Show #9415 - Friday, October 17, 2025

Contestants

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Dargan Ware, an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama

Sondra Venable, a standardized patient from New Orleans, Louisiana

Cindy del Rosario, a hospice and palliative care nurse from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,201)

Jeopardy! Round

HOW'S YOUR GULF GAME?
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN
THIS IS WHAT WE TRAINED FOR!
MOVIE IMPROVISATIONS
DADDY, IS THERE REALLY A...
    $200 27
Part of the Ionian Sea, the Gulf of Corinth separates the Peloponnese from the central part of this nation
    $200 23
To help in anticipating the flooding of this river, the Egyptians created a 12-month calendar
    $200 28
We're not in Springfield c. the '90s, so this 4-word directive meaning "relax" feels udderly outdated, man
    $200 29
That's Dr. African Giant Pouched Rat to you, as the critter is trained to detect this infectious lung disease that killed Doc Holliday
    $200 30
After her "Bridesmaids" character learned an extra in a scene was single, this actress ad-libbed she'd "climb that like a tree"
    $200 22
No:
This expert British murder solver, here portrayed by Angela Lansbury
    $400 19
An inlet of the Pacific, this other Gulf of Mexico bears the name of a U.S. state
    $400 8
Marine chronometers use springs to tick away time since this swinging device is disrupted by the movements of a ship
    $400 26
This 2-word demand isn't calming, so save it for the kitchen, like if you want the volume of a sauce reduced via gentle boiling
    $400 24
On April 17, 1961 1,500 CIA-trained exiles landed on the southern coast of this country; 1,100 were captured by April 19
    $400 25
A Variety headline: he "improvised so much on 'Mrs. Doubtfire' that 2 million feet of film was shot", with 972 boxes of outtakes
    $400 21
No: A.I. generated the TikTok image of this pig/human eventually killed by Tim Cheese
    $600 1
The northern part of this sea, the Gulf of Bothnia is almost blocked off from the rest of it by the Aland Islands of Finland
    $600 4
Beginning in the 6th c. or earlier, the Chinese kept time by using this slow-burning odorous material, like sandalwood
    DD: $2,600 10
As the title of a 1972 Eagles song, this phrase is pretty innocuous; as an imperative to calm down, it may raise some hackles
    $600 2
In "The Hunger Games", Katniss' training included "Some advice. stay alive" from this guy; coach of the year, obviously
    $600 7
"Jaws" isn't exactly a laugh riot, but this Roy Scheider improv reaction to seeing the shark for the first time sure was funny
    $600 13
No, as the representation of the sea; yes, as a singer for The Monkees
    $800 3
West of Hainan, this gulf gave its name to a resolution presented by LBJ to Congress in 1964
    $800 6
Lord Kelvin was an early proposer of this kind of clock, citing the independent "time of vibration of a sodium particle"
    $800 15
Word to the wise: Using this "frigid" 7-letter portmanteau during an argument to mean calm down is unlikely to have the intended effect
    $800 16
Laurence Tisch (at 20!), & Laura Lang, former CEO of Time Inc., got their business chops at this Pennsylvania school
    $800 11
"The Princess Bride" saw Billy Crystal improv-ing about an MLT, a this, lettuce & tomato sandwich "where (the 'M') is nice & lean"
    $800 14
Yes, though he passed into folklore by traipsing along in a tin hat planting fruit trees
    $1000 5
This Middle Eastern country's only sea access is through its 16 miles of coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba
    $1000 9
The 24-hour Shepherd Clock is set to this, named for a borough of London & adopted as the astronomical standard in 1925
    $1000 18
Leave this phrase of 3 4-letter words in the '50s, when it may have originated in dialogue on TV's "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    $1000 17
We spy future chefs joining a different CIA--this school that began as the New Haven Restaurant Institute in 1946
    $1000 12
Gotta have a Christopher Guest movie line, like Fred Willard's in this film: "He went after her like she was made outta ham"
    $1000 20
No: this man for whom a summery gin & lemon juice cocktail is named

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

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$1,000 $2,800 $3,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$3,000 $4,200 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY
TV PERSONALITIES
SOLD! TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER
PHILOSOPHY ABCs
CAT OF 5 TALES
"PASS"WORDS
    $400 20
The Choson Dynasty ruled this land for just over 500 years
    $400 29
In 2025, he announced he was leaving the "NBC Nightly News" desk to focus on "Dateline" full time
    $400 14
A skull from this dinosaur that was discovered in South Dakota was put up for auction by Sotheby's
    $400 22
V:
Plato believed in the four cardinal ones of these, & Christians added the three theological ones of St. Paul
    $400 23
In a book by Beverly Cleary, a kitten with white paws has this title name
    $400 30
In 2000, David Letterman thanked his docs on-air for a quintuple one of these, calling one "Michelangelo with a bone saw"
    $800 21
Officially his title was First Lord of the Treasury, but Sir Robert Walpole is considered to be the first Brit to hold this office
    $800 28
Besides being the TV "Science Guy", he also calls himself an "engineer, comedian, author and inventor"
    $800 16
Believed to be from Kerman in Iran, the gorgeously woven 17th century Clark sickle-leaf one of these sold for $34 million in 2013
    $800 18
H:
Epicurus was fond of this doctrine in which pleasure is derived from good things
    $800 12
In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", it "vanished quite slowly beginning with the end of the tail"
    $800 24
Ironically this word meaning "behind the times" is kind of behind the times compared to, say, "cheugy"
    $1200 1
On his first voyage to India, Vasco da Gama set off from this city & arrived at Kerala's Kappad Beach just under a year later
    $1200 4
Crikey! His kids Bindi & Robert are all grown up & keeping his legacy alive through their own wildlife conservation efforts
    $1200 19
In 2020, somebody ponied up $3.4 million for the 1968 Ford Mustang GT that this actor drove in a famous chase scene in "Bullitt"
    $1200 5
C:
This Greek school of thought rejected social conventions; in the modern sense, it's being distrustful
    $1200 8
Jiji is a cat that helps this girl's "Delivery Service" in Eiko Kadono's fanciful tale, later adapted by Studio Ghibli
    $1200 9
The KJV calls them "debts", but some versions of the Lord's Prayer use this term for the no-nos you forgive & ask forgiveness for
    DD: $6,400 2
For 4 days in 1863, New York City was the scene of riots over inequitable exemptions in this process
    $1600 17
TV chef Ina Garten acquired this moniker after purchasing a specialty food store of the same name
    $1600 26
The 2021 sale of his painting "Home for Thanksgiving" for the Saturday Evening Post raised funds for a branch of the American Legion
    DD: $4,000 6
F:
Non sequiturs & vicious circles are types of these, from the Latin for "deceit"
    $1600 10
In Roald Dahl's "Edward the Conqueror", Louisa believes a stray is a reincarnation of this Hungarian & dubs him Franz
    $1600 15
An 1846 note warned the Donner Party their planned route was nearly this, a word that's rarely good in the context of mountain travel
    $2000 3
This Athenian whose name is now synonymous with legislator revised the codes of Draco to make them more humane
    $2000 27
Known for her signature red glasses, this talk show host of the '80s & '90s recently turned 90
    $2000 25
In 2024 a rare complete set of his woodblock prints "Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji" sold for $3.6 million; seems like a bargain
    $2000 7
D:
Hegel wrote of these that test the truth of assertion
    $2000 11
Bustopher Jones & Skimbleshanks are light on their paws in this poetic piece from 1939
    $2000 13
This feeling that fits the category is the last word of a 1995 Terrence McNally play title

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$11,400 $7,400 $35,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY SCIENCE
Calling it "a particle that cannot be detected", physicist Wolfgang Pauli 1st proposed this in 1930; it was detected in 1956

Final scores:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$14,801 $3,399 $26,200
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $26,200

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$14,000 $7,400 $28,400
17 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
0 W		 28 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $49,800

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Game tape date: 2025-09-15
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