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    $1200 24
This 10-letter word usually refers to an ancient cave dweller but can now also describe any secluded person
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Show #9393 - Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Paolo Pasco game 6.

Contestants

Laura Mixter, a director of impact measurement and management from Chicago, Illinois

Max Miller, a college counselor from Astoria, New York

Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (whose 5-day cash winnings total $134,516)

Jeopardy! Round

WORDS FOR CITY FOLK
I WROTE THAT FOR CHILDREN!
(Ken: You name the author.)
TRIPLES
EARLY ROLES
BEASTLY ENDINGS
(Ken: Each response here will end with an animal.)
HAWAIʻI AS IT WAS
(Jason: Aloha, I'm Jason Momoa. I co-wrote and star in Chief of War, and I'll have clues about the incredible time it depicts in Hawai'i's past.)
    $200 27
Since "The Hub" was coined by a Brahmin, the word Hubbites is for the wicked lot of folks from this East Coast city
    $200 28
"'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen. 'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!"'
    $200 29
In the '90s, this cocktail of vodka, triple sec & cranberry juice arguably should've been renamed "Triple Sec and the City"
    $200 26
The truth is right here! Jack Black is struck dead by lightning on a 1995 episode of this show
    $200 30
A short film of current affairs formerly shown along with a movie in a cinema
    $200 25
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) A playground since 1901 when it first got its luxury hotel, this beach was historically a tempting site for invaders of Oahu, like Kahekili in our series
    DD: $3,800 21
A Weegie is a person from this city on the River Clyde
    $400 17
"'Get that moose!' Thidwick heard a voice call... 'shoot straight, one and all! We must get his head for the Harvard club wall!"'
    $400 23
Johann Strauss II is known as the "King" of this dance that's usually in simple triple time, aka 3/4
    $400 18
N.Y. raised Zoe Saldaña's first IMDb credit was a 1999 role on this TV drama; it came back in 2022, if Zoe wants to go on again
    $400 13
It can be a piece of paper to absorb excess ink, or a police station's daily record of arrests
    $400 14
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) Chiefs were honored in Hawai'i & throughout the series with the mahiole; the helmet was made using these, often from the or 'i'iwi or the now extinct mamo
    $600 8
A Yinzer is a person from this U.S. city located at the confluence of 3 rivers
    $600 6
"'This is the finest thing I have ever done,' thought Stuart. And he shot the arrow straight into the cat's ear. Snowbell squealed"
    $600 1
A tongue stuck to a flagpole is the grievous upshot of a triple-dog dare in this classic holiday film
    $600 19
Kevin Bacon's first feature was this college-set John Belushi film; in the end, all was not well, & Kevin ended up a bit flat
    $600 2
"Stratford Mill" & "The Hay Wain" are examples of this type of painting by John Constable, a major artist of the form in the 1800s
    $600 20
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) Kaʻiana & his family are from the island of Maui, but when we meet them are living on this northwestern island, around the time Captain Cook landed at Waimea Bay
    $800 9
Parlez-vous Ouagalais? That's the nickname for folks from Ouagadougou, the capital of this African nation
    $800 7
"'It was poisoned, Peter... and now I am going to be dead"'; "'O Tink, did you drink it to save me?"'; "'Yes'"
    $800 5
Renewed periodically between 1882 & WWI, the Triple Alliance was a hush-hush pact between Austria-Hungary & these 2 countries
    $800 12
1989's bionic showdown--"The Six Million Dollar Man" & "The Bionic Woman" was long before she dealt with "Gravity"
    $800 3
A structure of this type was built in Ur around 2000 B.C. & dedicated to the moon god Nanna
    $800 15
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) "Chief of War" has many real historical figures, including this king known as "The Great", who we show still struggling to unite the Big Island
    $1000 11
People from Guadalajara are sometimes called this "T" word, like a hot sauce that has a man in a sombrero on its bottle
    $1000 10
"'I have not killed anything"'; "'Your house did, anyway', replied the little old woman, with a laugh; 'And that is the same thing"'
    $1000 16
Established as 3 Phoenician colonies in the 7th c. B.C., the historical North African region of Tripolitania is now part of this country
    $1000 22
Her "Long Bright River" of movie & TV roles included Lucy Montgomery on "As the World Turns" when she was 15
    $1000 4
16 pieces of eight were once equal to one of these old gold coins
    $1000 24
(Jason Momoa presents the clue.) My character Kaʻiana shows his reckless side at Heʻe hōlua; We're lava sledding down the side of a volcano--this fire goddess was said to have been masterful at it

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

Paolo Max Laura
$4,800 $3,200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Max Laura
$6,600 $400 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

OUR CRUSTY EARTH
PROFESSORS
UNUSUAL WORDS
THE 1975...
THE FALL
(Ken: And appropriately enough...)
BANDS BIGGER IN BRITAIN
    $400 28
The Earth's crust is divided into 2 types: oceanic crust, which lies mainly beneath (you guessed it) the oceans, & this type
    $400 29
While a professor at Berkeley in the 1930s, he took Ernest Lawrence on vacation to New Mexico
    $400 30
Bellycheer is a fun-sounding word that's synonymous with this deadly sin
    $400 12
...independence of Angola, Mozambique & Cape Verde left this country a lot less of a colonizer
    $400 15
The theme of this 1667 poem was the fall of humanity through disobedience to God
    $400 18
Spin magazine put Teenage Fanclub's "Bandwagonesque" ahead of this band's "Nevermind" on their best of 1991 list
    $800 27
Sandstone & shale are these rocks, one of 3 types found in the Earth's crust; they form when material accumulates at the surface
    $800 26
She held a Cabinet post from 1997 to 2001 & also taught for almost 40 years at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
    $800 25
Meaning to idly loaf, this word starts with a slang word for a type of hard candy & ends with a choking action
    $800 8
...World Series, one of the greatest ever, featured Carlton Fisk's game-winning homer off this ballpark's left field foul pole
    $800 13
Some kids never learn; here's this mythological son falling to the sea despite a warning from dad
    $800 19
With songs like "A Message To You Rudy" & "Ghost Town", The Specials heralded the second wave of this Caribbean genre
    $1200 2
This country's Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest hole ever dug; under the rusty cap seen here, it extends 7.6 miles into Earth's crust
    $1200 6
In between butterfly hunting, this novelist taught English at Cornell & Thomas Pynchon was one of his pupas
    $1200 24
This 10-letter word usually refers to an ancient cave dweller but can now also describe any secluded person
    $1200 4
...reopening of this waterway, with President Sadat in admiral whites, was 8 years to the day after the 6-Day War closed it
    $1200 5
David Bowie gave listeners "The Rise and Fall..." of this persona "...and the Spiders from Mars"
    $1200 20
2024 saw Oasis announcing a reunion while Damon Albarn said this rival band could be done with live shows
    $1600 16
Alfred Wegener is known as the "father of" this 1960s theory that shook up our understanding of how the Earth's crust changes
    $1600 7
Often referred to as "the father of modern linguistics", he joined MIT in 1955
    DD: $2,000 3
The Latin for "cloud" gives us this type of machine that gives asthma patients medicine in a liquid mist
    $1600 11
...campaign that made this candidate Britain's new Conservative Party leader was managed by former spy Airey Neave
    $1600 10
In 1922 Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted a bribe to give an oil company rights to this oil reserve in Wyoming
    $1600 1
This band's "Common People" opens with Jarvis Cocker singing "She came from Greece / She had a thirst for knowledge"
    $2000 23
Mountains form via this process, from the Greek for "mountain" & "born"; it results from intense crustal upheavals
    $2000 9
This man who has taught philosophy & religion at Harvard & Princeton appeared in two of "The Matrix" films
    $2000 22
This word for authoritative influence of one nation over others comes from the Greek for "leader"
    DD: $2,000 17
...success of Junko Tabei as the first woman to do this got her a medal from the king of Nepal
    $2000 14
It took 6 volumes for Edward Gibbon to chronicle not just the fall but "The Decline and Fall of" this
    $2000 21
This former member of Take That is portrayed by a CGI chimp in the biopic "Better Man"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paolo Max Laura
$16,600 $6,400 $13,800

Final Jeopardy! Round

NOVELS
In April 2025 the Empire State Building was lit up in green to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this novel's publication

Final scores:

Paolo Max Laura
$27,601 $7,195 $14,400
6-day champion: $162,117 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Paolo Max Laura
$16,600 $9,800 $13,800
24 R,
2 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $40,200

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