Responses for Show #8480 - Friday, October 1, 2021

Matt Amodio game 33.

Contestants

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Samantha Wells, a graduate student from Urbana, Illinois

Thomas Dai, a Ph.D. student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut (whose 32-day cash winnings total $1,212,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1871--150 YEARS AGO
SOME FUN & GAMES
SPIN CYCLE
GERUNDS
FOR YOUR REFERENCE
WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE
    $200 29
(P.T.) Barnum

Matt
    $200 30
doubling (double) down

Matt
    $200 22
(Matt: What's bowling pins?)

plates

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $200 27
Cooking

Samantha
    $200 26
Rhymes

Thomas
    $200 28
(Thomas: What is the Hornet?)

Wasp

MattThomas
    $400 19
impeachment

Matt
    $400 20
Charades

Matt
    $400 21
figure skating

Thomas
    $400 23
(Mayim: Yes, hate it when that happens.)

parking

Matt
    $400 24
(John) Bartlett

Matt
    $400 25
the Spider's Web

Matt
    $600 15
Bismarck

Matt
    $600 17
Hungry Hungry Hippos

Matt
    $600 18
78

Matt
    $600 11
a reading

Thomas
    $600 16
Who's Who

Triple Stumper
    $600 9
Moth

Matt
    $800 13
(Henry Morton) Stanley

Matt
    $800 7
a samurai

Thomas
    $800 12
pirouettes

Matt
    $800 10
(Matt: What's... ziplining?)

skydiving

MattThomas
    $800 14
Roget

Matt
    $800 8
(Samantha: What is The [*] King?)

Scorpion

Samantha
    $1,000 1
Royal Albert Hall

Matt
    $1000 5
roulette

Matt
    $1000 4
centrifuge

Matt
    $1000 3
a filing

Triple Stumper
    $1000 2
Elements of Style

Matt
    $1000 6
(Samantha: What is The [*]?)

Fly

Samantha

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

Matt Thomas Samantha
$6,800 $2,200 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Thomas Samantha
$10,400 $2,600 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CITIES OF IRELAND
SCIENCE
THE BANDS THEY FRONTED
NAME CALLING
THAT'S A BIG BOOK
ALLITERATION
    $400 28
(Thomas: What's Dartmoor?)

Dublin

ThomasSamantha
    $400 13
tin

Matt
    $400 29
Van Halen

Matt
    $400 27
Braille

Matt
    $400 1
Les Misérables

Matt
    $400 30
Red Rover

Matt
    $800 14
Gaelic

Matt
    $800 12
(Mayim: It goes egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult.)

metamorphosis

Samantha
    $800 26
(Mayim: We got the beat, yes.)

Go-Go's

Matt
    $800 24
Big Bertha

Matt
    $6,000 11
Paradise Lost

Matt
    $800 23
flag football

Matt
    $1200 8
Tipperary

Matt
    $1200 7
platelets

Matt
    $1200 25
Led Zeppelin

Matt
    $1200 22
(Mayim: For [*] Allan Poe.)

Edgar

Matt
    $1200 5
Centennial

Matt
    $1200 19
make merry

Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
Waterford

Matt
    $1600 2
black holes

Matt
    $1600 21
Hootie & the Blowfish

Matt
    $5,000 15
(Matt: What's Riley?)

Jesse Chisholm

Matt
    $1600 4
Bleak House

Thomas
    $1600 18
(Thomas: Uh, pigeon--what is pigeon-footed?)

knock-knee

Thomas
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Boyne

Matt
    $2000 9
rabbits

Matt
    $2000 20
Menudo

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
(Joseph) Hansom

Matt
    $2000 6
Le Morte d'Arthur

Matt
    $2000 17
stone soup

Samantha

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Thomas Samantha
$35,400 $2,200 $5,200
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
(Mayim: [To Matt] As a result of the [*] earthquake, there was a fire and it lasted four days.)
ThomasWhat is Pittsburgh?
$2,199
SamanthaWhat is Boston?
$500
MattWhat is San Francisco?
$20,000
San Francisco

Final scores:

Matt Thomas Samantha
$55,400 $1 $4,700
33-day champion: $1,267,801 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Matt Thomas Samantha
$35,200 $2,200 $5,200
41 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
6 R,
3 W
6 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $42,600

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Game tape date: 2021-08-25
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