Show #8624 2022-04-21 (taped 2022-02-09) Regular

Mattea Roach game 13.

Contestants

Meghan Bowman — an IT analyst from Mount Prospect, Illinois

Alex Lemberg — an attorney and activist from San Francisco, California

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 12-day cash winnings total $271,282)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mattea $2,000 $5,400 $20,000 $14,799
13-day champion: $286,081
$18,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Alex $1,200 $6,000 $12,600 $4,600
3rd place: $1,000
$17,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Meghan $-400 $2,000 $4,000 $7,500
2nd place: $2,000
$4,000
7 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CALIFORNIA BOOK TITLE GEOGRAPHY THINK "BIG" THAT'S NOT CANNON A GOLF COURSE ALSO FOUND IN THE KITCHEN
$200 [14]
Today home to Disneyland, this Orange County city was founded by German immigrants in 1857
Anaheim
Alex
$200 [1]
The Marabar Caves are on the itineraryin "A Passage to____"
India
Mattea
$200 [7]
This nickname was first used in connection with New York City in the 1920s
the Big Apple
Meghan
$200 [12]
Filipino-American martial arts master Dan Inosanto introduced Bruce Lee to this weapon, 2 rods connected by a chain
nunchucks
Mattea
$200 [26]
Keep your eye on this, one under par on a hole
a birdie
Alex
$200 [3]
If you reach one of these in the road, you have to make a decision on which path to take
a fork
Alex
$400 [15]
In Oceanside, you can visit San Luis Rey, the largest of these California settlements begun by the Spanish more than 250 years ago
the missions
Alex
$400 [2]
Betty Smith cultivated"A Tree Grows in____"
Brooklyn
Meghan
$400 [8]
Type of music & ensemble associated with Duke Ellington & Tommy Dorsey
big band
Mattea
$400 [13]
This can be used to fight in 2 very different forms--as a heavy, spiked club or as a brand of pepper spray
a mace
Alex
$400 [27]
Those drives are going everywhere but the fairway--time to improve them by teeing it up at this practice area
the driving range
Mattea
$400 [19]
The name of this utensil also means "to nestle while lying & facing another's back"
spoon
Mattea
$800 [17]
Perched on Mount Hollywood, this facility offers astronomical exhibits & a great view of the city below
the Griffith Observatory
Alex
$600 [4]
Julia Child cooked up"My Life in ____"
France
Mattea
$600 [9]
This national park in Texas has more land area than the state of Rhode Island
Big Bend
Mattea
$600 [20]
Is that this weapon which I see before me? Indeed it is, specifically a Hindu katar one
a dagger
Alex
$600 [28]
It's the 3-letter word for the spot where a golfer's ball has come to rest
a lie
Meghan
$600 [21]
This 4-letter verb can mean to descend or drop in value
sink
$1,000 [18]
This city about midway between L.A. & Sin City is mentioned in the first sentence of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Barstow
Alex
$800 [5]
The sequel to "Lonesome Dove":"Streets of ____"
Laredo
$800 [10]
The British call this grouping the Plough
the Big Dipper
$800 [24]
Labeled "not to be used on Christians" by the Lateran council, this Middle Ages weapon uses a trigger to release its bolts
a crossbow
Mattea
$800 [29]
From an old Scots word, it means both a piece of turf dug out by a club on a swing & the resulting hole
a divot
Meghan
$800 [22]
Before "away", it means to sweep someone off on a jaunty holiday
whisk
Mattea
DD $1,200 [16]
This city located northwest of San Jose has a name that means "tall tree"
Palo Alto
Alex
$1,000 [6]
John le Carre, man of international intrigue:"The ____ House"
The Russia House
$1,000 [11]
Roger Miller wrote the music & lyrics for this musical based on "Huckleberry Finn"
Big River
Meghan
$1,000 [25]
In 1588 Hideyoshi's Katanagari, or this weapon "hunt", was an attempt to disarm the peasants
a sword
Mattea
$1,000 [30]
A righ than der's shot that moves slightly from left to right is called this, a synonym for "gradually disappear"
fade
Meghan
$1,000 [23]
His Roman equivalent was Faunus
Pan
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 1720s WORLD CAPITALS ANAGRAMMED UNGULATES BIBLICAL DEVOTIONS SIMPLY STELLAR LET FREEDOM SING
$400 [5]
In 1721 he was proclaimed the czar of the Russian empire
Peter the Great
Mattea
$400 [10]
Its thriving movie industry was once dubbed "Hollywood on the Nile"
Cairo
Mattea
$400 [15]
It has 2 pairs of curved tusks:GO WRATH
warthog
Mattea
$400 [20]
After this woman says Samson doesn't love her, he tells her "All his heart"; mistake!
Delilah
Mattea
$400 [25]
Louis Armstrong wore one of these on a necklace for much of his life to honor a Jewish family who helped him as a child
a star of David
Alex
$400 [1]
"Freedom" on her 2016 album "Lemonade" features Kendrick Lamar rapping, "Open our mind as we cast away oppression"
Beyoncé
Meghan
$800 [6]
The colonies' first divinity professor was Edward Wigglesworth, at this college
Harvard
Mattea
$800 [11]
Leveled during World War II, it was replaced as capital for nearly 30 years by Quezon City
Manila
Alex
$800 [16]
Both males & females have antlers:A BIO CUR
caribou
Mattea
$800 [21]
When Sarah dies at the age of 127, this man weeps for her & buries her in the Cave of Machpelah
Abraham
Mattea
$800 [26]
Discovered in a Sri Lankan mine in 2015, the Star of Adam, one of these blue gems, is worth an estimated $100 million
a sapphire
Mattea
$800 [2]
In the folk classic "If I Had A Hammer", the hammer represents justice; one of these, freedom
a bell
$1,600 [8]
This German composer became a British subject in 1727 & composed new King George II's coronation anthems that same year
Handel
Mattea
$1,200 [12]
Your plane has touched down at Jose Marti International Airport--welcome to this world capital
Havana
Alex
$1,200 [17]
This desert pack animal also provides milk & wool: ROAMED DRY
dromedary
Alex
$1,200 [22]
Devoted wife Michal warns this husband that her dad Saul is about to kill him
David
Alex
$1,200 [27]
You can still get the 3-pointed star hood ornament if you buy this brand's S-Class Sedan
Mercedes-Benz
Alex
$1,200 [3]
"Let Freedom Ring" is a song by the Nightwatchman, the acoustic alter ego of this Rage Against the Machine guitarist
Tom Morello
Alex
$2,000 [9]
Setting off from Kamchatka, this explorer sailed north through the strait that today bears his name
Bering
Alex
$1,600 [13]
When spelled as one word, this capital of Mongolia has 2 sets of double As
Ulaanbaatar
Mattea
$1,600 [18]
Its most distinctive feature is composed of keratin: HIS CROONER
a rhinoceros
Meghan
$1,600 [23]
Jacob has to work for 14 years to marry this second wife, his true love
Rachel
Alex
$1,600 [28]
Moving up in the U.S. Army, it goes brigadier general, major general, this 3-star guy
lieutenant general
$1,600 [4]
"Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?" he asked in "Redemption Song", the last song on his last non-posthumous album
Bob Marley
Mattea
DD $3,000 [7]
On Sunday, April 5, Dutch Admiral Jacob Roggeveen landed on what is now called this island, 2,200 miles west of Chile
Easter Island
Mattea
$2,000 [14]
Kigali is home to the university of this country
Rwanda
Alex
$2,000 [19]
Despite being semiaquatic, it doesn't swim, but trots on the bottom:SHAMPOO TIP UP
hippopotamus
Mattea
DD $5,000 [24]
"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it" is from the 8th chapter of this biblical book
the Song of Solomon
Alex
$2,000 [29]
Starry newspapers include this city's Star-Ledger, where Tony Soprano got his news
Newark
Alex
$2,000 [30]
The opening act at the first Woodstock, hewas asked to keep going while other acts were delayed, & improvised his classic "Freedom"
Richie Havens

Final Jeopardy!

FILMS OF THE 1950s

The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn

Sleeping Beauty

Meghan "What is Sleeping Beauty?" — wagered $3,500
Alex "What is Some like it hot" — wagered $8,000
Mattea "What is Sabrina?" — wagered $5,201

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