Show #9417 - Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Contestants

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Tom Devlin, an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Elyse Erdman, a director of social media originally from Hershey, Pennsylvania

Dargan Ware, an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LANDMARKS
CRUDITÉS
WORDS FOR THE PEOPLE
THIS, THAT & THE OTHER THING
MOVIE PREQUELS
AUTUMN LEAVES
    $200 22
An oracle might predict you'll enjoy this UNESCO-approved archaeological site in Greece
    $200 30
To conceal the existence of new radar tech, the U.K. government spread a myth that eating these improved pilot eyesight
    $200 23
Family-wealthy Delaware governor Pete Du Pont once used "Joe" this beer purchase to mean the typical voter in his state
    $200 25
It's still around online:
Bed Bath & ____
    $200 28
This prequel to "Monsters, Inc." shows how Mike & Sully met in school & became unlikely friends
    $200 29
November 9, 1918:
This deposed leader leaves Germany & seeks asylum in the Netherlands, where he remains until his death
    $400 21
The Cu Chi Tunnels in this country are still there & a tourist site despite Operation Crimp, an attempt to destroy them
    $400 24
The crunchy green stalks of this parsley cousin are what we usually eat, though the seeds can add flavor to soups & pickles
    $400 20
From Latin for "producers of offspring", this class was tasked with makin' babies; later, Marx tasked them with revolution
    $400 15
Tennis umpire's traditional concluding announcement:
"game, set, ____"
    $400 27
A film subtitled "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" takes place 64 years prior to the other four films in this series
    $400 26
October 4, 1883:
This train leaves Paris on its maiden journey, bound for Constantinople; no one aboard is murdered
    $600 1
10,000 worshipers can fit into the prayer hall of the Abuja National one of these in Nigeria
    $600 14
These peppery root vegetables in the mustard family are low in calories & a favorite food of Fraggles
    DD: $4,400 7
This word for the rabble is classified 4F; Fs are half its letters
    $600 6
Freud's 3 personality components:
id, ego & ____
    $600 9
Set amongst Comanches in the Great Plains, this prequel to "Predator" takes place in the early 1700s
    $600 16
Oct. 31, 1967:
This royal lady departs on her last ocean voyage, leaving Southampton & docking in Long Beach
    $800 4
Oh dam! Oh dam! Oh dam! Construction of this 600' tall dam just west of Yichang began in 1994 & its reservoir may have caused earthquakes
    $800 3
In "Big" Tom Hanks comically chewed the kernels off this, which is eaten whole, not off the cob
    $800 2
After Occupy Wall Street's 1-year anniversary, Tom Morello co-wrote a song called "We Are" this numerical group
    $800 5
Dumas' 3 Musketeers:
Athos, Aramis & ____
    $800 8
"Puss in Boots", with this actor voicing the title feline, was a spin-off of "Shrek 2", as well as a prequel
    $800 17
November 14, 1889:
This journalist leaves New York to break a record set by Phileas Fogg (who's fictional, BTW)
    $1000 13
The totem poles at Brockton Point are an attraction in this Canadian province
    $1000 19
This tuber with a name beginning with "J" is also known as the Mexican turnip & packs a watery crunch
    $1000 12
An Emma Lazarus poem includes the line "Give me your tired, your poor, your" these "yearning to breathe free"
    $1000 11
Bones of the ear:
malleus, incus & ____
    $1000 10
A prequel to "The Mummy", this film gave Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson his first starring role
    $1000 18
October 10, 1973:
This former governor of Maryland takes leave of the vice presidency, though not by choice

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

Dargan Elyse Tom
$1,200 $600 $12,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$3,800 $600 $15,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE PRESIDENT'S PRESENTS
CELEBRITIES
STARTS WITH A DOUBLED VOWEL
SCIENCE
IN DA CLUB
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
    $400 21
In an 1861 letter, King Mongkut of Siam offered the prez a herd of these animals described as having "great size & strength"
    $400 1
She found success in "Ray" & "She Hate Me" before a bout of "Scandal"
    $400 27
This interjection used when making a mistake means the same thing when you add "WH" to the front of it
    $400 28
The pineal gland in the brain secretes this "sleep hormone" into the fluid around the brain & spinal cord
    $400 29
This "Club" known for all-inclusive vacation packages got its start on islands around the body of water it's named for
    $400 30
Dantès is thrown into the water inside of a burial shroud before finding treasure on an uninhabited island in this novel
    $800 20
A remark by this first lady about a panda logo to Zhou Enlai led to Ling Ling & Hsing Hsing being a thing thing in D.C.
    $800 2
At "SNL50: The Anniversary Special" this pop star told Paul Simon that she wasn't alive in 1976 & joked her parents weren't either
    $800 24
Some think this animal was a basis for depictions of the Egyptian god Set
    $800 12
Beavers, wolves & ochre sea stars are examples of this ecological niche named for an important element in an arch
    $800 25
Cannon Club, Cap & Gown & Tiger Inn are among the eating clubs at this Ivy League school
    $800 26
In this novel by Twain & Warner that lent its name to a time period, the Hawkins fam tries to get rich by hook or by crook
    $1200 9
In the '90s, the prez of Indonesia gave George H.W. Bush one of these monitor lizards with toxic saliva; Bush gave it to a zoo
    $1200 13
Characters played by this actress include Maria, Anthea & Snow White
    $1200 6
This adjective comes before "Moan" in the name of a Duke Ellington piece
    $1200 5
It does take a rocket scientist to calculate this minimum speed required to break free from a planet's gravity
    DD: $9,000 15
Founded in 1892, it originally focused on the conservation of some of California's mountains
    DD: $8,600 14
Harry Jones is a grifter after a payday who takes an interminable doze in this work, Philip Marlowe's 1st full-length appearance
    $1600 10
Received in 1880, the president's Resolute Desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to this sitting president
    $1600 22
In 2019 this Oscar-winning British actress curated a photography exhibition called "Orlando"
    $1600 3
A cell from which an ovum develops
    $1600 4
The day honoring this unit of measure in chemistry is celebrated on October 23, since Avogadro's number is 6.02 times 1023
    $1600 16
You went down 18 stone steps to enter this club, the home of The Beatles, at 10 Matthew Street in Liverpool
    $1600 18
A couple die trying to keep a briefcase chock full of cash from a drug deal gone bad in this novel by Cormac McCarthy
    $2000 11
After the 1943 conference of this coastal city, Winston Churchill painted a mosque in Marrakesh & gifted the work to FDR
    $2000 23
It's the B-H-heavy alliterative stage name of Danielle Bregoli, the "Cash Me Outside" girl
    $2000 8
In French, this city of Western Germany is known as Aix-la-Chapelle
    $2000 7
Chemists know that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of this, the solid sediment that falls out of solution
    $2000 17
The musical "Cabaret" welcomes you to this club in Berlin
    $2000 19
In "Double Indemnity" by this author, Walter Huff thinks an accidental death insurance policy can result in a true daily double

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$31,800 $1,000 $27,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A.
When area codes were introduced, 3 very populous areas got the ones quickest to dial: these 3 codes

Final scores:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$8,600 $1,000 $22,599
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $22,599

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$16,600 $1,000 $23,400
21 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 4 R,
2 W		 30 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $41,000

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Game tape date: 2025-09-16
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