Show #9334 - Thursday, May 15, 2025

Contestants

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Nick Marino, a mechanical engineer from San Francisco, California

Neeraj Borle, an investment firm managing director from New York, New York

Brandon Monsman, a bartender originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LINES OF HIT SONGS
(Ken: You'll give us the title.)
BESTSELLING NONFICTION
THE EARLY 21st CENTURY
A BARREL OF MONKEYS
"AMP"ED UP
YOU PUT ME ON THE SUPREME COURT
(Ken: You'll name the president.)
    $200 25
"There's a fire starting in my heart, reaching a fever pitch it's bringing me out the dark"
    $200 26
Mindy Pelz has books called "Eat Like a Girl" & its opposite, do this (maybe intermittently) "Like a Girl"
    $200 15
In 2004 Merriam-Webster's word of the year was this, meaning "a web site that contains an online personal journal"
    $200 29
Tod Sloan popularized the monkey crouch used in this sport of kings
    $200 21
Performing on this piece of equipment has been part of Olympic gymnastics since 2000
    $200 30
Making Ketanji Brown Jackson the first Black woman on the court
    $400 8
"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair, warm smell of Colitas rising up through the air"
    $400 14
"The Memoir, Part One" is the subtitle of a recent book by this pop culture icon & singer of "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves"
    $400 22
In 2008 in Mexico City, a fight broke out between punks, goths & members of this group known for jagged eye-covering hair
    $400 23
The song "Brass Monkey" by this trio informed us "I got a castle in Brooklyn, that's where I dwell"
    $400 20
It's the group of towns & villages at the eastern end of Long Island where many of the rich & famous have summer homes
    $400 17
Breaking new ground (at last) with Sandra Day O'Connor
    $600 2
"Well, it's one for the money, 2 for the show, 3 to get ready, now go cat go"
    $600 27
About a decade ago this late Nobel Prize winner reflected on his experiences from age 90 in "A Full Life"
    $600 9
Before Bird & Lime, this brand of scooters rolled into America's hearts & even made an appearance at the X Games
    $600 5
As stowaways aboard a transatlantic ship, this foursome gets into no end of trouble in the film "Monkey Business"
    $600 1
Yeehaw! The Calgary this has been designated a national historic event
    DD: $1,000 16
Hot dogging it & appointing Felix Frankfurter; he wanted to add 6 more all at once, but it didn't happen
    $800 3
"Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River"
    $800 18
One mom in "The Anxious Generation", about the damage tech does, gave her daughter this kind of "phone & she returned" to normal
    $800 10
BFs & BFFs & BFF4Ls were known when this social media platform introduced its Top 8 Friends list
    $800 12
His efforts to teach evolution in Tennessee resulted in 1925's "Monkey Trial"
    $800 7
Though far from Italy, UC Berkeley has its own one of these bell towers, one of the tallest in the world
    $800 19
Replacing Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas
    $1000 4
"I've never seen a diamond in the flesh, I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies"
    $1000 28
The idea of a double self informs this memoir by Naomi Klein, a "Trip into the Mirror World" of being confused with Naomi Wolf
    $1000 11
This artist designed the iconic Obama "Hope" poster for the 2008 election
    $1000 13
Aka the Chilean pine, an evergreen of South America is known as this for its sharp, scaly foliage that makes it hard to climb
    $1000 6
Saint Fermín is the patron saint of this Spanish city; a famous event there honors him
    $1000 24
Choosing who would be a future Chief Justice in William Rehnquist

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

Brandon Neeraj Nick
$3,000 $2,600 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brandon Neeraj Nick
$2,400 $3,600 $5,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE DESERT MENU
A CATEGORY GOOD
(Ken: Each response here is a phrase that goes noun then adjective.)
ROYAL ROLES
THE NAME ON THE DISEASE
"L.O."
SAILOR
    $400 24
One movement of 1931's "Grand Canyon suite" is named for this famously colorful area that stretches east from the Grand Canyon
    $400 25
In other words, poodle-weary
    $400 26
Lesley Manville played this royal sister in the later seasons of "The Crown"
    $400 29
In 1817 this British physician first described what came to be known as his disease in his "Essay on the Shaking Palsy"
    $400 28
A pink flamingo or a cute little garden gnome, for example
    $400 30
This popular Gilbert & Sullivan operetta named for a ship is subtitled "The Lass that Loved a Sailor"
    $800 12
In this 700-mile-long desert in northern Chile, summer temperatures average in only the mid-60s
    $800 8
In hospitals this pair of 4-letter words is standard to indicate cardiac arrest or another big problem
    $800 5
Andrew Gower made "Mark me" a catchphrase as this Bonnie prince on "Outlander"
    DD: $2,600 23
It's the singular last name of Thomas, a doctor whose name is on the malignant disease of lymph tissue he described in 1832
    $800 7
During the War of 1812, ships like Hamilton & Scourge sank here, near the Niagara River
    $800 27
"Home is the sailor, home from the sea", from this Scottish writer's "Requiem", is on his grave in Samoa
    $1200 3
When Chinese talk about where the Gobi Desert is located, they use the words nei & wai, these opposite adjectives
    $1200 10
This less-common feminized term was used by Hawaii's king in 1878 about Liliuokalani as next in line for the throne
    $1200 6
In "Braveheart", Sophie Marceau plays Isabella of France, one of the tenacious women of history called La Louve, female this animal
    $1200 15
Those most prone to develop this gastrointestinal disease are people in their 20s, not old witchy women
    $1200 1
Not a request, you should follow one of these, legally issued by a police officer, or you may risk jail time
    $1200 18
The title guy of this Joseph Conrad novel rises through the naval ranks & becomes chief mate
    $1600 4
Analysis of satellite data showed that in 2019 this desert shared by Arizona, California & Mexico hit 177.4 degrees
    $1600 9
Noun then adjective, it's the correct heraldic way to refer to the creature here
    $1600 14
This 1987 movie with John Lone in the title role was the first feature from the West filmed in Beijing's Forbidden City
    $1600 16
At a hospital in Norway in 1873, this doctor discovered the leprosy bacillus in a patient's tissue sample
    $1600 2
In 1984 the NBA Championship Trophy was renamed for this sports executive who managed JFK's presidential run
    $1600 19
Here's a piece from this celebrated American author, known for capturing all sorts of seaworthy scenes
    $2000 13
About 450 miles east to west, it's the royal desert highlighted here, & don't forget the adjective that begins its name
    DD: $2,000 11
In French, it's normal for the noun to come first, as in this 2-word term for a spy who incites others to engage in illegal acts
    $2000 22
Ridley Scott made a 3-hour+ director's cut of this Crusades epic with Orlando Bloom as Balian & Edward Norton as a masked king
    $2000 21
Named for Robert from Dublin, this disease causes hyperthyroidism & patients can experience vision loss
    $2000 17
The Southern U.S. is dotted with these evergreens used for shade & shelter
    $2000 20
Billy Budd is impressed into service as one of these, meaning he's stationed way up on a mast

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brandon Neeraj Nick
$7,200 $12,400 $14,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN OF HISTORY
Regarding the idea of "women first", she queried, "Women demand equal rights on land--why not on sea?"

Final scores:

Brandon Neeraj Nick
$7,200 $4,400 $3,599
2-day champion: $23,600 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Brandon Neeraj Nick
$7,200 $12,400 $12,000
12 R,
3 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 16 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $31,600

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Game tape date: 2025-03-11
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