Show #9339 - Thursday, May 22, 2025

Contestants

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Matt Askins, an aerospace engineer from Chandler, Arizona

Angela Mustapha, a library specialist from Conway, Arkansas

Brendan Liaw, a recent graduate and stay-at-home son from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $38,798)

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Jeopardy! Round

TITLES
TRIPLE TALK SONGS
THE MIDDLE AGES
AROUND THE HOUSE
"B" & "B"
(Ken: Each response is two "B" words used together, like "Bible Belt".)
LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK
    $200 24
Stephen F. Austin organized this military force that patrolled the frontier & later, the Texas border
    $200 26
In a song on her "Red" album, she sings, "Stay, stay, stay, I've been loving you for quite some time, time, time"
    $200 22
In the romance "Guy of Warwick", the title hero goes on a quest, battles one of these winged creatures & wins true love
    $200 28
Accused of witchcraft in 1453, the first person to admit to flying on this household item was a man named Guillaume Edelin
    $200 20
The Glenn Miller Orchestra was a leading act in this style
    $200 30
"Goodnight stars
goodnight air
goodnight noises everywhere"
    $400 23
A DVM, short for this, is someone who can help all creatures great & small
    $400 25
In an *NSYNC song, "It ain't no lie, I wanna see you out that door, baby" this this this
    $400 21
At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II gave a stirring sermon & called for the first of these campaigns
    $400 27
Also called the accent or side type, these should be within 2" of the height of the sofa they're placed to the left & right of
    $400 19
Pete Rose & many others have tried to rub away the back line of this to have more time to react to pitches
    $400 29
"Should we tell her about it? Now, what should we do? Well... what would you do if your mother asked you?"
    $600 7
There's a pair of double consonants in this title for the leader of a nunnery
    $600 12
In this song Sabrina Carpenter sings, "Don't bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice"
    $600 9
Still going in London, the Guild of Chandlers using this rendered fat dates to the 1300s; aroma, not a big plus for their candles
    $600 15
Change the first letter in an open area behind a house to get this enclosed area seen here
    $600 8
Inspired by "Mean Girls", it's a journal filled with nasty observations about others
    $600 18
"Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!"
    $800 6
This German title equivalent to an earl came before the name of a famous Zeppelin
    $800 4
A No. 1 hit for Destiny's Child, it says, "You're slowly making me pay for things your money should be handling"
    $800 5
The accounts of his 13th century travels to the East were written down by Rustichello da Pisa
    $800 3
The Paris grain market, Halle aux blés helped give Thomas Jefferson a passion for these sun-admitting features
    $800 2
This delicate type of flower is often used in floral arrangements
    DD: $1,000 16
"But he never knew that it really was his own bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be real"
    $1000 1
"Potent" is within this word for an envoy given full power to negotiate politically
    $1000 14
This 2012 "American Idol" winner with a nearly double-talk name had a triple-talk hit with "Gone, Gone, Gone"
    $1000 13
This is another word for a joust, so the knight seen here is going full this, all out
    $1000 11
Fisher & Paykel pioneered the drawer version of this kitchen appliance
    $1000 10
Miami & Miami Beach are both on its northern shore
    $1000 17
"All day long they follow the swan boats & eat peanuts. & when night falls they swim to their little island & go to sleep"

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

Brendan Angela Matt
$3,600 $1,000 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brendan Angela Matt
$5,000 $1,800 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SUBTITLES
CREATURES OF THE EARTH
OUTDOOR ART
HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV
IN THE DICTIONARY
RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER
    $400 28
"Killing Kennedy" is subtitled "The End of" this mythical place
    $400 29
This rodent's name is from the French for "spiny pig", if you get my point
    $400 30
His "Girl with Balloon" appeared on a wall outside a London shop in 2002
    $400 26
The LDS Church says this man was "egregiously mischaracterized" in the streaming tale of 19th century Utah "American Primeval"
    $400 24
Originally from French & from fencing, it's said when someone makes a good point in conversation
    $400 17
The Soviet Union polluted the Kara Sea, an arm of this ocean, by dumping large amounts of nuclear waste in it
    $800 11
Mark Wahlberg was a mechanic in the movie these ":Age of Extinction"
    $800 27
Like its cousin the echidna, the young of this unusual Aussie monotreme hatch from eggs but nurse from the mother
    DD: $2,400 18
Shepard Fairey used a 1967 photo of this athlete to create a 7-story mural outside a Louisville YMCA
    $800 25
Peter Sarsgaard is Roone Arledge, but the footage of Jim McKay is real in "September 5" about a tragedy at this city's Olympics
    $800 23
Meaning "OK", it can be 2 words or one word with only a single "L"--less formal, but good enough for James Joyce
    $800 16
One ringed type of this pinniped is found only in Lake Ladoga, Europe's largest lake
    $1200 6
"Escape" is the title of the Rupert Holmes song whose subtitle mentions this cocktail
    DD: $4,000 7
Structures called osteoderms throughout this mammal's body protect it from predators
    $1200 4
In 1985, Christo & his wife Jeanne-Claude used 450,000 square feet of fabric to wrap this Paris bridge
    $1200 14
A 2024 movie about this Swiss hero stars Claes Bang, who, given his weapon of choice, should be Claes Twang
    $1200 22
This 9-letter word meaning back in America as opposed to overseas entered the language around the time of World War II
    $1200 9
Geologist Pyotr Skornyakov was an admirer of this author who created the sled dog Buck, so he named a Russian lake for him
    $1600 1
"The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" is the subtitle of the 2005 biography called "American" this mythological figure
    $1600 2
From Greek for "first animal", these organisms are among the most ancient life forms on Earth
    $1600 3
98 feet tall with a 92-foot arm span, this statue of Jesus overlooks Rio de Janeiro
    $1600 8
A U.S. military raid in Somalia goes horribly wrong in this 2001 film based on real events of 1993
    $1600 21
To sever a link, like to stop phone service; as a noun, it's a gap between 2 entities or people & the stress moves to the first syllable
    $1600 5
Victoria Bay, an inlet of the Sea of Japan, was renamed in 1859 for this early 18th century czar
    $2000 12
"The Imposter" is the apt subtitle of this Molière play
    $2000 19
This largest living lizard has its own national park in Indonesia, which is a good thing, as it can measure more than 10 feet long
    $2000 10
He went to work on Mt. Rushmore after deciding that a series of granite spires called the Needles were too thin for sculpting
    $2000 13
2 recent TV projects have portrayed the 19th century empress of Austria Elisabeth, known by this repetitive name
    $2000 20
This word comes from the name of an editor who toned down Shakespeare, for example making Ophelia's suicide an accident
    $2000 15
This 3-letter river in Russia's European portion was once famed for the Cossacks who had settlements along its course

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brendan Angela Matt
$19,800 $9,400 $2,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BORN & DIED
He was born in Fürth, Germany in 1923, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, & passed away in Connecticut in 2023

Final scores:

Brendan Angela Matt
$20,600 $8,800 $2,800
3-day champion: $59,398 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Brendan Angela Matt
$18,200 $9,400 $6,600
24 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 13 R,
3 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2025-03-17
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