Show #9382 2025-07-22 (taped 2025-05-08) Regular

Scott Riccardi game 14.

Contestants

Paul Ryan — a print and print marketing general manager from Weymouth, Massachusetts

Adriene Holland — a risk control manager from Powder Springs, Georgia

Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (whose 13-day cash winnings total $362,901)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Scott $7,800 $11,600 $30,000 $28,001
14-day champion: $390,902
$25,400
30 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Adriene $3,200 $3,800 $12,400 $4,600
3rd place: $2,000
$10,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Paul $1,000 $3,000 $9,800 $13,000
2nd place: $3,000
$9,800
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

EXODUSTERS THROWING COPPER REVISING THE ATLAS BEASTLY ENDINGS PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG BRO
$200 [28]
The Exoduster movement saw thousands of Black farmers move west to Kansas post-Civil War; many used this 1862 act to get land
the Homestead Act
Scott
$200 [29]
With 10% of the world's deposits, Africa's Copperbelt extends 280 miles across Zambia into this nation, the DRC for short
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Paul
$200 [30]
A few years after it was safe to do so, in 1961 this city got renamed Volgograd
Stalingrad
Scott
$200 [27]
A high wire gymnast terminating in a flying mammal
an acro bat
Paul
$200 [26]
In 2020 this restaurant said goodbye to potato wedges & hello to Secret Recipe Fries
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Adriene
$200 [25]
Singer & entrepreneur Ray J is the brother of this singer with a name like a potent potable
Brandy
Paul
$400 [15]
Frederick Douglass thought Black westward migration would fail to help this party as folks would go where it was already strong
the Republicans (the Republican Party)
Paul
$400 [21]
More than 80 tons of copper went into making this U.S. structure, mostly in the form of sheets less than 1/8 of an inch thick
the Statue of Liberty
Adriene
$400 [22]
After partition in 1947, East Bengal became East Pakistan & following a civil war in 1971, took this name
Bangladesh
Scott
$400 [23]
A getaway concluding in a tailless primate
esc ape
Scott
$400 [24]
In 2004 McDonald's phased out this fry & drink option in order to trim down the menu
Super Size
Paul
$400 [2]
Twin brothers Benji & Joel Madden started this pop-punk band known for "The Anthem" & "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"
Good Charlotte
Scott
$800 [19]
Black Union vet Sam Truehart received this many acres from the government in Kansas denied to many elsewhere--not sure about a mule
40
Scott
$600 [13]
These discoveries of the 1940s & '50s include "The Copper Scroll", with directions to places with hidden gold & silver treasure
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Scott
$600 [1]
In 1954 Mauch Chunk, or "Bear Mountain", & East Mauch Chunk merged to form a Pennsylvania borough named for this athlete
Jim Thorpe
Paul
$600 [10]
Member of the ruling class or nobility finished off by a long-tailed rodent
aristoc rat
Scott
$600 [7]
Grab some fries & a Moo Latté from this "royal" chain co-founded by Sherb Boble, an ice cream businessman
Dairy Queen
Adriene
$600 [4]
Kimberly on "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is played by Pauline, whose brother is this "Wonka" actor
Timothée Chalamet
Scott
$1,000 [20]
This longest-lasting Black settlement in Kansas shares its name with a pharisee who helped bury Jesus with Joseph of Arimathea
Nicodemus
$800 [14]
This Revolutionary War figure wasn't just a silversmith; he engraved copper plates & made the copper fittings for Old Ironsides
Paul Revere
Adriene
$800 [3]
The French territory of the Afars & the Issas got renamed in 1977 as this, silent D & all
Djibouti
Adriene
$800 [11]
An Arabian Peninsula capital city finishing with a feline
Mus cat
Scott
$800 [8]
The fella who owns this numerical burger chain says it always gives an "extra scoop" of fries
Five Guys
Scott
$800 [16]
"Welcome to Collinwood" is an early work by these directing brothers who later had some Marvel-ous luck
the Russo brothers
Scott
DD $2,000 [6]
Mass Black migration out of the South ramped up after Rutherford B. Hayes effectively ended this era in 1877
Reconstruction
Scott
$1,000 [18]
Copper builds up in the body in Wilson disease, a rare genetic disorder that can lead to this scarring of the liver
cirrhosis
Paul
$1,000 [5]
Named in 1890 for Lord Salisbury, then PM of Britain, this Zimbabwean capital changed its name to honor a Shona chief
Harare
Scott
$1,000 [12]
A world traveler closed out by a semi-aquatic weasel
a globetr otter
Scott
$1,000 [9]
Bacon & cheese are toppings for fries from this alliterative chain founded in Madison Square Park
Shake Shack
Adriene
$1,000 [17]
Bros Andrew, Luke & Owen Wilson all starred in this Wes Anderson debut film that shares its name with a type of firework
Bottle Rocket
Scott

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION STATUES AROUND THE WORLD TO PUT IT IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TERMS MILLENNIALS ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK ENDS WITH 3 CONSONANTS
$400 [30]
This 2005 winner about relationships between fathers & sons shares its name with a republic in "The Handmaid's Tale"
Gilead
Scott
$400 [29]
In 2020 a life-size bronze statue of this U.S. first lady was unveiled near her hometown of Sevnica
Melania Trump
Scott
$400 [28]
Like marriage or school graduation, this 3-word phrase means an event that marks a person moving from one stage to another
rite of passage
Scott
$400 [27]
Duke of Sussex is one of his official titles
Prince Harry
Scott
$400 [26]
This character belts out "Let It Go" in "Frozen"
Elsa
Adriene
$400 [25]
It's an abbreviated word for that expensive hoodie sold right outside the music venue
merch
Scott
$800 [10]
In 2017, Pulitzer was all aboard for this Colson Whitehead book; its title is literal, with real conductors
The Underground Railroad
Paul
$800 [18]
Rocking out in a square named for him in Johannesburg, this figure perpetually dances the Madiba Jive
Mandela
$1,200 [15]
Anthropologist Leslie White wrote that "all human behavior originates in the use of" these archetypal representations
symbols
$800 [23]
29, when shewas sworn in in 2019, she became the youngest woman to serve in Congress
(Alexandria Ocasio-)Cortez
Paul
$800 [24]
With a nod to its title character, "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer was a big hit from this Eddie Murphy movie
Beverly Hills Cop
Scott
$800 [21]
It's an Eastern Orthodox Church head honcho in places like Antioch or Moscow
a patriarch
Paul
$1,200 [2]
Sharing the 2023 award, this book narrated by an Appalachian boy recast "David Copperfield"
Demon Copperhead
Scott
$1,200 [5]
At the southeast corner of Central Park, this man rides on a horse perpetually trampling a branch symbolizing Georgia
Sherman
Paul
$1,600 [19]
To not split up estates, many medieval families followed this 13-letter rule whereby the eldest son got all the land
primogeniture
$1,600 [9]
This international soccer great was named in part for the man who was U.S. president at the time of his birth
Ronaldo
Scott
$1,200 [1]
Yeah, baby, Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger" plays in the "Austin Powers" movie with this 5-word subtitle
The Spy Who Shagged Me
Scott
$1,200 [12]
To be "in the" this center of attention comes from the use of calcium oxide to brighten stages in the 1800s
limelight
Adriene
$1,600 [3]
MacKinlay Kantor won the 1956 Pulitzer with a book titled for this notorious Confederate P.O.W. camp where 13,000 Union soldiers died
Andersonville
Paul
$1,600 [6]
In Syracuse, a statue of him holds a model of a mirror "heat ray" meant to burn Roman warships
Archimedes
Paul
$2,000 [20]
A theory put forth in 2014 says humans didn't hurry across this "bridge" to North America but lived happily on it for 10,000 years
the Bering Land Bridge
Scott
$2,000 [14]
A Spingarn Medal, honorary doctorates & a Trailblazer Icon Award are among the many honors of this prima ballerina
(Misty) Copeland
Scott
$1,600 [11]
Songs from "Top Gun" include "Mighty Wings" by Cheap Trick & this song by Kenny Loggins
"Danger Zone"
Scott
$1,600 [16]
You'll earn more than that if you know this last name of Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler
Pennyworth
Paul
$2,000 [4]
Per the cover, it's "Herman Wouk's world-famous Pulitzer Prize novel of the U.S. Navy in World War II"
The Caine Mutiny
Scott
$2,000 [7]
This man got a huge statue in Moscow--not in the city he founded--for the 300th anniversary of the Russian navy
Peter the Great
Adriene
DD $4,000 [22]
A grouping of only parents & their kids, this term was used in a book title about "Coming of Age in Oppenheimer's Secret City"
nuclear family
Scott
DD $3,000 [8]
Turning 41 in 2025, he's the highest ranking millennial on the list of the world's richest people
Mark Zuckerberg
Adriene
$2,000 [13]
The 3 sailors on leave who sing "New York, New York" in 1949's "On the Town" are Gene Kelly, Jules Munshin & him
Frank Sinatra
Adriene
$2,000 [17]
This violet blue flower is a traditional table setting during the Persian New Year
the hyacinth

Final Jeopardy!

LANGUAGES IN HISTORY

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is said to have quipped, "to God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, & to my horse" this

German

Paul "What is German?" — wagered $3,200
Adriene "What is English? Hi Erik & Grace!" — wagered $7,800
Scott "What is English?" — wagered $1,999

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