Show #9380 2025-07-18 (taped 2025-05-07) Regular

Scott Riccardi game 12.

Contestants

Ameen Ismail — a particle physicist originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Julia Broussard — a university administrator from New Orleans, Louisiana

Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 11-day cash winnings total $282,101)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Scott $1,000 $4,000 $22,400 $30,400
12-day champion: $312,501
$19,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Julia $1,400 $1,800 $6,200 $6,200
2nd place: $3,000
$6,200
9 R, 2 W
Ameen $2,000 $3,600 $2,600 $2,705
3rd place: $2,000
$7,600
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WARLOCKS AROUND SOUTH AMERICA AMBROSE BIERCE'SDEVIL'S DICTIONARY FEELING SHEEPISH AT THE AIRPORT THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO...
$200 [26]
In Disney's "The Sword & the Stone", this wizard gets angry at Arthur & peaces out to Bermuda
Merlin
Scott
$200 [27]
Puente de la Mujer, or Women's Bridge, in this world capital represents a man & a woman doing the tango
Buenos Aires
Julia Ameen
$200 [30]
This variety of musical performance:"A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song"
an opera
Ameen
$200 [29]
In 1996 she was born from 3 mothers: one provided the DNA, one provided the egg & one carried the embryo
Dolly
Ameen
$200 [25]
There's a full-size one of these between 2 runways at Bangkok's airport, which can't be good for the players' handicaps
a golf course
Julia
$200 [28]
...appoint a woman as White House Chief of Staff, strategist Susie Wiles
Trump
Scott
$400 [22]
Uncle Arthur, Samantha's funcle on this classic sitcom, appeared on episodes like "Twitch or Treat"
Bewitched
Ameen
$400 [18]
Stanley is the capital of this self-governing territory of over 200 islands that is home to one million penguins
the Falklands
Ameen
$400 [21]
This medical professional:"A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket"
a dentist
Julia
$400 [10]
This newer word often follows "wake up" in a comic political insult directed at conformists
sheeple
Julia
$400 [24]
During winter months, Munich's airport features a 6,500-square-foot one of these spaces, with a separate curling lane
an ice rink
Scott
$400 [23]
...be the head of a major union, the organization then known as SAG
Reagan
Scott
$600 [7]
Idris Elba was a gunslinger & Matthew McConaughey was an evil warlock in this film based on a Stephen King work
The Dark Tower
Scott
$600 [1]
A region of Paraguay is named for this U.S. president, who settled a dispute in Paraguay's favor in 1878
(Rutherford B.) Hayes
Ameen
$600 [20]
This event (remember the original title, "The Cynic's Word Book"): "The first & direst of all disasters"
birth
$600 [9]
In ads for this company, the counting sheep are baadly unemployed thanks to comfortable mattresses
Serta
$600 [14]
Slurp up the homemade udon noodles at Kineya Mugimaru, a restaurant at this Tokyo airport that isn't Haneda
Narita
Ameen
$600 [6]
...be Roman Catholic
Kennedy
Scott
$800 [8]
Kalabar is the evil warlock & mayor of the title place in this TV movie that has Debbie Reynolds as a witchy Grandma
Halloweentown
Julia
$800 [2]
It's the only country in South America that borders Central America
Colombia
Ameen
$800 [17]
This type of venerated person:"A dead sinner revised & edited"
a saint
Scott
$800 [11]
This processed skin--largely from sheep, goats or calves--was likely named for the ancient city of Pergamum
parchment
Julia
$800 [15]
For a layover at Roma Fiumicino, you can book one of these in advance, including a towel, gel, hair dryer & slippers
a shower
$800 [4]
...ride to & from his inauguration in anautomobile, a Packard Twin Six
Warren G. Harding
$1,000 [13]
Thislate actor played the title characters in "Warlock" & its first sequel
Julian Sands
$1,000 [3]
Xingu Indigenous Park is a treasure of this vast region of inland Brazil whose name means "thick forest"
Mato Grosso
DD $1,000 [19]
This group, then of 90 men:"A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties & misdemeanors"
the Senate
Scott
$1,000 [12]
The AKC says this 2-word dog breed has "dominated competitive sheepdog trials in the British Isles"
a Border Collie
Julia
$1,000 [16]
Changi Airport, found here at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, has a butterfly garden with an "emergence cage" for pupae
Singapore
Ameen
$1,000 [5]
...be born a U.S. citizen, though oddly, he was also the first to have English as his second language
Van Buren
Scott

Double Jeopardy! Round

WAR LOCKS TV KIDS INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE LITERATURE DON'T EAT THE PICTURES "MP"
$400 [28]
In Judges 16 this woman caused the warrior Samson "to shave off the seven locks of his head"
Delilah
Scott
$400 [26]
Isaac Ordonez is this brother to Jenna Ortega's character on "Wednesday"
Pugsley
Scott
$400 [30]
Customs unions exist to eliminate trade barriers & do away with or minimize these, "the most beautiful word" to the President
tariffs
Ameen
$400 [20]
A line from this novel: "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman... burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes"
Fahrenheit 451
Scott
$400 [24]
Pieter Claesz painted "Still Life with a Pie" made of this ornamental fowl which is apparently not just for decoration
a peacock
Scott
$400 [29]
In a Christmas carol it follows "O come, all ye faithful, joyful and"
triumphant
Scott
$800 [22]
Photos of Mau Mau fighters with locs may have inspired the look among adherents to this religious movement started in Jamaica
Rastafarianism
Scott
$800 [23]
Haw haw! An episode called "Bart the General" introduced this bully voiced by Nancy Cartwright
Nelson
Ameen
$800 [21]
The WIPO is a world organization that protects these artistic rights, the IP in its name
intellectual property
Ameen
$800 [19]
Like many of his novels, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is set in the fictional Wessex
Hardy
Julia
$800 [25]
The printheredepicts meal preparation, including grating white radish, which the Japanese call this sashimi staple
daikon
Scott Julia Ameen
$800 [27]
In England, tea isn't complete without one of these hot off the griddle
a crumpet
Julia Ameen
$1,200 [5]
A warrior of sorts, Troy Polamalu kept his hair long in tribute to his Samoan heritage playing safety for this NFL team
the Steelers
Scott
$1,200 [11]
Vivien Lyra Blairplayed this plucky royal opposite Ewan McGregor in a 2022 series from Disney+
Princess Leia
$1,200 [16]
Similar to NAFTA, a trade agreement between the U.S. & countries including Guatemala & Honduras is called this
CAFTA
Scott
$1,200 [1]
Her "To the Lighthouse" is a stream of consciousness novel about the Ramsay family's visits to the Isle of Skye
Woolf
Scott
$1,200 [10]
There's precious fruit in "The Garden of" this trio depictedhereby Frederic Leighton
the Hesperides
$1,600 [14]
It's a store that sells all kinds of things, or at Disneyland, all kinds of keepsakes
an emporium
Scott
$1,600 [6]
In an attempt to modernize Japan, an edict during this restorative era put an end to the topknot hairstyle among the samurai
the Meiji Restoration
Ameen
$1,600 [12]
Jamie-Lynn Sigler played her, a mobster's daughter, who got out of the house & attended Columbia University
Meadow Soprano
$1,600 [17]
Though not a nation, it would be the fourth-largest economy in the world, having overtaken Japan in 2025
California
$1,600 [2]
One of these "short, plump little cakes" triggers "all-powerful joy" in "Remembrance of Things Past"
a madeleine
Scott
$1,600 [8]
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's "Vertumnus" is a surreal depiction of Rudolf II, the Habsburg ruler who held this title
Holy Roman Emperor
Scott
$2,000 [15]
Commonly made from turpentine oil, this distinct-smelling chemical is used in vapor rubs, balms & insect repellents
camphor
Ameen
DD $5,000 [7]
These blue-painted Scottish warriors whose name is from Latin for "paint" are traditionally illustrated with flowing locks
the Picts
Ameen
$2,000 [13]
This cruel & spoiled royal was not actually King Robert's son but the product of an incestuous union
Joffrey
Scott
$2,000 [18]
World news in recent months has attended to China's controls on the elements known as these, like scandium & yttrium
rare-earth elements
Ameen
$2,000 [3]
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by this Southern Gothic author does not in fact contain dating advice
O'Connor
Scott
$2,000 [9]
A mid-1890s "Still Life with Apples" is one of many paintings featuring fruit by this artist from Aix-en-Provence
Cézanne
Julia Ameen
DD $4,000 [4]
From Italian, it's a person who puts on, & often finances, public entertainment, like a concert or theatrical event
impresario
Scott

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE WORDS

Expanding on a word created by a Czech playwright, Asimov coined this term in 1941 for a branch of science that didn't exist then

robotics

Ameen "What isRobotics? Hi Mom :)" — wagered $105
Julia "What is robotics?" — wagered $0
Scott "What is Robotics?" — wagered $8,000

« Back to Games