Show #8622 2022-04-19 (taped 2022-02-09) Regular

Mattea Roach game 11.

Contestants

Josh Sen — a student from Edison, New Jersey

Tina DiSciullo-Acker — a manager of development events from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 10-day cash winnings total $227,601)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mattea	$2,200	$5,600	$17,400	$17,281 11-day champion: $244,882	$16,000 23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tina	$600	$1,400	$7,000	$2,000 3rd place: $1,000	$7,000 10 R, 4 W
Josh!!	$0	$2,800	$8,600	$8,600 2nd place: $2,000	$13,400 18 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S GET SCIENTIFIC	THE ABCs OF INDIAN FOOD	POSSESSIVE THINGS	NONFICTION TELEVISION	RHYME TIME	I SEE YOU THERE!
$200 [26] Separated by as much as 40,000 feet, stratocumulus & cirrocumulus are low & high types of this clouds Josh!!	$200 [30] B is for this aromatic long-grained rice that's traditionally served with Indian dishes basmati Mattea	$200 [7] It began in California after an 1848 discovery at Sutter's Mill the Gold Rush Tina	$200 [5] Detailing the 1990s success of this NBA team, ESPN's "The Last Dance" won the Emmy for Best Nonfiction Series the Chicago Bulls Mattea	$200 [1] A respite from eating a porterhouse a steak break Mattea	$200 [16] There you are on the green cliffs of Moherin this country Ireland Mattea
$400 [25] Lise Meitner, who has an element named for her, was instrumental in the discovery of this splitting of an atom's nucleus fission Josh!!	$400 [12] T is for this tasty poultry dish, named for the clay oven it's roasted in Tandoori chicken Mattea	$400 [9] It's a trend to drop 'S from conditions like Down syndrome, but this most common age-related dementia is still largely possessive Alzheimer's Mattea	$400 [8] With 40-foot waves & freezing temperatures, this series showcases the perils of crab fishermen Deadliest Catch Mattea	$400 [2] A sibilant sound of disapproval in Geneva a Swiss hiss Josh!!	$400 [17] Cheers to you enjoying this New Orleans street, the French Quarter's most famous Bourbon Street Mattea
$600 [11] In 1966 Louis Leakey advised Dian Fossey to study the mountain this in its African habitat long-term a gorilla Tina	$600 [24] D is for this vegetarian dish made with lentils or split peas; it's also a generic term for any number of dried pulses dal Josh!!	$600 [10] In the poem "Paul Revere's Ride", Paul rides to Medford & these other 2 towns Lexington & Concord Josh!!	$600 [22] A newspaper feature first published in 1918 about bizarre curiosities inspired this TV show most recently hosted by Bruce Campbell Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tina	$600 [3] A concern regarding your Kleenex a tissue issue Mattea	$600 [18] Don't get too close to the edge at Norway's Pulpit Rock2000 feet above one of these bodies of water a fjord Mattea
$1,000 [15] Located in the upper abdomen, this organ can, in some cases, still produce hormones even after 90% has been removed pancreas Josh!!	$800 [27] S is for these savory stuffed pastries seen here with saucefor dipping samosa Josh!!	$800 [13] Dido's lament is an aria sung by a Carthaginian queen after this Trojan hero abandons her Aeneas Josh!!	$800 [23] "An avalanche can be caused by a person yodeling" was one of many misbeliefs debunked on this TV show MythBusters Josh!!	$800 [4] A boisterous cowboy hello a rowdy howdy Tina	$800 [19] It's dark, but I'm pretty sure that's you inside one of these naturally occurring volcanic tubes a lava tube Tina
DD $1,800 [14] Showing great steadfastness in 2021, NASA landed this $2.7 billion rover on Mars, a mere 127 million miles away Perseverance Josh!!	$1,000 [28] V is for this mega-hot curry, adapted from a Portuguese dish & originally made with pork vindaloo Mattea	$1,000 [21] 9th c. English King Alfred the Great collected this saint's "Pence" for the pope; you can donate to a fund of the same name Peter's Pence Josh!!	$1,000 [29] For 24 years, James Lipton interviewed the likes of Ellen Barkin & Russell Crowe while giving us a look "Inside" this title place Inside the Actors Studio Tina	$1,000 [6] A verified fact from a private detective a sleuth truth Tina	$1,000 [20] Glad to see you're paying attention to the warningsignat this Canadian Bay known for its fast-moving water the Bay of Fundy Mattea

Double Jeopardy! Round

APRIL FOOLS	MY LITERARY CREATIONS	POLICING & PUNISHMENTS	RELIGION IN THE 13th CENTURY	THE CAST OF THE MOVIE	"ICU" THERE!
$400 [24] On April 14, 1912 a nearby ship warned the Titanic of this; radio operator Jack Phillips scolded the ship for interrupting him an iceberg Mattea	$400 [1] Rachel Chu & Nick Young, dealing with a wealth of problems in multiple novels Kevin Kwan Mattea Tina	$400 [2] Often made by a grand jury, it's a written legal action charging someone with an offense an indictment Josh!!	$400 [21] In 1220 the remains of this murdered saint were moved to a new shrine that became a major pilgrimage site at Canterbury Thomas Becket Mattea	$400 [9] 1991:Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon go on extreme walkabout Thelma & Louise Josh!!	$400 [16] In math, normal is a synonym for this, meaning at right angles perpendicular Josh!!
$800 [25] A million people left 100 tons of trash in New York's Central Park at an April 22, 1990 celebration of this day...hmmm Earth Day Josh!!	$800 [4] The republic of Gilead; "Hag-Seed", a re-telling of "The Tempest" Margaret Atwood Mattea	$800 [5] This prison practice that takes boredom to an agonizing extreme was used in 1829 by Quakers to help reflection & penance solitary confinement Josh!!	$800 [22] Europe's oldest active one of these places of worship, the Altneuschul, was built in Prague a synagogue	$800 [11] 2019:Chris Evans & Ana de Armas have murder on their minds Knives Out Josh!!	$800 [20] Plainly evident, perhaps by virtue of its absence conspicuous Mattea
$1,200 [28] While besieging a castle in 1199, this "Lionheart" failed to wear his mail; he died in April after being struck by an arrow Richard the Lionheart Mattea	$1,200 [3] The world of T.S. Garp; an orphanage in St. Cloud's (John) Irving Tina	$1,200 [8] Since 2020 several states have restricted the use of controversial "no-knock" these documents by the police warrants Tina	$1,200 [23] Thomas Aquinas, who summed things up in his "Summa Theologica", was in this religious order that founded Aquinas College a Dominican Mattea Tina	$1,200 [10] 2012:Anna Kendrick & Rebel Wilson stay in tune Pitch Perfect Tina	$1,600 [19] Latin for "garden" gives us this word for the art & science of growing fruits & vegetables horticulture Mattea Tina
$1,600 [26] Shunning a less risky escape route, this murderer jumped to the stage on April 14, 1865 yelling, "Sic semper tyrannis!" John Wilkes Booth Josh!!	$1,600 [6] The short fiction collection "Unaccustomed Earth"; the Das family, vacationing in India (Jhumpa) Lahiri Josh!!	$1,600 [14] Residential reentry center is another term for this alliterative place inmates can serve the last months of a sentence a halfway house Mattea	$1,600 [29] The 1212 crusade known by this youthful name lacked official sanction & ended in failure the Children's Crusade	$1,600 [12] 1981:All the director needed was the two guys seen here--plus a waiter & a bartender My Dinner with Andre Mattea	$2,000 [18] You cad! Let us engage in these, an old-time plural word for an exchange of punches fisticuffs Josh!!
$2,000 [27] In April 1846 a group of westward settlers struck out for California; this "Pass" would later be named for them the Donner Party Tina	$2,000 [7] Colonel Aureliano Buendía; a book about the last days of Simón Bolívar Gabriel García Márquez Mattea	$2,000 [15] In the 1970s Oregon was the first state with a law saying the police must make an arrest when they come to a home on a call for this domestic violence Mattea	DD $3,400 [30] The oldest known manuscript of the Avesta, a sacred text of this ancient religion of Persia, was produced around 1258 Zoroastrianism Mattea	$2,000 [13] 2021:Gemma Chan & Salma Hayek deal with a pressing planetary issue Eternals	DD $3,000 [17] In a friendly legal term, it precedes "brief" an amicus curiae Josh!!

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF AFRICA

Old maps depicting what's now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for "teeth"

Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

Tina "What is Dent" — wagered $5,000

Josh!! "What is Sudan?" — wagered $0

Mattea "What is Mali?" — wagered $119

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