Show #9370 2025-07-04 (taped 2025-05-01) Regular

Scott Riccardi game 2.

Contestants

Andi Levenson — a senior paralegal from Narberth, Pennsylvania

Ricky Chandak — a financial assurance senior from Boston, Massachusetts

Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Scott $4,400 $7,600 $26,400 $50,400
2-day champion: $68,000
$24,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Ricky $2,000 $3,600 $24,400 $27,000
2nd place: $3,000
$14,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Andi $1,400 $1,800 $7,400 $5,800
3rd place: $2,000
$7,400
8 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS MARVEL CHARACTERS NICKNAMES DURING THE LAST 20 YEARS PLANNING FOR DISASTER THE JOY OF 6(-LETTER WORDS)
$200 [17]
The Qasr el Nil or Palace of the Nile Bridge connects Gezira Island to the mainland in this world capital
Cairo
Ricky
$200 [30]
(Sean Gunn presents the clue.) As Kraglin, my character was originally a Ravager in Yondu's clan, but now I've joined the likes of Drax & Mantis as part of this plucky group of star travelers
the Guardians of the Galaxy
Scott
$200 [23]
Lauren Bacall gets the credit for coming up with this group name
the Rat Pack
Scott
$200 [28]
After blowing the whistle on the NSA in 2013, hewas the subject of both an Oscar-winning documentary & a film by Oliver Stone
Snowden
Ricky
$200 [26]
In a pinch, you can use a bow drill made from wood & string to do this, but you can do it a whole lot faster if you've got a Zippo
start a fire
Ricky
$200 [27]
That wonderful feeling? Why, you must be in this, particularly the "7th" one
heaven
Ricky
$400 [16]
One theory for its name goes back to a Spanish or Portuguese explorer who exclaimed, "I saw a mountain"
Montevideo
$400 [29]
On this TV show, Bill Bixby once said, "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"
The Incredible Hulk
Scott
$400 [22]
Referring to its plentiful waters, it's a numeric nickname for Minnesota
the Land of 10,000 Lakes
Scott
$400 [25]
Montenegro became an independent nation on June 3, 2006, ending a years-long federation with this country
Serbia
Ricky
$400 [21]
In the event of one of these natural disasters, FEMA advises those indoors to "drop, cover & hold on"
an earthquake
Scott Ricky
$400 [24]
"Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name" & they toast you with this word
cheers
Andi
$800 [2]
Manama is a short drive from the King Fahd Causeway in this island nation
Bahrain
Scott
$600 [15]
In the film subtitled "Civil War", Iron Man mockingly calls this guy the Manchurian Candidate
Bucky Barnes
Ricky
$600 [9]
"Nuns in a Scrum" is an affectionate nickname for this Aussie landmark
the Sydney Opera House
Andi
$600 [10]
2019 was chock-full of pre-impeachment debate over the existence of a Trump-Ukraine this 3-word Latin phrase
quid pro quo
Ricky
$600 [5]
2 words & just 5 letters, it's what Mike on "Breaking Bad" has at the airport for when he has to leave town fast
a go bag
$600 [20]
You can do this the moment you add the same-named topping to your hot dog
relish
Scott
DD $1,000 [1]
The Comic Art Museum in this city includes 100 portraits of the Smurfs
Brussels
Scott
$800 [18]
In "Deadpool & Wolverine" , Chris Evans returns to this role, a member of a famed superhero group
the Human Torch
Ricky
$800 [11]
Snowboarder Shaun White's mop of red hair earned him this nickname that includes a piece of produce
the Flying Tomato
Ricky Andi
$800 [13]
In 2011 the U.S. military buried Osama bin Laden at sea--specifically, the northern part of this sea
the Arabian Sea
Ricky
$800 [6]
From Max Brooks' bestselling "Guide" to surviving these opponents--"use your head: cut off theirs" & "organize before they rise!"
zombies
Scott
$800 [4]
I'm in this state, what you get if you take the first letter off a word meaning "tardy"
elated
Scott
$1,000 [3]
You'll find this capital of Senegal on the continent's most westerly mainland point
Dakar
Ricky
$1,000 [19]
This hero played by Oscar Isaac gets power from an Egyptian lunar god &, in costume, has a little crescent on his head
Moon Knight
Scott
$1,000 [12]
Turn-of-the-20th-century pieces like "Maple Leaf Rag" & "The Entertainer" earned this composer the nickname the "King of Ragtime"
Joplin
Scott
$1,000 [14]
This investment bank filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history on Sept. 15, 2008, triggering a hot mess of global proportions
the Lehman Brothers
Ricky
$1,000 [7]
In crises affecting the water supply, a few drops of this product containing sodium hypochlorite can help make your water safe to drink
bleach
$1,000 [8]
In music, it's a conductor's gesture before beginning the first measure; as an attitude, it's cheerful & optimistic
upbeat

Double Jeopardy! Round

YOU'RE ALL GETTING MEDALS PROPER NAME RHYME TIME TV MAKES HISTORY THAT IS SOME FLEX POETRY COLLECTIONS HOW "AUD"
$400 [30]
Medals at the last Tokyo Olympics were made from recycled electronics, including more than 6 million of these devices
cell phones (mobile phones)
Scott
$400 [29]
President Jimmy's stocking straps
Carter's garters
Scott
$400 [28]
For "The Tudors", Natalie Dormersaid she had to fight to play this wife number two as brainy, not just as a hypersexual femme fatale
Anne Boleyn
Ricky
$400 [6]
It's the muscle being flexed in the familiar "We Can Do It!" poster of World War II
bicep
Ricky
$400 [21]
She dedicated her collection "Death & Taxes" to fellow Algonquin Round Table perennial Robert Benchley
Dorothy Parker
Ricky
$400 [27]
A federal appeals court said this crime "needs no definition. It is as old as falsehood & as versatile as human ingenuity"
fraud
Scott
$800 [23]
Thewomen's suffrage medalissued by the U.S. Mint carries the text of this Constitutional Amendment
the 19th
Ricky
$800 [15]
The women who flock around a brother of Zeus & Poseidon
Hades' ladies
$800 [3]
This History Channel show had Ragnar Lothbrok dying in a pit of snakes; lucky for Ragnar, historians think that might be a myth
Vikings
Ricky
$800 [16]
You flex your soleus muscle to do this, like to move through a room where someone's asleep
tiptoe
Scott
$800 [17]
"Lyrical Ballads" is a poetry collection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge & this alliterative fellow romantic
Wordsworth
Scott
$800 [26]
In the '90s Don Katz came up with the idea for this company after struggling with books on tape while jogging
Audible
Scott Andi
$1,200 [14]
Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to receive this, was a surgeon who spent 4 months in a Confederate prison
a Medal of Honor
Ricky Andi
$1,200 [12]
A flower child in the "Magnolia State"
a Mississippi hippie
Scott
$1,200 [4]
10 Primetime Emmys went to this 2019 disaster of an HBO series set in Ukraine
Chernobyl
Scott
$1,200 [20]
Give baby a nice rounded dome with this alliterative part of her day when she flexes her neck muscles & lifts her head
tummy time
Andi
$1,200 [5]
While living in England, he published 2 poetry collections: "A Boy's Will" & "North of Boston"
Frost
Andi
$1,200 [2]
Lillian Russell & Bert Williams were performers in this 20th century popular entertainment form
vaudeville
Andi
$1,600 [11]
The Newbery Medal goes to children's book authors; this companion medal goes to children's book illustrators
the Caldecott
Scott
$1,600 [13]
The Bible book that enumerates the tribes of Israel takes a nap
Numbers slumbers
Scott
$1,600 [18]
The last season of this HBO series brought the Earps to the title South Dakota town
Deadwood
Scott
$1,600 [22]
The dilator nares & depressor septi nasi flex to dilate the nostrils, which is called this action when it has an emotional cause
a flare (flaring)
Andi
$1,600 [9]
This Irishman's collection "The Tower" includes "Leda & the Swan" & "Sailing to Byzantium"
Yeats
Ricky
$1,600 [7]
From the French word for "vagabond", it was also in the name of a map in the possession of a few Gryffindor folks
marauder
Ricky
DD $12,000 [24]
The Fields Medal, "the Nobel Prize of" this discipline, is for thinkers under 40, so Andrew Wiles wasn't eligible; he got a special plaque
mathematics
Ricky
$2,000 [1]
A difficult choice to make about an 1815 novel
an Emma dilemma
Ricky
DD $4,000 [19]
The original 1980 version of this miniseries starred Richard Chamberlain & Toshiro Mifune & unlike the reboot, didn't use subtitles
Shōgun
Scott
$2,000 [25]
This basic type of exercise that doesn't change the muscle's length can include a thigh-flexing quad workout
isometric
Scott
$2,000 [10]
In the 1960s, this real cool poet wrote "In the Mecca", a collection of poems about a rundown South Side apartment complex
Brooks
Ricky
$2,000 [8]
Usually in plural, it's an expression of approval; ancient Romans would use the Latin version of the word to solicit applause
plaudits
Scott

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHY

In 2023 these 2 nations agreed to redraw part of their border near the Matterhorn due to melting glaciers

Switzerland & Italy

Andi "What are Switzerland &AustriaGermany" — wagered $1,600
Ricky "What is Switzerland and Italy?" — wagered $2,600
Scott "What are Switzerland + Italy?" — wagered $24,000

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