Responses for Show #9413 - Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Contestants

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Tafari Mbadiwe, a management consultant from New York, New York

Delaney O'Dea, an undergraduate student from Santa Monica, California

Chris McGinn, an editor from Indian Land, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GEOGRAPHY WITH VAMPIRE WEEKEND
THAT'S ALL, FOLK TALES
STOCK SYMBOLS
STARTS WITH A PREPOSITION
BROADWAY
LEFTIES
    $200 20
Angkor Wat

Chris
    $200 25
Casey Jones

Delaney
    $200 28
[Ken reads "NYSE" as "New York Stock Exchange".]

BABA

Tafari
    $200 30
onlooker

Delaney
    $200 26
Mamma Mia!

Delaney
    $200 29
LeBron James

Chris
    $400 19
(Ken: "[*] don't love you" according to Vampire Weekend, terrible news.)

Babylon

Triple Stumper
    $400 21
Davy Crockett

Delaney
    $400 27
(Ken: Yes, Facebook became [*].)

META

Chris
    $400 24
inaudible

Delaney
    $400 22
The Book of Mormon

Delaney
    $400 23
(Delaney: Who are Clinton and Bush?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Delaney: Who is... George W. Bush?)

George H.W. Bush & Clinton

ChrisDelaney
    $600 5
Mulholland Drive

Tafari
    $600 4
the Rockies

Tafari
    $600 13
[Ken reads "40+" as "more than 40".]

Six Flags

Chris
    $600 1
(Ken: That's right, starts with "For".)

Formica

Chris
    $600 7
(Tafari: What is Equus?)

War Horse

ChrisTafari
    $600 14
Ginsburg

Delaney
    $800 6
Masada

Chris
    $800 10
Paul Bunyan

Chris
    $800 17
Morgan Stanley

Tafari
    $1,000 2
(Ken: Begins with "at".)

atmosphere

Chris
    $800 8
Angels in America

Delaney
    $800 15
(Leonardo) da Vinci

Delaney
    $1000 12
Pakistan & Afghanistan

Tafari
    $1000 11
John Henry

Delaney
    $1000 18
AT&T

Tafari
    $1000 3
(Ken: Eight bits is [*], starts with "B-Y".)

a byte

Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Delaney
    $1000 16
Dillinger

Tafari

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

Chris Delaney Tafari
$4,400 $4,200 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Delaney Tafari
$5,600 $5,600 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

INTO THE WOODS
NONFICTION
MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE
THE HOLE TRUTH
12-LETTER WORDS
BLACK HISTORY WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
    $400 27
(Chris: Let's do INTO THE WOODS for $400.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Asimov

Chris
    $400 22
Pascal

Delaney
    $400 26
Booker T. Washington

Chris
    $800 23
ferns

Delaney
    $800 18
Bourdain

Delaney
    $800 21
(Jennifer) Coolidge

Tafari
    $800 17
the Swiss cheese plant</em>

Chris
    $800 24
(Ken: They demand [*], sir!)
...
(Ken: Less than a minute now.)
(Delaney: Uh, BLACK HISTORY for $800.)
(Ken: Back to Skip Gates.)

satisfaction

Triple Stumper
    $800 25
the Nation of Islam

Tafari
    $1200 15
(Ken: Yeah, A.A. Milne.)

Hundred Acre Wood

Tafari
    $1200 1
Hidden Figures

Chris
    $1200 8
(Catherine) O'Hara

Delaney
    $1200 16
(Tafari: What is the... Yosemite Valley?)
(Chris: What is the Bitterroot Valley?)
(Delaney: What's the Yellowstone Valley?)
...
(Ken: Remember the category.)

Jackson Hole

ChrisDelaneyTafari
Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
(Tafari: Breath--what--what is [*]?)
(Ken: There you go, you remembered, like in sixth grade.)
[Laughter]

Breathalyzer

Tafari
    $1200 20
the Cotton Club

Chris
    $1600 10
magnolias

Delaney
    $1600 2
(Ed) Koch

Tafari
    $1600 6
Kathy Bates

Chris
    $1600 9
the Great Blue Hole

Triple Stumper
    $1600 12
quadraphonic

Tafari
    $1600 11
(Tafari: What is Meharry?)

the Morehouse Medical School

Tafari
Triple Stumper
    $2,400 4
Transylvania

Delaney
    $2000 3
(Ken: Of Hamilton fame, that's right.)

Chernow

Delaney
    $2000 7
(Steve) Buscemi

Tafari
    $2000 13
a cenote

Delaney
    $4,000 14
(Delaney: What... is... hypnotization?)

hypnotherapy

Delaney
    $2000 5
(Tafari: What is passage?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Tafari: What is the Second Transatlantic Passage?)
(Chris: What is migration?)

the Middle Passage

ChrisTafari
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Delaney Tafari
$8,000 $11,600 $9,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PUBLIC FIGURES
(Ken: [To Delaney] By "the closet", he was referring to closeted people.)
ChrisWho is John Lennon
$0
TafariWho is Kho Sha
$7,001
DelaneyWho is Harvey Milk Hi Nana! + Mom + Aditi ♡ + Marco
$7,000
Harvey Milk

Final scores:

Chris Delaney Tafari
$8,000 $18,600 $1,999
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $18,600 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Chris Delaney Tafari
$7,800 $15,200 $9,000
16 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $32,000

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Game tape date: 2025-09-15
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