Responses for Show #9401 - Monday, September 29, 2025

Contestants

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Rebecca Thompson, a French teacher and researcher from Buffalo, New York

Zach Knecht, a law clerk originally from Spring Hill, Florida

Prasad Patil, an assistant professor of biostatistics from Burlington, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $35,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 20th CENTURY
FICTIONAL FEMALES
PROPOSITIONAL PHRASES
WRITING MATERIAL
5, 5
(Ken: Each response here two five-letter words.)
SECOND CHANCE QBs
(Glen: I'm Glen Powell. Everybody deserves a second chance, like Chad Powers, my character in a new series, and some other quarterbacks that I'll have clues about.)
    $200 25
Time

Zach
    $200 23
Hermione

Prasad
    $200 29
a Sharpie

Zach
    $200 30
(Prasad: What is cloud writing?)
(Zach: What is calligraphy?)
...
(Ken: Correct, [*] is what those mile-high letters are called.)

skywriting

PrasadZachRebecca
    $200 28
(Prasad: What is a major organ?)

a vital organ

PrasadRebecca
    $200 14
(Ken: Our thanks to Glen Powell for that category; his show, Chad Powers, is streaming tomorrow on Hulu.)

the 49ers

Prasad
    $400 24
the Pentagon

Prasad
    $400 11
Lady Chatterley

Zach
    $400 26
(Ken: "Let's put [*] together", yes.)

U & I

Prasad
    $400 16
papyrus

Prasad
    $400 27
hanky-panky

Rebecca
    $400 5
the Detroit Lions

Zach
    $600 7
Trudeau

Prasad
    $600 8
the Aeneid

Prasad
    $600 22
a martini

Prasad
    $600 17
a white board

Prasad
    $600 15
(Ken: Probably a good name change.)

a Sugar Daddy

Rebecca
    $600 4
the CFL

Prasad
    $800 3
Thailand

Prasad
    $800 9
Brave New World

Prasad
    $800 21
Netflix & chill

Rebecca
    $3,000 18
pulp

Prasad
    $800 13
a rodeo clown

Prasad
    $800 1
Drew Brees

Prasad
    $1000 6
(Zach: Who is John Paul I?)

John XXIII

Zach
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(Ken: [*] in Tom Sawyer, right.)

Becky (Thatcher)

Rebecca
    $1000 12
(Rebecca: What are engravings?)
...
(Ken: Come up and look at my [*], as the saying goes.)

etchings

Rebecca
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
slate

Zach
    $1000 19
White Witch

Prasad
    $1000 2
Lynch

Zach

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

Prasad Zach Rebecca
$5,200 $800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Prasad Zach Rebecca
$11,400 $2,000 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE & NATURE
A WORLD OF MOUNTAINS
I MARRIED MY CO-STAR
NEAR & FAR PHRASES
CAVEAT
MENTOR
    $400 28
piranhas

Rebecca
    $400 3
the Black Sea & Caspian Sea

Zach
    $400 19
(Daniel) Craig

Zach
    $400 29
a close shave

Prasad
    $400 30
yellow

Rebecca
    $400 25
Jobs

Zach
    $800 23
Linnaeus

Zach
    $800 18
[Ken mistakenly says "also" instead of "often".]

the Atlas Mountains

Prasad
    $800 15
Hamm

Zach
    $800 7
adjacent

Prasad
    $800 27
Dante's Inferno (Divine Comedy)

Prasad
    $800 26
(Zach: What is Ghost Dance?)

the Sun Dance

Zach
Triple Stumper
    $1200 2
(Prasad: What is a stamen?)

a style

PrasadRebecca
    $1200 11
the Alps

Prasad
    $1200 8
Prince Charming

Zach
    $1200 6
(Ken: Making me feel old.)

Remote Control

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
DEFCON

Prasad
    $1200 24
Mother Teresa

Rebecca
    $1600 1
(Rebecca: What are protons?)

quarks

Rebecca
Triple Stumper
    $2,400 4
(Zach: What's... Portland?)

Cape Town, South Africa

Zach
    $1600 12
Kunis

Zach
    $1600 5
a gulf

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 16
(Ken: He's got to do it; $2,000 at stake. Here's your clue in CAVEAT...)

keratin

Zach
    $1600 22
Langston Hughes

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
(Zach: What is thermogenic?)

endothermic

Zach
Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
(Prasad: What is... Suriname?)

Guyana

PrasadZach
    $2000 14
Mireille Enos

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
Good fences make good neighbors

Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
the soothsayer

Triple Stumper
    $2000 21
Kuiper

Zach

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Prasad Zach Rebecca
$13,400 $8,400 $3,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MEDIEVAL NAMES
(Ken: [To Rebecca] And that is not correct, I'm afraid, but you're thinking along the right lines.)
...
(Ken: [To Zach] [*], yes, the subject of the movie Braveheart.)
RebeccaWho is Braveheart?
$500
ZachWho Wallace
$5,001
PrasadWho is Beckett?
$3,401
(William) Wallace

Final scores:

Prasad Zach Rebecca
$9,999 $13,401 $3,300
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $13,401 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Prasad Zach Rebecca
$11,200 $10,400 $3,800
22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $25,400

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Game tape date: 2025-09-08
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