Show #9370 - Friday, July 4, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 2.

Contestants

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Andi Levenson, a senior paralegal from Narberth, Pennsylvania

Ricky Chandak, a financial assurance senior from Boston, Massachusetts

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS
MARVEL CHARACTERS
NICKNAMES
DURING THE LAST 20 YEARS
PLANNING FOR DISASTER
THE JOY OF 6(-LETTER WORDS)
    $200 17
The Qasr el Nil or Palace of the Nile Bridge connects Gezira Island to the mainland in this world capital
    $200 30
(Sean Gunn presents the clue.) As Kraglin, my character was originally a Ravager in Yondu's clan, but now I've joined the likes of Drax & Mantis as part of this plucky group of star travelers
    $200 23
Lauren Bacall gets the credit for coming up with this group name
    $200 28
After blowing the whistle on the NSA in 2013, he was the subject of both an Oscar-winning documentary & a film by Oliver Stone
    $200 26
In a pinch, you can use a bow drill made from wood & string to do this, but you can do it a whole lot faster if you've got a Zippo
    $200 27
That wonderful feeling? Why, you must be in this, particularly the "7th" one
    $400 16
One theory for its name goes back to a Spanish or Portuguese explorer who exclaimed, "I saw a mountain"
    $400 29
On this TV show, Bill Bixby once said, "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"
    $400 22
Referring to its plentiful waters, it's a numeric nickname for Minnesota
    $400 25
Montenegro became an independent nation on June 3, 2006, ending a years-long federation with this country
    $400 21
In the event of one of these natural disasters, FEMA advises those indoors to "drop, cover & hold on"
    $400 24
"Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name" & they toast you with this word
    DD: $1,000 1
The Comic Art Museum in this city includes 100 portraits of the Smurfs
    $600 15
In the film subtitled "Civil War", Iron Man mockingly calls this guy the Manchurian Candidate
    $600 9
"Nuns in a Scrum" is an affectionate nickname for this Aussie landmark
    $600 10
2019 was chock-full of pre-impeachment debate over the existence of a Trump-Ukraine this 3-word Latin phrase
    $600 5
2 words & just 5 letters, it's what Mike on "Breaking Bad" has at the airport for when he has to leave town fast
    $600 20
You can do this the moment you add the same-named topping to your hot dog
    $800 2
Manama is a short drive from the King Fahd Causeway in this island nation
    $800 18
In "Deadpool & Wolverine" , Chris Evans returns to this role, a member of a famed superhero group
    $800 11
Snowboarder Shaun White's mop of red hair earned him this nickname that includes a piece of produce
    $800 13
In 2011 the U.S. military buried Osama bin Laden at sea--specifically, the northern part of this sea
    $800 6
From Max Brooks' bestselling "Guide" to surviving these opponents--"use your head: cut off theirs" & "organize before they rise!"
    $800 4
I'm in this state, what you get if you take the first letter off a word meaning "tardy"
    $1000 3
You'll find this capital of Senegal on the continent's most westerly mainland point
    $1000 19
This hero played by Oscar Isaac gets power from an Egyptian lunar god &, in costume, has a little crescent on his head
    $1000 12
Turn-of-the-20th-century pieces like "Maple Leaf Rag" & "The Entertainer" earned this composer the nickname the "King of Ragtime"
    $1000 14
This investment bank filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history on Sept. 15, 2008, triggering a hot mess of global proportions
    $1000 7
In crises affecting the water supply, a few drops of this product containing sodium hypochlorite can help make your water safe to drink
    $1000 8
In music, it's a conductor's gesture before beginning the first measure; as an attitude, it's cheerful & optimistic

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

Scott Ricky Andi
$4,400 $2,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Ricky Andi
$7,600 $3,600 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

YOU'RE ALL GETTING MEDALS
PROPER NAME RHYME TIME
TV MAKES HISTORY
THAT IS SOME FLEX
POETRY COLLECTIONS
HOW "AUD"
    $400 30
Medals at the last Tokyo Olympics were made from recycled electronics, including more than 6 million of these devices
    $400 29
President Jimmy's stocking straps
    $400 28
For "The Tudors", Natalie Dormer said she had to fight to play this wife number two as brainy, not just as a hypersexual femme fatale
    $400 6
It's the muscle being flexed in the familiar "We Can Do It!" poster of World War II
    $400 21
She dedicated her collection "Death & Taxes" to fellow Algonquin Round Table perennial Robert Benchley
    $400 27
A federal appeals court said this crime "needs no definition. It is as old as falsehood & as versatile as human ingenuity"
    $800 23
The women's suffrage medal issued by the U.S. Mint carries the text of this Constitutional Amendment
    $800 15
The women who flock around a brother of Zeus & Poseidon
    $800 3
This History Channel show had Ragnar Lothbrok dying in a pit of snakes; lucky for Ragnar, historians think that might be a myth
    $800 16
You flex your soleus muscle to do this, like to move through a room where someone's asleep
    $800 17
"Lyrical Ballads" is a poetry collection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge & this alliterative fellow romantic
    $800 26
In the '90s Don Katz came up with the idea for this company after struggling with books on tape while jogging
    $1200 14
Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to receive this, was a surgeon who spent 4 months in a Confederate prison
    $1200 12
A flower child in the "Magnolia State"
    $1200 4
10 Primetime Emmys went to this 2019 disaster of an HBO series set in Ukraine
    $1200 20
Give baby a nice rounded dome with this alliterative part of her day when she flexes her neck muscles & lifts her head
    $1200 5
While living in England, he published 2 poetry collections: "A Boy's Will" & "North of Boston"
    $1200 2
Lillian Russell & Bert Williams were performers in this 20th century popular entertainment form
    $1600 11
The Newbery Medal goes to children's book authors; this companion medal goes to children's book illustrators
    $1600 13
The Bible book that enumerates the tribes of Israel takes a nap
    $1600 18
The last season of this HBO series brought the Earps to the title South Dakota town
    $1600 22
The dilator nares & depressor septi nasi flex to dilate the nostrils, which is called this action when it has an emotional cause
    $1600 9
This Irishman's collection "The Tower" includes "Leda & the Swan" & "Sailing to Byzantium"
    $1600 7
From the French word for "vagabond", it was also in the name of a map in the possession of a few Gryffindor folks
    DD: $12,000 24
The Fields Medal, "the Nobel Prize of" this discipline, is for thinkers under 40, so Andrew Wiles wasn't eligible; he got a special plaque
    $2000 1
A difficult choice to make about an 1815 novel
    DD: $4,000 19
The original 1980 version of this miniseries starred Richard Chamberlain & Toshiro Mifune & unlike the reboot, didn't use subtitles
    $2000 25
This basic type of exercise that doesn't change the muscle's length can include a thigh-flexing quad workout
    $2000 10
In the 1960s, this real cool poet wrote "In the Mecca", a collection of poems about a rundown South Side apartment complex
    $2000 8
Usually in plural, it's an expression of approval; ancient Romans would use the Latin version of the word to solicit applause

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Ricky Andi
$26,400 $24,400 $7,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY
In 2023 these 2 nations agreed to redraw part of their border near the Matterhorn due to melting glaciers

Final scores:

Scott Ricky Andi
$50,400 $27,000 $5,800
2-day champion: $68,000 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Ricky Andi
$24,000 $14,400 $7,400
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 8 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $45,800

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Game tape date: 2025-05-01
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