Show #9378 2025-07-16 (taped 2025-05-07) Regular

Scott Riccardi game 10.

Contestants

Dave Richelsoph — a program manager from Washington, D.C.

Ivanna Lopez — a librarian originally from Tampa, Florida

Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 9-day cash winnings total $233,501)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Scott $3,600 $7,800 $28,600 $28,600
10-day champion: $262,101
$21,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Ivanna $4,000 $6,600 $13,800 $10,000
3rd place: $2,000
$13,800
19 R, 2 W
Dave $1,400 $3,400 $8,600 $13,801
2nd place: $3,000
$7,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

MILITARY BASES PICTURE THE GRAMMY-WINNING BAND THE TENTH PLANES, NO TRAINS BUT SOME AUTOMOBILES NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG
$200 [28]
The U.S. military's northernmost installation is the former Thule Air Base on this, the world's largest island
Greenland
Scott
$200 [27]
In 2007, they won Best Rock Album & Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal
the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dave
$200 [26]
The 10th entry in Sue Grafton's alphabet series is "'J' is for" this decision handed down in court
judgment
Scott
$200 [30]
Time reported 1980's Mondial 8 from this Italian car co. was "a big red disaster" with "more bugs than a Barstow motel rollaway"
Ferrari
Scott
$200 [14]
"And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind"
Genesis
Dave
$200 [29]
"Loop the loop" is cockney slang for this, maybe a British favorite like cock-a-leekie
soup
Ivanna
$400 [21]
This newest & smallest branch of the armed forces operates 6 dedicated bases, 3 of which are in Colorado
the Space Force
Dave
$400 [16]
Among their 13 Grammys so far are four for Best Country Album
The Chicks (the Dixie Chicks)
Scott
$400 [11]
In 2023 this girls' name was the 10th-most popular in the U.S.; dad Xenophilius Lovegood was ahead of his time
Luna
Ivanna
$400 [25]
The Smithsonian houses Glamorous Glennis, the plane named for the wife of this aviator; he flew faster than sound in 1947
(Chuck) Yeager
Scott Dave
$400 [4]
"I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?"
Revelation
Scott
$400 [24]
Saying "I haven't a Scooby Doo" means you haven't one of these, what Scooby & the gang were often searching for
a clue
Ivanna
$600 [15]
Often in the news, this naval station is the USA's oldest overseas military base & the only one in a Communist country
Guantanamo Bay
Ivanna
$600 [6]
They came from the land Down Under to win Best New Artist in 1983
Men at Work
Dave
$600 [8]
He played James Bond opposite Barbara Bach in "The Spy Who Loved Me", the 10th film of the series
Roger Moore
Scott
$600 [13]
Ford introduced this model in 1957; with estimated losses of what today would be $2.5 bil., it was discontinued just 2 years later
the Edsel
Ivanna
$600 [1]
"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing"
Psalms
Ivanna
$600 [5]
Sometimes the rhyming part of the name gets dropped, so a Gregory (like the "Roman Holiday" actor) means this body part
neck
Dave
$1,000 [18]
The Department of Defense did some streamlining in 2010, merging Hickam Air Force Base in Oahu with this naval base
Pearl Harbor
Ivanna
$800 [7]
Their "Father of the Bride" album won Grammy gold in 2020
Vampire Weekend
Scott
$800 [9]
Using the Greek alphabet, Constantinople, Corinth & Crete all start with this 10th letter
Kappa
Scott
$800 [19]
Ah, to go back in time & get a 1981 DMC-12 from this car company
DeLorean
Dave
$800 [2]
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"
Ecclesiastes
Ivanna
$800 [22]
"Borrow & beg" means one of these items; in early 2025, high prices for them led many to borrow & beg
eggs
Scott
DD $2,000 [17]
Nevada's Naval Air Station Fallon is now home to the elite program known as this; it trains pilots with a need for speed
Top Gun
Scott
$1,000 [12]
Their wins include Best American Roots Performance & Best Alternative Music Album
Alabama Shakes
Scott
$1,000 [10]
Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures is named for the world's 10th-tallest mountain, which is in this Himalayan nation
Nepal
Ivanna
$1,000 [20]
The Lockheed SR-71 has been clocked at more than 2,000 mph, a bit faster than this creature it's named for
a blackbird
Dave
$1,000 [3]
"Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth"
the Book of Acts
$1,000 [23]
A "can't keep still" is one of these, like the Peloton one with a textured 59" running belt
a treadmill
Ivanna

Double Jeopardy! Round

EGYPTIAN HISTORY ONE WORD ON THE THEATER MARQUEE SCIENTISTS 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW PUBLIC TELEVISION AMERICAN FAMILIES
$400 [28]
He didn't just conquer Egypt in 332 B.C.; he also named a city for himself there
Alexander the Great
Scott
$400 [27]
Neil Patrick Harris performed in "Tick, Tick...Boom!" as well as this other Jonathan Larson musical
Rent
Scott
$400 [29]
Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol heads up the Carl Sagan Center for Research, part of SETI, standing for the search for this
the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Ivanna Dave
$400 [26]
One proverb says that a clean this "makes a good pillow"; another tells us a guilty this "needs no accuser"
a conscience
Ivanna
$400 [30]
According to PBS, his mom Nancy knit a sweater every month until her passing, including the ones he wore on TV
Mister (Fred) Rogers
Dave
$400 [25]
Branford & Delfeayo are among the 5 members of this family honored as jazz masters by the National Endowment for the Arts
Marsalis
Dave
$800 [23]
The Great Pyramid was built about 4,500 years ago by this Egyptian king also known as Cheops
Khufu
Ivanna
$800 [11]
In this "colorful" play, abstract artist Mark Rothko is commissioned to paint murals for NYC's Four Seasons restaurant
Red
Ivanna
$800 [22]
Frances Arnold won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in directed evolution, to create new types of these protein catalysts
enzymes
Scott
$800 [16]
The comical coinage aibohphobia describes the fear of this type of word
palindromes
$800 [24]
Mesmerized by his calm demeanor & majestic perm, millions have learned the joy of painting fromthisPBS icon
Bob Ross
Ivanna
$800 [7]
The last surviving grandson of an oil tycoon, banker & philanthropist Davidof this family died in 2017 at age 101
Rockefeller
Ivanna
$1,200 [2]
This Kurdish general controlled Egypt in the 12th century & brought Sunni Islam back to the country
Saladin
Scott
$1,200 [3]
Songs in this 1970 Stephen Sondheim musical include "Have I Got A Girl For You" &"The Ladies Who Lunch"
Company
Scott
$1,200 [6]
With certainty he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich from 1958 until 1970
Heisenberg
Ivanna
$1,200 [13]
It's another name for an earthquake
temblor
Dave
$1,200 [1]
(Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents the clue.) When I was nine years old, I saw a picture of my great-great-grandmother, Jane Gates, born in 1819; that moment led to my career as a historian & and tothisPBSshowthat I've hosted since 2012
Finding Your Roots
Ivanna
$1,200 [8]
Hail to this chief, the son of a Declaration of Independence signer & grandfather of another president
William Henry Harrison
Scott
$1,600 [10]
Egypt suffered more than 11,000 casualties in this brief 1967 war, the most of all the nations involved
the Six-Day War
Ivanna
$1,600 [4]
On Labor Day, a young drifter arrives in a small Kansas town & disrupts the lives of the local ladies in this 1953 play
Picnic
$2,000 [20]
In 1766 for an essay on improving street lighting, this French chemist received a gold medal
Lavoisier
Scott
$1,600 [14]
In ALS the "S" stands for this hardening of tissue
sclerosis
Ivanna
$1,600 [12]
For years, Julia Child signed off episodes of "The French Chef" with this phrase en Français
bon appétit
Ivanna Dave
$1,600 [17]
It was the last name of sister & brothers Laura, William Rose & Stephen Vincent, all of whom were writers
Benét
Scott
$2,000 [18]
The Muslim Brotherhood picked him as their nominee for presidential elections in 2012; he later got life in prison
(Mohamed) Morsi
Dave
$2,000 [5]
In this David Auburn play, the brilliant daughter of a deceased mathematician fears that she may share his mental illness
Proof
Scott Dave
DD $8,000 [9]
In 1742 he described his new temperature scale to the Swedish Academy of Sciences
(Anders) Celsius
Scott
$2,000 [15]
The American robin & the mountain bluebird both belong to this bird family
thrush
$2,000 [21]
This macabre yet whimsical artist drew the iconicopening titlesfor "Mystery"; Lemony Snicket has cited him as an influence
(Edward) Gorey
Scott
DD $3,600 [19]
This family name is on a school of medicine at the University of Chicago & on the most prestigious of architecture awards
Pritzker
Dave

Final Jeopardy!

U.S.A.

Its creator imagined it as a place for young & old, offering "nostalgia of the past with exciting glimpses into the future"

Disneyland

Dave "What is Disneyland? Love you Rebecca + Rosie!" — wagered $5,201
Ivanna "What is Epcot?" — wagered $3,800
Scott "What is Disneyland?" — wagered $0

« Back to Games