Show #9442 2025-11-25 (taped 2025-10-21) Regular

Harrison Whitaker game 11.

Contestants

Lyman Howard — a financial advisor from Mill Valley, California

Emma Passariello — a naval architecture student from Westbury, New York

Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 10-day cash winnings total $289,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Harrison $600 $8,300 $19,700 $19,400
11-day champion: $309,000
$22,400
29 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Emma $3,800 $3,600 $2,400 $2,400
2nd place: $3,000
$2,400
8 R, 4 W
Lyman $1,600 $1,800 $600 $1,100
3rd place: $2,000
$600
8 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE U.S. BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS ODD MUSEUMS DON'T YOU HATE IT WHEN...? SHARED ROOTS POUR DECISIONS WHERE AM "I"?
$200 [26]
Originating in Black communities, this lively dance swept the nation after appearing in the musical "Runnin' Wild"
the Charleston
Harrison Emma
$200 [8]
Per its brochure, Wisconsin's National this condiment Museum is located "a mere 6,978 kilometers from Dijon, France"
Mustard
Harrison
$200 [27]
Your water just broke, so things are probably about to get noisy--except you can't make any noise or monsters will eat you
A Quiet Place
Harrison
$200 [28]
Yoga comes from an Indo-European root meaning "to join", like this device used to join 2 oxen
a yoke
Lyman
$200 [30]
I'm feeling like a cocktail with mint, so a julep or this Cuban one traditionally made with rum, sugar & muddled mint
a mojito
Harrison
$200 [29]
Of the 4 U.S. states that start with I--that's 8% of them, by the way--it's last, alphabetically
Iowa
$400 [12]
The cold-blooded murder of 7 members of a rival gang in Chicago gained infamy as this holiday bloodletting
the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Harrison Emma
$400 [5]
"Originally designed to protect a small family garden", this invention known as the devil's rope has its own museum in La Crosse, Kansas
barbed wire
Emma
$400 [25]
You're found floating unconscious in the Mediterranean near France & you don't know your name or how you got so good at martial arts
The Bourne Identity
Harrison
$400 [24]
Lactose, the sugar found in milk, shares a root with this type of celestial formation like the Milky Way
a galaxy
Harrison
$400 [17]
Whether it's a Sea Breeze or a Cape Codder you are imbibing, the main ingredient is this juice that gives the drink its color
cranberry juice
Harrison
$400 [23]
Thisriver rises near Lake Mapam in Tibet to start its journey of some 2,000 miles
the Indus
Harrison
$600 [2]
Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbankscombined forces & formed this film company
United Artists
Lyman
$600 [4]
The Glyptotek in Copenhagen has a cabinet of these fake features that are missing from many of its Greek & Roman sculptures
noses
Lyman
$600 [20]
You go hiking & don't tell anyone where you're going, then your forearm gets stuck in some rocks & you gotta... liberate your arm
127 Hours
Harrison
$600 [13]
A suture binds an incision & shares a root with this Sanskrit word for a sacred text & the binding rules it holds
a sutra
Emma
$600 [14]
If we are going to hit the beach in Mexico, then Mexican beer, claro! Modelo, Corona or this brand bearing the name of an ocean
Pacifico
Emma
$600 [21]
Orange County city with a U.C. campus whose Anteaters made it to the College World Series in 2007 & 2014
Irvine
Harrison
$800 [1]
I cannot tell a lie--this bridge was dedicated on October 24, 1931
the George Washington Bridge
Lyman
$800 [6]
Medical oddities at Philly's Mütter Museum include this type of mechanical respirator used to treat polio patients
the iron lung
Emma
$800 [18]
You're squatting at your rich employers' home with your entire family & you find a guy living in a bunker in the basement
Parasite
Harrison
$800 [15]
A pantry as a place to store bread shares a root with this word for the people you break bread with
companions
Emma
$800 [11]
Maybe something bubbly, like champagne or this sparkling Italian wine named for a village near Trieste
Prosecco
Lyman
$800 [9]
Construction began in 1961 on this capital-to-be at the edge of the Himalayas
Islamabad
$1,000 [3]
Many places on this river experienced their worst-ever flooding in 1937; here's Louisville, Kentucky
the Ohio River
Lyman
$1,000 [7]
Columbus, Ga. has a museum devoted to this childhood artifact, including tobacco & lard tins that were its precursors
lunchbox
Lyman
$1,000 [19]
You're trying to repair the Hubble Space Telescope & your ride home gets taken out by flying debris
Gravity
Harrison
DD $2,500 [22]
The flesh-ripping humor of sarcasm shares a root with this container that comes from the Greek for "flesh eating"
sarcophagus
Harrison
$1,000 [16]
If it's a grapefruit cocktail you be after, try a Greyhound or this variant with coarse salt on the rim of the glass
a Salty Dog
$1,000 [10]
The Sicilian city of Syracuse is one of the main ports on this sea
the Ionian
Emma

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID IT? PEW PEW PEW 9-LETTER WORDS ITALIAN AMERICANS SONG TITLE BEFORE & AFTER ANIMALS OF ZOOTOPIA
$400 [20]
"Frailty, thy name is woman"
Hamlet
Harrison Lyman
$400 [27]
Pews became common during this 16th c. religious upheaval; sermons got longer & people literally could no longer stand for them
the Reformation
Harrison
$400 [26]
It's a mechanical device with rotating blades to move a ship or aircraft
a propeller
Lyman
$400 [25]
Gay Talese wrote a classic 1966 magazine story about what happens when this singer "Has a Cold" (he's not in a good mood)
Sinatra
Harrison
$400 [24]
A Springsteen anthem segues into a Jay-Z collab about the founding of Roc Nation, & the result is civic destiny
"Born To Run This Town"
Harrison
$400 [30]
(Ginnifer Goodwin presents the clue.) It doesn't take a detective to know when a rabbit is happy or excited; just watch for one of these next-level bunny hops--a high-twisting leap that shares its name with a word for a baby's pacifier
a binky
Emma
$800 [19]
"If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended"
Puck
$800 [18]
Colonial families often sat together in box pews, like the ones seenherein this Massachusetts church where Paul Revere saw the light
Old North Church
Harrison
$800 [17]
Per Bart Simpson, Heywood U. Cuddleme might be a good this, a fictitious sobriquet used to conceal your identity
a pseudonym
Emma Lyman
$800 [16]
Louis "Dr. No" Ignarro won a Nobel for work on this medical molecule; it's NO, not to be confused with N2O or "laughing gas"
nitric oxide
Harrison
$800 [22]
Elvis' first big smash checks in with an Eagles smash at a place I really don't want to stay
"Heartbreak Hotel California"
Harrison
$800 [29]
(Jason Bateman presents the clue.)Foxeshave great night vision & great hearing; plus, some have clawsthat do this, meaning to withdraw, which enables them toclimb trees
retract
Emma
$1,200 [2]
"For I am he am born to tame you, Kate"
Petruchio
Harrison
$1,600 [9]
These Quaker places of worship are known for simplicity; seating is plain chairs or benches often facing each other
meeting houses
Harrison
$1,200 [8]
A music website bears the name of this tool used for lifting hay
a pitchfork
Harrison
$1,200 [7]
This"Goodfellas" & "Sopranos" actress went to Sicily, where her roots are, to renovate a house for HGTV's "My Big Italian Adventure"
(Lorraine) Bracco
Harrison
$1,200 [12]
A hurtin' Billy Ray Cyrus line-dancing number melds with a Blondie hit & makes something extra fragile
an "Achy Breaky Heart Of Glass"
Harrison
$1,200 [28]
(Ginnifer Goodwin presents the clue.) Good luck at the DMV in Zootopia, where the employees aresloths, which are so slow; in fact, sloths have the lowest this of all non-hibernating mammals, meaning their bodies turn food into energy verrryy slowwwly
metabolism
Harrison
$1,600 [3]
"Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well"
Othello
$2,000 [10]
This egg-shaped building's original pews--enough to seat nearly 9,000--were made of pine from the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains
the Tabernacle
Lyman
$1,600 [1]
It's a seismic event in the Sea of Tranquility, for example
a moonquake
Harrison
$1,600 [5]
Of Italian heritage, she was Florida's first female attorney general & became the USA's AG in 2025
Bondi
Harrison
$1,600 [13]
A perennial Mariah Carey holiday hit joins up with a Streisand/Diamond duet to say knock it off with the damn bouquet deliveries
"All I Want For Christmas Is You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
Emma Lyman
$1,600 [21]
(Ke Huy Quan presents the clue.) Since lynxes are powerful predators, it's no surprise the Lynxleys are one of the most influential families in Zootopia; North America has Canadian lynxes&these furry cousins sometimes called bay lynxes
bobcats
Lyman
DD $6,000 [14]
"Caparison my horse. Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power: I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain"
Richard III
Harrison
DD $3,000 [4]
This main part of a church where the pews are located takes its name from the Latin for "ship", which it's kinda shaped like
the nave
Harrison
$2,000 [11]
In ancient Athens Cleon, who urged brutal measures against the city of Mytilene, was this type of suspect populist leader
a demagogue
Harrison
$2,000 [6]
Sheimmigrated to the U.S. with her husband in the 1950s, & her cookbooks made her almost synonymous with Italian food
Marcella Hazan
$2,000 [15]
Sabrina Carpenter's first No. 1 hooks up with an early Beatles hit to make a really, really, really, really earnest request
"Please Please Please Please Me"
$2,000 [23]
(Jason Bateman presents the clue.) In "Zootopia 2", we meet Nibbles Maplestick, the beaver; known as ecosystem engineers, beavers can alter their environmentsby building dams, canals &these dome-shaped dwellings that can be up to 16 feet tall
beaver lodges

Final Jeopardy!

1980s TELEVISION

This spin-off premiered 21 years after the show that inspired it but took place nearly a century later

Star Trek: The Next Generation ( ST:TNG )

Lyman "What is... Star Trek Next Generation? ♡LENT" — wagered $500
Emma "What is ?" — wagered $0
Harrison "What is I prefer movies ! :)" — wagered $300

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