Show #9411 - Monday, October 13, 2025

Contestants

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Allegra Hill, a foreign affairs professional from Washington, D.C.

Daniel Richman, a Ph.D. student originally from Santa Barbara, California

Aimée Fluitt, a former national security consultant originally from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,599)

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Jeopardy! Round

INTERSECTING WITH INSECTS
WORLD LITERATURE
TV TITLE FIRST & LAST NAME
(Ken: You'll be giving us the title of each show.)
ROCKS OF NOTE
"EZ" DOES IT
BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTS
    $200 27
When these insects get "social" & mingle as a group, they're in a flutter
    $200 10
Nabokov wrote, "She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always" this title name
    $200 15
Calista Flockhart practicing law in Boston
    $200 23
It was not claimed to be the Pilgrims' landing place until 1741, 121 years after the event
    $200 30
Dessert of choice at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum: astronaut ice cream from the gift shop, in this preserved state
    $200 28
You have the intelligence of 2 men! Lloyd Christmas & Harry Dunne from this 1994 buddy comedy
    $400 26
Smaller than ticks at about the size of a sesame seed, the head type of this parasite may cause sleeplessness & be a hairy situation
    $400 4
Scandalous antics of this Flaubert heroine include reading trashy novels & getting frisky in a moving carriage
    $400 8
Kristen Bell solving crimes while still in high school
    $400 13
In this city you can visit the Kaaba, which holds the black stone revered by Muslims
    $400 22
Mon dieu! Right-winger Marine Le Pen can likely kiss the French presidency goodbye after a 2025 conviction for this
    $400 12
I love how you'll wear anything--even these stretchy cut-offs with a portmanteau name
    $600 16
There are 2,700-plus species of this cellulose-eating insect, a close relative of the cockroach--what an awful family reunion
    $600 1
This Voltaire hero trades philosophy for fertilizer, deciding the key to happiness is simply to "cultivate our garden"
    $600 9
Hilary Duff as a rather animated teen
    $600 7
The natural formations of this venue 15 miles from downtown Denver create a stunning backdrop for rock concerts
    $600 21
On back day or on shoulder day? An age-old debate amongst gym rats over when to train this muscle for optimum rippage
    $600 11
You've got a great tan for someone who professionally plays this Blizzard sci-fi P.C. game with Zerg & Terrans
    $800 18
A sub-discipline of entomology, vespology is the study of these like the mud dauber
    $800 2
The rise & fall of the Buendía family is the subject of this novel that's been called "the gold standard of magic realism"
    $800 14
On this show teen Neil Patrick Harris writes in his journal & practices medicine
    $800 6
A July 1969 story about these headline items called them "currently... the world's most priceless scientific treasure"
    DD: $2,000 19
One who sings the part of Amneris in "Aida", for example
    $800 24
Neat, bro! You're going to camp at Outeroo at this southern music festival in June--I'd go but I enjoy bathing
    $1000 17
It was big news when the Mediterranean type of this was found in Florida, a state that values its orange groves, April 6, 1929
    $1000 3
"But I'm not guilty," insists Joseph K., the hero of this novel; "there's been a mistake"
    $1000 29
Liev Schreiber is a professional fixer in Los Angeles
    $1000 5
The Rosetta Stone features a decree written in Greek, Hieroglyphics & this Egyptian script, partly from the Greek for "people"
    $1000 20
And the award for most unpleasant biblical comeuppance goes to this queen of Israel, thrown from a window by eunuchs & then eaten by dogs
    $1000 25
Congrats! Your novel won this award that had "Man" at the start of its name for 17 years--makes up for your unhappy childhood!

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

Aimée Daniel Allegra
$2,200 $1,600 $4,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Aimée Daniel Allegra
$5,000 $3,600 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

HOW DID I END UP IN CHARGE?
U.S. "J"-OGRAPHY
THE ARCTIC
IN GOOD COMPANY
LATIN LESSON
BACKHAND COMPLIMENTS
    $400 29
The deaths of Akhenaten & possibly of a little-known co-regent named Smenkhkare brought this boy king to the throne
    $400 17
In Utah this river empties into the Great Salt Lake, not the Dead Sea
    $400 20
One definition of the Arctic is the area north of this, the limit where the pines & larches stop
    $400 28
A company with a lot of sole, Kepner Scott in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania is the oldest surviving maker of these for kids in America
    $400 16
Meaning "word for word", it's sometimes found before et literatim, or "letter for letter"
    $400 30
John McPhee's book about a 1968 match between white guy Clark Graebner & him calls his backhand a touchstone of modern tennis
    $800 18
Millard Fillmore ended up in the Oval Office when this predecessor died 5 days after consuming a lot of cherries & iced milk
    $800 15
I have found what I'm looking for--it's this California National Park
    $800 19
Obtaining nutrients from the atmosphere, mosses & these fungus/alga combos can survive being covered in ice & snow for months
    $800 27
In 1886 door-to-door book salesman David McConnell gave perfume as gifts with orders, giving birth to this company
    $800 11
Literally "therefore", it's found in the middle of a famous philosophical phrase
    $800 24
Type of backhand pioneered in women's tennis by Peaches Bartkowicz, whose "terrific marksmanship" the NYT noted in 1965
    $1200 6
The leave referendum got David Cameron to resign, Boris Johnson bailed, so she took up the mantle as UK prime minister
    DD: $3,800 12
It was originally proposed that this capital be called Missouriopolis
    $1200 3
Proving that the ice packs rest on water, not land, this U.S. submarine passed under the Arctic in 1958
    $1200 9
All aboard! Hobbyists & collectors, for the 125th anniversary in 2025 of this model train maker
    DD: $4,000 10
If someone says this 3-word phrase, you might have been a little loose-lipped during happy hour
    $1200 21
Rod Laver had a great topspin backhand; rival Ken Rosewall mastered this opposite type (not "bottomspin")
    $1600 5
Some springtime stabbing of his great-uncle & adoptive father set him up as heir; then he just had to deal with Mark Antony
    $1600 13
It's the most populous U.S. city that begins with "J"
    $1600 2
The toes of this Arctic bird are covered with feathers, & it burrows into snow to sleep
    $1600 25
It's the parent company of Ralphs, Harris Teeter, & Smith's Food & Drug supermarkets
    $1600 8
When a leader hasn't actually been elected, he might be deemed this 2-word type from Latin
    $1600 22
Mats Wilander praised the versatile backhand of this Wimbledon champ, given a knighthood in 2016 before he turned 30
    $2000 4
Charles I was executed, the future Charles II was exiled & this man became lord protector in 1653
    $2000 14
A plot at Grandview Cemetery contains the graves of 777 unidentified victims of the catastrophic 1889 flood in this Pennsylvania city
    $2000 1
Kvitoya, Hopen & Spitsbergen are all islands in this Norwegian Arctic archipelago whose name means "cold coast"
    $2000 26
The former headquarters of the Longaberger Company was built in the shape of one of these, its famous product
    $2000 7
This Latin phrase refers to a depiction in art of Christ wearing a crown of thorns
    $2000 23
"The best backhand in the world", said John McEnroe about Justine Henin, a star from this country in the early 2000s

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Aimée Daniel Allegra
$11,800 $5,600 $12,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE OSCARS
The first 2 actors to refuse their Oscar trophies were in films with scripts that this man co-wrote

Final scores:

Aimée Daniel Allegra
$11,300 $5,600 $23,601
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $23,601

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Aimée Daniel Allegra
$10,600 $9,600 $10,200
15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 16 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $30,400

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Game tape date: 2025-09-15
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