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    $1600 7
It's used to describe a liquid that's thick & sticky
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Show #9398 - Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Steven Olson game 4.

Contestants

Jaedon Jerue, a 7th grade math teacher from Danville, Illinois

Natalie Shapero, an English professor from Los Angeles, California

Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $57,089)

Jeopardy! Round

A PHRASE IN HISTORY
COUNTRY MUSIC
4-LETTER HOMOPHONES
STREET SMARTS
FELLAS IN NOVELLAS
(Ken: Oh, what a tour for us...)
STEWS OF THE WORLD
    $200 30
At the end of 1940 FDR said there will be no bottlenecks in U.S. aid to Britain, as we must be "the great arsenal of" this
    $200 29
Dolly Parton sang this name, this name, this name, this naaaaame, "I'm begging of you please don't take my man"
    $200 28
Lines of seats
&
got up from bed
    $200 26
The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building & the Apollo Theater are along 125th Street in this neighborhood
    $200 25
The hero of Daniel Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon" is a 30-something factory worker; the title character is one of these furry fellas
    $200 27
One of Walt Disney's favorite foods was this all-American stew with deep Mexican roots; he ate it from the can & con carne
    $400 14
After a defeat in battle, French king Francis I is quoted, "All is lost save" this, one-third of the West Point motto
    $400 17
"Before He Cheats" by this singer was the CMA's Single of the Year in 2007; she'd soon become a fixture on that award show
    $400 6
24-hour periods
&
to stun
    $400 15
Check out Preservation Hall on St. Peter & Cafe Beignet on Decatur in this lovely NOLA area
    $400 7
Hot-blooded Don José has some jealousy issues in this 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella; it inspired a Bizet opera of the same name
    $400 19
Elmer Fudd could tell you that it's the traditional main ingredient in hasenpfeffer
    DD: $1,000 2
Conquistador Cortés told the Aztecs, "We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart that only" this substance "can cure"
    $600 20
In 1971, 3 of the 5 Grammy Country Song nominees were written by this late master, not yet a movie actor
    $600 5
A price
&
the open-air event you might go to after paying
    $600 16
Find the New Daisy Theatre & Rum Boogie Cafe's blues hall while carousing through this street in Memphis
    $600 9
A magistrate refers to the Frenchman Meursault as "Monsieur Antichrist"; Albert Camus opts for this title designation
    $600 10
Paprika-heavy Pörkölt is the heartier cousin of this Hungarian dish whose name can also mean a jumble
    $800 1
The Romans offered besieged cities mercy but not if murum aries attigisset, this has "touched the wall"
    $800 24
For Willie Nelson, "the life I love is makin' music with my friends" when the legend was in this title touring situation
    $800 4
To wander
&
a city about 15 miles from Utica, New York
    $800 8
Brattle Street & John F. Kennedy Street both lead to this square in Cambridge where you'll find the Coop flagship store
    $800 11
In this Steinbeck "gem", a diver named Kino learns to be careful what one wishes for
    $800 21
The name of this Cuban dish of stewed shredded beef means "old clothes" & may refer to its tattered appearance
    $1000 13
Historian Estelle Paranque places 1547, when the boy Edward VI succeeded Henry VIII, as the year these 8 words caught on
    $1000 23
With tunes like "Whiskey And You" & "Tennessee Whiskey", no surprise this singer-songwriter co-founded Traveller Whiskey
    $1000 3
Took to the air
&
a vent that carries smoke
    $1000 18
"Experience" this Las Vegas street by losing nuggets at the Golden Nugget or billions at Binion's
    $1000 12
For this title dead guy in a Leo Tolstoy novella, the unlikely cause of his death is hanging curtains
    $1000 22
Budae-jiigai, or army base stew, is a comfort food dish that originated in the 20th century in this country

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

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$3,400 $3,600 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$6,800 $5,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHIC NAME GAME
"V"OCABULARY
FILMS OUT OF HISTORY
ON THE SILK ROAD
MARINE BIOLOGY
DO YOU LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY?
    $400 24
Stretching from the Red Sea to the Atlantic, it gets its name from the Arabic for "desert"
    $400 22
Disease-spreading rats & mice & cockroaches, oh my!
    $400 28
Adrien Brody won an Oscar for playing the Chopin-loving Wladyslaw Szpilman in this film
    $400 27
As silk went west from China on the road, gold, Christianity & this 13th century Venetian explorer went east
    $400 26
Kathleen Drew-Baker is known as "Mother of the Sea" in Japan due to her pioneering work in the cultivation of this sushi substance
    $400 30
To a "shooter", a news camera operator, the "sticks" are this important accessory
    $800 21
Though its name has changed slightly, this Jamaican bay's name was once the Spanish for "butter bay"
    $800 11
It's a 9-letter word for the entryway in a church where literature & bulletin boards are found
    $800 19
(Omar J. Dorsey presents the clue.) Alongside David Oyelowo, who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I portrayed another lion of the civil rights era, Reverend James "Shackdaddy" Orange, in this 2014 movie
    $800 15
Trade routes go way back; the Indian goddess seen here was found at this famous Roman archaeological site
    $800 20
Whales' closest living relatives are these semi-aquatic mammals of Africa; they had a common ancestor that lived 55 million years ago
    $800 29
Old-timey photos may be tintypes, but the predecessor to modern prints used gelatin & usually salts of this precious metal
    $1200 1
Maurice of Nassau lent his name to this island of the Indian Ocean
    $1200 8
Insert 2 letters into a word meaning to disappear to get this term meaning to defeat in battle
    $1200 16
The decades-long hunt for Osama bin Laden was chronicled in this Oscar-winning film
    $1200 6
Part of the southern route is still a highway connecting Pakistan & China, named for this mountain range NW of the Himalayas
    $1200 9
Despite living in salty or brackish water, this large marine mammal of the order Sirenia relies heavily on fresh water for hydration
    $1200 12
Many professional photographers today use a digital SLR, short for this type of camera
    $1600 3
Literally "the harbor", this port city on the English Channel offers ferry service across "La Manche"
    $1600 7
It's used to describe a liquid that's thick & sticky
    $1600 17
This Christopher Nolan film from 2017 saw Barry Keoghan spending a lot of time in a boat off the coast of France
    $1600 2
A major stop in this country was Samarkand, "stone city"; its modern capital Tashkent means the same thing
    $1600 10
In the Billion-this bivalve Project, they're being restored to N.Y. Harbor to help with water quality, storm surges & more
    $1600 25
The focal ratio, also called the f-stop, is the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of this opening in a camera
    DD: $2,200 4
Magellan named this southern archipelago after the fires he saw while passing through
    DD: $4,000 14
Used for heart conditions & high blood pressure, it's any medication designed to widen the blood vessels
    $2000 18
More than $13 million was spent on this 1962 David Lean epic that re-created the town of Aqaba on a beach in southern Spain
    $2000 5
This Poe poem tells of the Central Asian emperor also known as Timur who controlled much of the route
    $2000 13
The fish seen here is commonly called this hyphenated military rank due to its stripes' resemblance to grade insignia
    $2000 23
In the late 1830s, this Frenchman refined a photographic process to require less than an hour of exposure

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$17,200 $8,000 $6,400
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round

THE 21st CENTURY
A 2011 email said, "On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people... set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and" these 3 words

Final scores:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$17,293 $14,000 $4,799
4-day champion: $74,382 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steven Natalie Jaedon
$20,800 $8,000 $6,200
28 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
0 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $35,000

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