Show #9403 2025-10-01 (taped 2025-09-08) Regular

Contestants

Lisa Mueller — an anthropologist from Rochester, Minnesota

James Thajudeen — a librarian from San Jose, California

Curtis Bogetti — a Ph.D. candidate from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Curtis $1,800 $3,400 $6,800 $6,001
2nd place: $3,000
$12,200
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
James $1,000 $3,000 $7,600 $3,200
3rd place: $2,000
$10,600
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Lisa $4,800 $6,800 $17,600 $17,600
New champion: $17,600
$17,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

IT HAPPENED IN PHILLY AN ARTIST'S LIFE ABOUT A BOY YOUR HOUSE IS SMART HOMOPHONES ENTER-TRAIN-MENT
$200 [30]
In Feb. 1846 a crack in this was repaired with rivets but later that month, it cracked again & that was it forever for functionality
the Liberty Bell
Lisa
$200 [20]
Thisguy who failed three times trying to get into the École des Beaux-Arts & sculpted "Man with the Broken Nose"? Hmm, that's a "Thinker"
Rodin
Curtis
$200 [29]
Named for a 16th century theologian, this 6-year-old boy of comic strip fame has a best friend who's a tiger
Calvin
Lisa
$200 [26]
i Robot launchedthisO.G. robovac in 2002; today's models can mop floors & even empty their own dustbins
a Roomba
Lisa
$200 [17]
Body area just above the hips, & milieu of a trash collector
the waist/waste
James
$200 [28]
Gotta love the Brits! The series named for this tank engine has a railway manager named Sir Topham Hatt
Thomas
Lisa
$400 [22]
At the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil said of this brand-new invention, "My God, it talks!"
the telephone
Curtis
$400 [19]
On August 8, 1949, "Life" magazine asked, "Ishethe greatest living painter in the United States?"; but his drinking was always the problem
Jackson Pollock
Lisa
$400 [24]
The original logo of this paint brand was based on an Irish-American kid, not a boy from the Netherlands
Dutch Boy
Lisa
$400 [25]
This Amazon-owned brand of doorbell cameras is perfect for watching Amazon carriers deliver your Amazon packages
Ring
Curtis
$400 [14]
Get water out of a boat, & make bundles of hay
bail/bale
James
$400 [27]
Tom Cruise boards a moving train by parachuting through a window in the "Dead Reckoning" installment of this film series
Mission: Impossible
Lisa
$600 [21]
In 1792, $4,266.57 bought two lots at 7th & Arch Streets to construct this government building; but wait, where'd that four grand get made?
the United States Mint
James
$600 [2]
At almost 80 in 1824 this Spanish court painter left his homeland & lived out his life in Bordeaux
Goya
James
$600 [23]
Raised by wolves, a "man's cub" named Mowgli learns wisdom from wild animals in this Rudyard Kipling story collection
The Jungle Book
James
$600 [15]
Once connected, the smart devices in your home become part of a system known as the IoT, short for this
Internet of Things
Lisa
$600 [7]
It describes something spoken or something you let happen
aloud/allowed
$600 [16]
Bong Joon Ho directed this film that tackled warring class systems aboard a train trundling through a frozen landscape
Snowpiercer
Curtis
$800 [10]
In 1969 Wistar Institute scientists developed the still-standard vaccine against this, also called German measles
rubella
Lisa
$800 [1]
Born in Brooklyn in 1960 of Puerto Rican & Haitian descent, he had his first New York solo exhibition at age 21
Basquiat
Lisa
$800 [8]
In a Christmas carol, he's the title musician with whom "the ox & lamb kept time"
the Little Drummer Boy
Lisa
$800 [4]
For powering up this, like a Prologue or Ioniq, a smart charger can wait until power is cheapest
electric vehicles (EVs)
$800 [5]
Those waiting for treatment in a hospital, & what they might need to endure the wait
patients/patience
Lisa
$800 [13]
To take the Hogwarts Express, you must dash through a brick wall at London's King's Cross Station to reach this platform
9 3/4
Curtis
DD $1,000 [11]
In 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft these, which would get adopted on Nov. 15, 1777
the Articles of Confederation
Lisa
$1,000 [3]
This 1-named Italian lost his father to plague & gave us "Judith Beheading Holofernes" c. 1599 but really did kill a guy a bit later
Caravaggio
Curtis
$1,000 [9]
Thomas Gainsborough cemented his rep as an artist with this c. 1770 painting originally titled "A Portrait of a Young Gentleman"
The Blue Boy
Curtis
$1,000 [18]
How do robot mowers know where to stop mowing? Some can 3D-map your lawn using this laser-based technology
LiDAR
James
$1,000 [6]
A Big Mac, & a citizen of a European town of yore
a burger/burgher
Curtis James
$1,000 [12]
This Wes Anderson film finds brothers Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody & Jason Schwartzman taking a train trip through India
The Darjeeling Limited
James

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HERITAGE SITES OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL NEVER GO! 2010 IN POP CULTURE THE PATIENCE OF JOB THAT ANIMAL'S GOT A NAME I NEED SOME "AIR"
$400 [25]
Jamaica makes the list with 2 biodiverse mountain ranges: the John Crow & this colorful one
the Blue Mountains
Lisa
$400 [30]
In this work by Thomas More, Raphael Hythloday tells of voyaging with Amerigo Vespucci before exploring the title island
Utopia
Curtis
$400 [24]
The clock didn't run out for this Ke$ha hit, the first Billboard No. 1 of the 2010s, until it had topped the chart for 9 weeks
"Tik Tok"
Lisa
$400 [14]
Studies suggest for little kids this daily or twice daily "time" is key in regulating cortisol & the patience of daycare providers
nap time
James
$400 [29]
Weighing 1,000 pounds or more, North America's largestelkis named for this president who helped preserve its habitat
Theodore Roosevelt
Lisa
$400 [9]
Drive carefully--Norway's Trollstigen mountain pass, seen here, features 11 of these harrowing turns
a hairpin turn
Curtis
$800 [17]
The Frontiers of the Roman Empire site includes this British structure begun in the year 122
Hadrian's Wall
Curtis
$800 [26]
Iram is a lost city mentioned in the Koran & in this collection that's been translated by Sir Richard Burton
The Arabian Nights ( The Thousand and One Nights )
Curtis
$800 [15]
This movie comedy premised on a malfunction at a ski resort includes the name of a device that could apply to the entire category
Hot Tub Time Machine
James
$800 [12]
Rebecca Cliffe has spent a good part of her life as a tracker of these animals & founded an organization for their conservation
a sloth
Curtis
$800 [28]
Named for a Mexican-American War general, Scott's this ranges across the arid Southwest & is yellower than its Maryland cousins
an oriole
Lisa
$800 [7]
For skiers, it's a fast way up the mountain; for nervous skiers, it's also an appealing way down
a chairlift
Curtis
$1,200 [16]
A stretch of the château-rich valley of this French river was added to the World Heritage list in 2000
the Loire
Lisa
$1,200 [22]
James Hilton told The New York Times he found "Tibetan material" at the British Museum to help create this mythical place
Shangri-La
Curtis
$1,200 [13]
Known to sing a bit themselves, the cast of this hit TV show presented a trophy at the MTV Video Music Awards
Glee
James
$1,200 [11]
A CSR, short for this, needs patience to deal with folks who've lost theirs while on hold & shouting "human!" into the phone
a customer service representative
Lisa
$1,200 [27]
Once nearly extinct in the wild, Przewalski's this is mostly found in Mongolia & China
a horse
James
$1,200 [6]
In Glasgow, your obstetrician might congratulate you on delivering a "wee" one of these
a bairn
Lisa
$2,000 [2]
The Nativity Façade & Crypt of la Sagrada Família are part of a site dedicated to the works of this architect
Gaudi
Curtis
$1,600 [20]
This land that Arthur was carried to after his final battle was called the "Isle of Apples" by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Avalon
Curtis
$1,600 [18]
This rap single by Far East Movement, the first No. 1 hit by an Asian-American group, has a title that refers to a private jet
"Like A G6"
$2,000 [10]
Even starchitects like Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuronneed patience; their Elbphilharmoniein this Elbe River port took seven extra years
Hamburg
James
$1,600 [8]
Dall's this, the biggest member of its family, is also fast, hitting speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour
a porpoise
Lisa
$1,600 [5]
You don't need ESP to know there's no "E", "S" or "P" in this French-derived word for someone with ESP
a clairvoyant
Lisa
DD $3,000 [1]
Renowned for its biodiversity, the Socotra Archipelago is aka this other World Heritage Site "of the Indian Ocean"
the Galápagos
James
$2,000 [21]
A 2021 novel by Anthony Doerr shares its name with this mythical land in the sky conjured up by Aristophanes
Cloud Cuckoo Land
James
$2,000 [19]
HBO debuted this drama series set in & named for one of New Orleans' oldest neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
Treme
James
DD $5,400 [3]
Profession of Carleton Watkins, using a ton of gear carried by a dozen mules; his work in the 1860s helped get Yosemite protected
a photographer
Curtis
$2,000 [23]
Well, had a name--the enormous sea cow named for this man who described it in 1741 was extinct less than 30 years later
Steller
James
$2,000 [4]
English surgeon Edward Jenner had a keen interest--udderly professional of course--in women with this pre-industrial job
dairymaids
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

WORDS FROM WORLD WAR II

As they lived below the surface of daily life, Jews who hid in Berlin in WWII were called human these, a German-derived word

U-boats

Curtis "What is IDK" — wagered $799
James "What is Moles?" — wagered $4,400
Lisa "What is I love you, Kai!" — wagered $0

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