Show #9295 - Friday, March 21, 2025

Contestants

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Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Steve Luck, an IT manager from Royal Oak, Michigan

Cameron Berry, a data analyst and college administrator from Brighton, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,600)

Jeopardy! Round

A SONG FOR ALL SEASONS
LITERARY CHARACTERS, HAVING A DAY
FRIED & GONE TO HEAVEN
IN SUFFERABLE
(Ken: These are responses made up of letters in the word "sufferable".)
LOST IN AMERICA
COME ON, 22!
    $200 27
In July 2019 Megan Thee Stallion tweeted, "I feel it's only right I drop a" this "song before the summer is over"
    $200 5
"The stricken whale flew forward"; this man "stooped to clear" the line, "but the flying turn caught him round the neck"
    $200 28
Sorry, we don't have Coke, but at the South Carolina State Fair, we have served fried this beverage, created in N.C. in 1893
    $200 29
As a noun it can mean pleated fabric added as a trim; as a verb, to annoy or fluster someone's feathers
    $200 21
Whoooa... I was in Vegas last night, but that's the U. of Nevada's flagship campus... how'd I get to this city also big on gambling?
    $200 26
You can't fool me... or maybe you can! There are 22 major arcana cards in this type of deck; now go & empress us
    $400 4
"I'm drunk in the back of the car, and I cried like a baby" while doing this, reported Taylor Swift of her "Cruel Summer"
    $400 6
"In the morning she was waked by a horrible nightmare, which had recurred ... even before her connection with Vronsky"
    $400 11
How about this stuffed Chinese app with shredded veggies & meat? It's larger than the spring type & I'm in
    $400 30
Said of some cats & dogs, it means in a wild state, perhaps after having once been domesticated
    $400 20
Oh dear... am I on Killington Peak or Little Killington in this New England range? & Where the heck is Camel's Hump?
    $400 25
Lamed, vav & shin are among the 22 letters in this alphabet
    $600 2
A Beach Boys song about a relaxing "Spring" this rhymes it (pretty much) with "Good Vibrations"
    $600 7
He says, "You know, old sport, I've never used that pool all summer?" (he really should've stuck to that)
    $600 9
allrecipes.com notes "you can also fry up red" ones with the recipe for these, a 1991 film title, but overripe ones "will be mushy"
    $600 15
Types of this device are either continuous wave or pulsed, which can produce a short release up to 10 quadrillion watts
    $600 17
I'm not sure where I am now heading down this river, but I've passed El Paso, loped by Laredo & bounded by Brownsville
    $600 22
"The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off" is the last line of this novel
    $800 3
Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra are among the many artists who've recorded the jazz standard "Autumn" these
    DD: $1,600 8
He/it says, "I think there's been a failure in the pod-bay doors... lucky you weren't killed... Dave... what are you doing?"
    $800 12
For fried chicken, "Joy of Cooking" says a marinade of this tangy dairy product "promotes tenderness"
    $800 13
This member of the weasel family found in forests of Asia is highly values for its fur
    $800 19
It's no tragedy to be lost in Othello, Wash., but I must bop down 395 & over on 12 & hit this double-named city in about 90 minutes
    $800 23
Bats entertainment! The pitch in this sport is 22 yards in length by 10 feet in width
    $1000 1
"Winter Lady" was a track on the 1967 debut album "Songs of..." this late singer-songwriter
    $1000 10
He "cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: 'The horror! The horror!"'
    $1000 16
From the French, this deep-fried New Orleans staple is a yeast pastry that's soft as--but more delicious than--a pillow
    $1000 14
This small fluid-filled sac reduces friction between tendons & bones at joints
    $1000 18
Oh, you know me, hoppin' on my Harley & heading for the annual August rally in this city, but my faulty GPS has me in nearby Deadwood
    $1000 24
The 22 bones that make up this structure account for 1/4 of your length at birth but only 1/8 by maturity

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

Cameron Steve Josh
-$200 $3,800 $3,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Cameron Steve Josh
$400 $6,000 $7,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
SCIENCE
CAUGHT CHIMPING
BUSINESS BUSTS
PALACES
LANGUAGE OF THE DEVOUT?
    $400 29
A popular rallying cry was these 3 words followed by "to hell with Spain"
    $400 28
Term for the release of energy when a fuel & air are mixed; it's internal in gasoline & Diesel engines
    $400 22
In the 1950s, J. Fred Muggs helped boost the ratings on this NBC morning show that has now been on for more than 70 years
    $400 17
Beef Burgundy, but in a jar! Yeah, this baby food company exists today, but its "Singles", jars of food for adults, not so much
    $400 1
The centuries-old adobe Palace of the Governors in this state capital got decked out for statehood in 1912
    $400 30
To accept a statement without requiring proof is to "take" it this devout way
    $800 24
Like the Philippines was a buffet, Pres. McKinley debated whether to annex it all, mainly Manila or this whole largest island
    $800 27
Dentists use a mix of 70% this & 30% oxygen; around 1800, Humphry Davy took it pure & felt "pleasurable delirium"
    $800 21
This HBO docuseries follows Tonia Haddix & her, let's say, interesting dynamic with a chimpanzee named Tonka
    $800 16
This aautomaker filed for bankruptcy in 2011, but the same-named Swedish company is still solid in defense & civil aaerospace
    $800 9
In 2002 Queen (the band) celebrated the queen with "Party at the Palace", this palace, for Elizabeth II's golden jubilee
    $800 25
There's a synonym for benediction in this idiom meaning something that at first seemed ominous but turned out well
    $1200 4
This Western artist who was sent to Cuba painted the Rough Riders' charge at the Battle of San Juan Hill
    $1200 5
This neurotransmitter also called 3-hydroxytyramine plays a role in the reward center of the brain
    $1200 18
The writer of a 1951 "Bedtime" film said, "If Reagan wins" in 1980, this chimp "is hoping to be made envoy to Banana Republic"
    $1200 7
After the financial disaster of 2008, the bear.com URL once belonging to this investment bank redirected to J.P. Morgan
    $1200 2
An edifice built for the Sovereign Council of Brabant became, in 1830, the Palace of the Nation in this capital
    $1200 11
In 1924's Ziang Sung Wan v. U.S., the Supreme Court threw out one of these signed after 12 days of interrogation
    DD: $3,000 3
He'd fought Confederates & Apaches; now General Nelson Miles led the invasion of this Caribbean island at Guánica
    $1600 6
The 2024 Medicine Nobel Prize is for discovering gene regulation by the "micro" type of this molecule that tells cells what to do
    $1600 19
On this Nickelodeon show, the chimp Darwin speaks in the King's English & is Eliza's baboon companion
    $1600 14
2011 was the end for this music player from Microsoft
    $1600 8
At Miraflores Palace in Caracas in 2024, he celebrated his re-election victory, many say a stolen one
    DD: $3,000 12
The experience of Jesus & of Simon of Cyrene inspired this expression for a burden one cannot shirk
    $2000 23
Making a rhyming sequence, Sec. of State Day was replaced by this man who used the phrase "a splendid little war"
    $2000 26
Carbon-14 is an isotope of carbon; graphite is one of these of carbon, ending in -trope, not -tope
    $2000 20
In "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", James Franco is tight with the chimp that has this Roman name; he's a real Serkis animal
    $2000 15
It raised $1.75 billion but in 6 months, Jeffrey Katzenberg had to tell the staff the streaming was dry
    $2000 10
This Bay Area landmark hosted The Beatles & the 1964 GOP convention, but the Grant National Livestock Expo hints at its core purpose
    $2000 13
Hindu belief led to this phrase for an idea that is widely accepted & that you question at your peril

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Cameron Steve Josh
$6,400 $11,800 $16,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BESTSELLERS
It begins in the village of Juffure & ends in Arkansas more than 200 years & 7 generations later

Final scores:

Cameron Steve Josh
$12,800 $17,800 $23,601
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $23,601

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Cameron Steve Josh
$6,400 $14,000 $15,000
14 R,
7 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $35,400

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Game tape date: 2025-02-10
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