Show #9400 - Friday, September 26, 2025

Contestants

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Prasad Patil, an assistant professor of biostatistics from Burlington, Massachusetts

Yasmine Mitchell, a software engineer from Sunnyvale, California

Vickie Talvola, a quantitative trader from Jersey City, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,407)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
WORN ON THE STREET
MOVIE ROLE IN COMMON
WHICH -VERSE ARE WE IN?
HISTORY
1-"S"YLLABLE WORDS
(Ken: Each beginning with the letter S.)
    $200 27
Alaska's border with this Canadian territory is more than 700 miles long
    $200 30
In its 2025 bankruptcy filing, Forever 21 blamed Temu & this fast fashion brand that has a "village" in Guangzhou
    $200 19
This character was a purrfect role for both Michelle Pfeiffer & Zoë Kravitz
    $200 28
The very detailed book "The Making of" this begins with J.K. Rowling's fateful train ride
    $200 24
The Redfern Speech admitted injustice done to Aboriginal people; Redfern, a suburb of this city, is near the "First Fleet" arrival site
    $200 29
This thick liquid used as a base for sauces & soups is made by simmering bones in water for 4 to 6 hours
    $400 26
With over 20 million in its greater metro area, this city founded in 1554 has the largest population in South America
    $400 21
In 2023 this skater brand with a red & white logo & a name meaning "highest in rank" opened a location on the Sunset Strip
    $400 18
Emma Stone & Glenn Close each brought their own unique menace to this fashion designer
    $400 25
The Master Weaver figures prominently in issue #1 of this Marvel comic series from 2014
    $400 8
Once in power, the Chinese Communist Party's first big purge was in 1954 after Gao & Rao got on this man's nerves
    $400 22
These horizontal strips in Venetian blinds are often made of aluminum in high moisture areas such as a bathroom
    $600 15
Located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, it's the largest alpine lake in North America
    $600 20
A NYC billboard shows a rotation of thirst-trappy ads for this brand, including ones featuring Bad Bunny & Jeremy Allen White
    $600 12
Playing this tomb raider:
Angelina Jolie &
Alicia Vikander
    $600 7
Physicist David Deutsch says quantum theory not only suggests but demands this 10-letter word meaning there are many, many Kens
    $600 4
This material tapping extracts latex; in 1988, Chico Mendes, a defender of that way of life, was slain by Brazilian ranchers
    $600 3
From the Latin for "to be wise", it's one who is venerated for wisdom
    $800 13
George Town is the leading city in these Caribbean islands named for an alligator relative
    $800 9
These Nike shoes named after a famous plane were once called Uptowns, due to their popularity in Uptown New York
    $800 10
This law enforcement agent was all in a day's role for Julianne Moore & Jodie Foster
    DD: $3,600 14
Unable to serve in the military due to poor eyesight, he glorified American warriors in the Ryanverse
    $800 2
One of the longest sieges in British history lasted 1779-1783, with France & Spain failing to take this dot at the SW tip of Europe
    $800 5
1 Samuel says this weapon of Goliath's was like a weaver's beam & its "head weighed six hundred shekels of iron"
    $1000 16
Nicaragua lost out in 1960 when the northern part of the Mosquito Coast was awarded to this country
    $1000 17
Makes sense that this workwear co. popular with Bedford Ave. hipsters has a name that starts with "Car-" since it began in Detroit
    $1000 11
This South African activist was brought to the big screen by both Naomie Harris & Jennifer Hudson
    $1000 23
This virtual community that Philip Rosedale launched in 2003 is often cited as the forerunner of the metaverse
    $1000 1
This leader says his country will handle challenges like it handled the Cumans & Pechenegs, nomadic invaders from the Steppes around 1100
    $1000 6
To growl with a display of the teeth, or a tangle of yarn or hair

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

Vickie Yasmine Prasad
$7,800 $1,800 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Vickie Yasmine Prasad
$9,800 $3,200 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARCHAEOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY
TV SHOWS BY FAMILY
COVER ME
ALLITERATION
LONELY ISLAND
I'M ON A BOAT
    $400 28
Like the Gamla Uppsala in Sweden, a tumulus is a large earthen mound built over one of these
    $400 23
On Fox from 2003 to 2006:
the Bluths
    $400 29
A type of cloak with a hole in it, this item often worn on rainy days originated in South America
    $400 26
Are you old enough to remember this bibliography in drawers at your local library?
    $400 24
Alexander Selkirk Island & this one named for Selkirk's fictional counterpart are sparsely populated Juan Fernández Isles
    $400 30
What?! A possible warrant for bank robbery coming for a passenger--Phileas Fogg? That's life on the steamer Mongolia in this book for ya
    $800 27
Spelled with a middle "A" or "E", it's a broken piece or fragment of pottery found at an archaeological dig site
    $800 8
Selena Gomez & magic:
the Russo family
    DD: $10,000 22
Built in the 1st c., it had a big retractable awning, called a velarium, that shielded its audience of 50,000 from the sun
    $800 20
The largest bats in the world have this name that mentions another mammal
    $800 21
North Brother Island in the East River was once home to Mary Mallon, nicknamed this; now, nobody lives there
    $800 25
Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall's "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island" are novels in a trilogy named for this boat
    $1200 4
5-letter back-formed word for a circular area often containing stones or posts & dating back to the Neolithic
    $1200 7
From 2014 to 2022 with Anthony Anderson:
the Johnson family
    $1200 2
Lowe's has several options for these roofing items, not the same-named herpes zoster
    $1200 12
Methane & carbon dioxide are among these that trap heat in the atmosphere
    $1200 1
Lonely Kanaga Island is part of the Andreanof chain of this Alaskan island group
    $1200 16
This title character of a novella by Herman Melville is impressed onto the HMS Indomitable
    $1600 10
This 2-word Latin term is used to describe an artifact found in its original resting place or where it was first deposited
    $1600 5
From 1974 to 1984:
the Cunningham family
    $1600 18
Your auntie might use the ornamental furniture covering called an anti this to help keep it tidy
    $1600 9
In ancient Rome these priestesses kept the home fire burning, literally, at a temple honoring the goddess of the hearth
    $1600 3
Penguins, not humans, abound on Heard Island & McDonald Islands, which in 2025 were oddly subject to these from the USA
    $1600 14
Bay Area swell Humphrey Van Weyden contends with a cranky captain aboard the Ghost in this Jack London tale
    $2000 17
Fancy name for a kitchen trash heap built up over time & indicating the former presence of a human settlement
    $2000 6
On a Mindy Kaling Netflix show, the Vishwakumar family
    $2000 19
The defining feature of arthropods is an exoskeleton made of this tough substance, spelled with a "CH" but pronounced "K"
    $2000 11
It's Latin for an object that serves as a reminder that death is inevitable
    DD: $6,000 13
Now lightly populated, Delos in the Cyclades was once a hub of activity & also the supposed birthplace of this god
    $2000 15
Michael Healy, a Black ship captain in the 1800s for the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, is one historical figure in "Alaska" by this man

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Vickie Yasmine Prasad
$25,800 $7,600 $25,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTISTS
(Ken: Look at this, three players with math and science adjacent jobs, and [*] is our Final Jeopardy! category.)
Joseph Lister said there was not "an individual to whom medical science owes more than to" this man, feted at the Sorbonne in 1892

Final scores:

Vickie Yasmine Prasad
$25,950 $12,600 $35,600
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $35,600

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Vickie Yasmine Prasad
$19,000 $7,600 $16,400
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 11 R,
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $43,000

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Game tape date: 2025-08-08
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