Show #8620 2022-04-15 (taped 2022-02-08) Regular

Mattea Roach game 9.

Contestants

Allan Joseph — a fellow in pediatric critical care medicine from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Katie Teller — a dietician from Seattle, Washington

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 8-day cash winnings total $182,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mattea $3,000 $4,600 $21,800 $28,001
9-day champion: $210,802
$21,800
22 R, 1 W
Katie $2,400 $3,000 $14,000 $6,000
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Allan $-1,000 $4,800 $10,000 $15,000
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
16 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

IN THE ZOOM ROOM 19th CENTURY AMERICA HANDLE WITH AIR A COUNTRY OF LAWS YOUR TV HOST WITH THE MOST HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
$200 [6]
Yes, you can Zoom this comedy art form whose rules include "establish the location" & "be specific" & "say yes, and..."
improv
Katie
$200 [26]
On October 8, 1871, afirebroke out near the barn of Patrick & Catherine O'Leary; & the next morning this city was in ruins
Chicago
Allan
$200 [11]
In 1998 a law went fully into effect mandating these be installed on both sides of a car's front seat
air bags
Allan
$200 [1]
In the 1990s Germany modified the Reinheitsgebot, a law dating to 1516 that said this could be made only of barley, hops & water
beer
Mattea
$200 [19]
This "Daily Show" host acted on a South African soap opera called "Isidingo" when he was 18
Trevor Noah
Mattea
$200 [24]
The tresses of a rabbit relative
hare hair
Mattea
$400 [7]
Your gardening group can learn about Detroit dark red--not a hit man but a sweet variety of this root veggie
a beet
Katie Allan
$400 [27]
On Sept.10, 1813 the U.S. had a naval victory on this lake
Lake Erie
Allan
$400 [12]
A container of Tide can't clean this 2-word phrase after you "air" it in public & make your pal's problems known to all
dirty laundry
Katie
$400 [2]
In Australia, this is compulsory but easy, & done on Saturdays
voting
Mattea
$400 [20]
This"Good Morning America" co-anchor left Southeastern Louisiana as the women's basketball program's third all-time leading scorer
(Robin) Roberts
Allan
$400 [25]
The uninterested panel that runs an organization
the bored board
Allan
$600 [8]
The accountants at the company might go over the CVP analysis--short for cost-this-profit
cost-volume-profit
Allan
$600 [28]
Laid down in 1823, this policy declared the U.S. would not allow new colonies to be created in the Americas
the Monroe Doctrine
Allan
$600 [13]
AAA says check your tire pressure before driving, when tires aren't hot, as this measure normally increases by 2-6 with hot tires
PSI
Mattea
$600 [3]
In 2012 Bolivia adopted a law to protect La Madre Tierra, translated as this personification
Mother Earth
Katie
$600 [21]
He began hosting "The Price Is Right" in 1972 & reminded you to help control the pet population by having your pet spayed or neutered
Bob Barker
Katie
$600 [16]
To give up grain kernels
cede seed
Mattea
$800 [9]
Things can get raucous in the Zoom fantasy NBA draft as the guys compete for this "Dame", the Blazers' star guard
Lillard
Allan
$1,000 [30]
This literary movement arose in 19th century New England; some of its members experimented with utopian living at Brook Farm
Transcendentalism
$800 [14]
Oxygen makes up about 21% of Earth's atmosphere; this element dominates at 78%
nitrogen
Katie
$800 [4]
Vietnam grants female workers up to 6 months of this at 100% salary
maternity leave
Mattea
$800 [22]
Before starting her self-titled talk show, she sang for her supper & shared the silver screen with Justin Guarini
Kelly Clarkson
Mattea
$800 [17]
A trigonometric function's indicator
a sine sign
Allan
$1,000 [10]
A Bible study group will have a lively discussion of this book that says, "I am Alpha and Omega" twice in its first chapter
the Book of Revelation
Katie Allan
DD $2,000 [29]
On May 30, 1854 Pres. Pierce signed into law what was officially called "an act to organize the territories of" these 2 places"
Kansas & Nebraska
Allan
$1,000 [15]
The National Air & Space Museum is home to the Bell X-1 this man used in 1947 to fly faster than the speed of sound
(Chuck) Yeager
Katie
$1,000 [5]
The promotion not of GDP but GNH, this measure of quality of life, is enshrined in Bhutan's constitution
Gross National Happiness
Mattea
$1,000 [23]
She went "Live!" as a title daytime TV co-host in 2001 but in the '80s, got to show off her moves on "Dance Party USA"
(Kelly) Ripa
Allan
$1,000 [18]
A basement merchant
a cellar seller
Mattea

Double Jeopardy! Round

SAINTLY SPOTS TRIOS SCIENTIFIC CANADIAN THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE FEMALE LITERARY CHARACTERS 5-LETTER WORDLES
$400 [3]
Its suburbs include Florissant, Missouri & Granite City, Illinois
St. Louis
Allan
$400 [30]
In 1949 TV's first animated cereal commercial was from this rival of Kellogg's & featured 3 bears, Dandy, Handy & Candy
Post
$400 [2]
Donna Strickland shared a 2018 physics Nobel for generating short, high-intensity optical pulses with this type of device
a laser
Allan
$400 [6]
ABC sang about a "Poison" one to the heart, while Avicii had a song about shooting "Broken" ones "in the dark"
arrows
Mattea
$400 [11]
A specialist in waterproof fires, she was known to use a time-turner so she could be in 2 classes at once
(Hermione) Granger
Allan
$400 [12]
Monastery:_ _ _ EY
abbey
Katie
$1,200 [5]
The full name of this institution founded in 1754 begins "Royal and Ancient Golf Club of"
St. Andrews
Mattea
$800 [21]
Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz wrote a 600-page bestselling chronicle of this trio
the Beastie Boys
Mattea
$800 [26]
Swimming pools have been cleaner since Herbert Dow developed a method of getting this element from brine in the 1890s
chlorine
Katie
$800 [7]
Liam & Noel Gallagher of this Manchester band gave us "Supersonic" vibes in their first single in 1994
Oasis
Mattea
$800 [13]
This 3-letter Caroline Kepnes novel finds young Guinevere Beck stalked by a Big Apple murderer
You
Katie
$800 [17]
Trite:_ A _ A _
banal
Mattea
$1,600 [23]
With a population of 109,000, it's 4 times the size of any other city in Newfoundland
St. John's
Mattea
$1,200 [1]
In the 1930s Frank Malina, Ed Forman & Jack Parsons began doing pioneering work on rockets at this Pasadena school
Caltech
Mattea
$1,600 [28]
Atom bomb builder Louis Slotin was hailed as a hero for shielding others from a fatal burst of radiation at this lab
Los Alamos
$1,200 [8]
Tracy Chapman needed this title conveyance--"We gotta make a decision, leave tonight or live & die this way"
"Fast Car"
Katie
$1,200 [14]
Fitting its title well, Elinor, the oldest Dashwood girl in this Austen novel, has a good head on her shoulders
Sense and Sensibility
Mattea
$1,200 [18]
A riddle, like the one seen here:_ _ _ _ _[MIL1LION]
rebus
Katie
DD $2,000 [4]
In 1506 Pope Julius II laid its first stone
St. Peter's Basilica
Allan
$1,600 [22]
The "Golden Triangle" of the Texas oil industry is the cities of Orange, Beaumont & this "Port" one
Port Arthur
Allan
$2,000 [29]
JFK honored the FDA's Frances Kelseyfor blocking the US release of this pregnancy drug that caused birth defects around the world
thalidomide
Allan
$1,600 [9]
Not to be trusted as scientists, Coldplay claimed that "birds go flying at" this; they, in fact, do not
the speed of sound
Katie Allan
$1,600 [15]
In the sci-fi novel "Gideon the Ninth", Gideon is a cavalier bonded to Harrowhark, one of these bone-raising conjurers
a necromancer
Mattea
$1,600 [19]
A special privilege (the American spelling made some Brit players angry):_ _ V _ _
favor
Mattea
$2,000 [24]
Back before the jet set could jet there, this Swiss resort hosted the 1928 Winter Olympics
St. Moritz
Mattea
$2,000 [25]
A tradition in Northern European art was to show the virgin & child not with Joseph, but with this saint, the virgin's mother
St. Anne
Katie
DD $7,000 [27]
James Gosling developed this 4-letter programming language at Sun Microsystems
Java
Katie
$2,000 [10]
The 1993 Breeders song about one of these projectiles makes a "crash" & a "splash"
"Cannonball"
$2,000 [16]
This enchantress from the "Odyssey" is the sympathetic heroine of a 2018 novel by Madeline Miller
Circe
Mattea
$2,000 [20]
To bind:_ _ _ SS
truss
Mattea

Final Jeopardy!

ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS

In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop

Spike Lee

Allan "Who is Spike Lee?" — wagered $5,000
Katie "Who" — wagered $8,000
Mattea "Who is Spike Lee" — wagered $6,201

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