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    $1600 14
A descendant of these tough Jews from the Hanukkah story sent troops to help Julius Caesar, who later pushed for Jewish rights
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Show #9298 - Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Josh Weikert game 4.

Contestants

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 (3-day champion whose cash winnings total $54,001)

Jeopardy! Round

FROM THEIR NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY
KID LIT
DOUBLE TALK
BE MY TV SHOW GUEST
HAT TRICKS
CAN I GET AN AMENDMENT?
    $200 29
1968:
"Overcame blindness and deafness to become a symbol of the indomitable human spirit"
    $200 17
At the beginning of a Johanna Spyri story, this Swiss miss is taken by her aunt to live with her grumpy grandfather
    $200 27
The "ants go marching" rhyme took this double-talk phrase from the Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
    $200 30
Britney Spears played a receptionist obsessed with Ted but who settles for Barney on this sitcom
    $200 25
At a 2024 auction, this type of hat worn by Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom" made $630,000... vanish!
    $200 19
Rep. Louis Ludlow lent his name to a 1930s amendment that would require a national referendum to approve a declaration of this
    $400 26
1947:
"Struck a cruel blow shortly before his 80th birthday by the death of his only son, Edsel"
    $400 16
She's the smallest of a dozen girls who attend a convent school in Paris; her further adventures take her to London
    $400 18
A kids' song doesn't take place in a "papaya patch" but in a patch of this similar-sounding fruit
    $400 28
She won an Emmy for her guest appearance as the alcoholic mother of Carmy & Sugar on "The Bear"
    $400 24
Created in the late 1800s for outdoor fun like sailing, it's the hat here & kazaam!--now it's a puppy
    $400 10
Rarely or never enforced, the Reed Amendment says if you renounce this for tax avoidance reasons, you can't return to America
    $600 14
1901:
"The end of this splendid career came in a simply furnished room in Osborne House. This most respected of all women"
    $600 4
Last name Trotter, the title kid of this Roald Dahl favorite is orphaned when his parents are eaten by a rhino
    $600 7
Philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser's repetitively slangy reply on hearing a double positive can never equal a negative
    $600 21
An episode of "The Last of Us" showed the 20-year relationship of Frank (Murray Bartlett) & Bill (this actor)
    $600 23
That's not a hat, that's a knife! & now it's a hat named for this region & worn by none other than Crocodile Dundee himself!
    $600 9
1950's Lodge-Gossett Amendment would have reformed this quadrennial body to make it account for the popular vote; it failed in the House
    $800 12
1926:
"Began her career at 16 years and performed wonderful shooting feat at 62"
    $800 3
He wrote & illustrated the tiny 4-volume "Nutshell Library", which includes "Chicken Soup with Rice"
    $800 6
It was applied to a 1940s "kid" who romanced older women; today it means out-there or new agey
    $800 15
"Fred Claus" on film, he played Freddy Funkhouser on "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
    $800 22
A 1906 pic of Teddy Roosevelt abroad & wearing this hat made it famous, & bam! Here's Ted! Oh no; Ted died in 1919 & doesn't look great
    $800 2
The Platt Amendment of 1901 let the U.S. intervene in this nearby island, whose govt. was briefly called the Platt Amendment Republic
    DD: $1,800 13
1977:
"Dead of heart attack in Paris"; "most exciting opera singer of her time"
    $1000 5
Pigs & cows feature in her classics like "Barnyard Dance" & "Moo, Baa, La La La!"
    $1000 8
Possibly meaningless repetition is big in "Waiting for Godot", down to the double-talk nicknames of Vladimir (Didi) & Estragon (this)
    $1000 20
This star of the O.G. "Shaft" guest starred as 2 different characters on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
    $1000 11
The future Edward VII made this soft-felt hat popular, & presto! It's now in a spa in the same-named "Bad" German city!
    $1000 1
High federal debt numbers have inspired many of these alliterative amendments, like one from Rep. Jodey Arrington in 2024

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

"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
Flown during the 1916 Easter Rising, the tricolor seen here would become the official flag of this country
    $400 24
Tim Robbins took the mound as Nuke Laloosh
    $400 27
In 2024 scientists announced the discovery of the oldest fossil of one of these frog larvae, over 6" long
    $400 28
In the Harry Potter books, Minerva McGonagall & Sirius Black are both members of this Hogwarts house symbolized by a lion
    $400 29
In youth, this jazz titan worked for the Karnofskys, New Orleans peddlers, & wrote, "I will love the Jewish people, all of my life"
    $400 30
Term for a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed roof
    $800 4
With more than 13 million people, it's the only major city in the world that straddles 2 continents
    $800 23
Charlie Sheen took the mound as Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn
    $800 25
More than 600 species of fossils have been found along this state's Calvert Cliffs
    $800 19
This villain in "The Lion King" kills the rightful monarch
    $800 21
The boy from St. Croix, this Founding Father knew some Sephardic Jews in the Caribbean & became a lifelong advocate
    $800 26
Higgins, a question about my new executive parking spot is not relevant to the meeting--let's take it here, a term from tech
    $1200 3
The U.S. controlled this embattled Japanese island until 1968
    $1200 22
A home run by Scott Hatteberg of the Oakland A's is a climactic moment
    $1200 10
A New York museum recently unveiled Apex, one of the most complete specimens of this dinosaur, bony back plates & all
    $1200 11
In 1951, orange & green were added to the lion flag of this island nation to represent its Tamil & Muslim citizens
    $1200 15
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says he lost childhood Jewish friends from Wadowice & repudiated Catholic antisemitism
    $1200 6
Another way to ask "What are you reading?" is "What's on your" this word with 5 consecutive consonants
    $1600 1
The iconic Faisal Mosque in this capital city is one of the largest in the world
    $1600 20
A man sells his soul to the devil to help his team beat a New York franchise
    DD: $3,500 9
North Carolina chose as its state fossil the teeth of this giant prehistoric shark
    DD: $2,500 12
Stage directions in this Shaw play based on a Roman story mention a huge thorn in a paw
    $1600 14
A descendant of these tough Jews from the Hanukkah story sent troops to help Julius Caesar, who later pushed for Jewish rights
    $1600 7
In 1884, Black inventor Willis Johnson patented a model of this device that could mix batter as well as the food in its name
    $2000 2
The Mediterranean's deepest recorded point, about 3.2 miles, is in the Hellenic Trench in this sea
    $2000 17
Texas college ballplayers Jake, Roper & McReynolds are often dazed & confused
    $2000 18
Discovered in 1861, this "ancient wing" dinosaur with feathers was long thought to be the oldest fossil bird
    $2000 13
This self-taught French artist painted a lion standing over a sleeping woman in one of his most famous works
    $2000 16
A 2011 book is subtitled "Philosemitism in England from" this 1650s readmitter of the Jews "to Churchill"
    $2000 8
Fountainhead is the source of a stream or of ideas; so is this word that starts with a pit from which to draw water

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

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

Final Jeopardy! Round

SEAFARING BRITS
In 1804 an officer of HMS Warrior formally charged this captain with "calling me rascal, scoundrel & shaking his fist in my face"

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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