Show #9453 2025-12-10 (taped 2025-10-29) Regular

Will Riley game 3.

Contestants

Eddie Kass — a double bassist from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Chelsea Carter — a creative director from Pasadena, California

Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $45,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will! $3,600 $6,000 $12,200 $8,801
3-day champion: $54,403
$15,200
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Chelsea $1,400 $4,400 $4,400 $8,799
2nd place: $3,000
$4,400
10 R, 1 W
Eddie $4,200 $2,800 $13,800 $2,800
3rd place: $2,000
$18,200
21 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

REMEMBER DECEMBER THE "NEW" WORLD PRISON LINGO LITERARY AGENTS THE NAME OF THE GAME THAT'S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE
$200 [30]
This song heard often in December was once called "One Horse Open Sleigh" & was written for Thanksgiving
"Jingle Bells"
Chelsea
$200 [17]
350,000 cubic feet of granite from this state was quarried to build the Library of Congress
New Hampshire
Chelsea
$200 [18]
As heard in "The Shawshank Redemption", new inmates are called these, since they are "out of water" & in a new environment
fish(es)
Will!
$200 [27]
Elmore Leonard created Joe LaBrava, an ex-one of these agents with memories of "Mrs. Truman's Living Room"
Secret Service agent
Will!
$200 [21]
Choose word or phrase; have foe try to guess, letter by letter; invent wheel-based game show based on it (oops, too late!)
hangman
$200 [3]
All due respect to Mr. Willis, but "now I have a machine gun ho-ho-ho"? & taking place during a holiday party? It's a Christmas movie!
Die Hard
Eddie
$400 [22]
During the winter solstice each December, this spot on the Earth is tilted 23.4 degrees away from the Sun
the North Pole
Eddie
$400 [12]
Of the 45 species of brilliantly plumedbirds of paradise, this biodiverse island is home to all but a few
New Guinea
Eddie
$400 [26]
"Flying" one of these isn't a hobby glamorized in "Mary Poppins" but a secret message passed between prisoners
a kite
Chelsea
$400 [5]
Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" is Verloc, who executes a plan to implicate these anti-all-government types
anarchists
Eddie
$400 [15]
54 blocks; remove; re-stack, repeat
Jenga
Eddie
$600 [28]
Chevy Chase learned a metal plate in Cousin Eddie's head made him forget who he was for a bit after using a microwave in this comedy
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Chelsea
$600 [14]
Not just self-adulation, but beauty & youth are associated with the name of this birth flower for December
a narcissus
Eddie
$600 [10]
It's Canada's only officially bilingual province; English & le français have equal status
New Brunswick
Eddie
$600 [4]
"Orange Is the New Black" mentions this 3-letter acronym for solitary confinement that sounds like an apparel item
the SHU
$600 [6]
She begins "Song of Solomon" with a life insurance agent determined to fly from the roof of Mercy Hospital
Morrison
Chelsea
$600 [20]
Meet, then escort Ellie to safety; see what's left of the U.S.; encounter a whole bunch of unsafe stuff
The Last of Us
Chelsea
$800 [2]
The tagline tothis1996 Christmas comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger was "Two dads, one toy, no prisoners"
Jingle All the Way
Chelsea
$800 [13]
The shammash, a "servant" candle, is used to light the other 8 on this candle holder seen in Jewish windows
a menorah
Will!
$800 [1]
World capital that's home to the sandstone arch seen here, a British war monument completed in 1931
New Delhi
Eddie
$800 [8]
A LAPL exhibit on prisoners' inventions included a DIY tool used to boil water called this, like a barbed insect organ
a stinger
Eddie
$800 [7]
A landed proprietor in Russia himself, he wrote a tale of "A Landed Proprietor" in which a land agent has ruined a poor serf
Tolstoy
Will!
$800 [19]
144 tiles; chow down; dragons & flowers & wind, oh my!
mahjong
Eddie
$1,000 [29]
It's all in the cards in this movie: "Just because it's Christmas... (and at Christmas you tell the truth)... to me, you are perfect"
Love Actually
Chelsea
$1,000 [24]
The most popular of the Roman festivals, this December celebration of much merrymaking was dedicated to the god of agriculture
Saturnalia
Will!
$1,000 [11]
Whatever you do, don't bring coal to this British city on the River Tyne--it already has a whole idiom's worth
Newcastle
Will!
$1,000 [9]
Some inmates have used this Aztecan language for coded conversations in prison (macuahuitl could mean shiv for instance)
Nahuatl
Will!
$1,000 [16]
2025 is the centennial year of this conservative thinker who was recruited by the CIA & created fictional spy Blackford Oakes
William F. Buckley Jr.
Will!
$1,000 [25]
Go through phases, including movement & shooting; unit coherency is crucial; 40K reasons to leave your lover
Warhammer ( 40,000 )
DD $2,600 [23]
In this 2003 movie, we learned "They tried using gnomes & trolls, but the gnomes drank too much"
Elf
Eddie

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR ERA GEOGRAPHY PAINTINGS BROADWAY NUMBER, PLEASE FROM THE FRENCH MAKE YOUR OWN WES ANDERSON MOVIE TITLE MED. ABBREV.
$400 [21]
For this state to enter the Union, it had to telegraph its constitution to D.C. from Carson City, then the longest wire ever sent
Nevada
Will!
$400 [5]
In 1994 this iconic Edvard Munch painting was stolen from a museum in Oslo; makes me just want to...; luckily it was recovered
The Scream
Chelsea
$400 [6]
"A Chorus Line":"____ singular sensation, every little step she takes"
1
Eddie
$400 [28]
You're a winner, baby! Specifically this 8-letter winner of a game or battle
champion
$400 [8]
The+ the largest city on the Tagus River+ a coffee drink, the basis of cappuccino
The Lisbon Espresso
Eddie
$1,200 [24]
On a medical chart, a DNR order stands for this
do not resuscitate
Eddie
$800 [20]
Despite a blockade, this Alabama port city continued to function until 1864 when a battle nearby was won by a federal naval force
Mobile
Will!
$800 [1]
Though better known for his Tahitian paintings, this Frenchman also did a "Still Life with Three Puppies"
Gauguin
Eddie
$800 [7]
"Guys & Dolls":"Call it hell, call it heaven, but it's a probable 12 to ____ that the guy's only doing it for some doll"
7
$800 [13]
This type of close watch or security comes from the French for "to watch over"
surveillance
Eddie
$800 [14]
The+ North Africa's barren waste+ a short office communication from Latin for "to be remembered"
The Sahara Memo
Will!
$1,600 [23]
CSF is short for this, withdrawn in a lumbar puncture
cerebrospinal fluid
Will!
$1,200 [15]
Confederate General Thomas Jackson got his "Stonewall" nickname from standing firm at the first battle of this Virginia stream
Bull Run
Will! Eddie
$1,200 [2]
9 figures from classical mythology, including Flora & Venus, appear in an orange grove in this Botticelli work
Primavera ( Spring )
Will! Eddie
$1,200 [9]
"Chess":"Oh, I'm the arbiter. I know the score. From square one I'll be watching all ____"
64
$1,200 [12]
Whew! The tumor is this non-cancerous type, a borrowing from French & ultimately partly from Latin for "well"
benign
Chelsea
$1,200 [25]
The+ a bellicose ancient city also called Lacedaemon+ a ballroom dance by definition for 4 couples
The Sparta Quadrille
$2,000 [22]
Antibodies are also called these, Ig for short
immunoglobulins
Will!
$2,000 [19]
Lincoln was nominated for president in 1860 in the Wigwam, a wooden structure at what's now Lake & Wacker in this city
Chicago
Will!
$1,600 [3]
1891's "The Circus" was this pointillist's last painting before his untimely death
Seurat
Eddie
$1,600 [16]
"Les Mis":"And so Javert, you see it's true. This man bears no more guilt than you. Who am I? ____"
24601
Eddie
DD $1,800 [10]
The originally French word for this deadly natural phenomenon was influenced by a French word for "descent"
avalanche
Eddie
$1,600 [26]
The + "Citizen Kane" director+ high-in-the-forest apple juice brand+ book of maps
The Orson Welles Tree Top Atlas
Chelsea Eddie
DD $3,000 [18]
This city on a bend in the Mississippi River was called "The Gibraltar of the West"; the Union captured it in 1863
Vicksburg
Will!
$2,000 [4]
In the 1890s, Monetpaintedsome 30 views of thecathedralin this Normandy capital at different times of day
Rouen
Eddie
$2,000 [17]
"Rent":"____ minutes, how do you measure a year in the life?"
525,600
Will!
$2,000 [11]
The word "dictator" is from Latin; this other "D" word for a similar type of absolute ruler is borrowed from French
a despot
Will!
$2,000 [27]
The+ adjective meaning regarding a sheep+ a Palm Beach presidential home+ an agreement that puts an end to a war
The Ovine Mar-a-Lago Treaty

Final Jeopardy!

RUSSIAN LITERARY WORKS

The son of a former serf buys this title area for 90,000 rubles above the mortgage

The Cherry Orchard

Chelsea "What is The Cherry Orchard" — wagered $4,399
Will! "What is the House of Hi Travis + Dad!" — wagered $3,399
Eddie "What is The Gulag? :(" — wagered $11,000

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