Show #9355 2025-06-13 (taped 2025-04-09) Regular

Matt Massie game 4.

Contestants

Kelly Cui — a student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Katie Kornacki — a professor of English from Hartford, Connecticut

Matt Massie — an attorney originally from South Charleston, West Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $4,800 $6,400 $9,400 $18,800
2nd place: $3,000
$10,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Katie $2,600 $4,200 $10,600 $20,000
New champion: $20,000
$10,600
15 R, 1 W
Kelly $2,000 $4,600 $5,200 $1
3rd place: $2,000
$6,600
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PLACES IN WORLD HISTORY BOOK TOURS WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE... DIE HARD DESCRIBING THE OLYMPIC EVENT FIN"AL" WORDS
$200 [6]
Defying Portugal in 1822, on the banks of the Ipiranga River Pedro I declared this country's independence
Brazil
Matt
$200 [12]
Chapter 2 of this Cervantes classic is "Treats of the First Sally the Ingenious" title guy "Made from Home"
Don Quixote
Matt
$200 [30]
A collector of rare these, like Bill Gates; he dropped $30 million on the Codex Leicester!
(rare) books (manuscripts)
Katie
$200 [29]
If you want to roll 8 the hard way in craps, your dice need to show these 2 numbers
four & four
Katie
$200 [26]
Perform for 9.58 seconds; tie world record set in 2009; point to sky
the 100-meters
$200 [24]
It refers to the back or upper surface of an animal, like certainfins
dorsal
Katie
$400 [4]
Dorothy McKibbin, the gatekeeper of this New Mexico city where the Manhattan Project was based, wasn't told what was being built there
Los Alamos
Kelly
$400 [9]
The narrator of this '50s book was "filled with dreams of what I'd do in Chicago, in Denver, and then finally in San Fran"
On the Road
Matt
$400 [27]
A Spartan supersoldier in the United Nations Space Command, like Master Chief in this "heavenly" gaming franchise
Halo
Matt
$400 [28]
An instruction manual for this game listed its contents as "5 dice, dice cup, 10 bonus chips, score pad"
Yahtzee
Katie
$400 [25]
Lie on your back on the 50-pound namesake item; slide into history at about 90 mph
a luge
Matt Katie
$400 [22]
Pronounced differently, it can mean associated with birth, or a former province of South Africa
Natal (natal)
Matt
$600 [3]
In 1683 Polish king John III Sobieski led a multinational force relieving a siege of this central European city by the Ottomans
Vienna
Matt
$600 [8]
This title character of kid lit got to Earth all the way from asteroid B-612
the Little Prince
Matt
$600 [21]
This kind of scientist, like Ross Geller on "Friends", who used the one-word job description "dinosaurs"
paleontologist
Kelly
$600 [19]
Referring to its Pop-O-Matic dice device, a board game has used the slogan "There's more" this "in the bubble"
Trouble
Matt
$600 [23]
Be unbelievably proficient with a rope, hoop, ball, clubs & ribbon
rhythmic gymnastics
Katie
$600 [15]
It describes a government composed of 2 legislative chambers
bicameral
Kelly
$800 [2]
At the battle of Waterloo in 1815, 72-year-old Field Marshal Blücher commanded the forces of this German kingdom
Prussia
Matt
$800 [5]
In search of America, this author grabbed his poodle & took off for some "Travels with Charley" in 1962
Steinbeck
Matt
$800 [16]
A rep for this government agency, like Jamie Lee Curtis in "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
the IRS
Matt
$800 [18]
A game called Ludus duodecim scriptorum, 12-lined game, was the ancient Roman version of this game that uses two dice
backgammon
Matt
$800 [11]
Easily confused with a body part; row, row, row your boat with an oar in each hand
sculling
Katie
$800 [14]
A topical medication like miconazole, for combating athlete's foot
an antifungal
Matt Katie
DD $1,000 [1]
After an 1885 siege, the Mahdists slaughtered the British defenders of this city at the junction of the Blue & White Niles
Khartoum
Matt
$1,000 [7]
The title of this Terry McMillan novel refers to Ms. Payne, a divorced 42-year-old woman, & a trip to Jamaica
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Katie
$1,000 [17]
This type of psycholog"ist", just like B.F. Skinner--except I won't raise my kid in an air-conditioned box
behavioral (behavioralist)
Kelly
$1,000 [13]
This game named for a Tanzanian island gives you 3 dice & 20 chips; lose all your chips & you're the winner
Zanzibar
Matt
$1,000 [20]
Your fencing foe must get the point (not the edge), mask to feet; no translation needed at the Paris Games
épée
Matt Kelly
$1,000 [10]
You dip a bit into philosophical vocabulary when you call something this kind of "threat" to the survival of a person or a country
existential
Kelly

Double Jeopardy! Round

JAMAICA MOVIE SEQUELS COMPLETE THE QUOTE BLOOM COUNTY OPUS BILL THE CAT
$400 [24]
In 2022, as many in Jamaica wanted to jettison the British monarchy, this couple made a goodwill visit with awkward moments
William & Kate
Matt
$400 [22]
As Miles Teller reminded us on the "SNL" 50th anniversary show, it wasn't "Top Gun II" but "Top Gun:" this word
Maverick
Matt
$400 [25]
In a 1940 film W.C. Fields says, "On a trek", this wine tool was lost & "we were compelled to live on food & water"
a corkscrew
Katie
$400 [29]
In "Bloom County", a stressed Opus enjoyed breaks in a patch of these, with the familiar puffy white seed heads
dandelions
Matt
$400 [27]
Paganini wasted no time when he revolutionized music for this instrument with his 24 caprices, Opus 1
the violin
Matt Kelly
$400 [30]
The cat's got me on the hook for $250 after it destroyed a Söderhamn ottoman I bought at this chain; maybe I'll get an Återlöga
IKEA
Katie
$800 [21]
In 1958 Jamaica joined with several other Caribbean countries in forming the W.I.F., this regional "Federation"
West Indies Federation (West Indian)
Matt Katie
$800 [18]
John C. Reilly reprised his title voice role in a 2018 sequel as this guy who "Breaks the Internet"
(Wreck-It) Ralph
Kelly
$800 [23]
About the immorality of men, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at" these
the stars
Katie
$800 [26]
An Amsterdam museum of this flower said during its 1600s "mania", a single bulb sold for 3 times a merchant's annual income
a tulip
Matt
$800 [20]
Sousa composed the "Washington Post" march; Johann Strauss II's Opus 279 is the "Morning Papers" this dance tune
a waltz
Katie
$800 [28]
Not sure how kitty used my account on this service advertised by Gronk & the Mannings, but he lost me $150 on the Breeders' Cup
FanDuel
Kelly
$1,200 [3]
The makers of this Bob Marley biopic found their thrill at Strawberry Hill, a hotel that's one of the movie's authentic locations
One Love
Matt
$1,200 [5]
"The Matrix" sequels all had words starting with "Re" in their titles:"Reloaded" ,"Revolutions" &, in 2021, these
Resurrections
$1,200 [12]
James Brown meant dudes like Clyde Stubblefield when he said he was gonna "give" this musician "some" before a solo
the drummer
DD $1,400 [17]
Flowers of the star-of-this Mideastern city bloom in May, not around Christmas
Bethlehem
Kelly
DD $1,000 [15]
Chopin's Opus 57 is a berceuse, a word for this type of song, thought to be inspired by a little girl named Louisette Viardot
a lullaby
Matt
$1,200 [19]
I paid a hundred bucks for some sheets of paper to learn the designs of Akira Yoshizawa in this art--pussums, you owe me
origami
Matt
$1,600 [1]
Though the island is known for its Rastafarians, its largest religious group is this numerical Protestant millennialist sect
Seventh-day Adventist
Katie
$1,600 [4]
The subtitle of the sequel to this Sandra Bullock film was "Armed & Fabulous"
Miss Congeniality
Katie
$1,600 [6]
According to Friedrich Nietzsche, "If you gaze for long into" one of these bottomless basins, it "gazes also into you"
the abyss
Matt
$1,600 [16]
Popular for its vibrant colors, the Dutch type of this flower is grown from a bulb
an iris
Kelly
$1,600 [11]
Premiered in 1948, Arnold Schoenberg's Opus 46 is "a survivor from" this Polish city's ghetto & includes the Shema prayer
Warsaw
Matt
$1,600 [14]
It sure didn't take the cat long to hoover up $200 worth of the Ossetra type of this
caviar
$2,000 [2]
Jamaica's economy is dominated by tourism, remittances & exports of this mineral, the chief ore of aluminum
bauxite
Matt
$2,000 [7]
Bruce Campbellgave us the now iconic line, "Gimme some sugar, baby" in this "Evil Dead" sequel
Army of Darkness
Matt
$2,000 [8]
Hamlet wondered about taking "arms against" these metaphoric waters "and by opposing end them"
a sea of troubles
$2,000 [9]
Bearing flowers in late fall, this 2-word shrub of the Eastern U.S. with yellow, twisted petals casts a spell against inflammation
witch hazel
$2,000 [10]
This French composer with a hyphenated name loved to travel to North Africa, as heard in his Opus 60, "Suite algérienne"
Camille Saint-Saëns
$2,000 [13]
Looks like Dr. Patches Adams got himself a CAT scan! That's also called a CT scan--CT, short for this--& that heart one cost $6k!
computed tomography

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

Some 200 years after her birth, she was awarded the rank of General in Maryland's National Guard on Veterans Day 2024

Harriet Tubman

Kelly "Who is Clara Barton?" — wagered $5,199
Matt "Who H. Tubman" — wagered $9,400
Katie "Who is Harriet Tubman?" — wagered $9,400

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