Responses for Show #8550 - Friday, January 7, 2022

Amy Schneider game 28.
Amy breaks the $1 million mark.

Contestants

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Sean Sweeney, a speech language pathologist from Dorchester, Massachusetts

Patsy Lester, a social studies teacher from Patchogue, New York

Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 27-day cash winnings total $977,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS
METAPHORS
THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT
IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN
MOVE IT!
DOUBLE TIME
    $200 16
old fish

Amy
    $200 21
(Amy: What is [**]?)
(Ken: Correct.)
(Amy: [Same time as Ken speaks] [*]?)

one bad apple (a bad apple)

Amy
    $200 1
David Lee Roth

Amy
    $200 3
Billie Jean King

Amy
    $200 26
a lighthouse

Sean
    $200 11
Double Dutch

Patsy
    $400 17
green eggs and ham

Patsy
    $400 22
to bow out

Amy
    $400 2
Justin Timberlake

Patsy
    $400 7
(Ken: Yes, vice president, and then president.)

Ford

Amy
    $400 28
Arizona

Amy
    $400 12
(Patsy: What is a peso?)

a doubloon

AmyPatsy
    $600 18
Whoville

Amy
    $600 23
Soapbox

Patsy
    $600 4
Zayn (Malik)

Amy
    $600 8
Amtrak

Amy
    $600 27
Hamilton

Amy
    $2,000 13
film noir

Amy
    $800 19
(Ken: That's right, he heard a Who.)

Horton

Amy
    $800 24
the brass ring

Amy
    $800 5
Smokey Robinson

Sean
    $800 9
property taxes

Amy
    $800 29
Ethiopia

Amy
    $800 14
(Patsy: What's a double [*]?)

a bassoon

AmyPatsy
    $1000 20
Sneetches

Amy
    $1000 25
the Iron Curtain

Amy
    $1000 6
Cher

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Susan B. Anthony

Amy
    $1000 30
Augustus

Patsy
    $1000 15
(Ken: That's correct, he was the American.)

Watson

Amy

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

Amy Patsy Sean
$8,000 -$600 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Patsy Sean
$14,800 $1,400 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

4-LETTER BIRDS
AWARDS & HONORS
HIS WIDOW LIVED ON
POP CULTURE MONIKERS
THAT'S BORDER LINE
WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS
    $400 16
a rook

Amy
    $400 21
(Ken: She's a poet, so [*].)

literature

Triple Stumper
    $400 26
(Patsy: Who is Jackie?)
(Ken: No.)
(Patsy: [Same time as Ken speaks] Robinson.)

Dodger Stadium

AmyPatsy
    $400 6
(Sean: Who is Hemsworth?)
(Ken: Which one?)

Chris Hemsworth

Sean
    $400 27
Monaco

Amy
    $800 17
(Patsy: What is a lark?)

wren

Patsy
Triple Stumper
    $800 22
artificial intelligence

Amy
    $590 7
Lady Bird Johnson

Sean
    $800 2
(Ken: Yes, anagram of Patel.)

Petal

Amy
    $800 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Yukon Territory

Amy
    $1200 18
dove

Amy
    $1200 23
Nathan Lane

Patsy
    $1200 8
Crazy Horse

Amy
    $2,000 1
(Ken: Sean?)
[No response]

Common

Sean
    $1200 5
Queensland

Sean
    $1200 13
an ouster

Amy
    $1600 19
a duck

Amy
    $1600 24
an anesthetic

Sean
    $1600 9
(Aldous) Huxley

Amy
    $1600 3
Veep

Amy
    $1600 11
Laos

Patsy
    $1600 14
aikido

Amy
    $2000 20
(Ken: Those are the true [*]s.)

hawk

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Ken: Back to you, Sean, with less than a minute to go.)

Judy Woodruff

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Bruno Hauptmann

Triple Stumper
    $2000 4
The Killers

Amy
    $2000 12
(Patsy: What is... South Dakota? Oh, and North Dakota.)

South Dakota & Nebraska

Patsy
Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
Euchre

Amy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Patsy Sean
$32,400 $1,000 $2,790
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY NONFICTION
(Ken: [To Amy] In 1947, a Norwegian scientist named [*] took his raft, the Kon-Tiki, across the Pacific just to prove that it could be done... Amy Schneider, you are just the fifth millionaire in Jeopardy! history and only the fourth to do it in regular season play.)
PatsyWho is Winston Churchill?
$500
SeanWho is Hemingway?
$2,500
AmyWho is Heyerdahl?
$9,800
(Thor) Heyerdahl

Final scores:

Amy Patsy Sean
$42,200 $500 $290
28-day champion: $1,019,600 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Amy Patsy Sean
$31,000 $1,000 $5,000
37 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 7 R,
5 W		 6 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2021-11-01
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