Show #9343 - Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Contestants

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Thomas Sweeney, a survey technician from Morrow, Ohio

Alice Welch, an epidemiologist from Queens, New York

Tyler Griffith, a criminal forensic scientist originally from Sturgis, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $799)

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Jeopardy! Round

FIRSTS
EUROPE
GOING TO THE DOGS
BUSINESS "&" BUSINESS
ENTERTAINING WOLVERINES
(Ken: These are Michigan alumni; like the writer who wrote the category, perhaps.)
HAT CHAT
    $200 29
It had its first public reading July 8, 1776
    $200 24
This river begins its journey of around 2,300 miles in the Valdai Hills near Moscow
    $200 22
The shih-poo was created by crossing this breed with a toy or miniature poodle
    $200 16
Band-Aid & Tylenol are now under the parent company Kenvue, spun off from this healthcare company in 2023
    $200 26
Lin-Manuel Miranda recalled Gavin Creel's talent as "our first king" with only "a Burger King crown" at this show's inception
    $200 11
Once a piece of magic, it now means to score 3 times in one game
    $400 30
Commemorating a historic event of 1903, this state boasts of being "First in Flight" on its license plates
    $400 19
As an independent republic in the 18th century, this island near Sardinia flew a flag featuring a man's head wearing a white bandana
    $400 23
The AKC says this breed's "'sourmug' face" is the "symbol of courage & tenacity"
    $400 17
This brand offers Impretzively Fudged, Karamel Sutra & Cookie Vermont-ster
    $400 12
In 2018, Ashley Park debuted the Broadway role of toaster strudel heiress Gretchen Weiners in this show, which may or may not be fetch
    $400 10
It's a mark of achievement; "Yankee Doodle" references the phrase
    $600 5
Replacing Jen Psaki in 2022, Karine Jean-Pierre became the first Black & the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in this role
    $600 3
The Scalinata Della Trinità dei Monti is the Italian name for this staircase in Rome
    $600 25
This jumbo breed is featured in Sigrid Nunez' novel "The Friend" & Naomi Watts said the dog actor in the movie "stole my heart"
    $600 18
The 20V Max Powerconnect cordless circular saw provides a slice of life from this brand
    $600 13
A Tony winner for "A Soldier's Play", David Alan Grier began practicing medicine at this sitcom title hospital in 2024
    $600 4
If your brain is abuzz with an obsession, you have this headgear affliction
    $800 7
Far from home, in 1965 Alexei Leonov became the first person to do this; it lasted 12 minutes
    DD: $1,000 1
This monolith is a nature reserve for about 230 Barbary macaques
    $800 8
This wolfhound gets its name from Russian for "swift"
    $800 20
In 1935 this company first brandished its .357 Magnum
    $800 27
After meeting in a ballet class, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul got to composing, winning an Oscar for "City of Stars" from this 2016 film
    $800 14
If you show up this way to meet someone, you need a favor from them
    $1000 6
The 2024 film "Young Woman and the Sea" is the story of this American, the first woman to swim across the English Channel
    $1000 2
This capital is located where Lake Mälar meets Saltsjön
    $1000 9
This retriever's ancestors include two St. John's water dogs rescued from an 1807 shipwreck off Maryland
    $1000 21
Founded in 1971, this bath, body & hair care chain named for 2 17th century Brits began as a small shop called The Soap Box
    $1000 28
"People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom" is intoned in a classic scene by this 1955 alum
    $1000 15
At a circus in 1916, Pres. Wilson mimed doing this; the audience understood the gesture meant he was running for a second term

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

Tyler Alice Thomas
$2,000 $2,800 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tyler Alice Thomas
$2,600 $5,400 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICANS
DOUBLE VOWELS & DOUBLE CONSONANTS
CRIME FICTION
FESTIVALS
A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE
NOTHING GOOD ON TV
(Ken: You'll have to name the series about a very unpromising version of the future.)
    $400 27
During an 1865 autopsy, he was positively identified, in part, from a tattoo on his hand with the initials J.W.B.
    $400 30
You're in this when you're dropping with the force of gravity
    $400 16
Patricia Cornwell's forensic ace Kay Scarpetta debuted in this 1990 thriller, a Latin synonym for autopsy
    $400 26
The Newport, R.I. festival with this type of music in its name is the setting for a big scene in the movie "A Complete Unknown"
    $400 25
To the ancient Romans, a lustrum was the 5-year interval between these counts
    $400 29
A deputy sheriff joins a group struggling to survive following a zombie apocalypse
    $800 18
After the Spanish-American War broke out, she set up Red Cross stations in Cuba to care for the wounded
    $800 9
A type of jester; Prokofiev wrote a ballet about one who "Outjested" 7 others
    $800 15
The 1951 "Bloody Christmas" beating of prisoners by Los Angeles police is dramatized in this James Ellroy novel
    $800 12
The Jaisalmer Desert Festival in Rajasthan, India features a competition in tying this type of headwear
    $800 24
This country adopted supposedly more efficient decimal time, with 10-hour days & 100-minute hours, in November 1793
    $800 28
A totalitarian theocracy treats women as property & forces some of them into child-bearing servitude
    $1200 6
Invited by Degas, in 1879 she exhibited in her first of several Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris
    $1200 19
If you were making moonshine back in the 1920s, you might have been fingered for this trafficking crime
    $1200 1
The title of this 2015 thriller by Paula Hawkins refers to Rachel Watson & what she may have seen on her daily commute
    $1200 11
Floriade, which has bloomed into Australia's biggest flower festival, began in 1988, celebrating this city's 75th birthday
    DD: $2,000 10
Academic Germans were the first to use this word to mean a 6-month period
    $1200 5
Survivors of Armageddon living on a space station send juvenile prisoners down to Earth to test its habitability
    $1600 8
senate.gov says the most famous Senate speech was by this Massachusetts statesman & orator upholding federal authority in 1830
    $1600 14
Furniture-wise, this type of sofa is perfect for taking a load off
    $1600 2
John D. MacDonald's "The Executioners" was filmed twice under this title, with Robert Mitchum & Robert De Niro as the bad guy
    $1600 13
A yearly festival in Slovakia gathers these traditionally migratory people in one place to celebrate their culture
    $1600 22
In nuclear physics, a shake is the time it takes each neutron to trigger a fission event in one of these self-sustaining processes
    $1600 4
Residents of a small town in Kansas think they may be the only Americans left following an observed nuclear explosion
    $2000 7
After Little Bighorn, this Lakota leader fled to Canada & later joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
    DD: $2,000 20
The 2 predominant cultural & linguistic groups in Belgium today are the Flemings & these people
    $2000 3
James M. Cain had to fight his publisher over the title of this 1934 novel, which he said referred to delayed retribution
    $2000 17
Leading up to a major autumn festival, Oaxacans add faces to pan de muerto, which translates to this rhyming phrase
    $2000 21
In Vedic tradition, one of this 4-faced creator god's years is equal to more than 3.1 trillion human years
    $2000 23
The Axis powers have won WWII & Japan & Germany now control most of what was once the United States

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tyler Alice Thomas
$5,400 $8,200 $8,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

CARS & THE MOVIES
A fake speedometer was used in this make of car from a 1980s movie since the actual car's speedometer didn't go high enough

Final scores:

Tyler Alice Thomas
$8,801 $11,601 $16,401
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $16,401

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Tyler Alice Thomas
$5,200 $10,200 $10,800
10 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 17 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $26,200

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Game tape date: 2025-03-18
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