Show #9337 - Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Contestants

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Wendy Poush, a floor manager from Des Moines, Iowa

Brendan Liaw, a recent graduate and stay-at-home son from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mitch Loflin, a set decoration coordinator from Long Beach, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,700)

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Jeopardy! Round

TAKE ME TO YOUR COMPANY LEADER
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLES
18th CENTURY AVIATION
NO TIME TO SAY THE WHOLE WORD
AT THE CEMETERY
THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE
    $200 18
She is chairman of her "OWN" network that premiered in 2011, & I do believe you've heard her name at least once or twice
    $200 27
"Commissions & Fees" &
"Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency"
    $200 26
America's 1st manned balloon flight took off from the Walnut Street Prison in this city with George Washington in the crowd
    $200 29
Thanks for the restaurant "recs"--we went with that Burmese place
    $200 30
Be patient with the long black car moving very slowly; it's one of these vehicles specially made for bearing a casket
    $200 22
Back in the day, this state capital was the last horse-&-rider stop on the Pony Express
    $400 1
Here's a package deal: once CFO for The Home Depot, Carol Tomé now delivers as CEO of this 3-letter company
    $400 17
"Threat Level Midnight" &
"The Michael Scott Paper Company"
    $400 25
Early balloonists are said to have carried this to calm freaked-out farmers once they landed; now it's handed out at the end of a ride
    $400 28
Public Enemy & other hip-hop acts helped bring "camo" into mainstream fashion
    $400 24
"Cemetery worker" is modern parlance for this job title that's also the name of a famous monster truck
    $400 21
On Obama's pre-inaugural whistle-stop train tour in 2009, this Washington, D.C. station was the end of the line
    $600 16
The blue shirts of this company's stores look to CEO Corie Barry for leadership
    $600 14
"Man City" &
"Trent Crimm: The Independent"
    $600 5
Jettisoning their pants to stay aloft, John Jeffries & J.-P. Blanchard made the first aerial crossing of this body of water
    $600 7
Thanks for handling that customer complaint; I just can't take any more "aggro" right now
    $600 23
It's the "ex"act opposite of burying a body, & you'd better have a good reason for doing it
    $600 20
5 days of round-trip choo-chooing on the Royal Canadian Pacific puts you back where you began in this city, Alberta's largest
    $800 15
Ruth Porat is President & Chief Investment Officer for this conglomerate & holding company & you can Google that
    $800 3
"Hybrid Creatures" &
"Werewolf Feud"
    $800 6
Flying with both these types of balloon seemed smart, but alas led to flammability risk & the 1st balloonist deaths in 1785
    $800 8
The famous singer tried to escape from the "paps" by going out the fire exit
    DD: $2,600 10
This burial place for the indigent & unidentified takes its name from the Bible
    $800 19
If you ride the MBTA (or "T") to the end of the Green Line's Westbound B branch, you'll be at this Jesuit college founded in 1863
    $1000 13
In 1988 Tricia Griffith joined this insurer as a claims rep & her mom said, "The soup company?"; in 2016 Tricia became CEO
    $1000 2
"Miranda",
"Sleepover" &
"Vendy Wiccany"
    $1000 12
Air pressure drops as you rise; so this device was used as an altimeter when Dr. Charles climbed to 10,000 feet in 1783
    $1000 9
I'll check the "comps" & give you an appraisal of your home's value
    $1000 4
This stand where a casket rests before burial also sounds like a beverage you might need after attending the burial
    $1000 11
It's no longer where a famous train line ends, but there's still an Orient Express restaurant at this city's Sirkeci Station

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

Mitch Brendan Wendy
$400 $600 $5,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Brendan Wendy
$2,400 $1,600 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALMA MATERS
GEOMETRY
STARTS WITH "U-N"
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
U.S. HISTORY
A + (DIRECTOR'S NAME) + (WORD FOR A MOVIE)
    $400 25
Tiffany Trump & Don Jr. both attended this Ivy League school, like their dad
    $400 26
The area between 2 concentric circles in a plane is an annulus, a fancy word for this shape of great interest to Hobbits
    $400 28
This word that means one of a kind comes before "New York" in a tongue twister
    $400 27
A David Mamet satire about a day in the life of a president up for reelection has this month as its title
    $400 30
The formerly enslaved James Covey was a translator for the Africans at their trial after a revolt aboard this ship in 1839
    $400 29
"A" + the director's name + "film" is used by many filmmakers, like this auteur of "Gladiator" & "Gladiator II"
    $800 24
Maybe Casamigos co-founder Rande Gerber got a taste for tequila at this Wildcat school 60 miles from the Mexican border
    $800 22
As well as a drop of golden sun, it's a line segment that has a fixed starting point & extends infinitely in one direction
    $800 21
Rudy Horn was a juggler who sometimes did his routine on this type of vehicle
    $800 20
Tom Stoppard first gained fame for this play named for 2 minor characters from Shakespeare
    $800 23
This 20th century listicle included "Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas" & "Adjustment of all colonial claims"
    $800 19
One quirk of a famed filmmaker is calling most of his movies "a Spike Lee" this
    $1200 18
Cyrus, son of VP Hannibal Hamlin, & Billy, nephew of VP George H.W. Bush, attended this school alphabetically just before Colgate
    DD: $3,600 9
This geometric figure has 2 congruent & parallel polygons as its bases; its optical counterpart is more loosely defined
    $1200 8
Famous ones in pop culture include
Drew
(Kyrie Irving)
& Buck
(John Candy)
    $1200 7
This comedian, actor & playwright of the one-man Broadway show "Latin History for Morons" won a special Tony in 2018
    $1200 6
Winfield Scott proposed this snaky-named military plan to squeeze the life out of the Confederacy
    $1200 10
This movie in which Trey Parker & Matt Stone invent a new sport is billed as "a David Zucker game"
    $1600 5
(Ana Navarro presents the clue.) I attended the "U" in this city near Miami & in my 2024 documentary, "The Latino Vote", I was back there talking to Cuban American voters
    $1600 4
These line segments have endpoints along a circle's edge; the circle's diameter is the longest one possible
    $1600 3
Latin gives us this verb that means "to move in waves"
    $1600 2
Early in this play by Eugene O'Neill, some drinkers await the arrival of Hickey in Harry Hope's Saloon
    $1600 1
Jibreel Khazan, David Richmond, Franklin McCain & Joseph McNeil became known as this city's four after a lunch counter sit-in
    DD: $100 11
"Wonka" is "a Paul King" this 10-letter word for a sweet creation
    $2000 16
Evangelists Joel Osteen & Kenneth Copeland attended the university named for this man in Tulsa
    $2000 15
The branch of geometry called this -ology studies properties that stay the same even if an object bends, stretches or shrinks
    $2000 13
The act of anointing; Catholicism had an "extreme" version
    $2000 12
In an Edward Albee play, on the week of his 50th birthday, an architect confesses that he's in love with a goat named this
    $2000 14
Several policemen & demonstrators were killed during the May 4, 1886 riot at this Chicago square
    $2000 17
Like "Summer of Soul", "Sly Lives!", the second documentary by this drummer, is called a jawn, from his Philly roots

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Brendan Wendy
$12,400 $19,200 $11,900

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Final Jeopardy! Round

NFL GEOGRAPHY
It's the state with the lowest population density that's home to an NFL team

Final scores:

Mitch Brendan Wendy
$6,220 $13,599 $3,800
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $13,599 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mitch Brendan Wendy
$10,000 $19,200 $11,600
16 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 23 R,
6 W		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $40,800

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Game tape date: 2025-03-17
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