Responses for Show #9296 - Monday, March 24, 2025

Contestants

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Geraldine Rodriguez, an interlibrary loan assistant coordinator from Boca Raton, Florida

Mustafa Hameed, an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,601)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

TV SLEUTHING
THE LATE 1940s
A SITE FOR MORE EYES
10-LETTER WORDS
CYBERSECURITY
ALSO A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
    $200 30
Only Murders in the Building

Mustafa
    $200 29
Jerusalem

Mustafa
    $200 28
(Ken: Different iterations of [*], yes.)

Madison Square Garden

Josh
    $200 27
barometric

Mustafa
    $200 26
(Ken: You went five for five.)
[Applause]
(Ken: Very nice.)

encrypted

Mustafa
    $200 13
bass

Geraldine
    $400 17
Veronica Mars

Mustafa
    $400 4
(Josh: Uh, who are Civil War veterans?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

Union Civil War veterans

Josh
    $400 21
(Josh: What is Elba?)

St. Helena

JoshMustafa
    $400 8
(John: This one's for my wife, Barbara, who's a music teacher--ALSO A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT for $1000, please.)
(Ken: This one's for you, Barbara.)

in triplicate

Josh
    $400 25
ransomware

Mustafa
    $400 12
fiddle

Triple Stumper
    $600 16
Castle

Geraldine
    $1,000 3
(St.) Peter

Josh
    $600 20
(Josh: What is Yosemite?)

Zion

JoshGeraldine
    $600 7
a benefactor

Josh
    $600 24
phishing

Mustafa
    $600 11
bells

Josh
    $800 15
(Ken: The great [*] is correct.)

Natasha Lyonne

Geraldine
    $800 1
(Ken: It was [*]; [**] donated the U.N. headquarters.)

(John D.) Rockefeller (Jr.)

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
Madagascar

Josh
    $800 5
mastermind

Mustafa
    $800 23
white hats

Mustafa
    $800 10
a triangle

Josh
    $1000 14
Psych

Josh
    $1000 2
Spandau Prison

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
Detroit

Josh
    $1000 6
a confluence

Josh
    $1000 22
multifactor authentication

Mustafa
    $1000 9
(Ken: Sorry, Barbara; what is [*]?)
[Laughter]

a recorder

Triple Stumper

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

Josh Mustafa Geraldine
$5,800 $800 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Josh Mustafa Geraldine
$6,800 $5,200 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ABBREV.
BILLS OF MORTALITY FOR 17th C. LONDON
TWIN "C"s
(Ken: There's a double "C" in each response.)
AMERICAN POETRY
THE ARCTIC
JOHNNY ON THE AXE
    $400 19
chief financial officer

Mustafa
    $400 30
(Ken: Correct, and I have more good news for you, Mustafa, our judges tell me that automated or automatic electronic defibrillator is also correct instead of external defibrillator.)

scurvy

Mustafa
    $400 29
(Josh: And bring it.)

stucco

Josh
    $400 27
Lincoln

Josh
    $400 28
(Geraldine: What's Ursa?)
...
(Ken: Correct, from the Greek for [*].)

bear

JoshGeraldine
    $400 25
"Johnny B. Goode"

Mustafa
    $800 18
disk operating system

Josh
    $800 23
consumption

Josh
    $800 14
focaccia

Mustafa
    $800 26
Langston Hughes

Triple Stumper
    $800 9
the narwhal

Mustafa
    $800 24
Johnny Cash

Mustafa
    $1200 17
the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Josh
    $4,200 4
(Geraldine: What is fire?)

plague

Geraldine
    $1200 12
(Ken: Yes, a puzzling proverb from Mayor Adams.)

success

Mustafa
    $1200 13
(Amanda) Gorman

Josh
    $1200 8
Nunavut

Josh
    $1200 22
(Ken: That's [*], now touring with remnants of the Dead.)

John Mayer

Triple Stumper
    $1600 16
Burkina Faso

Geraldine
    $1600 3
(Ken: As you might guess from emphysema, your lights are your [*].)

lungs

Triple Stumper
    $3,000 11
Yucca

Josh
    $1600 1
Carl Sandburg

Mustafa
    $1600 5
Norway

Josh
    $1600 21
[Ken omitted the article at the start of the clue.]

Johnny Ramone

Mustafa
    $2000 15
(Mustafa: [**]--what is automatic electronic--?)
(Ken: I'm sorry, no.)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before the reveal of the Final Jeopardy! category]

automated external defibrillator (automated electronic defibrillator)

Mustafa
    $2000 2
tonsilitis

Geraldine
    $2000 10
(Ken: Acute [*] myelitis, right.)

flaccid

Josh
    $2000 7
diverged

Josh
    $2000 6
a willow

Mustafa
    $2000 20
(Ken: [*] from The Smiths, very good.)

Johnny Marr

Geraldine

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Josh Mustafa Geraldine
$21,800 $17,200 $3,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ACTING FAMILIES
(Ken: [To Geraldine] That is correct--River [*], Joaquin [*]; you came up with the right acting family.)
GeraldineWhat is Phoenix?
$3,200
MustafaWhat is Barrymore?
$10,000
JoshWhat is Newman?
$12,601
Phoenix

Final scores:

Josh Mustafa Geraldine
$9,199 $7,200 $6,400
2-day champion: $32,800 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Josh Mustafa Geraldine
$20,000 $17,200 $7,400
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 22 R,
0 W		 7 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $44,600

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Game tape date: 2025-02-10
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