Responses for Show #9380 - Friday, July 18, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 12.

Contestants

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Ameen Ismail, a particle physicist originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Julia Broussard, a university administrator from New Orleans, Louisiana

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 11-day cash winnings total $282,101)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WARLOCKS
AROUND SOUTH AMERICA
AMBROSE BIERCE'S DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
FEELING SHEEPISH
AT THE AIRPORT
THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO...
    $200 26
[NOTE: This was the 550,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2025-07-18.]

Merlin

Scott
    $200 27
(Julia: What is Argentina?)

Buenos Aires

JuliaAmeen
    $200 30
an opera

Ameen
    $200 29
Dolly

Ameen
    $200 25
a golf course

Julia
    $200 28
(Ken: Yeah, she's the sitting Chief of Staff.)

Trump

Scott
    $400 22
Bewitched

Ameen
    $400 18
(Ameen: What is... the Galápagos?)

the Falklands

Ameen
Triple Stumper
    $400 21
a dentist

Julia
    $400 10
sheeple

Julia
    $400 24
an ice rink

Scott
    $400 23
Reagan

Scott
    $600 7
(Scott: What is The Gunslinger?)
...
(Ken: As I think Scott realizes now, the movie was called [*].)

The Dark Tower

Scott
Triple Stumper
    $600 1
(Rutherford B.) Hayes

Ameen
    $600 20
birth

Triple Stumper
    $600 9
Serta

Triple Stumper
    $600 14
Narita

Ameen
    $600 6
Kennedy

Scott
    $800 8
Halloweentown

Julia
    $800 2
Colombia

Ameen
    $800 17
a saint

Scott
    $800 11
(Julia: What is vellum?)

parchment

Julia
Triple Stumper
    $800 15
a shower

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Warren G. Harding

Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
Julian Sands

Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
Mato Grosso

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 19
(Ken: Yes, 90 men in [*] at the time.)

the Senate

Scott
    $1000 12
a Border Collie

Julia
    $1000 16
Singapore

Ameen
    $1000 5
(Ken: Yes, grew up speaking Dutch.)

Van Buren

Scott

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

Scott Julia Ameen
$1,000 $1,400 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Julia Ameen
$4,000 $1,800 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WAR LOCKS
TV KIDS
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE
LITERATURE
DON'T EAT THE PICTURES
"MP"
(Ken: Those two letters will appear together in each correct response.)
    $400 28
Delilah

Scott
    $400 26
(Ken: Yeah, sorry about the bad Addams Family memory, Scott.)
[Laughter]

Pugsley

Scott
    $400 30
(Ken: To minimize [*], yes, our Canadian contestant got that one right.)
[Laughter]

tariffs

Ameen
    $400 20
Fahrenheit 451

Scott
    $400 24
a peacock

Scott
    $400 29
triumphant

Scott
    $800 22
Rastafarianism

Scott
    $800 23
Nelson

Ameen
    $800 21
intellectual property

Ameen
    $800 19
Hardy

Julia
    $800 25
(Scott: What is wasabi?)
(Ameen: What is... napa?)

daikon

ScottJuliaAmeen
    $800 27
(Ameen: What's a scone?)

a crumpet

JuliaAmeen
    $1200 5
the Steelers

Scott
    $1200 11
(Ken: He was Obi-Wan; she was [*].)

Princess Leia

Triple Stumper
    $1200 16
(Ken: Yes, for Central America.)

CAFTA

Scott
    $1200 1
Woolf

Scott
    $1200 10
(Ken: From Greek myth, The Garden of [*].)

the Hesperides

Triple Stumper
    $4,000 4
impresario

Scott
    $1600 6
the Meiji Restoration

Ameen
    $1600 12
(Ken: Who is Tony's oldest--[*].)

Meadow Soprano

Triple Stumper
    $1600 17
(Ken: That would be the State of [*] if it were a country.)

California

Triple Stumper
    $1600 2
a madeleine

Scott
    $1600 8
Holy Roman Emperor

Scott
    $1600 14
an emporium

Scott
    $5,000 7
(Ken: Ameen?)
(Ameen: Who are the woad raiders?)

the Picts

Ameen
    $2000 13
(Ken: Yes, from Game of Thrones.)

Joffrey

Scott
    $2000 18
rare-earth elements

Ameen
    $2000 3
O'Connor

Scott
    $2000 9
(Ameen: Who is... van Gogh?)

Cézanne

JuliaAmeen
    $2000 15
camphor

Ameen

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Julia Ameen
$22,400 $6,200 $2,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE WORDS
(Ken: [To Ameen] Karel Čapek coined the word "robot"; Asimov coined [*].)
AmeenWhat is Robotics? Hi Mom :)
$105
JuliaWhat is robotics?
$0
ScottWhat is Robotics?
$8,000
robotics

Final scores:

Scott Julia Ameen
$30,400 $6,200 $2,705
12-day champion: $312,501 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Scott Julia Ameen
$19,600 $6,200 $7,600
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 9 R,
2 W		 14 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,400

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Game tape date: 2025-05-07
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