Show #9341 - Monday, May 26, 2025

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Miles Tepper, a graduate student from Pacific Grove, California

Judith Friedman, a software engineer from Los Angeles, California

Jim Carpenter, a retired music professor and conductor from Charlotte, Vermont (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,601)

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Jeopardy! Round

IN THE STARS
NAME CHANGERS
YOU GET A P+
(Ken: Each response will be two letters; one of them, first or second, is a "P".)
CULTURE, IN THE POPULAR SENSE
SOUND
ADVICE
    $200 11
They're the 2 brightest stars in Gemini
    $200 27
In the decade after Coca-Cola came out, a pharmacist created "Brad's Drink", soon renaming it this
    $200 28
Gym class
    $200 29
If you were curious, according to CinemaBlend, the kill count in the first 4 films featuring this title assassin is 495
    $200 23
Deepwater ports on this inlet include Seattle, Tacoma & Everett
    $200 30
In her "Guide to Life", this Muppet gives fashion advice:
"Take it from moi... refuse to go along with... apparel trends"
    $400 10
Polaris Australis, the closest star to the celestial this, is barely visible to the naked eye & not much use in navigation
    $400 12
It's been Willis Tower since 2009, but many Chicagoans still refer to 233 S. Wacker Drive as this
    $400 21
It signifies that "some material may not be suitable for children"
    $400 17
It's something many use every day to unlock things online & the nickname of Red Sox prospect Jhostynxon Garcia
    $400 22
King George Sound off Western Australia is an inlet of this much larger body of water
    $400 24
Shirley Strawberry serves up relationship advice during the "Strawberry Letter" segment of href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2025-05-26_J_24.jpg" target="_blank">this man's morning show
    $600 6
A hard-to-spot star called Lionrock isn't in Leo but in this watery constellation
    $600 8
In 2013 the NBA's New Orleans Hornets rebranded as this, after Louisiana's state bird
    $600 20
Headquartered in London, this firm became one of the world's largest oil companies in 1998 when it merged with Amoco
    $600 16
Or in the pope-ular sense; Isabella Rossellini made the most of her 7+ minutes onscreen in this 2024 film, nabbing an Oscar nom
    $600 14
Smith Sound separates Canada's Ellesmere Island from this non-Canadian territory
    $600 3
He offered pious advice as Poor Richard; as himself, he advised a friend "on the choice of a mistress"
    $800 5
Variable stars that briefly increase greatly in brightness are called dwarf these, though not the super kind
    DD: $1,600 4
This U.S. president was born with the surname Blythe; he later took the name of his stepfather
    $800 19
In 2001 Microsoft introduced this new version of Windows that was popular for well over a decade
    $800 15
A misheard lyric from a song by this band: "You are the Dancing Queen, young & sweet, only 7 teeth"
    $800 1
Horse Island in Connecticut's Thimble Archipelago in this sound is an ecological lab owned by Yale University
    $800 25
Originally an actor & a teacher, he had a huge bestseller with the self-help book "How to Win Friends & Influence People"
    $1000 7
Mirfak is a bright yellow supergiant in the constellation named for this hero who killed the Gorgon
    $1000 9
In 2011 Sri Lanka's govt. announced it would rename all state institutions still bearing this former British colonial name
    $1000 13
This army duty has been used as a form of punishment for some infractions
    $1000 18
With a 2025 Best Rap Album Grammy for her mixtape "Alligator Bites Never Heal", she was one triumphant Tampanian
    $1000 2
The Exxon Valdez oil disaster occurred when the ship struck Bligh Reef in this royal-sounding sound
    $1000 26
Abbreviated FBL, it's a system for improving a product by collecting & processing users' comments

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

Jim Judith Miles
$3,400 $4,400 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Judith Miles
$6,600 $5,000 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT HAPPENED ONE LEAP YEAR
GERMAN NOBEL LITERATURE LAUREATES
ONE VOWEL, 3 TIMES
YOU SEEM DISTANT
FROM THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK
GUYS NAMED RICHARD
    $400 27
The first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, in this city for old time's sake
    $400 28
Nelly Sachs accepted her 1966 prize in this country, her home since she had taken refuge from Nazi Germany in 1940
    $400 22
Commercial bunches of this fruit can weigh between about 50 & 140 pounds & consist of 9 hands
    $400 29
In 2024 NASA found a new farthest-off galaxy; we see it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, just 290 million years after this event
    $400 30
Seal covered "Fly Like An Eagle" for the soundtrack of this '90s Jordan/Bugs film
    $400 25
Michael Gambon had big shoes to fill when replacing the late Muggle Richard Harris in this film role
    $800 5
In 1996 Bosnian Serb forces ended a 4-year siege of this capital, the longest in modern European history
    $800 7
The masterpiece of 1902 winner Theodor Mommsen was a multi-volume history of this ancient imperial city
    $800 8
To withdraw formally from an association, like some states once did
    DD: $5,000 14
In July 1846 the Mormon Battalion was formed for this war, but they were in Iowa, so they marched about 2,000 miles to San Diego
    $800 2
This popular '80s soundtrack includes "Hungry Eyes" & The Ronettes' "Be My Baby", which opens the movie
    $800 26
People magazine once called this fitness guru "a lithe, hyperkinetic elf in an emerald-green track suit"
    $1200 6
After its top court's landmark Goodridge decision, the first legal same-sex marriages took place in 2004 in this U.S. state
    $1200 21
1912 winner Gerhart Hauptmann later wrote "The Heretic of Soana", about a priest who joins the pagan cult of this Greek love god
    $1200 9
You put merchandise on this when you pay a deposit, then pay the rest later
    $1200 10
Late distance runner Kelvin Kiptum never reached his goal of breaking this marathon barrier; he set a record at 35 seconds over it
    $1200 16
Picture Ryan Gosling cruising around L.A. when you listen to "A Real Hero" & "Nightcall" from this film's soundtrack
    $1200 1
Video game superstar Richard Tyler Blevins is known to his millions of streaming followers by this handle
    DD: $5,000 15
The USA's first public telegraph line opened for business in 1844 with the dispatch of this 4-word biblical message
    $1600 20
He got the prize mainly for his first novel, "Buddenbrooks", which shot him to fame in 1901
    $1600 19
It's not just chimps that may be into cannibalism; this related knuckle-walker has been known to partake as well
    $1600 3
Daunted by the Appalachian Trail from the start of this book, Bill Bryson ended up trekking about 2/5 of its 2,200 miles
    $1600 12
The soundtrack for this film includes "Swerve" & the Oscar-winning song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp"
    $1600 11
This prolific author & illustrator created Busytown, a richly detailed world full of animals doing human-like stuff
    $2000 24
He administered the first experimental vaccination for smallpox in 1796, to an 8-year-old boy named James Phipps
    $2000 4
A former seminary student, he won in 1946 for works like "Knulp" & "Demian", combining the sensual & the spiritual
    $2000 18
This type of demon seduced men while they slept
    $2000 23
Britain end-to-end is proverbially to John o'Groat's from here in Cornwall; try the journey in a polo & chinos from a clothing retailer
    $2000 13
The Ringer called the cover of "Lady Marmalade" off this movie's soundtrack "a heater, a jam & a bop"
    $2000 17
In 1978, while working for Vogue, he became the first living photographer granted a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Judith Miles
$13,000 $23,000 $16,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
The first 12 sites added to the list in 1978 included Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado & this site 500 miles to the north

Final scores:

Jim Judith Miles
$25,000 $32,001 $5,999
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $32,001 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jim Judith Miles
$13,000 $17,000 $16,000
15 R,
0 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $46,000

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Game tape date: 2025-03-18
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