Show #9429 - Thursday, November 6, 2025

Allegra Kuney game 2.

Contestants

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Alan Pyke, a communications director originally from Middletown, Connecticut

Molly Murray, a professor from New York, New York

Allegra Kuney, a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

WHAT A PLEASURE
TV CHARACTERS
SUITING YOU TO A MIDDLE T
(Ken: Because the letter "T" is in the exact center of each correct response.)
TRAVELS BY TWAIN
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
ROUGHING IT
    $200 19
The Swedish type of this employs kneading movements called petrissage
    $200 27
In 2025 Ellen Pompeo marked 20 years of playing this doctor & starred on "Good American Family" as a suburban mom
    $200 10
Proverbial place you don't want to be left at on your wedding day
    $200 28
At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's supposed burial site of this Genesis 1-4 guy, MT said it was touching to find the grave of a relative
    $200 30
This Asian place made more popular by "Crazy Rich Asians" is at about 1 degree north latitude, 90 miles from the equator
    $200 26
Saying bye to YouTube in 2025, Luke of the Outdoor Boys showed us how to avoid freezing to death in this state that has hit -80
    $400 16
If you enjoy Senior's Run on Palmyra Peak at Telluride, you're into this--& really good, & crazy
    $400 14
She's tormented by infertility & ends up adopting
    $400 6
Nationality of one from Port-au-Prince
    $400 29
In Honolulu, Twain saw what he had "so longed to"--this "dance that was wont to set the passions of men ablaze in the old heathen days"
    $400 22
Being close to the equator makes Kiribati an ideal spot for launching these via rocket, as the company Sea Launch once did
    $400 25
Roughin' it in Glacier Natl. Park? Be sure to pack a can of this 2-word repellent; Griz Guard sells one with capsaicin
    $600 1
As the name suggests, evaporated milk, condensed milk & whole milk go into this Latin American treat
    $600 11
'60s character with many memorable lines like "I'm trying to thank you, you pointed-eared hobgoblin!"
    $600 3
A house of ill repute also goes by this shorter synonym
    $600 7
An Italian chapter wonders what people "see in" them, the honored painters of centuries past--"all the horses look like bladders on legs"
    DD: $2,000 20
Uhuru is the summit of this peak that's about 200 miles south of the equator
    $600 13
For overnight hikes, take along one of these, MREs for short; Sure-Pak sells vegetarian options
    $800 2
Pure perfume (or parfum) contains up to 40% scented ingredients; EDP, this, contains 15-20%
    $800 12
Sister Knight, played by Regina King, was a masked hero on this HBO show
    $800 4
It's the lowest rank of a British police officer
    $800 8
Twain saw "Lohengrin" in Germany & wrote of a woman saying you must get to know this composer's work; no sale
    $800 21
Similar to the Magellanic, the Galapagos type of this bird is one of the rarest & the one living nearest the equator
    $800 15
A nonprofit org. dedicated to this 3-word practice includes as one of its core principles "dispose of waste properly"
    $1000 17
Classical music fans enjoy the sound of the oboe relative called the cor anglais or this
    $1000 18
William Stewart Halsted, a great surgeon who battled addiction, inspired the main character of this series about a New York city hospital
    $1000 5
A wolf?! Where?! It's the delusion of one who believes they're a wolf
    $1000 9
The forts & mosques at Delhi are great, but pale beside this, "the most celebrated construction in the earth"
    $1000 23
The names of the 2 main islands that make up this equatorial nation mean "St. Thomas & Prince"
    $1000 24
You can park & sleep up to 14 days in most designated public areas run by the BLM, short for this agency

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

Allegra Molly Alan
$2,400 $3,200 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Allegra Molly Alan
$3,400 $5,400 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREAT BRITS
1940s LITERATURE
YOU'RE RUINING THE RUINS
GO FOR "GOLD"
STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS
A LITTLE ALLITERATION
    $400 25
He had high praise for Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of him, saying, "At times, I thought he was me"
    $400 26
This inquisitive primate who debuted early in the decade "Takes a Job" in a later book, from cleaning windows to acting in a movie
    $400 30
Stop complaining about the heat on our walking tour of Pompeii; just be glad temps are lower than in 79 A.D. when this volcano blew
    $400 29
"The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" offers this synonym for "Texas tea" that fits the category
    $400 27
This song by Jay-Z about having nearly 100 complications took the title & hook from an Ice-T song
    $400 28
Mutual ill will, or a Taylor Swift chart-topper
    $800 12
At Oxford in the 1940s, this future prime minister studied chemistry under future Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin
    $800 15
C.S. Lewis tried "reconciling human suffering with... a god who loves" in the alliteratively titled "The Problem of" this
    $800 24
Reaching the end of the Inca Trail at this ancient site is tough enough without you complaining about all the stairs
    $800 20
He's the Phoenix native who ran for president against LBJ in 1964
    $800 21
Who knew? The Hanson Brothers explained that this nonsense title reflects the inexorable passing of time
    $800 6
Ability bestowed on the eloquent & persuasive
    DD: $1,200 10
Watching the ceremony from London via TV, this 88-year-old was made an honorary U.S. citizen in 1963
    $1200 13
This folk singer & activist's "Bound For Glory" was a portrait of the Depression years seen through his eyes
    $1200 18
Stop insisting that this country's Antonine Wall, once the Roman Empire's northern border, is jankier than Hadrian's Wall
    $1200 7
Despite a myth that it is a major culprit in hay fever, it's the state flower of Nebraska & Kentucky
    $1200 2
This song came about after a pal of Sean Lennon told Billy Joel that the 1950s were a boring time to grow up
    $1200 1
Perfectly transparent, like some varieties of quartz
    $1600 11
In 1913, polar explorers Roald Amunsen, Robert Peary & this Brit were honored at a reception in Philadelphia
    DD: $5,000 14
The title of this Mexico-set Malcolm Lowry novel refers to both Popocatépetl & Iztaccihuatl
    $1600 19
We might have beaten the crowds to this ancient Maya city near Pisté, Mexico, home to the pyramid El Castillo, had you not slept until noon
    $1600 8
The spot where the Earth is, just right for liquid water to exist, is called the habitable or this zone
    $1600 3
This hit was written for a British singer & originally had lyrics like "hopped off the plane at LAX / with my tea & my cardigan"
    $1600 5
Fashionable term for a synthetic version of a controlled substance with an altered molecular structure
    $2000 16
In 1820 he helped found the Royal Astronomical Society but didn't have it use the calculating machine he designed
    $2000 23
A tale of love & independence in Paris, "Gigi" by this French novelist eventually came to the big screen with Leslie Caron
    $2000 22
I know this ancient monastic settlement off Ireland's Kerry coast was in "Star Wars", but selfies with a light saber was a little extra
    $2000 9
In 1964 ornithologist James Bond met Ian Fleming at this Jamaican estate possibly named for Ian's WWII spy operation
    $2000 4
He only had a mattress & a piano in his house when he began working on the viral hit "Beautiful Things"
    $2000 17
Something purchased without inspection, like a swine in an old-time sack

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Allegra Molly Alan
$21,400 $19,200 $4,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FUN & GAMES
A 2022 article titled this "At 50: The Video Game 'That Changed the World"' also said, "it may be 'the most boring... game of all time'"

Final scores:

Allegra Molly Alan
$38,401 $27,200 $819
2-day champion: $65,001 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Allegra Molly Alan
$23,400 $15,800 $4,400
26 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 9 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $43,600

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Game tape date: 2025-10-06
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