Responses for Show #9399 - Thursday, September 25, 2025

Steven Olson game 5.

Contestants

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Vickie Talvola, a quantitative trader from Jersey City, New Jersey

Erik Nielsen, a substitute teacher from Hollywood, California

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 4-day cash winnings total $74,382)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PORT IS IN SESSION
SONG LYRICS OF THE AUGHTS
PRISONS
COOKING WITH CAYENNE
BOOK CHARACTER INSPO
FOREIGN BODIES
    $200 30
Miami

Vickie
    $200 14
under my umbrella

Vickie
    $200 29
(Steven: What's [**]?)
(Ken: Yes, we'll take that--[*].)

Women (Woman)

Steven
    $200 22
Nashville

Erik
    $200 23
Christopher Robin

Steven
    $200 26
hand-to-hand

Erik
    $400 27
fishing

Vickie
    $400 13
"Hey Ya!"

Erik
    $400 28
El Salvador

Vickie
    $400 20
pineapple

Vickie
    $400 21
Les Misérables

Vickie
    $400 25
knees

Erik
    $600 6
Herod

Steven
    $600 12
complicated

Erik
    $600 7
Joliet

Steven
    $600 19
Frank's

Vickie
    $1,000 2
Trotsky

Steven
    $600 24
(Ken: Yeah, he was a [*]er monster.)

the head

Erik
    $800 1
container

Steven
    $800 11
(Steven: What's... "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi"?)
...
(Ken: Right song, but that is the title, Erik, well done.)

"Lady Marmalade"

StevenErik
    $800 8
Attica

Erik
    $800 18
dry rub

Erik
    $800 4
Pippi Longstocking

Vickie
    $800 17
(Steven: What's... hat?)

hair

StevenVickie
    $1000 16
(Steven: What's Osaka?)
(Erik: What's Kyoto?)

Yokohama

StevenErik
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
"Mr. Brightside"

Steven
    $1000 9
(Erik: What is Plaquemines?)

Orleans Parish

Erik
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Old Bay

Steven
    $1000 5
(Ken: From Heart of Darkness, right.)

Kurtz

Steven
    $1000 3
(Steven: What's... meek at heart?)

the pure in heart

Steven
Triple Stumper

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

Steven Erik Vickie
$4,200 $1,600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Erik Vickie
$2,800 $2,800 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

TRUMAN CAPOTE'S BLACK-&-WHITE BALL
(Ken: 540 guests, November 1966, Plaza Hotel.)
PLANT FACTS
THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY
WORD ORIGINS
BEASTLY HISTORY
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES
    $400 24
Sinatra

Vickie
    $400 29
a cuticle

Vickie
    $400 17
Confucius

Erik
    $400 26
a sachet

Vickie
    $400 30
Smokey (Bear)

Erik
    $400 22
(Steven: What's Charlie's Angels of the Outfield?)

Charlie's Angels in the Outfield

StevenErik
    $800 23
(Erik: Uh, who's Mae West?)

Lauren Bacall

Erik
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
(Steven: What's... deciduous?)

annual

StevenVickie
    $800 10
(Steven: What's tabula rasa?)
(Vickie: What is the state of [*]?)
(Ken: [*] is right, well done.)

nature

StevenVickie
    $800 14
graffiti

Steven
    $800 20
(Ken: Yeah, the Great Chicago Fire.)

a cow

Erik
    $800 21
Rosemary's Baby Mama

Steven
    $1200 8
Rose Kennedy

Vickie
    $9,400 11
corolla

Vickie
    $1200 4
(Ken: For Thomas Aquinas, yes.)

Thomism

Vickie
    $1200 13
checkmate

Vickie
    $1200 2
a pigeon

Erik
    $1200 19
[Vickie did not include the leading article in her response.]

The Iron Lady Bird

Vickie
    $1600 6
(Ken: It's [*] of The Washington Post.)

Katharine Graham

Triple Stumper
    $1600 27
chloroplasts

Vickie
    $1600 5
The Second Sex

Erik
    $2,300 3
a malady

Erik
    $1600 16
dolphins

Vickie
    $1600 1
[Steven selected the first clue.]

Elephant Man of Steel

Erik
    $2000 7
(William) Paley

Erik
    $2000 28
epiphytes

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
a posteriori

Vickie
    $2000 12
agoraphobia

Steven
    $2000 15
(Ken: Give it up for [*], yes.)

Balto

Steven
    $2000 18
(Ken: I would love to see this one--[*].)

The Sunshine Boys Don't Cry

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Erik Vickie
$6,400 $12,700 $26,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. TOWNS
[Applause for Steven's response]
(Ken: [To Steven] I hate to say that Big Melon Town is incorrect; it sounds great, but no, I'm afraid that's not it.)
...
(Ken: [To Erik] Little Rock, Arkansas, no, right state, not the right municipality, Erik.)
...
(Ken: [To Vickie] The hometown of three Arkansas governors--Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee and now Sarah Huckabee Sanders.)
StevenWhat's... Big Melon Town [watermelon drawn]
$6,399
ErikWhat is Little Rock Arkansas???
$200
VickieWhat is Hope?
$7
Hope, Arkansas

Final scores:

Steven Erik Vickie
$1 $12,500 $26,407
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $26,407

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steven Erik Vickie
$6,000 $12,000 $18,200
13 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2025-08-08
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