Show #9385 - Friday, July 25, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 17.
Last game of Season 41.

Contestants

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Jonathan Hugendubler, an adjunct professor and trivia host from Baltimore, Maryland

Charlotte Cooper, a graphic designer from San Francisco, California

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 16-day cash winnings total $455,000)

Jeopardy! Round

WAR BONDS
(Ken: You name the war.)
STARS
TELEVISED CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
WHAT'S THAT SPELL?
COMPOUND WORDS IN OTHER WORDS
(Ken: For example, if the clue had the word "hind cramp" in it, you would respond "backache".)
FREAKIER FRIDAYS
(Jamie: I'm Jamie Lee Curtis.) (Lindsay: And I'm Lindsay Lohan.) (Jamie: And we'll trade off clues...) (Lindsay: But not bodies...) (Jamie: With a category about some freaky Fridays in history.)
    $200 25
General Douglas MacArthur,
Syngman Rhee
    $200 26
Nicknamed Lucy after a song, a star in Centaurus hosts a core of this gem, 10 billion trillion trillion carats in size
    $200 27
It's Showtime! This title serial killer dealt with the Ice Truck & Trinity killers
    $200 28
The 3 witches in "Macbeth" chant, "Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron" this
    $200 30
Pretty much only in "The Wind in the Willows" will you find a toad in a midriffjacket
    $200 29
(Lindsay Lohan presents the clue.) On Friday, June 29, 2007, a newspaper announced "fire, the wheel and now" this item released that day--it retailed around $499 for a model with a whopping four gigabytes of storage
    $400 24
Saddam Hussein,
"Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf
    $400 23
Castor is approximately 17 light years away from this star it shares a constellation with
    $400 22
On "Weeds", this actress sells some well-received stuff to Snoop Dogg, who is inspired to rap about MILF weed in her honor
    $400 21
The tale of Ali Baba & the 40 thieves gave us this door-opening phrase
    $400 20
A slide & plenty of shade are essentials if you're building a dramafield for kids
    $400 19
(Lindsay Lohan presents the clue.) On a freaky Friday, January 17, 1969, cosmonauts on this Russian spacecraft returned home after swapping ships--but not bodies--up in space
    $600 1
Major-General Sir Colin Campbell,
Florence Nightingale
    $600 10
Epsilon Leonis & Mu Leonis are stars in this asterism of Leo with the name of a farming tool
    $600 11
The Donbot of the Robot Mafia hangs out in Little Bitaly on this animated show set in the 31st century
    $600 15
In "The Fellowship of the Ring", he cries, "Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth!" & a tree bursts into flames
    $600 8
The Palace of Versailles has a "royal" tribunallawn
    $600 18
(Lindsay Lohan presents the clue.) Casual Fridays are said to go back to Aloha Days in Hawaii & informal clothes worn on Beer Bus Days, implemented by this then-hyphenated tech giant named for Bill & Dave
    $800 4
George Washington,
Marquis de Montcalm
    $800 2
Called the Star of Isis in Ancient Egypt, its rise in summer forecasted the rise of the Nile River
    $800 3
An astounded Idris Elba rips the paper away from someone actually taking notes on a criminal conspiracy on this HBO drama
    DD: $2,000 16
Spell 77 in one of these funerary texts written for a man named Ramose was for transforming him into a golden hawk
    $800 6
Though he was miles away, the heist was planned by the criminal Gurubrain
    $800 13
(Jamie Lee Curtis presents the clue.) In a confession printed in "The New York Times", Leon Czolgosz said the words of Emma Goldman & living in Ohio led him to do the deed, the deed of shooting this man on Friday, September 6, 1901
    $1000 5
Henry V,
Joan of Arc
    $1000 9
Arcturus, the brightest star in Boötes, is this colorful type of star, the fate of some main sequence stars
    $1000 12
Jessica Gunning researched stalker characters like Kathy Bates' in "Misery" to play Martha Scott on this Netflix show
    $1000 17
It's the killing curse in the Harry Potter books, & don't you dare point your wand at me when you say it
    $1000 7
Cartoon & comic strip characters are often hit on the head by a falling bloompan
    $1000 14
(Jamie Lee Curtis presents the clue.) On a Friday the 13th in 1307, Philip IV of France made claims of heresy when ordering the arrest of all members of this group named for their original headquarters in Jerusalem

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

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$5,600 $2,200 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$10,800 $3,000 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATELY BODIES OF WATER
WRITERS ON WRITING
THEY'RE ALL GREEKS TO ME
THE WAY WE WORE
FAMOUS ANIMATED VOICES
16-LETTER WORDS
    $400 30
Major ports on this lake include Waukegan, Racine & Milwaukee
    $400 29
Kurt Vonnegut: "Do not use" these stronger-than-a-comma coordinating marks; "all they do is show you've been to college"
    $400 28
Wild carrots were first grown as medicine & this 300s B.C. oath guy once prescribed their seeds as a contraceptive
    $400 26
Victorious Roman generals wore what was called this picta, purple with gold embroidery
    $400 27
Vin Diesel voiced this large metal title character in a 1999 film set during the Cold War
    $400 25
Some news you can use about screws: turn 'em right to get 'em tight & in this direction to loosen things up
    $800 24
Great Falls, Montana & Sioux City, Iowa are both found along this river
    $800 23
"Vigorous writing is concise" is one of many pearls from this Strunk & White classic
    $800 22
"Avoid politics and cherish friendship", said this ancient philosopher whose school of thought has been associated with hedonism
    $800 21
An alias of Washington Irving gave us this word for a Big Apple Dutch descendant, or the pants they wore
    $800 9
In 1994 this actor took some days off to voice adult Simba in "The Lion King"
    $800 18
Happy 400th birthday, aka this, Gian Domenico Cassini! You don't look a day over 395
    $1200 15
The coast of this large gulf is indented by fjords & inlets such as Cook Inlet & Prince William Sound
    $1200 12
"Stories aren't made of language... perhaps they're made of life", said this writer of "His Dark Materials"
    $1200 6
The Parthenon is one of the many structures built during "The Age of" this Athenian leader
    $1200 20
This four-letter neckpiece of yore sounds like it might just irritate
    $1200 5
In this 2005 film a character voiced by Ben Stiller has to resist his biological urge to eat a character voiced by Chris Rock
    $1200 10
If you're an Olympic sprinter, it's the unfortunate consequence of a false start, aka jumping the gun
    DD: $2,000 1
This bay that had a colony named for it extends southward over 40 miles from Cape Ann
    $1600 4
"My responsibility as a writer is to be as good as I can be at my craft", wrote this woman who crafted "On the Pulse of Morning"
    $1600 2
We can think of at least 300 reasons to know this king of Sparta who succeeded his half-brother Cleomenes I around 490 B.C.
    $1600 19
Some pregnant women in Edwardian times wore a "maternity" this, both for support & shaping
    $1600 7
John Goodman & David Spade voiced Pacha & Kuzco in this flick that has some major llama drama
    $1600 11
At a Sierra Club meeting, avoid "tree hugger" & use this less disparaging synonym for someone concerned about conservation
    $2000 16
Some call this bay the "Other Jersey Shore"
    $2000 14
T.S. Eliot wrote that his first marriage "brought the state of mind out of which came" this poem; don't try that at home
    DD: $4,400 3
In this play by Aristophanes, we hear, "O women, if we would compel the men to bow to peace, we must refrain--"
    $2000 17
Sounding like the name of Blackadder's much put-upon retainer, it's the term for a belt worn across the chest
    $2000 8
Pharrell Williams & documentarian Morgan Neville voiced themselves in this Lego-based animadoc
    $2000 13
Unable to be broken down by microorganisms--like Styrofoam, which takes about 500 years to decompose

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$23,600 $7,800 $14,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY NAMES
According to one obituary, in 1935 he owned 13 magazines, 8 radio stations, 2 movie companies & $56 million in real estate

Final scores:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$18,600 $15,600 $23,601
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $23,601

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$22,400 $7,800 $11,200
29 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 12 R,
1 W		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $41,400

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Game tape date: 2025-05-08
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