Show #9397 2025-09-23 (taped 2025-08-08) Regular

Steven Olson game 3.

Contestants

Justin Ames — an employment attorney from Jersey City, New Jersey

Hester Bass — a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico

Steven Olson — a band director from Princeton, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,406)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $7,200 $11,200 $27,800 $10,683
3-day champion: $57,089
$19,800
27 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W
Hester $3,400 $3,600 $3,200 $700
3rd place: $2,000
$3,200
9 R, 3 W
Justin $1,600 $2,400 $4,000 $1,599
2nd place: $3,000
$4,000
10 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE ANSWER IS 42! ____ING BOOK TITLES "G" TO "G" THE PRE-FAME CELEBRITY AT WORK AROUND ALABAMA NAVY SEALS
$200 [25]
In his all-too-short career, this late actor played Jackie Robinson in the film "42"
(Chadwick) Boseman
Steven
$200 [10]
Book 2 of "The Hunger Games":"____ Fire"
Catching
Justin
$200 [28]
To play this musical instrument with a Javanese name, you whack it with a soft mallet
gong
Steven
$200 [30]
He was working as a carpenter for Francis Ford Coppola when George Lucas came by, about to cast "Star Wars"; that worked out
Harrison Ford
Hester Justin
$200 [27]
With millions made there, Albertville is "capital of the world" for these, which we love when our house is burning & hate when parking
fire hydrant
Steven
$200 [29]
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) My character in "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" is trained as one of these long-range warfare specialists, like best-selling author & former SEAL Chris Kyle
sniper
Steven
$400 [24]
The Broadway musical adaptation of "42nd Street" included this sleepy, soothing song "of Broadway"
a "Lullaby"
Hester
$400 [4]
Set in Yoknapatawpha County:"As I Lay ____ "
Dying
Steven
$400 [13]
When does pushing air from your lungs through a tube into molten sand equal a vase? When you're an artisan practicing this craft
glassblowing
Steven
$400 [22]
Terry Crews worked for real as a courtroom sketch artist before becoming a TV cop on this N.Y.-set sitcom
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Hester Justin
$400 [8]
Home to the Tigers, this college town founded in 1836 has a name inspired by Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village"
Auburn
Steven
$400 [26]
(Taylor Kitsch presents the clue.) SEALs use the term "insertion" to describe the process of entry in a mission zone; whether from thewateror viaparachute, helicopteror theground, this paired term refers to the process of getting back out
extraction
Steven
$600 [16]
In this board game invented by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse in 1957, there are 42 territories to conquer & defend
Risk
Steven
$600 [3]
A classic of Australian lit & basis for a 1975 film: "Picnic at ____ Rock"
Hanging
Hester
$600 [12]
The business end of a hot air balloon, for example, or a person who won't shut up
a gasbag
Justin
$600 [21]
(D'Arcy Carden presents the clue.) As a struggling actor, I was a full-time nanny for the three daughters of this man; later, I worked for him again when I played Natalie on "Barry", which he co-created
(Bill) Hader
Justin
$600 [5]
This National Forest in the center of the state shares its name with a NASCAR superspeedway nearby
Talladega
Steven
$600 [17]
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) My character in "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" carries aweaponinscribed "LLTB", a SEAL slogan meaning "long live" this type of close sibling-like fellowship
the brotherhood
Steven
$800 [15]
In a Shakespeare play, the potion taken by this character is meant to make her appear dead for 42 hours
Juliet
Steven
$800 [1]
By Shirley Jackson: "The ____ of Hill House"
Haunting
Steven
$800 [11]
It's the sound liquid makes when being poured from a bottle
glug
Justin
$800 [20]
We come to this actress with 5 Oscar nominations for magic--her magic fingers, apparently, as a young massage therapist
Nicole Kidman
$800 [6]
In 1919, the city of Enterprise erected a monument to this pest that forced its farmers to shift to growing different crops
the boll weevil
Hester
$800 [18]
(Chris Pratt presents the clue.) Though SEAL team members jokingly call their gold pin "The Budweiser", they're proud of thesymbolcomposed of an eagle, an anchor, a pistol & this 3-pronged spear, its official name
trident
Steven
DD $3,600 [14]
The first of their kind, they were printed in Mainz, Germany in the 15th century with Latin text in 42-line columns
the Gutenberg Bible
Steven
$1,000 [2]
Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of love & grief:"The Year of Magical ____"
Thinking
Steven
$1,000 [9]
Edgar Allan Poe won $100 in a newspaper contest for a short story about this title insect
the gold bug
Hester
$1,000 [23]
Before providing "Beauty And A Beat" with Justin Bieber, this Trinidad-born singer provided seafood waitressing at Red Lobster
Nicki Minaj
Justin
$1,000 [7]
Once occupied by the French, Alabama's southernmost point is on this island that has a name like an heir to the French throne
Dauphin (Island)
Hester
$1,000 [19]
(Taylor Kitsch presents the clue.) A U.S. Navydestroyeris named for SEALDon McFaul, who died protecting a wounded teammate with his own body while under fire during a 1989 mission to take out the private escape jet of this Panamanian strongman
Noriega
Justin

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY EW, DAVID! 9-LETTER WORDS COMPOSERS DISCOVERY A SONG ON YOUR LIPS
$400 [25]
The Great Pyramid in this modern-day Egyptian city was built in the 26th century B.C.; it's still standing today
Giza
Hester
$400 [26]
According to Josephus, Saul had a price for his daughter's hand--600 heads of these enemies, & future King David delivered
Philistines
Steven
$400 [27]
This word for an exact copy was shortened to become the name of an office machine also called a telecopier
facsimile
Steven
$800 [16]
Andrew Lloyd Webber unmasked "Love Never Dies", his sequel to this musical
The Phantom of the Opera
Steven
$800 [21]
Big ups to the Bedouin shepherd who discovered the first of these manuscripts in a cave south of Jericho in 1947
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Justin
$800 [14]
"Kissy face, kissy face sent to your phone, but I'm tryna kiss your lips for real", says "Apt.", a 2024 collab of Rosé & him
Bruno Mars
Steven
$800 [18]
This Latin-named era of relative tranquility ended with the death of Marcus Aurelius & the ascension of his non-tranquil son
Pax Romana
Steven
$800 [23]
Michael C. Hall played David Fisher, who spent a lot of time with dead bodies & embalming fluid on this series
Six Feet Under
Steven Hester Justin
$800 [22]
This word for an omen of future events is etymologically related to "harbor"
a harbinger
Justin
$1,200 [12]
Ferde Groféused a wind machine & a thunder sheet to emulate nature in this suite that was inspired by a desert trip
(the) Grand Canyon ( Suite )
Steven
DD $1,000 [7]
Since its discovery by James Clark Ross in 1831, this location has migrated steadily toward Russia
the magnetic north pole
Steven
$1,200 [20]
In a Meghan Trainor hit, "if" this is happening, "then you're lyin', lyin', lyin"'
your lips are movin'
Justin
$1,200 [5]
Construction on the Great Pyramidat this Mesoamerican city, also a brand of hot sauce, began around 200 B.C. & lasted 1,000 years
Cholula
Hester
$1,200 [1]
David Balfour suffers illness, exposure & hunger as he travels across the highlands in "Kidnapped" by this author
Stevenson
Justin
$1,200 [13]
Beckett & Ionesco are preeminent contributors to what's known as this style of drama
absurdist
$1,600 [9]
Said to be in league with the devil, this composer of "24 Capricci" for solo violin wasn't buried in holy ground until 5 years after death
Paganini
Steven
$1,200 [3]
Henry Hudson set sail on the Discovery in 1610, hoping to discover this route to Asia but he discovered no such discovery
Northwest Passage
Steven
$1,600 [19]
Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's & Terry Hall of The Specials co-wrote this song after a clandestine romance
"Our Lips Are Sealed"
$1,600 [6]
Honored in the monument seen here, this fallen king led a small but scrappy group of Spartans in the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
Steven
$1,600 [2]
It's gross that David Seville keeps a trio of these rodents in the house, as they can carry plague & hantavirus
the Chipmunks
Hester
$1,600 [10]
What's that clamor? It's this noisy word that comes from the Greek for "bad sound"
cacophony
Steven Justin
DD $8,000 [4]
Plaques on neighboring London houses honor Jimi Hendrix & this German-born composer, a much earlier resident
Handel
Steven
$2,000 [15]
It's a bird, it's a dinosaur, it's this Jurassic fossil discovered in Solnhofen, Germany; many say it proved Darwin right
Archaeopteryx
Hester
$2,000 [17]
"She Don't Use Jelly" was a 1993 hit for this group, perfect for the category
The Flaming Lips
$2,000 [24]
This word can mean "submissive" but is also the name of 3 uprisings that shook Rome; Plutarch called the last the "War of Spartacus"
servile
$2,000 [11]
This character hears "the squeaking & scuffling of the old grey rats down in the cellars" of Murdstone & Grinby's warehouse
David Copperfield
Steven
$2,000 [8]
The Latin for "to close" gives us this word for a blockage found in dentistry & pathology
an occlusion

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Realizing he couldn't draw horses, the man behind this 1963 book drew the title characters purely from his imagination

Where the Wild Things Are

Hester "What Harold and the Purple Crayon? Thanks everyone!!" — wagered $2,500
Justin "What is Black Beauty?" — wagered $2,401
Steven "What is... My Little Pony???" — wagered $17,117

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