Show #9454 2025-12-11 (taped 2025-10-29) Regular

Will Riley game 4.

Contestants

Francis Boyle — a playwright and teacher from Liberty Township, Ohio

Jennifer Foote — a lawyer from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,403)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will! $5,800 $11,200 $17,000 $23,000
4-day champion: $77,403
$18,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer $1,600 $2,600 $3,800 $5,800
3rd place: $2,000
$3,800
5 R, 0 W
Francis $1,600 $1,400 $5,200 $6,400
2nd place: $3,000
$12,600
18 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

VICTORIAN ENGLAND AS DEFINED BY MERRIAM-WEBSTER "& THE" MUSIC PLAYED ON SUN KISSED HOW MANY SQUARES CONTAIN... BICYCLES
$200 [5]
Oxford Bishop Samuel Wilberforce challenged the theory of evolution & championed a modernization of this book from 1611
the King James Version of the Bible
Francis
$200 [30]
"Inhabiting or frequenting trees"
arboreal
Francis
$200 [19]
"I Would Die 4 U" to remember both the leader & the backing band behind that 1984 Top 10 hit
Prince & The Revolution
$200 [29]
Promoting the Sol Invictus cult of ancient Rome, in 274 A.D. Emperor Aurelian set this December date as the Sun's birthday
December 25
Will!
$200 [26]
Madrid's Plaza Mayorcontains Casa de la Panaderia, whose name tells you it was once the city's main one of these
a bakery
Will!
$200 [6]
Henri Desgrange was 38 when he organized the first of these multistage bicycle races in 1903
the Tour de France
Will!
$600 [2]
A beacon of scientific progress, the Royal Botanic Gardens go by this shorter name & opened to the public in 1840
Kew Gardens
Francis
$400 [17]
"The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it(such as buzz, hiss)"
onomatopoeia
Francis
$400 [18]
In 1974 Elton John flew to the top of the charts with this song,"B-B-B..."
"Bennie & The Jets"
Will!
$400 [21]
Naturally, this famed Los Angeles street that's home to the Chateau Marmont runs generally east-west
Sunset Boulevard
Will!
$400 [25]
In Chongqing, China, a geology school on Culture Squarewas begun by this country to house the government of its puppet state of Manchukuo
Japan
Will!
$400 [28]
The 4-letter name of this American bike brand means a long journey, especially a tough one
Trek
Will!
$800 [1]
To round out the 19th century, England fought these wars: the first from 1880 to 1881, the second from 1899 to 1902
the Boer Wars
Will!
$600 [15]
"Obligatory", as in "It is ____ upon us", or"the holder of an office"
incumbent
Jennifer
$600 [14]
"Just a little change / Small to say the least / Both a little scared / Neither one prepared..."this title pair
Beauty & The Beast
Francis
$600 [9]
That's the golden Sun of May in the center of theflagof this South American nation
Argentina
Will!
$600 [23]
Wright Squarein this Southeast U.S. port on the Atlantic has arockmemorializing James Oglethorpe's Yamacraw friend, Tomochichi
Savannah
Will!
$600 [7]
Colorado Springs is home to one of these banked cycling tracks, built as a training venue for U.S. Olympic cycling teams
a velodrome
Will!
$1,000 [3]
A biographer of this "Elephant Man" titled her book by his first name, Joseph, & says he's buried near Jack the Ripper victims
Merrick
Will!
$800 [16]
6-letter "member of a low caste" or one who "is despised or rejected: outcast"
pariah
Francis
$800 [13]
"Don't Do Me Like That" was a 1979 hit for this group. Will you know them? I guess they were right; "The Waiting" is the hardest part
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Will!
$800 [10]
Schools in this athletic conference include Marshall University & Coastal Carolina
the Sun Belt Conference
Francis
$800 [22]
The Tel Avivsquarenamed for this prime minister who was assassinated there in 1995 contains pigeons, like every other square
Rabin
Will!
$800 [8]
French gives us this word for a mechanism that shifts gears on a bike by moving the bike's chain
the derailleur
DD $1,800 [4]
The Match Girls strike of 1888 involved young women & their toxic exposure to this white element they put on match tips
phosphorus
Will!
$1,000 [20]
"To drop (cargo) to lighten a ship's load in time of distress"
jettison
Jennifer
$1,000 [12]
This just in--in the mid-'80s, this outfit had No. 1 hits with "The Power Of Love" & "Stuck With You"
Huey Lewis & The News
Jennifer
$1,000 [11]
Thisancient general wrote the earliest known treatise on military strategy & tactics
Sun Tzu
Francis
$1,000 [24]
Merdeka, meaning "independence square", in this capital, contains the nationalmonumentcommissioned by President Sukarno
Jakarta
Will!
$1,000 [27]
A penny dreadful was a violent crime novel in Victorian England; around the same time was the bicycle called a penny this
a penny-farthing
Will!

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOTES & QUERIES SECOND LETTER "Y" SCIENCE FACTS EPONYMOUSLY YOURS CAPITAL CITY MAYORS NOT AMNESIA AGAIN...
$400 [30]
With no record from that time of this poet's death in 1400, Terry Jones of Monty Python asked, "Who murdered" him
Chaucer
Francis
$400 [29]
To be Pacific, the name of this type of large storm is from Chinese for "big wind"
typhoon
Will!
$400 [28]
Since octopuses have copper-rich hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin flowing through them, their blood appears this color
blue
Jennifer
$400 [27]
Beard trimming was a pet peeve of Jakob, the Mennonite leader for whom this religious group is named
the Amish
Will!
$400 [25]
Haris Doukas--tell the truth, you also thought Kostas Bakoyannis couldn't lose
Athens
Will!
$400 [26]
As Kelly Bundy, sheknew not much; playing the title role on "Samantha Who?" it's amnesia that cloudsherbrain
Applegate
Francis
$800 [22]
Clove cigarette-smoking angsty teens know this Russian's "Notes from the Underground" begins, "I am a sick man"
Dostoevsky
Francis
$800 [16]
Coined in 1960, it's an entity that's part human & part machine
a cyborg
Will! Francis
$800 [21]
Titania & Oberon were the first 2 moons discovered orbiting this planet
Uranus
Will! Francis
$800 [23]
Stensen's duct is the pathway this liquid takes from the parotid gland into the mouth
saliva
Francis
$800 [15]
Vitali Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champ known as "Dr. Ironfist"
Kyiv
Francis
$800 [24]
This blue tang would love to tell you her life story if she could remember it in "Finding Nemo"
Dory
Jennifer
$1,600 [17]
Philip Glass composed the soundtrack for this film about a teacher's illicit affair based on a Zoë Heller novel
Notes on a Scandal
Francis
$1,200 [9]
Ancient religious rites held in honor of Demeter were known as the Eleusinian these
Mysteries
$1,200 [8]
Zoologists used this term for any animal at home on land & in water; the class can now also refer to species like the axolotl
amphibians (amphibious)
Will!
$1,200 [11]
You can have the horse by the stable door, or you can have no horse at all; that's this eponymous option
Hobson's choice
$1,200 [12]
Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to hold the office
London
Will!
$1,200 [20]
On "Blindspot", Jaime Alexanderis found naked & covered in tattoos; she gets this name at first, as she has no memory of hers
Jane Doe
$2,000 [18]
A modern aesthetic was solidified in her 1964 partisan review essay "Notes on 'Camp'"
Susan Sontag
Will!
$1,600 [5]
Lasting for over 1,100 years, it was also known as the Eastern Roman Empire
the Byzantine Empire
Will!
$1,600 [3]
This group of rare earth elements is used in "L" products like lamps, lasers & laptops
the lanthanides
Will! Francis
$1,600 [10]
To the dismay of buffalo, Christian Sharps was an expert 19th century maker of these
rifles
Francis
$2,000 [14]
Anne Hidalgo, noted for climate activism
Paris
$1,600 [1]
Thisfilm with a quirky storytelling style starred Guy Pearce as a man with no short-term memory
Memento
Francis
DD $7,400 [7]
At the start of this Y.A. novel, the title character asks a higher power to not let "New Jersey be too horrible"
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Francis
$2,000 [6]
A powerful antioxidant, this pigment is what makes a tomato red
lycopene
Francis
$2,000 [4]
These letter-perfect waves are the first to arrive at a seismograph station after an earthquake
P waves
Francis
$2,000 [19]
George Bernard Shaw was a member of this socialist society that believed in gradual change & was named for a Roman general
the Fabian Society
Francis
DD $3,000 [13]
Mark Sutcliffe, who studied political science at Carleton University there
Ottawa
Will!
$2,000 [2]
The title of this 2004 film about intentionally induced amnesia comes from a 1717 poem
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Francis

Final Jeopardy!

THE SUPREME COURT

Chief Justice John Marshall wrote, "A law repugnant to the Constitution is void" in his landmark decision on this case

Marbury v. Madison

Jennifer "What is Marbury v. Madison?" — wagered $2,000
Francis "What is Marbury V. Madison. Love You Mom" — wagered $1,200
Will! "What is Marbury v. Madison? I love my friends!!!" — wagered $6,000

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