Show #9373 - Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 5.

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Rahul Kak, a law student from Brooklyn, New York

Sarah Mulligan, a lawyer from New York, New York

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $132,402)

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Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
SPORTY STUFF
WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY
HOW NOW, DOW JONES 30 SYMBOL
NUMBER, PLEASE
"STRAIGHT" TALK
    $200 20
In 1739, to stem counterfeiting, he used his Philadelphia printing office to produce notes with a raised leaf pattern
    $200 14
This alliterative apparatus used in Olympic women's gymnastics is 16.4 feet long & is raised 4.1 feet from the floor
    $200 21
George R.R. Martin wrote, one in this family "always pays his debts... I think I will try and sleep. Wake me if we're about to die"
    $200 30
BA isn't Bank of America, but speaking plane-ly, is this company
    $200 27
Baskin-Robbins started out offering this many flavors; now the company has 1,400-plus
    $200 29
Hope you're walking this slim 3-word path of honesty & virtue
    $400 3
In 1899 William McKinley became the first president to ride in an auto, one driven by F.O. Stanley & powered by this
    $400 15
This San Diego Padre amassed crazy hitting stats like a career .302 with 2 strikes & .415 facing Hall of Famer Greg Maddux
    $400 7
In 1846 "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell" were actually the poems by 3 sisters in this family
    $400 22
SHW is this brand that paints the town red (or another color of your choice)
    $400 26
This Apollo mission put the first humans on the Moon
    $400 28
To vote this is to cast a ballot solely for candidates of a single party
    DD: $1,000 1
Around 1870 unbranded strays gained this moniker from the name of a Texas rancher negligent in marking his calves
    $600 16
In swimming, the butterfly stroke is performed with this mammal-named kick
    $600 5
"People also ask" on Google, "What is the correct pronunciation?" of this family of bears & "always religious?"
    $600 12
KO is a knockout of a symbol for this brand that stays liquid
    $600 19
Number of points a team gets for a safety in the NFL
    $600 9
You're holding a jack, 10, 8 & 7 & hoping to draw a 9 for one of these? Lotsa luck!
    $800 2
In 1994, these two longtime political opponents & friends both left American public life for good
    $800 17
This UConn star had an intense spring in 2025 playing on her first national championship team & being picked first in the WNBA draft
    $800 6
This author opened a book with "A long time ago... Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods"
    $800 13
TRV means this company with assurances of insurance
    $800 24
In myth this many champions went against Thebes after Oedipus died
    $800 10
As 2 words, it's a punk subculture that eschews booze & drugs; as one word, it's a drawing tool
    $1000 4
In 1865 Mary Surratt was executed by the U.S. government; in 1953, she became the next woman to suffer that fate
    $1000 18
There are triple & even quadruple versions of this figure skating jump that bears the first name of its Norwegian inventor
    $1000 8
John Galsworthy's "Saga" about this family is soon to get no less than its third glossy BBC/PBS adaptation
    $1000 23
HON is this company that's into aerospace & also industrial automation, which doesn't sound like a scary pairing at all
    $1000 25
This rare isotope of uranium is the only naturally occurring fissile material, so be careful out there
    $1000 11
This 3-word phrase meaning simple & direct is the title of a Thelonious Monk album

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

Scott Sarah Rahul
$1,200 $1,200 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Sarah Rahul
$3,800 $2,600 -$200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SKETCHES GIVE STITCHES
OLD REVIEWS
EARTH SCIENCE
FRENCH PROVERBS
TAKE A LONG WALK
OFF A NOT-SO-SHORT PIER
    $400 1
Kenan Thompson & Amanda Bynes got their starts on this Nickelodeon sketch show with an opening song by TLC
    $400 16
In 1890 art critic Albert Aurier praised his "Skies", which "at times, expose radiating, torrid solar disks"
    $400 30
Derecho, a strong wind moving in a line across the Great Plains, was coined in contrast to this wind that twists & spins
    $400 25
Basically telling you to sleep on it, "la nuit porte conseil" literally means this "brings counsel"
    $400 28
Fitness trackers by this Google-owned brand raise a big question for many users: if my steps aren't tracked, did my walk even happen?
    $400 17
Notable for its two-tier construction, Scheveningen Pier in the Netherlands juts 1,200 feet from the Hague coastline into this body of water
    $800 5
This guy played Vincent Price,
Herb Welch & of course,
Stefon on "Saturday Night Live"
    $800 13
From 1891: This man's "'Gates of Hell'... rendered the... battle of the sexes with a force... no sculptor has hitherto equalled"
    $800 29
Spring these, higher than usual, happen because the Sun adds its gravitational pull to that of the Moon
    $800 24
Like "make a mountain out of a molehill", to "faire d'une mouche un éléphant" is to make an elephant out of this insect
    $800 27
"Da-da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da": thus proclaimeth The Proclaimers in a '93 hit about walking this title distance
    $800 26
Developed in the '30s at California's Santa Monica Pier, the Peterson belt is now standard-issue equipment for people with this job
    $1200 2
She did some "ameezing" work as "pubLIZcist" Liz B. on "Kroll Show"
    $1200 12
A 1994 review of the album "Illmatic"--this "20-year-old New Yorker captured street life in all its emotional complexities"
    $1200 6
If Norman Bowen's headstone is made of this hard rock, he'd want you to know it's magmatic, his position in a long-running debate
    $1200 21
"Chien qui aboie ne mord pas" familiarly tells us one of these "doesn't bite"
    $1200 8
This "Wild" author has said that much of the journal she kept while hiking the Pacific Coast Trail was "about how much my feet hurt"
    $1200 18
After losing a bet, this future mayor & senator attended the 1978 opening of San Francisco's Pier 39 in a bathing suit
    $1600 3
Some of its early sketches were
"The Wrath of Farrakhan",
"Homeboy Shopping Network" &
"Homey D. Clown"
    $1600 14
H.L. Mencken said his "Sister Carrie" "was the ancient story of the seduced village maiden purged of all its... pecksniffery"
    DD: $4,000 7
On a global scale this process of heat transfer sees warm air rise & cold air sink, driving much of weather & climate
    $1600 22
"De mauvais grain jamais bon pain" means "from bad grain, never" this 2-word outcome
    DD: $5,000 9
Very few have walked the entire length of this route that runs 19,000 miles from Argentina to Alaska via the perilous Darién Gap
    $1600 19
You'll find the unique Whalebone Pier seen here at Umhlanga Beach in Durban, this country's largest seaport
    $2000 4
(Robin Thede presents the clue.) I play roles like philsophizer & conspiracizer Hertep,
Dr. Haddassah Olayinka Ali-Youngman, Pre Ph.D. &
the con artist three-year-old Baby Annie on this sketch show I created
    $2000 15
An 1889 article about this New York dining establishment called it "the most famous in America"
    $2000 10
Dubbed Clambake 1, the first of the structures called these vents, the "hot springs of the ocean floor", was discovered in 1977
    $2000 23
"Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu" is equivalent to this, meaning there's a reason why people are talking about something
    $2000 11
Since the 9th century, pilgrims both religious & non have walked this network of Iberian routes known as The Way of St. James
    $2000 20
Denmark's Kastrup Pier, aka "The Snail" ends in a circular swimming area that juts into this strait; that's Sweden over yonder

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Sarah Rahul
$12,000 $5,400 $3,800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT BUILDERS
A 2nd c. inscription in Northern England records that the gods imposed "the necessity of keeping intact the empire" on this man

Final scores:

Scott Sarah Rahul
$12,500 $3,199 $2,199
5-day champion: $144,902 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Sarah Rahul
$15,600 $5,400 $3,800
23 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 2 DDs)		 9 R,
1 W		 6 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $24,800

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Game tape date: 2025-05-06
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