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    DD: $5,000 7
A Christian rite begins this phrase for a severe introductory trial
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Show #9392 - Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 5.

Contestants

Susan Harris, a professor from Chicago, Illinois

Alex Rossell Hayes, a political scientist originally from Baltimore, Maryland

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $107,342)

Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY
IT'S A MYSTERY TO US
WORDS IN FRIENDLINESS
(Ken: In fact, they're made up of letters in the word "friendliness".)
THAT'S QUITE A NOVEL SYNOPSIS
REVENGE
A DISH BEST SERVED COLD
    $200 29
Marshal Tito, born Josip Broz, was president of this country for 27 years; 11 years after his death it began to partition
    $200 28
Why do we have this small dead-end tube that connects to the colon? A study said having one may reduce recurring intestinal infection
    $200 30
It means related to the family that contains the Manul or Jaguarundi
    $200 27
Boy meets girl; boy gets in love triangle with a pal & the girl; boy gets in love rectangle with pal, girl & evil, sentient car
    $200 26
As John Wick in a 2014 movie, he gets sweet revenge on those who killed his dog
    $200 25
To make tartare, you can use steak or this fish; many suggest using the fatty belly called toro
    $400 20
Known as the "Red Eminence", this man of the cloth was first minister to Louis XIII
    $400 8
On Dec. 5, 1945, the 5 Navy planes of Flight 19 took off from Ft. Lauderdale but disappeared in this "geometric" area of the Atlantic
    $400 22
In the feudal system, a member of the lowest class
    $400 12
Houdini & Henry Ford turn up; Coalhouse Walker plays a certain style of piano; somebody oughtta make a musical!
    $400 23
In this film Wyoming women put a bounty on men who wronged them, leading to Clint Eastwood finding other things to be vengeful for
    $400 24
Ceviche & tiradito are both cool fish dishes that originated in this South American country
    $600 17
In 1866 this small Alpine nation deployed 80 soldiers as part of the Austro-Prussian War; oddly, 81 returned
    $600 1
If no one's in the room to hear this guy whisper "Rosebud", how do any of the other movie characters know his last words?
    $600 16
Instagram videos of up to 3 minutes
    $600 3
Faulkner used a Shakespearean title; Compson Rashomon; a non-golf caddy
    $600 9
In "Nobody", he's a hard-hitting dad with a certain set of skills who's hell-bent to get back a stolen kitty cat bracelet
    $600 15
How about this salad of sliced mozzarella, ripe tomatoes & basil that's named for an Italian island
    $800 18
Cervantes fought in the Battle of Lepanto, part of a conflict that saw Venice, Spain & the papacy facing this eastern power
    $800 6
In 2023 the kids of convicted skyjacker Richard McCoy II gave evidence to the FBI that pointed at dad being this 1971 criminal of mystery
    DD: $2,400 5
From the Latin for "unfaithful", it's an unbeliever with respect to a particular religion
    $800 2
A Toole to win a Pulitzer; New Orleans can be more fun than that; the rota fortunae is a very different wheel! of! fortune!
    $800 10
This Park Chan-wook classic from 2003 about an imprisoned man seeking revenge was remade starring Josh Brolin 10 years later
    $800 14
Pampushky, Ukrainian garlic rolls, are a traditional accompaniment to this beet soup, a national dish
    $1000 19
This 2-region region on the border of Germany & France traded hands 4 times, starting in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War
    $1000 7
The location of "The Concert", a painting by this 17th century Dutchman stolen from the Gardner Museum in 1990, remains a mystery
    $1000 13
Robert Cornelius has been credited as taking the first this back in 1839; he used a camera lens fashioned from an opera glass
    $1000 4
Full of neapolitan flavor; Lila & Elena are miglioretti (is that Italian for besties?); like it / Don't like it? 3 more books to go
    $1000 11
In this 1991 flick Robert De Niro is mad at Nick Nolte because the latter buried information that might have cleared the former
    $1000 21
The name of this dish, thinly sliced raw beef, honors a Venetian painter whose works used a red the color of raw beef

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

Paolo Alex Susan
$8,400 $1,200 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Alex Susan
$10,800 $4,000 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY
"GREAT" STUFF
INTERESTING TREES
HODGEPODGE
THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS
FIERY WORDS & PHRASES
    $400 28
This state's geographic center is 3 miles north of Pierre
    $400 27
This landmark is sometimes referred to as being "10,000 li" long, a li being equal to about 1/3 of a mile
    $400 29
Trees on the island of Socotra named for this mythical creature produce a blood-colored sap that used as varnish for violins
    $400 30
Asian, Bosc & Comice are varieties of this
    $400 26
"Making It So" is the recent memoir by this actor who has played Merlin, a professor & a Starfleet captain
    $400 25
Dante used this hellish word as a title for the first part of "The Divine Comedy"
    $800 18
"Valley Isle" is a nickname for this second-largest Hawaiian island
    DD: $2,000 23
This 5,000-pound aquatic carnivore can detect one drop of blood in 25 gallons of water
    $800 5
Often called the world's smallest tree, Salix herbacea, or the dwarf this tree, is found in the tundra & rarely exceeds two and a half inches tall
    $800 24
The creator of this logo recalls Phil Knight saying he didn't love it but maybe it will grow on him
    $800 19
"My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy" is a memoir by this voice artist still going strong in her best-known role
    $800 22
Latin for "fiery" gives us this term for a basic classification of rock
    $1200 10
This fertile & scenic valley covers much of Northern Virginia & a little bit of West Virginia
    $1200 11
John Adams (let's show Hercules) & Ben Franklin (Moses parting the sea) had cool rejected ideas for this, to affix to state documents
    $1200 4
The anti-cancer drug Taxol was produced from the bark of the Pacific species of this 3-letter tree
    $1200 13
Yielding millions of fossils, this gooey landmark calls itself a "portal to the Ice Age in the heart of Los Angeles"
    $1200 2
Piper Kerman's memoir of incarceration had this title, as did the TV show that it spawned
    DD: $5,000 7
A Christian rite begins this phrase for a severe introductory trial
    $1600 12
This lake whose name comes from Seminole words for "big water" is located at the northern edge of the Everglades
    $1600 6
Don't tell you-know-who that in 2024 the Cherokee name Kuwohi was restored to the Tenn. peak Clingmans Dome in this national park
    $1600 3
In 1964 Donald Rusk Currey accidentally killed a 5,000-year-old specimen of this gnarly, ancient tree on Wheeler Peak in Eastern Nevada
    $1600 1
In 1951, a few years after its introduction, Pope Pius XII called this new fashion item sinful
    $1600 8
In "Tell Me Everything", Minka Kelly includes her love of Kitsch --as in Taylor, complicating the set of this TV show
    $1600 14
A conflation fuses things; this word that adds a few letters to the middle burns things
    $2000 16
It's the snow-covered volcanic peak in Northern California seen here, & on soda cans
    $2000 20
In 1941 artist Jacob Lawrence captioned the first in a series "during the world war there was a" this "north by Southern Negroes"
    $2000 15
This fig tree, Ficus microcarpa, is known for its aerial roots, which sprout from the branches & down to the soil
    $2000 17
It's what the middle initial "P" stood for in the name of financier J.P. Morgan
    $2000 9
"Heartbreaker" is the life story of this lead guitarist seen here at Tom Petty's side
    $2000 21
Now an idiom for any irreversible course, this was suggested by Sun Tzu after an army crossed hostile borders

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Alex Susan
$28,200 $9,600 $3,400
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS
Upon this man's re-election, Karl Marx called him "the single-minded son of the working class"

Final scores:

Paolo Alex Susan
$27,174 $9,599 $1
5-day champion: $134,516 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Paolo Alex Susan
$21,600 $9,600 $3,400
27 R
(including 3 DDs),
0 W		 18 R,
5 W		 7 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,600

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