Responses for Show #9394 - Thursday, September 18, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 7.

Contestants

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Kelly Anneken, a content designer from Alameda, California

Greg Shipman, a geoscience cartographer from Houston, Texas

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 6-day cash winnings total $162,117)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

KENTUCKY HISTORY
'80s WORDS IN THE OED
COMMUNICATION INFORMATION
"LITTLE" "BLACK" BOOKS
(Ken: Each response will contain either "Little" or "Black".)
A BASKET OF CLUES
SKETCHY CHARACTERS
    $200 25
Fort Knox

Paolo
    $200 26
yuppies

Greg
    $200 27
Morse code

Kelly
    $200 28
Little Women

Paolo
    $200 29
Lent

Paolo
    $200 30
A.A. Ron

Greg
    $4,600 20
(Ken: [*] is correct, yes. They were the Kentucky side of the feud.)

McCoy

Greg
    $400 21
Pac-Man

Paolo
    $400 22
(Paolo: What is sign language?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

ASL

Paolo
    $400 23
Black Beauty

Paolo
    $400 24
gondola

Paolo
    $400 18
PBS

Kelly
    $600 11
Colonel Sanders

Paolo
    $600 3
a scrunchie

Kelly
    $600 7
(Ken: [*] takes me back.)

a (dial-up) modem

Greg
    $600 19
(Ken: Based on the real case, yeah.)

The Black Dahlia

Greg
    $600 15
(Kelly: What is Hinduism?)

Buddhism

PaoloKelly
    $600 4
the Spanish Inquisition

Greg
    $800 5
hemp

Greg
    $800 2
(Ken: It was a simpler time, that's [*], yes, it came to Greg too late.)

the Lambada

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
(Paolo: What was [*]?)

Skype

Paolo
    $800 1
Little Fires Everywhere

Paolo
    $800 8
eggs in one basket

Paolo
    $800 17
Chris Farley

Kelly
    $1000 16
(Henry) Clay

Greg
    $1000 10
a thirtysomething

Greg
    $1000 12
Navajo

Kelly
    $1000 14
A Million Little Pieces

Paolo
    $1000 9
(Kelly: What's a starfish?)

the echinoderms

Kelly
Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
Tim Robinson

Paolo

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

Paolo Greg Kelly
$5,600 $3,000 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$7,800 $9,600 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
FIRST NAMES
IN THEORY
SAX TRACKS
GENDERED LANGUAGE?
(Ken: Each response here will begin with a gender-signifying word.)
SKETCHY CHARACTERS
    $400 28
(Greg: Uh, [*]--what is [*]?)

Sofia

Greg
    $400 29
(Ken: Yes, after King Charles.)

Princess Charlotte

Kelly
    $400 17
Freud

Paolo
    $400 30
Kenny G

Paolo
    $400 15
a ladybug

Kelly
    $400 16
a pencil

Kelly
    $800 26
Mexico City

Greg
    $800 25
Violet

Paolo
    $800 27
the domino theory

Greg
    $800 22
Wham!

Paolo
    $800 24
a mandate

Kelly
    $800 20
Doonesbury

Paolo
    $5,100 3
Nicaragua & Managua

Paolo
    $1200 4
Sinéad

Paolo
    $1200 5
theory of everything

Kelly
    $1200 18
the Pink Panther

Paolo
    $1200 7
Herculaneum

Triple Stumper
    $1200 10
(Greg: Who's Leonardo?)
(Kelly: Who is da Vinci?)
...
(Ken: It is a Turtle, but it's [*]. Paolo.)

Raphael

GregKelly
Triple Stumper
    $1600 12
Muscat

Paolo
    $2,000 1
(Ken: Yes, Bram Stoker, very nice.)

Abraham

Kelly
    $1600 8
germ theory

Kelly
    $1600 19
Duran Duran

Kelly
    $1600 6
Mombasa

Paolo
    $1600 9
R. Crumb

Paolo
    $2000 13
(Ken: In Nigeria, good for $2,000.)

Abuja

Paolo
    $2000 2
Mateo

Paolo
    $2000 14
Locke

Kelly
    $2000 21
Men at Work

Greg
    $2000 23
the boyars

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
(Kelly: Who is Samson?)
...
(Ken: Of lion den fame, yes.)

Daniel

PaoloKelly

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$29,300 $12,400 $8,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AWARD WINNERS
(Ken: [To Greg] He wrote and narrated that Dear Basketball short.)
KellyWho is Lance Armstrong
$4,801
GregWho is Kobe Bryant Hi Leon! Jenn! #PAXNE
$4,801
PaoloWho is Kobe Bryant?
$4,300
Kobe Bryant

Final scores:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$33,600 $17,201 $3,799
7-day champion: $195,717 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Paolo Greg Kelly
$25,400 $8,200 $8,200
28 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $41,800

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Game tape date: 2025-08-07
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