Show #9342 - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Contestants

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Jackie Yang, a resident physician from New York, New York

Tyler Griffith, a criminal forensic scientist originally from Sturgis, Michigan

Judith Friedman, a software engineer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,001)

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Jeopardy! Round

SOMETIME IN THE LAST 300 YEARS
BONSAI
FACTS & THE CITY
YOU CAN GO WITH THIS, YOU CAN GO WITH THAT
GOLF OF AMERICA
THERE'S NO I, BUT THERE'S "M-E"
(Ken: Somewhere in each response.)
    $200 26
In the 1930s, "Black blizzards" of soil blocked the Sun in this section of the Great Plains, also a bad name for a New Year's football game
    $200 27
Before taking hold in Japan, the art of growing miniature trees & landscapes began as "penjing" in this country
    $200 28
The red light district has Rembrandt house &... other stuff in this city, which also boasts about 1,300 bridges to cross
    $200 29
You can go with this sunglasses company's Clubmaster, or you can go with its classic Aviators
    $200 30
This invitation-only event conceived by Bobby Jones has been played in Georgia since 1934
    $200 23
It's the nickname for DACA recipients
    $400 6
The Sons of Liberty formed in 1765 to oppose this British Parliament attempt at direct taxation on paper documents in the colonies
    $400 25
Pinching & this other "P" verb help keep the tree's shape & curb growth on the outer branches
    $400 24
Sydney may have an opera house, but this big city on the South Coast enjoyed Puccini in the Park at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in 2024
    $400 16
You can go to Northeastern in Boston, or you can go to this directional school in Evanston, Illinois
    $400 2
At TPC Sawgrass in 1994, this Stanford freshman birdied 17 during his 1st U.S. amateur win & showed off his trademark fist pump
    $400 21
A flat-topped & Spanish-named rock formation, like the Hunts one in Monument Valley
    $600 13
He told 30,000 at a be-in at Golden Gate Park in 1967 to turn on, tune in, drop out
    $600 7
In "The Karate Kid" this character helps Daniel LaRusso mold a bonsai tree by telling him "Nothing exists... only the tree"
    $600 8
We'll gamble that you know that Baltic Ave. runs parallel to Mediterranean Ave. in this city, but Bally's hotel is on Pacific
    $600 3
You can go see Luka & King James at crypto.com Arena, or you can cross town to see this other NBA team at Intuit Dome
    $600 4
A charity event, the Sony Open is held each January at the Waialae Country Club on this island; where's my invitation?
    $600 10
This civilian adaptation of a military vehicle guzzled gas in the '90s but is back as a GMC electric
    $800 12
Full executive power return to Japan's emperor following the 1867 ascension of Mutsuhito, better known by this name
    $800 15
This tree of the cypress family, whose berries give a spirit its flavor, is a common bonsai tree due to its foliage & branch flexibility
    DD: $1,600 5
You can likely find a good coffee in this South American capital at the base of 2 mountains, Guadalupe & Monserrate
    $800 1
Go to Lombardi's for a N.Y. style pizza, or drive northeast one state to Pepe's to try this "New" city's thin-crusted style
    $800 9
The road to Monterey was packed in 1947 as the pro-am named for this silver screen crooner first came to Pebble Beach
    $800 22
Scanty or insufficient
    $1000 14
From 2008 to 2012 he was president of Russia, because Putin sure wasn't still running things, no sir, it was this guy, 100%
    $1000 19
The tree flows over the pot like a verdant cataract in this bonsai style with a name like a Western U.S. mountain range
    $1000 11
This Canadian provincial capital had fewer than 100,000 people in the 1880s but today is 3 million strong
    $1000 17
You can climb Mount Rainier, which you can see from Seattle, or you can climb this 11,000-footer you can see from Portland
    $1000 20
This golfing legend designed the course at Muirfield Village; here's a statue of him teaching a youngster how to play
    $1000 18
It's a support at either end of a bridge; don't drive into it

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

Judith Tyler Jackie
$1,800 $2,400 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Judith Tyler Jackie
$3,200 $3,600 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC ALASKA
LITERARY HODGEPODGE
THEIR FIRST TOP 40 SOLO ALBUM
MOTIVATION
WHAT THE 20th CENTURY KIDS WERE SAYIN'
YOU GO, SISTER!
    $400 14
In 1906 Alaska's capital was moved from Sitka to this southeastern city that can only be reached by aircraft or boat
    $400 22
Chapter XIV of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is named for these winged creatures that serve the Wicked Witch
    $400 27
2002:
"Justified"
    $400 30
This is the major motivator for the Count of Monte Cristo, who says after 14 years cursing in prison, he must have it
    $400 28
That dame's the head honcho, the top dog, the large Gouda, the immense Camembert, this similar dairy phrase
    $400 29
Uncredited for years, 4 nuns at the Vatican Observatory are now known to have mapped half a million of these in the early 1900s
    $800 13
1980 brought the establishment of the national park called the Gates of this region that starts more than halfway up Alaska
    $800 21
This children's author & creator of Ramona & Beezus lived to the age of 104
    $800 26
1998, no more Menudo for him:
"Vuelve"
    $800 19
"A" is for this kind of therapy that associates unwanted behavior with misery, like when Cartman gets a shock each time he swears
    $800 20
This 2-word "edible" term that includes a body part is quite a punch in the mouth; thing is, nobody ever wants to eat one
    $800 2
When she died at 118 Sister Andre of France, then the world's oldest known person, had survived both COVID-19 & this 1918-19 pandemic
    $1200 10
In 1784, fur trader Grigory Shelikhov strengthened Russian claims to Alaska when he established an outpost on this beastly island
    DD: $3,000 5
A painting by Dutch artist Carel Fabritius is at the heart of this 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction
    $1200 25
2006:
"The Dutchess"
    $1200 7
Putdowns by the opposition that motivate sports teams or players are called this "material" for where they're posted
    $1200 9
This word was big in 1966: Carole Bayer Sager & Toni Wine heard Simon & Garfunkel use it & came up with the same "Kind Of Love"
    $1200 1
California's Sisters of the Valley, aka the "Weed Nuns", make products from this active but not psychoactive ingredient
    DD: $4,800 11
Linking Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez, this controversial project was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion
    $1600 3
He covered crime for the "Los Angeles Times" before putting his detective Harry Bosch on the beat in L.A.
    $1600 23
1998:
"The Miseducation of" her
    $1600 6
This verb meaning to get someone to act by making them feel bad otherwise can also have "trip" after it
    $1600 8
In the '20s the acme of excellence was this 2-word rhyming phrase with an insect & its limbs
    $1600 18
Mother Frances Cabrini lent her name to the Cabrini homes in this city, later part of the Cabrini-Green complex
    $2000 12
Just as in the 1880s, when the Ancon & the Idaho made the first trips, the 500-mile stretch of Alaska called this is a cruise ship favorite
    $2000 4
Title governesses by the Brontës include Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" & this heroine created by Anne
    $2000 24
1985:
"The Dream of the Blue Turtles"
    $2000 15
Big motivators include the physiological needs like this pair that are in the lyrics to "People" (who need people)
    $2000 16
This 7-letter word first meant $10 in the 19th century & moved on to describe a 10-year prison sentence in the 20th
    $2000 17
Crossing paths with the likes of Billy the Kid & often having to defend herself, Sister Blandina Segale got this punny nickname

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Judith Tyler Jackie
$6,400 $11,200 $10,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1847, a decade before making national news, he was the plaintiff in a Missouri case against Irene Emerson

Final scores:

Judith Tyler Jackie
$0 $799 $300
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $799 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Judith Tyler Jackie
$6,400 $7,200 $9,000
13 R,
3 W		 17 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $22,600

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Game tape date: 2025-03-18
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