Responses for Show #9415 - Friday, October 17, 2025

Contestants

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Dargan Ware, an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama

Sondra Venable, a standardized patient from New Orleans, Louisiana

Cindy del Rosario, a hospice and palliative care nurse from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,201)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HOW'S YOUR GULF GAME?
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN
THIS IS WHAT WE TRAINED FOR!
MOVIE IMPROVISATIONS
DADDY, IS THERE REALLY A...
    $200 27
Greece

Dargan
    $200 23
the Nile

Cindy
    $200 28
(Sondra: What is [*], man?)

don't have a cow

Sondra
    $200 29
(Ken: That rat can detect [**], yes.

tuberculosis (TB)

Cindy
    $200 30
(Melissa) McCarthy

Dargan
    $200 22
(Dargan: Who is Jessica Fletcher?)
...
(Ken: She also played [*], right.)

Miss Marple

SondraDargan
    $400 19
the Gulf of California

Dargan
    $400 8
(Ken: Yeah, you can't have [*] at sea.)
[Dargan chuckles.]

a pendulum(s)

Dargan
    $400 26
simmer down

Dargan
    $400 24
(Ken: That's right, Bay of Pigs.)

Cuba

Cindy
    $400 25
Williams

Cindy
    $400 21
(Ken: I didn't understand any of that--who is [*]?)

John Pork

Triple Stumper
    $600 1
the Baltic Sea

Sondra
    $600 4
incense

Dargan
    $2,600 10
(Cindy: [Sighs] Oh...)
(Ken: Cindy?)
(Cindy: Mmm, what is "Hotel California"?)

"Take It Easy"

Cindy
    $600 2
Haymitch Abernathy

Dargan
    $600 7
you're gonna need a bigger boat

Sondra
    $600 13
Davy Jones

Dargan
    $800 3
Tonkin

Cindy
    $800 6
an atomic clock

Cindy
    $800 15
chillax

Sondra
    $800 16
Wharton

Cindy
    $800 11
mutton

Triple Stumper
    $800 14
Johnny Appleseed

Sondra
    $1000 5
Jordan

Dargan
    $1000 9
(Cindy: DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN $600.)
(Ken: I will not, but that is the Daily Double, Cindy.)

Greenwich Mean Time

Cindy
    $1000 18
cool your jets

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
the Culinary Institute of America

Sondra
    $1000 12
Best in Show

Cindy
    $1000 20
Tom Collins

Dargan

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

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$1,000 $2,800 $3,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$3,000 $4,200 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORY
TV PERSONALITIES
SOLD! TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER
PHILOSOPHY ABCs
CAT OF 5 TALES
"PASS"WORDS
    $400 20
Korea

Dargan
    $400 29
(Lester) Holt

Cindy
    $400 14
a Triceratops

Cindy
    $400 22
virtues

Dargan
    $400 23
Socks

Dargan
    $400 30
(Ken: Yes, he has [*] surgery.)

a bypass

Dargan
    $800 21
[No acknowledgment for Dargan running the category]

prime minister

Dargan
    $800 28
Nye

Dargan
    $800 16
a rug (a Persian carpet)

Cindy
    $800 18
hedonism

Cindy
    $800 12
the Cheshire Cat

Sondra
    $800 24
passé

Sondra
    $1200 1
(Ken: Yeah, he was Portuguese.)

Lisbon

Dargan
    $1200 4
(Steve) Irwin

Cindy
    $1200 19
McQueen

Dargan
    $1200 5
cynicism

Dargan
    $1200 8
Kiki

Triple Stumper
    $1200 9
trespasses

Cindy
    $6,400 2
(Ken: That's correct, the Draft Riots during the Civil War.)

the military draft

Dargan
    $1600 17
The Barefoot Contessa

Sondra
    $1600 26
Rockwell

Cindy
    $4,000 6
(Ken: You went all-in last time, Dargan; are you considering it this time?)
(Dargan: I'm considering it, but no.)

fallacies

Dargan
    $1600 10
Liszt

Dargan
    $1600 15
impassable

Dargan
    $2000 3
Solon

Dargan
    $2000 27
(Sally Jessy) Raphael

Cindy
    $2000 25
Hokusai

Dargan
    $2000 7
a dialectic

Dargan
    $2000 11
(Ken: Yes, T.S. Eliot.)

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Dargan
    $2000 13
(Ken: Love! Valour! [*]!, well done.)

compassion

Dargan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$11,400 $7,400 $35,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY SCIENCE
(Ken: [To Cindy] The ghost particle, that is correct. Pauli bet a case of champagne that no one would ever find [*], and he paid up decades later when they actually detected one.)
SondraWhat is a quark?
$4,001
CindyWhat is a neutrino?
$3,401
DarganWhat is Quark? WPS! UTCIAD!
$9,400
a neutrino

Final scores:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$14,801 $3,399 $26,200
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $26,200

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Cindy Sondra Dargan
$14,000 $7,400 $28,400
17 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
0 W		 28 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $49,800

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Game tape date: 2025-09-15
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