Show #9452 2025-12-09 (taped 2025-10-29) Regular

Will Riley game 2.

Contestants

Jenna LaFleur — a freelancer from Washington, D.C.

Steve Riddell — a business manager from Euless, Texas

Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will! $4,000 $5,400 $19,600 $28,801
2-day champion: $45,602
$15,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Steve $2,200 $4,400 $9,200 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$9,200
17 R, 3 W
Jenna! $1,600 $7,600 $14,400 $9,199
2nd place: $3,000
$14,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC LEADERS LIT-POURRI THAT'S PROBABLY ILLEGAL MILD TV SPOILERS K2 YAS QUEENS
$200 [6]
According to his brother & successor Raúl, before his 2016 death, this man said he wanted no public memorials or tributes
Fidel Castro
Steve
$200 [3]
Surrealism was inspired by the logic (or its lack) in these; poet Robert Desnos interpreted those of listeners on radio
dreams
Will!
$200 [30]
AKA "false making", this crime can apply to art, like 450 pieces in Italy in 2024 that were not in fact by Klimt et al.
forgery (counterfeiting)
Will! Steve
$200 [27]
On this show Logan Roy gives control over to... cussin'! According to The Ringer, he drops the F-bomb 402 times
Succession
Jenna!
$200 [20]
Some call it a frappe
a milkshake
Steve
$200 [29]
The borough's role in history includes 1657's Flushing Remonstrance, which helped put religious freedom in this part of the Constitution
the First Amendment (the Bill of Rights)
Jenna!
$400 [5]
Roman dictator Quintus Hortensius ended centuries of struggle between the privileged patricians & these, the general citizens
plebeians
Will!
$400 [7]
In the 1930s serious poet W.H. Auden edited an anthology of light verse, including "Sing a song o' sixpence / A bagful of" this
rye
Will! Jenna!
$400 [24]
You're indicted for this; your wives Etta, Flo, Bridget, Mindy, Nan & Gwen put up bail for you... & really prove the case
polygamy
Jenna!
$400 [26]
On the last episode of this show, the title family meet at a New Jersey diner & the unthinkable happens--Meadow jaywalks!
The Sopranos
Will!
$400 [19]
A memento
a keepsake
Steve
$400 [14]
The "Miracle Mets"brought the house downin New York in 1969, but their house came down when this got demolished
Shea Stadium
Jenna!
$600 [4]
Like the little girl here, millions of followers engaged in loyalty dances to show their devotion to this leader
Chairman Mao
Will! Steve
$600 [15]
"The Sheltering Sky" is set on this continent but Paul Bowles named the hero Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea
Africa
Steve
$800 [23]
New York lists 5 degrees of this; 5th is a misdemeanor but 1st, with use of an incendiary device, is a felony that can get you 25 years
arson
Will!
$600 [25]
In the 3rd episode of "Mad Men", we learn the true identity of this character--he's a dog lover! He gives his daughter a pooch
Don Draper
Steve
$600 [8]
A ringer
a lookalike
$600 [13]
What's been called the biggest event in the history of Queens is the 1909 opening of the Queensboro Bridge over this river
the East River
Will!
$800 [1]
The support of working-class followers helped propel this man to the presidency of Argentina in 1946
Perón
Will!
$800 [21]
Not a fan of her verse novel, Edward FitzGerald wrote on her death, "No more 'Aurora Leigh's, thank God", enraging her husband Robert
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Steve
$1,000 [22]
Thailand hands out sentences as long as 60 years for this crime, a term from the French for injuring royal dignity
lèse-majesté
Jenna!
$800 [17]
Not to give too much away, but the first name of the title novelist played by Nathan Fillion on this show is Richard
Castle
Jenna!
$800 [9]
One's wingman
a sidekick
Jenna!
$800 [12]
This airport in Queens is named for a NYC mayor who left his seat in Congress to be a pilot in World War I
LaGuardia
Will!
$1,000 [2]
Her lover Grigory Orlov helped organize the 1760s coup that made her an empress
Catherine the Great
Steve
$1,000 [28]
One of Andrew Lloyd Webber's less successful shows was a 1975 musical about the book characters Bertie Wooster & this valet
Jeeves
Jenna!
DD $2,400 [18]
This crime refers to illegally transporting booze or taping & selling that Doobie Brothers concert
bootlegging
Jenna!
$1,000 [16]
In Season 1, Episode 1 of "Bridgerton", this actor, as Lord Anthony, rides a horse
Jonathan Bailey
$1,000 [10]
A stevedore
a dockworker
Steve
$1,000 [11]
As the name says, the Kew-Forest School, where Donald Trump went from K through 7th, serves Kew Gardens & this area
Forest Hills
Will!

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS RUSSIAN COMPOSERS SCIENCE GLOSSARY FILM TITLE PAIRS SAY "LOVE" MOVING WORDS & PHRASES
$400 [30]
Some 3,000 brown bears inhabit this largest Alaskan island & its archipelago
Kodiak Island
Will! Steve
$400 [5]
Rachmaninoff was known for his concerti featuring this instrument & was considered its leading virtuoso of his time
the piano
Will!
$400 [28]
Genetics is the study of this, a word centuries older for all characteristics passed down via the bloodline
heredity
Jenna!
$400 [1]
1996:Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes
Romeo + Juliet
Will!
$400 [16]
"Love Story", the novel & the film, gave us this memorable line about not apologizing
love means never having to say you're sorry
Steve
$400 [24]
'Twas the night before Christmas & "not a creature was" doing this
stirring
Steve
$800 [29]
It's separated from mainland China by astraitof the same name
Taiwan
Jenna!
$800 [23]
Dimitri Tiomkin, one of the composers who shaped Hollywood film music, made theme songs a big thing on this 1952 Gary Cooper Western
High Noon
Steve
$800 [27]
The polymer cellulose is called a polysaccharide, meaning it is composed of molecules of these
sugars
Will!
$800 [2]
1997:George Clooney & Chris O'Donnell
Batman & Robin
$800 [15]
The title period of this novel by Gabriel García Márquez is the 1870s to the 1930s
Love in the Time of Cholera
Steve
$800 [17]
It's the movement of people from one social class or level to another; I'm going to opt for the upward type
mobility
Steve
$1,200 [4]
The islands of the Seychelles are spread over hundreds of thousands of square miles in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Steve
$1,200 [22]
This composer was miffed when Alexander III's only comment on his 1890 "Sleeping Beauty" ballet was "very nice"
Tchaikovsky
Will!
$1,200 [8]
Humans are mammals that have this 12-letter structure, with all the bones on the inside
an endoskeleton
Jenna!
$1,200 [11]
2009:Amy Adams &Meryl Streep
Julie & Julia
Jenna!
$1,200 [10]
"You that way; we this way" is the last line in this Shakespeare play
Love's Labour's Lost
Will!
$1,200 [13]
It's theroadwayyou take when you take your time; the Midwest's Meeting of the Great Riversone lives up to its designation
the scenic route
Steve
$2,000 [7]
This group of self-governing Danish islands lies about halfway between the Shetland Islands & Iceland
the Faroe Islands
Jenna!
$1,600 [26]
Prokofiev got to tour Disney on a U.S. visit--maybe it helped him score "Alexander Nevsky" for this great director back home
Eisenstein
Will!
$1,600 [9]
Iodine is this type of element & is used as the filler gas in the same type of lamp
a halogen
Jenna!
$1,600 [3]
2018:Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly
Holmes & Watson
Jenna!
DD $2,000 [12]
The June 1915 issue of Poetry magazine contained an angry letter from Ezra Pound as well as this poem by T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Jenna!
$1,600 [18]
Moving word meaning to deliver or send a thought, as in please ____ my heartfelt thanks or sympathies
convey
Steve
DD $6,200 [6]
In 1902 an eruption of Mount Pelée on this French island destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre
Martinique
Will!
$2,000 [25]
He began writing his "Leningrad Symphony" in 1941 during the city's siege by the Germans before being evacuated
Shostakovich
Will!
$2,000 [21]
In winter, chipmunks enter this not-quite-hibernating state, from the Latin for "numbness"
torpor
$2,000 [20]
2019:Jodie Turner-Smith &Daniel Kaluuya
Queen & Slim
Jenna!
$2,000 [14]
In addition to its title question, this Cole Porter standard asks, "Why should it make a fool of me?"
"What Is This Thing Called Love?"
$2,000 [19]
It can mean one traveling on foot or be the British word for the itemshown
perambulator
Steve Jenna!

Final Jeopardy!

LEGENDS

Legend says that for military aid, Robert Bruce gave half of a symbol of Scotland's monarchy to the King of Munster, who turned it into this

the Blarney Stone

Steve "What is a royal crest?" — wagered $9,200
Jenna! "What is a unicorn sword?" — wagered $5,201
Will! "What is the Blarney Stone? Hi Mom!" — wagered $9,201

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