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    $1000 8
This river runs past the largest French-speaking city in Africa & maybe even the world
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Show #9326 - Monday, May 5, 2025

Ben Ganger game 5.

Contestants

Rhyne Modlin, a scientist and entrepreneur from Hickory, North Carolina

Ellen Goldlust, a historian, editor and yoga teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia

Ben Ganger, a data analyst from Goshen, Indiana (4-day champion whose cash winnings total $96,415)

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT CENTURY?
"BIG" NICKNAMES
LAKES & RIVERS
EIGHTH NOTES
IN THE BANK
9-LETTER WORDS
    $200 27
Queen Elizabeth I of England dies & is succeed by her Scottish cousin James I
    $200 21
Listed at 6'5" & 250 at mlb.com, slugger Mark McGwire had this fast food nickname
    $200 28
The Loup & Elkhorn are tributaries of this Nebraska river whose name comes from the French for "flat"
    $200 30
The 8th Amendment protects against cruel & unusual punishment & "excessive" this
    $200 29
A 2004 law permitted banks to "truncate" these, create legally valid images of them, & no longer return canceled ones
    $200 26
To make a surprising announcement is to "drop" this projectile
    $400 22
Led by Caballero & Yegros, Paraguay declares independence
    $400 18
Arnold Rothstein, who allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series, roamed New York City as this long before "Sex and the City" used the moniker
    $400 23
Water evaporating in summer leaves mineral-rich pools in Spotted Lake in this westernmost Canadian province
    $400 7
Published 1852-1860, the 8th edition of this reference work had 22 volumes & Lord Kelvin's article on the telegraph
    $400 25
If interest levels rise, this, an ARM, might cost you an arm & a leg
    $400 20
Latin for sword gives us this word for a certain fighter in ancient Rome
    $600 19
The Medici family takes power in Florence under Cosimo the Elder
    $600 17
He's a scout leader in "South Park"
    DD: $3,600 10
The Desna River flows into the Dnieper River near this world capital
    $600 6
His 8th symphony, famously incomplete, premiered in 1865, 37 years after his death
    $600 24
There are 12 of these banks across the country, numbered from 1 in Boston to 12 in San Francisco
    $600 14
It's the motion of the golf club & body away from the ball before it's hit
    $800 3
Denis Diderot & friends try to summarize knowledge in the Encyclopédie
    $800 11
Cornell since about 1905, or cinnamon gum since 1975
    $800 15
In 2018 Dolce & Gabbana held the show of their Alta Moda made-to-measure line on this glam lake of northern Italy
    $800 1
The 8th of these tasks to be completed was to capture the man-eating mares of King Diomedes
    $800 9
It's the developmental term for the due date at which a bond or other financial instrument becomes payable
    $800 13
It's a 1-word aka for white blood cell
    $1000 4
Genghis Khan unites the Mongol tribes & invades China
    $1000 5
"Don Lie" is one of many tracks teaming Lil Wayne & this different-sized Detroit rapper
    $1000 8
This river runs past the largest French-speaking city in Africa & maybe even the world
    $1000 2
According to Dante, the 8th of these realms was for the eternal punishment of fraudsters like seducers & flatterers
    $1000 16
A bank may raise the interest on your credit card if you have a high DTI ratio, DTI standing for this comparison
    $1000 12
An aid to instruction, it's a summary of Christian beliefs & principles in question & answer form

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

Ben Ellen Rhyne
$3,800 $600 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Ellen Rhyne
$6,000 $3,000 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY DRESS-UP
MOVIE TITLE ROLES
FROM THYME TO TIME
(Ken: These are responses that come between those two words in the dictionary.)
WARS OF THE ROSES
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
LANCASTER
    $400 14
"An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin" is part of his ensemble
    $400 30
Diane Keaton's real-life nickname & surname became this 1977 role for which she won an Oscar
    $400 29
A decorative piece of headgear, perhaps for a pope
    $400 1
Entertainment Weekly ranked the 2024 season of this, when Kelsey beat out Daisy for Joey's final rose, as the best yet
    $400 23
On Dec. 27, 1932 100,000 wanted to see this group first get their kicks & have a hall of a time at Radio City; only 6,200 got in
    $400 28
The Lancaster Caramel Company was an early success for this man before he began his chocolate company
    $800 15
More like literary dress-down, Donne's "To His Mistress Going to Bed" says, "Off with" this, named for encircling the waist
    $800 25
"Stupid is as stupid does" is just one of the sayings this character borrows from his mother
    $800 26
A term used in poker, to be "on" this means to be acting with emotion, not using your head
    $800 27
Excessive prickles, more commonly called these, are a symptom of the grower's foe rose rosette disease
    $800 22
In 1754 what's today this Ivy League university started on Lower Broadway as Professor Johnson taught 8 students
    $800 24
One of 5 children of a postal worker, he starred in films like "Birdman of Alcatraz" & "From Here to Eternity"
    $1200 20
An admiral's uniform with white breeches & gold frogging on the tailcoat is one creation of John le Carré's "The Tailor of" this country
    $1200 2
In a 2024 film described as a musical story of rebirth, a Mexican cartel leader named Manitas transitions to become her
    $1200 21
It consists of two connected oblong lobes lying on either side of the trachea
    $1200 17
Defying marigold boosters, the rose was named National Flower & Aimee Lynn Richelieu, holder of this title in Pasadena, was there
    $1200 18
This musical danced onto Broadway at the Shubert on July 25 & stuck around for 15 years; now from the top, a 5, 6, 7, 8...
    $1200 7
Pennsylvania's Lancaster County borders on this river whose name may come from an indigenous word for "muddy river"
    $1600 19
Tom Rath, "The Man in" this outfit symbolizing 1950s conformity, works in the mindless, soul-crushing hell of TV public relations
    $1600 4
George Clooney received an Oscar nomination for his role as a fixer for a prestigious law firm in this 2007 film
    DD: $3,400 10
Marinated meat cooked on a skewer, Indian style
    $1600 16
Constance Spry, the first cultivar, called this type of rose, appeared in Britain in 1961, just like Diana, also called that kind of rose
    $1600 3
Diminutive in size but not style, this writer threw a black-&-white ball that was the talk of the town on Nov. 28, 1966
    $1600 5
Lancaster Sound, a western arm of this large Canadian bay west of Greenland, was sighted in 1616
    DD: $2,500 12
Later immortalized by Audrey Hepburn, she "wore a slim cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker"
    $2000 13
In 1974, she played Foxy Brown; in 1997, Jackie Brown
    $2000 9
These Latin American drums come in pairs & are usually played with sticks
    $2000 11
This country grows the most roses sold in the U.S., partly because we lowered tariffs to encourage producing more flowers & less coca
    $2000 8
We can ride 31 miles on the city's longest subway line: this one that inspired a jazz standard
    $2000 6
The house of Lancaster that fought & lost the Wars of the Roses was a branch of this originally French house

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben Ellen Rhyne
$11,500 $4,000 $2,600
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Of the 4 independent nations of the Americas without English or Spanish as an official language, it's the smallest in area

Final scores:

Ben Ellen Rhyne
$9,500 $2,799 $1,600
5-day champion: $105,915 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben Ellen Rhyne
$14,000 $11,000 $2,600
22 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R,
8 W
(including 2 DDs)		 6 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $27,600

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