Responses for Show #8540 - Friday, December 24, 2021

Amy Schneider game 18.

Contestants

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Chris O'Malley, an executive director from New York, New York

David Carpman, an attorney from Seattle, Washington

Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (whose 17-day cash winnings total $687,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES?
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER
FIRST RESPONDERS
    $200 26
Kate Middleton

Amy
    $200 11
whine wine

Amy
    $200 10
St. Peter's

Amy
    $200 24
(Denzel) Washington

David
    $200 16
Prohibition

Chris
    $200 1
a paramedic

Amy
    $400 27
a Thoroughbred

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
scent cent

Chris
    $400 9
Cooperstown

Amy
    $400 23
Sandler

Chris
    $400 25
Enron

Amy
    $400 2
HAZMAT

David
    $600 28
the Canadiens

Amy
    $600 15
a daze days

Amy
    $600 3
Madrid

David
    $600 22
Brian's Song

Amy
    $600 19
the Indian Ocean

Chris
    $600 6
(Chris: What are fire trucks?)

helicopters

DavidChris
    $800 29
Peloton

Amy
    $800 14
a hostile hostel

Amy
    $800 4
Kuala Lumpur

Amy
    $800 21
Cruise

Chris
    $6,000 18
(Sir Francis) Drake

Amy
    $800 7
smoke jumpers

Amy
    $1000 30
the discus

Amy
    $1000 13
a signet cygnet

Amy
    $1000 5
(David: What is the Northwest Territory?)

the Northwest Territories

AmyDavid
    $1000 20
Horse Feathers

Amy
    $1000 17
Calhoun

Amy
    $1000 8
Post-traumatic stress disorder

Amy

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

Amy David Chris
$7,000 $600 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amy David Chris
$18,600 $800 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD
NOTORIOUS
"K" 9
(Ken: Each response is a 9-letter word beginning with the letter K.)
NOVELS & NOVELISTS
FIRST RESPONSES
(Ken: None of the responses in this category has even been a correct response on Jeopardy! before.)
    $400 26
Tesla

Chris
    $400 24
Willie Nelson

Amy
    $400 30
Grant

Chris
    $400 5
keystroke

Amy
    $400 15
a narrator

David
    $400 6
a child tax credit

David
    $800 25
Richter

Amy
    $800 23
"Our House"

Amy
    $800 29
anatomy

Amy
    $800 4
a kickboard

Amy
    $2,000 14
(Amy: Who is Defoe?)

Cervantes

Amy
    $800 7
Prince Louis (of Cambridge)

Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
Carver

Chris
    $1200 22
(Chris: What is "I'll Melt For You"?)

"I Melt With You"

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $1200 17
(Samuel) Mudd

David
    $1200 1
kilometer

Amy
    $1200 11
Vassar

Chris
    $1200 8
mumblecore

Chris
    $1600 28
the Human Genome Project

David
    $1600 21
Bonnie Tyler

Triple Stumper
    $1600 16
(David: Who is Son of Sam?)

the Zodiac Killer

AmyDavid
    $2,000 2
(Amy: What is... a... keeper? I don't know.)

a kingmaker

Amy
    $1600 12
Their Eyes Were Watching God

David
    $1600 9
slow walk

Chris
    $2000 27
(Rachel) Carson

Chris
    $2000 20
(Chris: What is "It's [*]"?)

"Magic"

Chris
    $2000 18
(David: Who is Dillinger?)
...
(Ken: When you're alarming the other mobsters, that's trouble.)

Dutch Schultz

David
Triple Stumper
    $2000 3
(Chris: What's kaleidoscope?)

a kinescope

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
P.D. James

Amy
    $2000 10
(Amy: What is McKesson?)

McKinsey

AmyDavid

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amy David Chris
$21,400 $4,400 $8,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS
(Ken: [To David] It was an international agreement because it's on the border of China and Nepal, and the Nepalese surveyor suffered frostbite on the way back down.)
DavidWhat is Mt. Everest?
$4,300
ChrisWhat is the Int'l Date Line?
$201
AmyWhat is the DMZ?
$2,000
Mount Everest

Final scores:

Amy David Chris
$19,400 $8,700 $8,399
18-day champion: $706,800 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Amy David Chris
$20,200 $4,400 $8,600
29 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 2 DDs)		 10 R,
3 W		 13 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $33,200

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Game tape date: 2021-10-11
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