Show #9396 - Monday, September 22, 2025

Steven Olson game 2.

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Jonathan Goldman, a futures trader from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

David Shutoff, a product development manager from Salem, Massachusetts

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,602)

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Jeopardy! Round

KING JAMES BIBLE TALK
EPONYMS
HOBBIES & PASTIMES
THE TRAITORS
PROJECT RUNWAY
A DOSE OF REALITY TV
    $200 30
"Pride" does this "before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" (remember, the KJV is from 1611)
    $200 16
An ongoing controversy: is a hot dog one of these, with John Montagu's title? We may never know...
    $200 27
You can learn a new one of these from websites like Babbel & Rosetta Stone
    $200 21
In 1780 this man wrote to George Washington begging safe passage for his wife; she had aided his plot but George didn't know that
    $200 28
Saba, a Dutch island in the Lesser Antilles, offers a quick dip in this sea if the pilot can't stay on the very short runway
    $200 26
Mel B recently joined Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel & Sofía Vergara for the 20th anniversary season of this competition series
    $400 22
Saul & Jonathan are the subject of David's lament "How are" these people "fallen"
    $400 12
PETA urged one of these of coconut milk from Thailand because of the use of monkey labor
    $400 8
Fair Isle is a style of this that uses 2 colors in the same row to create a pattern
    $400 18
On lists of Jesus' disciples, he is traditionally placed last
    $400 25
A truncation of the materials used to make it, this 6-letter trademark is another term for the runway
    $400 23
Since 2018, the O.G.s of this series, including Snooki & Pauli D, have gotten together for "Family Vacation"
    $600 9
"So all the" these "from Abraham to David are fourteen" these
    $600 6
Seen here, this Viking king who unified Denmark & Norway lent his name to a modern technology
    $600 5
When you go wine tasting, you should know the 5 S's: this one comes between see & sniff, to release the aromas
    $600 11
In 1939 he secretly met with Hitler & asked for help in putting his National Union Party in power in Norway
    $600 15
Nothing to do with football, the TDZ is short for this zone on the runway; special lights mark it for pilots
    $600 17
In 2025, due to unacceptable behavior, Mickey Rourke was kicked out of the house on the British version of "Celebrity" this
    DD: $2,600 10
The KJV loves this synonym for "strike" or "bash", as in "thou shalt" do this to "the rock, and there shall come water out of it"
    $800 2
This chief constituent of tobacco was named for a French ambassador to Portugal
    $800 7
Shodo is the Japanese name for this art form & uses ink-dipped brushes to write instead of pens
    $800 1
This outlaw's original tombstone at his Missouri family farm refers to his killer, Robert Ford, as a traitor & a coward
    $800 14
When this 9-letter phenomenon blows in a direction not aligned with the runway, pilots use special techniques to land
    $800 19
Natalie Suleman, who famously gave birth to 8 babies in 2009, spoke candidly about her large family in a 2025 docuseries, "Confessions of" her
    $1000 24
Leviticus is big on this word for a thing to be regarded with disgust, as in "all fowl that creep... shall be" one "unto you"
    $1000 3
An early Christian bishop & martyr is honored in the name of this, also called a corona discharge
    $1000 20
In days of old, whalers on their long voyages passed the time doing this craft of engraving pictures on whalebones & teeth
    $1000 4
In 2016 this Turkish leader survived a coup & later threatened to "rip off the heads of those traitors"
    $1000 13
To simulate aircraft carrier landings, military pilots practice what's called this & this, involving brief runway contact
    $1000 29
On this series with Pastor Cal, couples are introduced at the altar, then get to know each other

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

Steven David Jonathan
$6,600 $1,800 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven David Jonathan
$10,200 $3,000 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

"CROSS" WORDS (& PHRASES)
PHYSICS CLASS
DIS-BAND-MENTS
IN THE BOOKSTORE
ASIAN CITIES
ARI SHAPIRO ON TALKING & LISTENING
(Ari: I'm Ari Shapiro, marking ten years as a host of NPR's All Things Considered, and I'll share some of what I've learned about the arts of listening and of talking.)
    $400 27
During this, an opposing party gets to question a witness during a trial & perhaps raise issues of credibility
    $400 24
In his "Principia", Newton laid out his foundational 3 laws of this as related to the effects of force & mass
    $400 28
What's the opposite of brotherly love? This British band calling it quits in 2009 after Liam allegedly attacked Noel with a guitar
    $400 29
His 2025 thriller "The Secret of Secrets" is another adventure for the intrepid professor of symbology Robert Langdon
    $400 16
There being no "New" city yet, the 1911 Britannica calls it an "ancient capital" & a "huddle of mean houses in mean streets"
    $400 30
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) Even though they use the same language, my listening skills were tested in two years as NPR's London correspondent; I needed a Scottish accent interpreter & also found out that a "stag do" is this pre-wedding event
    $800 22
It fires a projectile called a bolt
    $800 11
Produced in the disintegration of radioactive atomic nuclei, these rays have the shortest wavelength & highest energy
    $800 14
Fans got unlucky in 2021 when this legendary house music duo hung up their Parisian robot helmets after 28 years
    $800 19
This Dav Pilkey superhero has his own series of books & has spawned the spinoffs Dog Man & Cat Kid
    $800 9
Home to Russia's Pacific Fleet, this city lies close to the border with China & North Korea
    $800 26
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) For "Och & Oy!", my cabaret show with Alan Cumming, he's the Och; we've got a pretty good line of this, the talking performers do between numbers; it's also a tongue-twisting type of song
    DD: $4,000 13
This act by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C. led to war against Pompey & the Senate
    $1200 10
Thicker around the edge than at the center, this type of lens causes light waves to diverge when passing through it
    $1200 17
The contentious history of this band, in brief: Roth, Hagar, Roth, Cherone, Hagar & back to Roth, then they broke up
    $1200 7
Taffy Brodesser-Akner's tale of a dysfunctional family is called this home to the Hamptons "Compromise"
    $1200 8
This Qatari capital is home to the Museum of Islamic Art, housed in a building designed by I.M. Pei
    $1200 25
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) I enjoy getting awards for talking; I won an Edward R. Murrow Award for my reporting on the death of Breonna Taylor, & for work on detention, a Silver Gavel from this association for helping foster understanding of the legal system
    $1600 3
If you worked with your usual political opponents in a bipartisan way, you've done this
    $1600 5
This 4-letter property is the angular momentum associated with a subatomic particle
    $1600 20
Billy Corgan blamed this band's 2000 breakup on the strain of "fighting the good fight against the Britneys of the world"
    $1600 4
"Table for Two" is a short story collection by this bestselling author of "A Gentleman in Moscow"
    DD: $7,000 6
This Lebanese city was created when 3 sections settled by people from Tyre, Sidon & Arvad merged into one city
    $1600 15
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) You can learn a lot about a region that's new to you by talking to people over a meal, but not with your mouth full; some of the best food I've had is in this -‌stan that stretches over several countries but isn't a country of its own
    $2000 1
Robert Johnson said he learned guitar by selling his soul to the devil at one of these
    $2000 23
Einstein described this man's work on the structure of the atom as "the highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought"
    $2000 21
In March 2015, he apparently found an additional direction, becoming the first member of One Direction to leave the band
    $2000 12
This author of "Lincoln in the Bardo" offers a course on Russian short stories in his book "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain"
    $2000 2
Life's no day at the beach in Ürümqi, China, 1,400 miles from the nearest ocean & the scene of 2009 riots by these oppressed Muslims
    $2000 18
(Ari Shapiro presents the clue.) For about a quarter century, I've been talking to this legal journalist; I interned for her in my first journalism job, & now I throw to her as I host "All Things Considered"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven David Jonathan
$20,400 $13,400 $7,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

POLITICAL HISTORY
The words of this doctrine are found in a sonnet by James I & bolstered by St. Paul writing, "the powers that be are ordained of God"

Final scores:

Steven David Jonathan
$26,804 $6,399 $7,400
2-day champion: $46,406 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Steven David Jonathan
$22,800 $13,400 $7,400
31 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
2 W		 7 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $43,600

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Game tape date: 2025-08-08
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