Responses for Show #9409 - Thursday, October 9, 2025

TJ Fisher game 6.

Contestants

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Grace Batiste, a marketing manager originally from Chicago, Illinois

Spencer Janes, a program manager originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts

TJ Fisher, a marketing specialist from San Francisco, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $100,723)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

IRISH HISTORY
THAT'S SOME RHYME
ORIGIN OF THE IDIOM
ALL SORTS OF SCIENCE
CLEANUP
ON AISLE 7
    $200 25
the Vikings

Spencer
    $200 30
(Ken: A real medical rarity.)
[Laughter]

your hair

Triple Stumper
    $200 28
burying the hatchet

TJ
    $200 27
(TJ: Oof.)

Calories

TJ
    $200 18
an oil spill

TJ
    $200 5
Neapolitan

TJ
    $400 13
the Potato Famine

Grace
    $400 29
a cannonball

Spencer
    $400 23
Dickens

Spencer
    $400 24
the vertebrates

Triple Stumper
    $400 19
a hotel room

Grace
    $400 6
a stroller

Grace
    $600 10
Hibernia

Spencer
    $600 4
(TJ: [Sighs] What is NWA?)
...
(TJ: Uh, this is a lot of fun.)
[Ken chuckles.]
(TJ: Uh, I'm intrigued. AISLE 7 for $200.)
(Ken: We're gonna get one of these, I believe.)
[More laughter]

Wu-Tang (Clan)

TJ
Triple Stumper
    $600 1
no man's land

Triple Stumper
    $600 15
Paleozoic

Triple Stumper
    $600 17
shipshape

TJ
    $600 7
Meow Mix

Grace
    $800 11
(Ken: He wanted to marry his caregiver.)

divorce

Triple Stumper
    $800 8
(Ken: Rhymes with gender--"like a Waring [*]". Grace?)
(Grace: Uh, I'll go back to AISLE 7 for $800.)

blender

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 2
(TJ: What is ripped him off?)
...
(Ken: Literally the sound effect of the thunder.)

stolen his thunder

TJ
    $800 14
permeable

Spencer
    $800 21
the stables

Grace
    $800 9
cross-stitch

Spencer
    $1000 12
Michael Collins

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
walking on the Moon

Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
(Ken: TJ, we're going to stick with the ORIGIN OF THE IDIOM?)
(TJ: No, no. I don't think so.)
[Laughter]
(TJ: Uh, RHYME for $600.)
(Ken: Over to RHYME.)

to make the grade

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
eccentric

TJ
    $1000 26
St. John the Divine

Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
a credenza

Spencer

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

TJ Spencer Grace
-$1,400 $2,200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

TJ Spencer Grace
$800 $4,200 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
ELEGIAC VERSE
RANKS & TITLES
ANAGRAMMAR
"ALL" TV & MOVIES
[Ken reads the category as "All TV movies".]
    $400 28
Pikes Peak

TJ
    $400 24
a prayer

TJ
    $400 26
Burns

TJ
    $400 27
Eagle Scout

Spencer
    $400 29
preposition

TJ
    $400 30
All the President's Men

Spencer
    $800 6
South Sudan

Grace
    $800 23
the flag

TJ
    $800 25
Requiem

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 21
(Ken: You could've bet more but add $1,000.)

a sensei

Grace
    $800 20
a split infinitive

Grace
    $800 16
All My Children

TJ
    $1200 4
(Spencer: What is [**]?)
(Ken: Yes, we'll take that, [*].)

County Cork (Cork County)

Spencer
    $2,000 1
(Ken: Always a knack for finding the Daily Doubles. You can wager up to $2,000 on this one.)
(TJ: I think I'd be foolish not to. $2,000, please.)

Brown v. Board of Education

TJ
    $1200 11
(Dylan) Thomas

Spencer
    $1200 3
a sous-chef

Spencer
    $1200 8
agreement

TJ
    $1200 13
For All Mankind

Spencer
    $1600 5
(Ken: Texas has its own [*].)

Baffin Bay

Triple Stumper
    $1600 7
above the law

TJ
    $1600 17
Poe

TJ
    $1600 2
dowager

Spencer
    $1600 9
subordinate

Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
A Man for All Seasons

Spencer
    $2000 12
the Sargasso Sea

Triple Stumper
    $2000 22
cruel & unusual punishment

Spencer
    $2000 18
the Duino Elegies

Triple Stumper
    $2000 19
(Ken: That's correct for $2,000.)
(TJ: Oh, my goodness.)

a maharani

TJ
    $2000 10
past perfect

TJ
    $2000 15
[Ken imitates Davis when reading the quote in the clue.]

All About Eve

Spencer

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

TJ Spencer Grace
$14,400 $17,000 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD ORGANIZATIONS
(Ken: [To Grace] The Israeli intelligence apparatus.)
...
(Ken: We'll be seeing TJ Fisher back in the Tournament of Champions. Spencer's back tomorrow. Join us then.)
GraceWhat is Mossad?
$5,000
TJWhat is interpol?
$9,199
SpencerWhat is Mossad?
$12,000
Mossad

Final scores:

TJ Spencer Grace
$5,201 $29,000 $10,200
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $29,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

TJ Spencer Grace
$14,600 $17,000 $5,000
18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
0 W		 8 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2025-09-09
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