Show #9374 2025-07-10 (taped 2025-05-06) Regular

Scott Riccardi game 6.

Contestants

Jolynda Chenicek — a teacher from Tallahassee, Florida

Austin Hobbs — a library specialist from San Angelo, Texas

Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 5-day cash winnings total $144,902)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Scott $3,200 $6,200 $6,400 $4,999
6-day champion: $149,901
$16,400
22 R, 3 W (including 3 DDs)
Austin $-800 $1,400 $2,200 $1,000
3rd place: $2,000
$2,200
10 R, 5 W
Jolynda $2,000 $2,600 $7,800 $2,799
2nd place: $3,000
$7,800
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE LETTER OF THE LAW 3 "E" LET'S GET LOUD TONY MONTANA SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND
$200 [24]
C: This synonym for co-conspirator to help do something illegal, a term used in a different way in the Civil War
confederate
Scott
$200 [30]
A "pet" this of mine is when they spell my name "Kevin" on my takeout order
peeve
Jolynda
$200 [29]
Go about 761 mph in air at sea level & you'll get one of these phenomena for your trouble
a sonic boom
Austin
$200 [28]
Before hosting a late-night talk show, this Brit won in 2012 for his role in the comedy "One Man, Two Guvnors"
(James) Corden
Scott
$200 [27]
The Univ. of Montana recognized this as the name of its sports teams in 1923; you don't want to run into the animal in the wild!
a Grizzly (bear)
Scott
$200 [26]
Bob Cratchit was known to cheerfully carry this character on his shoulder
Tiny Tim
Scott
$400 [23]
E:It's also called defalcation or peculation, but either way, don't take funds entrusted to you
embezzle
Jolynda
$400 [22]
Assigned to a lower level; it's specifically used of soccer teams dropped to a less elite division
relegated
Scott
$400 [21]
Loud mating cries are characteristic of this feline with many names, including catamount & painter
the mountain lion (or cougar, or panther, or puma)
$400 [11]
Brody Grant got a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut as Ponyboy in this musical based on a novel; the show won, but Brody didn't
The Outsiders
Scott
$400 [25]
Montana became a part of the U.S. by way of this 1803 deal
the Louisiana Purchase
Austin
$400 [20]
In a Grimm Brothers tale, this lad's dad, a tailor, gives him a darning needle to use as a sword on his travels
Tom Thumb
$600 [5]
F:Type of accountant who investigates the money side of crimes & tells the court about it
forensic
Scott Jolynda
$600 [1]
Tennessee Williams knew that it's a place where wild animals are kept for exhibition
menagerie
Scott
$600 [3]
Malicious intent through loud & unreasonable noises & fighting in public are grounds for this 3-word criminal charge
disturbing the peace
Scott
$600 [8]
Carol Channing created the title role of Mrs. Levi in this Broadway musical & in 1964 was greeted with a Tony for it
Hello, Dolly!
Scott
$600 [12]
These 2 words, the Spanish names of 2 elements, are separated by "Y" on Montana's state seal
oro y plata
Scott
$600 [19]
Known to twirl his whiskers, Reepicheep, one of these creatures in Narnia, was "most valiant of all the talking beasts"
a mouse
Austin
$800 [6]
A: This objection in court is made due to opposing counsel making conclusions & inferences drawn from facts; sustained!
argumentative
$800 [2]
The IRS defines these as "either a qualifying child or a qualifying relative of the taxpayer"
dependent
Jolynda
$800 [15]
George H.W. Bush marveled at John Major dealing with PMQs, short for this, with everyone "nose to nose... yelling at each other"
prime minister questions
Austin Jolynda
$800 [9]
Tony voters swallowed it down, awarding Best Book of a Musical to this show based on Alanis Morissette's music
Jagged Little Pill
Scott
$1,000 [14]
Take some time & mull over the pine cone seen here from this, the state tree of Montana
the ponderosa pine
$800 [18]
This 1954 book features the line "Some sort of a creature of very small size, too small to be seen by an elephant's eyes"
Horton Hears a Who!
Scott
$1,000 [7]
S:From the Latin for "to furnish", it means to persuade someone to commit perjury
suborn
Scott
$1,000 [4]
From Latin for "to grasp", this adjective describes graspy monkey tails, elephant trunks & giraffe tongues
prehensile
Scott
$1,000 [16]
An "earthquake in the air", shock waves from the 1883 volcanic eruption on this island went around the globe 7 times
Krakatoa
Scott
$1,000 [10]
Hetook 1978's Best Choreography for, what else, "Dancin'"; he also won in the same category for "Sweet Charity" & "Pippin"
(Bob) Fosse
Jolynda
DD $3,000 [13]
These Native American people of Montana were named for the color of their moccasins
the Blackfeet
Scott
$1,000 [17]
Éomer tells him, "I would cut off your head, beard & all, master dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground"
Gimli
Austin

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S A DISASTER THE HUMAN BODY ARCHITECTURE U.S. ARMY CADENCES RECENT SCI-FI FLICKS WORDS OF WISDOM
$400 [24]
In 2012 this company pled guilty to 12 felony counts in connection with its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
BP
Austin
$400 [25]
A roller coaster ride through the nephrons of this organ would include the loop of Henle
the kidneys
Austin
$400 [23]
17th century French architect François Mansart lent his name to a type of this part of a building with 2 slopes on every side
the roof
Jolynda
$400 [27]
Unit pride is strong here, son / In Fort Drum's 10th Mountain one
Division
$400 [30]
She plays Chani, a blue-eyed Fremen linked to Paul Atreides in the 2020s "Dune" movies
Zendaya
Scott
$400 [29]
It's the "I" in DNI, a presidential advisory position created in 2004
Intelligence
Austin
$800 [18]
In 2023 high winds & dry conditions fueled the wildfires that devastated Maui & destroyed this town, the former royal capital
Lahaina
Austin
$800 [16]
Looking directly at the Sun during an eclipse can burn this light-sensitive membrane at the back of the eye
the retina
Scott
$800 [22]
Meant to resemble Yosemite's Half Dome, Wilshire Grand Center in this city is the tallest building west of the Mississippi
L.A.
$800 [26]
Your kid tells you what to get her / at this base store that's 2 letters
the PX
Austin Jolynda
$800 [4]
This film franchise that began in 2018 has predators with exceptional hearing that fans call "Death Angels"
A Quiet Place
Scott
$800 [28]
Now meaning a supremely smart person, in Roman times it referred to the attendant spirit of a person or place
genius
Austin
$1,200 [7]
In 2003 tragedy struck NASA again when, returning to Earth after a 17-day mission, this Space Shuttle broke apart on reentry
Columbia
Jolynda
$1,200 [5]
Humans have apocrine & eccrine these, found in the skin; the eccrine ones help regulate temperature
sweat glands
Austin
$1,200 [6]
Charles Barry & A.W.N. Pugin designed Big Ben's tower in the 19th century revival of this style
Gothic (Revival)
Jolynda
$1,200 [21]
35 a year he banks / This "base of the NCO ranks"
the corporal
Austin
$1,200 [3]
For your face-hugging pleasure, try the 2024 "Alien" movie with this subtitle familiar from myth
Romulus
Austin
$1,200 [13]
This 4-letter word can mean mentally sharp or physically sharp, like a blade
keen
$1,600 [8]
The devastating 2004 tsunami in Asia was triggered by a 9.1seaquakeoff the coast of this second largest of the Sunda Islands
Sumatra
Scott
$2,000 [17]
The heart's alternating periods of contraction & relaxation are called these 2 similar words
systole & diastole
$1,600 [11]
As part of Expo '67, Moshe Safdie designed the prefabricated Habitat '67residential complex in this city
Montreal
Scott
$1,600 [20]
Show this tank so you & they / See it weighs more than singer Gracie
Abrams
Jolynda
$1,600 [1]
Ryan Reynolds is the title NPC turned hero inthis2021 flick, in which Jodie Comer plays the PC, Molotov Girl
Free Guy
Austin
$2,000 [15]
From Greek for "having learned much", it's a person who knows about a lot of topics, not just every kind of algebra & calculus
polymath
Jolynda
$2,000 [9]
In 1984 a toxic gas leak from a subsidiary of Union Carbide killed thousands in this Indian city
Bhopal
Scott
DD $4,000 [10]
The ball of the ball-&-socket shoulder joint is the head of this arm bone
the humerus
Scott
$2,000 [12]
Hejoined Mead & White in a firm & designed the Beaux Arts style Boston Public Library
(Charles) McKim
$2,000 [19]
It's 12 letters, it means sniper / Aim with calm, don't get too hyper
sharpshooter
$2,000 [2]
In this 2023 film John David Washington is looking for the title A.I. architect & the odds are stacked against him
The Creator
Jolynda
DD $3,000 [14]
Latin for "rude" or "rough" gives us this adjective that means scholarly
erudite
Scott

Final Jeopardy!

CHART TOPPERS

His mother named him after her dream car but he topped the charts in 2019 under this moniker

Lil Nas X

Austin "Who is Bruno Mar" — wagered $1,200
Scott "Who is Jelly Roll?" — wagered $1,401
Jolynda "Who is the Weekend? ♡" — wagered $5,001

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