Responses for Show #9395 - Friday, September 19, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 8.
Steven Olson game 1.

Contestants

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Hebah Uddin, a social media moderator and Ph.D. candidate originally from Long Island, New York

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 7-day cash winnings total $195,717)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. TERRITORIES
QUICK CHEM
FROM THE VIDEO GAME MANUAL
ANCIENT EATING
SWAP A LETTER
BROADWAY
    $200 29
(Amelia) Earhart

Steven
    $200 28
half-life

Steven
    $200 3
Tetris

Steven
    $200 23
(Steven: What's... soup?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
...
(Ken: It is, in fact, [*]; yeah, 2000 years old.)

chicken soup

Steven
    $200 25
couch (from coach)

Steven
    $200 30
Iago

Paolo
    $400 22
a crab

Hebah
    $400 24
soap

Steven
    $400 27
Oregon Trail

Steven
    $400 18
fish

Steven
    $400 21
Nerf (from Nero)

Steven
    $400 20
(Ken: You are correct, sir.)

Aaron Burr

Paolo
    $600 16
(Hebah: What is Yugoslavia?)

South Vietnam

StevenHebah
    $600 5
a cathode

Paolo
    $600 13
Mortal Kombat

Paolo
    $600 12
a fig

Hebah
    $600 11
(Steven: What's... nail?)

collar (from dollar)

PaoloSteven
    $600 7
(Ken: Does not look much like The Music Man, that's true.)
[Laughter]

Indiana

Steven
    $800 4
(Greater) Antilles

Steven
    $800 9
ionic

Paolo
    $800 19
Red Dead Redemption

Steven
    $800 14
lentils

Steven
    $800 2
a talon (from salon)

Hebah
    $800 1
Anastasia

Paolo
    $1000 8
(Steven: What's... Solomon?)

the Northern Mariana Islands

Steven
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 15
cobalt

Steven
    $1000 17
(Paolo: What is GoldenEye?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Paolo: James Bond: GoldenEye?)
...
(Steven: What's 007 GoldenEye?)
...
(Ken: This pains me because you were so close--GoldenEye is the movie; the game is [*].)

GoldenEye 007

PaoloSteven
Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
nettles

Paolo
    $1000 10
gout (from pout)

Paolo
    $1000 6
Hadestown

Hebah

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

Paolo Steven Hebah
$4,400 $1,800 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$5,000 $4,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE BRONZE AGE
VILLAINS IN LIT
14-LETTER WORDS
LET'S GO TO THE PARK
ALBUM TITLE ADJECTIVES
YOUR PRIME NUMBER'S UP
    $400 30
Hammurabi

Steven
    $400 1
Moriarty

Steven
    $400 29
philanthropist

Hebah
    $400 24
(Steven: What's... lynchings?)

duels

PaoloSteven
    $400 28
Pink

Paolo
    $400 27
2 & 11

Paolo
    $800 10
(Steven: What's... Persepolis?)

Babylon

Steven
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
Grendel

Steven
    $800 17
Worcestershire

Hebah
    $800 23
T-Mobile

Hebah
    $800 25
Random

Steven
    $800 26
five

Paolo
    $1200 2
Iberian

Steven
    $1200 5
(Ken: From Uncle Tom's Cabin, that's [*].)

Simon Legree

Triple Stumper
    $1200 7
circumlocution

Paolo
    $1200 18
Ginza

Paolo
    $1200 22
Slippery

Steven
    $1200 12
(Ken: What is [*]? Barry Bonds.)

73

Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
(Hebah: What are the... Hittites?)

Sea Peoples

Hebah
Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Patrick) Bateman

Steven
    $1600 8
homogenization

Steven
    $4,000 6
(Ken: You're in the lead over a 7-game champ, which is what you want to see if you're Steven--what do you want to wager here?)
...
(Ken: Steven?)
...
(Ken: You don't sound sure, but that is it.)

Giraffic Park

Steven
    $1600 19
(Paolo: What is Magic?)
...
(Ken: Right idea, but that album is called [*] Kingdom.)

Tragic

Paolo
Triple Stumper
    $1600 15
313

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
the Cyclades

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
(Steven: What's... Doctor Norrell?)

Mr. Norrell

StevenHebah
    $2000 11
Zoroastrianism

Steven
    $2000 21
the Delacorte

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
(Ken: [*] Poets Department, yes.)

tortured

Paolo
    $2,000 16
(Ken: Steven?)

97

Steven

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$9,800 $17,400 $4,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SLOGANS
(Ken: [To Hebah] They are nice, but it's not Canada.)
...
(Ken: [To Paolo] Yes, it's a Borat reference, very nice.)
...
(Ken: Paolo will be back for the Tournament of Champions. But, Steven, you'll be back on Monday as our champion. Well done. Have a great weekend. We'll see you Monday.)
HebahWhat is Canada? (Hi Mom! Hi Aunt Jill!)
$2,000
PaoloWhat is Kazakhstan? (i liiiiike!)
$7,601
StevenWhat... Kazakhstan?
$2,202
Kazakhstan

Final scores:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$17,401 $19,602 $2,600
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $19,602 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Paolo Steven Hebah
$9,800 $15,000 $4,600
16 R,
2 W		 26 R
(including 3 DDs),
6 W		 8 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $29,400

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Game tape date: 2025-08-07
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