Show #9347 - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

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Stella Trout, a software engineer originally from Houston, Texas

Peter Vorissis, a writer and teacher from Los Angeles, California

Geoff Barnes, an analyst from Washington, D.C. (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

ALL KINDS OF PHRASES
21st CENTURY NEWS
A DOUBLE SHOT OF WHISKEY
ME & JEFF DANIELS GOT A HISTORY
DOWNTOWN NEAR FIFTH STREET
EVERYBODY'S AT THE "BAR"
    $200 25
This phrase meaning to exaggerate involves increasing the size of a mound made by a burrowing animal
    $200 28
A media player, a music manager & later an online store all-in-one, this computer app was released on January 9, 2001
    $200 30
If you don't know that Connemara & Tipperary are this type of whiskey, you need to travel more--& drink more
    $200 22
I laugh every time I think about Jeff Daniels showing class & sophistication in this 1994 comedy
    $200 29
The "Fifth Street" in Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" is presumably 5th Ave. in this city, not far from the Johnny Cash museum on 3rd
    $200 19
This kind of place to eat; Southern Living magazine says a "restaurant" has printed menus; a "joint", chalkboard ones
    $400 13
Originally referring to Matthew, Mark, Luke & John's work, this 2-word phrase has come to mean anything believed unreservedly
    $400 27
In 2024 a rebel attack lasting less than 2 weeks ended the 50-year dictatorship of this family in Syria
    $400 5
A double of the 101 proof from this brand named for an undomesticated fowl? OK, I'm not driving... or standing
    $400 20
I, too, have a terrible fear of spiders, so I related to Jeff Daniels in this film that defined the fear of spiders
    $400 24
A historic bridge on SW Fifth Street crosses this major river of Des Moines, Iowa named for a ring-tailed critter
    $400 14
Truefitt & Hill, called the world's oldest of these; they use shaving brushes & sell them, too
    $600 12
With & without "monster", it's how Shakespeare described jealousy
    $600 26
The first African American to win the Best Actress Oscar, she won in 2002 for her nuanced work in the film "Monster's Ball"
    $600 4
North-of-the-border whiskies include Caribou Crossing & this other "C.C." named for its popularity in social establishments
    $600 18
Me & Jeff go all the way back to when he played Flap Horton, Debra Winger's cheating husband, in this weepy 1983 film
    $600 23
It's still near 5th Street, but the former Sun Devil Stadium in this city is now Mountain America Stadium, for a credit union
    $600 3
This communal building event once common on the American frontier & now mainly associated with the Amish
    $800 9
On a plane, it's something flight attendants do to the doors; on the ice, it's a penalty involving a hit with a stick
    $800 11
In 2009 this US Airways pilot miraculously landed an Airbus A320 & its 150 passengers in the Hudson River
    DD: $2,000 6
Glenfiddich & Glenlivet are famous scotches of this type, meaning produced from the barley of just one distillery
    $800 17
Jeff was quietly poignant as the soda jerk whose black-&-white world is rocked by seeing a book of art in color in this 1998 film
    $800 21
The Fifth Street these, as in architecture, not beeping & pinging games, are a landmark of downtown Cleveland
    $800 2
This new-ish sports & entertainment venue found at Atlantic & Flatbush Avenues
    $1000 8
An incomprehensible religious glossolalia gives us this phrase
    $1000 10
In 2022, this rover with a determined name put the first sample of Martian rock in a new depot for possible return to Earth
    $1000 7
Bill Samuels created this bourbon; wife Margie came up with the red wax & the name meaning a manufacturing symbol
    $1000 16
Jeff nailed it as this ex-FBI director in a miniseries based on his memoir "A Higher Loyalty"; the G-man himself gave J.D. high marks
    $1000 15
Home to fabulous condos, marinas & Joe's Stone Crab, SoFi or South of 5th is an area of this 2-word Florida place
    $1000 1
One of these stores, a chain revived by CEO James Daunt in recent years

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

Geoff Peter Stella
$6,200 $1,000 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Geoff Peter Stella
$7,400 $2,400 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
20th CENTURY POETRY
ANCIENT HISTORY
FROM THE KIDZ BOP VERSION
LIFE IS A 5-LETTER WORD
SAY "NO" MORE
    $400 27
Charges of sexism & colonialism have been made against the kids' books featuring this title elephant king, but his suits are fab
    $400 25
The name of this venomous snake can also mean a toxic person or, in old jazz slang, a marijuana user
    $400 26
It's a whim or personal inclination, maybe to try something
    $800 22
The 326 B.C. Battle of Hydaspes had this leader & his Macedonian troops facing an unfamiliar foe in Porus' army:
war elephants
    $800 18
"may i feel said he" is a rarity among the works of this poet for the use of [collective gasp] a capital letter
    $800 6
In the late Roman republic this governing body of a few hundred had 2 main groups, the Populares & the more elitist Optimates
    $800 23
By her:
"Starships were meant to fly / Hands up & touch the sky / Let's do this one last time, can't stop / We're Kidz Bop"
    $800 24
Masked or blue-faced is one type of this seabird with not the most dignified name
    $800 10
There's a business specialty in this popular translation of the Latin saying "de gustibus non est disputandum"
    $1200 15
He made friends with Tantor the elephant & "where the way was clear", he "rode, perched high upon Tantor's mighty back"
    $1200 16
Beige flags of this T.S. Eliot principal include rolled trouser bottoms & indecision about peach consumption
    $1200 5
Aka the Book of Changes, this Chinese text used for divination may date as far back as the Zhou Dynasty of 1045 B.C.
    $1200 21
This song:
"My life is a movie / Bull ridin' & bougie / Cowboy hat from Gucci / Wrangler like on TV"
    DD: $3,000 17
Out West, Theodore Roosevelt had a "half-melancholy feeling as I gazed upon these" beasts of a "nearly vanished race"
    $1200 1
A peripatetic person, or a member of a peripatetic people
    $1600 13
The elephant symbol of the Republican Party dates back to an 1870s cartoon by this man
    DD: $4,000 3
Ezra Pound was partial to these poetic works defined as divisions of a long poem; he wrote 117 of them
    $1600 4
c. 3000 B.C. this Mesopotamian civilization created cuneiform script & used it for both governmental & everyday things
    $1600 20
This song:
"Only got 20 dollars in my pocket... looking for a come up / This is really awesome"
    $1600 11
This tree in the genus Fagus is noted for its smooth gray bark & small edible nuts
    $1600 8
In biology, it's a system for giving names to organisms
    $2000 14
This bestseller by Sara Gruen is about circus life during the Great Depression
    $2000 2
This alliterative Pulitzer winner revised her poem "Poetry" multiple times, but not the first line--"I too dislike it"
    $2000 7
The city today known as Amarna was made the capital of Egypt around 1348 B.C. & dedicated to this newly favored god
    $2000 19
By this artist on "Truth Hurts":
"You coulda had a good friend, noncommittal"
    $2000 12
The Scotch type of this, sharing the name of something in a closet at home, is ornamental but can be a problem as an invader
    $2000 9
A fungus that makes some grapes perfect for winemaking goes by this distinguished name

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Geoff Peter Stella
$10,600 $3,600 $25,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS STRUCTURES
In April 2018 an MLB game was postponed after ice falling from this structure punctured the roof of Rogers Centre

Final scores:

Geoff Peter Stella
$21,199 $1 $28,800
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $28,800

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Geoff Peter Stella
$9,400 $3,600 $21,600
15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 9 R,
4 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,600

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Game tape date: 2025-04-08
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