Responses for Show #8466 - Monday, September 13, 2021

Matt Amodio game 19.
First game of Season 38.
Game prefaced with announcement of the renaming of Sony Pictures Studios Stage 10 as "The Alex Trebek Stage" in a ceremony earlier the same day of taping, attended by Jean, Matthew, Emily, and Nicky Trebek, and emceed by Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Tony Vinciquerra.
Mike Richards announced as "the host of Jeopardy!"
New opening graphics and theme music.
Minor modifications to the set.

Contestants

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Gabbie Kim, a mother of two and a doula from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Amdé Mengistu, a legal recruiter from Brooklyn, New York

Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 18-day cash winnings total $574,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUNDS LIKE TENNIS
THAT'S CANADIAN ENTERTAINMENT
TASTY BUSINESS
SOMEBODY WROTE THAT
NO MAN
IS AN ISLAND
    $200 21
(Mike: Bierce, not a romantic.)

love

Matt
    $200 27
Drake

Gabbie
    $200 24
a McIntosh

Amdé
    $200 28
Hallmark

Gabbie
    $200 29
Hammurabi

Gabbie
    $200 30
Honshu

Gabbie
    $400 26
a fault

Amdé
    $400 25
(Amdé: Is that [*]?)

Alanis Morissette

Amdé
    $400 23
(Gabbie: Ah, what is... Bluetooth?)
...
(Mike: We all had them at some point--[*].)

BlackBerry

Gabbie
Triple Stumper
    $400 19
his resignation

Matt
    $400 22
Prohibition

Gabbie
    $400 20
Oahu

Amdé
    $600 18
a return

Triple Stumper
    $600 16
Seth Rogen

Triple Stumper
    $600 17
Banana Republic

Triple Stumper
    $600 9
"How Great Thou Art"

Gabbie
    $600 15
(Mike: [*], the mutiny on the Bounty.)

(Captain) Bligh

Matt
    $5,400 11
Iceland

Matt
    $800 14
ace

Matt
    $800 10
SCTV (Second City TV)

Matt
    $800 5
Wasabi

Gabbie
    $800 6
the Whisky a Go Go

Triple Stumper
    $800 7
Battle of the Bulge

Matt
    $800 8
(Gabbie: What is Indonesia?)

Borneo

MattGabbie
    $1000 4
overhead

Gabbie
    $1000 13
(Mike: [*], I think that was a good decision.)

(Sandra) Oh

Matt
    $1000 12
Chipotle

Matt
    $1000 1
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Matt
    $1000 2
(Mike: [*], known for his candor.)

(Samuel) Pepys

Matt
    $1000 3
Fiji

Matt

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

Matt Amdé Gabbie
$14,200 $0 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Amdé Gabbie
$14,800 $1,400 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FIRST DAY ON THE JOB
FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS
QUOTH THE MAVEN
AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING
& THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO...
7-SYLLABLE WORDS
    $400 28
a lifeguard

Amdé
    $400 27
a whale

Amdé
    $400 29
dance

Gabbie
    $400 30
gold

Matt
    $400 23
The Fugitive

Matt
    $400 1
(Amdé: What is photogenic?)
(Gabbie: What is photosensitive?)

photosensitivity

MattAmdéGabbie
    $800 20
flautist

Matt
    $800 26
a sloth

Gabbie
    $800 25
(Gabbie: What is McDonald's?)

Wendy's

MattGabbie
    $800 24
Dublin

Gabbie
    $800 16
Dallas Buyers Club

Matt
    $800 3
(Matt: What's [Counts on his fingers] underestimation?)

oversimplification

MattAmdé
    $1200 19
(Amdé: Uh, [*]? What is [*]?)

a Supreme Court justice

Amdé
    $4,000 13
play dead

Matt
    $1200 10
Plato

Gabbie
    $1200 7
Hemingway

Gabbie
    $1200 11
(Mahershala) Ali

Matt
    $1200 4
nondenominational

Matt
    $1600 8
barback

Amdé
    $1600 5
(the) sparrow (hawk)

Matt
    $1600 2
Abe Lincoln

Amdé
    $1600 6
(Amdé: Who is Tim O'Leary?)

(Ken) Kesey

MattAmdé
    $1600 18
Bradlee

Matt
    $1600 22
triskaidekaphobia

Gabbie
    $2000 9
stenography machine

Matt
    $2000 14
(Gabbie: What's a bobcat?)

lynx

MattGabbie
    $2000 15
(George) Orwell

Gabbie
    $6,000 12
(Gertrude) Stein

Matt
    $2000 17
(Bela) Lugosi

Matt
    $2000 21
ethnomusicology

Matt

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Amdé Gabbie
$42,800 $5,400 $7,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 13 COLONIES
(Mike: Amdé, because you were too specific--uh, the synagogue is actually not in Providence.)
(Amdé: Interesting.)
(Mike: So that's why we had to rule that incorrect.)
AmdéWhat is Providence, Rhode Island?
$5,400
GabbieWhat is Rhode Island
$1,799
MattWhat is Rhode Island?
$25,000
Rhode Island

Final scores:

Matt Amdé Gabbie
$67,800 $0 $8,999
19-day champion: $642,601 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Matt Amdé Gabbie
$31,200 $5,400 $7,200
30 R
(including 3 DDs),
1 W		 10 R,
2 W		 15 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $43,800

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Game tape date: 2021-08-19
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