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    $1200 14
A classy citizen of the world, it comes to us from the decidedly unclassy Oscar the Grouch of ancient Greece, Diogenes
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Show #9325 - Friday, May 2, 2025

Ben Ganger game 4.

Contestants

Sam Sabulis, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia

Shweta Balasubramanian, a marketing manager from Pomona, California

Ben Ganger, a data analyst from Goshen, Indiana (3-day champion whose cash winnings total $76,415)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY
A LITTLE BIT OF LIT
BEAVER FEVER
4-LETTER SYNONYMS
"POP"-POURRI
RADIO
    $200 24
1960 was called "the year of" this continent where 17 countries declared independence
    $200 29
Her cupboard... bare. Her dog... dead. But suddenly, the dog's alive, & smoking a pipe. Terror has a new name--this nursery rhyme woman
    $200 30
Associated with Lincoln, this tall top hat was often made of beaver, though silk was taking over by Abe's time
    $200 27
Kismet
    $200 26
This food is an obvious choice as a movie title & there's one from 1991 where kids are being killed in an abandoned theater
    $200 25
KDKA, one of the first commercial radio stations, has been the voice of this Pennsylvania city since going on air in 1920
    $400 20
In 1952 Turkey joined this military alliance named for a far-off body of water
    $400 28
In "The Pilgrim's Regress" by this "Narnia" man, a dragon laments, "Often I wish I hadn't eaten my wife"
    $400 21
Starting in 1950s TV commercials, Bucky Beaver was the mascot for Ipana, a brand of this hygiene item
    $400 19
Prima donna, in opera or otherwise
    $400 23
The Sherman brothers wrote "Stay Awake" for this classic Disney movie
    $400 22
In 2005 KYOURadio in San Francisco became the first major station to air only these, submitted by you, the listeners
    $600 13
"Emancipation", a 2024 book, compares the end of American slavery with the freeing of these Russian peasants, also in the 1860s
    $600 18
Do you have a "Remembrance of Things Past"? Then you'll know he also wrote "Jean Santeuil"
    $600 3
106,000 fans can lodge themselves at Beaver Stadium, the home football field of this school's Nittany Lions
    $600 16
Killer whale
    $600 12
Aka "Pop", he has won five NBA titles & more games than any other coach in league history
    $600 10
In 1933 FDR talked to the nation about the banking crisis in the first of his radio addresses called these
    $800 1
In 1615 the Inquisition said the theories of this Polish astronomer, dead over 70 years, were heresy
    $800 17
Mark this Cuban character who got top billing over "the Sea" (at least as "The Old Man") in 1952
    $800 4
Featuring a cow chip throwing contest & more, the Cimarron Territorial Celebration is held in Beaver in this state in April
    $800 14
Epic or lyrical poet
    $800 11
This VH1 series gave many tidbits about "Vogue", directed by David Fincher, & "Livin' La Vida Loca", directed by Wayne Isham
    $800 9
This music show began on WSM out of Nashville in 1925, playing traditional country & hillbilly music
    $1000 2
In 2011 the coffin of this man dead many years was removed from his crypt in Chile for an autopsy
    $1000 15
These 3 words repeated 3 times follow "rose" in perhaps Gertrude Stein's most famous quote
    $1000 5
The swamp beaver is another name for this rodent originally from South America, but now with feral U.S. populations
    $1000 7
Margarine
    $1000 8
To name just 2, this iconic BBC TV show has featured The Beatles & Nirvana, who refused to mime to their recorded song
    DD: $1,200 6
On October 31, 1938 the New York Times reported that "many flee homes to escape 'gas raid from Mars"' after this famous broadcast

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

Ben Shweta Sam
$4,000 -$1,000 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Shweta Sam
$5,600 -$200 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNORS
"A" IS FOR CAPITAL
CLASSICAL MUSIC
FROM THE BRONX
ECHO-NOMICS
FANCY A WORD?
    $400 30
In 2003 the Californian newspaper asked, "Will the Terminator become" this portmanteau?
    $400 1
Its Theater of Dionysus dates back to the 6th century B.C. & once sat 17,000, about the size of the Hollywood Bowl
    $400 6
Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" is the anthem of this group made up of 27 nations
    $400 27
Her "Jenny From The Block" pays tribute to her Bronx roots
    $400 29
"Asset" these overpricing events, like of Dutch tulips in the 1630s & of Japanese real estate in the 1980s, always burst eventually
    $400 23
The name of a hotelier in the early 20th century gives us this 5-letter adjective for posh & fancy
    $800 25
He liked to say he was a "small fish" in D.C., but down in the southern state where he was governor, he was kind of a big deal
    $800 20
In 2023 National Geographic asked, "As" this city "bows out, what will be the new capital of cannabis tourism?"
    $800 5
For 50 years, Arthur Fiedler was the maestro of this Beantown orchestra famous for playing light classical works
    $800 26
Raised in the Bronx, she was nicknamed for a brand of rum & has a sister Hennessy, named for a cognac brand
    $800 28
A group of firms that collectively monopolize a commodity, for example German cement or south African diamonds
    $800 22
A gentleman with an "air" of confidence may be this adjective, from Old French for "of good lineage"
    $1200 24
After running the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics, this man became governor in the Bay State
    $1200 21
Check out the roughly 525-foot-tall Capital Gate, called "the Leaning Tower of" this Persian Gulf city
    $1200 4
The Dvorak family arrived in the U.S. in September 1892; by May this symphony inspired by new surroundings was done
    $1200 19
Calvin Klein & this designer famous for his Polo wear grew up in the same Bronx neighborhood & attended the same school
    $1200 15
Boycotts that had success included of Ford in the 1920s (over Henry's views) & these fruits in the 1960s (for farmworker rights)
    $1200 14
A classy citizen of the world, it comes to us from the decidedly unclassy Oscar the Grouch of ancient Greece, Diogenes
    DD: $3,500 8
Her father Ajit Singh Randhawa was a professor at the HBCU Voorhees College in South Carolina
    DD: $5,000 10
This capital lies on the Anatolian Plateau, 3,000 above sea level
    $1600 3
This English composer of works like "The Planets" & "Hymn of Jesus" made his living when young as a trombone player
    $1600 18
She gained fame after starring in "Fame" & co-writing & recording the theme to "Flashdance"; baby, remember her name
    $1600 13
Greece 1944 & Yugoslavia 1994 are examples of this 14-letter situation, with prices doubling in a few days
    $1600 12
It can mean extracted & filtered white sugar but also describes a cultivated woman with great "taste"
    $2000 7
In 1992, she helped kick-start the Texas lottery to help fund public schools; she bought the first ticket, too
    $2000 9
Khan Shatyr is a giant entertainment center in this city that took over capital duties for Almaty in 1997
    $2000 2
This composer of works like 1934's "Cantata Profana" was also an avid chronicler of Hungarian folk music
    $2000 17
Before he was a "Raging Bull", this boxer whose life inspired a movie biopic was the "Bronx Bull"
    $2000 11
This 4-letter word meaning a decree refers to "currency" or "money" created by government say-so, from greenbacks to rupees
    $2000 16
In "Well, Did You Evah", Cole Porter mashed together "swell" & this longer word

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Shweta Sam
$22,500 $1,000 $7,800
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round

BOATS & SHIPS
Nearly a century after her 1851 sporting triumph, she was a rotting hulk finally scrapped in 1945

Final scores:

Ben Shweta Sam
$20,000 $320 $5,189
4-day champion: $96,415 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben Shweta Sam
$17,000 $1,000 $7,800
25 R
(including 3 DDs),
5 W		 3 R,
1 W		 13 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $25,800

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