Show #9289 2025-03-13 (taped 2025-01-27) Regular

Contestants

Liz Engelhardt — a teacher from Concord, New Hampshire

Jack Goldfisher — a screenwriter and director from Los Angeles, California

James Corson — a nuclear engineer from Frederick, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $70,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
James	$1,600	$2,000	$13,200	$13,200 2nd place: $3,000	$12,800 16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jack	$3,800	$7,600	$20,400	$32,401 New champion: $32,401	$16,400 23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Liz	$2,200	$4,400	$16,200	$5,800 3rd place: $2,000	$12,400 16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FEETNOTES IN HISTORY	US & STEM	MUSICAL CHAIRS	AMERICA PARKS	YES, WE HALVE THAT	BEASTLY VERBS
$200 [25] Herehe is, our favorite "Little Corporal", getting his tootsie looked at by a field surgeon (Napoleon) Bonaparte Jack	$200 [23] Our panel agrees: Many renewable energy engineers work on this, the most abundant type of renewable energy solar Jack	$200 [29] A regal Nicki Minaj decreed, "If you was as real as me, you would never let another girl sit in" this seat throne Jack	$200 [11] Auto-folding & power-folding for these objects on cars are helpful when you park on a busy street mirrors Jack	$200 [28] By the power of thorium-232! that has a this of 14.05 billion years, you know, give or take a half-life Liz	$200 [8] In some situations "heads up!" means this, more like "heads down!" duck James
$400 [24] This president said bathing his feet in cold water every morning at Monticello kept him from getting colds Thomas Jefferson Liz	$400 [21] Divide & conquer:It's the denominator's upstairs neighbor numerator Jack	$400 [19] In "I Wanna Be Sedated", this group urges, "Put me in a wheelchair, get me to the show" the Ramones James	$400 [30] The GMC Hummer EV has a parking feature called this crustacean "walk" that allows it to move its wheels diagonally crab Jack	$400 [27] In 1998, snowboarding entered the Olympic Games & Switzerland & Germany took gold in this event half-pipe Jack	$400 [17] It's a fluke, or to struggle & thrash as if on muddy ground to flounder
$600 [6] In 2013 this Argentinian broke tradition by washing the feet of female & Muslim inmates at a detention center Pope Francis Liz	$600 [1] We have this rover, yes we do; we have this rover touching down in Mars's Gusev Crater on January 3rd, 2004, how 'bout you? Spirit James Jack	$600 [2] "Love, soft as an easy chair", sang Barbra Streisand on "Evergreen" , the love theme from the 1976 remake of this film A Star is Born Liz	$800 [13] In 2015 the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration removed this alliterative feat from its driver's test parallel parking James	$600 [26] A traditional guideline for waist size, measured at the navel, is to keep it under half of this your height	$600 [16] It's a burrowing mammal, a nickname for a resident of a Midwest state & a verb that means to annoy badger Liz
$800 [7] In the 1660s the Qing emperor Kangxi banned this practice that harmed girls, but it didn't leave for good until the 20th century feet-binding Jack	$800 [10] A pinnacle would often add stability to a "flying" one of these inclined bars typical in Gothic architecture (flying) buttress Jack	$800 [3] Jason Aldean had a 2016 country hit called "Any Ol"' this chair (naturally the song mentions "more Jack in my Coke") barstool James Jack	DD $1,000 [9] This airport in Wash. named for 2 cities has one of the largest parking garages in the U.S.--13,000 spaces, 8 stories high Sea-Tac (Seattle-Tacoma International) James	$800 [5] Solomon calls for a child to be cut in half in 1 this Bible book, but of course there's a wise method to the seeming madness Kings James	$800 [14] A wading bird, or to shoot at someone from a concealed spot snipe Jack
$1,000 [22] During a restoration, a trap door was fitted between the front paws of this structure found in Giza the Sphinx Jack	$1,000 [20] Attempting to unify many scientific ideas, "On the Dynamical Theory of Heat" was Kelvin's take on the 2nd law of this thermodynamics Liz	$1,000 [18] Their 1985 album "Songs From the Big Chair" includes their hits "Shout" & "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" Tears for Fears Jack	$1,000 [12] Located in the Southeast, this most-visited U.S. natl. park requires a parking tag if you want to stay longer than 15 minutes Great Smoky Mountains James	$1,000 [4] 50% of King George V, or a tie knot you finish by going up into the neck loop from under & down into the loop you created in front half-Windsor Jack	$1,000 [15] A bullet, or to punch a guy; Raymond Chandler used it both ways slug Liz

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE!	A BIT OF LIT	HAND ME A MALLET	SCIENTIFICALLY TITLED MOVIES	NATIONAL ANTHEMS	BEGINS & ENDS WITH "A"
$400 [30] Hismustache became bushier over the years & was perhaps the most famousonein science Einstein James	$400 [4] The title of this Steinbeck novel came from a line in "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" The Grapes of Wrath Liz	$400 [25] I'm sculpting in the Carrara type of this stone marble Liz	$400 [27] The title of this Matthew McConaughey film describes the space between the stars Interstellar James	$400 [23] In 1949 it replaced "Marcia Trionfale" with "Inno E Marcia Pontificale" the Vatican James	$400 [19] The leader of the pack (of dogs) goes by this Greek letter alpha Jack
$800 [29] Hewas the last president to sport a 'stache Taft James	$800 [28] "Matilda" was one of the last books by this author of beloved children's stories Roald Dahl Liz	$800 [24] I'm playing this sport with goalposts at either end of a 300-yard-long grass field polo Jack	$800 [26] A continental right-lateral strike-slip fault gives us the title of this Dwayne Johnson film San Andreas Jack	$800 [15] In use since 1770, its "Marcha Real" is one of the few national anthems with no lyrics Spain Jack	$800 [17] This common salad ingredient with a peppery taste is also called garden rocket arugula James
$1,200 [10] Two of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution were the mustachioed Pancho Villa&this Tiger of Morelos Zapata Liz	$1,600 [6] This author & her "Mrs. Dalloway" figure prominently in Michael Cunningham's novel "The Hours" (Virginia) Woolf James	$1,200 [12] I'm playing this arcade game with 5 holes & randomly appearing insectivores Whac-A-Mole James	$1,200 [1] This Aaron Eckhart film has the name of an "inner" & "outer" layer full of iron & nickel The Core Liz	$1,600 [18] A collective of 49 students & teachers from the University of Juba wrote its anthem, selected at a 2010 talent show to cheering crowds South Sudan Liz	$1,200 [7] Fear of the brown recluse & its relatives arachnophobia Jack
$1,600 [11] Perhaps it was his mustache that gave this superman philosopher his strength Nietzsche James	$2,000 [14] In 1935 his semi-autobiographical "Of Time and the River" was published as a sequel to "Look Homeward, Angel" Thomas Wolfe	$1,600 [13] I'm playing this instrument with a German name meaning "bell play" glockenspiel Jack	$1,600 [2] This1985 Brat Pack movie was a real electric phenomenon St. Elmo's Fire Liz	$2,000 [20] Its anthem has 4 different titles, in French, German, Italian & Romansch Switzerland James	$1,600 [8] A psychedelic plant medicine traditionally used by indigenous cultures in South America & by Aaron Rodgers ayahuasca Liz
$2,000 [21] Thismustachioed composer was best known for his opera "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo Jack Liz	DD $5,000 [5] Regarding the double-talk name of this character in "Lolita", Nabokov said, "It is a hateful name for a hateful person" Humbert Humbert Liz	$2,000 [22] A surgical one, please--I'm performing this 11-letter operation to change the nose's shape & improve breathing rhinoplasty Jack	$2,000 [3] This1997 sci-fi film with Laurence Fishburne shares its name with the boundary at the edge of a black hole Event Horizon Jack	DD $5,200 [16] Because of political pressure, it uses "Guo Qi Ge", the "National Banner Song", in place of its anthem at international events Taiwan Jack	$2,000 [9] Per Ovid, "They bound her fettered arms fast to the rock" to "grieve her mother's tongue" Andromeda James

Final Jeopardy!

GAMES

This game inaugurated a craze that "scandalized the puritanical and drove chiropractors wild with delight"

Twister

James "What is she sells seashells by the seashore?" — wagered $0

Liz "What is hula hoop?" — wagered $10,400

Jack "What is Twister? ♡ HiCaCapone is & mom" — wagered $12,001

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