Show #9455 2025-12-12 (taped 2025-10-29) Regular

Will Riley game 5.

Contestants

Madelyn Dawson — a writer and editor from Staten Island, New York

Trey Hart — a grant writer from Petaluma, California

Will Riley — an engineer originally from Houston, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $77,403)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will! $3,795 $4,795 $10,395 $10,395
2nd place: $3,000
$10,400
20 R, 8 W (including 1 DD)
Trey $3,200 $6,400 $19,600 $24,100
New champion: $24,100
$16,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Madelyn $800 $1,800 $900 $150
3rd place: $2,000
$2,600
5 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

CITIES BY HISTORIC EVENTS IT'S ALL GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME SEAFOOD LET'S START A HIP-HOP GROUP "M.C." HYPE MAN
$200 [28]
Napoleon's occupation in 1812, the Khodynka Tragedy
Moscow
Trey
$200 [30]
Sometimes depicted as a giant, Chrysaor was the fraternal twin brother of this winged animal
Pegasus
Trey
DD $5 [15]
This seafood stew gets its name from Provençal words for "boil" & "lower"
Bouillabaisse
Will!
$200 [6]
2 rappers worked at Sears before finding fame as this "Shoop" group originally called Super Nature
Salt-N-Pepa
Trey
$200 [27]
One theory suggests this yuletide salutation goes back to a letter sent by a 16th century English bishop
Merry Christmas
Will!
$200 [19]
In 1906, PR man Ivy Lee put out the first ofthesePRs, spinning a wreck on yet another PR, the Pennsylvania Railroad
a press release
Trey
$400 [11]
Sacked in 390 B.C.,455 A.D.,1527 A.D.
Rome
Will!
$400 [29]
This group of gods were the offspring from the post-primeval marriage of Heaven & Earth
the Titans
Will!
$200 [23]
This dish, fried squid, can be served with dipping sauces like remoulade or marinara
calamari
Trey
$400 [4]
The supergroup Prophets of Rageincluded members from Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill & this Chuck D-led group
Public Enemy
Trey
$400 [26]
The covert Cold War-era MK-Ultra program sought to develop means of using this technique on human subjects
mind control
Will!
$400 [17]
Aposterwas one product of the Creel Committee, formed to shape public opinion in this year the U.S. entered World War I
1917
Will!
$600 [10]
Oil discovered there in 1901, the Black Wall Street massacre in 1921
Tulsa
Will!
$600 [13]
Built by Hephaestus, Talos was a bronze robotlike figure who guarded this largest Greek isle
Crete
Will! Trey
$400 [22]
Traditional uses for these little tinned fishies include adding them to puttanesca sauce or Caesar dressing for umami
anchovies
Will! Trey
$600 [2]
In "Mo' Meta Blues" Questlove says Tariq Trotter came up with the band name Black to the Future before eventually settling on this one
the Roots
Will! Trey
$600 [25]
Around 1930, these tests were entrenched in the American school system; Scantron sheets came later
multiple choice
Madelyn
$600 [16]
Whether as Microsoft CEO or as an NBA owner, he's not shy about getting folks pumped up
(Steve) Ballmer
Will!
$800 [1]
The Beer Hall Putsch, a massacre at the 1972 Olympic games
Munich
Trey
$800 [12]
This Prince of Troy was tending sheep when chosen tojudge which of three goddesses was the most beautiful
Paris
Trey
$600 [21]
It's not just humans; starfish also like to eat this bivalve with a fluted shell, the main ingredient in coquilles St.-Jacques
scallops
Will! Trey Madelyn
$800 [3]
A Cartoon Network executive introduced Killer Mike to El-P, &this formidable hip-hop gem of a duo was born
Run the Jewels
Madelyn
$800 [7]
Now used to describe any product in tip-top shape, this term stems from the world of numismatics
mint condition
Will!
$800 [18]
In 1885 this showman offered Ulysses Grant $100,000 to display Grant's presidential souvenirs (it didn't work out)
P.T. Barnum
Trey
$1,000 [9]
A more than 1,400-day siege from 1992 to 1996, an assassination of a man born in Graz, Austria
Sarajevo
Trey
$1,000 [14]
Aegisthus was the lover of this woman & together they killed her husband King Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Will!
$1,000 [20]
An Italian dialect gives us this name for the European sea bass, which is often served with lemon
branzino
Madelyn
$1,000 [5]
A group of rappers on Staten Island who bonded over battle rap, 5-percenter philosophy & kung fu films formed this collective in 1992
the Wu-Tang Clan
Will!
$1,000 [8]
A desktop fixture for years, this icon that allows users to access local drives was renamed when Windows 8.1 was introduced
My Computer
$1,000 [24]
Howard Bragman (great publicist name!) helped LGBTQ stars to do this, like Dick Sargent did on the national day for it in 1991
National Coming Out Day
Trey

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER NOVELS RHYME TIME MODERN 2-LETTER INITIALS MOVIE LINES BYE, PHOENICIA
$400 [29]
The Celebes Sea is south of Mindanao in the Philippines & north of this country's island of Sulawesi
Indonesia
$400 [20]
Ari fights for the establishment of the state of Israel in this blockbuster Leon Uris novel
Exodus
Trey
$400 [28]
A navy man whose job it is to mend & alter uniforms
a tailor sailor (sailor tailor)
Madelyn
$400 [27]
People who post online may use the tag "OC", short for this; put another way, it was their own creation
original content (original character)
Madelyn
$400 [23]
This "Jerry Maguire" line came in at No. 25 on AFI's list of Top 100 Movie Quotes, & if you respond correctly, we will
Show me the money!
Trey
$400 [30]
The Punic Wars were against this city founded by Phoenicians
Carthage
Will!
$1,200 [6]
It's a watery 770 square mileindentationof the island of Luzon
Manila Bay
Will!
$800 [19]
This novel by Tom Wolfe about greed & corruption in '80s New York City was a huge bestseller; the movie adaptation was a fiasco
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Trey
$800 [24]
A burn mark from a flaming light stick
a torch scorch
$800 [26]
IP can stand for Intellectual Property or this, how your computer connects to the web
Internet Protocol
Will!
$800 [22]
Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now": "I love the smell of" this "in the morning"
napalm
Trey
$800 [25]
Linguists call the Phoenician alphabet an abjad, meaning all 22 letters were this type
consonants
Will!
$1,600 [4]
The Gila & Colorado Rivers meet in this Arizona city
Yuma
Will!
$1,200 [1]
This recent bestseller by Shelby Van Pelt is partly set at an aquarium that's home to Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus
Remarkably Bright Creatures
$1,200 [17]
Bony framework made of a glutinous protein
a gelatin skeleton
$1,200 [16]
VMs are these devices you can't touch; they use software to emulate a physical computer
virtual machines
Will!
$1,200 [10]
Spoken in an Oscar-winning role in this film: "The nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can't speak"
The King's Speech
$1,200 [11]
Phoenicians referred to themselves not as Phoenicians but as these -ites, the name in Genesis for certain descendants of Noah & Ham
Canaanites
Trey
$2,000 [5]
After flowing through 6 countries, the Zambezi River meets the sea in this East African nation
Mozambique
DD $1,700 [2]
In a Dickens novel, the ownership of this title place is gambled away to Quilp
The Old Curiosity Shop
Madelyn
$1,600 [7]
A daily record or diary of spring
a vernal journal
Will!
$1,600 [14]
JS stands for this programming language created by Brendan Eich & trademarked in 1995
JavaScript
Will!
$1,600 [8]
Jake Gyllenhaal to Heath Ledger in a Western:this 8-word desire
I wish I knew how to quit you
Will! Trey
$1,600 [12]
Pigment derived from snail glands was used to make the Phoenicians' most prized commodity: fabric dye in Tyrian this color
purple
Will!
DD $4,000 [21]
In the 1830s sea lampreys invaded this Great Lake, though Niagara Falls kept them from further incursion for a while
Lake Ontario
Trey
$2,000 [3]
Kafka's title for his novel about a man sent to the U.S. was "The Lost One"; editor Max Brod gave it this one-word title
Amerika
Will!
$2,000 [18]
A dull, unimaginative picture made of colored bits of stone or glass
a prosaic mosaic
Trey
$2,000 [15]
Abbreviated UX, it's the term for the involvement people have when interacting with a product or service
user experience
Trey
$2,000 [9]
1983's "Sudden Impact" is the film in which Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry makes this invitation to an armed robber
Go ahead, make my day
Will! Trey
$2,000 [13]
The Phoenicians' original homeland was this region on the Mediterranean's eastern border, from the French for "rise" (as in sun-)
the Levant
Will! Trey

Final Jeopardy!

TV HISTORY

A 1964 review of this TV special, still played today, mentions "trials as an outcast" & "the songs of Johnny Marks"

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Madelyn "What is this wassofun +Long Live Radiohi mom♡" — wagered $750
Will! "What is beats me! :)" — wagered $0
Trey "What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?" — wagered $4,500

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