Show #8596 2022-03-14 (taped 2022-01-18) Regular

Contestants

Amy Bekkerman — an academic copy editor from Durham, New Hampshire

Susan Swan — an employment attorney from San Diego, California

Matt Glassman — a bar owner from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $3,000 $7,200 $16,000 $12,799
2nd place: $2,000
$16,000
25 R, 1 W
Susan $2,400 $2,400 $5,600 $5,600
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
9 R, 2 W
Amy $3,600 $4,400 $9,600 $16,100
New champion: $16,100
$12,600
15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE HOBBIES I LOVE YOU 3,000 EUROPE '70s TELEVISION WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT
$200 [26]
This West Coast state joined the union during Fillmore's presidency
California
Matt
$200 [17]
Maybe you want to make this type of decorative window; Chartres Cathedral has ones for inspiration
stained glass
Matt
$200 [28]
"U" know it's the designation for radio frequencies between 300 & 3,000 megahertz
UHF (ultra high frequency)
$200 [7]
This northern region encompassing several countries is sometimes reckoned to include Finland & the Faroe Islands
Scandinavia
Amy
$200 [29]
The alien Mork came to Earth to study humans like this other title character he bonds with
Mindy
Amy
$200 [30]
A set cost for a service provided
a fee
Matt
$400 [25]
In 1848 Fillmore wrote to this man who had chosen him for VP, saying I know you never heard of me before the convention
Taylor
Matt
$400 [14]
After you've made your pottery, you may want to fire it in one of these ovens
a kiln
Matt
$400 [11]
He'snot a total outcast; he's a musical & fashion trendsetter
Andre 3000
Matt
$600 [9]
Finally realizing independence in 1993, it had been called "Upper Hungary"
Slovakia
Matt Amy
$400 [20]
Bo & Luke, this title pair, were always working to stay one step ahead of Sheriff Coltrane & Boss Hogg
the Dukes of Hazzard
Matt
$400 [27]
A bitter brew often with higher alcohol content
an ale
Matt
$600 [4]
Too-friendly-to-slavery Millard's name is being taken off things at UB, the U. at this city in New York where he was 1st chancellor
Buffalo
Matt
$600 [13]
Instead of paraffin, you might opt to make your candles from this, a by-product of honey making
beeswax
Susan
$600 [2]
This shortstop was the first of all the team's superstars to join the 3,000-hit club as a Yankee, doing so with a home run in 2011
Jeter
Matt
$800 [5]
This capital of Belarus was almost completely destroyed during World War II
Minsk
Matt
$600 [19]
Jan, Cindy & this eldest were the 3 daughters in "The Brady Bunch"
Marcia
Amy
$600 [24]
A signal to an actor
a cue
Matt
$800 [3]
Shortly after taking office, Fillmore named this religious leader the governor of the Utah territory
(Brigham) Young
Matt
$800 [12]
Pinching buds, pruning & wiring branches are part of this, a loanword from Japanese that means "planted in a container"
bonsai
Susan
$800 [1]
Beginning where the Lualaba & Luvua meet, this river flows almost 3,000 miles through West Central Africa to the Atlantic
the Congo
Susan Amy
DD $1,000 [8]
Rossini never visited this Spanish city where he set an 1816 opera
Seville
Amy
$800 [6]
For three seasons, this actress helped protect our world as Diana Prince, an Amazon better known as Wonder Woman
Lynda Carter
Susan
$800 [21]
Great sorrow
woe
Matt
$1,000 [18]
One of Fillmore's nicknames was "the last of" this political party's presidents
Whig
Susan
$1,000 [16]
Settle in with some needlework & crochet this cozy blanket that gets its name from the land of the Pashtun people
afghan
Amy
$1,000 [22]
In 2021 a trader's "fat-finger" error led to a sale price of $3,000 instead of $300,000 for an NFT, short for this
a non-fungible token
Matt
$1,000 [10]
This former Yugoslav republic named for a mountain has the Tara River Canyon, one of Europe's deepest & a nice bridge over it
Montenegro
Amy
$1,000 [15]
According to our "Files", this private eye lived in a trailer in Malibu but drove his Pontiac Firebird all over Los Angeles
Rockford
Susan
$1,000 [23]
Home for an osprey
an aerie
Susan Amy

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NEW YORK TIMESBOOK REVIEW TUNE RIVER NUCLEAR PHYSICS RHYMING WITH THE GREEK GODS LIBRARIES "SH"!
$400 [1]
In 1976 James Baldwin reviewed this book that "begins in Gambia West Africa in 1750 with the birth of... Kunta Kinte"
Roots
Matt
$400 [19]
It's said that he wrote the 2003 hit "Cry Me A River" about an ex, Britney Spears
Timberlake
Susan
$400 [13]
When 2 light nuclei combine to form a single heavier nucleus, it's called this process
fusion
Matt
$400 [30]
A prohibition on the horned god of shepherds & flocks
a Pan ban
Matt
$400 [21]
Its present building was erected under Pope Sixtus V
the Vatican Library
Amy
$400 [28]
From the name of a British army officer, it's fragments from an exploded bomb, mine or shell
shrapnel
Matt
$800 [20]
In 1911 this author made news when he attended a birthday party for a dog named Fluffy Ruffles, not White Fang
(Jack) London
Matt
$800 [4]
In her first solo No. 1 hit after leaving The Supremes, she sang, "Ain't no river wide enough to keep me from you"
Ross
Matt Amy
$800 [12]
Each particle in this Greek letter type of radiation used safely in home smoke detectors is identical to a helium nucleus
alpha radiation
$800 [29]
A whole geologic time period centered on the queen of the Olympians
a Hera era
Matt
$800 [22]
You don't have to work in government to use the main reading room here, but you do need an appointment
the Library of Congress
Susan
$800 [27]
According to its website, this international is a fraternity based on fun, fellowship & masonic principles
the Shriners
Susan
$1,200 [23]
Begun as a Saturday supplement in 1896, the first review included an update on this writer, incarcerated in Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde
Amy
$1,200 [3]
Jerome Kern wrote this standard about the Mississippi River for the musical "Show Boat"
"Ol' Man River"
Susan
$1,200 [11]
The first people to use the term "atom" were the ancient Greeks & in their language, it refers to this quality
indivisibility
$1,200 [6]
To walk behind the major god whose twin was Artemis
to follow Apollo
Matt
$1,200 [14]
Mayor La Guardia named the 2 marble lions outside the NYPL this & Fortitude, qualities needed to survive the depression
Patience
$1,200 [26]
Once considered a rare breed, this dog was originally used for hunting & guarding in China
shar-pei
Amy
$1,600 [24]
Offering "very good advice on bad assumptions" is what the reviewer had to say about "How to Win Friends and" do this
Influence People
Amy
$1,600 [2]
Big Mouth Billy Bass, a fish mounted on a plaque, lip-synched "Don't Worry, Be Happy" & this apt Al Green tune
"Take Me To The River"
DD $2,000 [10]
From their position on the periodic table, elements with atomic numbers greater than 92 are labeled with this term
transuranium
Amy
$1,600 [5]
An unexpected extra father of Zeus
bonus Cronus
Matt
$2,000 [16]
The archives of this "Father of Existentialism" are housed at the Royal Library in Copenhagen
Søren Kierkegaard
$1,600 [8]
One of the earliest written mentions of this Native American people that included Sacagawea is in the journals of Lewis & Clark
Shoshone
Amy
$2,000 [25]
In an interview, this author said he prepared for writing "The Lincoln Highway" by reading many works set in the 1950s
Amor Towles
$2,000 [17]
It's the river that's "chilly & cold" as well as "deep & wide" in "Michael, Row The Boat Ashore"
Jordan
Amy
$2,000 [18]
This fertile word is the "B" in FBR, a reactor that produces more nuclear fuel than it consumes while generating power
breeder
$2,000 [7]
Deception practiced by the muse of dance
Terpsichore trickery
DD $4,000 [9]
The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community
Bethesda
Amy
$2,000 [15]
It's a Middle Eastern sandwich in a pita or wrap with lamb or chicken, shaved from a rotating spit
shawarma
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD WAR I

Suvla Bay & Cape Helles were major landing sites along this peninsula

Gallipoli

Susan "What is Hellenic?" — wagered $0
Amy "What is Gallipoli?" — wagered $6,500
Matt "What is Danzig?" — wagered $3,201

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