Responses for Show #9393 - Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 6.

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Laura Mixter, a director of impact measurement and management from Chicago, Illinois

Max Miller, a college counselor from Astoria, New York

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $134,516)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORDS FOR CITY FOLK
I WROTE THAT FOR CHILDREN!
(Ken: You name the author.)
TRIPLES
EARLY ROLES
BEASTLY ENDINGS
(Ken: Each response here will end with an animal.)
HAWAIʻI AS IT WAS
(Jason: Aloha, I'm Jason Momoa. I co-wrote and star in Chief of War, and I'll have clues about the incredible time it depicts in Hawai'i's past.)
    $200 27
Boston

Paolo
    $200 28
(Lewis) Carroll

Laura
    $200 29
a cosmo

Paolo
    $200 26
The X-Files

Paolo
    $200 30
a newsreel

Paolo
    $200 25
(Ken: Our thanks to Jason, Chief of War is streaming now on Apple TV+.)

Waikiki

Laura
    $3,800 21
(Ken: Max?)
(Max: No, nothing.)
(Ken: It's a shame--Weegie short for Glaswegian, from [*].)

Glasgow

Max
    $400 17
(Ken: Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose brought to us by [*].)

Dr. Seuss

Triple Stumper
    $400 23
a waltz

Max
    $400 18
(Laura: What is Sex and the City?)
...
(Ken: It's where a lot of actors get their start--[*].)

Law & Order

Laura
Triple Stumper
    $400 13
a blotter

Laura
    $400 14
(Ken: That's right, those are birds.)

feathers

Max
    $600 8
Pittsburgh

Paolo
    $600 6
(E.B.) White

Paolo
    $600 1
A Christmas Story

Paolo
    $600 19
Animal House

Max
    $600 2
landscape

Paolo
    $600 20
Kauaʻi

Triple Stumper
    $800 9
Burkina Faso

Paolo
    $800 7
Barrie

Max
    $800 5
(Ken: They're eventual allies in the war--[*].)
[ERRATUM: Contra Ken’s comment, Italy left the Triple Alliance in WWI, joining the Allies instead.]

Italy & Germany

Triple Stumper
    $800 12
Sandra Bullock

Laura
    $800 3
a ziggurat

Paolo
    $800 15
(Ken: That's correct, and I hate to interrupt you three, and, of course, Jason Momoa, who could really hurt me, but we have to take a break.)

Kamehameha

Paolo
    $1000 11
Tapatio

Max
    $1000 10
(Ken: That's right, Dorothy's arrival in Oz.)

Baum

Max
    $1000 16
Libya

Laura
    $1000 22
Amanda Seyfried

Triple Stumper
    $1000 4
a doubloon

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
Pele

Paolo

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

Paolo Max Laura
$4,800 $3,200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Max Laura
$6,600 $400 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

OUR CRUSTY EARTH
PROFESSORS
UNUSUAL WORDS
THE 1975...
THE FALL
(Ken: And appropriately enough...)
BANDS BIGGER IN BRITAIN
    $400 28
(Ken: It is [*]--you guessed right.)

continental

Paolo
    $400 29
(Ken: Yeah, they made a movie about it.)

Oppenheimer

Max
    $400 30
gluttony

Laura
    $400 12
Portugal

Paolo
    $400 15
Paradise Lost

Paolo
    $400 18
Nirvana

Paolo
    $800 27
sedimentary

Paolo
    $800 26
(Paolo: [Sighs] No, I don't have it.)

(Madeleine) Albright

PaoloMax
    $800 25
lollygag

Paolo
    $800 8
Fenway

Max
    $800 13
Icarus

Paolo
    $800 19
ska

Laura
    $1200 2
Russia

Triple Stumper
    $1200 6
(Ken: Famous writer and lepidopterist [*].)

Vladimir Nabokov

Triple Stumper
    $1200 24
troglodyte

Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
the Suez Canal

Paolo
    $1200 5
Ziggy Stardust

Paolo
    $1200 20
(Ken: Lead singer for [*].)

Blur

Triple Stumper
    $1600 16
(Paolo: What is seismology?)

tectonic plate theory (plate tectonics)

PaoloLaura
    $1600 7
Chomsky

Laura
    $2,000 3
a nebulizer

Max
    $1600 11
Thatcher

Laura
    $1600 10
Teapot Dome

Laura
    $1600 1
(Ken: They're certainly bigger in Britain than they are here today--who is [*]?)

Pulp

Triple Stumper
    $2000 23
orogeny

Paolo
    $2000 9
(Cornel) West

Paolo
    $2000 22
hegemonic (hegemony)

Max
    $2,000 17
climb Mount Everest

Laura
    $2000 14
the Roman Empire

Laura
    $2000 21
Robbie Williams

Paolo

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Max Laura
$16,600 $6,400 $13,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NOVELS
(Ken: [To Max] Yes, the green light that Gatsby looks at.)
...
(Ken: [To Laura] What did she bet? $600, small bet from second place, smart.)
MaxWhat is The Great Gatsby?
$795
LauraWhat is The Great Gatsby
$600
PaoloWhat is The Great Gatsby? ♡FD
$11,001
The Great Gatsby

Final scores:

Paolo Max Laura
$27,601 $7,195 $14,400
6-day champion: $162,117 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Paolo Max Laura
$16,600 $9,800 $13,800
24 R,
2 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $40,200

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Game tape date: 2025-08-07
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