Show #9361 - Monday, June 23, 2025

Contestants

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David Spelman, a marketing strategist from Livingston, New Jersey

Emily Croke, a stay-at-home mom from Denver, Colorado

Andrew Brigger, a social studies teacher from Roseville, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC U.S. BUSINESSES
FOUND IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET
READ
YELLOW
BLUE
SALUTE THE FLAG OF ECUADOR!
    $200 10
The Advent of eBay hasn't stopped Los Angeles' Abell family from hosting these events since 1916
    $200 5
Parker of jazz or Puth of pop
    $200 24
The fifth book in a series, "Sunrise on the Reaping" opens at the start of the 50th annual these, so a Quarter Quell is in the works
    $200 23
The video for this Cardi B song doesn't have that much of the color you'd expect, though there is a cheetah
    $200 26
The Latin for "sea water" gives us the name of this pale blue gemstone
    $200 30
The sun represents this resource; in 2022, a company announced it had found a lost city of it in Southeast Ecuador
    $400 9
Good timing! Famed for its sourdough, the Boudin French Bakery opened in San Francisco in this year
    $400 4
It purportedly got its name because it resembled the uncle of the Film Academy librarian
    $400 14
At a cancer support group in this John Green novel, Hazel would introduce herself with "Sixteen. Thyroid originally..."
    $400 22
Snoopy's guesses at what kind of bird this yellow friend of his is have included the rufous-sided towhee, not a great thought
    $400 25
2 presidential homes, Montpelier & Monticello, offer views of these mountains in Virginia
    $400 29
Admire the mighty cóndor--condor; feeding-wise it is un carroñero, this 9-letter word
    $600 8
Built of bricks of this in 1857, the R&R Market in San Luis, Colorado kept going strong after fires in 1895 & 1947
    $600 3
Topaz is the traditional birthstone of this month
    $600 13
Just like magic, Paulo Coelho wrote this mystical novel in just 2 weeks; it's become a bestseller over the last 37 years
    $600 21
TV cartoon makers like to grab us with yellow characters, like this dog pal of Finn on "Adventure Time"
    $600 16
Traditionally, the blue in blue jeans comes from this plant dye
    $600 28
Ecuador's embassy in London, once in the news as Julian Assange's refuge, is in this area with a type of sir & a type of span in its name
    $800 7
Like Wyatt Earp did, you can still get a drink at the Palace Restaurant & Saloon in Prescott in this state
    $800 2
Male half of a 1597 play title
    $800 12
The title of this very long novel by David Foster Wallace comes from a line in "Hamlet" & implies hilarity
    $800 18
Kate Hudson's yellow dress in this movie was inspired by the color of the 80-carat Isadora diamond she also wears
    $800 17
This piece, probably George Gershwin's best known, opens with a swooping clarinet
    $800 27
The ship's mast is this ancient staff of Mercury to symbolize commerce; it got mixed up with another staff & now also reps doctors
    DD: $1,000 6
The Bismarck Tribune shocked the nation with the first full account of this 1876 event in which one of its correspondents died
    $1000 1
It's from Gaelic words for "water of life"
    $1000 11
The preface to this Hawthorne novel mentions "the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate"
    $1000 15
This director is known for using lots of yellow in his whimsical films like Moonrise Kingdom & also in his own neckwear
    $1000 20
The Fightin' Blue Hens represent the university of this state
    $1000 19
The river on the flag is the Guayas, which as you might imagine, runs through this largest Ecuadorian port

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

Andrew Emily David
$1,800 $400 $3,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Andrew Emily David
$2,000 $1,400 $5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS
WORLD CITIES
AROUND THE BODY
SUNRISE, SUNSET
BEFORE & AFTER
RIP VAN WINKLE SLEPT THROUGH IT
    $400 21
Though she & Sonny Bono have yet to be inducted together, in 2024 she entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist
    $400 28
The Manchester Ship Canal was built to link Manchester with this port city, yeah, yeah, yeah
    $400 27
Vermiform often precedes the name of this tube, a structure that extends from the first part of the large intestine
    $400 30
In business, "sunsetting" is the phasing out of a product or service, like the red Netflix mailers that once delivered these
    $400 17
Waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous that are "wider than a mile" in a song from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
    $400 9
The second of these legislative bodies first met in Philly 3 weeks after the start of the Revolutionary War, not that Rip noticed
    $800 20
In 2025, she announced her first ever greatest hits tour
    $800 24
Enjoy a glass or 2 of Marsala while visiting the town of Marsala on this island
    $800 19
From Greek meaning "one standing before", it's the gland in men below the bladder
    $800 26
John Muir wrote in his journal, "It is always sunrise somewhere", & as co-founder of this club, he oughta know
    $800 1
Fish eats plankton & is eaten by another & still another fish, then by man who's part of a group of convicts working outside
    $800 8
Rip snored through 1783, when the Treaty of Paris established this western border for the newly independent USA
    $1200 13
This singer is helping to raise awareness of lupus & support for research since being diagnosed with the disease
    $1200 23
This city on the Rhine was a world capital from 1949 to 1990
    $1200 10
Numbering a million or more, the islets of Langerhans are found within this organ
    $1200 18
Steer clear of the title structure from this 1964 hit by The Animals that's "been the ruin of many a poor boy"
    $1200 2
Norman Mailer's first novel that leads nowhere, like a cul-de-sac
    $1200 7
Slumbering Rip missed his chance to join the filial group of anti-British hooligans whose flag is seen here
    $1600 3
In 2022, Georgia State University honored this rapper & alumnus with an honorary Bachelor of Science in Music Management
    $1600 25
A popular vacation spot, this Mexican city has a name that translates to "cow horn"
    $1600 11
With oblongata, it's part of the brain; by itself, the innermost part of the hair shaft
    DD: $4,400 4
Mt. Bromo is famous for its otherworldly sunrises; it's one of this country's more than 50 active volcanoes, more than any other country
    DD: $6,000 15
Fruity dessert created at Brennan's in New Orleans that had the 2011 hit song "Pumped Up Kicks"
    $1600 6
Rip missed every Revolutionary War battle in his home state of N.Y., like this 2-parter in 1777 that turned the tide of war
    $2000 12
A memorial & life-size statue honors this late Tejano singer in her hometown of Corpus Christi
    $2000 29
Because of its central location, it replaced Dar es Salaam as Tanzania's national capital in 1974
    $2000 14
Because of its shape, this tiny bone of the middle ear is also called the hammer
    $2000 22
In this lord's poem "Ulysses", the title hero outlines plans to "sail beyond the sunset" & reclaim lost glory
    $2000 16
Washington, D.C. concert venue home to D.A.R. conventions that had 1980s No. 1 hits with "Maneater" & "Kiss On My List"
    $2000 5
Not likely Rip would have been invited anyway to this woman's December 14, 1780, Albany wedding to Alexander Hamilton

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Andrew Emily David
$2,000 $12,200 $6,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

COLLECTIONS
In 1896 the Vassar-educated wife of this man wrote, "Thousands of dollars may be paid for a copy of Shakespeare"

Final scores:

Andrew Emily David
$2,000 $13,201 $999
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $13,201 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Andrew Emily David
$8,000 $12,200 $11,000
12 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
1 W		 16 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $31,200

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Game tape date: 2025-04-30
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