Show #9399 - Thursday, September 25, 2025

Steven Olson game 5.

Contestants

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Vickie Talvola, a quantitative trader from Jersey City, New Jersey

Erik Nielsen, a substitute teacher from Hollywood, California

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 4-day cash winnings total $74,382)

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Jeopardy! Round

PORT IS IN SESSION
SONG LYRICS OF THE AUGHTS
PRISONS
COOKING WITH CAYENNE
BOOK CHARACTER INSPO
FOREIGN BODIES
    $200 30
Did CSI stand for Cruise Ship Invasion? This Florida city is home to the world's busiest cruise port
    $200 14
"Now that it's rainin' more than ever," Rihanna graciously suggests that "you can stand" here
    $200 29
The CIW, California Institution for them, was once called Frontera, a word complete with an ending to make them feel at home
    $200 22
It's said the hot style of chicken named for this U.S. city was invented when an upset wife doused her husband's meal in cayenne
    $200 23
Later in life, A.A. Milne regretted naming this character after his son
    $200 26
Our friends in Spain can tell you that facing someone "mano a mano" translates to this, anatomically
    $400 27
By volume & value respectively, Dutch Harbor, Alaska & New Bedford, Mass. are the top U.S. commercial ports for this industry
    $400 13
Song in which André 3000 insists, "I want to see y'all on y'all baddest behavior, lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor"
    $400 28
This Central American country's CECOT, opened in 2023 for gang members, is popular for photo ops by U.S. politicians
    $400 20
Tajín, basically salt, cayenne & lime, is put on mangoes & on the Cayenne variety of this fruit--maybe in Hawaii
    $400 21
Criminal-turned-detective Eugène F. Vidocq is said to have inspired both the criminal & the detective in this work by Hugo
    $400 25
In French les genoux are these--think of the word genuflect
    $600 6
This "Great" king of Judea built an artificial harbor that helped make Caesarea a major port city of the ancient Holy Land
    $600 12
Avril Lavigne sings, "Take off all your preppy clothes, you know, you're not foolin' anyone" in a song with this adjective as a title
    $600 7
This prison town precedes "Jake" in the name of one of The Blues Brothers
    $600 19
We are on a first name basis with this cayenne-based brand of redhot sauce, a key ingredient in some buffalo sauce recipes
    DD: $1,000 2
The boar-shevik Snowball from "Animal Farm" was based on this man who got got in 1940
    $600 24
In German Kopf is this & soccer star Miroslav Klose was a Kopfballungeheuer
    $800 1
Built to move cargo in standard-sized boxes, New Jersey's Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal was the world's first one of these ports
    $800 11
The chorus of this 2001 cover song kicks off with "Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da, gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here"
    $800 8
On September 13, 1971, 29 inmates & 9 hostages died after police stormed this prison in Upstate New York
    $800 18
As the name implies, liquids are out & spices like cayenne are in with this 2-word preparation that needs liberal meat massaging
    $800 4
Stieg Larsson imagined Lisbeth Salander as a grown-up & tatted-up version of this Astrid Lindgren character
    $800 17
The pasta name capellini is a diminutive form of capelli, meaning this
    $1000 16
After Tokyo, Japan's most populous city is this giant port about 20 miles south
    $1000 10
This song opens optimistically with "Comin' out of my cage & I've been doin' just fine", but things go south after that
    $1000 9
The message "to easy lol" was an extra touch by the inmates who escaped this 1-word parish's Justice Center in 2025
    $1000 15
A spice mixture including cayenne pepper is in this seasoning from McCormick, a must-have in Maryland steamed crabs
    $1000 5
In "King Leopold's Ghost", author Adam Hochschild suggests Léon Rom, an officer in the Congo, as an inspiration for this Conrad character
    $1000 3
In Greek Matthew 5 says "Blessed are the" katharoi in kardia, these people, "for they shall see God"

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

Steven Erik Vickie
$4,200 $1,600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Erik Vickie
$2,800 $2,800 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

TRUMAN CAPOTE'S BLACK-&-WHITE BALL
(Ken: 540 guests, November 1966, Plaza Hotel.)
PLANT FACTS
THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY
WORD ORIGINS
BEASTLY HISTORY
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES
    $400 24
He got to be a part of it, New York, New York society with his new wife Mia Farrow
    $400 29
The waxy layer on the surface of plants is called this, like the hardened skin at the base of a fingernail
    $400 17
One of the sayings of this Chinese philosopher was "While one's parents are alive, one should not travel to a distance"
    $400 26
French for "small bag", it's a small perfumed bag that you put in your drawer to make your clothes smell fresh
    $400 30
"Only you can prevent forest fires" was a long-running catchphrase of this creature created as part of an ad campaign
    $400 22
3 undercover women private eyes team up with heavenly helpers of a baseball team
    $800 23
You know how to whistle, don't you? Well, you would have for Jerome Robbins & this "To Have & Have Not" actress, as the 2 danced divinely
    $800 25
A plant that completes its entire life cycle in a single growing season is known as one of these
    $800 10
Rousseau liked this original state best: "Everything that is not in the course of" it "has its disadvantages... society most of all"
    $800 14
If you're reading the writing on the wall & it's there illegally, it's this, from Italian for "scribblings"
    $800 20
In 1997 one of these animals named Daisy was cleared of starting a major fire more than a century earlier
    $800 21
Mrs. Woodhouse is set to have Satan's child, but hires Amy Poehler as a surrogate
    $1200 8
At her 1995 death, this attendee was responsible for quite the family, including a pres., 2 senators & 41 great-grandkids
    DD: $9,400 11
Also a make of car from Toyota, it's the inner petals of a flower taken collectively
    $1200 4
This "ism" is the school of thought of & named for a man born near the town of Aquino in the early 13th century
    $1200 13
This end goal of a certain game goes back to Persian for "the king is dead"
    $1200 2
During WWI, Cher Ami, one of these animals, was used to deliver a message that saved a trapped U.S. battalion under fire
    $1200 19
Meryl Streep is a prime minister growing up as an artistically inclined teenager in Sacramento
    $1600 6
The guest of honor, this newspaper publisher, felt like a prop as she thought Truman was going to give the ball anyway
    $1600 27
These structures within cells where photosynthesis happens share part of their name with a pigment they have
    $1600 5
"For a long time I have hesitated to write a book on woman", begins Simone de Beauvoir's introduction to this 1949 classic
    DD: $2,300 3
From Latin for "bad condition", it's a 6-letter synonym for a disease or disorder
    $1600 16
Since 1959, the Navy's Marine Mammal Program has trained these to locate objects; 6 escorted Kuwaiti tankers in the 1980s
    $1600 1
A 19th century sideshow performer is "not an animal" as he escapes to Earth from a dying Krypton
    $2000 7
What a treat! CBS' head honcho for half a century, he hit the Grand Ballroom with his wife Babe
    $2000 28
Many species of orchids are this type of plant that get their nutrients from the air, not from the plants they're resting on
    $2000 9
Immanuel Kant contrasted a priori knowledge (derived independent of experience) with this experience-based kind
    $2000 12
Partly from Greek for "marketplace", it's an irrational fear of unfamiliar or open spaces
    $2000 15
The title subject of a 1995 film, this dog helped his team deliver medicine to Nome, Alaska in 1925, halting an epidemic
    $2000 18
George Burns & Walter Matthau remember vaudeville days & navigating being a trans boy in Nebraska

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Erik Vickie
$6,400 $12,700 $26,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. TOWNS
This southern town known for big watermelons is the birthplace of the politicians who were governors of its state in 1983, 2003 & 2023

Final scores:

Steven Erik Vickie
$1 $12,500 $26,407
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $26,407

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Steven Erik Vickie
$6,000 $12,000 $18,200
13 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2025-08-08
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