Show #9327 - Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Ben Ganger game 6.

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Keegan Olson, a consultant from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sarah Gillis, a mortgage loan processor from Asbury Park, New Jersey

Ben Ganger, a data analyst from Goshen, Indiana (whose 5-day cash winnings total $105,915)

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Jeopardy! Round

MY CUP RUNNETH OVER
OSCAR HOSTS
METAPHORS BE WITH YOU
HOWDY, NEIGHBOR!
JUST MOVED IN?
WE'RE THE CARP FAMILY
    $200 3
Names on this piece of hardware that dates to 1892 include Brian Leetch, Sidney Crosby & Alex Ovechkin
    $200 25
2016:
This stand-up comedian who had a much worse moment on stage a few years later
    $200 29
If someone has nothing to hide, they're one of these unfastened tomes
    $200 9
Between Calabria, Italy's toe, & Puglia, the heel, sits Basilicata, this part that we hope never becomes fallen
    $200 26
Hope you updated your subscription & don't miss a great history article in this magazine whose profits support a D.C. institution
    $200 30
Chub will eat almost anything & one popular bait is a paste made with this, such as Stilton
    $400 2
A cnn.com article on this object included pictures of Jesus, Indiana Jones & the knights of the Round Table
    $400 18
2013:
This voice behind Stewie Griffin
    $400 24
I'm just teasing you a little, this move of tugging an extremity
    $400 14
This historic county of England with a famous cat to its name has Wales as a western neighbor
    $400 23
Make your new home homey with these; Diptyque's classic ones include sandalwood, orange tree & wood fire
    $400 28
This 3-letter substance, the eggs of female barbels, is poison to humans, as noted as far back as Nostradamus
    $600 5
This brand offers its classic 18-ounce red plastic party cup as well as a not-as-classic clear but at least "eco-forward" one
    $600 17
Starting in 1990:
This man, called the best ever at it by 2025 host Conan O'Brien
    $600 12
You're too late for the opportunity; you've done this, failed to catch the Boston Whaler 405 Conquest
    $600 13
Peaks poke above 14,000 feet in Arapaho & Roosevelt national Forests, a neighbor of the national park named for these mountains
    $600 22
You wouldn't be the first to move all your stuff & only then find the time to fill up a box for this organization founded in 1902
    $600 27
One of our most "precious" members is this popular pet, like Geppetto's Cleo in "Pinocchio"
    $800 1
Our coup de mariage is one form of this two-handled cup often made of silver which we simply adore
    $800 16
1978:
This comic & "Road" -traveling movie star, for his 19th & final time
    $800 8
To pay too much attention to trivial details could be described as taking this action, dividing follicular growths lengthwise
    DD: $1,400 10
China borders the province of Sükhbaatar in this neighboring country
    $800 21
Our home will be comfortable all the time as its temperature is regulated by HVAC, which stands for these 3 things
    $800 20
Carp species include this type named for the quality of its scaleless skin; Heather the this was Britain's most famous fish
    $1000 4
Tea served in this brand of China cup named for 1760s maker Josiah would be lovely
    $1000 6
1934:
This homespun comedian, sadly back in the news in 2025 when the Palisades fire destroyed his ranch house
    $1000 7
A frustrating or difficult task is said to be this, gathering together Bombays or Bengals
    $1000 11
The southwestern neighbor of Mexico's state of Puebla is this one with a name meaning "warrior"
    $1000 15
For Internet access, you can set up this device combining a modem & a router, once the name of a computer retailer from cow country
    $1000 19
The asp is one of the few in our family that eats others in it, so not carnivorous but this word with a changed first syllable

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

Ben Sarah Keegan
$2,200 $2,400 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Sarah Keegan
$2,800 $3,400 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLD WAR TIMES
IT'S A FACT
RHYMING SONG TITLES
NOVELS & NOVELISTS
STARTS & ENDS WITH "D"
FLAGS
    $400 18
13 was a heavy number in this 1962 event: it lasted 13 days & a missile could have reached D.C. in 13 minutes
    $400 29
The Dartmouth was one of the ships that had their cargo dumped in this 1773 event
    $400 30
A Little Richard song is called "Good Golly Miss" her
    $400 14
A real manor called Ivinghoe gave this author the name of a title hero
    $400 28
Bunk Johnson was a popular figure in the 1940s revival of this style of jazz associated with New Orleans
    $400 5
Its flag, the Taegukki, was outlawed under Japanese rule & restored under General MacArthur
    $800 16
What is today called St. Petersburg was renamed this in 1924 & would bear that name until 1991 & the cold war's end
    $800 27
John Singer Sargent painted the official portrait of this president, who posed for JSS in a White House stairway in 1903
    $800 26
Paul McCartney said this Beatles tune was named for a children's playground slide; that's crazy!
    $800 9
Many thrillers have this playing-both-sides type of spy; an early depiction is Razumov in Joseph Conrad's "Under Western Eyes"
    $800 23
A common sailor whose duties are performed topside
    $800 4
You can see this temple complex in Cambodia as well as on Cambodia's flag
    DD: $10,200 12
Countering atheistic communism, in 1954 this 2-word phrase was added to the Pledge of Allegiance
    $1200 22
The "white" type of this large mammal isn't white; its name is said to be from Afrikaans for "wide", the shape of its muzzle
    $1200 25
This AC/DC song has lyrics like "Yes, I'm let loose from the noose that's kept me hangin' about"
    $1200 8
He never minded using a name to tell you about a character, like teacher Mr. M'choakumchild in "Hard Times"
    $1200 20
Upper body muscle that raises the arm laterally
    $1200 3
The black, yellow & red flag of this country carries the color of the Duchy of Brabant
    $1600 11
N.A.M. stood for this international "Movement" made up of countries not part of the 2 major power blocs
    $1600 21
Ellen Gates Starr was a co-founder of this social settlement, but didn't get a share of the Nobel Prize Jane Addams won
    $1600 24
Cypress Hill went a bit loco, lamenting in this song, "Cops come & try to snatch my crops, these pigs wanna blow my house down"
    $1600 7
The "Times" of this city said "The Day of the Locust" is "the best-achieved piece of fiction the city has inspired"
    $1600 17
From the Latvian "combu"... actually no, around 1850 someone made up this 15-letter word meaning confused & upset
    DD: $4,000 2
Covering a lot of ground, Mozambique's flag features an open book, a hoe & this weapon invented in the 1940s
    $2000 10
U.S. diplomat George Kennan was the father of this policy of limiting & blocking Soviet expansion
    $2000 15
St. Peter's Basilica was begun in 1506, under the second pope of this name
    $2000 19
In this classic from "London Calling", The Clash sing about someone who most definitely did not "Stand By Me"
    $2000 6
This novelist wrote several books about Nathan Zuckerman, who, like himself, wrote a satirical novel that angered some fellow Jews
    $2000 13
This tax was levied in England in the 10th & 11th centuries as protection against invasion by Vikings
    $2000 1
The ship depicted on the flag of this British overseas territory commemorates a 1609 shipwreck on its shoals

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Sarah Keegan
$3,600 $7,400 $2,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORD ORIGINS
Fittingly, this adjective describing a hit-you-in-the-gut kind of feeling goes back to a Latin word for internal organs

Final scores:

Ben Sarah Keegan
$5,601 $7,300 $5,600
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $7,300 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ben Sarah Keegan
$3,600 $6,800 $17,000
16 R,
5 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 20 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $27,400

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Game tape date: 2025-03-10
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