Show #8486 - Monday, October 11, 2021

Matt Amodio game 39.
Jonathan Fisher game 1.
Jessica Stephens game 1.
First game with Michael Davies as executive producer.

Contestants

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Jonathan Fisher, an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida

Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee

Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 38-day cash winnings total $1,518,601)

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Jeopardy! Round

CITY NICKNAMES

POTPOURRI

THIS ONE GOES TO 2011

SPORTY ANAGRAMS

BIOGRAPHIES

THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"

$200

Oxford is called "The City of Dreaming Spires", while this other U.K. place is "The City of Perspiring Dreams"

$200

The HT in HTML & HTTP stands for this

$200

In December 2011 the last U.S. troops left this country, ending a war that began in 2003; they later returned to fight ISIS

$200

Often unpopular on a diamond:
IMPURE

$200

"Empire State of Mind" tells how this man became a rap mogul

$200

You've been described as fastidious, so you're too this

$400

Back when it was Constantinople, this Turkish city was known as "Second Rome"

$400

In the Disney film he's alphabetically last of Snow White's seven dwarfs

$400

From the early 1800s until 2011, these busy workers carried messages & assisted members in the House of Representatives

$400

He sometimes runs the football:
FLAB HACK

$400

"Hiding in Plain Sight" is the subtitle of Julia Sweig's biography of this first lady born in Karnack, Texas

$400

Before "wicket" it refers to a muddy part on the cricket pitch, or any awkward problem

$600

Looking down Capitol Boulevard, you can see why this U.S. city--whose French-derived name means "wooded"--is the "City of Trees"

$600

A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this

DD: $1,600

With a landing in July 2011, the 135-mission program using these came to an end

$600

A big shot in basketball:
HERE TO RIP NET

$600

Jon Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" tells of this man who left the NFL for the Army & was killed in Afghanistan

$600

Your pasta has too much of the plant bulb Allium sativum, so it's overly this

$800

Once gently funned as "Brisvegas" for its anemic nightlife, it now prefers "Australia's New World City"

$800

This appetizer has flowered on the Outback Steakhouse menu since 1988--it accounts for 1 in 4 apps ordered there

$800

As this store chain closed, the CEO wrote, "My sincerest hope is that we remain in the hearts of readers for years to come"

$800

Multi-gender tennis:
EDIBLE MUD SOX

$800

"Radioactive... a Tale of Love & Fallout" is about the relationship between this couple with real chemistry

$800

A fussy baby who cries excessively is often described this way

$1000

With the hub airport & some of the most glorious beaches of the French Riviera, it's the "City of Angels"

$1000

Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music to the songs in "Jesus Christ Superstar"; this man wrote the lyrics

$1000

His decades of rule ended in Egypt, & though bedridden, he went on trial for crimes including abuse of power

$1000

Olympic event with ropes & ribbons:
CATCHY STRING SHIMMY

$1000

"His Truth Is Marching On" tells about this late, great Georgia congressman & "the Power of Hope"

$1000

A list of "10 Most" this adjective "Auto Features" included "cabin perfume dispensers"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Matt	Jessica	Jonathan
$7,400	$2,200	$1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt	Jessica	Jonathan
$9,800	$2,400	$4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT

MED. ABBREV.

NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES

IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE

TALK LIKE A FARMER

RECENT MOVIES

$400

On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware; the battle of this now-state capital was the next day

$400

After a major surgery, you may end up in the ICU, which stands for this

$400

A detective is hired to track down the missing sister of the secretive Miss Wonderly at the beginning of this hard-boiled novel

$400

Women fought for this, a word which is not derived from "pain", rather from the Latin for "to publicly show support"

$400

2 main kinds of farming are subsistence farming & growing these alliterative items to sell

$400

It's what "The Meg" is in the Jason Statham aquatic actioner

$800

Before he was president, George presided over this months-long meeting in the summer of 1787

$800

IDDM stands for this-dependent diabetes mellitus

DD: $3,000

In this Michael Ondaatje novel, a badly burned plane crash victim remembers a fateful love affair

$800

From the Greek for "song", this type of "drama" sounds like it's really easygoing, but it features exaggerated emotion

$800

This 7-letter layer of earth used for cultivation usually contains more organic matter than the layers beneath it

$800

Anthony Ramos took over Lin-Manuel Miranda's singing bodega owner role in the film adaptation of this stage musical

DD: $2,000

A 1791 proclamation by President George ordered the first this of the District of Columbia; a young George would've done it himself

$1200

In med speak, a heart attack is an M.I., this infarction

$1200

This guy is the magnanimous title Greek in Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about living life to the fullest

$1200

Noisome sounds like it offends the ears, but it means something offensive especially to this other sense organ

$1200

Though it's not for tea & conversation, an area that may put the cows in a tandem or rotary setup is this activity's "parlor"

$1200

Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote

$1600

On May 28, 1754 Lt. Colonel George ordered an attack on the troops of Ensign Coulon de Jumonville, starting this conflict

$1600

A blow to the head could cause TBI, short for this

$1600

Meryl Streep starred in a film of this John Fowles novel

$1600

Belladonna means "fair lady", but is actually a type of plant called "deadly" this

$1600

This unit of measure varies with its content: for wheat it's 60 pounds & for oats, 32

$1600

This word/genre completes the title of a movie with Riz Ahmed as a drummer going deaf, "Sound of..."

$2000

At 26 George married a woman with this last name of her first husband

$2000

P.E. is this type of blood clot in the lungs

$2000

A home built by the VanHoebeek family gives this 2019 Ann Patchett bestseller its title

$2000

As a noun this word refers to a gallant mounted knight; as an adjective, it can mean disdainful or offhand

$2000

Despite its name, it's not a frog relative, it's a microscopic worm such as an eelworm that may damage plant roots

$2000

The 2020 film "Resistance" saw Jesse Eisenberg play this mime working for the French resistance

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt	Jessica	Jonathan
$10,600	$14,400	$14,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors

Final scores:

Matt	Jessica	Jonathan
$5,600	$28,799	$29,200
3rd place: $1,000	2nd place: $2,000	New champion: $29,200

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Matt	Jessica	Jonathan
$10,600	$14,400	$13,400
23 R, 5 W	14 R, 0 W	16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Show #8486 - Monday, October 11, 2021

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $38,400

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Game tape date: 2021-09-09