Show #9435 - Friday, November 14, 2025

Harrison Whitaker game 4.

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Brent Steele, an environmental engineer from Sellersburg, Indiana

Sarah Khan, a graduate student originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Harrison Whitaker, a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $91,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

SOURCES
DUETS
CAKE
WORDS IN THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION
LIVRES EN FRANCAIS
(Ken: You'll give us the book's published English title.)
NOTABLE WOMEN
    $200 21
Steven Wright deadpanned, "What's another word for" one of these books? Roget would know
    $200 23
She sang in Fleetwood Mac, put out solo records & joined Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
    $200 25
World War II rationing meant bakers used beetroot juice for this colorful cake that's now made with food coloring
    $200 30
Neil Armstrong set foot in a "Sea" of it in 1969
    $200 28
Contains both French & Russian elements:
"La guerre et la paix"
    $200 29
In 1971 Erin Pizzey founded the U.K.'s first shelter for women who were victims of this nightmare just where one should feel safe
    $400 20
On July 8, 1889 Charles Dow (of Dow Jones fame) began printing financial & business news in what became this newspaper
    $400 22
In 1998 Brandy & Monica had a hit with this song that sounds as much like a duel as a duet
    $400 24
Though it sounds European, the name of this cake refers to the brand of chocolate used, not its country of origin
    $400 26
Hoops stars Sabrina Ionescu & Rebekah Gardner are with them in the Big Apple
    $400 6
Pure poetry from a Brooklyn bard:
"Feuilles d'herbe"
    $400 18
Following the death of this Shoshone woman, William Clark served as legal guardian of her children
    $600 16
On March 13, 2012 this venerable encyclopedia maker said the time had come to stop printing books & go all digital
    $600 19
In 2025 Barbra Streisand sang "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" with this Irishman nearly 50 years her junior
    $600 14
The spiral shape of the sponge cake & what it's filled with are big hints to the name of this treat
    $600 11
It can mean both the good fortune of a person & financial assistance to an individual by the government
    $600 5
Adventure in Africa: "Au coeur des ténèbres"
    $600 9
From 2006 to 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was this African nation's president
    DD: $1,000 3
Warren Buffett said it changed his life to read this biographical dictionary of notables "in America"
    $800 10
The 2014 Top 10 hit "Love Me Harder" is a duet between The Weeknd & this singer--they also collabed on "Save Your Tears"
    $800 15
Jenny Åkerström created princess cake, which is covered with a green layer of this sweetened almond paste
    $800 12
To make someone a priest
    $800 1
About a quest or quête:
"L'épée dans la pierre"
    $800 7
"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" was actually written by this other woman
    $1000 4
CMOS is short for this reference, now in its 18th edition; it offers guidance on commas with quotations
    $1000 27
In "Happy Gilmore" Adam Sandler unconvincingly tells Julie Bowen, "What? Friends listen to" this Ross-Richie duet "in the dark"
    $1000 17
Michel Bras was inspired by an après-ski hot cocoa when he invented his version of this cake with its signature ganache core
    $1000 13
From the Latin for "later", it's a word referring to all future generations collectively
    $1000 2
Briony does bad:
"Expiation"
    $1000 8
In the 1850s she began practicing medicine in New York City, hiring her sister Emily to work with her

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

Harrison Sarah Brent
$2,600 $4,800 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Harrison Sarah Brent
$4,600 $5,800 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

RESOURCES
HOW DID IT GET TO THE MUSEUM?
TRIOS
ACTOR-DIRECTOR PARTNERSHIPS
WESTERN EUROPE
ENDS WITH A DOUBLED CONSONANT
    $400 20
In 1859 captain N.C. Brooks claimed Midway Island for the U.S. under a law named for this bird-excreted resource
    $400 29
Last name of Peggy, who bought a version of Magritte's "Empire of Light", now in her collection you can visit in Venice
    $400 28
After defeating Pontus, a kingdom in what's now Turkey, Julius Caesar is said to have uttered "Veni, vidi, vici", meaning this
    $400 30
Hector Elizondo was in 18 movies directed by Garry Marshall, including this one as manager of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
    $400 26
Cape Roca, mainland Europe's westernmost point, lies in this country
    $400 27
Alexander Pope wrote that to do this "is human"
    $800 19
Inspired by OPEC, in 1974 Latin American countries tried to get the U.S. over a bunch as UPEB, a cartel of exporters of these
    $800 23
Van Gogh's "Roses" is one work bought by shipbuilder Kojiro Matsukata & now in Tokyo's NMWA, Nation Museum of this kind of art
    $800 24
Focusing on the final defeat of Nazi Germany, 1945's conference at this Crimean city saw FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet
    $800 22
(James Gunn presents the clue.) When I take the director's chair, I always seem to find myself working with Michael Rooker & this actor who is no "Rookie" to a Gunn film; he first appeared in my directorial debut, "Slither", & now rocks a bowl cut as Green Lantern in "Superman"
    $800 21
This nation on the slopes of Mount Titano is the smallest republic in Europe--just 8 miles across at its widest
    $800 25
The police, or the fibrous covering of a peach
    DD: $3,200 18
The U.S. has only one operating mine producing this battery & coin metal, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
    $1200 17
This Abiquiu artist's 8'x24' cloud painting toured to Chicago, was too big for its next stop & stayed at the Art Institute
    $1200 4
Matthew's gospel tells the story of the 3 wise men whom history has given the names Balthasar, Melchior & this guy
    $1200 5
The year they were married, Jean-Luc Goddard directed Anna Karina in "Une femme est une femme", titled this in English
    DD: $4,800 9
The cities of Paris, Brussels & Cologne form a triangle around this great forest area
    $1200 15
One of the 5 pillars of Islam, it refers to a pilgrimage each Muslim is supposed to take at least once in life
    $1600 8
Climate change has led to devastation of timber resources by the many species of these alliterative insects
    $1600 7
Seeking a home for this vast series, Monet considered the land where the Rodin Museum is now, but it ended up at the Orangerie Museum
    $1600 1
In Greek mythology, this trio spins the threads of human destiny, they were Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos
    $1600 3
This longtime star made four Hitchcock films but eight with Anthony Mann, starting with "Winchester '73"
    $1600 6
Muckle Flugga, the name for a lighthouse & the rocky isle it sits on, is part of these islands, the U.K.'s northernmost point
    $1600 14
As a noun it's a long, unbroken wave; as a verb, it means to grow in size or volume
    $2000 11
The British turnover called a pasty is also named for this region & was the standard lunch of its tin miners
    $2000 10
This earl said he had an Ottoman OK to ship off Greek antiquities now in the British Museum, plus he was saving them from looters
    $2000 16
Borneo, the world's third-largest island, is shared by this trio of nations
    $2000 2
Jeff Nichols says he owes is career to this man who's been in six of Jeff's films, including "The Bikeriders" & "Midnight Special"
    $2000 12
Spain's Pyrenees are often blasted by these winds whose name comes from the Arabic for "East"
    $2000 13
Beginning with a prefix meaning million, this unit of power is used to measure how much electricity is used in a large region

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Harrison Sarah Brent
$21,800 $9,400 $7,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

21st CENTURY NOVELS
Part 1 of this novel is Toronto & Pondicherry; Part 2 is the Pacific Ocean

Final scores:

Harrison Sarah Brent
$24,799 $14,001 $4,599
4-day champion: $116,600 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Harrison Sarah Brent
$22,400 $9,400 $7,000
23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 2 DDs)		 13 R,
1 W		 15 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $38,800

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Game tape date: 2025-10-07
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