Show #9397 - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Steven Olson game 3.

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Justin Ames, an employment attorney from Jersey City, New Jersey

Hester Bass, a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,406)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE ANSWER IS 42!
(Ken: For our 42nd season.)
____ING BOOK TITLES
"G" TO "G"
THE PRE-FAME CELEBRITY AT WORK
AROUND ALABAMA
NAVY SEALS
(Taylor: I'm Taylor Kitsch.) (Chris: And I'm Chris Pratt. Real-life heroes isn't just an expression when it comes to the Navy SEALs.) (Taylor: We're honored to play SEALs on our show, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, and today we'll present a category about them.)
    $200 25
In his all-too-short career, this late actor played Jackie Robinson in the film "42"
    $200 10
Book 2 of "The Hunger Games":
"____ Fire"
    $200 28
To play this musical instrument with a Javanese name, you whack it with a soft mallet
    $200 30
He was working as a carpenter for Francis Ford Coppola when George Lucas came by, about to cast "Star Wars"; that worked out
    $200 27
With millions made there, Albertville is "capital of the world" for these, which we love when our house is burning & hate when parking
    $200 29
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) My character in "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" is trained as one of these long-range warfare specialists, like best-selling author & former SEAL Chris Kyle
    $400 24
The Broadway musical adaptation of "42nd Street" included this sleepy, soothing song "of Broadway"
    $400 4
Set in Yoknapatawpha County:
"As I Lay ____ "
    $400 13
When does pushing air from your lungs through a tube into molten sand equal a vase? When you're an artisan practicing this craft
    $400 22
Terry Crews worked for real as a courtroom sketch artist before becoming a TV cop on this N.Y.-set sitcom
    $400 8
Home to the Tigers, this college town founded in 1836 has a name inspired by Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village"
    $400 26
(Taylor Kitsch presents the clue.) SEALs use the term "insertion" to describe the process of entry in a mission zone; whether from the water or via parachute, helicopter or the ground, this paired term refers to the process of getting back out
    $600 16
In this board game invented by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse in 1957, there are 42 territories to conquer & defend
    $600 3
A classic of Australian lit & basis for a 1975 film: "Picnic at ____ Rock"
    $600 12
The business end of a hot air balloon, for example, or a person who won't shut up
    $600 21
(D'Arcy Carden presents the clue.) As a struggling actor, I was a full-time nanny for the three daughters of this man; later, I worked for him again when I played Natalie on "Barry", which he co-created
    $600 5
This National Forest in the center of the state shares its name with a NASCAR superspeedway nearby
    $600 17
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) My character in "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" carries a weapon inscribed "LLTB", a SEAL slogan meaning "long live" this type of close sibling-like fellowship
    $800 15
In a Shakespeare play, the potion taken by this character is meant to make her appear dead for 42 hours
    $800 1
By Shirley Jackson: "The ____ of Hill House"
    $800 11
It's the sound liquid makes when being poured from a bottle
    $800 20
We come to this actress with 5 Oscar nominations for magic--her magic fingers, apparently, as a young massage therapist
    $800 6
In 1919, the city of Enterprise erected a monument to this pest that forced its farmers to shift to growing different crops
    $800 18
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) Though SEAL team members jokingly call their gold pin "The Budweiser", they're proud of the symbol composed of an eagle, an anchor, a pistol & this 3-pronged spear, its official name
    DD: $3,600 14
The first of their kind, they were printed in Mainz, Germany in the 15th century with Latin text in 42-line columns
    $1000 2
Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of love & grief:
"The Year of Magical ____"
    $1000 9
Edgar Allan Poe won $100 in a newspaper contest for a short story about this title insect
    $1000 23
Before providing "Beauty And A Beat" with Justin Bieber, this Trinidad-born singer provided seafood waitressing at Red Lobster
    $1000 7
Once occupied by the French, Alabama's southernmost point is on this island that has a name like an heir to the French throne
    $1000 19
(Taylor Kitsch presents the clue.) A U.S. Navy destroyer is named for SEAL Don McFaul, who died protecting a wounded teammate with his own body while under fire during a 1989 mission to take out the private escape jet of this Panamanian strongman

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Steven Hester Justin
$7,200 $3,400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Hester Justin
$11,200 $3,600 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY
COMPOSERS
EW, DAVID!
9-LETTER WORDS
DISCOVERY
A SONG ON YOUR LIPS
    $400 25
The Great Pyramid in this modern-day Egyptian city was built in the 26th century B.C.; it's still standing today
    $400 26
According to Josephus, Saul had a price for his daughter's hand--600 heads of these enemies, & future King David delivered
    $400 27
This word for an exact copy was shortened to become the name of an office machine also called a telecopier
    $800 18
This Latin-named era of relative tranquility ended with the death of Marcus Aurelius & the ascension of his non-tranquil son
    $800 16
Andrew Lloyd Webber unmasked "Love Never Dies", his sequel to this musical
    $800 23
Michael C. Hall played David Fisher, who spent a lot of time with dead bodies & embalming fluid on this series
    $800 22
This word for an omen of future events is etymologically related to "harbor"
    $800 21
Big ups to the Bedouin shepherd who discovered the first of these manuscripts in a cave south of Jericho in 1947
    $800 14
"Kissy face, kissy face sent to your phone, but I'm tryna kiss your lips for real", says "Apt.", a 2024 collab of Rosé & him
    $1200 5
Construction on the Great Pyramid at this Mesoamerican city, also a brand of hot sauce, began around 200 B.C. & lasted 1,000 years
    $1200 12
Ferde Grofé used a wind machine & a thunder sheet to emulate nature in this suite that was inspired by a desert trip
    $1200 1
David Balfour suffers illness, exposure & hunger as he travels across the highlands in "Kidnapped" by this author
    $1200 13
Beckett & Ionesco are preeminent contributors to what's known as this style of drama
    $1200 3
Henry Hudson set sail on the Discovery in 1610, hoping to discover this route to Asia but he discovered no such discovery
    $1200 20
In a Meghan Trainor hit, "if" this is happening, "then you're lyin', lyin', lyin"'
    $1600 6
Honored in the monument seen here, this fallen king led a small but scrappy group of Spartans in the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae
    $1600 9
Said to be in league with the devil, this composer of "24 Capricci" for solo violin wasn't buried in holy ground until 5 years after death
    $1600 2
It's gross that David Seville keeps a trio of these rodents in the house, as they can carry plague & hantavirus
    $1600 10
What's that clamor? It's this noisy word that comes from the Greek for "bad sound"
    DD: $1,000 7
Since its discovery by James Clark Ross in 1831, this location has migrated steadily toward Russia
    $1600 19
Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's & Terry Hall of The Specials co-wrote this song after a clandestine romance
    $2000 24
This word can mean "submissive" but is also the name of 3 uprisings that shook Rome; Plutarch called the last the "War of Spartacus"
    DD: $8,000 4
Plaques on neighboring London houses honor Jimi Hendrix & this German-born composer, a much earlier resident
    $2000 11
This character hears "the squeaking & scuffling of the old grey rats down in the cellars" of Murdstone & Grinby's warehouse
    $2000 8
The Latin for "to close" gives us this word for a blockage found in dentistry & pathology
    $2000 15
It's a bird, it's a dinosaur, it's this Jurassic fossil discovered in Solnhofen, Germany; many say it proved Darwin right
    $2000 17
"She Don't Use Jelly" was a 1993 hit for this group, perfect for the category

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Hester Justin
$27,800 $3,200 $4,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Realizing he couldn't draw horses, the man behind this 1963 book drew the title characters purely from his imagination

Final scores:

Steven Hester Justin
$10,683 $700 $1,599
3-day champion: $57,089 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Steven Hester Justin
$19,800 $3,200 $4,000
27 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W		 9 R,
3 W		 10 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $27,000

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Game tape date: 2025-08-08
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