Show #9394 - Thursday, September 18, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 7.

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Kelly Anneken, a content designer from Alameda, California

Greg Shipman, a geoscience cartographer from Houston, Texas

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 6-day cash winnings total $162,117)

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Jeopardy! Round

KENTUCKY HISTORY
'80s WORDS IN THE OED
COMMUNICATION INFORMATION
"LITTLE" "BLACK" BOOKS
(Ken: Each response will contain either "Little" or "Black".)
A BASKET OF CLUES
SKETCHY CHARACTERS
    $200 25
In 1936, the U.S. established a gold bullion depository at this site, now also home to the General Patton Museum of Leadership
    $200 26
This acronym refers to young people with big-city jobs
    $200 27
Here's my first name using this, which could have Alfred Vail's name on it, too
    $200 28
The daughters in this novel call their mother Marmee & their dad is off serving as a chaplain in the Civil War
    $200 29
The tradition of giving treat-filled Easter baskets is said to have begun as a celebration of the end of this period of denial
    $200 30
As touchy substitute Mr. Garvey, it's how Keegan-Michael Key pronounced a boy's first name, likely first alphabetically in the class
    DD: $4,600 20
Last name of the man of Scottish ancestry who moved to Eastern Kentucky in 1804 & whose descendants were part of a nasty feud
    $400 21
It's the name for a pixelated fellow who goes waka waka waka waka waka waka waka waka waka
    $400 22
Societal changes over the last 40 years had Gallaudet University observe "new pride in using" this language "in public"
    $400 23
At one point in this Anna Sewell novel, a stable catches fire & the title horse almost perishes
    $400 24
The passenger basket beneath a hot-air balloon also goes by this Italian name
    $400 18
"SCTV" once aired a "Battle of" this other network's "Stars" with John Candy as Julia Child & Martin Short as Mr. Rogers
    $600 11
Few foresaw worldwide expansion when this man opened a restaurant as part of a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky in 1929
    $600 3
This ruched hair accessory has made a comeback, though as Cosmo notes, today's version is "more elevated" than its '80s predecessors
    $600 7
Let's hope at least one of you was online in the '90s & remembers the sound of one of these
    $600 19
The first book in James Ellroy's original L.A. Quartet, it deals with the murder of a young woman in 1947
    $600 15
The Tipitaka, or "Triple Basket", is the canon of the Theravada branch of this religion
    $600 4
In a "Monty Python" sketch no one expects this, which goes on to torture an old lady (with pillows) for heresy
    $800 5
This plant that produces fiber for rope was a big part of Kentucky's slavery economy; it returned to legal status in the 2010s
    $800 2
So erotic it's forbidden, this Brazilian dance was the subject of not one but two films
    $800 6
Once a brand name big enough to become an actual verb in Merriam-Webster, this video call service was retired by Microsoft in 2025
    $800 1
Izzy turns out to be the arsonist who created the title problem in this Celeste Ng novel
    $800 8
A prudent piece of advice from an early translation of "Don Quixote": "'Tis part of the wise man to... not venture all his" these 4 words
    $800 17
On "Saturday Night Live", this late, great funnyman played Matt Foley, battling both wayward kids & his falling pants
    $1000 16
In the 1850s, while the Washington Monument was under construction, Lexington unveiled the this wigged politician monument
    $1000 10
This compound term for a baby boomer of a certain age was also the title of a hit TV show
    $1000 12
In May 1942, the Marines employed the first 29 recruits to be code talkers in this language; there would be around 400 by the war's end
    $1000 14
This book from James Frey was a 2005 pick for Oprah's Book Club, but that all sort of shattered
    $1000 9
The many-armed basket stars are in this phylum of backbone-less marine critters
    $1000 13
On "I Think You Should Leave", this comic got kicked off a reality dating show for his obsession with a zip line

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

Paolo Greg Kelly
$5,600 $3,000 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$7,800 $9,600 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS
FIRST NAMES
IN THEORY
SAX TRACKS
GENDERED LANGUAGE?
(Ken: Each response here will begin with a gender-signifying word.)
SKETCHY CHARACTERS
    $400 28
It's the Bulgarian capital seen here, with its St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the center
    $400 29
The name of this royal, third in line to the British throne, is likely a tribute to her grandfather
    $400 17
In 1920, the year a daughter died, he revised his sex-focused psychoanalytic theory to include the death instinct
    $400 30
Who's that seen in Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" video? It's him! The first name & last initial in saxes
    $400 15
Able to reach about 1/4 inch in length, the 7-spotted species is one of the largest of these insects
    $400 16
The Metropolitan Museum says its Manet sketch of a sleeping cat is graphite on paper; that means Édouard used this implement
    $800 26
Much of this present-day capital stands on the former bed of Lake Texcoco
    $800 25
It's the most popular U.S. first name that's also a color of the rainbow
    $800 27
Named for a game piece, this foreign policy theory was widely invoked to justify U.S. involvement in Vietnam
    $800 22
George Michael said the classic sax line on "Careless Whisper" by this duo was first meant to be the melody & chorus to the song
    $800 24
The winner of an election is said to have this, authorization from the voters to carry out a campaign platform
    $800 20
Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has dozens of Garry Trudeau's notebooks of early sketches for this comic strip
    DD: $5,100 3
They're the world capital & its country whose names both end with the Spanish word for water
    $1200 4
An Irish form of Jane or Jeanette; singer O'Connor helped popularize this name outside of Ireland
    $1200 5
Not for lack of trying, science has yet to find a unified framework--or T.O.E., short for this--to explain how the universe works
    $1200 18
Henry Mancini's iconic theme song for this cartoon feline is a jazzy saxophone track
    $1200 7
This ancient city was destroyed by the same volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii
    $1200 10
In 2012, nearly $50 million was paid for a sketch of a head by this Renaissance master for his "Transfiguration"
    $1600 12
This capital of a sultanate shares its name with one of the oldest known grape varieties
    DD: $2,000 1
It's the first name of literature's Dr. Van Helsing as well as the full first name of his creator
    $1600 8
Ostracized in the 1840s for promoting hand washing, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis helped lay the groundwork for this theory of disease
    $1600 19
Their 1983 hit "Rio" featured a blistering sax solo by Andy Hamilton
    $1600 6
This city just north of Zanzibar is Kenya's main seaport
    $1600 9
Taschen sells a $1,000 edition of selections from this underground comics master's sketchbooks, 1964-1982
    $2000 13
Chosen for its central location, it replaced Lagos as an official capital back in the 1990s
    $2000 2
This Spanish version of the name of the first Gospel author now ranks among the top 10 U.S. baby names for boys
    $2000 14
This 17th c. thinker & inspo for a "Lost" character supported the tabula rasa or "blank slate" theory that we're all born with empty heads
    $2000 21
You may ask, "Who Can It Be Now?" playing sax on the 1982 song of the same name from this band; why, it's Greg Ham
    $2000 23
Abolished by Peter the Great, this historic order of nobility in Russia was next in rank below the ruling princes
    $2000 11
The sketch here was made by Peter Paul Rubens at the Royal Menagerie in Brussels to prepare for a painting of this biblical man

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$29,300 $12,400 $8,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AWARD WINNERS
He became the first person to win both an Olympic medal & an Academy Award thanks to a short film he made about his sport

Final scores:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$33,600 $17,201 $3,799
7-day champion: $195,717 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$25,400 $8,200 $8,200
28 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $41,800

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Game tape date: 2025-08-07
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