Show #9335 - Friday, May 16, 2025

Contestants

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Erin Hoard, a logistics receiver from Las Vegas, Nevada

Mitch Loflin, a set decoration coordinator from Long Beach, California

Brandon Monsman, a bartender originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
THE SOMETHING OF THE SOMETHING
3 WORDS, 3 SYLLABLES
ON A STAMP
CONTAINED THEREIN
(Ken: Responses here made up of letters in the word "therein".)
TRASH TALK
    $200 28
Moving at 4 mph, it should take you about 1/2 an hour to walk around the entire border of this country & its 882 residents
    $200 29
For its many canals, Amsterdam is known as "the" this "of the North"
    $200 21
This alliterative prank was a lot more fun before everyone had doorbell cameras
    $200 27
A 2024 Forever stamp series celebrating this role-playing game incorporates its fire-breathing ampersand
    $200 26
A limousine may be "for" this, ready to rent
    $200 30
Michael Jordan called this 6'9" forward the greatest trash talker & mind game player of all time
    $400 22
Moving at 4 mph, it should take you about 8,980 hours to walk around the entire border of this country & its 145 million people
    $400 23
An 1861 print depicts General Winfield Scott as this mythological hero of the Union clubbing the great dragon of seccession
    $400 8
This term for your body's automatic response to danger implies a choice between 2 equally unpleasant options
    $400 25
The Meyer type of these fruits grace a 2-cent stamp; good thing you don't have to lick them anymore
    $400 20
It's a ceremonial action like an initiation or a baptism
    $400 24
In 2017 Sixers fan Kevin Hart said he let this then-Rocket know, "You're in my city. Your beard stinks... I hate your calves"
    $600 13
This river empties into the South China Sea after rambling through Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam
    $600 12
Robert Schumann called his brilliant & precocious contemporary Felix Mendelssohn "The" him "of the 19th Century"
    $600 2
This imperative catchphrase of Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard means, roughly speaking, "Get 'er done"
    $600 4
A 2021 stamp features the Colorado hairstreak, a beautiful one of these
    $600 6
Nope;
not this,
nor that
    $600 10
In a 1998 divisional playoff game, this Green Bay Packers QB exchanged some unpleasantries with Buccaneers tackle Warren Sapp
    $800 3
Mountaineering legends, these people of Nepal live up to 14,000' in the Solu-Khumbu district of the Himalayas
    $800 9
The "Michelangelo of the Midway", August Wolfinger is renowned for his paintings on the historic carousel at this Brooklyn venue
    DD: $1,000 1
After debuting on bumper stickers, this 2016 campaign phrase for Hillary Clinton quickly turned into a hashtag
    $800 5
A round stamp used for international postage depicts this red, green & yellow holiday flower
    $800 7
Varieties of this sea bird can have a forked tail & some migrate about 25,000 miles annually
    $800 11
This 4-time U.S. Open singles winner in the '70s & '80s said he had more talent in his pinkie than Ivan Lendl had in his whole body
    $1000 16
If K-pop gives way to K-stan-pop, the next music craze will come from these 2 landlocked countries that border each other
    $1000 17
Eloquent Henry Ward Beecher was "The Shakespeare of" this 6-letter preacher's platform
    $1000 14
It's where rival Kens face off in the "Barbie" movie, or--for those with gloomier Kenergy--a 1957 novel about nuclear annihilation
    $1000 15
The $1 Statue of Freedom stamp depicts the head of the figure that stood atop this building since 1863
    $1000 18
Incapable of moving or not readily reactive
    $1000 19
This woman who appeared in "Furious 7" & "Entourage" dissed fighters like Bethe Correia & Miesha Tate before matches

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

Brandon Mitch Erin
-$200 $2,200 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brandon Mitch Erin
$2,000 $4,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD
BOOK TITLE TATTLE
PLANTS & TREES
NAVAL HISTORY
OLD TESTAMENT NAMES
TRASH TALK
    $400 27
In a commercial Will Ferrell puts a PayPal spin on the Fleetwood Mac lyric "I wanna be with you..." here
    $400 30
Jonathan Swift inspired a title, writing you can know a true genius by the sign that these are "in confederacy against him"
    $400 29
These aren't just thought to resemble the hepatic organ in their name; some have been used to treat it
    $400 26
A fleet of 200 warships of this republic won a battle off Sicily in 241 B.C., leading to the end of the First Punic War
    $400 24
The Bible calls her "the mother of all living"
    $400 22
Stress on the second syllable of this word means to decline an offer; if the stress is on the first, it means trash
    $800 7
Sung by this 1-word band descended from Jefferson Airplane, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from eating goldfish crisps
    $800 13
A.W. Wheen, a WWI vet like the author, chose this English title in translating a book whose German title means "nothing new in the west"
    $800 20
This palm species that flourishes in Brazil produces antioxidant-rich berries popular in bowls & drinks
    $800 16
The sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano accounted for almost half of Argentine fatalities in this conflict
    $800 4
The Bible book named for her says she was also known as Hadassah
    $800 9
Often paired with flotsam, it's thrown off a ship to aid stability during a crisis
    $1200 2
Marriott uses this tune by The B-52's about going "around the world... without wings, without wheels"
    DD: $1,500 1
The opening line of William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" provided the title for this Cormac McCarthy novel
    $1200 3
These carnivorous plants are named for the vessel-shaped leaves that trap & drown prey
    $1200 23
During the Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay, David Farragut famously yelled, "Damn" these weapons! "Full speed ahead!"
    $1200 5
The mother of Samuel, her 6-letter name is a palindrome
    $1200 10
Solid particles at the bottom of a cup of coffee are called "the" this 5-letter plural word
    $1600 6
Perhaps the family in the Hyundai Santa Fe is going fishing as they tool around to this fish-titled tune by Heart
    $1600 14
This original English title of Proust's 7-volume work is from Shakespeare's Sonnet 30
    DD: $3,000 18
This genus of ornamental flowering shrubs & plants gave its name to a hard-to-spell deep reddish-purple color
    $1600 17
Gaining even more fame in the next World War, he built up the royal navy for WWI as First Lord of the Admiralty
    $1600 21
Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego endured a stay in a furnace in the book of this man
    $1600 11
This "itus" isn't a medical condition; it's debris often of organic matter like fallen leaves
    $2000 8
What makes you think of Kerrygold butter? Naturally, this band's "I Want You To Want Me"
    $2000 15
The poetic line "Bury my heart at" this place used it as an evocative American name; as a book, it's about the Native Amer. plight
    $2000 19
These pines named for projections on their seed-containing parts have been known to reach nearly 5,000 years of age
    $2000 28
After the 1905 mutiny on the Russian Battleship Potemkin, its sailors set course for this port city on the Black Sea
    $2000 25
Head to the end of the alphabet for this name of Moses' wife
    $2000 12
In England it refers to any of the entrails of an animal, like brawn or chitterlings

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brandon Mitch Erin
$8,300 $13,800 $16,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL MONUMENTS
Also called "great gray horn" & "bear's tipi", this site in the western U.S. was made a national monument in 1906

Final scores:

Brandon Mitch Erin
$2,300 $8,400 $4,399
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $8,400 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Brandon Mitch Erin
$9,000 $13,800 $14,600
13 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R,
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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Game tape date: 2025-03-11
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