Show #8634 2022-05-05 (taped 2022-02-15) Regular

Mattea Roach game 23.

Contestants

Sarah Snider — a middle school humanities teacher from Fishers, Indiana

T.J. Lovejoy — a mortgage lender from Chandler, Arizona

Mattea Roach — a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 22-day cash winnings total $534,984)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mattea $1,400 $5,000 $13,000 $25,999
23-day champion: $560,983
$15,000
24 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
T.J. $400 $400 $-3,600 $-3,600
3rd place: $1,000
$-3,600
3 R, 3 W
Sarah $5,200 $8,000 $22,600 $17,600
2nd place: $2,000
$17,400
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ART THE NAPOLEONIC WARS A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY AMERICAN GRAB BAG NAME THAT SPORT NOW FOR THE SECRET WORD
$200 [6]
"Gray Weather, Grand Jatte"tried to show nature's vivid outdoor clarity in all its nuances, according to this painter
Georges Seurat
Mattea
$200 [17]
A Russian general killed at the 1812 Battle of Borodino, Prince Bagration found immortality as a character in this Tolstoy tome
War and Peace
Mattea
$200 [27]
Seen here, it'd be weird to get one à la mode
a pie chart
Sarah
$200 [9]
Close encounters have been had at the UFO-themed McDonald's in this New Mexico town
Roswell
Mattea
$200 [1]
Kickoff, bubble screen, option route
football
Sarah
$200 [22]
The government says you can't get that info because it has this 10-letter designation, like a newspaper ad section
classified
Mattea
$400 [3]
Born in Crete, he worked in Spain but that country's king did not care for his 1580s "Martyrdom of St. Maurice"
El Greco
Sarah
$400 [16]
One of Adm. Nelson's early triumphs was the 1798 Battle of Aboukir Bay, better known as the battle of this African river
the Nile
Mattea
$400 [26]
These tasty-sounding bits of info stored on a computer can help maintain a user's browser session
cookies
Mattea
$400 [14]
Bigfoot Wallace, one of these Texas lawmen, once had to walk the mail to El Paso & had a 27-egg meal on the way
a (Texas) Ranger
Mattea
$400 [7]
Kickoff, marking, nutmeg
soccer
T.J.
$400 [21]
An article of clothing & a pointy weapon form this intrigue-laden idiom
cloak-and-dagger
Mattea
$600 [2]
Moving from Europe to New York in 1940, Piet Mondrian cut loose & painted 2 major works whose titles contain this rhyming music style
boogie-woogie
$600 [18]
In 1801 Napoleon sent his brother Jerome to this West Indian colony then known as Saint Domingue to stop a slave revolt
Haiti
Mattea
$600 [28]
Thisactor won't trigger your celiac disease
Wil Wheaton
Sarah
$800 [13]
Weehawken, New Jersey is the place to see the dueling grounds where this statesman lost his life in 1804
Alexander Hamilton
Mattea
$600 [8]
Duck, over, googly
cricket
Sarah
$600 [23]
This double-talk term can be a command for silence, but more often refers to a matter of utmost secrecy
hush-hush
Mattea
$800 [4]
It was for the USA's centennial that Archibald Willard painted this work showing 3 marching musicians
Spirit of '76
$800 [19]
This country's Archduke Charles was one of the few Allied commanders able to go head-to-head with Napoleon's top generals
Austria
$800 [29]
This former name of the Hawaiian Islands sounds glutenous, but fret not
the Sandwich Islands
Mattea
$1,000 [15]
Groundthat's frozen year round is called this; for research in Alaska, the Army Corps of Engineers built atunnelin it
permafrost
Sarah
$800 [10]
Time trial, SPDS, brain bucket
cycling
Mattea
$800 [24]
"P" is for this word that refers to communication that's protected from compelled disclosure in a court of law
privileged
$1,000 [5]
In the"Education of Achilles"by this Flemish master, a highly cultivated man, thelyrerepresents music education
Rubens
$1,000 [20]
Pre-Waterloo, this man made his name commanding the British in the 1808-14 Peninsular War in Spain & Portugal
Wellington
Sarah
$1,000 [30]
This type of logic is named for its twisted nature & numerous holes
pretzel logic
DD $2,000 [12]
This icon that strikes an E flat has words on it like "Pensylvania", which was an accepted spelling at the time
the Liberty Bell
Sarah
$1,000 [11]
Poach, approach, eastern grip
tennis
Mattea Sarah
$1,000 [25]
Secret agents have been known to travel this way, from Latin for "unknown"
incognito
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER TRUST FALL IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY CROSS THAT BRIDGE COME TO "IT"
$400 [9]
On this innermost planet, a solar day lasts twice as long as its year & is equal to about 176 earth days
Mercury
Mattea
$400 [8]
1953: Sharks plunder elderly Santiago's catch
The Old Man and the Sea
Mattea
$400 [24]
R.J. Reynolds & Liggett & Myers were 2 of the companies created when the trust for this crop was broken up in 1911
tobacco
Sarah
$400 [1]
Tami Taylor, on this Texas-set drama: "It's part of my job to make sure that you don't grow up stupid. It's bad for the world"
Friday Night Lights
T.J.
$400 [12]
San Francisco junior college track team member Don Bryant was the first of 200,000 to get across this on its 1937 opening day
the Golden Gate Bridge
Mattea
$400 [23]
The IRS generally has 3 years to initiate this proceeding
an audit
T.J.
$800 [10]
The brightest star in the night sky is this binary star in Canis Major
Sirius
Mattea
$800 [4]
1988: Once enslaved, Sethe is plagued by memories of a plantation & a baby lost
Beloved
Sarah
$800 [25]
The movie trust nicknamed for this inventor limited most films to 2 reels & was dissolved in 1917
Edison
Sarah
$800 [2]
Malory, mom of this title spy: "Who put out a burn notice on Sterling?... but I would never...! Oh, dear God"
Archer
Mattea
$800 [13]
In 1952, a quick-thinking bus driver saved 20 passengers by accelerating & jumping the gap when this drawbridge rose unexpectedly
Tower Bridge
Mattea Sarah
$800 [22]
To exonerate in court
acquit
Mattea
$1,200 [11]
In 2019 Green Bank Observatory found the most massive of this superdense type of star (a teaspoon weighs more than all of humanity)
a neutron star
T.J.
$1,200 [5]
2007: Lawless bands scour a ravaged America; a man & his son walk alone
The Road
Sarah
$1,600 [27]
The breaking up of Standard Oil of N.J. into 34 companies gave this man stock that made him the richest man in the world
J.D. Rockefeller
Mattea
$1,200 [3]
Now this is a story all about how Janet Hubert split time with Daphne Reid as Vivian Banks on this '90s sitcom
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Sarah
$1,200 [14]
In March 1945 German troops failed to blow up the bridge at Remagen over this river, allowing U.S. troops an unexpected dry crossing
the Rhine
$1,200 [19]
Paul of Thebes, who lived alone in a desert cave, was a famous early one
a hermit
Sarah
$1,600 [29]
Going 1,000 mph, it would take more than 2.8 million years to travel the 4.2-light-year distance to this nearest star system
Alpha Centauri
T.J.
$1,600 [6]
2015: The lives of a German boy & a blind French girl intersect in World War II France
All the Light We Cannot See
Sarah
$2,000 [28]
This 3-letter event has ruined trusts as well as banks; in 1907 an $8 mil. one on the Knickerbocker Trust led to the panic of 1907
a run
Mattea
$1,600 [18]
A sitcom with this title featuring single mom Ann Romano began in 1975; another, with single mom Penelope Alvarez, in 2017
One Day at a Time
Sarah
DD $2,000 [15]
You'll have to wait to cross the Forbes Ave. bridge in this city; it collapsed in 2022 just before a presidential visit about infrastructure
Pittsburgh
Mattea
$1,600 [20]
Theodore Roosevelt loved his "bully" one
a pulpit
Sarah
$2,000 [30]
This comet with a hyphenated name was broken up by the gravity of Jupiter & fragments of it crashed into the planet in 1994
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Mattea
$2,000 [7]
1980: A book about Gary Gilmore, a real-life death row inmate
The Executioner's Song
T.J. Sarah
DD $5,000 [26]
This 4-word phrase was used back in 1984 as Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust was rescued by the govt. due to its size
too big to fail
Sarah
$2,000 [17]
When not helping special victims in about 500 episodes, this "Law & Order: SVU" character adopted an orphan named Noah
Olivia Benson
Mattea
$2,000 [16]
A petition seeks to rename Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge for this late congressman who wasbeatentrying to cross it in 1965
John Lewis
Sarah
$2,000 [21]
2-word term for the traditional warm, welcoming disposition of the people of Hawaii
the Aloha Spirit
Mattea

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY CINEMA

A black & white newsreel in this film begins: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree"

Citizen Kane

Mattea "What is Citizen Kane? (if this is it, thanks for the fun!)" — wagered $12,999
Sarah "What is ?" — wagered $5,000

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