Show #9342 2025-05-27 (taped 2025-03-18) Regular

Contestants

Jackie Yang — a resident physician from New York, New York

Tyler Griffith — a criminal forensic scientist originally from Sturgis, Michigan

Judith Friedman — a software engineer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Judith $1,800 $3,200 $6,400 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$6,400
13 R, 3 W
Tyler $2,400 $3,600 $11,200 $799
New champion: $799
$7,200
17 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Jackie $600 $3,400 $10,800 $300
2nd place: $3,000
$9,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SOMETIME IN THE LAST 300 YEARS BONSAI FACTS & THE CITY YOU CAN GO WITH THIS, YOU CAN GO WITH THAT GOLF OF AMERICA THERE'S NO I, BUT THERE'S "M-E"
$200 [26]
In the 1930s, "Black blizzards" of soil blocked the Sun in this section of the Great Plains, also a bad name for a New Year's football game
the Dust Bowl
Judith
$200 [27]
Before taking hold in Japan, the art of growing miniature trees & landscapes began as "penjing" in this country
China
Tyler
$200 [28]
The red light district has Rembrandt house &... other stuff in this city, which also boasts about 1,300 bridges to cross
Amsterdam
Judith
$200 [29]
You can go with this sunglasses company's Clubmaster, or you can go with its classic Aviators
Ray-Ban
Jackie
$200 [30]
This invitation-only event conceived by Bobby Jones has been played in Georgia since 1934
the Masters
Tyler Jackie
$200 [23]
It's the nickname for DACA recipients
the Dreamers
Jackie
$400 [6]
The Sons of Liberty formed in 1765 to oppose this British Parliament attempt at direct taxation on paper documents in the colonies
the Stamp Act
Judith
$400 [25]
Pinching & this other "P" verb help keep the tree's shape & curb growth on the outer branches
pruning
Jackie
$400 [24]
Sydney may have an opera house, but this big city on the South Coast enjoyed Puccini in the Park at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in 2024
Melbourne
Tyler
$400 [16]
You can go to Northeastern in Boston, or you can go to this directional school in Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern
Jackie
$400 [2]
At TPC Sawgrass in 1994, this Stanford freshman birdied 17 during his 1st U.S. amateur win & showed off his trademark fist pump
Tiger Woods
Tyler
$400 [21]
A flat-topped & Spanish-named rock formation, like the Hunts one in Monument Valley
a mesa
Jackie
$600 [13]
Hetold 30,000 at a be-in at Golden Gate Park in 1967 to turn on, tune in, drop out
(Timothy) Leary
Judith
$600 [7]
In "The Karate Kid" this character helps Daniel LaRusso mold a bonsai tree by telling him "Nothing exists... only the tree"
Mr. Miyagi
Tyler
$600 [8]
We'll gamble that you know that Baltic Ave. runs parallel to Mediterranean Ave. in this city, but Bally's hotel is on Pacific
Atlantic City
Tyler
$600 [3]
You can go see Luka & King James at crypto.com Arena, or you can cross town to see this other NBA team at Intuit Dome
the Clippers
Tyler
$600 [4]
A charity event, the Sony Open is held each January at the Waialae Country Club on this island; where's my invitation?
Oahu
Judith Tyler
$600 [10]
This civilian adaptation of a military vehicle guzzled gas in the '90s but is back as a GMC electric
a Hummer
Jackie
$800 [12]
Full executive power return to Japan's emperor following the 1867 ascension of Mutsuhito, better known by this name
Meiji
Judith
$800 [15]
Thistree of the cypress family, whose berries give a spirit its flavor, is a common bonsai tree due to its foliage & branch flexibility
juniper
Judith
$1,000 [11]
This Canadian provincial capital had fewer than 100,000 people in the 1880s but today is 3 million strong
Toronto
Tyler
$800 [1]
Go to Lombardi's for a N.Y. style pizza, or drive northeast one state to Pepe's to try this "New" city's thin-crusted style
New Haven
Judith
$800 [9]
The road to Monterey was packed in 1947 as the pro-am named for this silver screen crooner first came to Pebble Beach
Bing Crosby
$800 [22]
Scanty or insufficient
meager
Tyler
$1,000 [14]
From 2008 to 2012 he was president of Russia, because Putin sure wasn't still running things, no sir, it was this guy, 100%
Medvedev
Judith Tyler
$1,000 [19]
The tree flows over the pot like a verdant cataract in this bonsai style with a name like a Western U.S. mountain range
cascade
Tyler
DD $1,600 [5]
You can likely find a good coffee in this South American capital at the base of 2 mountains, Guadalupe & Monserrate
Bogotá
Tyler
$1,000 [17]
You can climb Mount Rainier, which you can see from Seattle, or you can climb this 11,000-footer you can see from Portland
Mount Hood
Jackie
$1,000 [20]
This golfing legend designed the course at Muirfield Village; here's a statue of him teaching a youngster how to play
Nicklaus
Judith
$1,000 [18]
It's a support at either end of a bridge; don't drive into it
the abutment
Tyler

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC ALASKA LITERARY HODGEPODGE THEIR FIRST TOP 40 SOLO ALBUM MOTIVATION WHAT THE 20th CENTURY KIDS WERE SAYIN' YOU GO, SISTER!
$400 [14]
In 1906 Alaska's capital was moved from Sitka to this southeastern city that can only be reached by aircraft or boat
Juneau
Tyler
$400 [22]
Chapter XIV of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is named for these winged creatures that serve the Wicked Witch
flying (winged) monkeys
Jackie
$400 [27]
2002:"Justified"
Justin Timberlake
Judith
$400 [30]
This is the major motivator for the Count of Monte Cristo, who says after 14 years cursing in prison, he must have it
revenge
Tyler
$400 [28]
That dame's the head honcho, the top dog, the large Gouda, the immense Camembert, this similar dairy phrase
the big cheese
Judith
$400 [29]
Uncredited for years, 4 nuns at the Vatican Observatory are now known to have mapped half a million of these in the early 1900s
stars
Tyler
$800 [13]
1980 brought the establishment of then ational parkcalled the Gates of this region that starts more than halfway up Alaska
the Arctic
Tyler
$800 [21]
This children's author & creator of Ramona & Beezus lived to the age of 104
(Beverly) Cleary
Jackie
$800 [26]
1998, no more Menudo for him:"Vuelve"
Ricky Martin
Tyler
$800 [19]
"A" is for this kind of therapy that associates unwanted behavior with misery, like when Cartman gets a shock each time he swears
aversion therapy
$800 [20]
This 2-word "edible" term that includes a body part is quite a punch in the mouth; thing is, nobody ever wants to eat one
a knuckle sandwich
Jackie
$800 [2]
When she died at 118 Sister Andre of France, then the world's oldest known person, had survived both COVID-19 & this 1918-19 pandemic
the Spanish flu
Jackie
$1,200 [10]
In 1784, fur trader Grigory Shelikhov strengthened Russian claims to Alaska when he established an outpost on this beastly island
Kodiak
Tyler
$1,600 [3]
Hecovered crime for the "Los Angeles Times" before putting his detective Harry Bosch on the beat in L.A.
Michael Connelly
$1,200 [25]
2006:"The Dutchess"
Fergie
$1,200 [7]
Putdowns by the opposition that motivate sports teams or players are called this "material" for where they're posted
bulletin board material
$1,200 [9]
This word was big in 1966: Carole Bayer Sager & Toni Wine heard Simon & Garfunkel use it & came up with the same "Kind Of Love"
Groovy
$1,200 [1]
California's Sisters of the Valley, aka the "Weed Nuns", make products from this active but not psychoactive ingredient
CBD
Judith
$2,000 [12]
Just as in the 1880s, when the Ancon & the Idaho made the first trips, the 500-mile stretch of Alaska called thisis a cruise ship favorite
the Inside Passage
Tyler
$2,000 [4]
Title governesses by the Brontës include Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" & this heroine created by Anne
Agnes Grey
Jackie
$1,600 [23]
1998:"The Miseducation of" her
Lauryn Hill
Jackie
$1,600 [6]
This verb meaning to get someone to act by making them feel bad otherwise can also have "trip" after it
guilt
Judith
$1,600 [8]
In the '20s the acme of excellence was this 2-word rhyming phrase with an insect & its limbs
the bee's knees
Judith
$1,600 [18]
Mother Frances Cabrini lent her name to the Cabrini homesin this city, later part of the Cabrini-Green complex
Chicago
Tyler
DD $4,800 [11]
Linking Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez, this controversial project was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion
the Alaska Pipeline
Tyler
DD $3,000 [5]
A painting by Dutch artist Carel Fabritius is at the heart of this 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction
The Goldfinch
Jackie
$2,000 [24]
1985:"The Dream of the Blue Turtles"
Sting
Judith
$2,000 [15]
Big motivators include the physiological needs like this pair that are in the lyrics to "People" (who need people)
hunger & thirst
$2,000 [16]
This 7-letter word first meant $10 in the 19th century & moved on to describe a 10-year prison sentence in the 20th
sawbuck
Jackie
$2,000 [17]
Crossing paths with the likes of Billy the Kid & often having to defend herself, Sister Blandina Segale got this punny nickname
"The Fastest Nun in the West"

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

In 1847, a decade before making national news, he was the plaintiff in a Missouri case against Irene Emerson

Dred Scott

Judith "Who is Gary Powers ??" — wagered $6,400
Jackie "Who is John Brown" — wagered $10,500
Tyler "Who is Ferguson?" — wagered $10,401

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