Show #8615 2022-04-08 (taped 2022-01-27) Regular

Mattea Roach game 4.

Contestants

Abigail Davis — a college administrator from Clarkesville, Georgia

Tom Nucum — a real estate agent from Baltimore, Maryland

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $80,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mattea $3,000 $7,400 $22,200 $24,200
4-day champion: $104,600
$24,200
31 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Tom $-400 $200 $400 $500
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
7 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Abigail $1,200 $0 $3,600 $6,100
2nd place: $2,000
$5,200
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TELEVISION MULTIPLE MEANINGS POTPOURRI PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS BEAN THERE DONE THAT
$200 [1]
In season 8 the Linz siblings covered 50 cities in 25 days to win this reality show's first family edition
The Amazing Race
Abigail
$200 [7]
Secured firmly in place, or a period without food
fast
Mattea
$200 [12]
The 200 little dots on the outside of this shortcake favorite are called achenes; each one is a tiny fruit with a seed inside
strawberries
Mattea
$200 [26]
Angelica Schuyler & Aaron Burr(2016)
Hamilton
Mattea
$200 [4]
Illinois leads the U.S. in production of these sources of tofu
soybeans
Tom
$200 [25]
John Mark carried the Olympic flame into London's Wembley Stadium in this year of the first post-WWII Summer Games
1948
Mattea
$400 [2]
A blond mullet topped the head of this subject of Tiger King", a zookeeper & felon born Joseph Schreibvogel
Joe Exotic
Mattea
$400 [8]
To strike down hard with a foot, or something that's affixed to show a fee has been paid
stamp
Abigail
$400 [13]
Seen here, this type of pipe is an accessory of Frosty the Snowman
a corncob pipe
Abigail
$400 [27]
Mitch Mitchell &Blanche DuBois(1948)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Abigail
$400 [17]
Chickpeas are also called these beans or just these, their usual name in Spain
garbanzo beans
Mattea
$400 [24]
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett led the team that came up with the COVID-19 vaccine from this company founded in 2010
Moderna
Mattea Tom
$600 [3]
Thisactress is one of the Yellowjackets, coping as adults after a plane crash 25 years earlier
Juliette Lewis
$600 [9]
A quantity of liquid, or to allow to fall
drop
Mattea
$600 [14]
Its largest tributary is the Snake River
the Columbia River
Tom Abigail
$600 [28]
Scoop Rosenbaum & Heidi Holland(1989)
The Heidi Chronicles
$600 [18]
Navy beans & molasses are traditional ingredients in this baked "metropolitan" offering
Boston baked beans
Mattea
$600 [22]
Born in Toronto, this architect designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall for his adopted hometown
(Frank) Gehry
Mattea
$800 [5]
Carrie Bradshaw returned to TV screens in this follow-up to "Sex & the City"
And Just Like That
Mattea
$800 [10]
A mode of transport, or to direct a plant to grow in a particular way
train
Abigail
$800 [15]
Greek gives us this word for the ritual also called communion or the Lord's Supper
eucharist
Mattea
$1,000 [30]
Corporate bigwig J.B. Biggley & former window washerJ. Pierrepont Finch(1962)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Mattea
$800 [19]
Native to India, mung beans are often used to grow these tender, edible seedlings
bean sprouts
Mattea
$800 [21]
In a revival of the "Special Relationship" , in June 1954 these 2 world leaders met & released the "Potomac Charter"
Eisenhower & Churchill
Mattea
$1,000 [6]
In 1986 Arthur Miller was the first subject of this PBS series of profiles in greatness that has earned more than 25 Emmys
American Masters
$1,000 [11]
To surmount, or distance info on a map
scale
$1,000 [16]
Sailing from Portugal in July 1497, this explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope & reached Mombasa in April of the next year
Vasco da Gama
DD $1,600 [29]
Aaronow & Moss, real estate salesmen (1984)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Abigail
$1,000 [20]
Minnesota's Otter Tail County is a center for growing this bean named for its shape
a kidney bean
Tom
$1,000 [23]
In 1889 this Western U.S. state's constitution was the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women
Wyoming
Mattea

Double Jeopardy! Round

AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? NORSE MYTHOLOGY WRITING--IT'S A LIVING R&B MUSIC "EM"POWER
$400 [2]
You spend 22 years having this 42-acre Indian landmark built, & what thanks do you get? Getting deposed by your son in 1658!
the Taj Mahal
Mattea
$400 [1]
April 22, 1889 is the birthdate of this "City", capital of the Sooner State
Oklahoma City
Mattea
$400 [19]
This deity was a mischief maker & a changeling who once transformed into a salmon to escape the other gods' wrath
Loki
Tom
$400 [24]
For success with this kind of novel, a good pseudonym helps; Kate Rothwell chose "Summer Devon" to show that her books were hot
romance novels
Abigail
$400 [26]
This signature song topped the R&B chart for 8 weeks in 1967; do we have to spell it out for you?
"Respect"
Tom
$400 [9]
Dubai & Abu Dhabi are this type of political territory
emirate
Mattea
$800 [3]
This London theater most associated with Shakespeare was torn down in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed all the theaters
the Globe
Mattea
$800 [7]
Faulkner titled a novel after this type of little town such as Pottersville, New York
a hamlet
$800 [18]
Muninn (memory) & Huginn (thought) are 2 of these crow relatives that fly around the 9 worlds & bring information back to Odin
ravens
Mattea
$800 [25]
It's the job of writing text for ads; on "Mad Men", Peggy Olson moved up to it from the secretarial world
copywriting
Mattea
$800 [27]
In 2016, part of a Detroit street was named in honor of this man, who's had Number Ones on the R&B charts since he was akid
Stevie Wonder
Mattea
$800 [10]
This word is used to address the dignitary seen here
eminence
Mattea
$1,200 [4]
San Antonio got its name in 1691 when explorers camped at the site on June 13, the feast day of St. Anthony of this Italian city
Padua
Mattea
$1,600 [14]
A larger geographic division + "town" = this town on Cape Cod known for its "players"
Provincetown
Mattea
$1,200 [16]
Forged by the dwarfs Brokk & Eitri, this hammer is Thor's chief weapon & symbol of his power
Mjölnir
Tom
$1,200 [21]
Pitch that story to this type of magazine, such as the fittingly named High Life or Enroute
an in-flight magazine
Mattea Tom
$1,200 [28]
Songwriter, producer & singer Kenneth Edmonds is better known by this nickname
"Babyface"
Abigail
$1,200 [11]
Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution says office holders cannot accept "any present," this, "office, or title"
emolument
Mattea
$1,600 [5]
In 1685 this edict that had granted freedom of worship to French Protestants was revoked
the Edict of Nantes
DD $2,000 [8]
Smaller than it sounds, this Illinois place was designated "Home of Superman" in 1972
Metropolis
Mattea
$1,600 [17]
The rainbow bridge Bifrost connects 2 worlds, Asgard for the gods & this one for earthlings
Midgard
Mattea
$2,000 [23]
Help write a memoir & your name may follow these 3 words, as in "Third Base is My Home" by Brooks Robinson ____ ____ ____ Jack Tobin
as told to
Abigail
$1,600 [29]
Billboard said this late, great singer "redefined R&B/soul" with "the socially themed 1971 landmark album 'What's Going On"'
Marvin Gaye
Mattea
$1,600 [12]
French gives us this word for the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
embouchure
Mattea
$2,000 [6]
This man's 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" dealt with the tabula rasa, or "clean slate" of a newborn mind
John Locke
Mattea
$2,000 [15]
Virginia "burg"s include Peters-, Williams- & this one also with a man's name, site of an 1862 battle
Fredericksburg
Tom
$2,000 [20]
This mighty ash tree supports the universe
Yggdrasil
Tom
DD $3,000 [22]
Screenwriters, you could do worse than to follow script guru Syd Field's checkpoint No. 4--"All drama is" this type of struggle
conflict
Tom
$2,000 [30]
In Dec. 2021 this "seasonal" singer was on 10 of the Top 25 R&B Hits, including "Bitter" with Cardi B & "Insane"
Summer Walker
Mattea
$2,000 [13]
It's the English name for the desert region known in Arabic as Rub' al-Khali
the Empty Quarter

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY LITERATURE

The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel

Oliver Twist

Tom "What is Oliver Twist? (GG WP)" — wagered $100
Abigail "What is Oliver Twist?" — wagered $2,500
Mattea "What is Oliver Twist?" — wagered $2,000

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