SUBURBS	THE HUGO AWARDS	NEXT IN LINE...	NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?	CELEBRITY HOBBIES	WORDS FROM ARABIC
$200 [21] Newcastle upon Tyne is a British city; a posh suburb of Paris is called Neuilly-sur-this river the Seine David	$200 [7] "You've just crossed over into" this TV anthology created by Rod Serling, Best Dramatic Presentation in 1960 The Twilight Zone Amy	$200 [12] Getting smaller in area: Alaska, Texas... California Jenni	$200 [19] Not the Sicilian Defense but this legal one that may include the irresistible impulse test an insanity defense David	$200 [1] Reasonably enough for Queen Bey, Beyoncé makes hundreds of jars of this a year, partly because of her daughters' allergies honey Amy	$200 [3] It's from the Arabic for "embalmed body", like one in ancient Thebes a mummy Amy
$400 [16] Our efforts at a SUBURB"IA" category fizzled out after Livonia, Michigan & Arcadia, New South Wales, a suburb of this city Sydney David	$400 [8] Khal Drogo & Dany are mentioned in chapter one of the Best Novella in 1997, "Blood of the Dragon" by this man George R.R. Martin Amy	$400 [13] U.S. Army ranks:first lieutenant, captain... major Amy	$400 [20] Not the Trompowsky but this 3-word attack that renders a computer no good to its legitimate user denial-of-service	$400 [2] The state legislature madehiman honorary Texan after he donated his $15 million Alamo artifacts collection to the museumt here Phil Collins David	$400 [22] A convoy of vehicles or merchants traveling together for safety, perhaps across the Sahara a caravan Jenni
$600 [17] Stewart Hartshorn made a fortune inwindow shade rollers& gave his S.H. initials to this wealthy New Jersey suburb Short Hills, New Jersey	$600 [9] The Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation in 2020 was "Good Omens", written by this Brit who also gave us "Coraline" (Neil) Gaiman Jenni	$600 [14] Gotta know your presidents if you hit our stage:Harrison, Tyler... Polk David	$600 [25] Not the Ruy Lopez, but the him, A.C. Slater on "Saved by the Bell" Mario Lopez Amy	$600 [4] Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art karate Jenni	$600 [23] Originally a part of Middle Eastern folklore, it's ademon, seen in its favorite haunt a ghoul Jenni
$800 [29] Leon Trotsky's ashes are buried at his home, now a museum, in Coyoacán, a suburb of this capital Mexico City Amy	$800 [10] A failed actor is shanghaied to Mars in "Double Star", the 1956 best novel by this author of "Starship Troopers" Heinlein Amy	DD $1,000 [15] In Ivy schools, alphabetically:Columbia, Cornell... Dartmouth David	$800 [26] Not a discovered check but this moment where you see whether you've got the stuff inside to meet a challenge a gut check Amy	$800 [5] She knitted the shawl she wore as Sister Aloysius in the movie "Doubt" (Meryl) Streep Jenni	$800 [18] From Arabic for "notification", it's a tax paid on imported goods tariff Jenni
$1,000 [30] Shostakovich titled an opera "Moscow, Cheryomushki", a suburb where in 1958 this leader began an experiment in prefab apartments Khrushchev David	$1,000 [11] Thisauthor, Hugo-nominated in his 20s for "Babel-17", has the middle initial "R" for Ray; he won a few years later Samuel R. Delany	$1,000 [28] In an alphabet:kappa, lambda... mu Amy	$1,000 [27] Not a knight fork, but this fork, named for the food it's used on spaghetti fork Jenni	$1,000 [6] Taylor Swift makes these transparent items; the video of her song "Lover" happens inside one snow globes Amy	$1,000 [24] This 4-letter stringed instrument was brought into Europe via Spain by the Moors the lute Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

BANK SHOTS	PARTS OF A POEM	WHALES	SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE	BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS	3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS
$400 [4] There's a pretty obvious reason that the United Overseas Bankbuilding in Bangkok is known as this 5-letter building a Robot Building David	$400 [22] An iamb is one of these basic units of verse with an anatomical name a foot Amy	$400 [27] Like bats, some whales use this natural sonar to hunt, communicate & navigate echolocation Amy	$400 [28] The Monkees took the "Last" one "To Clarksville"; Gladys Knight caught the "Midnight" one "To Georgia" Train Jenni	$400 [5] The founder of the Russian Communist Party, he was also leader of the USSR until his death in 1924 Lenin Amy	$400 [16] It follows "pip-" regarding one of small stature squeak Amy
$800 [3] Saxo Bankis an online bank, but its headquarters designed by the Danish firm, 3XN, near this world capital are very 3-D Copenhagen Jenni	$800 [25] This word for a group of rhyming lines in a poem comes from Italian stanza Amy Jenni	$800 [24] Whales are classified as either toothed or these, named for the bony filters in their mouths baleen Amy	$800 [1] Here's a traffic update from this icon: "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive" Bruce Springsteen	$800 [6] In 1935 Congress passed this act that established unemployment relief & old age pensions the Social Security Act Amy	$800 [26] This Italian version of aloha is somehow derived from Latin for "slave" ciao Amy
$1,200 [19] The Bank of China Towerin Hong Kong has long diagonal braces to protect it from these tropical cyclones of the region typhoons Amy David	$1,200 [10] This word for a group of 4 lines of verse is from French for "four" a quatrain Amy	$1,200 [11] This extremely vocal white whale of the Arctic Ocean is nicknamed the "canary of the sea" the beluga Amy	$1,200 [2] This 3-word refrain is the title of the Carter family tune remade as that "Cups" song--"& I'm leaving tomorrow, what do you say" "When I'm Gone"	$1,200 [7] This 4-time Olympic gold medalist got a parade in NYC but had to ride the freight elevator to his reception at the Waldorf Jesse Owens Amy	$1,200 [13] This garlic mayo goes great with fish aioli Jenni
$1,600 [21] The headquarters of the Emirates NBDin this city is shaped like the dhows that sail nearby Dubai Jenni	$2,000 [18] Hail! This word for a pause in the middle of a line of poetry caesura	$2,000 [23] Theblue whaleis the largest, but this species, known for its enormous head, has the largest brain the sperm whale Amy	$1,600 [30] Marc Cohn began this hit with "Put on my blue suede shoes & I boarded the plane / Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues" "Walking In Memphis" Amy	$1,600 [8] The Dawes Plan outlined how Germany would make these payments compensating the Allies for the cost of the war reparations David	$1,600 [14] It's a river-livin' nymph of ancient Greek myth a Naiad Amy
$2,000 [20] Madrid's La Velais super sustainable with this kind of heating system that captures energy from the subsoil geothermal Jenni	DD $4,000 [17] Also a punctuation mark, it's an address to a personification of something; "Death, be not proud" is an example an apostrophe Amy	DD $4,000 [9] As well as a type of flatworm, it's something much larger, either of the flat lobes of a whale's tail the flukes David	$2,000 [29] Though he sang, "Climb on the back & we'll go for a ride in the sky" in his 1974 hit "Jet", the song was named for his dog, Jet Paul McCartney	$2,000 [12] Thisguerrilla leader murdered by Nicaraguan national guardsmen in 1934, gave his name to a revolutionary movement Sandino Amy	$2,000 [15] The existence of this land mass that ends with 3 vowels was first suggested in 1912 Pangaea David

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY NOTABLES

On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever"

Vincent van Gogh

David "Who is Sartre?" — wagered $4,599

Jenni "Who is Napoleon?" — wagered $7,000

Amy "Who is Dreyfuss?" — wagered $10,000

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