Show #9301 - Monday, March 31, 2025

Josh Weikert game 7.
Bryce Wargin game 1.

Contestants

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Allison Willard, a paralegal from Weddington, North Carolina

Bryce Wargin, a post market surveillance coordinator from Kansas City, Missouri

Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania (whose 6-day cash winnings total $100,202)

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Jeopardy! Round

FLORENCE + THE SIMPLE MACHINE
COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
RHYME TIME
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
I GOT ME A CAR
IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE
    $200 25
Florence has learned that a lever uses a surface on a fulcrum to move something, like a pair of these, & to not run with them
    $200 4
Touring together for Sun Records, he called new friend Johnny Cash "Old Man", & Cash called him "The Shaky Kid"
    $200 23
The correct set of stairs
    $200 12
2 amendments ratified 15 years apart both dealt with this issue; one to enact it & one to repeal it
    $200 30
Travel to a little old place where we can get together in this company's Corolla
    $200 18
Slightly larger than a blue whale, the 110-foot-long 737-700 from this company has plied the skies since 1997
    $400 24
Scratch golfer Florence knows a sand type of this has around 10 degrees more loft than a pitching one
    $400 5
The "Coachella of country music", this festival featuring some of the greatest country artists began in California in 2007
    $400 14
5-o'clock shadow peril
    $400 9
Whereas before they were appointed by state legislatures, the 17th Amendment in 1913 provided for direct election of these lawmakers
    $400 27
Looking for a love getaway? This company's 2025 Explorer SUV has a towing capacity of 5,000 pounds if you haul the Love Boat
    $400 22
Viper, a wooden one of these at a Six Flags, boasts a first drop that's "a stomach-flipping 10 stories tall"
    $600 3
Dog days are over for Florence after she fixed a cracked this, a central steel rod that gets torque from a car's transmission
    $600 6
Part of a rebellious trend, 1976's "Wanted! The Outlaws" from these two legends & company was the first platinum status country album
    $600 15
A voluminous southpaw
    $600 8
The 23rd Amendment gave presidential voting rights & Electoral College votes to this U.S. place
    $600 28
An A8 from this automaker, which can go 0 to 60 in 5.6 seconds, is a good choice for heading down the Atlanta highway
    DD: $1,600 19
Big in a little place, the 109-foot Gainer Memorial Dam in this state is made of earth & overflows into the Pawtuxet River
    $800 7
DIY-lovin' Florence enjoys her collection of these, including self-tapping, lag & flat-head wood ones
    $800 10
Bill Monroe was the father of this colorful subgenre that developed in the 1930s in the Appalachian region
    $800 16
A blasé nomadic Mongol army
    $800 2
Certified in 1933, the 20th Amendment moved presidential inauguration day to January from this month where it had been for 144 years
    $800 29
If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says "15 miles to the gallon", it may be this luxe Brit car whose logo is shown
    $800 20
Apt name for a type of Viking vessel that once dominated the seas, it could reach more than 75 feet & replicas have gone to 100
    $1000 11
Florence tells her young cousin that ramps & slides have been used for at least 100 years as this 2-word simple machine
    $1000 13
This singer who died tragically in a 1963 plane crash was the first solo female artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame
    $1000 17
A belligerent aloe or cactus
    $1000 1
The freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment include "the right of the people peaceably to" do this
    $1000 26
"I got me" a this, "it seats about 20", maybe my Pacifica plug-in hybrid minivan
    $1000 21
A documentary series followed surfer Garrett McNamara's quest for this title item of 3-digit height

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

Josh Bryce Allison
$3,200 $1,400 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Josh Bryce Allison
$7,400 $3,800 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIRTH OF A NATION
20th CENTURY NOVELS
GETTING RELIGION
TYPE "A.B.": NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE
(Ken: And you response must account for both those letters, the "A" and the "B".)
NEPO PARENTS
OXYMORONS
    $400 10
June 17, 1944:
This island nation declares itself an independent republic & elects Sveinn Björnsson as its first president
    $400 15
The title of this Thomas Berger novel made into a Dustin Hoffman film echoes the Little Bighorn, which its hero survives
    $400 5
During the festival of Kathina, lay Buddhists give their monks civara, these traditional garments
    $400 29
This vice president said, "Slander has slain more than the sword"; he was awfully sensitive to slander, as history shows
    $400 30
As "older woman customer", Estelle Reiner (director Rob's mom) wants what Meg Ryan is having in this film
    $400 20
2-word term for a zombie or a ghoul straight outta the graveyard
    $800 9
June 25, 1991:
Slovenia & this larger part of Yugoslavia declare their independence
    $800 11
This W.P. Kinsella novel inspired the movie "Field of Dreams"
    $800 3
Marcionism, an early Christian sect, held that the gods of these 2 volumes were separate entities, one just but cruel, one loving & good
    $800 26
After more than a century of making Americans happy, this beverage giant became part of InBev in 2008
    $800 19
Cyndy & Glen Powell Sr. are right behind Jr. & Daisy Edgar-Jones at the rodeo in this 2024 film that also featured a bit of weather
    $800 21
Moisture loss while in a kitchen appliance can lead to this result seen here
    DD: $4,200 6
August 9, 1965:
Singapore separates from this country across the Strait of Johore & becomes independent
    $1200 12
This classic German novel is named for the animal seen here
    DD: $2,000 4
The spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church bears this title, from Greek for "father"
    $1200 27
Left blind at 12 from a brain hemorrhage, this Italian later practiced law before becoming a full-time tenor
    $1200 18
In 2023 Anne Twist published her first kids' book, "Betty and the Mysterious Visitor", while this singer, Anne's son, had "Love on Tour"
    $1200 23
The title of this Alan Tudyk show can also mean a foreign-born non-U.S. citizen living in the U.S.A.
    $1600 7
November 25, 1975:
It becomes the last South American country to achieve independence, 9 years after Guyana
    $1600 13
Smitten with a coquette named Odette, he's the character whose "Way" is the first volume of Proust's opus
    $1600 2
Members of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids flock to Stonehenge in late June to celebrate Alban Hefin, this
    $1600 28
Britannica says this very model of a not-so-modern major general was the U.S. originator "of the fashion of side whiskers"
    $1600 17
He had his mama, Doris, help move acceptance speeches along when he hosted the Emmys in 2024
    $1600 24
When you take that Zoom call from your boss as you're at a beach in Bali, explain you're on this oxymoron
    $2000 8
December 24, 1951:
This North African nation that had been an Italian colony becomes independent under king Idris I
    $2000 14
This novel by Solzhenitsyn is set in the title part of a hospital, a microcosm of Soviet society
    $2000 1
To its members, this faith is called Gurmat, Punjabi for "way of the guru"
    $2000 25
In 1974 he published the novel "a Clockwork Testament"
    $2000 16
Thanks to son Ike's recommendation, lawyer Alan Barinholtz was the judge on this 2023 show with "12 jurors. 11 actors"
    $2000 22
Idiom for a full-out effort to use your adorability to get someone's support

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Josh Bryce Allison
$15,000 $12,400 $11,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

COMMUNICATION
Invented by a student in 1824, this system has a total of 64 combinations

Final scores:

Josh Bryce Allison
$5,199 $15,400 $3,100
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $15,400 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Josh Bryce Allison
$15,000 $8,400 $11,000
21 R,
2 W		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $34,400

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Game tape date: 2025-02-11
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