Show #9388 - Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 1.

Contestants

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Leslie Oakerson, a financial services manager from Red Bank, New Jersey

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California

Ian Morrison, an airline ramp agent originally from Aurora, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,009)

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Jeopardy! Round

FINISH HIM!
A STONE QUARRY
PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S
TV REBOOT CAMP
A QUICK WORKOUT
THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY
(Michelle: I'm Michelle Dockery. As Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale comes to theaters, some members of the Crawley family will bring you clues about the world of the great houses a century ago.)
    $200 20
Man of letters Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills...
    $200 29
Rami al-Jamarat, the ritual throwing of stones at this evil entity, is an obligation of the Hajj
    $200 28
Formed the Department of Homeland Security, appointed John Roberts as chief justice
    $200 17
Originally played comedically by the actor of the same name, this character got dramatic in "Bel-Air" in 2022
    $200 30
Looking to get in some cardio without too much impact on your joints? Check out this machine named for the oval path your feet take
    $200 11
(Elizabeth McGovern presents the clue.) Because they had a similar task of maintaining transport, these were sometimes called motor grooms; but on "Downton Abbey" Tom goes from motor groom to another kind of groom when he becomes Cora & Robert's son-in-law
    $400 8
Rags-to-riches Yves Henri Donat Mathieu...
    $400 22
These "stones" used as ballast by ships arriving in 18th c. Savannah were used to pave charming & bumpy streets
    $400 27
Brokered the Camp David Accords, signed SALT II
    $400 7
Near 7-foot John DeSantis played Shaq--but not that Shaq--Frankenstein & Giant Mutant after taking on this part in "The New Addams Family"
    $400 12
Strongman George Hackenschmidt popularized this chest exercise named for the equipment you lie on while performing it
    $400 13
(Hugh Bonneville presents the clue.) The real Downton Abbey is Highclere Castle & the real earl of the place in the early 1900s was Lord Carnarvon, remembered for financing the discovery of this; the Egyptian name of Robert's dog, Isis, is a tribute to that find
    $600 2
Acting up, Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus...
    $600 19
The smaller markers in the foreground are called these
    DD: $1,200 18
Gave the "Atoms for Peace" speech at the U.N., came up with a doctrine after the Suez Crisis
    $600 1
Let's see if you can put things together quickly; Richard Dean Anderson had this title role in the '80s; Lucas Till built on it in 2016
    $600 9
RDL is short for the "Romanian" variation of this exercise, which can be done with a barbell or dumbbells
    $600 14
(Elizabeth McGovern presents the clue.) The character of Cora was the genesis of "Downton Abbey" when Julian Fellowes read about the financially hard-up nobility finding American wives with money, such as Jennie Jerome, who became the mother of this great Brit
    $800 3
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios... de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz...
    $800 23
A Bolivian mine is the only commercial source of ametrine, a gemstone that, like its name, combines citrine & this other quartz variety
    $800 25
Got impeached (that was a first), got saved from that by one vote in the Senate (also a first)
    $800 5
My dear guests! After giving up the dream & going off the air in 1984, Mr. Roarke gave way to Ms. Roarke on this reboot in 2021
    $800 10
The open warehouse-style facilities of this fitness program are called "boxes"; the first one opened in California in 2001
    $800 15
(Michelle Dockery presents the clue.) Like many real stately homes during World War I, Downton becomes this kind of home; I explain to Granny it's where people rest & recuperate & she inquires if there will be amputation in the dining room
    $1000 4
Storyteller Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de...
    $1000 24
The Star Gazers' Stone west of Philadelphia was placed in early 1764 by these two men who specialized in line drawing
    $1000 26
Blew it with the Alien & Sedition Acts, dealt with the XYZ Affair
    $1000 6
Robert Stack was untouchable as this lawman in 1959, as was Tom Amandes in 1993
    $1000 21
If these bodyweight exercises popular in the military got the first name of the man who invented them, we'd all hate doing Royals
    $1000 16
(Hugh Bonneville presents the clue.) Despite Robert's reluctance, Downton gets a radio to listen to the King's speech; not the king in that movie, but this man--his father--who also pays us a visit in the first "Downton Abbey" film

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Ian Paolo Leslie
$2,800 $1,000 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ian Paolo Leslie
$4,000 $2,400 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

HOPE GEOGRAPHY IS YOUR 4-TE
SHE WROTE THAT
(Ken: Name the woman who penned each line.)
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLOSSARY
IN CONCERT
MEDIA ANNIVERSARIES
ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER
    $400 26
Like the Western U.S., Canada has a spot called this, where Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut & the N.W. Territories meet
    $400 27
"I think it (makes God angry) if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"
    $400 28
J: "A structure... extending into a sea, lake, or river to influence the current or tide"
    $400 29
In 2023, Beyoncé brought this record-breaking concert tour to the big screen
    $400 30
This country's public radio began in 1925, as did 47 years of Uncle Sven on "Barnens brevlåda" ("Children's Mailbox")
    $400 5
To hear something with thoughtful attention & making no sound
    $800 25
The 4 official languages of this city-state are English, Malay, Tamil & Mandarin Chinese
    $800 9
"No need to add that my being happy in Forks is an impossibility"
    $800 24
D: "A region of low atmospheric pressure that is usually accompanied by low clouds & precipitation"
    $800 23
In 2024 she launched her "Celebration of Mimi" concert residency in Las Vegas
    $800 22
In March 2025 Blake Shelton hosted a 100th anniversary celebration of this, which began as a radio show
    $800 4
In the buff & a crescent-shaped sand mound
    $1200 8
Of the four major islands of Japan, these two are separated by the Tsugaru Strait & begin with the same letter
    $1200 6
In the introduction to her diary, "The climax of our struggle... came when our first baby was kidnapped... on March 1st, 1932"
    $1200 13
F: "A rapid & extreme flow of high water into a normally dry area... beginning within 6 hours of the causative event"
    $1200 18
Held simultaneously in London & Philadelphia, this 1985 benefit concert raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia
    $1200 11
Its 20th anniversary list of milestones includes a Pulitzer, contributions by Obama & Aniston & the loss of "ington" from the name
    $1200 2
A glowing streak in the sky & an adjective meaning distant
    $1600 16
Of the 4 quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem, the one with a national name, not a religious one
    $1600 7
"Some day they'll go down together / They'll bury them side by side / To few it'll be grief / To the law a relief"
    DD: $2,100 14
I:
"A line connecting points of equal pressure"
    $1600 19
During this group's farewell concert in 2015, Tommy Lee got stuck upside down when his drum kit roller coaster malfunctioned
    $1600 12
This progressive mag turning 160 began as a kind of successor to another "The ____" publication, the Liberator, which ended in 1865
    $1600 1
The main enemy of a novel's hero & a situation of no economic growth
    $2000 17
Many early Chinese immigrants to North America came from the four counties in the delta of this precious southern Chinese river
    DD: $3,300 10
"He is jubilant as a flag unfurled--/Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him./My own dear love, he is all my world,--/& I wish I'd never met him"
    $2000 15
F: "(or F scale)--a scale of tornado intensity"
    $2000 20
A photo of Paul Simonon smashing his bass during a 1979 concert ended up on the cover of this classic album
    $2000 21
MeTV began 20 years ago in Chicago, the home of this icon seen here, & went national in 2010
    $2000 3
One bead of fluid from the lacrimal gland & an animal that attacks other animals

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ian Paolo Leslie
$10,000 $14,800 $1,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC PHRASES
In 1914 Belgium's queen gave this phrase a political meaning, saying one had descended between her & Germany

Final scores:

Ian Paolo Leslie
$2,009 $20,001 $2,200
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $20,001 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ian Paolo Leslie
$10,000 $18,800 $1,200
23 R,
5 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 8 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $30,000

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Game tape date: 2025-08-06
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