Show #9362 - Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Contestants

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Micah Fritz, a teacher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Nicholas Moline, an attorney from Mooresville, Indiana

Emily Croke, a stay-at-home mom from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,201)

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Jeopardy! Round

FLORIDA HISTORY
CHAPTER & NON-VERSE
(Ken: You name the novel.)
LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN
SCAMMERS
ALL KINDS OF SPORTS
ADD A LETTER
    $200 23
In 1958 the National Aeronautics &amp; Space Administration began operations on this East Coast promontory
    $200 21
Chapter 1 of Part II, "A Voyage to Brobdingnag":
"I... found myself alone in a vast room ... lying in a bed twenty yards wide"
    $200 25
Sensing a kindred spirit, the cat dragged in a plush version of this Japanese character officially named Kitty White
    $200 7
In the 1920s Victor Lustig posed as a French official &amp; proposed the sale of 2.5 million rivets from this structure
    $200 12
England's Lisa Ashton is a 4-time women's world champion in this individual sport, but could she beat Ted Lasso?
    $200 30
Stuff another letter into a verb meaning to study hastily for a test &amp; you get this dairy product
    $400 22
"Land... serving not as the source of water but as the last receiver of it", Pres. Truman said of this natl. park he dedicated
    $400 20
"Nick Dunne the Day of":
"When I think of my wife, I always think of her head"
    $400 26
Uh-oh, the cat just dragged in a "northern" one of these crested red songbirds, &amp; it's not doing much singing
    $400 6
A chair of NASDAQ in the 1990s, he was sentenced to 150 years in prison in 2009
    $400 9
From Latin &amp; Greek words for "speedy" &amp; "course", it's an indoor arena for bicycle racing
    $400 19
Add a letter to the beginning of a word meaning "to speak" & you get this word meaning to speak indistinctly
    $600 13
Led by the Baker County District on Aug. 10, 2020, Florida was aggressive in the move to do this during the pandemic
    $600 2
"The Black Bird":
"Yes, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife who didn't like him"
    $600 27
The cat's got an autographed photo of Larry, officially the chief mouser at this London address shared by Keir Starmer
    $600 3
The Netflix series "Inventing Anna" & the book "My Friend Anna" refer to this Anna, later a "Dancing with the Stars" contestant
    $600 8
The full name of the famed tennis venue in Wimbledon contains the name of this other game played on grass
    $600 16
Add an R to an old-timey word for a thicket of trees to get this word for a dead body
    $800 15
In 1982 this island city declared its independence from the U.S., calling itself the Conch Republic
    $800 1
"Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet":
"Traddles and I both murmured 'no'"
    $800 28
A member of this "hairless" breed named for an ancient riddler, the cat dragged in a parasol to protect himself against sun exposure
    $800 4
1600s flimflammer &amp; coinage scammer William Chaloner got the proverbial apple thrown at him by this man who ran the Royal Mint
    $800 10
Playing against the Angels in 1990, this father &amp; son duo hit back-to-back home runs for the Mariners
    $800 17
Tack a letter onto the name of a hotel chain &amp; get this Muslim month
    $1000 14
In 1835 Major Francis Dade &amp; about 100 soldiers were attacked &amp; wiped out, marking the start of the 2nd of these wars
    $1000 24
Chapter I of Book I, "Miss Brooke":
"And how should Dorothea not marry? --a girl so handsome and with such prospects?"
    $1000 29
Somehow, the cat scored a DVD copy of this Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature, a charming wordless 2024 cat tale from Latvia
    DD: $1,000 5
After prison, this man whose last name is synonymous with a type of scam was said to have become a business manager for Mussolini
    $1000 11
The WNBA's inaugural game featured these 2 marquee teams from opposite coasts
    $1000 18
Add a letter to the last name of actor Jack (Curly in "City Slickers") to get this word for a way of speaking

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

Emily Nicholas Micah
-$200 $200 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Nicholas Micah
$1,800 $1,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY
GLOBAL MUSIC
AVIATION GLOSSARY
MOVIE TITLE PROFESSIONS
WORDS ABOUT NERDS
LIVING DOLLS
    $400 26
Vinicunca, or Rainbow Mountain, lies southeast of Cusco in this range
    $400 27
African, European & Amerindian styles of music influence cumbia, a genre of this country that also begins & ends "C" & "A"
    $400 30
This end-of-the-alphabet "time" is used in aviation as a standard for coordinated time worldwide
    $400 19
As real-life pugilist Micky Ward, Mark Wahlberg wasn't "The Boxer" but this
    $400 29
This word for a nerd once referred to a carnival performer who bit the heads off live chickens
    $400 12
With yarn for hair &amp; a triangle nose, this doll &amp; her partner come to life when humans aren't looking, &amp; go on many adventures
    $800 16
Spanish for "green" is part of the name of this national park that's home to ancestral pueblo cliff dwellings
    $800 28
Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains played the uilleann pipes, an Irish type of this instrument associated with the Scottish Highlands
    $800 20
Pilots have to maintain this 2-word course while awaiting permission to land; the standard one means you turn right
    $800 3
In a 2013 release Forest Whitaker served 7 presidents in this role
    $800 1
This slang term for a knowledgeable person is spelled backwards in the word "knowledge"; nobody quite seems to know its origin
    $800 11
"Night of the Living Dummy" was among the debut stories that propelled this book series into one of the bestselling of all time
    $1200 13
It should be a piece of cake for you to name this 100-mile-long mountain region of Baden-Württemberg
    $1200 17
Also in the title of a "Legend of Zelda" video game, this type of instrument means "little goose" in Italian
    $1200 21
The airport lights named for these furry animals use brilliant sequential flashes to help pilots land safely
    $1200 2
Dante &amp; Randal were the 2 title characters in this 1994 Kevin Smith film
    $1200 6
This term for a person with academic interests refers to a character in TV's "Felix the Cat", not to Reagan's national security advisor
    $1200 10
In a specially creepy 1963 episode of this TV show, a doll called Talky Tina finds a way to dispose of a stepfather
    DD: $3,000 14
Amid a real estate boom in the 1950s, an Australian tourist destination called the South Coast was rechristened this
    $1600 18
A Tony Award-winning Broadway show is named for this father of afrobeat, Mr. Kuti
    $1600 22
This "mortal" method of aircraft navigation uses estimates in drift, airspeed &amp; elapsed time
    $1600 4
In an ill-fated 1997 release, Kevin Costner wanders from town to town in a postapocalyptic America as this
    DD: $5,000 7
A hyperintelligent nemesis of Superman in comic books likely gave us this portmanteau word for someone who's crazy smart
    $1600 8
In a book by Lynne Reid Banks, when Omri puts a Native Amer. toy into this title spot, it comes to life &amp; says its name is Little Bear
    $2000 15
Rivers called the Black, Red &amp; White Volta flow through this country that used to have Volta in its name
    $2000 24
Zakir Hussain was a celebrated Indian composer &amp; virtuoso of this percussion instrument
    $2000 23
"A" is for this on a plane's wings; it controls roll on the longitudinal axis
    $2000 5
This 1976 film got 4 Oscar nominations, including a Best Supporting Actress one for Jodie Foster
    $2000 25
This compound term for a technophile refers to kinetic beanie hats once associated with fans of science fiction
    $2000 9
This 1870 comic ballet by Léo Delibes tells a tale of a man's infatuation with a lifelike mechanical doll

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Nicholas Micah
$6,800 $1,600 $15,200
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

WEBSITES
A 2006 WSJ article described this website as having "row after row of blue... hyperlinks & nary another color or graphic in sight"

Final scores:

Emily Nicholas Micah
$6,800 $1,600 $14,200
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $14,200

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Emily Nicholas Micah
$11,800 $1,600 $14,800
15 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 4 R,
1 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $28,200

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Game tape date: 2025-04-30
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