Show #9418 - Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Contestants

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Emmanuel Calivo, an airport customer service agent from San Jose, California

Katy Lentz, a university brand manager from Mauldin, South Carolina

Tom Devlin, an attorney from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,599)

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Jeopardy! Round

HAPPY 80th, UNITED NATIONS!
MUSICAL THEATER
ON A FIRST NAME BASIS
WAR BOOKS
(Ken: You'll have to name the war that both books deal with.)
3 OF THE SAME LETTER
SOME CLOWNS MEAN WELL
    $200 28
In the spring of 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in this California city to draft the UN's charter
    $200 5
Producer Oprah was one of the people Cynthia Erivo thanked when she won a Tony for playing Celie in this musical
    $200 8
The first name of Ms. Lawson, it's also a plant representing love & one of the 100+ types of flora you can spot in the painting "Primavera"
    $200 29
"No More Parades",
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
    $200 30
E:
A prisoner who has left prison & is on the run
    $200 22
He debuted in 1963 wearing a Styrofoam hamburger hat & has promoted fast food & fun, not fear, ever since
    $400 27
2 Nobel peace prizes, in 1954 & 1981, have gone to the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for these people
    $400 15
(Paul Tazewell presents the clue.) A large amount of research, including studying paintings of the time, went into creating the costumes for this stage musical; those of the Schuyler Sisters were among my favorites
    $400 12
First name of both the C & the M in higher education's CMU
    $400 14
"The Thin Red Line",
"All the Light We Cannot See"
    $400 9
K:
Misappropriation of funds from a company to a public official, sometimes after a corrupt bidding scheme
    $400 16
Don't be too hard on this animated TV clown; if your dad's dying word & "honest opinion" about you was "eh", you'd be bitter too
    DD: $1,000 6
Since 1948 more than 4,400 of these U.N. personnel have given their lives in the line of duty
    $600 4
The tender ballad "Not While I'm Around" is from this musical about a murderous barber
    $600 3
First name of the actor seen here, it became popular when parents wanted to honor a British governor in India
    $600 20
"Waiting for Robert Capa",
"Homage to Catalonia"
    $600 10
T:
Italian word for a blade that could slip between plates of armor
    $600 11
Let's be clear: this "It" villain is a malevolent being in clown form, but clowns as a whole are not to blame for his atrocities
    $800 7
In 1993 the U.N. created the ICTY, the International Criminal Tribunal on war crimes in this former member country
    $800 1
As a child Nick Jonas played Gavroche in this show on Broadway; later, in London, he played Marius
    $800 24
The name of this book of Judges woman can mean any temptress
    $800 21
"Rolling Thunder",
"The Short-Timers"
    $800 18
C:
All that's left of your distant ancestors' tail
    $800 17
Time magazine has described the show "Koozå" by this circus troupe as "fun and funny, even to those who can't stand clowns"
    $1000 13
In 1946 the General Assembly adopted its first resolution, saying that this should be used for peaceful purposes, not weapons
    $1000 2
Noël Coward was the first choice to play 'Enry 'Iggins in this musical but he turned it down
    $1000 25
Shakespeare coined this first name for an eloping daughter in "The Merchant of Venice"
    $1000 23
"Give Me Liberty",
"Johnny Tremain"
    $1000 19
B:
Noun for a materialistic normie, from a Sinclair Lewis character
    $1000 26
Have some compassion for Canio, the tragic clown hero of this opera, who was a murderer, yes, but ultimately just wanted to be loved

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

Tom Katy Emmanuel
$4,000 $2,000 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Katy Emmanuel
$9,000 $2,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 18th CENTURY
"OI"!
GOOD AS GOLD
WHO SPEAKETH IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE?
TELEVISION
FRIENDS IN DRY PLACES
    $400 30
The "Golden Age of" this seafaring crime was ended in part by a lot of hangings, some followed by public display of tar-coated bodies
    $400 29
You can melt chocolate or create a Hollandaise sauce in this cookware item seen here
    $400 28
Aes signatum, ingots of this, were used as currency in Rome in the mid-first millennium B.C., a bit too late for the same-named age
    $400 10
"The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat"
    $400 1
Creator David Simon said this Baltimore-set show took "Greek tragedy & applied it to the modern city-state"
    $400 16
My buddy Lobsang says this plateau receives only 18 inches a year due to the rain shadow effect of the Himalayas
    $800 26
Jacques-Pierre Brissot took the key to this in 1789 but may not have kept it in his pocket, as it weighs about 1 1/4 pounds
    $800 25
This world capital was formerly the capital of French Indochina
    $800 24
This word for shell beads woven into belts & used as a means of exchange comes from Algonquian
    $800 11
"I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?"
    $800 2
This actor played John Dutton on "Yellowstone" for 5 seasons
    $800 18
I hope Ian packed some water; while 18% of this continent is desert, 70% is classified as arid or semi-arid
    $1200 14
No one would much remember Christian Ludwig, Margrave of this place, except that in 1721, J.S. Bach dedicated six concertos to him
    $1200 4
This 2-word Greek term is sometimes used in an elitist way to mean the ordinary people
    $1200 7
The name of this type of note, a more formal IOU, indicates the issuer's pledge to pay off
    $1200 12
"Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go"
    $1200 3
A podcast episode from "Office Ladies" debated whether or not this character in HR from "The Office" was "the Scranton Strangler"
    $1200 19
Sergio can show you where Italy's spaghetti Westerns were filmed in this country's Tabernas Desert
    $1600 15
The many branches of this movement to brighten up life through reason included the Haskalah, or Jewish one
    $1600 5
In mythology & Shakespeare, he's the brother of Hector
    $1600 17
Marco Polo wrote that this man made pieces of paper "pass current universally over all his kingdoms and provinces"
    DD: $2,600 13
"I do not know the man"
    $1600 8
She was "Being Mary Jane" on BET & she reprised her role in the "Bad Boys" franchise on "L.A.'s Finest" on Spectrum & Fox
    DD: $3,000 20
I'm the guy to show you the arid intermountain West region bordered by the Rockies on the east & these 2 ranges on the west
    $2000 21
For the whole century, Dejima, a Dutch-controlled island off this port city, was Western lands' only window into Japan
    $2000 6
It's another name for the pharyngeal tonsils
    $2000 22
This word meaning money in coin form is one letter shorter than a word meaning a class of animals capable of interbreeding
    $2000 27
In Genesis 20:2 "She is my sister"
    $2000 9
Google searches for this show might include "The Miracle over the Mojave", "You Remind Me of Einstein" & "The Fielder Method"
    $2000 23
Cecilia should take you stargazing here; with the lowest precipitation of any non-polar desert, odds are you'll have a clear night

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Katy Emmanuel
$20,600 $5,800 $9,400
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

TRAVEL U.S.A.
The website for this hotel includes mini-biographies of Harold Ross, Edna Ferber & Alexander Woollcott

Final scores:

Tom Katy Emmanuel
$20,600 $5,800 $3,000
2-day champion: $43,199 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Tom Katy Emmanuel
$20,600 $5,800 $10,200
26 R,
2 W		 10 R,
2 W		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2025-09-16
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