Show #9403 - Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Contestants

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Lisa Mueller, an anthropologist from Rochester, Minnesota

James Thajudeen, a librarian from San Jose, California

Curtis Bogetti, a Ph.D. candidate from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,001)

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Jeopardy! Round

IT HAPPENED IN PHILLY
AN ARTIST'S LIFE
ABOUT A BOY
YOUR HOUSE IS SMART
HOMOPHONES
ENTER-TRAIN-MENT
    $200 30
In Feb. 1846 a crack in this was repaired with rivets but later that month, it cracked again & that was it forever for functionality
    $200 20
This guy who failed three times trying to get into the École des Beaux-Arts & sculpted "Man with the Broken Nose"? Hmm, that's a "Thinker"
    $200 29
Named for a 16th century theologian, this 6-year-old boy of comic strip fame has a best friend who's a tiger
    $200 26
iRobot launched this O.G. robovac in 2002; today's models can mop floors & even empty their own dustbins
    $200 17
Body area just above the hips, & milieu of a trash collector
    $200 28
Gotta love the Brits! The series named for this tank engine has a railway manager named Sir Topham Hatt
    $400 22
At the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil said of this brand-new invention, "My God, it talks!"
    $400 19
On August 8, 1949, "Life" magazine asked, "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?"; but his drinking was always the problem
    $400 24
The original logo of this paint brand was based on an Irish-American kid, not a boy from the Netherlands
    $400 25
This Amazon-owned brand of doorbell cameras is perfect for watching Amazon carriers deliver your Amazon packages
    $400 14
Get water out of a boat, & make bundles of hay
    $400 27
Tom Cruise boards a moving train by parachuting through a window in the "Dead Reckoning" installment of this film series
    $600 21
In 1792, $4,266.57 bought two lots at 7th & Arch Streets to construct this government building; but wait, where'd that four grand get made?
    $600 2
At almost 80 in 1824 this Spanish court painter left his homeland & lived out his life in Bordeaux
    $600 23
Raised by wolves, a "man's cub" named Mowgli learns wisdom from wild animals in this Rudyard Kipling story collection
    $600 15
Once connected, the smart devices in your home become part of a system known as the IoT, short for this
    $600 7
It describes something spoken or something you let happen
    $600 16
Bong Joon Ho directed this film that tackled warring class systems aboard a train trundling through a frozen landscape
    $800 10
In 1969 Wistar Institute scientists developed the still-standard vaccine against this, also called German measles
    $800 1
Born in Brooklyn in 1960 of Puerto Rican & Haitian descent, he had his first New York solo exhibition at age 21
    $800 8
In a Christmas carol, he's the title musician with whom "the ox & lamb kept time"
    $800 4
For powering up this, like a Prologue or Ioniq, a smart charger can wait until power is cheapest
    $800 5
Those waiting for treatment in a hospital, & what they might need to endure the wait
    $800 13
To take the Hogwarts Express, you must dash through a brick wall at London's King's Cross Station to reach this platform
    DD: $1,000 11
In 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft these, which would get adopted on Nov. 15, 1777
    $1000 3
This 1-named Italian lost his father to plague & gave us "Judith Beheading Holofernes" c. 1599 but really did kill a guy a bit later
    $1000 9
Thomas Gainsborough cemented his rep as an artist with this c. 1770 painting originally titled "A Portrait of a Young Gentleman"
    $1000 18
How do robot mowers know where to stop mowing? Some can 3D-map your lawn using this laser-based technology
    $1000 6
A Big Mac, & a citizen of a European town of yore
    $1000 12
This Wes Anderson film finds brothers Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody & Jason Schwartzman taking a train trip through India

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

Curtis James Lisa
$1,800 $1,000 $4,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Curtis James Lisa
$3,400 $3,000 $6,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HERITAGE SITES
OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL NEVER GO!
2010 IN POP CULTURE
THE PATIENCE OF JOB
THAT ANIMAL'S GOT A NAME
I NEED SOME "AIR"
    $400 25
Jamaica makes the list with 2 biodiverse mountain ranges: the John Crow & this colorful one
    $400 30
In this work by Thomas More, Raphael Hythloday tells of voyaging with Amerigo Vespucci before exploring the title island
    $400 24
The clock didn't run out for this Ke$ha hit, the first Billboard No. 1 of the 2010s, until it had topped the chart for 9 weeks
    $400 14
Studies suggest for little kids this daily or twice daily "time" is key in regulating cortisol & the patience of daycare providers
    $400 29
Weighing 1,000 pounds or more, North America's largest elk is named for this president who helped preserve its habitat
    $400 9
Drive carefully--Norway's Trollstigen mountain pass, seen here, features 11 of these harrowing turns
    $800 17
The Frontiers of the Roman Empire site includes this British structure begun in the year 122
    $800 26
Iram is a lost city mentioned in the Koran & in this collection that's been translated by Sir Richard Burton
    $800 15
This movie comedy premised on a malfunction at a ski resort includes the name of a device that could apply to the entire category
    $800 12
Rebecca Cliffe has spent a good part of her life as a tracker of these animals & founded an organization for their conservation
    $800 28
Named for a Mexican-American War general, Scott's this ranges across the arid Southwest & is yellower than its Maryland cousins
    $800 7
For skiers, it's a fast way up the mountain; for nervous skiers, it's also an appealing way down
    $1200 16
A stretch of the château-rich valley of this French river was added to the World Heritage list in 2000
    $1200 22
James Hilton told the New York Times he found "Tibetan material" at the British Museum to help create this mythical place
    $1200 13
Known to sing a bit themselves, the cast of this hit TV show presented a trophy at the MTV Video Music Awards
    $1200 11
A CSR, short for this, needs patience to deal with folks who've lost theirs while on hold & shouting "human!" into the phone
    $1200 27
Once nearly extinct in the wild, Przewalski's this is mostly found in Mongolia & China
    $1200 6
In Glasgow, your obstetrician might congratulate you on delivering a "wee" one of these
    DD: $3,000 1
Renowned for its biodiversity, the Socotra Archipelago is aka this other World Heritage Site "of the Indian Ocean"
    $1600 20
This land that Arthur was carried to after his final battle was called the "Isle of Apples" by Geoffrey of Monmouth
    $1600 18
This rap single by Far East Movement, the first No. 1 hit by an Asian-American group, has a title that refers to a private jet
    DD: $5,400 3
Profession of Carleton Watkins, using a ton of gear carried by a dozen mules; his work in the 1860s helped get Yosemite protected
    $1600 8
Dall's this, the biggest member of its family, is also fast, hitting speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour
    $1600 5
You don't need ESP to know there's no "E", "S" or "P" in this French-derived word for someone with ESP
    $2000 2
The Nativity Façade & Crypt of la Sagrada Família are part of a site dedicated to the works of this architect
    $2000 21
A 2021 novel by Anthony Doerr shares its name with this mythical land in the sky conjured up by Aristophanes
    $2000 19
HBO debuted this drama series set in & named for one of New Orleans' oldest neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
    $2000 10
Even starchitects like Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron need patience; their Elbphilharmonie in this Elbe River port took seven extra years
    $2000 23
Well, had a name--the enormous sea cow named for this man who described it in 1741 was extinct less than 30 years later
    $2000 4
English surgeon Edward Jenner had a keen interest--udderly professional of course--in women with this pre-industrial job

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Curtis James Lisa
$6,800 $7,600 $17,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

WORDS FROM WORLD WAR II
As they lived below the surface of daily life, Jews who hid in Berlin in WWII were called human these, a German-derived word

Final scores:

Curtis James Lisa
$6,001 $3,200 $17,600
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $17,600

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Curtis James Lisa
$12,200 $10,600 $17,600
16 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $40,400

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Game tape date: 2025-09-08
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