Show #9337 2025-05-20 (taped 2025-03-17) Regular

Brendan Liaw game 1.

Contestants

Wendy Poush — a floor manager from Des Moines, Iowa

Brendan Liaw — a recent graduate and stay-at-home son from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mitch Loflin — a set decoration coordinator from Long Beach, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,700)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mitch	$400	$2,400	$12,400	$6,220 2nd place: $3,000	$10,000 16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Brendan	$600	$1,600	$19,200	$13,599 New champion: $13,599	$19,200 23 R, 6 W
Wendy	$5,200	$6,200	$11,900	$3,800 3rd place: $2,000	$11,600 14 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

TAKE ME TO YOUR COMPANY LEADER	TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLES	18th CENTURY AVIATION	NO TIME TO SAY THE WHOLE WORD	AT THE CEMETERY	THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE
$200 [18] She is chairman of her "OWN" network that premiered in 2011, & I do believe you've heard her name at least once or twice Oprah Wendy	$200 [27] "Commissions & Fees" &"Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency" Mad Men Brendan	$200 [26] America's 1st manned balloon flight took off from the Walnut Street Prison in this city with George Washington in the crowd Philadelphia	$200 [29] Thanks for the restaurant "recs"--we went with that Burmese place recommendation Brendan	$200 [30] Be patient with the long black car moving very slowly; it's one of these vehicles specially made for bearing a casket a hearse Wendy	$200 [22] Back in the day, this state capital was the last horse-&-rider stop on the Pony Express Sacramento Brendan
$400 [1] Here's a package deal: once CFO for The Home Depot, Carol Tomé now delivers as CEO of this 3-letter company UPS Brendan	$400 [17] "Threat Level Midnight" &"The Michael Scott Paper Company" The Office Brendan	$400 [25] Early balloonists are said to have carried this to calm freaked-out farmers once they landed; now it's handed out at the end of a ride champagne Wendy	$400 [28] Public Enemy & other hip-hop acts helped bring "camo" into mainstream fashion camouflage Brendan	$400 [24] "Cemetery worker" is modern parlance for this job title that's also the name of a famous monster truck gravedigger Wendy	$400 [21] On Obama's pre-inaugural whistle-stop train tour in 2009, this Washington, D.C. station was the end of the line Union Station Brendan
$600 [16] The blue shirts of this company's stores look to CEOCorie Barryfor leadership Best Buy Mitch	$600 [14] "Man City" &"Trent Crimm: The Independent" Ted Lasso Brendan	$600 [5] Jettisoning their pants to stay aloft, John Jeffries & J.-P. Blanchard made the first aerial crossing of this body of water the English Channel Brendan Wendy	$600 [7] Thanks for handling that customer complaint; I just can't take any more "aggro" right now aggression (aggravation) Mitch	$600 [23] It's the "ex"act opposite of burying a body, & you'd better have a good reason for doing it exhume Wendy	$600 [20] 5 days of round-trip choo-chooing on the Royal Canadian Pacific puts you back where you began in this city, Alberta's largest Calgary Mitch
$800 [15] Ruth Poratis President & Chief Investment Officer for this conglomerate & holding company & you can Google that Alphabet Brendan	$800 [3] "Hybrid Creatures" &"Werewolf Feud" What We Do in the Shadows Brendan	$800 [6] Flying with both these types of balloon seemed smart, but alas led to flammability risk & the 1st balloonist deaths in 1785 a hot air balloon with a hydrogen balloon Brendan	$800 [8] The famous singer tried to escape from the "paps" by going out the fire exit paparazzi Mitch	$1,000 [4] This stand where a casket rests before burial also sounds like a beverage you might need after attending the burial a bier Wendy	$800 [19] If you ride the MBTA (or "T") to the end of the Green Line's Westbound B branch, you'll be at this Jesuit college founded in 1863 BC (Boston College) Mitch Brendan
$1,000 [13] In 1988 Tricia Griffith joined this insurer as a claims rep & her mom said, "The soup company?"; in 2016 Tricia became CEO Progressive Mitch Brendan	$1,000 [2] "Miranda","Sleepover" &"Vendy Wiccany" Pen15 Mitch	$1,000 [12] Air pressure drops as you rise; so this device was used as an altimeter when Dr. Charles climbed to 10,000 feet in 1783 a barometer Brendan	$1,000 [9] I'll check the "comps" & give you an appraisal of your home's value comparables Mitch Wendy	DD $2,600 [10] This burial place for the indigent & unidentified takes its name from the Bible a potter's field Wendy	$1,000 [11] It's no longer where a famous train line ends, but there's still an Orient Express restaurantat this city's Sirkeci Station Istanbul Brendan

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALMA MATERS	GEOMETRY	STARTS WITH "U-N"	PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS	U.S. HISTORY	A + (DIRECTOR'S NAME) + (WORD FOR A MOVIE)
$400 [25] Tiffany Trump & Don Jr. both attended this Ivy League school, like their dad Penn Mitch	$400 [26] The area between 2 concentric circles in a plane is an annulus, a fancy word for this shape of great interest to Hobbits a ring Mitch	$400 [28] This word that means one of a kind comes before "New York" in a tongue twister unique Mitch	$400 [27] A David Mamet satire about a day in the life of a president up for reelection has this month as its title November Brendan	$400 [30] The formerly enslaved James Covey was a translator for the Africans at their trial after a revolt aboard this ship in 1839 Amistad Wendy	DD $100 [11] "Wonka" is "a Paul King" this 10-letter word for a sweet creation confection Wendy
$800 [24] Maybe Casamigos co-founder Rande Gerber got a taste for tequila at this Wildcat school 60 miles from the Mexican border the University of Arizona Brendan	$800 [22] As well as a drop of golden sun, it's a line segment that has a fixed starting point & extends infinitely in one direction a ray Mitch	$800 [21] Rudy Horn was a juggler who sometimes did his routine on this type of vehicle a unicycle Wendy	$800 [20] Tom Stoppard first gained fame for this play named for 2 minor characters from Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Mitch	$800 [23] This 20th century listicle included "Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas" & "Adjustment of all colonial claims" The Fourteen Points Brendan	$400 [29] "A" + the director's name + "film" is used by many filmmakers, like this auteur of "Gladiator" & "Gladiator II" (Ridley) Scott Mitch
$1,200 [18] Cyrus, son of VP Hannibal Hamlin, & Billy, nephew of VP George H.W. Bush, attended this school alphabetically just before Colgate Colby Mitch	$1,600 [4] These line segments have endpoints along a circle's edge; the circle's diameter is the longest one possible a chord Brendan	$1,200 [8] Famous ones in pop culture include Drew(Kyrie Irving)& Buck(John Candy) uncles Mitch	$1,200 [7] Thiscomedian, actor & playwright of the one-man Broadway show "Latin History for Morons" won a special Tony in 2018 Leguizamo Wendy	$1,200 [6] Winfield Scott proposed this snaky-named military plan to squeeze the life out of the Confederacy the Anaconda Plan	$800 [19] One quirk of a famed filmmaker is calling most of his movies "a Spike Lee" this joint Mitch Brendan
$1,600 [5] (Ana Navarro presents the clue.) I attended the "U" in this city near Miami & in my 2024 documentary, "The Latino Vote", I was back theretalkingto Cuban American voters Coral Gables	$2,000 [15] The branch of geometry called this -ology studies properties that stay the same even if an object bends, stretches or shrinks topology Brendan	$1,600 [3] Latin gives us this verb that means "to move in waves" undulate Brendan	$1,600 [2] Early in this play by Eugene O'Neill, some drinkers await the arrival of Hickey in Harry Hope's Saloon The Iceman Cometh Brendan	$1,600 [1] Jibreel Khazan, David Richmond, Franklin McCain & Joseph McMcMcilecame known as this city's four after a lunch counter sit-in Greensboro Brendan	$1,200 [10] Thismovie in which Trey Parker & Matt Stone invent a new sport is billed as "a David Zucker game" BASEketball Wendy
$2,000 [16] Evangelists Joel Osteen & Kenneth Copeland attended the university named for this man in Tulsa Oral Roberts Brendan	DD $3,600 [9] This geometric figure has 2 congruent & parallel polygons as its bases; its optical counterpart is more loosely defined a prism Mitch	$2,000 [13] The act of anointing; Catholicism had an "extreme" version unction Wendy	$2,000 [12] In an Edward Albee play, on the week of his 50th birthday, an architect confesses that he's in love with a goat named this Sylvia Brendan	$2,000 [14] Several policemen & demonstrators were killed during the May 4, 1886 riot at this Chicago square Haymarket Brendan	$2,000 [17] Like "Summer of Soul", "Sly Lives!", the second documentary by this drummer, is called a jawn, from his Philly roots Questlove Brendan

Final Jeopardy!

NFL GEOGRAPHY

It's the state with the lowest population density that's home to an NFL team

Nevada

Wendy "What is Colorado?" — wagered $8,100

Mitch "What is Indiana?" — wagered $6,180

Brendan "What isWisMinnesota" — wagered $5,601

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