Show #8460 - Friday, August 6, 2021

Matt Amodio game 13.
Last game with David Faber as guest host.
Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to the Robin Hood Foundation.

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Madeline Birkner, a college access program coordinator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Patrick Pacheco, a labor and employment specialist from Denver, Colorado

Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 12-day cash winnings total $394,600)

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD?
TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
(David: We want you to name the show.)
NOVELS SINCE 1900
OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS
SOUVENIR
ASH TREE
    $200 22
Venture capital is aka this capital; others have an "aversion" to the 4-letter word
    $200 14
Moe Szyslak
    $200 26
23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel
    $200 30
A general term for seawater, it's also a way to prep your holiday turkey
    $200 27
The Museum of the American Revolution sells a toy this instrument played by 2 marchers in the "Spirit of '76" painting
    $200 28
For many years ash wood was the preferred material in making these for folks like Joe DiMaggio
    $400 21
It can come before "mass" in physics, or "care" in the hospital if your condition is serious
    $400 12
Patrick Star
    $400 23
"Texasville" & "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021
    $400 24
Seen here is a U.S. government global map of world these; red are the fastest
    $400 25
"The Golden Door" is a spinner ornament to remind you of this great American landmark
    $400 29
Planted before 1911, "Old Granddad" is a landmark ash tree in the shade-hungry city of Modesto in this state
    $600 7
This very unsafe word that can mean "traitorous" also starts with "tr"
    $600 11
Lovey Howell
    $600 16
The name of this realtor & Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster
    $600 18
Underneath all that sediment, the ocean floor is primarily made of the pillow type of this substance
    $600 20
You can get anything from scarves to keychains with the tartan of this, a Scottish family group--find your own
    $600 19
These priests of ancient Britain carried wands made of ash because of the wood's straight grain
    $800 17
It can refer to one who is fearful & lacking self-confidence, or a password that can be easily hacked
    $800 10
Grandma Huang
    $800 8
There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White
    $800 9
Measuring the warmth of the water off the western coast of South America, the ONI is the "Oceanic" this Spanish word "Index"
    $800 13
You never saw this ox-like animal of Asia with a cold, did you? So try the nice warm Mongolian socks made from its wool
    $800 15
Ash trees are home to more than 500 species of these symbiotic organisms, including old man's beard
    $1000 6
2 ships about to hit each other are said to be on this alliterative path, so get the life jackets ready
    $1000 3
Jacksonville Jaguars fan Jason Mendoza
    $1000 1
Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel
    DD: $1,000 2
Term for the Pacific Ocean zone that forms a band as long as the equator & has about 75% of Earth's active volcanoes
    $1000 4
You can bring home the Czech crystal called this type of glass, named after a historical region where Prague is located
    $1000 5
In Norse myth, the squirrel Ratatoskr carries messages up & down this ash tree that supports the world

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

Matt Patrick Madeline
$6,800 $2,400 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Patrick Madeline
$10,400 $2,600 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT SYMBOLS
HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT?
LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS
"G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE
OLD SYNONYMS
SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE
    $400 25
Found in pagan lore & sometimes linked with evil, a five-pointed star in a circle is called this
    $400 28
The country gets re-hitched at Appomattox Court House; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" begin
    $400 23
Thomas Hovenden concentrated on everyday people like "The Village" this worker, a subject of 19th century poetry as well
    $400 5
I'd love to visit some of its many islands, like Andros & Naxose
    $400 29
Ahoy! It's a cethegrande or spouter, this mammal
    $400 30
Stephen Stills suggested, "If you can't be with the one you love, honey" do this
    $800 24
The 8-armed cross has been associated in Christianity with this often earliest in life of the seven sacraments
    $800 21
The stock market crashes; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre goes down; Trotsky gets exiled from Russia... man, that's a rough year
    $800 22
Suzanne Valadon worked as this for Renoir & Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting her own works
    $800 4
One of the 7 holy cities of Hinduism, Varanasi has shrines, temples & palaces along the banks of this river
    $800 26
Sunrist was this direction
    $800 27
John Mayer urged "fathers" to be good to these people; they "will love like you do"
    $1200 8
The merkaba symbol takes its name from a Hebrew word meaning this ancient battle transport
    $1200 18
John Kerry is nominated for president; the Spirit Rover lands on Mars
    $1200 17
Meindert Hobbema is best known for the 1689 work that has two of these optical points--one down the road & one in the sky
    DD: $1,000 1
This historic city lies at the junction of the same-named lake & the Rhone River
    $1200 19
If you saw one of these, you might've called it a haunt, a shade or a wraith
    $1200 20
Tammy Wynette sang, "You'll have bad times, & he'll have good times", but you should still do this
    DD: $2,000 6
The symbol seen here is a representation of this loud avian of Native American mythology
    $1600 15
The American Revolution ends; Washington Irving begins; Russia annexes Crimea, not for the last time
    $1600 16
Jean Metzinger has been called the third artist in this movement & his 1912 treatise on it was one of the first
    $1600 2
The majestic Alhambra is in this Spanish province
    $1600 10
Syrup of soot & ninny-broth were 17th century words for this; go-juice & mud came later
    $1600 12
Therapists may chafe at this Melissa Manchester song that advises, "Just keep it inside & learn how to hide your feelings"
    $2000 7
Incorporating three stylized swords, the khanda is a symbol of this religion of the Indian subcontinent
    $2000 14
Burr kills Hamilton non-musically; Lewis & Clark set out; Friedrich Schiller tells the tale of William Tell
    $2000 13
Seen here, the work of Alphonse Legros may have influenced this man's most famous portrait; they were friends until an 1867 fight
    $2000 3
A huge legendary being is said to have created this causeway of basalt columns jutting into the sea from Northern Ireland
    $2000 9
An erring star or a wanderer was one of these
    $2000 11
Corinne Bailey Rae says to be yourself: "Girl", do this, "Tell me your favorite song, you go ahead, let your hair down"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Patrick Madeline
$25,600 $4,200 $5,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series

Final scores:

Matt Patrick Madeline
$35,600 $8,400 $3,199
13-day champion: $430,200 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Matt Patrick Madeline
$25,200 $4,200 $6,000
34 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 8 R,
4 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $35,400

[game responses] [game scores] [suggest correction]

The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.