Show #8618 2022-04-13 (taped 2022-02-08) Regular

Mattea Roach game 7.

Contestants

Adam Wallick — an airline planning analyst from Chicago, Illinois

Rachel Skytt — a bookseller from Burbank, California

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 6-day cash winnings total $148,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mattea	$600	$7,200	$20,400	$20,401 7-day champion: $168,401	$20,400 23 R, 1 W
Rachel	$2,000	$4,000	$8,000	$8,000 2nd place: $2,000	$8,000 12 R, 0 W
Adam	$800	$2,000	$10,200	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$6,400 12 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

A REIGN OF ERROR	HOUSEHOLD INITIALS	A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115	BOOK 'EM	AT THE MOVIES	ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS
$200 [26] The relentless execution of Protestant rebels earned this queen of England the nickname "Bloody" & the hatred of her people Mary Rachel	$200 [21] P.L.:The one on the stove might go out occasionally the pilot light Adam	$200 [6] The sequence of triangular numbers goes 3, 6, this 10 Mattea	$200 [2] In 1897 this Bram Stoker horror novel was vastly outsold by another in the genre, "The Beetle", about a shape-shifting monster Dracula Mattea	$200 [15] Ellen DeGeneres voiced this character in "Finding Nemo" & its sequel Dory Rachel	$200 [1] In the 1980s this word lost favor to the gender-neutral flight attendant stewardess Rachel
$400 [27] After having his mom & wife killed, this emperor was accused of starting a fire that devastated Rome; he blamed the Christians Nero Rachel	$400 [22] S.D.:It's time to change the batteries when they chirp smoke detector Mattea	$400 [7] Numbers is this number book in the King James Bible the 4th Adam	$400 [11] A series of instructional books was launched in 1991 with the title this 3-letter computer acronym "for Dummies" DOS	$400 [16] "May the odds be ever in your favor" is a line from this 2012 post-apocalyptic film The Hunger Games Mattea	$400 [3] This seven-letter track & field moment seenhererequires practice & teamwork the handoff Mattea
$600 [28] Britannica, on one of this czar's many errors: he "met the rising groundswell of popular unrest with intensified police repression" Nicholas II Mattea	$600 [23] M.T.:Removal of it "under penalty of law" does not apply to the consumer mattress tag Rachel	DD $400 [9] Feb. 6, 2022 began Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee, marking this many years on the throne 70 Adam	$600 [12] In 2019 this Irma Rombauer book was fully revised & updated with 600 new recipes the Joy of Cooking Rachel	$600 [18] In "Mary Poppins Returns", this actress took on the role of the magical nanny Emily Blunt Mattea	$600 [4] In Spanish it's globo ocular the eyeball Mattea
$800 [29] After trying to buy Cortes off to stop an invasion, this Aztec emperor let the Spaniards into Tenochtitlan with no opposition Montezuma Mattea	$800 [24] G.D.:The In Sink Erator is a brand of this garbage disposal Mattea	$600 [8] The proverbial "weakling" weighs this many pounds, though a Charles Atlas ad had it one pound less 98	$800 [13] African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But" this a Sandwich	$800 [19] Denzel Washington & Viola Davis reprised their Tony-winning roles in the 2016 movie version of this play Fences Rachel	$800 [5] Thistype of ornamentation is like lacework done with gold or silver filigree
$1,000 [30] Part of what made him "unready" to be England's king was massacring Danish settlers in 1002, which spurred more invasions Ethelred the Unready Mattea	$1,000 [25] M.R.:It's a vestibule where you take off wet clothes the mud room Mattea	$1,000 [10] In 1958 Crayola introduced its box of this many crayons, the first with sharpener included 64 Rachel	$1,000 [14] This James Redfield bestseller about an ancient manuscript that provides 9 key insights to life has been called "a spiritual classic" The Celestine Prophecy	$1,000 [20] "Beavis & Butt-Head" creator Mike Judge wrote & directed this 1999 workplace comedy Office Space Mattea	$1,000 [17] It's the aggrieved party that initiates a lawsuit the plaintiff Adam

Double Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE USA	OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH	CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT	BAT QUIZ	WHAT THE LETTER SAYS	SINCERELY YOURS
$400 [30] To see a rarestone beachon Washington Island, Wisconsin, you must brave Death's Door, a strait connecting Lake Michigan and this bay Green Bay Adam	$400 [14] This Amherst woman wrote, "'Faith' is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see! / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency!" Dickinson Rachel	$400 [5] Scrantonicity The Office Mattea	$400 [19] Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera, meaning "hand"-this wing Mattea	$400 [25] Thomas Jefferson's last public letter, 10 days before he died, says, sorry, too sick to attend the celebrations of its 50th anniversary U.S. independence Adam	$400 [10] In "Casablanca" Cuddles Sakall insists that the gambling at Rick's cafe is as this "as the day is long" honest
$800 [4] Headweston I-40 in New Mexico, & you can go from Acoma to Zuni, visiting two of the state's 19 of these centuries old Native American communities pueblos Mattea	$800 [15] After an admiral bags on his beliefs, this film villain says, "I find your lack of faith disturbing" & forces the issue Darth Vader Mattea	$800 [6] Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, with Animal on drums The Muppet Show Rachel	$800 [20] Nectar-feeding bats pollinate the flowers that grow on the tips of the organ pipe variety of this desert plant a cactus Adam	$1,200 [27] In 1964 he wrote from Mecca that he had prayed with white people whose belief in Allah had "removed the 'white' from their minds" Malcolm X Mattea Adam	$800 [11] 9-letter "cardiac" adjective for sincere apologies or sympathies heartfelt Adam
$1,200 [1] Incredible homes like Marble House, an imitation of Versailles, meant to be a temple of the arts, are in this Rhode Island city Newport Adam	$1,200 [16] This "Derek" star tweeted atheists were fighting again "over who doesn't believe in any god the most... wait... that never happens" Ricky Gervais Mattea	$1,200 [7] Jesse & the Rippers, led by Uncle Jesse Katsopolis Full House Rachel	$1,200 [21] Bats navigate at night using this system of acoustic orientation that incorporates nature's version of radar echolocation Mattea	$1,600 [28] In 1639 he wrote to Lord Huygens about his paintings with the "greatest & most natural movement" & mentioning "I live on the Inner Amstel" Rembrandt Rachel	$1,200 [12] If I give you the straight scoop, I do this, the title of a 1966 Aaron Neville hit "Tell It Like It Is"
$1,600 [2] Seafood plus history mark this area, named for its location on Chesapeake Bay, birthplace of both Harriet Tubman & Frederick Douglass the Eastern Shore Adam	$1,600 [17] In 1796 Samuel Miles, an elector for this political party, went "faithless" & voted against John Adams the Federalists Mattea Adam	$1,600 [8] Dingoes Ate My Baby, performing down at the Bronze Buffy the Vampire Slayer	$1,600 [22] Vampire bat bites threaten livestock not by making them the undead, but by spreading this disease caused by a lyssavirus rabies	$2,000 [29] A 1496 letter authorizes him & his son Sebastian to sail for England & claim isles, regions & "provinces of heathen & infidels" John Cabot	$1,600 [13] It sounds like you just keep rising with this repetitive idiom that starts with "on the" on the up-and-up Mattea
DD $2,000 [3] Southwest of Tallahassee, this community got the same name as a Central American capital in 1909 when its people were excited about possible trade Panama City Adam	$2,000 [18] 1 of the 2 Brits, a biologist & a political writer, in "The Four Horsemen of Atheism" with Americans Daniel Dennett & Sam Harris (1 of) Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins Mattea	$2,000 [9] The rapper Clark County Atlanta	$2,000 [24] Each year as many as 20 million female Mexican free-tailed bats give birth at sites like Bracken Cave in this U.S. state Texas Adam	DD $5,000 [26] In 1855 she wrote a friend in England apologizing for not writing sooner but the Crimean War wounded were keeping her busy Florence Nightingale Adam	$2,000 [23] From the Latin, this word for sincere has a close relative, "genuine", & a "dis-" opposite ingenuous Mattea

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORY

Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war"

the Seven Years' War

Rachel "What is the French and Indian War???" — wagered $0

Adam "What is the French and Indian War?" — wagered $10,200

Mattea "What is the Seven Years' War?" — wagered $1

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