Show #9395 - Friday, September 19, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 8.
Steven Olson game 1.

Contestants

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Hebah Uddin, a social media moderator and Ph.D. candidate originally from Long Island, New York

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 7-day cash winnings total $195,717)

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Jeopardy! Round

U.S. TERRITORIES
QUICK CHEM
FROM THE VIDEO GAME MANUAL
ANCIENT EATING
SWAP A LETTER
BROADWAY
    $200 29
Halfway between Hawaii & Australia, Howland Island was a designated refueling spot for her in 1937, but she never made it
    $200 28
For the radioactive isotope thorium-232, it's about 14 billion years
    $200 3
"Seven different shaped blocks fall down the game field one after the other"
    $200 23
1st c. physician Dioscorides gave the motherly note that this food is "often given to those in poor health" to set them right
    $200 25
The boss of a football team subs in a new middle letter to become this relaxing piece of furniture
    $200 30
A 2025 Broadway production of "Othello" had Denzel Washington as the title character & Jake Gyllenhaal as this lieutenant
    $400 22
Palmyra Atoll is home to the world's largest land invertebrate, the robber type of this crustacean; it can open coconuts
    $400 24
Saponification, or the hydrolysis of a fat by an alkali, is the process of making this
    $400 27
"What was it like to bid farewell to friends and neighbors and set off on a 2000-mile trek by covered wagon?"
    $400 18
Many Roman dishes used garum, a sauce made from fermented these; you didn't want to live downwind of a garum factory
    $400 21
A Roman emperor swaps a letter & becomes this foam-based Hasbro brand
    $400 20
As "Hamilton" turns 10, in 2025 it was announced that Leslie Odom Jr., who won a Tony for this role, plays it again from Sept. to Nov.
    $600 16
Named for a British sea captain, Wake Island was used in 1975 to process refugees from this country that soon ceased to exist
    $600 5
In batteries & electrolytic cells, this electrode is the opposite of an anode
    $600 13
"Warriors available to a player--
Liu Kang,
Johnny Cage...
Scorpion,
Sub-Zero &
Sonya Blade"
    $600 12
Now often of the Smyrna variety, they're an ancient treat; 1 Samuel mentions 200 cakes made with them
    $600 11
A unit of legal tender changes its first letter & becomes this informal way of saying to apprehend a suspect
    $600 7
"Stranger Things: The First Shadow", set in this state, has a vibe unlike other Midwest-set productions, like "The Music Man"
    $800 4
Puerto Rico is the easternmost island in this "Greater" chain that includes Jamaica & Cuba
    $800 9
This type of chemical bond is also called electrovalent
    $800 19
From Rockstar: "Dead Eye allows you to experience the lightning reflexes of a gunslinger"
    $800 14
These legumes provided much of ancient Near-Easterners' protein; caches of hundreds of thousands have been found
    $800 2
A place you get your hair styled gets a new letter & becomes this sharp part of a bird of prey
    $800 1
Terrence McNally wrote the book for the Broadway musical named for this Russian girl, based on the animated film
    $1000 8
Saipan, the capital of these "Northern" islands in Micronesia, was the site of a major 1944 battle
    DD: $1,000 15
Atomic number 27, it's used in EV batteries & when mixed with alumina, it's a brilliant blue
    $1000 17
From an N64 game: "Recover the pirate helicopter & get to the bottom of this. You are licensed to kill"
    $1000 26
Cooking the leaves of this plant deadens their stinging quality & there's an 8,000-year-old recipe for its pudding
    $1000 10
A verb for thrusting out your lips while sulking swaps a letter & ouch! It's now this type of inflammatory arthritis
    $1000 6
"The Road To Hell" is the opening number in this multi-Tony-winning myth fest of a show

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

Paolo Steven Hebah
$4,400 $1,800 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$5,000 $4,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BRONZE AGE
VILLAINS IN LIT
14-LETTER WORDS
LET'S GO TO THE PARK
ALBUM TITLE ADJECTIVES
YOUR PRIME NUMBER'S UP
    $400 30
The code of this Amorite king noted that if a physician used a bronze lancet to save a patient, he would get 10 shekels of silver
    $400 1
The "Napoleon of Crime"--which should justify him being in the category--he shows up in the adventure of "The Final Problem"
    $400 29
A giving vocational title of Andrew Carnegie when he wasn't robber baron-ing
    $400 24
Oaks in New Orleans City Park were a site for these often deadly meetings, allegedly including one after a visitor insulted the Mississippi
    $400 28
Nicki Minaj had this kind of "Friday" in 2010 & the same kind of "Friday 2" in 2023
    $400 27
New shooter! These are the lowest & highest prime numbers you can roll in a craps game
    $800 10
Walking through a fancy bronze gate with symbols of Marduk would get you into this ancient Persian city on the Euphrates
    $800 14
Beowulf has big problems with this monster & his mother, whom he defeats in a cave showdown
    $800 17
A ceremonial county of England, or a sauce of vinegar, soy & garlic
    $800 23
You should get decent cell service at the Seattle Mariners park named for this company, stock symbol TMUS
    $800 25
Daft Punk got lucky with these "Access Memories"
    $800 26
It's the number of syllables in the first line of a traditional haiku
    $1200 2
The Bronze Age was spread through Europe by the Bell-Beaker people from this southwestern peninsula
    $1200 5
This villain from an 1852 book watches Tom "with a jealous eye" in the chapter titled "Cassy"
    $1200 7
Sesquipedalian loquaciousness, from Latin for "around" & "speech"
    $1200 18
Hakuhinkan Toy Park in this world-famous district of Tokyo has some 200,000 items to delight the kodomo
    $1200 22
In a 1980s smash Bon Jovi was this "When Wet", as you might expect
    $1200 12
Aaron Judge says this controversial number of home runs hit in a single MLB season is the record to beat
    $1600 3
Some believe these mysterious invaders who plagued Egypt were a factor in the collapse of the Bronze Age
    $1600 4
He made his first appearance in Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction" before going full "American Psycho"
    $1600 8
This process stabilizes fat & gives milk a smooth texture
    DD: $4,000 6
The world's tallest animal is so common there that Nyerere National Park has been nicknamed this, punning on a dino-franchise
    $1600 19
Hmm... wonder where Anaheim natives No Doubt got the idea to name their major-label debut this "Kingdom"
    $1600 15
It's Detroit's legacy area code, which the city celebrates one day every March
    $2000 9
One of the oldest sources of Bronze Age culture was this island group between Attica & Crete
    $2000 13
This title partner of Jonathan Strange messes with bringing back the dead & here comes the villainous Gentleman with Thistledown Hair
    $2000 11
A pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded before the 6th century B.C.
    $2000 21
This Central Park theater named for a benefactor reopened renovated with an August 2025 "Twelfth Night"
    $2000 20
It's the grueling adjective in the title of the top-selling album of 2024
    DD: $2,000 16
The highest 2-digit prime, it needs 4 syllables in French & 5 letters in Roman numerals

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$9,800 $17,400 $4,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SLOGANS
After adopting "Very nice" in tourism ads, an official of this country said, its people, "jokes to the contrary, are some of the nicest"

Final scores:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$17,401 $19,602 $2,600
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $19,602 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$9,800 $15,000 $4,600
16 R,
2 W		 26 R
(including 3 DDs),
6 W		 8 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $29,400

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Game tape date: 2025-08-07
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