Show #9371 - Monday, July 7, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 3.

Contestants

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Vince Carter, a lawyer from South Pasadena, California

Ashley Caval Curto, a tutor and bowling alley attendant from Weymouth, Massachusetts

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $68,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

ON YOUR LEFT
(Ken: As you look at the map, that is.)
WHAT IS THAT IN THE ARTWORK?
"WATER"-Y RESPONSES
BLENDED FAMILIES
(Ken: ...where you'll have to solve the anagram.)
YES, AND?
THE DC UNIVERSE WITH JAMES GUNN
(James: I'm James Gunn, writer, director and co-CEO of DC Studios with clues about the DC legacy that's been carried on since the 1930s.)
    $200 22
Of Kansas:
This state
    $200 30
Clasped by Marie Antoinette in Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun's then-edgy portrait:
A pink this, Marie's signature flower
    $200 27
Meaning "forget about it", it's what you might tell an old friend about that issue you 2 had a falling-out over
    $200 28
This media clan's real-life succession drama looks a lot like on-screen "Succession" drama:
CHORD UM
    $200 29
It's Latin for "and the rest"; we often use it as a single word
    $200 26
(James Gunn presents the clue.) My new film, "Superman", is partly inspired by the comic book "All-Star Superman"; David Corensweat stars as the Man of Steel & Rachel Brosnahan plays this legendary reporter
    $400 21
Of Algeria:
This nation on the Mediterranean
    $400 24
In the right hand of Louis XIV in the classic 1701 portrait by Rigaud:
This staff, a symbol of royal authority
    $400 2
Down Under, a billabong is one of these for thirsty animals; elsewhere, it's a 2-word slang term for your local bar
    $400 11
This last name is No. 1 on Forbes' list of America's Richest Families:
LOW TAN
    $400 25
3-syllable "and"s include "furthermore" & this word with the "more" at the start
    $400 17
(James Gunn presents the clue.) I went online & searched "What's the dumbest DC character of all time?" & I found a character who first appeared in Detective Comics No. 300 named Polka-Dot Man; I love him so much that I made him part of my rogues' gallery in this 2021 movie
    $600 1
Of the Dominican Republic:
This country
    $600 15
In "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix:
A musket in Lady Liberty's left hand; in her right hand, this
    $600 7
As a mermaid in "Splash", Daryl Hannah somewhat literally embodies this 4-word trope involving a hero in unfamiliar environs
    $600 9
This royal dynasty may be terminé in France, but it still has rulers in both Spain & Luxembourg:
ON OR BUB
    $600 5
A way to say "and" is "in" this, an operation so simple that kids learn to do it
    $600 18
(James Gunn presents the clue.) My brother Sean read a clue about being part of the sorry ragtag bunch called "The Protectors of the Universe" who helped out "The Revengers" or something like that; over here at DC, we have a different group of heroes, this one with the Green Lantern & Aquaman, who got their first series in 1960
    $800 3
Of Suffolk County, New York:
This county whose coliseum is now run by Las Vegas Sands
    $800 14
In the lap of Whistler's mother:
A white one of these, to go with her mourning clothes
    DD: $2,200 8
Sort of like "between the devil & the deep blue sea", this phrase with 2 not-great options means "no matter what"
    $800 10
This dysfunctional family ruled England for 331 years, until the dysfunctional Tudors took over:
ELEGANT PANT
    $800 4
In French this word signifies "and more"; it's found before "ça change..."
    $800 20
(James Gunn presents the clue.) One of the coolest DC comic book characters co-created by Len Wein & further explored by Alan Moore is this green behemoth who came about in the Louisiana bayou
    $1000 6
Of Manitoba:
This province, home to about 1.2 million, a bit more than half of Cincinnati's metro area
    $1000 16
In Frida Kahlo's self-portrait "Fulang-Chang and I":
This pet, sporting a ribbon
    $1000 13
Aka deuterium oxide, it's used in nuclear plants to moderate neutrons
    $1000 12
Vito ran this New York mob family from prison for a decade:
ONE VEGES
    $1000 19
Add an "S" to a word meaning "next to" to get this word that can mean "and" in starting a sentence
    $1000 23
(James Gunn presents the clue.) I had a blast writing "Creature Commandos", a series that features a Frankenstein character & launched a DC project with the same name as this 1998 movie about the director of "Frankenstein"

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

Scott Ashley Vince
$6,600 $2,600 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Ashley Vince
$8,800 $3,200 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THEY WON THE BATTLE
20th CENTURY LIT
TV TOUGH CUSTOMERS
SOME ECON
POTATO SCIENCE
OH "M.G."
    $400 27
In 1862 this then-brigadier general got one over on his Old West Point chum Simon Bolivar Buckner at Fort Donelson
    $400 28
John Steinbeck was originally going to call this novella "Something That Happened"
    $400 26
10 years in prison have not accomplished any rehabilitation for Richie Aprile in Season 2 of this show
    $400 29
A law that brings in more taxes from individuals but the same amount less from corporations is said to be revenue-this
    $400 30
German scientist Anton de Bary named Phytophthora infestans, a pathogen most notorious for its effect on this land
    $400 25
Putt putt is a cousin of this game
    $800 13
On Oct. 21, 1805 off this cape near Cádiz, the one-armed man was king
    $800 22
Not set in Gilead, her first published novel was "The Edible Woman" in 1969
    $800 11
You don't want to argue about the minibar charges with Vera Farmiga as Norma, a protective mom on this show
    $800 23
In 2024 this measure of the difference in value of imports to exports was $918 billion for the U.S., up 17% from the year before
    $800 24
Key to French fries: get the outside crispy while making fluff out of this, one of the 3 main types of carbs along with sugar & fiber
    $800 1
This '80s hit says, "some boys kiss me, some boys hug me, I think they're okay, if they don't give me proper credit, I just walk away"
    $1200 6
It was Richard Pearson vs. this 3-named winner at the Battle of Flamborough Head in 1779
    $1200 3
James Dickey, who wrote this novel about a canoe trip gone awry, had a cameo as a sheriff in the film adaptation
    $1200 9
Tom Hardy is a street-smart fixer in this 2025 series about rival London crime families from exec producer Guy Ritchie
    $1200 17
Economist Janet Yellen made history as the first woman to hold this Cabinet position
    $1200 19
The "Max" smart scientists at this institute in Cologne finished sequencing the domestic potato genome
    $1200 2
The tailless tenrec can give birth to 30 or more babies per litter, so it's a good thing it has up to 18 pairs of these to produce milk
    $1600 7
The Ottomans relaxed in 1916 when Allied troops evacuated this peninsula after a failed bid to seize Constantinople
    $1600 5
In 1947 he brought us "Tales of the South Pacific"
    $1600 4
In season 3 of the "Mexico" iteration of this show, Bad Bunny plays "Kitty" Páez, a member of the Tijuana cartel
    $1600 14
For a long time the Federal Housing Administration used this discriminatory practice on real estate maps to allocate home loans
    $1600 15
To make a potato battery, for one electrode you'll need this type of nail or screw, meaning coated with zinc
    $1600 10
In Romania, the Romani; in Slovenia, the Serbs
    $2000 12
In 1273 at the Battle of Xiangyang Kublai Khan won in part by using this French-named weapon, a type of catapult
    DD: $5,000 8
Chapter 1 of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" begins with this famous 4-word question
    $2000 21
This veteran actor has ranged from the voice of Mr. Krabs to Salvatore Maroni, the imprisoned rival of The Penguin
    DD: $4,000 18
Milton Friedman held that this portmanteau that hit the U.S. economy in the 1970s marked the end of "Naïve Keynesianism"
    $2000 20
Fun for kids, a potato cannon shows the relationship between gas volume & pressure discovered by this man born in 1627
    $2000 16
It's one of the most iconic attractions in Juneau & the highlight of many an Alaskan cruise

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Ashley Vince
$25,000 $11,600 $14,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE MUSIC
The last 2 Best Song Oscar winners whose titles were the same name as the movie they were in had this man in the leading role

Final scores:

Scott Ashley Vince
$28,001 $4,200 $25,001
3-day champion: $96,001 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Ashley Vince
$20,600 $9,600 $14,000
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 16 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $44,200

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Game tape date: 2025-05-06
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