Show #9406 - Monday, October 6, 2025

TJ Fisher game 3.

Contestants

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Kate Kostelnik, a personal trainer from Orlando, Florida

Brian Dixon, a server from Atlanta, Georgia

TJ Fisher, a marketing specialist from San Francisco, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $38,889)

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Jeopardy! Round

STUFF HAPPENED IN OCTOBER
ADVERTISING
3-LETTER NAMES
HOCKEY
POSSESSIVE PHRASES
WE GOT THE BEACH
    $200 30
The first of these Ford vehicles was shipped to a customer Oct. 1, 1908; hope the buyer wanted it in black
    $200 29
In 1997 this company began daring its customers to "Think Different"
    $200 28
In May 2025 Chicago-born Robert Prevost took this first name
    $200 2
Bryan Trottier was a legendary master of this play that determines which team will start play with possession of the puck
    $200 27
This expression about who decides what card game gets played can also mean "Bartender, you pick my drink"
    $200 19
Want to walk on the world's whitest sand beach? A 2024 study said the 6 miles of Tulum Beach in this nation tickled the ivories
    $400 6
To take on a British strength, the Continental Congress authorized this armed force on Oct. 13, 1775--happy 250th!
    $400 14
In the 1940s, it was "America runs on Bulova time"; more recently, it was "America runs on" this coffee & baked goods chain
    $400 11
Spelled the same way backwards & forwards, it ranked as the third-most popular U.S. girls' name from 2016 to 2020
    $400 3
One theory on the origin of this Canadian insult word is with the losing team's task of spraying water to refresh the ice
    $400 26
Hamlet tells Horatio, "Methinks I see my (dead) father... in" this, the faculty of imagination
    $400 23
A hot spot south of Havana--have a Rio good time at this beach that boasts Avenida Atlántica & volleyball opportunities
    $600 9
On Oct. 14, 1066 Harold II got an eyeful of arrow, at least according to this 224-foot reference linen
    $600 15
In commercials with Dr. Rick, Progressive says it can save you money when you bundle but it can't save you from doing this
    $600 12
Of Sanskrit origin & meaning "god", it's the first name of the actor seen here
    $600 1
In 2025 longtime Bruin Brad Marchand left Boston, headed for the sunny South & helped this team win a second straight Stanley Cup
    $600 16
Not always actual medical instruction, this phrase can mean anything you're urged to do, or a gin & citrus cocktail
    $600 22
Iaparks.org lists Franco Columbu, Lou Ferrigno (don't make Lou angry!) & a guy named Arnold hanging out at this Venice Beach landmark
    $800 7
I, no longer this Roman emperor as of Oct. 13, 54 A.D. after Agrippina poisoned me... with mushrooms?! You gotta be kidding me!
    $800 24
In 2014 this product's iconic Umbrella Girl turned 100 & was voted into Advertising Week's Walk of Fame
    $800 10
Described as the quiet one, he was George Gershwin's older brother & songwriting partner
    $800 4
"Fore" & "back" precede this verb to mean apply pressure at either end of the ice; to be a 200-foot player, eh, you gotta do both
    DD: $1,000 17
Pay TV programming wizard Jerry Harvey pioneered this version of films in a 1974 "Wild Bunch" screening honoring the Peckinpah vision
    $800 20
Do some laps for just $10 in the Icebergs Pool at this Australian landmark that puts the "B" in beautiful & beach
    $1000 8
Everything was rosy between pope & king in 1521, when the pontiff gave Henry VIII this 4-word title still used by England's monarch
    $1000 25
Long before Lyft & Uber, this transportation line urged you to "Leave the driving to us"
    $1000 13
This first name of surfer Lenny means "sea" in Hawaiian
    $1000 5
The NHL has counted blocked shots since 1998 & Marc-Édouard Vlasic at this position is the all-time leader
    $1000 18
Muesli for a mastiff, or a largely British expression for a chaotic mess
    $1000 21
Anse Source d'Argent is a pink sand beach in this island republic north of Madagascar

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

TJ Brian Kate
$200 $600 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

TJ Brian Kate
$2,400 -$600 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

PRE-21st CENTURY FANTASY LITERATURE
AWARDS & HONORS
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
A COUNTRY BUT NOT A COUNTRY
BAND OF SISTERS
FEEDING TIME AT THE ZOO
    $400 26
In Peter Beagle's "The Last" this mythic quadruped, a lone female sets off to find out what happened to the others
    $400 27
Governor General & thriller writer John Buchan helped establish this country's Governor General's Literary Awards
    $400 28
Comp gift or giveaway
(7 letters)
    $400 29
If you visit Bilbao, you're in this area of Spain named for an ethnic group; France has one too
    $400 30
Ann & Nancy Wilson have been the--what's the word?--center of this Hall of Fame band for more than 50 years
    $400 25
Warm-season grass, alfalfa & orchard grass are all grown by the National Zoo in D.C., the only zoo in the country to make its own this
    DD: $3,000 17
The main character of this ancient epic poem is described as "the man of twists & turns driven time & again off course"
    $800 20
The initial Pritzker Prize in this went to Philip Johnson, who coined the term "International School of" it
    $800 21
Senate talkathon
(10 letters)
    $800 22
In "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", the immigrant grandma calls her European home this, as in "What did we have in" this? "Nothing"
    $800 23
Vicki Peterson played lead guitar & sis Debbi shook a furious tambourine on this band's "Walk Like An Egyptian"
    $800 24
The Jacksonville Zoo served about $250k worth of romaine lettuce in 2023 at its Critical Care Center for these aquatic mammals
    $1200 16
Arms factory mechanic Hank Morgan travels back in time to a land of knights & magicians in this novel from 1889
    $1200 7
WBAL-TV earned one of these University of Georgia media awards for John Sherman's 2004 investigation into pollution in Chesapeake Bay
    $1200 4
2 weeks
(9 letters)
    $1200 1
The late Echo Helstrom is thought to have inspired Bob Dylan's song & jukebox musical title "Girl from" here
    $1200 12
Anita, Bonnie, June & Ruth, these sisters won a country Grammy in 1975; minus Bonnie, they scored a slew of '80s hits
    $1200 9
Luckily for the chickens, rabbits & mice on its menu, a reticulated type of this snake at the Atlanta Zoo eats only once a month
    $1600 18
In a ballad by Tennyson, this title "Lady" is imprisoned in a castle, cursed to only be able to look at the world through a mirror
    DD: $3,200 8
The highest prize in British art is named for this multi-initialed man famed as "The Painter of Light" for his land-& seascapes
    $1600 5
Arrow maker
(8 letters)
    $1600 2
Old Montana State Highway Commission publications often called the state "The" these 3 words
    $1600 13
Last name of alt rock superstar sisters Kelley & Kim, whose band, The Breeders, made a big '90s splash
    $1600 10
Also a verb meaning to graze among books, it's plant matter for creatures like giraffes; the Lincoln Park Zoo has it fresh & frozen
    $2000 19
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" was one of the many stories written by this man featuring Conan the Barbarian
    $2000 15
The first American to receive the U.S. Legion of Merit was Ann Bernatitus, one of the nurses known as "Angels of" this Philippine peninsula
    $2000 6
Dactylogram
(11 letters)
    $2000 3
To write his epic biography of LBJ, Robert Caro moved for 3 years to this "isolated, impoverished", also bumpy part of Texas
    $2000 14
This sister act goes by their last name, Hebrew for "life"; they say to pronounce it with 2 syllables
    $2000 11
Birds, reptiles & small mammals enjoy these aptly-named worms, larvae of the darkling beetle; the Topeka Zoo doles out 7,000 every week

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

TJ Brian Kate
$21,200 $3,000 $3,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

TV 2025
The star of this new streaming drama said, "Nobody could gain a pound, lose a pound... we had to look exactly the same for 7 months"

Final scores:

TJ Brian Kate
$21,035 $0 $3,000
3-day champion: $59,924 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

TJ Brian Kate
$19,400 $3,000 $6,000
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 6 R,
2 W		 13 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $28,400

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Game tape date: 2025-09-09
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