Responses for Show #9404 - Thursday, October 2, 2025

Contestants

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TJ Fisher, a marketing specialist from San Francisco, California

Alan Rosenberg, a high school teacher from Baltimore, Maryland

Lisa Mueller, an anthropologist from Rochester, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NON-ENGLISH PLACE NAMES IN ENGLISH
RELATIVE-ITY
A POTABLE OF POTENCY
PEANUTS
(Ken: Because today is the 75th anniversary of the very first Peanuts comic strip.)
WAYS
MEANS
    $200 5
Rio De Janeiro

Lisa
    $200 11
Oedipus

TJ
    $200 16
rum

TJ
    $200 10
Schroeder

TJ
    $200 21
the Milky Way

Alan
    $200 26
disenfranchise

TJ
    $400 4
Venezuela

Alan
    $400 12
Victoria

TJ
    $400 17
(TJ: What is whiskey?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

bourbon

TJ
    $400 9
Pig-Pen

TJ
    $400 23
Rosh Hashanah

Alan
    $400 27
(TJ: Uh... what is draconian?)

austerity

TJ
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
(TJ: What is Mesopotamia?)

Macedonia

TJ
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
the DiMaggios

TJ
    $600 18
a sidecar

TJ
    $600 8
A Charlie Brown Christmas

Lisa
    $600 24
a thruway

TJ
    $600 28
an epistolary

Alan
    $1,000 1
(Ken: [*] in Nigeria is correct.)

Lagos

Lisa
    $800 14
(Ken: That's the first year there was a prize for [*].)

Economics

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
(Ken: Yes, not a White Russian.)

a Black Russian

Alan
    $800 7
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

TJ
    $800 22
Lexington & Concord

TJ
    $800 29
a neophyte

TJ
    $1000 2
Kuala Lumpur

Lisa
    $1000 15
Lord Byron

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
a Singapore sling

TJ
    $1000 6
(Ken: Yeah, Willie McCovey.)

the Giants

TJ
    $1000 25
(Alan: What is path?)
...
(Ken: As in [*]ism, "the way".)

dao

Alan
Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
panacea

Alan

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

Lisa Alan TJ
$2,800 $400 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Lisa Alan TJ
$2,800 $2,400 $7,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC LETTERS
PREQUELS & SEQUELS
SHE'S A SAINT
HBCUs
GENERATIONAL TALENTS
CONTRONYMS
    $400 17
King

Lisa
    $400 28
The Godfather

TJ
    $400 25
Joan of Arc

TJ
    $400 16
Howard

TJ
    $400 30
Star Trek: The Next Generation

Alan
    $400 21
to trim

TJ
    $800 22
Helen Keller

TJ
    $800 27
Older

TJ
    $800 26
Teresa

TJ
    $800 12
spirituals

TJ
    $800 29
(Alan: What is Degrassi? Degrassi High?)

Degrassi: The Next Generation

AlanTJ
    $800 20
dust

TJ
    $2,400 10
(Ken: That's right, it did not solve his problems.)

Aaron Burr

TJ
    $1200 1
Eastwick

Alan
    $1200 4
smallpox

TJ
    $1200 3
Marshall

Lisa
    $1200 11
(TJ: Who is Townshend?)
...
(Ken: That's right, Townshend's the guitarist.)

Roger Daltrey

AlanTJ
    $1200 19
pitch

TJ
    $1600 23
Ethel Rosenberg

TJ
    $1600 2
Flowers in the Attic

Alan
    $1600 5
Bernadette

TJ
    $1600 7
Mississippi (Valley State University)

Triple Stumper
    $1600 13
(Ken: Who is [*]? R-A-P, [*].)

Rapsody

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 15
(TJ: Uh, I'm a coward, $2,000, please.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: Ah, the coward's wager we call it.)

oversight

TJ
    $2000 24
(Ken: That was [*] besotted with Alfred Douglas.)

Oscar Wilde

Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
the restaurant at the end of the universe

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
Saint Rose (Rose of Lima)

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
the Eastern Shore

TJ
    $2000 14
Michelle Rodriguez

Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
sanction

Lisa

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Lisa Alan TJ
$6,400 $6,000 $24,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ANIMALS
(Ken: [To TJ] The talking mule, I guess?)
(TJ: Why not?)
(Ken: You're closer. You two thought of dogs, but a lot of celebrity animals are horses. And the League of Nations, like the United Nations, had a [*]. [*] the race horse, named in that way.)
AlanWho is Benji
$1,200
LisaWho is... Toto
$5,700
TJWho is Francis? :)
$9,311
Secretariat

Final scores:

Lisa Alan TJ
$700 $4,800 $15,089
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $15,089

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Lisa Alan TJ
$6,200 $6,000 $22,800
7 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 10 R,
2 W		 32 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $35,000

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Game tape date: 2025-09-08
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