Responses for Show #9298 - Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Josh Weikert game 4.

Contestants

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Melanie Hirsch, a lawyer from Silver Spring, Maryland

John Rindone, a policy advisor from Brooklyn, New York

Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FROM THEIR NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY
KID LIT
DOUBLE TALK
BE MY TV SHOW GUEST
HAT TRICKS
CAN I GET AN AMENDMENT?
    $200 29
Helen Keller

Melanie
    $200 17
Heidi

Josh
    $200 27
hurrah, hurrah

John
    $200 30
How I Met Your Mother

Melanie
    $200 25
a fedora

Josh
    $200 19
war

Josh
    $400 26
(Henry) Ford

Melanie
    $400 16
Madeline

Melanie
    $400 18
the pawpaw (patch)

Melanie
    $400 28
(Ken: Yeah, unforgettable in that part.)

Jamie Lee Curtis

Melanie
    $400 24
a boater

Josh
    $400 10
citizenship

John
    $600 14
Queen Victoria

John
    $600 4
(Melanie: Who is James?)
[Ken does not rule.]
(Melanie: And the Giant Peach?)
(Ken: Yes, we needed the book.)

James and the Giant Peach

Melanie
    $600 7
(Josh: What is yeah, sure.)

yeah, yeah

Josh
Triple Stumper
    $600 21
(Nick) Offerman

Melanie
    $600 23
an Outback hat

Josh
    $600 9
the electoral college

Josh
    $800 12
Annie Oakley

Josh
    $800 3
Sendak

Melanie
    $800 6
woo-woo

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
Vince Vaughn

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
a Panama hat

Josh
    $800 2
Cuba

Melanie
    $1,800 13
(Josh: Who is Melba?)

Maria Callas

Josh
    $1000 5
(Sandra) Boynton

Melanie
    $1000 8
Gogo

Melanie
    $1000 20
(Ken: [*] was the original Shaft.)

Richard Roundtree

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
(John: What's Baden-Baden?)
...
(Ken: Different city here--Bad [*], what is [*]?)

a Homburg

John
Triple Stumper
    $1000 1
a balanced budget amendment

Josh

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

Josh John Melanie
$0 $0 $4,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Josh John Melanie
$2,400 $200 $6,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

"I" ON THE MAP
BIG SCREEN BASEBALL BRIEFLY
(Ken: You'll name the movie.)
FOSSIL FUELED
LION AROUND
FAMOUS PRO-SEMITES
COMPOUND WORDS
    $400 5
Ireland

Melanie
    $400 24
Bull Durham

Melanie
    $400 27
a tadpole

Josh
    $400 28
Gryffindor

Melanie
    $400 29
(John: Who is Duke Ellington?)

(Louis) Armstrong

JohnMelanie
    $400 30
(Josh: What is ragtop?)
...
(Ken: Melanie may be smart not to take that one because she will have the lead going into Final.)

a hardtop

Josh
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Istanbul

John
    $800 23
Major League

Josh
    $800 25
Maryland

Josh
    $800 19
Scar

Josh
    $800 21
Hamilton

Josh
    $800 26
offline

Josh
    $1200 3
Iwo Jima

Josh
    $1200 22
Moneyball

Josh
    $1200 10
a Stegosaurus

Melanie
    $1200 11
Sri Lanka

Melanie
    $1200 15
John Paul II

Josh
    $1200 6
nightstand

Triple Stumper
    $1600 1
(Ken: In Pakistan, yes.)

Islamabad

Josh
    $1600 20
Damn Yankees

Melanie
    $3,500 9
(Melanie: What is the... ancient great white shark?)

the megoladon

Melanie
    $2,500 12
(Ken: Melanie, anything?)
(Melanie: I don't know it.)
(Ken: The guy who pulls out the thorn in Androcles; what is [*]?)

Androcles and the Lion

Melanie
    $1600 14
the Maccabees

Melanie
    $1600 7
an egg beater

Triple Stumper
    $2000 2
the Ionian

Melanie
    $2000 17
(Ken: It's a different Richard Linklater movie called [*].)

Everybody Wants Some!!

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
Archaeopteryx

Melanie
    $2000 13
(Melanie: Who is Dalí?)

Henri Rousseau

Melanie
Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
(Ken: From [*] to Churchill, yes.)

Cromwell

John
    $2000 8
a wellspring

Melanie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Josh John Melanie
$11,600 $2,600 $12,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SEAFARING BRITS
(Ken: I'm afraid it's not Lord Nelson, John.)
...
(Ken: [To Melanie] No, if you thought of British sea captains of the time with famously volatile tempers, you might've landed on [*] of the Mutiny on the Bounty; yet another HR problem for [*] in this clue.)
JohnWho is Nelson? (Thank you everyone!)
$1,600
JoshWho is Nelson? Go Mighty Macs!
$6,399
MelanieWho is Nelson
$11,201
Captain Bligh

Final scores:

Josh John Melanie
$5,201 $1,000 $799
4-day champion: $59,202 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Josh John Melanie
$13,400 $2,600 $18,000
19 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 5 R,
2 W		 23 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $34,000

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Game tape date: 2025-02-10
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