Responses for Show #9330 - Friday, May 9, 2025

Contestants

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Zach Dickstein, a cafe manager from Chicago, Illinois

Kara Peruccio, a university professor from Bangor, Maine

Dan Moren, a writer and podcaster from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,500)

Jeopardy! Round responses

OUR NEANDERTHAL RELATIVES
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
THERE'S A BIRD IN YOUR RESPONSE
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
PICK A NICK
BASKETS
    $200 24
caveman

Triple Stumper
    $200 20
stop

Dan
    $200 23
escrow

Zach
    $200 19
paintball

Triple Stumper
    $200 26
(Nick) Carraway

Dan
    $200 25
the Slam Dunk Contest

Dan
    $400 21
spears

Kara
    $400 6
the recycling sign

Kara
    $400 22
Brooklyn

Dan
    $400 30
a pizza stone

Dan
    $400 9
(Nick) Hornby

Kara
    $400 15
(Kara: What is a bank shot?)

a layup

DanKara
    $600 27
speak

Triple Stumper
    $600 3
the golden calf

Dan
    $600 11
a saloon

Kara
    $600 1
Sportfishing

Triple Stumper
    $600 7
Nick Park

Dan
    $600 16
the Harlem Globetrotters

Kara
    $800 28
Darwin

Dan
    $1,000 4
pomegranate

Dan
    $800 12
(Dan: What is gulled?)

gullible

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
(Ken: So far, we're not having much fun, I have to say.)
[Laughter]

Holiday World

Triple Stumper
    $800 8
Nick Bottom

Dan
    $800 14
(Kara: What is a grandma?)

granny style (a granny shot)

KaraZach
    $1000 29
(Ken: Yeah, it's the Neanderthals' fault.)

diabetes

Dan
    $1000 5
the Eye of Horus

Dan
    $1000 13
scowl

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
the Texas two-step

Zach
    $1000 10
(Ken: Hemingway wrote a lot of stories about [*].)

Nick Adams

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
the skyhook

Kara

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

Dan Kara Zach
$3,600 $200 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Kara Zach
$6,800 $2,200 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

QUEEN STORY HOUR
AMERICANA
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
ISLANDS
THE 1913 ARMORY SHOW
PROPERTY WATCHING
    $400 29
Marie Antoinette

Kara
    $400 30
(Zach: What is Cooperstown?)
...
(Ken: Pickett's Charge happened at the Battle of [*].)

Gettysburg

Zach
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
vocabulary

Dan
    $400 1
Crete

Dan
    $400 28
Cubism

Kara
    $400 23
This Old House

Dan
    $800 11
Queen Victoria

Kara
    $800 7
(Kara: Who is Blackbeard?)

Jean Lafitte

Kara
Triple Stumper
    $800 5
a euphemism

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
(Dan: What is Elba?)

St. Helena

DanKara
    $800 24
Jack the Ripper

Dan
    $800 22
Queer Eye

Kara
    $1200 14
Jordan

Dan
    $1200 8
(Wyatt) Earp

Dan
    $1200 2
(Zach: What is corporate jargon?)

buzzwords

DanZach
    $1200 16
(Ken: Now it's time for [*].)

Portugal

Dan
    $1,500 25
(Dan: Who is... Renoir?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry, if the painting sounded Tahitian that's because it is; [*] was the right painter.)

Paul Gauguin

Dan
    $1200 19
Maine

Kara
    $1600 13
(Dan: What is Portugal?)
...
(That's correct, she married Ferdinand.)

Aragon

DanKara
    $1600 9
the hearts of his countrymen

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 3
(Dan: What is redacted?)

expletive

Dan
    $1600 17
(Zach: What is Easter Island?)

Guam

KaraZach
    $1600 26
Seurat

Kara
    $1600 20
Marie Kondo

Kara
    $2000 12
(Kara: Who is Queen Anne?)
...
(Ken: She was queen all the way through World War II and after--[*].)

Wilhelmina

Kara
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
(Ken: This might be tough even for New Yorkers; they're [*]. I don't know which is which.)

Patience & Fortitude

Triple Stumper
    $2000 4
(Dan: What is coin? [*]?)
(Ken: [*] is correct for $2,000.)

coinage

Dan
    $2000 18
(Dan: What is Indonesia?)

the Greater Sunda Islands

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $2000 27
(Ken: They weren't actually mad about the steps.)

Nude Descending a Staircase

Triple Stumper
    $2000 21
(Dan: What is... beadboard?)

shiplap

DanKara

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Kara Zach
$5,700 $12,200 -$1,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY NARRATORS
(Ken: [To Dan] It is Italian, I'm afraid that's not the right work, Dan.)
...
(Ken: [To Kara] Ten narrators, which is where [*] gets its name--by Boccaccio.)
DanWhat is Inferno?
$5,600
KaraWhat is the Decameron?
$200
The Decameron

Final scores:

Dan Kara Zach
$100 $12,400 -$1,200
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $12,400 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dan Kara Zach
$9,000 $12,200 -$1,200
22 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
(including 2 DDs)		 17 R,
4 W		 3 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $20,000

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Game tape date: 2025-03-10
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