Show #9290 - Friday, March 14, 2025

Contestants

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Jamie Hare, a library worker from Decatur, Georgia

Alex DeFrank, an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York

Jack Goldfisher, a screenwriter and director from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,401)

Jeopardy! Round

YESTERDAY'S NEWS
ALLITERATION
WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THAT POTATO?
MID-ATLANTIC TRAVEL
VIRGINIA & MARY-LAND
NEW JERSEY
    $200 9
Devastated by the Persians in 480 B.C., this present world capital was soon rebuilt bigger & better than ever
    $200 4
Before "gorgeous" it means an absolute knockout; before "date", an absolute final cutoff time
    $200 7
Master distiller Waldemar Durakiewicz makes potatoes into the Chopin brand of this
    $200 14
Glenn Miller vanished in 1944, but he has a headstone here in Virginia & his Army Air Forces Orchestra has a memorial too
    $200 15
July 22 is the feast day of this woman who according to Mark was the first person to see Christ risen
    $200 12
No. 5 on his jersey but number one in my heart! Thanks for my Jayden Daniels gear; rooting for this D.C. team now!
    $400 28
In 962 Pope John XII--to repeat, the pope--crowned the ruler of what would be this empire that ended about 850 years later
    $400 29
An old, unsolved investigation, especially for TV's Lilly Rush of the Philadelphia Police Department
    $400 30
Fictional astronaut Mark Watney grew & ate potatoes here, or he wouldn't have survived
    $400 21
This university is home to a Greek Revival building called Old College & maybe someday the Joe Biden Presidential Library
    $400 19
Virginia Madsen got a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as Paul Giamatti's love interest in this 2004 film
    $400 18
In 1997 Bud Selig retired the number 42 in honor of this man, but you can look sharp in a licensed version of his jersey
    DD: $6,800 26
During the American revolution, one German state made about 13 years of tax revenue by renting out soldiers known as these
    $600 2
Online motorcyclist forums have exchanges about how women can avoid this post-ride issue without getting a buzz cut
    $600 6
At this position, 1980s Minor Leaguer Dave Bresnahan threw a potato into left field & tagged the bamboozled runner at home
    $600 10
"New Jersey" or "Hackensack" can precede this rural-sounding name for the area where the NFL's Jets & Giants play at home
    $600 20
The story of Ann Rutledge, Abe's first love, was exaggerated by a biographer who hated this woman & called her "a she wolf"
    $600 13
Love my new jersey for this Seattle NHL team; the logo does kind of look like a sea monster
    $800 11
Last name of Christopher, for whom a flag of the Revolutionary War era is named; Chris' grandson James made a big 1853 land buy
    $800 3
Friar Tuck is exceptionally jolly even among this entourage of Robin Hood's
    $800 25
The NP, this railroad through Idaho, used a skewer through the middle to cook enormous baked potatoes to diner's delight
    $800 16
Once the "Lumber Capital of the World", this Penn. city hosts the Little League World Series, in which the bats ain't lumber
    $800 23
Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America, was part of this colony whose members mysteriously disappeared
    $800 1
To go with my Pele jersey, I've got the jersey of this other one-named Brazilian legend; she now has a FIFA award named after her
    $1000 27
Spain's king quickly began ridding the nation of the authoritarian policies of this man after his death in 1975
    $1000 5
In a 1963 case in Massachusetts, 2 of 3 people playing this not-exactly-a-game were convicted of manslaughter in the death of the 3rd
    $1000 8
Born in 1949, he had humble culinary beginnings peeling potatoes in an Austrian hotel, but L.A. beckoned
    $1000 22
The Pacific has Orange County, the Mid-Atlantic has this Maryland O.C., known for its beaches & boardwalk
    $1000 24
Founded in 1964, the reproductive biology research foundation became the institute named for William Masters & this woman
    $1000 17
Though this NBA team only played its first 6 seasons in the Great White North, its clawmark scratched jerseys of the '90s are lit

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

Jack Alex Jamie
$2,800 $4,800 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jack Alex Jamie
$4,200 $14,400 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

WRITERS IN BOOKS
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK
AROUND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
INN THE CITY
CELEBRITY HOMETOWNS
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
    $400 5
Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe has this title job & muses, "Athletes... are happy to let their actions speak for them"
    $400 10
Perhaps its Mutianyu section would chat with its neighboring Jiankou section
    $400 7
The energy of our sun comes from this type of nuclear reaction deep inside the core, where temperatures can reach 15 mil. kelvin
    $400 30
At a "Manor" near Nairobi, the Rothschild's type of this creature occasionally rubbernecks into the hotel
    $400 17
Born in San Francisco, he grew up mainly in nearby Piedmont but returned as SFPD detective Harry Callahan
    $400 26
An after hours rendezvous for the fisherman's amorous nightcrawlers
    $800 4
Played by Jeffrey Wright on film, the author hero of Percival Everett's "Erasure" has this last name, like a great Black novelist
    $800 11
The remnants of this might reminisce about the big party that started there November 9, 1989
    $800 8
A potentially hazardous asteroid that passes closer to the Sun than Mercury bears the name of this high flyer of Greek myth
    $800 29
Home to Penn & Teller, this Vegas hotel shares its name with a South American city
    $800 18
In "Fast Car", she sang, "Any place is better... got nothing to lose"--she may have meant the east side of Cleveland
    $800 27
A basketball slam from an inebriated abbot
    $1200 3
Novelist Greer Garrison is on this island in "The Perfect Couple" by Elin Hilderbrand, who says she's done setting books there
    $1200 24
Hadrian's Wall might tell you about the boar symbol of the 20th this, one of the military units that built it
    $1200 23
The New Horizons spacecraft flew by this object in 2015 & also got a good look at its satellite, Charon
    $1200 28
Founded in 1855, this hotel in Boston created the bread rolls that bear its name
    $1200 19
(W. Kamau Bell presents the clue.) A very personal episode of "United Shades of America" was about a city I consider home, this one in Alabama whose Black history also includes being home to Hank Aaron & Laverne Cox & the arrival of the last slave ship to the U.S.
    $1200 21
An uncomplicated skin blemish in a cheek depression
    DD: $3,200 2
In 1976, "Lady Oracle", about writer Joan Foster, was reviewed as "the most cheerful novel" by this Canadian woman
    $1600 25
The "Peace Walls" of Belfast would probably say they'd be happy to be dismantled with the end of the violent era known as this
    DD: $7,200 6
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the solar system's largest; this appropriately named moon of Saturn is a close second
    $1600 22
A hotel in Geneva named for this French way of saying "England" overlooks Jet d'Eau, one of the world's tallest fountains
    $1600 13
Springs Valley Community High School in French Lick, Indiana is on a road now named for this basketball star
    $1600 15
To take pains to forgo a marathon sponsored by Attila
    $2000 1
White writer Vivaldo has an affair with Ida, a Black woman, & there's gay love too in this author's 1962 novel "Another Country"
    $2000 9
I'd love to hear the walls of Babylon's take on how accurately the gate of this goddess had been reconstructed
    $2000 20
The outer edge where the solar wind meets the interstellar medium is called this, from words meaning "sun stop"
    $2000 16
Named for a British statesman, this hotel in Singapore was established by Persian-Armenian brothers
    $2000 12
He had a good time taking his TV co-workers Katy Perry & Lionel Richie home to Leesburg, Georgia
    $2000 14
A secret agent's award-winning costume

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jack Alex Jamie
$6,200 $26,400 $21,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

21st CENTURY BROADWAY
A review of this musical noted "sacrilege" & said it was "blasphemous" but "its heart is as pure as... a Rodgers & Hammerstein show"

Final scores:

Jack Alex Jamie
$8,400 $42,401 $26,401
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $42,401 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jack Alex Jamie
$6,200 $20,200 $14,000
15 R,
3 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 15 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $40,400

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Game tape date: 2025-01-28
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