Responses for Show #9398 - Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Steven Olson game 4.

Contestants

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Jaedon Jerue, a 7th grade math teacher from Danville, Illinois

Natalie Shapero, an English professor from Los Angeles, California

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $57,089)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A PHRASE IN HISTORY
COUNTRY MUSIC
4-LETTER HOMOPHONES
STREET SMARTS
FELLAS IN NOVELLAS
(Ken: Oh, what a tour for us...)
STEWS OF THE WORLD
    $200 30
democracy

Steven
    $200 29
Jolene

Natalie
    $200 28
rows/rose

Steven
    $200 26
Harlem

Steven
    $200 25
a mouse

Jaedon
    $200 27
chili

Jaedon
    $400 14
honor

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Carrie Underwood

Jaedon
    $400 6
days/daze

Jaedon
    $400 15
French Quarter

Steven
    $400 7
Carmen

Steven
    $400 19
rabbit

Steven
    $1,000 2
gold

Steven
    $600 20
(Ken: Oh, what a shame, that's the great [*].)

Kris Kristofferson

Triple Stumper
    $600 5
fare/fair

Natalie
    $600 16
Beale

Steven
    $600 9
the Stranger

Steven
    $600 10
goulash

Natalie
    $800 1
the (battering) ram

Steven
    $800 24
on the road again

Steven
    $800 4
roam/Rome

Natalie
    $800 8
Harvard (Square)

Natalie
    $800 11
(Steven: What's The Black Pearl?)

The Pearl

StevenNatalie
    $800 21
ropa vieja

Natalie
    $1000 13
the king is dead, long live the king

Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
Chris Stapleton

Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
flew/flue

Steven
    $1000 18
Fremont (Street)

Steven
    $1000 12
(Ken: The Death of [*], you got it.)

Ivan Ilyich

Jaedon
    $1000 22
(Natalie: What's Korea?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

South Korea

Natalie

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

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$3,400 $3,600 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$6,800 $5,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GEOGRAPHIC NAME GAME
"V"OCABULARY
FILMS OUT OF HISTORY
ON THE SILK ROAD
MARINE BIOLOGY
DO YOU LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY?
    $400 24
Sahara

Jaedon
    $400 22
vermin

Natalie
    $400 28
[The strokes in "Władysław" were not shown in the clue.]

The Pianist

Natalie
    $400 27
Marco Polo

Steven
    $400 26
(Steven: What's [*], or [**]?)

nori (seaweed)

Steven
    $400 30
a tripod

Steven
    $800 21
(Ken: That's right, it used to be Bahía de Manteca.)

Montego

Steven
    $800 11
vestibule

Steven
    $800 19
Selma

Steven
    $800 15
Pompeii

Jaedon
    $800 20
hippo

Steven
    $800 29
(Jaedon: Bring it.)

silver

Jaedon
    $1200 1
Mauritius

Steven
    $1200 8
vanquish (from vanish)

Steven
    $1200 16
Zero Dark Thirty

Jaedon
    $1200 6
(Jaedon: What is Hindu Kush?)

Karakorum

StevenJaedon
    $1200 9
manatee

Steven
    $1200 12
single lens reflex

Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
(Steven: What's... Cherbourg?)
(Jaeson: What is Manchester?)
...
(Ken: It is on the French side but it's [*].)

Le Havre

StevenJaedon
Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
viscous

Steven
    $1600 17
Dunkirk

Natalie
    $1600 2
Uzbekistan

Jaedon
    $1600 10
oysters

Steven
    $1600 25
aperture

Steven
    $2,200 4
Tierra del Fuego

Jaedon
    $4,000 14
(Steven: What's... vascular?)

vasodilator

Steven
    $2000 18
Lawrence of Arabia

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
"Tamerlane"

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
the sergeant-major

Triple Stumper
    $2000 23
Daguerre

Steven

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$17,200 $8,000 $6,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 21st CENTURY
(Ken: [To Jaedon] That would be great if that's how the email ended; let's set up some peaceful barricades and "Love you, Mom". I'm afraid that's a great sentiment, not correct for this clue.)
...
(Ken: [To Natalie] The email from Adbusters ended [*].)
JaedonWhat is "Love you, Mom"
$1,601
NatalieWhat is occupy Wall Street
$6,000
StevenWhat is... Occupy Wall Street Hi Megan ♡
$93
occupy Wall Street

Final scores:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$17,293 $14,000 $4,799
4-day champion: $74,382 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$20,800 $8,000 $6,200
28 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
0 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $35,000

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Game tape date: 2025-08-08
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