Show #8612 2022-04-05 (taped 2022-01-27) Regular

Mattea Roach game 1.

Contestants

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kathleen Snyder — a government contractor from Arlington, Virginia

Camron Conners — a high school social studies teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Camron $600 $-1,000 $2,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$3,200
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Kathleen $2,000 $2,400 $16,000 $21,001
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Mattea $1,200 $4,600 $18,000 $32,001
New champion: $32,001
$18,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOW ARE YOU FIXED FOR BLADES? LAST NAME'S THE SAME INSTRUMENTAL TV THEMES CLEAR "I"s FULL ARTS CAN'T LOSE
$200 [7]
Before proclaiming it was "the best a man can get", this razor company asked via cartoon parrot, "How are you fixed for blades?"
Gillette
Camron
$200 [2]
Purported drink inventor Tom & Irish independence fighter Michael
Collins
Mattea
$200 [13]
King's Landing & Winterfell are a few of the places seen during this show's opening theme
Game of Thrones
Mattea
$200 [10]
It's from the Latin for "not readable", like with bad handwriting
illegible
Camron
$200 [22]
Here's something to ponder... purchased as a gift to Paris, this Rodin sculpture was placed outside the Panthéon in 1906
The Thinker
Mattea
$200 [1]
On running for re-election in 2024, this law alum from Leningrad State University said, "I haven't decided"; uh huh, sure, man
Putin
Mattea
$400 [8]
A dermatologic surgeon can use a No. 15 type of this small, light blade & a Bard-Parker handle
a scalpel
Camron
$400 [3]
Movie auteur Wes & book author Sherwood
Anderson
Camron
$400 [14]
The jaunty "William Tell Overture" was the theme song for this old show about a masked man
The Lone Ranger
Kathleen
$400 [18]
It's from the Latin for "to drink in", perhaps some beer
imbibe
Mattea
$400 [23]
In pottery, when feldspar is added to clay & hit with 2,000-degree temps, the product turns translucent & is called this
porcelain
Camron
$400 [27]
By the numbers in 1984, it was Ronald Reagan, 54 million votes, this Minnesota man, 17 million fewer
Mondale
Mattea
$600 [9]
Olympian Bonnie Blair wore different blades of glory in winning 5 gold medals in this sport
speed skating
Camron Mattea
$600 [4]
Sci-fi scribe William & "Laugh-In" poet Henry
Gibson
$600 [15]
The Ventures had a hit with the theme for this "stately" cop show, rebooted in 2010 with the same theme
Hawaii Five-O
Kathleen
$600 [19]
This 10-letter word describes one who destroys religious images
iconoclast
Camron Kathleen
$800 [25]
His painting of a peasant woman of Nuenen peeling potatoes isn't nearly as famous as his "Potato Eaters"
van Gogh
$600 [28]
On Sept. 21,1981 the Senate confirmed her Supreme Court nomination, 99-0
Sandra Day O'Connor
Mattea
$800 [11]
You can see Joyeuse, the sword of this great king of the Franks in the 700s, both here& in the Louvre
Charlemagne
Mattea
$800 [5]
U.K. Labour prime minister Harold & rocker Nancy
Wilson
Mattea
$800 [16]
This '90s sitcom set at an airfield took flight with an arrangement of a Schubert sonata
Wings
Kathleen
$800 [20]
This Latin abbreviation means "in the same place"
ibid
Camron Kathleen
DD $1,000 [24]
A new exhibit, this movement "Beyond Borders" has a 1936 work showing high heels & a rosary tangled in what looks like fish nets
Surrealism
Camron
$800 [29]
In 2002 this Mideast world leader didn't sweat re-election, winning 11 million to 0, but by 2003, was an ex-president
Saddam Hussein
Camron Mattea
$1,000 [12]
The trowel type of this blade was used to dig; if a "charge" was called, it fit onto a muzzle for hand-to-hand combat
a bayonet
Kathleen
$1,000 [6]
Accused conspirator Clay & producer Run Run
Shaw
$1,000 [17]
Heard here is the stock music piece "Temptation Sensation", recognizable as the theme of this FX comedy
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Mattea
$1,000 [21]
A narrative poem treating an epic theme; Tennyson wrote some "of the King"
idylls
Kathleen
$1,000 [26]
Piet Mondrian "saw my line quiver", said this sculptor; inspired, he began to make mobiles, whole pieces that quiver
Alexander Calder
$1,000 [30]
Taking a seat in 1990 to rep Stralsund-Rügen-Grimmen preceded this politician's 4 wins running for the world leader gig
Angela Merkel

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY DOGS SCRAMBLED NOVELS ADJECTIVES MOVIE CRITICS 6 DEGREES OF SIR FRANCIS BACON
$400 [2]
Because it's sprawled across 14 islands, this Swedish capital is called "the Venice of the North"
Stockholm
Mattea
$400 [1]
Dubbed the "Apollo of dogs", this nordic-named breed that was used to hunt boar can stand 32 inches at the shoulder
a Great Dane
Mattea
$400 [15]
An 1815 classic:"MAME"
Emma
Mattea
$400 [21]
If your neck is this, you are in pain, but if your drink is this, you'll soon be feeling no pain
stiff
Kathleen
$400 [7]
This character tells Agent Starling she has cheap shoes & looks like a rube, & he's just getting started
Hannibal Lecter
Kathleen
$400 [26]
Bacon's hated rival Edward Coke was a mentor to Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island & this capital
Providence
Mattea
$800 [3]
Located off the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn is found in this "blazing" archipelago
Tierra del Fuego
Camron
$800 [11]
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling is one breed of this sporting dog for whom "fetch!" should be instinctual
a retriever
Mattea
$800 [16]
Monkeys as masters: "SEAPLANE THEFT OP"
Planet of the Apes
$800 [22]
The landscape here with shepherds is appropriately titled with this adjective, from the Latin for "shepherd"
pastoral
Kathleen
$800 [8]
In this film about a bachelor party gone wrong, Ed Helms tells Zach Galifianakis, "You are literally too stupid to insult"
The Hangover
Mattea
$800 [30]
"You have built an ark to save learning from deluge", said Francis to Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian one of these
library
Camron
$1,200 [4]
Papeete is the chief port & city of this Pacific Ocean island
Tahiti
Mattea
$1,200 [12]
The great woofer seenhereis named for this mountain range in Western Europe
the Pyrenees
Kathleen
$1,200 [17]
Billy Pilgrim gets bombed: "A HUGE TUSH FLIES OVER"
Slaughterhouse-Five
Mattea
$1,200 [23]
A cloudless blue sky can be described as this 4-syllable blue
cerulean
$1,200 [9]
In this comedy, Steve Carell asks a group of rival newscasters, "Where did you get those clothes? At the toilet store?"
Anchorman
Kathleen
DD $1,000 [28]
Francis' dad was pals with Matthew Parker, who in this job from 1559 to 1575 gave the Anglican Church its distinct identity
Archbishop of Canterbury
Mattea
$1,600 [5]
Ticos are residents of this "rich" country of the Western Hemisphere
Costa Rica
Mattea
$2,000 [14]
The Australian breed seenhereshares its name with an ominous Scottish water spirit
a Kelpie
Kathleen
$1,600 [18]
1920s romance of a wounded soldier & his nurse:"LOST MALE WARFARE"
A Farewell to Arms
Kathleen
$1,600 [24]
A word for a thespian gives us this adjective that means excessively theatrical or melodramatic
histrionic
$1,600 [10]
A tired & hapless Jeff Bridges expresses some strong dislike for the Eagles in this 1998 Coen Brothers comedy
The Big Lebowski
Camron
$1,200 [27]
Bacon kissed the hand of King James I of England, who was the son of this queen, though James never saw her after age 1
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mattea
$2,000 [6]
This "Port" city of Egypt is located where the Suez Canal meets the Mediterranean Sea
Port Said
DD $4,000 [13]
In legend, these low-slung Welsh dogs were used to pull fairy carriages
Corgis
Kathleen
$2,000 [19]
A Colson Whitehead Pulitzer winner:"BEEN SICKLY HOT"
The Nickel Boys
Mattea
$2,000 [25]
The same root gives us quarrelsome & this adjective for someone who is always complaining
querulous
Kathleen
$2,000 [20]
"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!" Jamie Lee Curtis tells Kevin Kline in this piscatory 1988 comedy
A Fish Called Wanda
Mattea
$2,000 [29]
Francis' uncle, Lord Burleigh, built a home where you can still see thegardensof this 18th century designer known as "Capability"
Lancelot "Capability" Brown

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSIC GAMES

Reuben Klamer, who passed away in 2021 at age 99, developed this game relatable to "literally everyone on Earth"

The Game of Life

Camron "What is Trivial Pursuit?" — wagered $2,199
Kathleen "What is Life?" — wagered $5,001
Mattea "What is Life?" — wagered $14,001

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