Show #9409 - Thursday, October 9, 2025

TJ Fisher game 6.

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Grace Batiste, a marketing manager originally from Chicago, Illinois

Spencer Janes, a program manager originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts

TJ Fisher, a marketing specialist from San Francisco, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $100,723)

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Jeopardy! Round

IRISH HISTORY
THAT'S SOME RHYME
ORIGIN OF THE IDIOM
ALL SORTS OF SCIENCE
CLEANUP
ON AISLE 7
    $200 25
At the 1014 Battle of Clontarf, tribal chief Brian Boru & his forces delivered a historic blow to these seafarers & their allies
    $200 30
The Beatles: "I'm sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair / You were in a car crash and you lost" this--does that happen?
    $200 28
This phrase for making peace comes from a Native American practice of symbolically interring a weapon
    $200 27
This unit of energy or heat that people often try to "burn" is equal to approximately 4,200 joules
    $200 18
In 1976 NOAA's first major coordinated response to this type of event was after the Argo Merchant broke in 2 off Nantucket
    $200 5
I can't decide between vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream so I'll get all 3 together, called this
    $400 13
"An Gorta Mór" in Irish Gaelic, this devastating 19th century event reduced Ireland's population by as much as 25%
    $400 29
Oasis somehow managed to be "slowly walking down the hall" but at the same time "faster than" this projectile
    $400 23
Mr. Snagsby in his "Bleak House" was the first to say "not to put too fine a point upon it"--in other words, to be blunt
    $400 24
Animals called chordates include tunicates, cephalochordates & the "true" these, including birds & mammals
    $400 19
A headline in The Onion read, "Christian rock band cleans up" this, which real-life rock bands were famous for trashing
    $400 6
Well, if I'm tracking steps, I should get the Baby Trend double jogger one of these, to bring the twins on my runs
    $600 10
To ancient Greek & Roman geographers, Ireland was known as this, meaning "land of winter"
    $600 4
"My style is wild, so book me / Not long is how long that this rhyme took me", rapped Ghostface Killah as part of this ensemble
    $600 1
It was once a place of execution outside London, but gained its current use as an unclaimed area where WWI troops dreaded being sent
    $600 15
Beginning some 500 million years ago, this era gets its name from the Greek for "ancient life"
    $600 17
The jolly tarrers seen here are making sure everything is this nautical word, meaning meticulously neat & tidy
    $600 7
Ooh, Kitty is low on food; good thing aisle 7 has this brand, "the only one cats ask for by name"
    $800 11
A terminally ill man was the first in Ireland to be granted this, narrowly approved in a 1995 vote--it's not euthanasia
    $800 8
Warren Zevon: "She was a credit to her gender / She put me through some changes, Lord, sort of like a Waring" this
    DD: $1,000 2
When John Dennis saw a play that used a sound effect he created without permission, he complained they had done this
    $800 14
"P" is for this adjective for soil or rock that allows water to pass through; preceded by "im", it doesn't
    $800 21
Hercules diverted rivers to clean these structures owned by King Augeas
    $800 9
I need a new hobby, so I'll pick up a kit to make this type of embroidery; its name refers to the x-shape of the needlework
    $1000 12
Sharing his name with an Apollo astronaut, this man helped negotiate the 1921 treaty that established the Irish Free State
    $1000 22
The Police: "Giant steps are what you take" doing this; "I hope my legs don't break"--wait, isn't gravity lower up there?
    $1000 3
One proposed origin of this phrase is not from academic achievement but the ability of a train to climb a slope
    $1000 20
In astronomy this word is used when describing an orbit, like an elliptical one that deviates from the circular kind
    $1000 26
Firefighters don't smash priceless stained glass windows, so extra soot slowed a 2001 cleanup of this huge Manhattan cathedral
    $1000 16
Italian gave us this word for a sideboard, & I'm putting one from aisle 7 into my shopping cart

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

TJ Spencer Grace
-$1,400 $2,200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

TJ Spencer Grace
$800 $4,200 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
ELEGIAC VERSE
RANKS & TITLES
ANAGRAMMAR
"ALL" TV & MOVIES
[Ken reads the category as "All TV movies".]
    $400 28
Colorado Springs gets water from the watershed of this famous mountain
    $400 24
The 1962 Engel v. Vitale decision held that it was a 1st Amendment violation for a public school system to sponsor one of these rituals
    $400 26
In this Scottish poet's "A Bard's Epitaph", he describes himself & says that "thoughtless follies laid him low"
    $400 27
A candidate must earn 21 merit badges before attaining this rank first awarded to Arthur Eldred in 1912
    $400 29
Traditional sentence-finishing faux pas:
IRON PIE POTS
    $400 30
It starred Redford & Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein
    $800 6
In 2025 refugees flooded the Joda border crossing, trying to get into this African country from the one it used to be part of
    $800 23
Texas v. Johnson went in favor of Gregory Johnson, who had burned one of these during a 1984 protest
    $800 25
Robert Louis Stevenson's poem with the same name as a mass for the dead has the line "Home is the sailor, home from sea"
    DD: $1,000 21
Pat Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid", himself learned from Fumio Demura, one of these, "teacher" in Japanese
    $800 20
When an adverb boldly goes in the middle:
I VISIT PINE FLINT
    $800 16
Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos met--& played a couple--on this TV soap before marrying in real life
    $1200 4
Blarney Castle is a tourist attraction in this region of Southern Ireland
    DD: $2,000 1
In 1958's Cooper v. Aaron, the Court unanimously said that Arkansas had to abide by this ruling from 4 years earlier
    $1200 11
Written for his dying father, his "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" tells us to "rage against the dying of the light"
    $1200 3
The No. 1 assistant in a pro kitchen, the person with this title schedules shifts, assists with menu planning & orders food supplies
    $1200 8
What a subject & its verb should be in:
ENTER GAME
    $1200 13
A documentary about the NASA Moon landings & a TV drama in which the Soviets landed there first share this title
    $1600 5
There's a body of water with this name off Greenland's coast & another one near Corpus Christi
    $1600 7
Justice Sotomayor's scathing dissent of a 2024 decision: "It makes a mockery of the principle... that no man is" these 3 words
    $1600 17
"In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" is from this poet's lament for "Annabel Lee"
    $1600 2
This French-derived word before another title, like empress or queen, means the woman is a wealthy widow
    $1600 9
Another word for dependent, as in clause:
INSURED BOAT
    $1600 14
Paul Scofield won an Oscar for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in this film, based on a play in which he also starred
    $2000 12
This region of the North Atlantic is isolated by 4 ocean currents that surround it
    $2000 22
In 2005's Roper v. Simmons, the court said execution for crimes committed before the age of 18 was this, barred by the 8th Amendment
    $2000 18
A castle in Italy gave its name to this Rainer Maria Rilke book of "Elegies"
    $2000 19
This 8-letter title refers to the wife of an Indian prince
    $2000 10
Tense denoting something completed before something else:
PET CARP FEST
    $2000 15
It's the film in which Bette Davis delivers the line, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

TJ Spencer Grace
$14,400 $17,000 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD ORGANIZATIONS
Passing on in 2025, Aliza Magen, who helped track down terrorists in the 1972 Munich attack, became this agency's top-ranking woman

Final scores:

TJ Spencer Grace
$5,201 $29,000 $10,200
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $29,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

TJ Spencer Grace
$14,600 $17,000 $5,000
18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
0 W		 8 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2025-09-09
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