Show #9381 - Monday, July 21, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 13.

Contestants

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Jeff Hague, a firefighter from Carmel, Indiana

Anna Ciamporcero, a stay-at-home mom from Ridgefield, Connecticut

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 12-day cash winnings total $312,501)

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Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEAREAN SETTINGS
(Ken: You'll name the play.)
PEOPLE WORKING OUT SOME ISSUES
WOMEN
VEGETARIAN TALK
HIT THE ROAD
SWITCHING SPORTS
(Adam: I'm Adam Sandler--I'll have clues about athletes who excelled in more than one sport, just like the one and only Happy Gilmore.)
    $200 29
Act II, scene i:
"An orchard beside the house of Brutus", where plotting may or may not occur
    $200 27
Bort breaks out the big guns & tries to make 'em bigger, doing dips to hit these muscles with 3 heads at the back of the upper arm
    $200 26
On a Clara Bow film, director Dorothy Arzner used a prototype of this portable device to record dialogue in the early sound era
    $200 25
This last name that now more often precedes cracker used to precede -ism as a synonym for vegetarianism
    $200 28
Parade magazine once answered this age-old question with "to show the armadillo it was possible"
    $200 30
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) Many questioned the move when he went from the NBA to minor league baseball, but his manager, the legendary Terry Francona, said he could have made the majors if he'd stuck with it
    $400 21
Act IV, Scene i:
In "Friar Lawrence's cell", a vial changes hands... ooooops
    $400 23
Tiffany says she's going on a fun run of exactly 3.1068559 miles, or this many kilometers... or do a triathlon! Y'know, either/or!
    DD: $2,000 22
This fashion house whose name is a female first name has mainly been led by women, like Stella McCartney & now Chemena Kamali
    $400 24
Before the 1944 coinage of this word, someone who abstained from dairy products as well as meat was a "strict vegetarian"
    $400 19
Mainstream advertising is sometimes reduced to this Big Apple thoroughfare
    $400 7
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) At the 2018 Olympics, Ester Ledecká surprised the world & herself with gold in this super-skiing event & then went on to another victory in snowboarding, her specialty; not the differentest of sports, but still good
    $600 1
Act I, Scene IV: "London. The Tower", featuring 1st & 2nd murderer
    $600 16
Kaden's gonna smoke these muscles highlighted here with some pull-downs & the traditional pull-ups & chin-ups, bro
    $600 11
She didn't seem bothered to be named to a job President Trump hopes to eliminate--Secretary of Education
    $600 3
You might think of this nut-based liquid as a recent invention, but the term's been around since the 1300s
    $600 15
This rhyming phrase could be translated as "You have to conform to the way I'm doing things or get on the I-10"
    $600 6
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) Back in the '80s, as he climbed walls for the Royals & flattened defenders as a Raider, he was the definition of a two-sport superstar
    $800 8
"The scene, an uninhabited island", but it's very much habited
    $800 17
Maria lifts the bar off the floor & then pushes it overhead to do the 2 movements in this Olympic weightlifting event
    $800 12
This feminist's time undercover as a Playboy bunny in the '60s became a TV movie with Kristie Alley in the '80s
    $800 2
It's from Chinese words meaning "rotten beans"; enjoy!
    $800 18
In an Elton John song, it's "where the dogs of society howl"
    $800 5
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) Looking for a new kind of boing in her career, at age 20, Krysta Palmer switched from trampoline to diving & won an Olympic medal off this, three meters up--that's high enough for me
    $1000 10
Reasonably enough, for the whole play it's "Athens and neighbourhood"
    $1000 13
This 5-letter type of exercise for your pelvic floor can help Horst with incontinence & other things (sorry to out you on that, Horst)
    $1000 14
She fell on ice in 1866, tweaked her back real bad, recovered with help from Jesus' words & went on to found Christian Science
    $1000 9
This word for a person who chooses to subsist on apples, oranges, pears & the like dates to the 1890s
    $1000 20
St. Paul's conversion to Christianity gave us this idiom that now refers to any kind of turning point
    $1000 4
(Adam Sandler presents the clue.) "I Keek a Touchdown"--that's the memoir of Garo Yepremian, who played soccer overseas & helped to establish soccer style place-kicking as part of this undefeated NFL team

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

Scott Anna! Jeff
$4,000 $400 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Anna! Jeff
$5,400 $400 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

A YEAR-O WITH A ZERO IN IT
CITIES IN PROXIMITY
NONFICTION
STAND-UP SPECIALISTS
LOTS OF KNOTS
HEY "EU"!
    $400 27
On August 29, 2005 a storm surge from this hurricane rose more than 26 feet, devastating Biloxi & Gulfport
    $400 28
It's the "FW" in the Texas airport code DFW
    $400 1
Tom Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, & the Real Count of Monte Cristo" is a bio of this author's dad
    $400 29
(Phoebe Robinson presents the clue.) I talk about mentally prepping to watch civil rights movies in my stand-up special titled "Sorry," this Underground Railroad pioneer
    $400 4
Sadly, Pizza Hut no longer offers the pie it described as "knot your average pizza", with 16 of these appetizers on the crust
    $400 30
In this funeral oration for the late Jimmy Carter, President Biden said he "did justly, loved mercy, walked humbly"
    $800 13
In 1502 he succeeded his uncle Ahuitzotl, becoming the 9th emperor of the Aztecs
    $800 26
The Ambassador Bridge connects Windsor to this Midwest city
    $800 24
"Thrive" is a self-help book by this Greek-American who co-founded a website now run by Buzzfeed
    $800 23
Amy Lau on the miniseries "Beef", she stood out on specials "Hard Knock Wife" & "Baby Cobra"
    $800 25
Known to tie itself into knots, the beauty-challenged hagfish is sometimes called a slime one of these fish, on account of its shape
    $800 22
Types of geometry include this & non-this
    DD: $4,000 2
The war of this started in its alliterative way in 1701 after Charles II had to go & die all childless & stuff
    $1200 16
In the Keystone State, Wilkes-Barre is a twin to this electric city & birthplace of Joe Biden
    $1200 8
4 marriages, but it's been "The Lonely Life" in a memoir by this star of "Jezebel" & "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
    $1200 5
This "Bupkis" star's Netflix specials include "Alive from New York" & "The Best Friends"
    $1200 19
Going by its name, this heavy metal band slides along a rope to be adjusted
    $1200 3
Ear pressure can often be relieved by yawning or swallowing, which opens up these tubes
    $1600 14
Founded in 1602 in Amsterdam, this trading company made it through 2 aughts, but missed a 3rd, dissolving in 1799
    $1600 17
These bustling twin cities might be collectively called Islamapindi
    DD: $4,000 9
This memoir begins with a relative from Nairobi breaking the news about a fatal car accident
    $1600 10
Famously the voice of a charming rat on film, he was "Talking for Clapping" in a 2016 stand-up special
    $1600 20
In navigation, a knot is equal to one of these per hour
    $1600 6
It takes 3 tricks to win a hand in this card game, once one of the most popular games in America
    $2000 15
On February 24, 1803 the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress to be unconstitutional for the first time in this landmark case
    $2000 18
Canots rapides are boats that connect these 2 Francophone African capitals
    $2000 12
This Siddhartha Mukherjee book with a royal title is a history of cancer treatment & research
    $2000 11
His stand-up specials include "It's Pimpin' Pimpin"' & "Kattpacalypse"
    $2000 21
Decorative symbols of interconnection, Celtic knots appear throughout this manuscript named for an Irish abbey
    $2000 7
The honeymoon didn't last long for Orpheus & this nymph who died from a snakebite shortly after the wedding

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Anna! Jeff
$35,400 $4,800 $4,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES
A 17th c. English translation of the "Aeneid" rhymes "my soul remains" & "perpetual pains" with this 2-word place

Final scores:

Scott Anna! Jeff
$50,400 $3,000 $200
13-day champion: $362,901 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Anna! Jeff
$30,200 $4,800 $6,600
30 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 11 R,
4 W		 12 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $41,600

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Game tape date: 2025-05-08
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