Show #9422 2025-10-28 (taped 2025-09-17) Regular

Aaron Levine game 2.

Contestants

Alan Turner — a peanut butter artisan from Rohnert Park, California

Cynthia Appiah — an Olympic bobsledder from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aaron Levine — a sports anchor from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Aaron $5,800 $8,400 $15,200 $8,399
2-day champion: $28,999
$17,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Cynthia $0 $1,200 $2,400 $100
3rd place: $2,000
$2,400
6 R, 3 W
Alan $3,000 $7,800 $11,000 $7,000
2nd place: $3,000
$11,000
21 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY LOCKS & KEYS THE NAME BEHIND THE MIDDLE INITIAL A NOVEL SETTING DEATH? NO, THANK YOU! (MOVIE EDITION) LET'S SPEAK CANADIAN
$200 [30]
Not that long ago in our galaxy, President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was commonly called this
Star Wars
Alan
$200 [9]
The old designhereis sometimes called this kind of man's lock, as the key could still be guided to the hole after a few pints
the drunk man's lock (the drunken man's)
Alan
$200 [12]
Bakari:Actor named after his father, not the Chicago Bull
Michael (B.) Jordan
Aaron
$200 [14]
Dany says, "'My speech may be Tyroshi, and my garb Dothraki, but I am of" this continent, "of the Sunset Kingdoms"'
Westeros
Alan
$200 [15]
Kylo Ren throws the kitchen sink of weaponry at this character, but as the dust settles, he just flicks some off his shoulder, NBD
Luke Skywalker
$200 [21]
Gotta stop by Tim Hortons & pick up a double-double, coffee with 2 servings of each of these
cream & sugar
Cynthia Alan
$400 [8]
Heading out on the Oregon Trail? Grab a prairie schooner in Independence in this Midwest state
Missouri
Alan
$400 [10]
After singer Connie Francis was attacked in a hotel room, a fan designed a now-standard type of door lock with this for a key
a card
$400 [25]
Brownell:A major figure in the women's suffrage movement
Susan B. Anthony
Aaron
$400 [7]
"Do you stand there, Scarlett O'Hara, and tell me that" this place--"that land--doesn't amount to anything?"
Tara
Aaron
$400 [16]
After countless TV deaths--okay, we chose not to count 'em all--hemade another comeback on the big screen
Kenny
Aaron
$400 [22]
Molson muscle is synonymous with this other alliterative anatomical feature you might develop from drinking too much Molson
beer belly
Aaron
$800 [1]
"One of those uncommon geniuses", said William Henry Harrison of this Shawnee chief whose people he defeated at Tippecanoe
Tecumseh
Aaron
$600 [11]
These moveable lock parts that must be aligned can be in the form of pins, discs, wafers or levers
tumblers
Alan
$600 [26]
Gamaliel:Ohioan who won the presidency with a front porch campaign
Warren G. Harding
Alan
$600 [6]
In "A Confederacy of Dunces", "There may be a few costumes. That's what's so wonderful about" this city
New Orleans
Aaron
$600 [18]
This character died at the end of the second film of a franchise, but luckily for him, film 3 was "The Search for" him
Spock
Aaron
$600 [23]
A type of flat, sweet pastry is a "tail" of this very Canadian animal
a beaver
Cynthia
$1,000 [2]
Frances Perkins first worked for FDR when he was governor of N.Y.; in 1933, he appointed her secretary of this department
Labor
Aaron
$800 [27]
You might remember this company's black-faced 1500 series combination padlock hanging from your high school locker
Master Lock
Aaron
$800 [13]
Stockton:Gonzo journalist & counterculture author
Hunter S. Thompson
Alan
$800 [4]
Jack Torrance learns "one reason" this hotel "lost so much money lies in the depreciation that occurs each winter"; yup, that's 1 reason
the Overlook
Alan
$800 [19]
Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch shook off death with a big, new blue body in this 2022 sequel
Avatar: The Way of Water
Alan
$800 [29]
A bunny hug is this garment, with hood attached
a hoodie (a hooded sweatshirt)
Cynthia
DD $1,800 [3]
He made his fortune selling gear to miners in California, expanded it with railroads & founded a university
(Leland) Stanford
Aaron
$1,000 [28]
From French, it's the term for alockthat's recessed inside a door, as well as for the pocket in which it's installed
mortise lock
$1,000 [17]
Blount:Director of close-up & wide shots in epic films
Cecil B. DeMille
Alan
$1,000 [5]
Her last novel, 1940's "Sapphira and the Slave Girl", is set in Virginia, not frontier Nebraska
Cather
Aaron
$1,000 [20]
This mask-wearing maniac of many films has been killed by Tommy Jarvis, obliterated by the FBI & sent to hell by his niece
Jason
Alan
$1,000 [24]
A coupe longueuil is this fashionable(?) look, commerce in the front & fête in the back
a mullet
Alan

Double Jeopardy! Round

SEAS THE DAY PUBLISHING PROS SIGNIFICANT MOTHERS GEOLOGY POP GOES THE MUSIC "AP" EXAM
$400 [30]
Who's a good sea? You are! Yes, you are! You, being this sea between the same-named Canadian peninsula & Greenland
Labrador
Alan
$400 [29]
A relative of Abner, Frank, with this last name famous in publishing, was given the nickname "Effendi" by Rudyard Kipling
Doubleday
$400 [28]
At one time a widow & an outcast, Höelün survived to raise this son to become the greatest conqueror of early 13th century Asia
Genghis Khan
Alan
$400 [27]
In the strike-slip type of these in the earth's crust, the 2 sides slide horizontally against each other
a fault
Aaron Cynthia
$400 [24]
In 2012 she was rolling in the Grammys with 6 wins including Album of the Year, Record of the Year & Song of the Year
Adele
Cynthia
$400 [22]
Artemis is his twin sister
Apollo
Alan
$800 [5]
This "colorful" sea, an inlet of the Barents Sea, is called Beloye More in Russian
the White Sea
Aaron
$800 [23]
Founded in 1913, this Ivy League press has put out books like Stephen Jay Gould's "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory"
Harvard University Press
Aaron Alan
$800 [20]
The woman seenherewas mom to this artist who immortalized her in an 1871 painting
Whistler
Cynthia
$800 [19]
Made up of material ranging from boulders to sand, a moraine is debris carried & deposited by one of these masses over time
a glacier
Alan
$800 [26]
Michelle Pfeiffer was incredibly flattered to be namechecked in this hit, Billboard's Hot 100 No. 1 song of the 2010s
"Uptown Funk"
Cynthia Alan
$800 [18]
It's the end of the world as we know it
apocalypse
Alan
$1,200 [3]
The western part of the Tyrrhenian Sea is bounded by Corsica & this larger Italian island, about 7 miles south
Sardinia
Aaron
$1,200 [9]
"Sin City" & "Hellboy" are offerings from this "equine" comic book publisher
Dark Horse
Aaron
$1,200 [8]
Rajiv & Sanjay, the sons of this politician, became politicians too
Indira Gandhi
Alan
$1,200 [11]
About 45% of the terrestrial globe is these flat, elevated landforms that can be formed by plate shifts or by volcanoes
plateaus
$1,200 [1]
"Since U Been Gone" & "Walk Away" are hits off her "Breakaway" album
Clarkson
Aaron
$1,200 [14]
These plant pests are a favorite food of spiders & ladybugs
aphids
Aaron
$1,600 [2]
Major ports in this Balkan nation include Sarandë on the Ionian Sea & Durrës on the Adriatic
Albania
Alan
$2,000 [15]
It's not Dunder but this name that comes before Mifflin Harcourt in the name of a publishing house
Houghton
$1,600 [7]
His first wife, Maria, gave birth to 7 of his 20 children, including Wilhelm Friedemann & Johann Gottfried Bernhard
J.S. Bach
$1,600 [6]
This extension of the sea floor at the edge of a land mass averages 40 miles in width but stretches to 930 miles off Siberia
the Continental Shelf
Alan
$1,600 [25]
We hope Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes had the time of their lives recording "The Time Of My Life" for this film
Dirty Dancing
Aaron
$1,600 [16]
It can mean a lack of interest, indifference or a lack of feelings
apathetic (apathy)
Cynthia
$2,000 [4]
Seethissea? Its Tubbataha Reefswere made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993; now respond at warp factor 2
Sulu Sea
Aaron
DD $4,000 [12]
In an unpredictable move, this publisher merged with Penguin in 2013
Random House
Aaron
DD $6,000 [10]
Catherine of Aragon was the youngest daughter of this royal mom
Queen Isabella
Aaron
$2,000 [13]
From the Greek for "fire", this deadly flow of gas & lava exploding away from a volcano can propel ash over 100 miles per hour
pyroclastic
Alan
$2,000 [21]
She's the songwriter behind such hits as "If I Could Turn Back Time" & "How Do I Live"
(Diane) Warren
Alan
$2,000 [17]
It's an old term for a stroke, but it can also mean extreme anger
apoplexy
Cynthia

Final Jeopardy!

BRAND NAMES

This brand got its name in 1940 after a distillery executive took friends on a hunting trip

Wild Turkey

Cynthia "What is Johnnie Walker? Hey y'all in Calgary!" — wagered $2,300
Alan "What is Jaegermeister?" — wagered $4,000
Aaron "What" — wagered $6,801

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