Show #9315 2025-04-18 (taped 2025-02-25) Regular

Liam Starnes game 1.

Contestants

Liam Starnes — an undergraduate student from Barrington, Illinois

Rachael Gray — a graduate student from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Steven Hoying — an attorney-at-law from Hilliard, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,403)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $600 $4,200 $13,800 $19,800
2nd place: $3,000
$13,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Rachael $3,400 $6,200 $16,200 $4,200
3rd place: $2,000
$13,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Liam $2,400 $4,400 $19,600 $32,401
New champion: $32,401
$15,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT FOOD BRANDS ROUGHLY TURN OF THE CENTURY MUSIC "G" IN THE MIDDLE STAND THE LIVER
$200 [26]
June 17, 1972:5 burglary suspects were arrested in the early morning at 2600 Virginia Ave.N.W., this complex
Watergate
Steven
$200 [10]
Beginning in the '60s, it was "Choosy mothers choose" this brand of peanut butter; in the '80s, "Choosy moms"
Jif
Steven
$200 [28]
"I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want!", say this line after "If you wanna be my lover..."
you gotta get with my friends
Rachael
$200 [29]
A good deal at a low price; The Who sang of "the best I ever had"
bargain
Liam
$200 [22]
When playing blackjack, you may decide to "stand" this 3-letter way, which means you don't want any more cards
pat
Steven
$200 [30]
Boxers know anatomy, as when Bernard Hopkins "operated" on Oscar De La Hoya's liver with a punch under this bony enclosure
the rib cage
Steven
$400 [27]
June 11, 1963:Governor George Wallacestood in a doorway of this university in an effort to exclude Black students
the University of Alabama
Rachael
$400 [5]
Products from Udi's famously lack this, per its logo
gluten
$400 [25]
In 1999 this Spanglish-titled tune topped the charts for 5 weeks
"Livin' La Vida Loca"
Rachael
$400 [16]
The herring type is a common species of this beach-combing, chip-stealing, flying fellow
a seagull
Steven
$400 [23]
An imbalance between positive & negative charges as electrons move gives us this type of electricity that can make your hair stand on end
static electricity
Liam
$400 [24]
In 2020 the government said most U.S. adults should be screened for this dangerous, often symptomless letter of hepatitis
C
Liam
$600 [7]
June 25, 1950:Earlier today Communist troops from the north attacked South Korea across this numeric frontier
the 38th parallel
Liam
$600 [15]
Introduced in the 1920s, this Japanese mayo brand was named for a novelty doll popular around the world
Kewpie
Steven Rachael
$600 [13]
"Wah-haw, it was good, livin' with you", sang this New Orleans alt-rock trio
Better than Ezra
$600 [4]
This adjective describes the production of very low temperatures, perhaps to create a chamber
cryogenic
$600 [3]
Stephen King said "The Stand" was inspired by Tolkien & that this city where the action climaxes was a sort of Mordor
Las Vegas
Rachael
$600 [2]
Many of this band's concerts featured Phil Lesh urging the audience to be organ donors, like the man whose liver gave Phil 26 years
The Grateful Dead
Rachael
$800 [11]
March 25, 2003:Rebels in this country's Darfur province attacked govt. forces to protest treatment of non-Arabs
Sudan
Liam
$800 [9]
To honor its co-founder, Dreyer's ice cream goes by this name east of the Rockies
Edy's
Rachael
$800 [12]
This Digital Underground rapper would "shoot an arrow like Cupid, I'll use a word that don't mean nothin', like 'looptid"'
Shock G (Humpty Hump)
$800 [17]
5 letters but just one vowel?! That causes me a great deal of this feeling of anxiety
angst
Rachael
$800 [19]
A hit in 1968, this song standard begins, "Sometimes it's hard to be a woman"
"Stand By Your Man"
Steven
$800 [1]
Oil from this fish's liver, a good source of vitamins A & D, was given out to British kids 5 & under starting in 1940
cod
Rachael
$1,000 [14]
October 16, 1995:Today, thousands of Black males converged on the nation's capital for arallyknown by this triply alliterative name
the Million Man March
Liam
$1,000 [6]
This flour brand got its name in 1896 & a new logo, a wheat crown, in 2020
King Arthur
$1,000 [8]
"Creepin' with the girl next door"? "Caught me on camera"? No problem for Shaggy & Rik Rok, with this laughingly untrue title alibi
"It Wasn't Me"
Steven
$1,000 [18]
Twyla Tharp was credited as this person on Broadway shows like "Singin' in the Rain" & "Movin' Out"
the choreographer
Liam
DD $1,800 [20]
Around 1675 he said:"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
(Isaac) Newton
Steven
$1,000 [21]
If your liver isn't adequately processing this pigment, leading to Gilbert syndrome, just know it's utterly harmless
bilirubin
Rachael

Double Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE PACIFIC PREPOSITIONS IN BOOK TITLES THE ARTS NOTABLE WOMEN MOVIE LOCALES 6-LETTER VOCAB
$400 [22]
A historic Russian Orthodoxchurchdominates the town of Saint Paul on an island in the middle of this Pacific sea
the Bering
Rachael
$400 [30]
"By the Shores of Silver Lake" is the fifth book in this series about pioneer life
Little House on the Prairie
Steven
$400 [29]
Thick varnish was the reason for this byname of Rembrandt's 1642 painting of a militia company
The Night Watch
Liam
$400 [28]
In 2022 Twitter called this tennis great "the most tweeted about female athlete ever"
Serena Williams
Liam
$400 [21]
The Hook & Ladder 8building at 14 North Moore Street in Manhattan plays a memorable role in this 1984 film
Ghostbusters
Steven
$400 [27]
The backwards jerk after a gun is fired, or to jerk back in revulsion
recoil
Rachael
$800 [15]
Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei & Yap are the 4 Federated States of this
Micronesia
Steven
$800 [20]
"Before Night Falls" is Reinaldo Arenas' memoir describing his life as a gay man persecuted in this country
Cuba
$800 [25]
In this opera based on a fairy tale, the witch sings, "Nibble, nibble, little mouse, who's nibbling at my little house?"
Hansel and Gretel
Steven
$800 [23]
After designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial & a civil rights memorial, she pursued other forms of art & architecture
Maya Lin
Rachael
$800 [18]
Opened in 1896, the Ohio State Reformatory closed in 1990, a few years before this Best Picture nominee was filmed there
The Shawshank Redemption
Rachael
$800 [26]
The strangulated type of this rupture cuts off the blood supply to body tissue & can lead to gangrene
a strangulated hernia
$1,200 [5]
A name that literally translates to "northern sea route" is fitting for this most northerly of Japan's main islands
Hokkaido
Liam
$1,600 [7]
Charlaine Harris' "From Dead to Worse" finds this Louisiana waitress caught between weres & vamps again as her boyfriend disappears
Sookie Stackhouse
Rachael
$1,200 [24]
Frank Gehry was the architect behind Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles & this museum in Bilbao, Spain
the Guggenheim
Liam
$1,200 [3]
To anyone who criticized this "Coming of Age" anthropologist or her work, she had a word--"piffle!"
Margaret Mead
Liam
$1,200 [17]
Onlookers sang "Louie, Louie" at the 1986 razing of dilapidated 755 E. 11th St. in Eugene, Ore., a location in this 1978 comedy
Animal House
Steven
$1,200 [11]
Also called a belvedere, this roofed garden structure is said to have gotten its name from an 18th century joke
gazebo
$1,600 [4]
The largest island of Mexico, Tiburón island is an uninhabited desert & nature reserve on this arm of the Pacific
the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortés)
Liam
$2,000 [19]
Skiing & getting married are new activities for James Bond in this 1963 novel
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Steven
$2,000 [13]
Whenthis Stravinsky ballet premiered in 1911, Nijinsky played the title puppet
Petrushka
Liam
$1,600 [2]
The headquarters building for the U.S. Department of Labor is named for her, the first woman to head a Cabinet department
(Frances) Perkins
Liam
$1,600 [16]
The Café des Deux Moulins is where this winsome Parisienne waits tables while awaiting her fabulous destiny
Amélie
$1,600 [1]
It's a German noun referring to a trashy work of art, yet one that some can't help but love
kitsch
Liam
$2,000 [14]
The shallow Arafura Sea of the Western Pacific lies between Australia & this 300,000-square-mile island to the north
New Guinea
Steven
DD $4,000 [8]
It's the title of Demi Moore's memoir; Bruce Willis & Ashton Kutcher are characters, but not Joy, Anger, Sadness or Bing Bong
Inside Out
Rachael
DD $6,000 [6]
Grand Rapids, Michigan has a public sculpture by this man--a 42-ton stabile
(Alexander) Calder
Liam
$2,000 [9]
Even before Watson & Crick, shedescribed DNA as a big helix, but the men got all the credit
Rosalind Franklin
Rachael
$2,000 [10]
In "Die Hard", the Century City Fox Plaza plays this plaza where I'm definitely not attending any parties
Nakatomi (Plaza)
Steven
$2,000 [12]
Brazilian star Anitta recalled "playing in the streets" in this type of informal settlement in Rio
a favela
Liam

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES

The year the Democratic nominee gave his "Cross of Gold" speech, the GOP nominee was this man who backed the gold standard

(William) McKinley

Steven "Who was William McKinley?" — wagered $6,000
Rachael "Who was Taft?" — wagered $12,000
Liam "Who is McKinley?" — wagered $12,801

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