Show #9343 2025-05-28 (taped 2025-03-18) Regular

Contestants

Thomas Sweeney — a survey technician from Morrow, Ohio

Alice Welch — an epidemiologist from Queens, New York

Tyler Griffith — a criminal forensic scientist originally from Sturgis, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tyler $2,000 $2,600 $5,400 $8,801
3rd place: $2,000
$5,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Alice $2,800 $5,400 $8,200 $11,601
2nd place: $3,000
$10,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Thomas $2,400 $3,200 $8,800 $16,401
New champion: $16,401
$10,800
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

FIRSTS EUROPE GOING TO THE DOGS BUSINESS "&" BUSINESS ENTERTAINING WOLVERINES HAT CHAT
$200 [29]
It had its first public reading July 8, 1776
the Declaration of Independence
Alice
$200 [24]
This river begins its journey of around 2,300 miles in the Valdai Hills near Moscow
the Volga
Tyler
$200 [22]
Theshih-poowas created by crossing this breed with a toy or miniature poodle
a shih tzu
Alice
$200 [16]
Band-Aid & Tylenol are now under the parent company Kenvue, spun off from this healthcare company in 2023
Johnson & Johnson
Alice
$200 [26]
Lin-Manuel Miranda recalled Gavin Creel's talent as "our first king" with only "a Burger King crown" at this show's inception
Hamilton
Alice
$200 [11]
Once a piece of magic, it now means to score 3 times in one game
a hat trick
Tyler
$400 [30]
Commemorating a historic event of 1903, this state boasts of being "First in Flight" on its license plates
North Carolina
Alice
$400 [19]
As an independent republic in the 18th century, this island near Sardinia flew a flag featuring a man's head wearing a white bandana
Corsica
Thomas
$400 [23]
The AKC says this breed's "'sourmug' face" is the "symbol of courage & tenacity"
bulldog
Thomas
$400 [17]
This brand offers Impretzively Fudged, Karamel Sutra & Cookie Vermont-ster
Ben & Jerry's
Tyler
$400 [12]
In 2018, Ashley Park debuted the Broadway role of toaster strudel heiress Gretchen Weiners in this show, which may or may not be fetch
Mean Girls
Thomas
$400 [10]
It's a mark of achievement; "Yankee Doodle" references the phrase
a feather in your cap
Alice
$600 [5]
Replacing Jen Psaki in 2022, Karine Jean-Pierrebecame the first Black & the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in this role
White House press secretary
Thomas
$600 [3]
The Scalinata Della Trinità dei Monti is the Italian name for this staircase in Rome
the Spanish Steps
Thomas
$600 [25]
This jumbo breed is featured in Sigrid Nunez' novel "The Friend" & Naomi Watts said the dog actor in the movie "stole my heart"
a Great Dane
Alice Thomas
$600 [18]
The 20V Max Powerconnect cordless circular saw provides a slice of life from this brand
Black+Decker
Thomas
$600 [13]
A Tony winner for "A Soldier's Play", David Alan Grier began practicing medicine at this sitcom title hospital in 2024
St. Denis
Alice
$600 [4]
If your brain is abuzz with an obsession, you have this headgear affliction
a bee in your bonnet
$800 [7]
Far from home, in 1965 Alexei Leonov became the first person to do this; it lasted 12 minutes
space walk
Thomas
DD $1,000 [1]
This monolith is a nature reserve for about 230 Barbary macaques
the Rock of Gibraltar
Tyler
$800 [8]
Thiswolfhound gets its name from Russian for "swift"
a borzoi
Tyler
$800 [20]
In 1935 this company first brandished its .357 Magnum
Smith & Wesson
Tyler
$800 [27]
After meeting in a ballet class, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul got to composing, winning an Oscar for "City of Stars" from this 2016 film
La La Land
Tyler Alice
$800 [14]
If you show up this way to meet someone, you need a favor from them
hat in hand
Alice
$1,000 [6]
The 2024film"Young Woman and the Sea" is the story of this American, the first woman to swim across the English Channel
Gertrude Ederle
$1,000 [2]
This capital is located where Lake Mälar meets Saltsjön
Stockholm
Tyler
$1,000 [9]
Thisretriever's ancestors include two St. John's water dogs rescued from an 1807 shipwreck off Maryland
the Chesapeake Bay retriever
Tyler
$1,000 [21]
Founded in 1971, this bath, body & hair care chain named for 2 17th century Brits began as a small shop called The Soap Box
Crabtree & Evelyn
Alice
$1,000 [28]
"People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom" is intoned in a classic scene by this 1955 alum
James Earl Jones
Alice
$1,000 [15]
At a circus in 1916, Pres. Wilson mimed doing this; the audience understood the gesture meant he was running for a second term
threw his hat in the ring
Alice

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AMERICANS DOUBLE VOWELS & DOUBLE CONSONANTS CRIME FICTION FESTIVALS A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE NOTHING GOOD ON TV
$400 [27]
During an 1865 autopsy, he was positively identified, in part, from a tattoo on his hand with the initials J.W.B.
John Wilkes Booth
Alice
$400 [30]
You're in this when you're dropping with the force of gravity
freefall
Thomas
$400 [16]
Patricia Cornwell's forensic ace Kay Scarpetta debuted in this 1990 thriller, a Latin synonym for autopsy
Postmortem
$400 [26]
The Newport, R.I. festival with this type of music in its name is the setting for a big scene in the movie "A Complete Unknown"
folk
Alice
$400 [25]
To the ancient Romans, a lustrum was the 5-year interval between these counts
the census
Thomas
$400 [29]
A deputy sheriff joins a group struggling to survive following a zombie apocalypse
The Walking Dead
Thomas
$800 [18]
After the Spanish-American War broke out, she set up Red Cross stations in Cuba to care for the wounded
(Clara) Barton
Tyler
$800 [9]
A type of jester; Prokofiev wrote a ballet about one who "Outjested" 7 others
buffoon
$800 [15]
The 1951 "Bloody Christmas" beating of prisoners by Los Angeles police is dramatized in this James Ellroy novel
L.A. Confidential
$800 [12]
The Jaisalmer Desert Festival in Rajasthan, India features a competition in tying this type of headwear
a turban
Alice
$800 [24]
This country adopted supposedly more efficient decimal time, with 10-hour days & 100-minute hours, in November 1793
France
Thomas
$800 [28]
A totalitarian theocracy treats women as property & forces some of them into child-bearing servitude
The Handmaid's Tale
Thomas
$1,200 [6]
Invited by Degas, in 1879 she exhibited in her first of several Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris
Cassatt
Thomas
$1,200 [19]
If you were making moonshine back in the 1920s, you might have been fingered for this trafficking crime
bootlegging
Alice
$1,200 [1]
The title of this 2015 thriller by Paula Hawkins refers to Rachel Watson & what she may have seen on her daily commute
The Girl on the Train
Alice
$1,200 [11]
Floriade, which has bloomed into Australia's biggest flower festival, began in 1988, celebrating this city's 75th birthday
Canberra
Tyler
$1,600 [22]
In nuclear physics, a shake is the time it takes each neutron to trigger a fission event in one of these self-sustaining processes
a chain reaction
Thomas
$1,200 [5]
Survivorsof Armageddon living on a space station send juvenile prisoners down to Earth to test its habitability
The 100
$1,600 [8]
senate.gov says the most famous Senate speech was by this Massachusetts statesman & orator upholding federal authority in 1830
Webster
Thomas
$1,600 [14]
Furniture-wise, this type of sofa is perfect for taking a load off
a settee
Alice
$1,600 [2]
John D. MacDonald's "The Executioners" was filmed twice under this title, with Robert Mitchum & Robert De Niro as the bad guy
Cape Fear
Tyler
$1,600 [13]
A yearly festival in Slovakia gathers these traditionally migratory people in one place to celebrate their culture
the Romani (the Roma)
Tyler
DD $2,000 [10]
Academic Germans were the first to use this word to mean a 6-month period
a Semester
Thomas
$1,600 [4]
Residents of a small town in Kansas think they may be the only Americans left following an observed nuclear explosion
Jericho
Thomas
$2,000 [7]
After Little Bighorn, this Lakota leader fled to Canada & later joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
Sitting Bull
DD $2,000 [20]
The 2 predominant cultural & linguistic groups in Belgium today are the Flemings & these people
the Walloons
Alice
$2,000 [3]
James M. Cain had to fight his publisher over the title of this 1934 novel, which he said referred to delayed retribution
The Postman Always Rings Twice
$2,000 [17]
Leading up to a major autumn festival, Oaxacans add faces topan de muerto, which translates to this rhyming phrase
bread of the dead
Thomas
$2,000 [21]
In Vedic tradition, one of this 4-faced creator god's years is equal to more than 3.1 trillion human years
Brahma
Thomas
$2,000 [23]
The Axis powers have won WWII & Japan & Germany now control most of what was once the United States
The Man in the High Castle
Thomas

Final Jeopardy!

CARS & THE MOVIES

A fake speedometer was used in this make of car from a 1980s movie since the actual car's speedometer didn't go high enough

a DeLorean

Tyler "What is a DeLorean?" — wagered $3,401
Alice "What is a delorean? ♡" — wagered $3,401
Thomas "What is adeloriondelorian" — wagered $7,601

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