Show #9372 - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 4.

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Elise Canup, an advertising producer from Richmond, Virginia

Dan Puma, a salesperson from Chicago, Illinois

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $96,001)

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Jeopardy! Round

NOTABLE NAMES
HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN
THAT'S HONORIFIC!
DAYS IN TECH HISTORY
THOSE ARE THE LYRICS?!
MULTIPLE MEANINGS
    $200 26
First name of West German chancellor Schmidt & German chancellor Kohl; put one on, boys, you're going in
    $200 28
A 2022 report said many Kuwait City residents were deficient in this vitamin, as extreme heat kept them indoors
    $200 27
It's the real honorific for non-real characters like Moriarty,
Langdon &
X
    $200 30
On Jan. 12, 2009 the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto made the first transaction of this currency to a software developer
    $200 24
A taste of their "Boom Boom Pow": "Beats so big I'm steppin' on leprechauns"
    $200 29
Oh, deer, it also means to behave in a sycophantic way over someone
    $400 25
He became a symbol of excellence beyond baseball, particularly for an incredible mid-May to mid-July of the 1941 season
    DD: $1,800 16
This city's History Museum displays a nearly 7-ton metal blob of nails & other hardware melted in a store basement in 1871
    $400 10
In Canada, his or her worship is for people with this government job, like Scott Gillingham of Winnipeg & Surrey, B.C.'s Brenda Locke
    $400 23
Presented in 1994, "Archie-Like Indexing" for the Web, or ALIWEB, was one of the web's first of these, the "SE" in SEO
    $400 22
Justin Bieber on "Boyfriend": "Swag swag swag on you / Chillin' by the fire while we eating" this melty dish
    $400 17
It's capital,
it's most important,
it's a school administrator
    $600 1
This Danish navigator who died in 1741 was buried on an island near the Kamchatka Peninsula
    $600 11
2024 was brutal in Bangkok, as the oceanic pattern known by this childish name helped induce deadly heat levels
    $600 5
From 2018 to 2025 Sony employees got updates from CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, often containing this gender-neutral Japanese honorific
    $600 21
On March 2, 1969 this supersonic transport jet took its first successful flight
    $600 20
Putting the "dark" in Katy Perry's "Dark Horse", "karma" (sort of) rhymes with "she eat your heart out like" this serial killer
    $600 8
One can hang as a wall decoration or worse, some can hang out on the wall of a blood vessel
    $800 2
This German scientist wrote his dissertation about earwax, but his name is known today for his later work on dementia
    $800 7
As part of a heat-reduction plan, Athens is employing one of these built by the Romans to irrigate a "cool corridor"
    $800 6
A 12th century Muslim Arab word from "commander" became this now-naval honorific
    $800 4
His first patent for improvements in boats by steam was obtained February 11, 1809 (but was lost in a fire)
    $800 19
Hozier's "Too Sweet" says, "You treat your mouth as if it's heaven's gate / The rest of you like you're" this 3-letter agency
    $800 9
A supplementary structure separate from a main one, or to incorporate territory into a sovereign nation
    $1000 3
Winston Churchill said this leader who preceded him was "cheated by a wicked man"
    $1000 13
Dating to Roman times & host of a World's Fair 2 millennia later, it's been called "the Iberian oven"
    $1000 15
Historically an honorific for English gentry ranked between a gentleman & a knight, it now denotes a lawyer
    $1000 14
On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell called this assistant on his newfangled dingus
    $1000 18
On "Whenever, Wherever", she confides, "lucky that my breasts are small & humble so you don't confuse them with mountains"
    $1000 12
To vex or worry, perhaps about your fingers moving about that part of a musical instrument

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Scott Dan Elise
$5,200 $2,000 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Dan Elise
$7,600 $3,400 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEST-SELF-ERS
STATE ODDITY
HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE
"X"
MARX
THE SPOT
    $400 18
The title of this Supreme Court justice's memoir "Lovely One" is the translation of her given name from an African dialect
    $400 21
Minnesota has a state photograph, taken in the city of Bovey in 1918 & titled this, what the man is saying
    $400 30
She's the actress seen here with mom Melanie Griffith & grandmother Tippi Hedren
    $400 25
In 1966 Fortune called this co.'s 914 copier the "most profitable product ever manufactured" in the United States
    $400 29
Born in modern day Germany, Karl Marx passed away in this city in 1883
    $400 28
Also the name of a Dickensian orphan, it's the term for a spot on a domino or a die
    $800 17
This author pulled off a posthumous publicity stunt: making fans wait for his memoir until 2010, the centennial of his death
    $800 20
travelnevada.com says the state has more of these, often fun to visit, than places that are actually populated
    $800 23
He said being a "big 6'5 Hawaiian" gave him an advantage when trying out for roles like Khal Drogo & Conan the Barbarian
    $800 24
Coleridge began "Kubla Khan" in a dream state; a visitor on business yanked him out of this place & kept him from finishing
    $800 26
This Marx collaborator called "Das Kapital" the "Bible of the working class"
    $800 27
Currants & raisins are responsible for giving this British dessert part of its fame
    $1200 16
"Going Rogue", the title of her 2009 memoir, comes from a phrase used by an aide of John McCain to describe her going off-message
    $1200 19
Only 5 states allow this capital punishment method & in 2025, South Carolina carried out the first such U.S. execution since 2010
    $1200 22
For his role as Chris Kyle in "American Sniper", this actor received rifle training from a Navy SEAL sniper who served with Kyle
    $1200 9
This Persian emperor tried to take on the Greeks; after his failures, he withdrew to Susa & Persepolis
    $1200 2
According to Marx, the proletariat is exploited by this class of property owners
    DD: $3,000 5
Back in 1878 American astronomer Carr Pritchett noted the color of this storm, the largest in our solar system
    $1600 15
This opposition leader's 2024 memoir "Patriot" was published after his death in a Russian prison
    DD: $3,400 1
Most of Arizona used this 20th century innovation from 1918 to 1968, but scorns it now
    $1600 7
He co-wrote the screenplay for "Stuart Little", but he's better known for making films like "Split" & "Unbreakable"
    $1600 10
This food thickening agent is made when sugar is fermented by a specific bacteria
    $1600 3
Karl Marx was heavily influenced by this German philosopher & his concept of the dialectic
    $1600 12
From the Sanskrit for particle, it's the name for the dot-like adornment worn on the forehead of Hindu & Jain women
    $2000 14
In a 1983 memoir she wrote, "I have made my home among the mountain gorillas"
    $2000 8
Not a Western state but New York has the largest publicly protected area in the lower 48, the park named for these mountains
    $2000 6
This early animation device inspired the name of Francis Ford Coppola's movie studio & his San Francisco cafe
    $2000 11
This South African language that utilizes both clicks & tones is spoken by over 8 million people
    $2000 4
Marx threw his support behind this "dictatorship of the proletariat" that lasted just 2 months in spring 1871
    $2000 13
Spots on leopards are also known by this floral name

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Dan Elise
$23,200 $18,200 $2,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

1950s LITERATURE
At the start of this tale, the title character is reminded he went turtling off the Mosquito Coast

Final scores:

Scott Dan Elise
$36,401 $23,201 $4,200
4-day champion: $132,402 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Dan Elise
$23,200 $14,600 $800
24 R,
2 W		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
8 W		 6 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $38,600

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Game tape date: 2025-05-06
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