Show #9358 - Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Contestants

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Sunny Hwang, a textbook editor from Brooklyn, New York

Jacob Hale, a nonprofit finance director from Anchorage, Alaska

Dan Hopkins, a teacher from Hanover, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,799)

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Jeopardy! Round

ACTION PHRASES
CLOTHES TIME
"YO"!
(Ken: Responses here begin or end with the letters "Y-O".)
REV UP FOR NASCAR
A RIVER RUNS TO IT
(Ken: You need to give me the big body of water each one empties into.)
GETTING INVENTIVE WITH PHINEAS & FERB
(Phineas: We're Phineas and Ferb; summer's just about here and as we find some projects to occupy our minds we'll have clues about inventions that seem far-fetched, at first.)
    $200 30
Pushing up daisies, rung down the curtain--one phrase John Cleese missed about the parrot was this, purchased agricultural land
    $200 29
T-shirts named for this sport feature diagonal shoulder seams that improve arm mobility
    $200 28
From the same species, Grogu is popularly known as "Baby" him
    $200 16
During a race there can be 5 or 6 members of this team "over the wall" to aid drivers & their cars
    $200 24
The Tagus
    $200 27
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Used in 1922, Thomas Edison's improved cement was so strong that it went untouched in this venue in a 1973 renovation--New Yorkers call it "The House that Ruth Built", but I think Edison cement kept it standing
    $400 26
Idiomatically, to suddenly lose your temper is to "fly" this way but originally, it just referred to loose ax heads
    $400 22
This 4-letter type of dress or skirt has a hemline that falls between the knee & the ankle
    $400 21
This holiday celebrates Mexico's victory over France in an 1862 battle
    $400 15
Flags used during NASCAR races include checkered, yellow, green & this one meaning one lap to go
    $400 23
The Columbia
    $400 20
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) In 1893, Nikola Tesla began work on the first large hydroelectric power station, using this as the power source; I like his thinking, no one else was using it & three years later, Buffalo was up & running
    $600 9
This word that often follows "run" comes from Malay for "to go on an unprovoked rampage"
    $600 8
U.S. aircrews in B-17s & B-24s popularized this style of often sheepskin-lined flight jacket in World War II
    $600 17
People magazine once named this cellist the "Sexiest Classical Musician"
    $600 5
The shape of Martinsville Speedway in Virginia has given it this nickname of a common office supply
    $600 3
The Dnieper
    $600 19
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today--produce some nuclear energy at or near room temperature through this two-word currently hypothetical concept
    $800 11
When you have to answer for your actions, you gotta do this, which sounds like you're giving a type of musician a few bucks
    $800 10
This type of dress with a portmanteau name fits snugly to the wearer's figure
    $800 4
About 10 to 12 days into a pregnancy, a blastocyst becomes this
    $800 7
Designed to limit engine power, these plates were made mandatory in certain races beginning in 1988
    $800 2
The Muskegon
    $800 14
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Ah-ha! Success! The ball drops on the net, releasing the pin-equipped truck to pop the balloon. Ferb, we created a machine that complicates a simple process & is named for this cartoonist
    DD: $1,500 12
In a cliché, these 3 words are yelled to remake a newspaper; a 2014 N.Y. Times article noted at least 6 such events in 14 years
    $1000 25
An official of the old Chinese empire, it's also a type of narrow collar & a type of straight-cut jacket
    $1000 18
In "Catch-22" this character says, "Insanity is contagious"
    $1000 6
With a record 200 Cup Series wins during his career, this King of NASCAR drove the Number 43 car for much of his reign
    $1000 1
The Zambezi
    $1000 13
(Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Good inventors don't mind stealing a good idea; Leonardo da Vinci sketched an aerial screw often cited as a forerunner to the helicopter; his inspiration was the water-lifting screw of this ancient Greek

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

Dan Jacob Sunny
$1,700 $4,400 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Jacob Sunny
$4,700 $5,400 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT WAS THE 1970s
INFRASTRUCTURE
EARLY BLOOMERS
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
TIGER BY THE TALE
POP CULTURE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
    $400 23
This 1972 clause banned discrimination on the basis of sex in government-funded school programs & activities
    $400 24
The NID or National Inventory of these keeps tabs on all 92,492 in the U.S., including the 3% with hydropower
    $400 30
Deemed a prodigy, he began art school in Barcelona in 1895 at just 14; he said even as a child, he had "never done children's drawings"
    $400 25
A stroke of luck, or a flatfish
(5 letters)
    $400 29
The hungry tiger is a recurring character in the series of books about this land that's also home to lions & bears
    $400 27
A 12" hand-painted prototype of this action figure, with a hand-sewn uniform, sold for $200,000 in 2003; thank you for your service!
    DD: $3,000 15
A 6-day bank takeover in a European capital led to this term for an unexpected psychological phenomenon
    $800 12
Refrigeratah units were brought in to freeze unstable soil during this rhyming Bahston infrastructsha prahject
    $800 22
Alexander Pope wrote his first notable work at age 12, titled this type of lyric poem "on Solitude"
    $800 16
A young bird learning to fly
(9 letters)
    $800 26
Everything is frozen in "The Last Winter" & the heroine is the last tigress of her kind, this largest type that's not averse to cold
    $800 19
How does it feel to have an unidentified bidder snag a handwritten draft of Bob Dylan's lyrics to this song for $2 million?
    $1200 11
In '77, this chain introduced its TRS-80 computer; at $599.95 it was the most expensive item in stores in history but it sold like crazy
    $1200 5
The Line, a 106-mile strip with no roads or cars is a planned city for this country ruled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
    $1200 1
At age 3 this only child was briefly emperor of France--or so said his dad, who was away in Elba
    $1200 7
Beethoven's only opera
(7 letters)
    $1200 9
Téa Obreht's "The Tiger's Wife" is an example of this chiefly South American mystical genre of Cortázar & Allende
    $1200 18
In 2021 David Hasselhoff sold his personal K.I.T.T. car, like one used on this series, with a portion going to charity
    $1600 13
The real end of the '60s, some say: March 6, 1970, when 3 members of this "Underground" group accidentally blew themselves up
    $1600 2
Japan's network of high-speed rail is known as this 10-letter word, literally "new trunk line"
    $1600 4
Mozart's first piece was a minuet & trio composed at age 5; his last piece was an unfinished one of these 30 years later
    $1600 6
Wine vessel with a handle & spout
(6 letters)
    DD: $3,000 10
This villain's name in an 1894 book suggests he is chief among tigers
    $1600 17
Steven Spielberg bought this "Citizen Kane" sled at auction & kept it in his office until donating it to the Academy Museum
    $2000 14
2 NASA Mars landers bearing this name successfully touched down on the planet & began exploring for signs of life
    $2000 3
I4 Metro lines & a Sewri-Worli Connector are just 2 of the many projects underway in this Indian city on the Arabian Sea
    $2000 20
Once the youngest chess grandmaster in history at 15, Bobby Fischer later gave up U.S. citizenship & died a citizen of this country
    $2000 8
Rapid, irregular twitching of the heart
(12 letters)
    $2000 21
Before he wrote of Walter Mitty, he wrote about "The Tiger Who Would Be King", another character with big dreams
    $2000 28
When sold in 2011, Marilyn Monroe's iconic subway dress from this 1955 film brought in $5.6 million

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Jacob Sunny
$9,900 $9,000 $6,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICAN HOMES
The name of this residence completed in 1895 combines part of the owner's Dutch name with an English word for an open expanse

Final scores:

Dan Jacob Sunny
$1,799 $4,800 $2,200
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $4,800 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Dan Jacob Sunny
$17,400 $9,000 $6,200
20 R,
5 W
(including 3 DDs)		 16 R,
1 W		 9 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $32,600

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Game tape date: 2025-04-29
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