Responses for Show #9417 - Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Tom Devlin game 1.

Contestants

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Tom Devlin, an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Elyse Erdman, a director of social media originally from Hershey, Pennsylvania

Dargan Ware, an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD LANDMARKS
CRUDITÉS
WORDS FOR THE PEOPLE
THIS, THAT & THE OTHER THING
MOVIE PREQUELS
AUTUMN LEAVES
    $200 22
Delphi

Dargan
    $200 30
(Ken: You three responded correctly to every clue in that round.)

carrots

Tom
    $200 23
six-pack

Tom
    $200 25
Beyond

Dargan
    $200 28
(Tom: What is Monsters U.?)

Monsters University

ElyseTom
    $200 29
(Elyse: Who is... [Sighs])

(Kaiser) Wilhelm

ElyseTom
    $400 21
Vietnam

Dargan
    $400 24
celery

Dargan
    $400 20
the proletariat

Dargan
    $400 15
match

Tom
    $400 27
The Hunger Games

Dargan
    $400 26
the Orient Express

Tom
    $600 1
a mosque

Tom
    $600 14
(Dargan: What are parsnips?)

radishes

DarganElyse
    $4,400 7
(Ken: He's pumped.)

riffraff

Tom
    $600 6
superego

Tom
    $600 9
Prey

Dargan
    $600 16
the Queen Mary

Dargan
    $800 4
the Three Gorges Dam

Tom
    $800 3
(Dargan: What is... popcorn?)

baby corn

DarganTom
    $800 2
the 99%

Tom
    $800 5
Porthos

Tom
    $800 8
Banderas

Tom
    $800 17
(Nellie) Bly

Tom
    $1000 13
British Columbia

Tom
    $1000 19
jicama

Tom
    $1000 12
(Ken: Correct, a poetry clue for you.)
[Dargan chuckles.]

huddled masses

Dargan
    $1000 11
stapes

Tom
    $1000 10
The Scorpion King

Dargan
    $1000 18
Agnew

Tom

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

Dargan Elyse Tom
$1,200 $600 $12,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$3,800 $600 $15,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE PRESIDENT'S PRESENTS
CELEBRITIES
STARTS WITH A DOUBLED VOWEL
SCIENCE
IN DA CLUB
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
    $400 21
elephants

Elyse
    $400 1
(Elyse: Who is Lansbury?)

Kerry Washington

Elyse
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
oops

Dargan
    $400 28
melatonin

Elyse
    $400 29
(Ken: [*] for the Mediterranean.)

Club Med

Tom
    $400 30
The Count of Monte Cristo

Tom
    $800 20
(Dargan: Who is Nixon?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

Pat Nixon

Dargan
    $800 2
(Dargan: Who is Eilish?)

(Sabrina) Carpenter

DarganTom
    $800 24
an aardvark

Tom
    $800 12
a keystone species

Dargan
    $800 25
Princeton

Tom
    $800 26
The Gilded Age

Dargan
    $1200 9
a Komodo dragon

Dargan
    $1200 13
(Ken: Maria is the one from West Side Story; it's [*].)

Rachel Zegler

Triple Stumper
    $1200 6
eerie

Tom
    $1200 5
escape velocity

Tom
    $9,000 15
the Sierra Club

Dargan
    $8,600 14
The Big Sleep

Dargan
    $1600 10
Hayes

Dargan
    $1600 22
(Tom: Who is Blanchett?)
...
(Ken: She's kind of Blanchett coded; you were close, Tom.)

Tilda Swinton

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
an oocyte

Tom
    $1600 4
the mole

Tom
    $1600 16
(Tom: What is the Quarrymen's Club?)
...
(Ken: They played a lot of early gigs in [*].)

the Cavern Club

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $1600 18
No Country for Old Men

Dargan
    $2000 11
Casablanca

Tom
    $2000 23
(Ken: That's correct.)
(Tom: Whoo.)

Bhad Bhabie

Tom
    $2000 8
Aachen

Dargan
    $2000 7
precipitate (precipitation)

Tom
    $2000 17
the Kit Kat Club

Dargan
    $2000 19
James M. Cain

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$31,800 $1,000 $27,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S.A.
(Ken: [To Tom] No, I'm afraid one of those is correct; the zero in particular took longer to dial back in those days.)
(Tom: Yep. Yep.)
(Ken: So it was not 202, for one thing.)
...
(Ken: [To Dargan] [***]--that's correct, Chicago. [*]--that's correct, New York. But he also put 202. In fact, [**] for Los Angeles was the third one.)
ElyseWhat is thanks for having me :)
$0
TomWhat is 202, 212, 222?
$4,601
DarganWhat are 312, 212, 202
$23,200
212, 213, 312

Final scores:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$8,600 $1,000 $22,599
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $22,599

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dargan Elyse Tom
$16,600 $1,000 $23,400
21 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 4 R,
2 W		 30 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $41,000

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Game tape date: 2025-09-16
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