Show #9422 - Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Contestants

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Alan Turner, a peanut butter artisan from Rohnert Park, California

Cynthia Appiah, an Olympic bobsledder from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aaron Levine, a sports anchor from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
LOCKS & KEYS
THE NAME BEHIND THE MIDDLE INITIAL
(Ken: And in this category we'll need the first and last name in each response.)
A NOVEL SETTING
DEATH? NO, THANK YOU! (MOVIE EDITION)
LET'S SPEAK CANADIAN
    $200 30
Not that long ago in our galaxy, President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was commonly called this
    $200 9
The old design here is sometimes called this kind of man's lock, as the key could still be guided to the hole after a few pints
    $200 12
Bakarl:
Actor named after his father, not the Chicago Bull
    $200 14
Dany says, "'My speech may be Tyroshi, and my garb Dothraki, but I am of" this continent, "of the Sunset Kingdoms"'
    $200 15
Kylo Ren throws the kitchen sink of weaponry at this character, but as the dust settles, he just flicks some off his shoulder, NBD
    $200 21
Gotta stop by Tim Hortons & pick up a double-double, coffee with 2 servings of each of these
    $400 8
Heading out on the Oregon Trail? Grab a prairie schooner in Independence in this Midwest state
    $400 10
After singer Connie Francis was attacked in a hotel room, a fan designed a now-standard type of door lock with this for a key
    $400 25
Brownell:
A major figure in the women's suffrage movement
    $400 7
"Do you stand there, Scarlett O'Hara, and tell me that" this place--"that land--doesn't amount to anything?"
    $400 16
After countless TV deaths--okay, we chose not to count 'em all--he made another comeback on the big screen
    $400 22
Molson muscle is synonymous with this other alliterative anatomical feature you might develop from drinking too much Molson
    DD: $1,800 3
He made his fortune selling gear to miners in California, expanded it with railroads & founded a university
    $600 11
These moveable lock parts that must be aligned can be in the form of pins, discs, wafers or levers
    $600 26
Gamaliel:
Ohioan who won the presidency with a front porch campaign
    $600 6
In "A Confederacy of Dunces", "There may be a few costumes. That's what's so wonderful about" this city
    $600 18
This character died at the end of the second film of a franchise, but luckily for him, film 3 was "The Search for" him
    $600 23
A type of flat, sweet pastry is a "tail" of this very Canadian animal
    $800 1
"One of those uncommon geniuses", said William Henry Harrison of this Shawnee chief whose people he defeated at Tippecanoe
    $800 27
You might remember this company's black-faced 1500 series combination padlock hanging from your high school locker
    $800 13
Stockton:
Gonzo journalist & counterculture author
    $800 4
Jack Torrance learns "one reason" this hotel "lost so much money lies in the depreciation that occurs each winter"; yup, that's 1 reason
    $800 19
Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch shook off death with a big, new blue body in this 2022 sequel
    $800 29
A bunny hug is this garment, with hood attached
    $1000 2
Frances Perkins first worked for FDR when he was governor of N.Y.; in 1933, he appointed her secretary of this department
    $1000 28
From French, it's the term for a lock that's recessed inside a door, as well as for the pocket in which it's installed
    $1000 17
Blount:
Director of close-up & wide shots in epic films
    $1000 5
Her last novel, 1940's "Sapphira and the Slave Girl", is set in Virginia, not frontier Nebraska
    $1000 20
This mask-wearing maniac of many films has been killed by Tommy Jarvis, obliterated by the FBI & sent to hell by his niece
    $1000 24
A coupe longueuil is this fashionable(?) look, commerce in the front & fête in the back

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

Aaron Cynthia Alan
$5,800 $0 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Aaron Cynthia Alan
$8,400 $1,200 $7,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

SEAS THE DAY
PUBLISHING PROS
SIGNIFICANT MOTHERS
GEOLOGY
POP GOES THE MUSIC
"AP" EXAM
    $400 30
Who's a good sea? You are! Yes, you are! You, being this sea between the same-named Canadian peninsula & Greenland
    $400 29
A relative of Abner, Frank, with this last name famous in publishing, was given the nickname "Effendi" by Rudyard Kipling
    $400 28
At one time a & an outcast, Höelün survived to raise this son to become the greatest conqueror of early 13th century Asia
    $400 27
In the strike-slip type of these in the earth's crust, the 2 sides slide horizontally against each other
    $400 24
In 2012 she was rolling in the Grammys with 6 wins including Album of the Year, Record of the Year & Song of the Year
    $400 22
Artemis is his twin sister
    $800 5
This "colorful" sea, an inlet of the Barents Sea, is called Beloye More in Russian
    $800 23
Founded in 1913, this Ivy League press has put out books like Stephen Jay Gould's "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory"
    $800 20
The woman seen here was mom to this artist who immortalized her in an 1871 painting
    $800 19
Made up of material ranging from boulders to sand, a moraine is debris carried & deposited by one of these masses over time
    $800 26
Michelle Pfeiffer was incredibly flattered to be namechecked in this hit, Billboard's Hot 100 No. 1 song of the 2010s
    $800 18
It's the end of the world as we know it
    $1200 3
The western part of the Tyrrhenian Sea is bounded by Corsica & this larger Italian island, about 7 miles south
    $1200 9
"Sin City" & "Hellboy" are offerings from this "equine" comic book publisher
    $1200 8
Rajiv & Sanjay, the sons of this politician, became politicians too
    $1200 11
About 45% of the terrestrial globe is these flat, elevated landforms that can be formed by plate shifts or by volcanoes
    $1200 1
"Since U Been Gone" & "Walk Away" are hits off her "Breakaway" album
    $1200 14
These plant pests are a favorite food of spiders & ladybugs
    $1600 2
Major ports in this Balkan nation include Sarandë on the Ionian Sea & Durrës on the Adriatic
    DD: $4,000 12
In an unpredictable move, this publisher merged with Penguin in 2013
    $1600 7
His first wife, Maria, gave birth to 7 of his 20 children, including Wilhelm Friedemann & Johann Gottfried Bernhard
    $1600 6
This extension of the sea floor at the edge of a land mass averages 40 miles in width but stretches to 930 miles off Siberia
    $1600 25
We hope Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes had the time of their lives recording "The Time Of My Life" for this film
    $1600 16
It can mean a lack of interest, indifference or a lack of feelings
    $2000 4
See this sea? Its Tubbataha Reefs were made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993; now respond at warp factor 2
    $2000 15
It's not Dunder but this name that comes before Mifflin Harcourt in the name of a publishing house
    DD: $6,000 10
Catherine of Aragon was the youngest daughter of this royal mom
    $2000 13
From the Greek for "fire", this deadly flow of gas & lava exploding away from a volcano can propel ash over 100 miles per hour
    $2000 21
She's the songwriter behind such hits as "If I Could Turn Back Time" & "How Do I Live"
    $2000 17
It's an old term for a stroke, but it can also mean extreme anger

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Aaron Cynthia Alan
$15,200 $2,400 $11,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

BRAND NAMES
This brand got its name in 1940 after a distillery executive took friends on a hunting trip

Final scores:

Aaron Cynthia Alan
$8,399 $100 $7,000
2-day champion: $28,999 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Aaron Cynthia Alan
$17,600 $2,400 $11,000
21 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 6 R,
3 W		 21 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $31,000

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Game tape date: 2025-09-17
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