Show #9398 2025-09-24 (taped 2025-08-08) Regular

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)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $3,400 $6,800 $17,200 $17,293
4-day champion: $74,382
$20,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Natalie $3,600 $5,600 $8,000 $14,000
2nd place: $3,000
$8,000
11 R, 0 W
Jaedon $1,400 $2,200 $6,400 $4,799
3rd place: $2,000
$6,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A PHRASE IN HISTORY COUNTRY MUSIC 4-LETTER HOMOPHONES STREET SMARTS FELLAS IN NOVELLAS 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
democracy
Steven
$200 [29]
Dolly Parton sang this name, this name, this name, this naaaaame, "I'm begging of you please don't take my man"
Jolene
Natalie
$200 [28]
Lines of seats&got up from bed
rows/rose
Steven
$200 [26]
The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building & the Apollo Theater are along125th Streetin this neighborhood
Harlem
Steven
$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
a mouse
Jaedon
$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
chili
Jaedon
$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
honor
$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
Carrie Underwood
Jaedon
$400 [6]
24-hour periods&to stun
days/daze
Jaedon
$400 [15]
Check out Preservation Hall on St. Peter & Cafe Beignet on Decatur in this lovely NOLA area
French Quarter
Steven
$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
Carmen
Steven
$400 [19]
Elmer Fudd could tell you that it's the traditional main ingredient in hasenpfeffer
rabbit
Steven
$800 [1]
The Romans offered besieged cities mercy but not if murum aries attigisset, this has "touched the wall"
the (battering) ram
Steven
$600 [20]
In 1971, 3 of the 5 Grammy Country Song nominees were written by this late master, not yet a movie actor
Kris Kristofferson
$600 [5]
A price&the open-air event you might go to after paying
fare/fair
Natalie
$600 [16]
Find the New Daisy Theatre & Rum Boogie Cafe's blues hall while carousing through this street in Memphis
Beale
Steven
$600 [9]
A magistrate refers to the Frenchman Meursault as "Monsieur Antichrist"; Albert Camus opts for this title designation
the Stranger
Steven
$600 [10]
Paprika-heavy Pörkölt is the heartier cousin of this Hungarian dish whose name can also mean a jumble
goulash
Natalie
DD $1,000 [2]
Conquistador Cortés told the Aztecs, "We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart that only" this substance "can cure"
gold
Steven
$800 [24]
For Willie Nelson, "the life I love is makin' music with my friends" when the legend was in this title touring situation
on the road again
Steven
$800 [4]
To wander&a city about 15 miles from Utica, New York
roam/Rome
Natalie
$800 [8]
Brattle Street & John F. Kennedy Street both lead to this square in Cambridge where you'll find the Coop flagship store
Harvard (Square)
Natalie
$800 [11]
In this Steinbeck "gem", a diver named Kino learns to be careful what one wishes for
The Pearl
Steven Natalie
$800 [21]
The name of this Cuban dish of stewed shredded beef means "old clothes" & may refer to its tattered appearance
ropa vieja
Natalie
$1,000 [13]
Historian Estelle Paranque places 1547, when the boy Edward VI succeeded Henry VIII, as the year these 8 words caught on
the king is dead, long live the king
$1,000 [23]
With tunes like "Whiskey And You" & "Tennessee Whiskey", no surprise this singer-songwriter co-founded Traveller Whiskey
Chris Stapleton
$1,000 [3]
Took to the air&a vent that carries smoke
flew/flue
Steven
$1,000 [18]
"Experience" this Las Vegas street by losing nuggets at the Golden Nugget or billions at Binion's
Fremont (Street)
Steven
$1,000 [12]
For this title dead guy in a Leo Tolstoy novella, the unlikely cause of his death is hanging curtains
Ivan Ilyich
Jaedon
$1,000 [22]
Budae-jiigai, or army base stew, is a comfort food dish that originated in the 20th century in this country
South Korea
Natalie

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"
Sahara
Jaedon
$400 [22]
Disease-spreading rats & mice & cockroaches, oh my!
vermin
Natalie
$400 [28]
Adrien Brody won an Oscar for playing the Chopin-loving Wladyslaw Szpilman in this film
The Pianist
Natalie
$400 [27]
As silk went west from China on the road, gold, Christianity & this 13th century Venetian explorer went east
Marco Polo
Steven
$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
nori (seaweed)
Steven
$400 [30]
To a "shooter", a news camera operator, the "sticks" are this important accessory
a tripod
Steven
$800 [21]
Though its name has changed slightly, this Jamaican bay's name was once the Spanish for "butter bay"
Montego
Steven
$800 [11]
It's a 9-letter word for the entryway in a church where literature & bulletin boards are found
vestibule
Steven
$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, inthis2014 movie
Selma
Steven
$800 [15]
Trade routes go way back; the Indian goddess seenherewas found at this famous Roman archaeological site
Pompeii
Jaedon
$800 [20]
Whales' closest living relatives are these semi-aquatic mammals of Africa; they had a common ancestor that lived 55 million years ago
hippo
Steven
$800 [29]
Old-timey photos may be tintypes, but the predecessor to modern prints used gelatin & usually salts of this precious metal
silver
Jaedon
$1,200 [1]
Maurice of Nassau lent his name to this island of the Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Steven
$1,200 [8]
Insert 2 letters into a word meaning to disappear to get this term meaning to defeat in battle
vanquish (from vanish)
Steven
$1,200 [16]
The decades-longhuntfor Osama bin Laden was chronicled in this Oscar-winning film
Zero Dark Thirty
Jaedon
$1,200 [6]
Part of the southern route is still a highway connecting Pakistan & China, named for this mountain range NW of the Himalayas
Karakoram
Steven Jaedon
$1,200 [9]
Despite living in salty or brackish water, this large marine mammal of the order Sirenia relies heavily on fresh water for hydration
manatee
Steven
$1,200 [12]
Many professional photographers today use a digital SLR, short for this type of camera
single lens reflex
$1,600 [3]
Literally "the harbor", this port city on the English Channel offers ferry service across "La Manche"
Le Havre
Steven Jaedon
$1,600 [7]
It's used to describe a liquid that's thick & sticky
viscous
Steven
$1,600 [17]
This Christopher Nolan film from 2017 saw Barry Keoghan spending a lot of time in a boat off the coast of France
Dunkirk
Natalie
$1,600 [2]
A major stop in this country was Samarkand, "stone city"; its modern capital Tashkent means the same thing
Uzbekistan
Jaedon
$1,600 [10]
In the Billion-this bivalve Project, they're being restored to N.Y. Harbor to help with water quality, storm surges & more
oysters
Steven
$1,600 [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
aperture
Steven
DD $2,200 [4]
Magellan named this southern archipelago after the fires he saw while passing through
Tierra del Fuego
Jaedon
DD $4,000 [14]
Used for heart conditions & high blood pressure, it's any medication designed to widen the blood vessels
vasodilator
Steven
$2,000 [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
Lawrence of Arabia
$2,000 [5]
This Poe poem tells of the Central Asian emperor also known as Timur who controlled much of the route
"Tamerlane"
$2,000 [13]
The fish seenhereis commonly called this hyphenated military rank due to its stripes' resemblance to grade insignia
the sergeant-major
$2,000 [23]
In the late 1830s, this Frenchman refined a photographic process to require less than an hour of exposure
Daguerre
Steven

Final Jeopardy!

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

occupy Wall Street

Jaedon "What is "Love you, Mom"" — wagered $1,601
Natalie "What is occupy Wall Street" — wagered $6,000
Steven "What is... Occupy Wall Street Hi Megan ♡" — wagered $93

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