Show #8557 2022-01-18 (taped 2021-11-08) Regular

Amy Schneider game 35.

Contestants

Taryn Agati — a law librarian from Watertown, Connecticut

Dan Tobin — a college instructor from Manchester, New Hampshire

Amy Schneider — an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 34-day cash winnings total $1,148,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amy $4,200 $7,400 $35,400 $15,400
35-day champion: $1,164,000
$34,200
40 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Dan $600 $1,000 $5,000 $5,500
2nd place: $2,000
$5,000
6 R, 2 W
Taryn $2,400 $2,800 $400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$400
8 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE MUPPET NAME MEDICAL HISTORY YOU PLAYED YOURSELF I WANT 2 B A PART OF IT NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY
$200 [12]
Architect of lyrics Hammerstein & man of architecture Niemeyer
Oscar
Amy
$200 [15]
Daniel Fahrenheit invented an alcohol one of these in 1709 & the mercury one 5 years later
a thermometer
Amy
$200 [1]
Told "My dad died about 2 years ago", this man with "Curb" appeal says, "Don't you think the sorry window has closed on that?"
Larry David
Amy
$200 [27]
Poor Bart Simpson has been writing on one after school for over 30 years
a blackboard
Amy
$200 [22]
Vodka, cranberry juice, lime juice, triple sec & an orange twist! How worldly, or rather, how this, the name of the drink
a cosmopolitan
Amy
$200 [7]
Hey, this Ivy League school, what exit? It moved from Elizabeth to Newark before finding its final home in 1756
Princeton
Amy
$400 [13]
Hello, Cleveland! & Hello, anti-tax activist Norquist too!
Grover
Amy
$400 [18]
It took a while for people to become "stuck on" this brand introduced in 1921, because initially they were 18" long
Band-Aid
Taryn
$400 [2]
Felicity Huffman lent her talents to "FHBA" ("Felicity Huffman's Booty Academy"), a TV show within this animated "equine" TV show
BoJack Horseman
Taryn
$400 [28]
This word for brief praise on a book cover like "Jillian Turbo-Smythe is a master of suspense!" dates back to 1907
a blurb
Amy
$400 [23]
Google is this to Alphabet, this being one company owned by another
a subsidiary
Dan
$400 [8]
Traffic is tricky on this bridge across the Hudson from Jersey to New York, so a lower deck with 6 more lanes was finished in 1962
the George Washington Bridge
Taryn
$600 [14]
Saldana & Kazan, acting the parts
Zoe
Taryn
$600 [19]
In 1928 Alexander Fleming found that mold in a Petri dish had inhibited bacterial growth, leading to this antibiotic
penicillin
Amy
$600 [4]
Bottom line, "JCVD" was the role he was born to play but in the film, he loses a part to Steven Seagal
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Dan
$600 [29]
A child's toy, or a showy trinket that's of little actual use
a bauble
Amy
$600 [24]
Brayan Villarreal threw just 4 pitches for this A.L. team led by David Ortiz in 2013 but got a World Series ring anyway
the Red Sox
Amy
$600 [9]
This singer who is Jersey all the way brought Richie Sambora into his self-named band
Bon Jovi
Amy
$800 [16]
Blyleven & Campaneris, because our writers absolutely love old-school baseball
Bert
Amy
$800 [20]
An 1880s medicalpublicationtalked about Louis Pasteur's treatment for this
rabies
Amy
$800 [5]
David Bowie judged the walkoff between male models played by Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson in this comedy
Zoolander
Amy
$800 [3]
This modern jazz style originated in the 1940s
bebop
Amy
$1,000 [26]
The wide-open middle part of a barn is called this, like the central spot in a church where worshippers gather
the nave
Dan
$800 [10]
You can land on St. James Place, Pacific Avenue or Vermont Avenue in this oceanfront resort city
Atlantic City
Amy
$1,000 [17]
World War II journalist Pyle & "Ghostbuster" Hudson
Ernie
Amy Dan
$1,000 [21]
Ernst Gräfenberg developed this birth control device that's inserted into the uterus
an IUD
Amy
$1,000 [6]
Keep up! In "Ocean's 12" she played Tess, who in a meta turn, faked being her to help in a heist
Julia Roberts
Taryn
$1,000 [30]
It is both a scarf bought in Moscow & a grandmother who might wear one
babushka
Amy
DD $4,000 [25]
The parts of this lowest section of your brain are the midbrain, the pons & the medulla oblongata
the brain stem
Amy
$1,000 [11]
In 2021 he became the first Democrat re-elected Jersey's gov. since Brendan Byrne in 1977; maybe an arena will be named for him
Phil Murphy

Double Jeopardy! Round

ESCAPIST LITERATURE MURALS INTERNATIONAL CARS WORLD HISTORY 7-LETTER ANAGRAMS DEEP CUTS
$400 [16]
"The Wooden Horse" by Eric Williams is the fact-based story of escaping Stalag Luft III, this type of place
a POW camp
Amy
$400 [11]
Following his & daughter Gianna's tragic deaths in 2020, dozens of murals in tribute showed up all around Los Angeles
Kobe Bryant
Amy
$400 [2]
This Italian company took over Chrysler in 2009
Fiat
Dan Taryn
$400 [1]
The Latin for fief, a vassal's domain, gave this political & social system of Europe's middle ages its name
feudalism
Amy
$400 [27]
A term for any snake & a tense in grammar
serpent & present
Amy
$400 [21]
Would you spin your chair for this country star's "You'll Always Be Beautiful", off the "Hillbilly Bone" EP?
Blake Shelton
Taryn
$1,200 [18]
George & Eliza make it safely to Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation in this 1852 novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Amy
$800 [12]
Thomas Hart Benton's "Independence and the Opening of the West" adorns the lobby of this man's Independence, Missouri library
Truman
Amy
$800 [6]
The 300 SL model from this German automaker featured gull-wing doors
Mercedes
Dan
$800 [7]
During a forced exile, he wrote "The Prince" & began his "Discourses on Livy"
Machiavelli
Amy
$800 [28]
Made someone aware of danger & changed something
alerted & altered
Amy Taryn
$800 [23]
"Viva La Vida" was the title track for this band in 2008; the album also featured a visit to "Cemeteries Of London"
Coldplay
Amy
$1,600 [19]
In "Great Expectations" , the escaped convict Abel Magwitch is revealed to be this character's benefactor
Pip
Amy
$1,200 [13]
Relocated to Washington, D.C., Marvin Beerbohm's"Automotive Industry"mural was originally created for a public library in this city
Detroit
Amy
$1,200 [8]
Japan's Nissan Corp. phased out this brand in 1981, then brought it back in 2012
Datsun
Amy
$1,200 [5]
In the 1950s riots broke out between the Tamils & Sinhalese after Sinhala was made this country's sole official language
Sri Lanka
Amy
$1,200 [29]
Using too many words & to watch
verbose & observe
Taryn
$1,200 [24]
Discover "Exactly How I Feel" on "Cuz I Love You" by this rap & R&B singer who needs but one name
Lizzo
$2,000 [20]
The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Amy
$1,600 [14]
Boogie on over to the Barnes Foundation to see the work called "The Dance" by this French leader of the Fauvist movement
Matisse
Amy Taryn
$1,600 [9]
Tata Motors is this Asian nation's largest auto company
India
Amy
$1,600 [4]
This 12th century warrior who battled the Crusaders was known as "The Chivalrous Saracen"
Saladin
Dan
$1,600 [22]
Something that can cause itchy eyes & a place to view art
gallery & allergy
Amy
$1,600 [25]
"Some Unholy War" is waged on "Back To Black" by this soulful British singer
Amy Winehouse
Amy
DD $6,000 [17]
10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city
Florence
Amy
$2,000 [15]
A fresco uncovered in Pompeii shows her being seduced by what appears to be a swan
Leda
Amy
DD $2,000 [10]
This car was first imported to the U.S. in the 1980s; the factory that made them was destroyed by NATO bombing in 1999
a Yugo
Amy
$2,000 [3]
The first great land battle of the Hundred Years' War was the 1346 battle of this village in northern France
the Battle of Crécy
Taryn
$2,000 [30]
A building for a legislature & having to do with vision
capitol & optical
Dan
$2,000 [26]
Of course "Motherboard" was part of this duo's "Random Access Memories"
Daft Punk

Final Jeopardy!

AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD

France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673

the Molière Award

Taryn "What is ?" — wagered $400
Dan "What is Moliere?" — wagered $500
Amy "What is theCyrano?Voltaire?" — wagered $20,000

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