Responses for Show #9385 - Friday, July 25, 2025

Scott Riccardi game 17.
Last game of Season 41.

Contestants

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Jonathan Hugendubler, an adjunct professor and trivia host from Baltimore, Maryland

Charlotte Cooper, a graphic designer from San Francisco, California

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 16-day cash winnings total $455,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WAR BONDS
(Ken: You name the war.)
STARS
TELEVISED CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
WHAT'S THAT SPELL?
COMPOUND WORDS IN OTHER WORDS
(Ken: For example, if the clue had the word "hindcramp" in it, you would respond "backache".)
FREAKIER FRIDAYS
(Jamie: I'm Jamie Lee Curtis.) (Lindsay: And I'm Lindsay Lohan.) (Jamie: And we'll trade off clues...) (Lindsay: But not bodies...) (Jamie: With a category about some freaky Fridays in history.)
    $200 25
(Charlotte: What is World War II?)

the Korean War

CharlotteJonathan
    $200 26
(Ken: Yes, Lucy in the sky.)

diamond

Charlotte
    $200 27
Dexter

Scott
    $200 28
(Ken: Yes, it rhymes.)

bubble

Charlotte
    $200 30
a waistcoat

Scott
    $200 29
(Ken: Our thanks to Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis for that category; Freakier Friday hits theaters August 8.)

the iPhone

Scott
    $400 24
the Gulf War

Jonathan
    $400 23
Pollux

Jonathan
    $400 22
Mary-Louise Parker

Scott
    $400 21
Open sesame

Scott
    $400 20
a playground

Scott
    $400 19
Soyuz (IV)

Scott
    $600 1
the Crimean War

Charlotte
    $600 10
a Scythe (Sickle)

Jonathan
    $600 11
Futurama

Charlotte
    $600 15
(Ken: That's correct but nothing burst into flames here, so I must have said it wrong.)
[Laughter]

Gandalf

Scott
    $600 8
a courtyard

Scott
    $600 18
Hewlett-Packard

Charlotte
    $800 4
(Jonathan: What is the... American Revolution?)

the French and Indian War

ScottJonathan
    $800 2
Sirius

Triple Stumper
    $800 3
(Jonathan: What is Luther?)

The Wire

ScottJonathan
    $2,000 16
the (Egyptian) Book of the Dead

Scott
    $800 6
mastermind

Scott
    $800 13
William McKinley

Jonathan
    $1000 5
(Jonathan: What is... the, uh, Wars of the Roses?)

the Hundred Years' War

CharlotteJonathan
    $1000 9
a red giant

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
Baby Reindeer

Jonathan
    $1000 17
Avada Kedavra

Scott
    $1000 7
a flowerpot

Scott
    $1000 14
the Knights Templar

Scott

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

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$5,600 $2,200 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$10,800 $3,000 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

STATELY BODIES OF WATER
WRITERS ON WRITING
THEY'RE ALL GREEKS TO ME
THE WAY WE WORE
FAMOUS ANIMATED VOICES
16-LETTER WORDS
    $400 30
Lake Michigan

Jonathan
    $400 29
a semicolon

Charlotte
    $400 28
(Ken: Yes, don't try that at home, either, by the way.)
(Charlotte: I won't.)
[Laughter]

Hippocrates

Charlotte
    $400 26
a toga

Charlotte
    $400 27
the Iron Giant

Scott
    $400 25
(Charlotte: What is widdershins? Or [*]?)
(Ken: Yes, [*], you corrected yourself before I ruled.)

counterclockwise

Charlotte
    $800 24
the Missouri

Scott
    $800 23
The Elements of Style

Scott
    $800 22
Epicurus

Scott
    $800 21
a Knickerbocker

Scott
    $800 9
Broderick

Scott
    $800 18
a quadricentennial

Scott
    $1200 15
the Gulf of Alaska

Scott
    $1200 12
Pullman

Scott
    $1200 6
Pericles

Scott
    $1200 20
a ruff

Scott
    $1200 5
Madagascar

Jonathan
    $1200 10
disqualification

Scott
    $2,000 1
Massachusetts Bay

Jonathan
    $1600 4
Angelou

Scott
    $1600 2
Leonidas

Jonathan
    $1600 19
(Ken: Maternity [*], ouch.)

a corset

Charlotte
    $1600 7
The Emperor's New Groove

Charlotte
    $1600 11
environmentalist

Jonathan
    $2000 16
Delaware Bay

Triple Stumper
    $2000 14
The Waste Land

Jonathan
    $4,400 3
Lysistrata

Jonathan
    $2000 17
a baldric

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
Piece by Piece

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
nonbiodegradable

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$23,600 $7,800 $14,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY NAMES
(Ken: [To Charlotte] We did not mention his 28 newspapers, but you got it anyway.)
...
[Ken: [To Jonathan] Oh, this just got interesting; he's correct as well...)
CharlotteWho is Hearst?
$7,800
JonathanWho is hearst?
$9,601
ScottWho is Howard Hughes?
$5,000
William Randolph Hearst

Final scores:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$18,600 $15,600 $23,601
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $23,601

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Scott Charlotte Jonathan
$22,400 $7,800 $11,200
29 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 12 R,
1 W		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $41,400

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Game tape date: 2025-05-08
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