Show #8614 2022-04-07 (taped 2022-01-27) Regular

Mattea Roach game 3.

Contestants

Reagan White — a college student from Manahawkin, New Jersey

Mike Janela — a sportscaster from Astoria, New York

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $70,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mattea $2,800 $6,600 $16,400 $9,599
3-day champion: $80,400
$15,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Mike $1,600 $-600 $1,800 $1,793
2nd place: $2,000
$4,000
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Reagan $0 $2,400 $11,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$13,600
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR II LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET PALINDROMIC WORDS BALLPARK FIGURE
$200 [1]
Nazi loot found in a salt mine included precious artworks, items stolen from concentration camp victims & more than 8,000 bars of this
gold
Mattea
$200 [4]
In the story of this pair, the witch asks, "Nibble, nibble little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?"
Hansel & Gretel
Reagan
$200 [30]
This Google product is the USA's most-used web browser
Chrome
Mattea
$200 [23]
A Carmelite sister, for example
a nun
Mike
$200 [17]
"America's most beloved ballpark", it's home to the Green Monster
Fenway Park
Mike
$200 [9]
The symbol for this limitless quantity is a figure eight tipped on its side
infinity
Mattea
$400 [2]
When war broke out in September 1939, this country had tanks & a million-man army yet still relied heavily on cavalry
Poland
$400 [5]
This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house"
the Cat in the Hat
Mattea
$400 [29]
The Wow! computer for seniors says it has "free anti-virus" & this bad stuff "protection"
malware
Reagan
$400 [25]
To get an apple from the tub with your teeth
bob
Mattea
$400 [16]
The address for Oracle Park, home to this team, is 24 Willie Mays Plaza
the (San Francisco) Giants
Mike
$400 [10]
Known as a shape poem, the one seen here from "Alice in Wonderland" is punningly called "The Mouse's" this
Tale
Mattea
$600 [3]
Jimmy Doolittle's April 1942 air raid on this Axis capital raised Allied morale at a dark time in the war
Tokyo
Mattea Mike
$600 [6]
An annual read aloud book award is named for this "Stuart Little" author
E.B. White
Mattea
$800 [19]
Smaller networks can be secured with the packet-filtering type of this protective program
a firewall
Mike
$600 [26]
Slang adjective for someone you think is not what they seem, especially if they might be the impostor in the game "Among Us"
sus
Mattea
$600 [15]
The Yankees have spring training in Tampa at GMS Field, GMS being the initials of this longtime owner
(George) Steinbrenner
Mike
$600 [11]
Latin for "egg" gives us the word for this 4-letter shape
oval
Mattea
$800 [20]
Here'sa look at a Canadian regiment moving along the road from Holten to Rijssen in 1945 while liberating this Low Country
the Netherlands
Mattea
$800 [7]
Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger in "The Jungle Book", threatens that this character "is mine & to my teeth he will come in the end"
Mowgli
Reagan
$1,000 [24]
Like a T-shirt, a computer program is made of these; in an online forum, they're sequences of comments on the same topic
threads
Reagan
$800 [27]
New year in Hanoi
Tet
Mattea
$800 [14]
This NL team makes its home in Chase Field, which has a retractable roof to avoid too much heat in summer
the (Arizona) Diamondbacks
Mike
$800 [12]
In an image from the European Southern Observatory, it's the shapely type of galaxy seenherein the constellation Eridanus
a spiral
Mike
$1,000 [21]
In December 1940 Franklin Roosevelt proposed this alliterative system of aid to allies without immediate payment
Lend-Lease
Mattea
$1,000 [8]
Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows"
the Red Fern
Mattea
DD $2,200 [18]
Old monitors needed a screensaver, which moved so it wouldn't burn in; today you can use this static image, also a home decorating item
wallpaper
Mike
$1,000 [28]
It's the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship
the poop
$1,000 [13]
Roy Campanella, Biz Mackey & Jud Wilson, who played for the city in the Negro Leagues, appear in this park's Birdland artwork
Oriole Park
Reagan
$1,000 [22]
As a noun it refers to the curving bend of a river; as a verb, it means to wander aimlessly
meander
Reagan

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE IN THE CITY QUOTE-POURRI THE AWFUL SOUND OF MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES WHO WANTS DESSERT?
$400 [30]
Jackson Pollock's first wall-sized painting was fittingly titled this, from a word meaning "wall"
Mural
Reagan
$400 [5]
National Civil Rights Museum, Graceland
Memphis
Reagan
$400 [28]
Complete the Thomas Paine quote "These are the times that try men's..."
souls
Reagan
$400 [17]
Randy Jackson's go-to complaint on "American Idol"; dictionaries say it also means "tar-like"
pitchy
Mike
$400 [11]
"Man on Wire" takes a look at Philippe Petit's daring & illegal tightrope walk in 1974 between the towers of this complex
the World Trade Center
Reagan
$400 [18]
No dillydallying after taking this eggy dessert out of the oven; it will only stay fully risen for a minute or 2
souffle
Reagan
$800 [22]
In 1851, this iconic painting of an incident from American history sold for what was then a huge sum--$10,000
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Reagan
$800 [3]
Olympic Park, Place Jacques-Cartier
Montreal
Mattea
$800 [10]
This man from Shaoshan wrote, "A revolution is not a dinner party"
Mao Zedong
Mattea Reagan
$800 [16]
Meaning "one note", it can also describe something dull & repetitious
monotone (or monotonous)
Mattea
$800 [12]
In "Roger & Me", Michael Moore set out to confront Roger Smith about the closing of this automaker's plants in Flint, Michigan
General Motors
Mike Reagan
$800 [29]
Colorful sprinkles baked in the batter turn ordinary birthday cake into this festive type, but don't toss it in celebration
Funfetti (Confetti)
Reagan
$1,200 [24]
Botticelli's allegorical painting "Spring" also has this Italian title
Primavera
Mattea
$1,200 [1]
In Bavaria:Marienplatz, Olympiapark
Munich
Mattea
$1,200 [9]
In a Bible parable, a merchant "found one" this gem "of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it"
a pearl
$1,200 [8]
Like off-key, this other hyphenated adjective means unable to distinguish between different musical pitches
tone-deaf
Mike
$1,200 [13]
A 2021 documentary takes an intimate look at this actress &herups & downs living with multiple sclerosis
Selma Blair
Reagan
$1,200 [19]
This tangy dessert is an official state food of Florida
key lime pie
Reagan
DD $2,000 [23]
Turns out Gainsborough originally put a dog in this 1770 portrait of a young lad clad in shades of indigo
The Blue Boy
Reagan
$1,600 [2]
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu & the Prado
Madrid
Mike
$2,000 [27]
"Only Connect" is from this E.M. Forster novel about a country house
Howards End
$1,600 [6]
Henry van Dyke rhymed that the cry of the whippoorwill was "sad and" this; not a great compliment for your singing either
shrill
Reagan
$1,600 [14]
This HBO docuseries tells of how tons of money was swindled from a fast food chain's Monopoly game in the 1990s
McMillions
$1,600 [20]
At Christmas time we want traditional English this, slices of cake soaked in sherry & layered with fruit, custard & whipped cream
trifle
Reagan
$2,000 [25]
The Vermeerhereis sometimes called simply "Allegory" of this virtue, & sometimes "Allegory of the Catholic" this
Faith
$2,000 [4]
A port on the Arabian Sea, Malabar Hill, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link seen here
Mumbai
DD $3,000 [26]
Providing a later history book title, Stephen Vincent Benet wrote, "Bury my tongue at Champmedy... bury my heart at" this place
Wounded Knee
Mattea
$2,000 [7]
"C" is for this unpleasant sound, also a term in poetry for discordant word sequences
cacophony
Reagan
$2,000 [15]
Early in his career Arnold Schwarzenegger flexed his muscles in this 1977 film about competitive bodybuilding
Pumping Iron
$2,000 [21]
Made with purple yams, ube hopiais a specialty of this country
the Philippines
Mattea

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTIONS

Patented in 1955, it did not go over well in the high-end fashion world but the then-new aerospace industry found it very useful

Velcro

Mike "What is I'm going to lose but the Mets will win it all this year?" — wagered $7
Reagan "What is pantyhose?" — wagered $11,600
Mattea "What israyonnylon?" — wagered $6,801

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