Show #9384 - Thursday, July 24, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 16.

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Senay Goitom, a software engineer originally from Madison, Wisconsin

Sarah Rubenfeld, an attorney from Houston, Texas

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 15-day cash winnings total $430,910)

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Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY
THE MOVIES
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
KID LIT EN ESPAÑOL
THE MYTH BEHIND THE ZODIAC SIGN
(Ken: You'll name the sign.)
IT STARTS WITH "ME"
    $200 30
It's the more cheerful name for the African promontory once called the Cape of Storms
    $200 28
"Bohemian Rhapsody" earned him an Oscar for his "mercurial" performance
    $200 22
Heads up! Miners & construction workers owe thanks to Edward Bullard for his design of this alliterative safety gear
    $200 20
"Huevos verdes con jamón"
    $200 29
For Egyptians, 2 goats; for Arabs, 2 peacocks
    $200 27
As "Sirloin Noggin" didn't pop quite as well, people went with this quasi-synonym for a not-so-intelligent person
    $400 23
This river flows from south to north, passing through 11 countries before emptying into the Mediterranean
    $400 25
Vince Vaughn is the owner of Average Joe's Gym in this "True Underdog Story"
    $400 21
Helping us to drive safer in the rain, Mary Anderson invented this device in 1903 but sadly, never made any money from it
    $400 19
"El l león, la bruja y el ropero"
    $400 26
A harvest maiden--maybe Ishtar, maybe Persephone
    $400 24
Alyssa Milano used this 2-word phrase on social media in 2017, sharing her experience of sexual abuse to try to help other survivors
    $600 1
About 50 miles east of the Florida coast, the Bimini Islands are part of this larger chain
    $600 7
Robert Pattinson is the title character (& the reborn versions thereof) in this 2025 film from Bong Joon Ho
    $600 4
Take note--in Britain, this implement is called a Biro, after its modern-day inventor László Bíró
    $600 18
"Ricitos de oro y los tres osos"
    $600 9
It had a Golden Fleece
    $600 12
Black's Law Dictionary defines it as "a neutral person who tries to help disputing parties reach an agreement"
    $800 2
This small kingdom in the Himalayas lies between Tibet & India
    $800 16
This actor's relaxation technique of humming & chest thumping made it into a scene of "The Wolf of Wall Street"
    $800 6
Motorola employee Martin Cooper is regarded as the "father of" this, having led the team that built the first one in the 1970s
    $800 5
"Una arruga en el tiempo"
    $800 10
Pinched Heracles whilst the hero was fighting a Hydra
    $800 13
It precedes "labor" regarding boring, low-status & poorly paid work
    $1000 3
Located on the Seltjarnarnes Peninsula, it's the northernmost capital of a country
    $1000 17
You might not remember "Lucky Numbers", the next film she directed after "You've Got Mail"
    $1000 8
After litigation against Isaac Singer & others, he received royalties on all U.S. sewing machines from 1854 until 1867
    DD: $3,000 15
"Nublado con proegabilidades de albóndigas"
    $1000 11
Pan, who jumped into a river & became a mer-Pan
    $1000 14
Put that in your tobacco pipe with a bowl made of this white clay-like substance & smoke it

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

Scott Sarah Senay
$10,000 -$400 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Sarah Senay
$13,000 $1,400 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL MUSIC
REALITY TV
GEOGRAPHIC LITERARY TITLES
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW?
I'M BORED
A SENSE OF HENRI
    $400 26
This iconic Tchaikovsky piece commemorates the Battle of Borodino, not the war between the U.S. & Great Britain
    $400 27
Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie recently reunited for "Encore", a 3-part anniversary special of this series
    $400 28
For this 1972 book Hunter S. Thompson did some sinning (& a lot of drugs) in Sin City
    $400 29
Since we're in London, let's visit the British Museum & see one of the statues called Moai, far from home, this place in the Pacific
    $400 30
Meaning unvarying in pitch, it can also refer to something boringly repetitious
    $400 25
In 1690 Henri de Massue abandoned France to serve the king of England, who created him Viscount Galway for his service here
    $800 2
"The Red Priest" wasn't just a cool nickname; this composer had a shock of red hair & was ordained in 1703
    $800 21
In 2025, this Bond girl & former Beverly Hills housewife starred with her daughters & husband in her own series
    $800 15
In 1977 Jay Anson detailed the "Horror" here of trying to live with very unwanted houseguests
    $800 22
Grab the binoculars, we're birding; I hear tap-tap-tapping & see the red-headed type of this bird, called a flying checkerboard
    $800 23
This synonym for "wearisome" keeps the "some" & begins with a word meaning "to weary"
    $800 24
Veteran politician Henri Queuille spurned the Vichy government for this alliterative movement led by de Gaulle
    $1200 1
Arnold Schoenberg & his pupils Alban Berg & Anton Webern are the modernist pillars of the "second school" of this city
    $1200 20
Guy Fieri samples the food at these 3 types of places, per the title of the series known as "DDD" for short
    $1200 5
In a Jonathan Lethem novel, Lionel & his friends are called "Motherless" this place
    $1200 7
I injured my foot & should do the exercises assigned in P.T., short for this; time to pick up marbles with my toes
    $1200 9
Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere is told, "People are either charming or" this 7-letter word for boring (she's the former)
    $1200 11
Citadelle Henri, one of the largest fortresses in the Americas, was built by Henri Christophe, king of this country
    $1600 3
This avant-garde Stravinsky opera about puppets come to life features a novel chord, which is named for the piece
    $1600 14
We'll spare you any videos but dermatologist Sandra Lee has gained a large following on TV under this nickname
    $1600 12
A Henry James title took us to this "presidential" area of Lower Manhattan
    $1600 6
Read "Lockwood's Rule of Thumb & Forefinger" to learn this game; maybe we'll be good enough to compete in its world championships
    DD: $3,800 8
A word meaning boring gave us this name for a boring burg that we can't find in our atlas
    $1600 10
Henri de Tonti explored the Mississippi with this Sieur & for a post he founded, has been called "Father of Arkansas"
    $2000 4
This German composer of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is also responsible for renewing interest in the works of Bach
    $2000 17
When this show premiered in 2010, Kody Brown had 3 spouses, going on 4; today, he's down to 1
    $2000 13
In the 1930s Somerset Maugham & John O'Hara wrote of an "Appointment in" this city
    $2000 18
We can listen to '80s new wave music or watch French New Wave cinema, like "Breathless", this director's first feature film
    $2000 19
In the world of -ery suffixes, tomfoolery & finery are more fun than this word for boring work, but slavery's worse
    DD: $5,000 16
This Florence-born woman, a major force in 16th c. Europe, was the wife of French King Henri II & the mother of Henri III

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Sarah Senay
$20,400 $7,600 $1,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THEORIES
A version of this theoretical economic process was "horse & sparrow"; if you fed the horse enough oats, the sparrows fed afterwards

Final scores:

Scott Sarah Senay
$24,090 $7,600 $0
16-day champion: $455,000 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Sarah Senay
$23,400 $11,400 $1,800
27 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2025-05-08
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