Show #9431 2025-11-10 (taped 2025-10-07) Regular

Allegra Kuney game 4.

Contestants

Morgan Connolly — a biochemist originally from Long Island, New York

Matt Eisenberg — a band director from Ypsilanti, Michigan

Allegra Kuney — a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $85,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Allegra $2,600 $2,000 $19,200 $7,599
4-day champion: $92,600
$14,000
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Matt $3,600 $6,000 $15,400 $5,400
2nd place: $3,000
$14,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Morgan $1,800 $4,800 $10,800 $2,300
3rd place: $2,000
$10,800
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

3 LETTERS, 2 MEANINGS PUTTING IN YOUR 2 CENTS, INTERNATIONALLY NOSHING AT THE TEAM'S STADIUM POTPOURRI SKIN CONDITIONS PRESIDENT CLEVELAND WITH YOUR OLD PAL GROVER
$200 [2]
Trendy, or where the thighbone meets the pelvis
hip
Allegra
$200 [27]
After hitting the resort in Sochi, 2 cents gets you a little under 2 of these
rubles
Allegra
$200 [26]
This NFL squad known as "America's Team" came up with the pizza burger, a 16-oz. Angus patty between 2 pepperoni 'zas
the Cowboys
Matt
$200 [21]
It's best to avoid swallowing apple seeds, as they contain a chemical that degrades into a tiny amount of this poison
cyanide
Allegra
$200 [8]
Common form of dermatitis on a baby's butt
diaper rash
Morgan
$200 [7]
(Grover presents the clue.) You can say I am cute & very fuzzy, just like this rival who both beat Cleveland & lost to him; he was the last president to sport a full beard
Benjamin Harrison
Morgan
$400 [3]
Move with speed, or nil, nada, nothing
zip
Allegra
$400 [28]
Ah, Buenos Aires, where 2 cents becomes around 25 these
pesos
Matt
$400 [14]
If you like your potatoes turducken-loaded or crawfish-stuffed, then the Superdome & this NFL team had you covered
the Saints
Morgan
$400 [10]
Immortalized in a 1910 poem, a historic double play trio for the Chicago Cubs was Tinker to Evers to this player
Chance
Matt
$400 [9]
Alopecia areata attacks these structures in the skin
hair follicles
Morgan
$400 [22]
(Grover presents the clue.) The star of Grover Cleveland's 1892 campaign, the first successful one by an ex-president, was not the candidate or even his wife, but their cute & adorable one-year-olddaughtercalled "Baby" this name
(Baby) Ruth
Allegra
$600 [4]
A fruit seed, or one of the dots on dice
pip
Allegra
$800 [29]
Your .02 soars to around .13 this in Copenhagen
kroner
Morgan
$600 [11]
The Halo Dog in this MLB city was positively sinful--bacon-wrapped beef with charro beans, peppers & Monterey Jack
Anaheim
Allegra Matt
$600 [18]
In 2023, for its 65th anniversary, this restaurant brought back its Rooty Tooty Fresh 'n Fruity combo
IHOP
Matt
$600 [15]
Rocker Chris Stein beat near-fatal Pemphigus vulgaris, a name "I didn't like... at all" using prednisone, this type of drug
a steroid
Morgan
$600 [23]
(Grover presents the clue.) Aw, imagine being there on October 28, 1896 when President Cleveland spoke to dedicate the Statue of Liberty; first, the president had to wait until this, in red, white & blue, was pulled from Lady Liberty's face
French flag
Allegra Matt Morgan
$800 [5]
A strong desire, or an Asian currency
a yen
Matt
DD $1,000 [1]
Cruising Karachi? 2 cents turns into around 5 or 6 of these
rupees
Allegra
$800 [12]
Lucas Oil Stadium, home to this NFL team, gave fans the option to "load in" fries with Korean BBQ pork or s'mores
the Colts
Matt
$800 [19]
In 1844, this American patented a process of curing rubber called vulcanization
Goodyear
Morgan
$800 [16]
Ill-fitting shoes may cause this hard swelling at the place where the big toe connects with the foot
a bunion
Matt
$800 [24]
(Grover presents the clue.) Grover Cleveland is the only president born in the great state of New Jersey; hisbirthplaceused to be a manse, which means that his father had this job in the lovely town of Caldwell
a minister
Allegra
$1,000 [6]
Low land partly covered with water, or an Asian currency
fen
Allegra
$1,000 [30]
Next time you're in Tehran, exchange that 2 cents for 842 this, give or take
the Iranian rial
$1,000 [13]
This team's hunger-fighting offerings have included theloaded funnel cake fry sundae&, in honor of Kyle, the Schwarburger
the Phillies
Matt
$1,000 [20]
Shewon a Nobel Prize in 1983 for her discovery of jumping genes
Barbara McClintock
Morgan
$1,000 [17]
In the wake of acne, people of color are more prone to post-inflammatory hyper-pigmentation, a local excess of this pigment
melanin
Morgan
$1,000 [25]
(Grover presents the clue.) Grover Cleveland did not enter politics in Cleveland but in this other Lake Erie city &, in one of his most quoted letters, he longs for a plate of herring & Swiss cheese from a favorite restaurant there
Buffalo
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

A WORLD OF HISTORY POETS & POETRY CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR THE JAMES GANG THE "PIT" CREW MULTI-HYPHENATES
$400 [29]
Along with his architect Bramante, Julius II laid the cornerstone of this basilica in 1506
St. Peter's
Morgan
$400 [28]
In the Aeolic dialect of Greek that she spoke, the name of this ancient poet began with psi, not sigma
Sappho
Allegra
$400 [8]
Despite the name of this type of financial crime, a businessperson is free to wear casual attire while committing it
white collar crime
Allegra
$400 [24]
At 5'4" this early president was our shortest
Madison
Matt
$400 [27]
This term for the part of a plane where you'll find the pilot is also used for the place on a boat from which it is steered
cockpit
Allegra
$400 [16]
In 2018, shelaunched a lingerie brand, performed "Wild Thoughts" at the Grammys & hacked her way into "Ocean's 8"
Rihanna
Matt
$800 [30]
In the Middle Ages, Novgorod was an independent republic & the Russian endpoint of this economic league
the Hanseatic League
Morgan
$800 [9]
After a 1953 suicide attempt, she was in the psychiatric wing of Mass. General, where she later worked after she got married
Sylvia Plath
Matt Morgan
$800 [4]
Keep that infernal rock & roll music at a reasonable volume, or you could be charged with this 3-word misdemeanor
disturbing the peace
Matt
$800 [23]
It was the last name of businessman James Cash, whose namesake department stores can still be found in most states
Penney
Matt
$800 [26]
This verb means surrender or give way to; oddly, putting re- in front gives it the meaning repeat, not surrender again
capitulate
Allegra Morgan
$800 [25]
Along with writing & producing "Inventing Anna" & "Private Practice", this multi-hyphenate also plays the cello
Shonda Rhimes
$1,200 [19]
More than 11,000 Argentines were captured by the British during this 1982 war
the Falklands War
Allegra
$1,600 [14]
His often anthologized poems include "The Flea", "The Good-Morrow" &, of course, "Death Be Not Proud"
John Donne
$1,200 [5]
It's the legal term for bootleg or black market goods, like the discounted Birkin bag that turned out to be a knockoff
counterfeit
Allegra
$1,200 [10]
One of 9 children, this author born in Harlem in 1924 died in the south of France in 1987
James Baldwin
Allegra
$1,200 [1]
An improv in "Fast & Furious 6" by Dwayne Johnson about Tyrese Gibson's forehead caused a genuine one of these from Ludacris
a spit-take
Matt
$1,200 [22]
He acts!He raps!He sings!He's Lando!He's 'Bino!He's Bando!He's this guy
Donald Glover
Morgan
$1,600 [18]
Carved from a sandstone cliff on the banks of the Nile, Abu Simbel consists of 2 temples built by this "Great" pharaoh
Ramses
Morgan
$2,000 [15]
She wrote, "You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I'll rise"
Maya Angelou
Allegra
$1,600 [6]
Advance fee fraud is an online hoax aka 419 fraud, a reference to the criminal code of this country where the scam is common
Nigeria
Matt
$1,600 [11]
Mortally wounded in 1813, he said words to the effect of "tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship"
James Lawrence
$1,600 [2]
The Templars feuded with other orders such as these knights named for caring for the sick; a 1274 merger idea fell through
the Hospitallers
Allegra
$1,600 [21]
He won a Best Actor Oscar & a Grammy for "Blame It" & is giving me a run for my money as game show host on "Beat Shazam"
Jamie Foxx
$2,000 [17]
1868 saw the end of the Edo Period in Japan, bringing on what is known as this "Restoration"
the Meiji Restoration
Matt
DD $6,000 [13]
In an ode, Keats says the love depicted on this title object is "for ever warm and still to be enjoy'd"
a Grecian Urn
Allegra
DD $3,000 [7]
A contemnor is a person guilty of this 3-word behavior, & they've most likely ticked off a judge
contempt of court
Matt
$2,000 [12]
The White House's original architect, he oversaw its rebuilding after it was torched by the British in 1814
James Hoban
$2,000 [3]
The brain's smallest lobe, it helps process visual signals from the eyes
occipital
Morgan
$2,000 [20]
Thisstar of "Samson and Delilah" from Hollywood's Golden Age worked on tech that would lead to Wi-Fi & Bluetooth technology
Hedy Lamarr
Allegra

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHIC NAMING

In 1859 the name of this political unit was chosen by Victoria, who liked herself better than James Cook, another possible honoree

Queensland

Morgan "What is the Virgin Islands" — wagered $8,500
Matt "What is An honor to p" — wagered $10,000
Allegra "What are provinces?" — wagered $11,601

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