Show #9416 - Monday, October 20, 2025

Contestants

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Amanda Tholke, a criminal defense attorney from Cincinnati, Ohio

Nick Petrilli, a casino surveillance manager from Binghamton, New York

Dargan Ware, an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES
(Ken: I'll spare you the Ethel Merman impression.)
BOOK TITLE ADJECTIVES
PUMPKIN CARVING
(Ken: Each response here will be carved out of the letters in the word "pumpkin".)
ANIMALS
AUTOMOTIVE OPTIONS
POSTSEASON HEROES WITH MLB ON FOX
(Kevin: I'm Kevin Burkhardt. Every postseason has its stars and stories, and MLB on Fox will bring you the 2025 heroes live, and some from past years, in a category today.)
    $200 29
In Pasadena, California, 1001 this Drive is the site of a very big building of the same name
    $200 28
By Stephen King:
"The ____ Half" &
"The ____ Tower"
    $200 27
Paronomasia is a fancy word for this type of wordplay
    $200 30
Nautiluses are different from other living cephalopods in still having this protective feature be external
    $200 25
The 1973 Lincoln Continental Mark IV introduced this, which unlike a sunroof was made of tinted glass
    $200 15
(I'm David Ortiz.) My Red Sox were facing elimination by the Yankees when I hit a 12th inning homer to win Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS as we overcame the hex known as "the curse of" this man
    $400 22
For its ability to seemingly rise from the dead, the Rose of Jericho is also known as this plant
    $400 16
1897:
"The ____ Man" &
1952:
no "The", just ____ "Man"
    $400 26
Slang for a tattoo
    $400 23
These pinnipeds have been hunted for their blubber, hides & tusks, used as ivory
    $400 24
Adaptive this setting automatically adjusts a car's speed to safely follow vehicles in front of it
    $400 14
(I'm Ken Rosenthal.) Don Larsen had a career record of just 81 wins & 91 losses; but in 1956, against a stacked Brooklyn line-up that included five future Hall of Famers, he became the first & still the only pitcher to toss one of these gems in the World Series--27 Dodgers up, 27 Dodgers down
    $600 1
This band's long-delayed 2008 album "Chinese Democracy" racked up an estimated $13 million in production costs
    $600 4
"Sarah, ____ and ____"
    $600 7
Betty Grable was popular as this type of girl featured on posters during World War II
    $600 10
These big South American rodents have become popular in Japan, partly due to their habit of straight chilling in hot springs
    $600 20
Despite the name, you're probably better off just stepping on one of these platforms
    $600 13
(I'm Derek Jeter.) I've gotten all kinds of praise for making the flip play to the plate to cut down Jeremy Giambi in the 2001 ALDS, but it wouldn't have mattered without a great catch & tag by this All-Star catcher, my Yankees teammate for 17 seasons & 5 World Series titles
    $800 2
Striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee was a major star of this daring form of entertainment with a French name
    $800 5
A Pulitzer Prize winner:
"____ Dove"
    $800 8
Carnations are part of this family of flowers
    $800 21
Stag, rhinoceros & elephant are not just animals in themselves, but also species of this insect in the order Coleoptera
    DD: $2,800 17
Found on many cars manufactured after 2002, the LATCH system provides secure attachment points for these
    $800 12
(Joe David & John Smoltz present the clue.) In Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Kirk Gibson's dramatic game-winning homer gave us iconic calls from two broadcasting legends: on radio, Jack Buck's "I don't believe what I just saw", & on television, "She is gone" from this late legend
    $1000 3
Common in Gothic architecture, the rose type of this is also called the wheel type
    $1000 6
By Margaret Atwood:
"The ____ Assassin"
    $1000 9
Shorthand for a type of bond, or last name of Paul, an Oscar winner in the '30s as Louis Pasteur
    $1000 18
Poaching these small songbirds is illegal in France, where they were formerly eaten as a delicacy
    $1000 19
Driving a muscle car? [engine revving] You'll want one of these gauges that displays engine revolutions per minute
    $1000 11
(I'm Alex Rodriguez.) Acclaimed as the greatest defensive third baseman ever, this 16-time Gold Glove winner dominated the 1970 postseason, hitting .583 in the ALCS before leading the Orioles to a World Series title with a red-hot bat & spectacular play in the field

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

Dargan Nick Amanda
$3,800 $2,400 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dargan Nick Amanda
$6,400 $1,000 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
THIS IS A HOLDUP...! MOVIE
KINGS & QUEENS
A FEW CLUES ABOUT A WORD
BURY ME NOT
ON THE LONE PRAIRIE
    $400 26
Maybe going from Aesop to Zeno, the Pinakes was one of these registers of the library's contents, from Greek for "list"
    $400 25
In "Quick Change" Bill Murray robs a bank dressed as this, described by police as "average height... red nose, blue hair"
    $400 30
Pay your respects to Queen Hatshepsut, who died around 1460 B.C., at Cairo's hall devoted to these relics, 20 in all
    $400 29
There's nothing funny about it; 1 of 4 fundamental fluids of the body to the ancients; can also mean to indulge a whim
    $400 21
Not in the family vault, but all by myself on an island, like the one on England's Althorp Estate, where this woman rests
    $400 28
James Fenimore Cooper took his leatherstockinged hero to "The Prairie", "natural meadows" that lie "west of" this river
    $800 14
Library scholar Eratosthenes was one of the first to study these integers divisible only by themselves & 1
    $800 24
Do a quick headcount & you'll have a clue to this 1960 film about a casino robbery
    $800 23
Historians wonder, was Queen Joan of Castile really mad? Or en Español, ¿Estaba realmente Juana this word?
    $800 22
Nickname of a Japanese plane introduced in 1940; Leonardo da Pisa called it "Zephirum"
    $800 20
Not at St. Peter's, said Pope Francis, but at St. Mary Major, which also has the Holy this where baby Jesus napped
    $800 27
Like "The Streets of Laredo", the song "Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie" is also known as "The Dying" this prairie guy
    $1200 11
Librarian Apollonius of Rhodes wrote an epic about this group led by Jason intended for the highbrow Alexandrians
    $1200 3
A memorable scene in "Dog Day Afternoon" features hapless bank robber Al Pacino shouting the name of this New York prison
    $1200 6
In 1916, Charles I of Austria also had this country's last coronation; it was filmed by future director of "Casablanca", Michael Curtiz
    $1200 7
A confused state; precedes "tremens" in a form of withdrawal
    DD: $4,800 17
Not in a ballpark or on a polo field but on a golf course, like this famous first wife who died in 2022 & ended up in Bedminster, N.J.
    $1200 10
In the early 1880s De Smet, Dakota Territory was the home of this family in prairie lit: Charles, Caroline & their 3 girls
    $1600 12
According to Seneca, "40,000 books of Alexandria burned" after this Roman general started a fire in 48 B.C.
    $1600 1
Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson & Jimmy Carter rob banks in this movie; well, guys wearing their masks do
    $1600 4
This future queen's marriage to a German just 20 years after World War II got her in Dutch, but she & her husband became very popular
    $1600 8
A woman who likes the chisme or gossip, like the matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof", but ends with an "A", not an "E"
    $1600 18
Not in a country I ever set foot in, like this institution founder, moved to D.C. 75 years after his death
    $1600 15
Last season we went for the eastern- & westernmost of Canada's 3 Prairie provinces, Manitoba & Alberta; time for this middle one
    DD: $2,000 13
One story goes that the library rented the works of these 3 dramatists from the Athenian archives & kept the originals
    $2000 2
Jeff Bridges will not abide Chris Pine & Ben Foster robbing branches of a Texas bank in this 2016 film
    $2000 5
In 2019, a former flight attendant married King Vajiralongkorn & became Queen Suthida of this Asian country
    $2000 9
An "all-seeing" prison design proposed by Jeremy Bentham; a design likened to a honeycomb
    $2000 19
Model & muse Kiki de this artistic area on the Left Bank--not in the cemetery of the same name but in the Paris suburb of Thiais
    $2000 16
Kansas has a Natl. Preserve of this "prairie" that once covered 170 million acres; how high exactly, you ask? Up to 8 feet

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dargan Nick Amanda
$21,200 $4,200 $10,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

CELEBRITY AUTHORS
A 1984 trip to Normandy inspired this journalist to write a book that popularized a term for an era of Americans

Final scores:

Dargan Nick Amanda
$21,601 $4,200 $0
2-day champion: $47,801 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Dargan Nick Amanda
$17,600 $7,000 $12,800
22 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 12 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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Game tape date: 2025-09-16
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