Show #9377 - Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 9.

Contestants

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Carl Adams, a litigation technology specialist originally from Des Moines, Iowa

Pete Johnston, a filmmaker and educator from Lansing, Michigan

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 8-day cash winnings total $201,301)

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Jeopardy! Round

DRUMS & PERCUSSION
KING ME
SINGLE
"DOUBLE"
HOMER
CAN HE HIT FOR THE CYCLE?
    $200 27
Purdue says it has "the world's largest drum" with this type used in the marching band, & yep, it sure is big, weighing 315 pounds
    $200 30
The 15th century philosopher Erasmus once quipped that "In the country of the blind", this personage "is king"
    $200 29
The romance between Ann Coleman & this future president ended badly: she died tragically & he pledged to stay a bachelor for life
    $200 22
It's an unfortunate golf score of 2 strokes over par
    $200 28
Homer doesn't drool much over the beauty of her, the most famous mortal woman in his works, but she does have very white arms
    $200 25
As you might guess, this hit is the rarest one in the cycle; Elly de la Cruz completed the feat with one June 23, 2023
    $400 26
We'll trap you into naming this drum with uses from military band to garage band
    $400 23
This brand began using the advertising slogan "The King of Beers" in the mid-20th century
    $400 24
Their sister married newspaper editor Henry Haskell, but relationship-wise these famous brothers opted to fly solo
    $400 21
It's the term for language that lends itself to more than one meaning, & it's French (wink), if you (air quotes) know what we mean
    $400 19
Poet Demodokos in the "Odyssey" has been taken as a stand-in for Homer & may be the origin of the idea that Homer had this disability
    $400 20
On Sunday, May 13, 2007, rookie Fred Lewis hit for the cycle & the first thing he did afterward was call this person
    $600 5
Time to shake the jingles in this small frame drum, the use of which dates back to cults worshiping Isis
    $600 16
Big band leader Benny Goodman had this rhyming nickname, a reference to the style of music he played
    $600 17
One of few women & the only American to exhibit with French Impressionists, this painter saw marriage as incompatible with her career
    $600 6
YouTube user & Yosemite visitor Hungrybear9562 charmed the Internet in 2010 with his awestruck reaction to one of these
    DD: $4,000 13
The last book of the "Iliad" contains the funeral of Hector; the last book of the "Odyssey" has the funeral of this slayer of Hector
    $600 18
The only cycle in MLB postseason history was by the Red Sox' Brock Holt in this enemy park where the Bosox love to get a victory
    $800 3
Classically, it's featured in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; folksily, it's been called the cowboy dinner bell
    $800 8
In Shakespeare this title character says, "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks"
    $800 12
Men in the life of this unwed designer included polo player Arthur Capel, who met her in 1908 & financed her early Parisian boutiques
    $800 4
Evil-Eye Fleegle, a zoot-suited hoodlum in the comic strip "Li'l Abner", helped popularize this term for a 1-2 punch of adverse effects
    $800 9
Juliette Binoche "never played a queen" before the role of this Homeric woman opposite Ralph Fiennes in "The Return"
    $800 15
This Oriole's homer as part of a 1984 cycle was one of the record 345 he hit playing shortstop
    $1000 1
This tall barrel-shaped Afro-Cuban drum is also called a tumbadora
    $1000 14
The 2 sides in this 1670s conflict were the Wampanoag & settlers of Plymouth colony
    $1000 10
Found after this bachelor's death: 3 letters locked in a drawer, written but apparently not sent to "Immortal Beloved"
    $1000 2
"One candidate that's allowed to be lawless while the other one has to be flawless": in 2024, one congresswoman's example of a this
    $1000 7
Izmir in Turkey, a traditional birthplace of Homer, is also called this, like a Georgia city that's a traditional birthplace of Julia Roberts
    $1000 11
Through 2024 this team has the most cycles in MLB--24, with contributions by Honus Wagner, Richie Zisk & Willie Stargell

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

Scott Pete Carl
$10,000 $4,200 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Pete Carl
$12,600 $6,000 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE QUIZ
BEFORE & AFTER
DOING TIME TOGETHER
MOVIES SET IN THE 1920s
IT'S BORDERLINE
THAT SHIP HAS SAILED
    $400 26
Despite a popular slander, these fish, Carassius auratus, actually have excellent memories
    $400 24
Seat for tickling the ivories while lifting a weight bar upward over your supine body
    $400 29
In 1950 Robert Stroud & Machine Gun Kelly (not that one) could be found at this location
    $400 21
Leonardo DiCaprio says, "I'm afraid I haven't been a very good host, old sport" as the title fella in this '20s-set piece
    $400 30
This country borders every South American nation except Chile & Ecuador
    $400 28
Flush with grant money, Charles Darwin penned "Zoology of the Voyage" of this ship
    $800 25
Atoms of this metallic element bond weakly with others of their kind, so it's a liquid as low as 72 degrees
    $800 23
Spurs' home in the "Lone Star State" that played Armand the vampire on film
    $800 1
The situation? That "Jersey Shore" guy was in Otisville Prison with Billy McFarland, busted for organizing this Bahamas disaster
    $800 11
In 1926, this magizoologist & Hogwarts alum arrived in New York & set about recapturing a Niffler
    $800 2
Austria takes up some but not all of this country's 48 miles of borders
    $800 27
In St. Petersburg, you can visit the Krasin, one of these ships, that rescued a stuck Italian polar expedition back in the day
    $1200 3
The main asteroid belt is bounded by the orbits of these 2 planets
    $1200 6
Healthy grain with only its outermost layer removed so it can teach 4,000 undergraduates in Houston
    $1200 9
The situation? That "Jersey Shore" guy was in Otisville prison with this man, Trump's ex-fixer
    DD: $2,700 8
In this 1952 film Don Lockwood works as a stuntman elevated to leading man, just before the advent of talking pictures
    DD: $6,000 19
This Mexican state between Sonora & Coahuila has all 3 of the border crossings from Mexico to New Mexico
    $1200 16
Columbus' flagship the Santa María ran aground & had to be scrapped; its timbers were used to create this fort named for Christmas
    $1600 10
It's the Greek-derived name for the process of identical cell duplication
    $1600 7
The first book in Patrick Rothfuss' "The Kingkiller Chronicle" used as a facility to test the aerodynamics of planes
    $1600 20
Too real, housewife! Jen Shah of "Salt Lake City" became federal prison pals with this woman, founder of Theranos
    $1600 4
This 1981 Best Picture winner is about two British runners ahead of the 1924 Olympics
    $1600 22
Thailand has a long, skinny section on the Malay Peninsula, just south of this country that borders most of Thailand on the west
    $1600 17
During his circumnavigation, Francis Drake renamed his flagship the Pelican this, which was more "deer" to him
    $2000 12
Sometimes mistaken for diamond, topaz is not just beautiful but hard, making it a solid 8 on this scale
    $2000 13
'70s sitcom about a Black family in Chicago in a font created by typographer Stanley Morison
    $2000 15
In 1987 Sean Penn was in L.A. County Jail near Richard Ramirez, known by this serial killer name, who asked for an autograph
    $2000 5
Gregory Hines starred as Delbert "Sandman" Williams in this Harlem-set Francis Ford Coppola movie that begins in 1928
    $2000 14
1,000 miles from top to bottom, this "directional" Aussie area has Queensland on its east
    $2000 18
Alphabetically first of a famous trio of White Star ocean liners, it sank in 1916 after striking a mine

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Pete Carl
$28,200 $15,600 $9,100

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THEATER
The title of a Pulitzer-winning play from 2007 mentions this month, as does another winner 54 years prior

Final scores:

Scott Pete Carl
$32,200 $28,201 $9,100
9-day champion: $233,501 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Pete Carl
$20,000 $15,600 $7,600
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 20 R,
2 W		 7 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $43,200

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Game tape date: 2025-05-07
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