Show #9331 - Monday, May 12, 2025

Contestants

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Rachel Hall, a data analyst from Washington, D. C.

Andrew Jones, a graduate student from Queens, New York

Kara Peruccio, a university professor from Bangor, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

LANDLOCKED STATES BY CITIES
MINERALOGY
THAT FOOD IS FIRE
LETTER PERFECT
COURT
MARSHALL
    $200 8
Keokuk,
Davenport
    $200 7
Used in a dusting powder, this 4-letter mineral is a 1, meaning the softest, on the Mohs hardness scale
    $200 27
Coat the freshly sliced bananas in a caramelized sugar sauce & ignite dark rum in this dessert
    $200 28
In U.S. movie ratings, a film with this letter requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian for anyone under 17
    $200 29
In the '90s the NBA briefly shortened the distance of this line on the court to a uniform 22 feet around the basket
    $200 30
Director Penny Marshall cast her daughter, Tracy Reiner, as Betty Spaghetti in this beloved baseball movie
    $400 21
Beckley,
Morgantown
    $400 23
Term for the tendency of some minerals to break along irregular lines; it sounds like what can happen to a bone
    $400 17
3 little French words, this dish is chicken braised in wine, mushrooms & lardons, often with cognac flambé action
    $400 2
In an emergency or not, in Morse code 3 dashes represent this letter
    $400 3
Per the FIVB, the court for the indoor type of this sport is 59 feet long with an attack line 9 feet, 10 inches from the net
    $400 22
In 1890 Alfred Marshall published "Principles of" this field of study & expounded upon the elasticity of demand
    $600 13
Rugby,
Grand Forks
    $600 24
When clear & colorless, this common mineral is known as rock crystal
    $600 6
A food blogger thought that turning 30 "calls for blowing up an ice cream cake in flames" & detailed a recipe for this
    $600 10
NFL players Bart Starr & LeRoy Butler proudly wore this letter on their helmets
    $600 16
The Tournament of Champions for this sport is held in a glass court in the middle of Grand Central Terminal
    DD: $1,000 18
James Marshall made an 1848 find "beneath the surface of the water" at property owned by this man
    $800 14
Choctaw,
Broken Arrow
    $800 25
A gem, or for that matter, a romance or an activity can "lose its" this, the way a mineral reflects light
    $800 1
The entree called steak her dates to the 1930s & includes a filet, cream, shallots, Worcestershire & flambéed cognac
    $800 11
Therese Anne Fowler's novelized life story of the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald has this title
    $800 4
U.S. Open blue is the color of the court at the main stadium in Flushing named for this tennis star
    $800 19
While juggling multiple court terms a year, this Chief Justice had time to write "The Life of George Washington" between 1801 & 1835
    $1000 15
Jacksonville,
Texarkana
    $1000 26
Almandine is a type of this gemstone that's been favored by lapidaries since ancient times & lends its name to a very dark red
    $1000 9
Legend has the Prince of Wales asking the creator of this dessert that gets lit to end it with a female name instead of princesse
    $1000 12
The flag of the alma mater of actor Moroni Olsen & historian Brigham Roberts bears this letter, or 2 of them
    $1000 5
The Boston Celtics' home court has this type of pattern flooring, originally made from scraps of Tennessee red oak
    $1000 20
We hope you know of the work of this Canadian communications theorist who said, "The medium is the message"

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

Kara Andrew Rachel
$2,400 -$400 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kara Andrew Rachel
$3,200 $2,400 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT PERSIA
IT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE
SUBURBAN LEGEND
WE'VE GOT RIGHTS
MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE
JEOPORTMANTEAU!
    $400 29
Like the wise men who visited the baby Jesus, members of the Persian priestly class were known as these
    $400 10
Not Julius but "Sawdust Caesar" is a 1935 book about this leader by George Seldes, expelled from Italy 10 years before
    $400 28
Though associated with the SUV boom of the '90s & beyond, this automaker's Suburban turns 90 in 2025
    $400 20
The bestselling book "Drawing on the Right Side of" this encourages artists to turn off their analytical sides
    $400 3
Robert Downey Jr. &
Black Sabbath
    $400 1
A mental survey of the past that follows "in"
+
old-timey term for eyeglasses
    $800 8
When communicating within their empire, the Achaemenid Persians used the imperial type of this language related to Hebrew
    $800 11
A 1930s movie comedy about 3 couples in varying states of unhappiness is titled "Merry Wives of" this then-divorce capital
    $800 21
Tarbox, Mass. in John Updike's '60s novel "Couples" made the suburbs seem busy with this act against Exodus' 7th commandment
    $800 22
The California driver's handbook: "Although pedestrians have" this, "they also must follow the rules of the road"
    $800 4
Amanda Bynes &
Christina Aguilera
    $800 2
Blushing dwarf of "Snow White" fame
+
point about which a lever rests
    $1200 5
Like one completed in the late 19th c., one of the first canals connecting these 2 seas was dug by the Persians around 500 B.C.
    $1200 12
Bolingbroke deposes "Richard II"; in a 2014 "Future History" play by Mike Bartlett, Kate & William depose this title king
    $1200 16
This Laker was drafted in 1996 out of suburban Philly's Lower Merion High, where he broke Wilt Chamberlain's local scoring record
    $1200 24
They're so called because their valuable oil & baleen once made them proper prey
    $1200 14
Reese Witherspoon &
Lynyrd Skynyrd
    $1200 9
Adjective for something out of place in time
+
an in-your-face robbery
    $1600 6
Handel's 1738 opera "Serse" tells the story of this great Persian king who burned much of Athens after winning at Thermopylae
    DD: $2,400 13
Denmark is the setting for many of the stories in her 1942 book "Winter's Tales"
    $1600 17
U.S. News & World Report's 2023 top suburban colleges include one in this Mercer County, New Jersey community
    $1600 25
These laws that the AFL-CIO says benefit corporations let employees in a union workplace get out of paying union dues
    DD: $2,000 15
James Cromwell &
Styx
    $1600 27
Twin-hulled boat
+
spoiled or putrid
    $2000 7
Author Marjane's last name derives from this 6-letter title, a provincial governor in the empire
    $2000 19
A 1996 thriller by David Hewson isn't "Twelfth Night" but this 1-word title, the feast after Twelfth Night
    $2000 18
Visual art's takes on suburbia include her 1968 photo of a glum-looking "Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y."
    $2000 26
This 4-word doctrine held that monarchs derived their authority from God & could not be questioned
    $2000 23
Matthew McConaughey &
Led Zeppelin
    $2000 30
To urge passionately
+
the science of growing plants

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kara Andrew Rachel
$400 $5,600 $5,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

TEXAS TECHNOLOGY
Just 27 in 1992, he's still the youngest-ever CEO of a company when it entered the Fortune 500

Final scores:

Kara Andrew Rachel
$400 $5,600 $500
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $5,600 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Kara Andrew Rachel
$1,400 $10,000 $5,600
12 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
7 W
(including 2 DDs)		 12 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $17,000

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Game tape date: 2025-03-11
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