Show #9380 - Friday, July 18, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 12.

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Ameen Ismail, a particle physicist originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Julia Broussard, a university administrator from New Orleans, Louisiana

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 11-day cash winnings total $282,101)

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Jeopardy! Round

WARLOCKS
AROUND SOUTH AMERICA
AMBROSE BIERCE'S DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
FEELING SHEEPISH
AT THE AIRPORT
THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO...
    $200 26
In Disney's "The Sword & the Stone", this wizard gets angry at Arthur & peaces out to Bermuda
    $200 27
Puente de la Mujer, or Women's Bridge, in this world capital represents a man & a woman doing the tango
    $200 30
This variety of musical performance:
"A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song"
    $200 29
In 1996 she was born from 3 mothers: one provided the DNA, one provided the egg & one carried the embryo
    $200 25
There's a full-size one of these between 2 runways at Bangkok's airport, which can't be good for the players' handicaps
    $200 28
...appoint a woman as White House Chief of Staff, strategist Susie Wiles
    $400 22
Uncle Arthur, Samantha's funcle on this classic sitcom, appeared on episodes like "Twitch or Treat"
    $400 18
Stanley is the capital of this self-governing territory of over 200 islands that is home to one million penguins
    $400 21
This medical professional:
"A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket"
    $400 10
This newer word often follows "wake up" in a comic political insult directed at conformists
    $400 24
During winter months, Munich's airport features a 6,500-square-foot one of these spaces, with a separate curling lane
    $400 23
...be the head of a major union, the organization then known as SAG
    $600 7
Idris Elba was a gunslinger & Matthew McConaughey was an evil warlock in this film based on a Stephen King work
    $600 1
A region of Paraguay is named for this U.S. president, who settled a dispute in Paraguay's favor in 1878
    $600 20
This event (remember the original title, "The Cynic's Word Book"): "The first & direst of all disasters"
    $600 9
In ads for this company, the counting sheep are baadly unemployed thanks to comfortable mattresses
    $600 14
Slurp up the homemade udon noodles at Kineya Mugimaru, a restaurant at this Tokyo airport that isn't Haneda
    $600 6
...be Roman Catholic
    $800 8
Kalabar is the evil warlock & mayor of the title place in this TV movie that has Debbie Reynolds as a witchy Grandma
    $800 2
It's the only country in South America that borders Central America
    $800 17
This type of venerated person:
"A dead sinner revised & edited"
    $800 11
This processed skin--largely from sheep, goats or calves--was likely named for the ancient city of Pergamum
    $800 15
For a layover at Roma Fiumicino, you can book one of these in advance, including a towel, gel, hair dryer & slippers
    $800 4
...ride to & from his inauguration in an automobile, a Packard Twin Six
    $1000 13
This late actor played the title characters in "Warlock" & its first sequel
    $1000 3
Xingu Indigenous Park is a treasure of this vast region of inland Brazil whose name means "thick forest"
    DD: $1,000 19
This group, then of 90 men:
"A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties & misdemeanors"
    $1000 12
The AKC says this 2-word dog breed has "dominated competitive sheepdog trials in the British Isles"
    $1000 16
Changi Airport, found here at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, has a butterfly garden with an "emergence cage" for pupae
    $1000 5
...be born a U.S. citizen, though oddly, he was also the first to have English as his second language

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

Scott Julia Ameen
$1,000 $1,400 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Julia Ameen
$4,000 $1,800 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

WAR LOCKS
TV KIDS
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE
LITERATURE
DON'T EAT THE PICTURES
"MP"
(Ken: Those two letters will appear together in each correct response.)
    $400 28
In Judges 16 this woman caused the warrior Samson "to shave off the seven locks of his head"
    $400 26
Isaac Ordonez is this brother to Jenna Ortega's character on "Wednesday"
    $400 30
Customs unions exist to eliminate trade barriers & do away with or minimize these, "the most beautiful word" to the President
    $400 20
A line from this novel: "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman... burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes"
    $400 24
Pieter Claesz painted "Still Life with a Pie" made of this ornamental fowl which is apparently not just for decoration
    $400 29
In a Christmas carol it follows "O come, all ye faithful, joyful and"
    $800 22
Photos of Mau Mau fighters with locs may have inspired the look among adherents to this religious movement started in Jamaica
    $800 23
Haw haw! An episode called "Bart the General" introduced this bully voiced by Nancy Cartwright
    $800 21
The WIPO is a world organization that protects these artistic rights, the IP in its name
    $800 19
Like many of his novels, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is set in the fictional Wessex
    $800 25
The print here depicts meal preparation, including grating white radish, which the Japanese call this sashimi staple
    $800 27
In England, tea isn't complete without one of these hot off the griddle
    $1200 5
A warrior of sorts, Troy Polamalu kept his hair long in tribute to his Samoan heritage playing safety for this NFL team
    $1200 11
Vivien Lyra Blair played this plucky royal opposite Ewan McGregor in a 2022 series from Disney+
    $1200 16
Similar to NAFTA, a trade agreement between the U.S. & countries including Guatemala & Honduras is called this
    $1200 1
Her "To the Lighthouse" is a stream of consciousness novel about the Ramsay family's visits to the Isle of Skye
    $1200 10
There's precious fruit in "The Garden of" this trio depicted here by Frederic Leighton
    DD: $4,000 4
From Italian, it's a person who puts on, & often finances, public entertainment, like a concert or theatrical event
    $1600 6
In an attempt to modernize Japan, an edict during this restorative era put an end to the topknot hairstyle among the samurai
    $1600 12
Jamie-Lynn Sigler played her, a mobster's daughter, who got out of the house & attended Columbia University
    $1600 17
Though not a nation, it would be the fourth-largest economy in the world, having overtaken Japan in 2025
    $1600 2
One of these "short, plump little cakes" triggers "all-powerful joy" in "Remembrance of Things Past"
    $1600 8
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's "Vergumnus" is a surreal depiction of Rudolf II, the Habsburg ruler who held this title
    $1600 14
It's a store that sells all kinds of things, or at Disneyland, all kinds of keepsakes
    DD: $5,000 7
These blue-painted Scottish warriors whose name is from Latin for "paint" are traditionally illustrated with flowing locks
    $2000 13
This cruel & spoiled royal was not actually King Robert's son but the product of an incestuous union
    $2000 18
World news in recent months has attended to China's controls on the elements known as these, like scandium & yttrium
    $2000 3
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by this Southern Gothic author does not in fact contain dating advice
    $2000 9
A mid-1890s "Still Life with Apples" is one of many paintings featuring fruit by this artist from Aix-en-Provence
    $2000 15
Commonly made from turpentine oil, this distinct-smelling chemical is used in vapor rubs, balms & insect repellents

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Julia Ameen
$22,400 $6,200 $2,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE WORDS
Expanding on a word created by a Czech playwright, Asimov coined this term in 1941 for a branch of science that didn't exist then

Final scores:

Scott Julia Ameen
$30,400 $6,200 $2,705
12-day champion: $312,501 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Julia Ameen
$19,600 $6,200 $7,600
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 9 R,
2 W		 14 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,400

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Game tape date: 2025-05-07
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