Show #9369 - Thursday, July 3, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 1.

Contestants

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Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey

Katy Doll, an instructor of American studies originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Jason Singer, a real estate agent from Portland, Maine (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY FILED UNDER "T"
DROPOUTS
INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS ANTHEM
FUN WITH HETERONYMS
(Ken: Each response will be two words or two different pronunciations anyway.)
BLOOM
BUST
    $200 24
Alligator Point, a scenic jewel of the Gulf Coast, is located about an hour's drive south of this state capital
    $200 30
The University of Wisconsin bestowed an honorary doctorate on this Prairie Style architect who had dropped out in 1887
    $200 29
Tennis great Rafael Nadal hails from this country whose "La Marcha Real" has no officially approved lyrics
    $200 22
Metallic element used in batteries
&
to guide a group
    $200 28
In its native South Africa, it's known as the crane flower; in L.A., where it's the city's floral emblem, it has this other avian name
    $200 27
John Gibson sculpted a marble bust of this mythological personification of the dawn, also known as Eos
    $400 14
Located in Bass Strait, King & Flinders Islands are part of this Australian state
    $400 23
She had thoughts of becoming a doctor until, during recovery from a bus accident in 1925, she taught herself to paint
    $400 20
Before soccer star Johan Cruyff had his signature turn, he was singing "Het Wilhelmus" in this country
    $400 21
A freestanding cabinet
&
to comfort someone
    $400 25
Named for a pal of Linnaeus, alstroemeria are also called the Peruvian this flower
    $400 26
Since its discovery in 1912, the bust of href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2025-07-03_J_26.jpg" target="_blank">this Egyptian queen has become a symbol of beauty
    $600 2
The USA's oldest military monument honors the men who fought the Barbary pirates on "the shores of" this city
    $600 12
It was Seacrest out of this state university in 1992; that didn't stop Ryan from getting a hosting job or 2
    $600 19
Slugger David Ortiz, also known by this nickname, sang "Quisqueyanos Valientes" growing up in the Dominican Republic
    $600 8
To put down a carpet again
&
a track race by teams
    DD: $3,000 13
This flower whose name comes from the Greek for "gold flower" is used both ornamentally & to make tea
    $600 7
You can see this man of letters in the Cathedral of Lichfield, his birth; the bust of Boswell sold separately
    $800 3
It enters the Tyrrhenian Sea near Ostia, ancient Rome's chief seaport
    $800 15
Dropping out of Allegheny College after one term didn't stop this man from winning the presidential election of 1896
    $800 5
This Denver Nuggets star stands for "Bože pravde", the Serbian national anthem
    $800 9
To speak so the back of the house can hear you
&
a planned task
    $800 17
The French call this little rascal of a plant with bluish purple flowers luzerne; it's best known as animal feed
    $800 6
Think stoical thoughts as you meditate on the bust of this Roman emperor
    $1000 4
A story of this city's founding goes back to an 1100s Tuareg woman who ran a camel rest stop on a tributary of the Niger River
    $1000 16
The legions of tech-successful dropouts include this man who left Washington State & joined forces with pal Bill Gates
    $1000 1
"O Canada! Our home and native land!", sang Martin Brodeur, but his home for 21 seasons was this New Jersey team where he played goalie
    $1000 10
Very evil
&
moved moisture such as perspiration to the surface of a garment
    $1000 18
Single Victorian men signaled romantic availability by wearing this alliterative blue bloom
    $1000 11
Here's Rodin's bust of this premier of France who helped frame the Treaty of Versailles

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

Jason Katy Scott
$3,200 $800 $3,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Katy Scott
$4,200 $1,200 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXCITING LIBRARIANS
(Ken: Is there any other kind?)
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED
DESCRIBING THE GOLDEN GLOBE BEST MOTION PICTURE WINNERS
(Ken: Some in the comedy, some in the drama category.)
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES
CHANGE THE FIRST 3 LETTERS OF 6</td>
    $400 30
Before becoming director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover was a clerk at this D.C. library
    $400 29
The MVP of the 2025 Super Bowl was this quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles
    $400 17
In 2010:
After accidentally taking flunitrazepam, a trio wakes up in their hotel room to find a chicken, a tiger & an infant
    $400 25
The term Hoovervilles was meant as a political jab at president Hoover & this party's perceived failure
    $400 24
Rosalind Miles' book subtitled "The Women's History of the World" asks, "Who Cooked" this meal in Luke 22?
    $400 28
A bunny-loving annual holiday & detritus
    $800 26
Go to the 900 section of the Dewey decimal system to find his "Little Red Book"; prior to writing it, he was a library assistant
    $800 2
This hacker returns in the 2023 novel "The Girl in the Eagle's Talons"
    $800 16
In 2001:
A precocious journalist tours with fictional '70s band Stillwater
    $800 1
In July 1934 about 17 million Americans were "on" this, a 6-letter word for government assistance
    $800 23
P.D. Eastman penned a children's book about a baby bird repeatedly asking the book's title: "Are You" this?
    $800 27
Nationality of Hermann Hesse & a gender-specific contract killer
    $1200 9
At the end of his life, this man whose name is synonymous with the libertine lifestyle worked as a librarian in Bohemia
    $1200 3
In July 1969 the Eagle, Apollo 11's lunar module, landed in this lunar locale
    $1200 12
In 2018:
Fast times at Immaculate Heart in Sacramento
    $1200 4
This governmental banking authority tried to stem the tide of rising stock prices in 1929 by raising interest rates; didn't work
    $1200 5
This funny lady from "The Office" has wondered in book titles "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?" & "Why Not Me?"
    $1200 18
Your dad's bro's kid & "nature's candy" (just one)
    $1600 10
Eratosthenes found time to accurately estimate the circumference of the Earth while running this library
    $1600 11
Sometimes an eagle lands on the flag, of this country, seen here
    DD: $5,000 13
In 2023:
TFW you watch home movies & realize your mom was having an affair the whole time
    DD: $5,000 8
Named for a senator & a House representative, this 1930 tariff act put pressure on the financial recovery
    $1600 6
This Horace McCoy novel is about a Depression-era dance marathon, not equine euthanasia
    $1600 19
A hardening building material used in masonry & Slash's main instrument
    $2000 22
You'd be shushed by this librarian & composer for blasting his bombastic "Symphonie fantastique"
    $2000 21
The miniseries "Mrs. America" had Cate Blanchett as this conservative using her Eagle Forum to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment
    $2000 15
In 2015, a young girl reads a book by Tom Wilkinson, who hears a story from F. Murray Abraham, a former lobby boy
    $2000 14
In 1932, this army of jobless World War I veterans marched on Washington, trying to get their due
    $2000 7
"Can You Forgive Her?" is one of the Palliser novels by this Victorian who wrote hefty books in long series
    $2000 20
Tropical bird of the Americas with a brilliantly colored beak & one who practices a magic-affirming religion

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Katy Scott
$17,000 $5,600 $16,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

TV
"Lord of the Flies" inspired this series as did the 1994 film "Heavenly Creatures", which starred one of the show's actresses

Final scores:

Jason Katy Scott
$799 $7,200 $17,600
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $17,600

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jason Katy Scott
$18,600 $5,600 $19,600
19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 7 R,
0 W		 24 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $43,800

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Game tape date: 2025-05-01
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