Show #9419 - Thursday, October 23, 2025

Contestants

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Jake Tomlin, a middle school teacher from Lynchburg, Virginia

Elijah Perseus Blumov, a poet and podcaster from Evanston, Illinois

Tom Devlin, an attorney from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,199)

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Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL FACTS
BEER ME
DISNEY CHARACTERS
THAT'S TOTALLY SUS
TOUGH 6-LETTER VOCAB
"SAINT" SOMEWHERE
    $200 28
The youngest president to die, he was 46, younger than Tom Brady & John Mayer are now
    $200 27
The Whistling Oyster was once on display at this beer brand's storehouse in Dublin
    $200 25
This legendary warrior maiden of China gained a superpower for her 2020 live-action remake
    $200 26
It was on this date in 1957 when a British news show reported on the bumper crop of spaghetti trees in Switzerland
    $200 29
The Latin for "of whom" gives us this word for the minimum number of people needed to start a meeting
    $200 30
It's a straight shot down I-35 for 2 hours or so going from Duluth to this city, home of the F. Scott Fitzgerald birthplace
    $400 9
The president seen here got married while in office; his second wife was a widow 16 years his junior with this first name
    $400 23
In 1985 the founder of the Boston Beer Company introduced a beer named for this revolutionary patriot
    $400 24
In "Aladdin", Jafar's sidekick is a sarcastic parrot with this villainous name
    $400 22
The film "The Boy Next Door" had an Achilles heel--Jennifer Lopez was gifted a "first edition" of this epic poem by Homer
    $400 19
It's a verb where you use the namesake app (privately, as not to expose your un-hipness) to identify a new song on the radio
    $400 21
Completed in 1959, this waterway includes an almost 190-mile stretch between Montreal & Lake Ontario
    $600 16
Abraham Lincoln called this amendment "a king's cure for all the evils" & added, "it winds the whole thing up"
    $600 2
Microbrewer Vinnie Cilurzo is credited with making the first double this, a hoppy craft brew with a foreign country in its name
    $600 3
A song about him says, "No one's slick as... No one's quick as... No one's neck's as incredibly thick as" him
    $600 5
A 1928 New York Times headline read, "Confidence man jailed" for selling this alliterative landmark
    $600 7
Here's an example from Spain of this circular tower
    $600 20
Geographically speaking, the backup band of this "Now, Now" singer should be named The Grenadines
    $800 11
This New Yorker's bid for reelection was hampered by an 1837 financial panic & a depression that followed
    $800 1
Brewed since 1928, this beer sponsored the Jamaican women's bobsled team for a time
    $800 4
He says, "Some people are worth melting for"
    DD: $2,600 6
A boy "known by the sobriquet of" this tells Oliver Twist about a free place to stay in London; what could go wrong?
    $800 15
John Glenn helped popularize this Yiddish-ish word for a mechanical malfunction
    $800 14
This London wood, not wort, is home to Abbey Road Studios & Lord's Cricket Ground
    $1000 10
Benjamin Harrison said the "combinations of capital commonly called" these are "dangerous conspiracies"
    $1000 8
Launched in 1995, this Belgian-style wheat beer with a lunar name is brewed with orange peel
    $1000 17
In this film Catherine O'Hara voiced Sally, a rag doll resentful of her creator Dr. Finkelstein
    $1000 12
Senatorial brother Armand D'Amato was found guilty of this 2-word crime, using the postal service to get money under false pretenses
    $1000 18
Harking back to Greek mythology, this end-of-the-alphabet word is for a gentle west wind
    $1000 13
On Nov. 11, 1493 Columbus sighted a Lesser Antilles island & named it this, honoring the man of Tours & his feast day

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

Tom Elijah Jake
$7,000 -$1,600 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Elijah Jake
$9,400 -$600 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MAN
YOU ARE WRONG
ALLITERATIVE POP CULTURE
TRANSPORTATION
AN ILL WIND
BOOK ENDS
    $400 18
For Michelangelo, the genesis of working at this landmark was 1508; after a delay due to non-payment, a final amen came in 1512
    $400 29
In America of yore, sly raccoons would often leave the dogs hunting them literally doing this
    $400 28
Per the opening narration of "Star Trek", "space" is this
    $400 30
This 2-word term for aerial lifts used by skiers also refers to a public transport option in San Francisco
    $400 27
This calm central part of a hurricane usually forms when sustained wind speeds go above 74 miles per hour
    $400 26
The last chapter of "Persuasion" begins, "Who can be in doubt of what followed?" & what was not in doubt was this event
    DD: $6,000 16
Marsilio Ficino knew this family & founded his Platonic Academy, an intellectual hub of the It-Ren, at their villa near Florence
    $800 17
To tell someone they're wrong; before "myself", it implies inconsistency, but Walt Whitman didn't care
    $800 15
In Spanish, this singer & rapper's name is El Conejo Malo
    $800 23
Mocked as the "Big Ditch", it connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes
    $800 20
Around this island, a cold wind called the gregale sometimes approaches hurricane force & menaces ships
    $800 25
The last sentence of this Darwin book mentions "the Creator" who originally breathed life "into a few forms or into one"
    $1200 1
In his manual for rulers, he wrote, "Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised"
    DD: $4,000 12
The French are generous with terms for blunders, having given us faux pas & this 5-letter word for a public mistake
    $1200 9
It ends with the lines "Oh, No. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast"
    $1200 5
The Knucklehead & the Panhead are historic engine styles of this U.S. company's iconic 2-wheeled rides
    $1200 13
It's the Fujita scale number of the deadliest tornado; "Twister" has the lines "None of you have ever" seen one? "Just one of us"
    $1200 8
The "End" of this E.M. Forster novel is "It'll be such a crop of hay as never!"
    $1600 10
Palestrina's famous setting of this opening part of the Mass came long before Mr. Mister's No. 1 hit
    $1600 22
The Supreme Court majority has been accused of "acute ethnocentric myopia" (1978) & "judicial hubris" (2024) in these
    $1600 4
In 2025, Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the Louisiana family featured on this reality show, passed away
    $1600 11
1787 Constitutional Convention delegates watched in amazement as one of these new vessels was tested on the Delaware River
    $1600 14
There's nothing saintly about these feared hot, dry winds that fanned the 2025 Altadena & Malibu fires
    $1600 7
The ending of this Wilson Rawls tale reveals the title botanical location: near the graves of beloved dogs
    $2000 2
Shown on a medal, Sigismondo Malatesta was lord of Rimini but also one of these mercenaries, from "condurre", to conduct or lead
    $2000 21
Corrigenda are fixes to an article from an author who made a mistake; this Latin plural refers to fixes of editorial goofs
    $2000 3
Released in 2001, it was Shakira's breakthrough hit in the United States
    $2000 24
The 1956 bill creating this vast national network of roads passed the Senate 89-1; Russell Long of La. opposed raising the gas tax
    $2000 19
Thunderstorms & temperature inversions can cause this sudden change in wind speed or direction, often creating turbulence
    $2000 6
At the end of this novel, Newland Archer looks up at the apartment of the love of his life & heads back to his hotel

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Elijah Jake
$27,800 $3,400 $7,800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH AMERICA
An airport at this South American city is named for archaeologist Maria Reiche, who was known as the "Lady of the Lines"

Final scores:

Tom Elijah Jake
$30,000 $1 $7,800
3-day champion: $73,199 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Tom Elijah Jake
$24,800 $3,400 $7,800
33 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 5 R,
3 W		 14 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $36,000

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Game tape date: 2025-09-16
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