Show #9400 2025-09-26 (taped 2025-08-08) Regular

Contestants

Prasad Patil — an assistant professor of biostatistics from Burlington, Massachusetts

Yasmine Mitchell — a software engineer from Sunnyvale, California

Vickie Talvola — a quantitative trader from Jersey City, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,407)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Vickie	$7,800	$9,800	$25,800	$25,950 2nd place: $3,000	$19,000 25 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Yasmine	$1,800	$3,200	$7,600	$12,600 3rd place: $2,000	$7,600 11 R, 1 W
Prasad	$2,000	$4,000	$25,600	$35,600 New champion: $35,600	$16,400 17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE	WORN ON THE STREET	MOVIE ROLE IN COMMON	WHICH -VERSE ARE WE IN?	HISTORY	1-"S"YLLABLE WORDS
$200 [27] Alaska's border with this Canadian territory is more than 700 miles long Yukon Yasmine	$200 [30] In its 2025 bankruptcy filing, Forever 21 blamed Temu & this fast fashion brand that has a "village" in Guangzhou Shein Yasmine	$200 [19] This character was a purrfect role for both Michelle Pfeiffer & Zoë Kravitz Catwoman Yasmine	$200 [28] The very detailed book "The Making of" this begins with J.K. Rowling's fateful train ride the Potterverse Vickie Yasmine	$200 [24] The Redfern Speech admitted injustice done to Aboriginal people; Redfern, a suburb of this city, is near the "First Fleet" arrival site Sydney Vickie	$200 [29] This thick liquid used as a base for sauces & soups is made by simmering bones in water for 4 to 6 hours stock Vickie
$400 [26] With over 20 million in its greater metro area, this city founded in 1554 has the largest population in South America São Paulo Vickie Prasad	$400 [21] In 2023 this skater brand with a red & white logo & a name meaning "highest in rank" opened a location on the Sunset Strip Supreme Prasad	$400 [18] Emma Stone & Glenn Close each brought their own unique menace to this fashion designer Cruella de Vil Prasad	$400 [25] The Master Weaver figures prominently in issue #1 of this Marvel comic series from 2014 the Spider-Verse Vickie	$400 [8] Once in power, the Chinese Communist Party's first big purge was in 1954 after Gao & Rao got on this man's nerves Mao Yasmine	$400 [22] These horizontal strips in Venetian blinds are often made of aluminum in high moisture areas such as a bathroom slats Vickie
$600 [15] Located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, it's the largest alpinelakein North America Lake Tahoe Vickie Prasad	$600 [20] A NYC billboard shows a rotation of thirst-trappy ads for this brand, including ones featuring Bad Bunny & Jeremy Allen White Calvin Klein Prasad	$600 [12] Playing this tomb raider:Angelina Jolie &Alicia Vikander Lara Croft Vickie	$600 [7] Physicist David Deutsch says quantum theory not only suggests but demands this 10-letter word meaning there are many, many Kens multiverse Yasmine	$600 [4] Thismaterial tapping extracts latex; in 1988, Chico Mendes, a defender of that way of life, was slain by Brazilian ranchers rubber Vickie	$600 [3] From the Latin for "to be wise", it's one who is venerated for wisdom sage Vickie
$800 [13] George Town is the leading city in these Caribbean islands named for an alligator relative the Cayman Islands Vickie	$800 [9] These Nike shoes named after a famous plane were once called Uptowns, due to their popularity in Uptown New York Air Force 1s Prasad	$800 [10] This law enforcement agent was all in a day's role for Julianne Moore & Jodie Foster Clarice Starling Prasad	$1,000 [23] Thisvirtual community that Philip Rosedale launched in 2003 is often cited as the forerunner of the metaverse Second Life Vickie	$800 [2] One of the longest sieges in British history lasted 1779-1783, with France & Spain failing to take this dot at the SW tip of Europe Gibraltar Yasmine	$800 [5] 1 Samuel says this weapon of Goliath's was like a weaver's beam & its "head weighed six hundred shekels of iron" spear
$1,000 [16] Nicaragua lost out in 1960 when the northern part of the Mosquito Coast was awarded to this country Honduras Yasmine	$1,000 [17] Makes sense that this workwear co. popular with Bedford Ave. hipsters has a name that starts with "Car-" since it began in Detroit Carhartt Prasad	$1,000 [11] This South African activist was brought to the big screen by both Naomie Harris & Jennifer Hudson Winnie Mandela Prasad	DD $3,600 [14] Unable to serve in the military due to poor eyesight, he glorified American warriors in the Ryanverse (Tom) Clancy Vickie	$1,000 [1] This leader says his country will handle challenges like it handled the Cumans & Pechenegs, nomadic invaders from the Steppes around 1100 Putin	$1,000 [6] To growl with a display of the teeth, or a tangle of yarn or hair snarl Vickie

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARCHAEOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY	TV SHOWS BY FAMILY	COVER ME	ALLITERATION	LONELY ISLAND	I'M ON A BOAT
$400 [28] Like the Gamla Uppsala in Sweden, a tumulus is a large earthen mound built over one of these a tomb (grave)	$400 [23] On Fox from 2003 to 2006:the Bluths Arrested Development Prasad	$400 [29] A type of cloak with a hole in it, this item often worn on rainy days originated in South America a poncho Yasmine	$400 [26] Are you old enough to remember this bibliography in drawers at your local library? card catalog Prasad	$400 [24] Alexander Selkirk Island & this one named for Selkirk's fictional counterpart are sparsely populated Juan Fernández Isles Crusoe Vickie	$400 [30] What?! A possible warrant for bank robbery coming for a passenger--Phileas Fogg? That's life on the steamer Mongolia in this book for ya Around the World in Eighty Days Vickie
$800 [27] Spelled with a middle "A" or "E", it's a brokenpieceor fragment of pottery found at an archaeological dig site a shard Prasad	$800 [8] Selena Gomez & magic:the Russo family Wizards of Waverly Place Vickie	$1,200 [2] Lowe's has several options for these roofing items, not the same-named herpes zoster shingles Yasmine	$800 [20] The largestbatsin the world have this name that mentions another mammal a flying fox Vickie	$800 [21] North Brother Islandin the East River was once home to Mary Mallon, nicknamed this; now, nobody lives there Typhoid Mary Prasad	$800 [25] Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall's "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island" are novels in a trilogy named for this boat the Bounty Vickie
$1,200 [4] 5-letter back-formed word for a circular area often containing stones or posts & dating back to the Neolithic henge Prasad	$1,200 [7] From 2014 to 2022 with Anthony Anderson:the Johnson family black-ish Prasad	$1,600 [18] Your auntie might use the ornamental furniture covering called an anti thisto help keep it tidy macassar Vickie	$1,200 [12] Methane & carbon dioxide are among these that trap heat in the atmosphere greenhouse gases Vickie	$1,200 [1] Lonely Kanaga Island is part of the Andreanof chain of this Alaskan island group Aleutians Yasmine	$1,200 [16] This title character of a novella by Herman Melville is impressed onto the HMS Indomitable Billy Budd Vickie
$1,600 [10] This 2-word Latin term is used to describe an artifact found in its original resting place or where it was first deposited in situ Vickie	$1,600 [5] From 1974 to 1984:the Cunningham family Happy Days Prasad	$2,000 [19] The defining feature of arthropods is an exoskeleton made of this tough substance, spelled with a "CH" but pronounced "K" chitin Prasad	$1,600 [9] In ancient Rome these priestesses kept the home fire burning, literally, at a temple honoring the goddess of the hearth Vestal Virgins Vickie	$1,600 [3] Penguins, not humans, abound on Heard Island & McDonald Islands, which in 2025 were oddly subject to these from the USA tariffs Yasmine	$1,600 [14] Bay Area swell Humphrey Van Weyden contends with a cranky captain aboard the Ghost in this Jack London tale The Sea-Wolf Vickie
$2,000 [17] Fancy name for a kitchen trash heap built up over time & indicating the former presence of a human settlement a midden	$2,000 [6] On a Mindy Kaling Netflixshow, the Vishwakumar family Never Have I Ever Prasad	DD $10,000 [22] Built in the 1st c., it had a big retractable awning, called a velarium, that shielded its audience of 50,000 from the sun the Colosseum Prasad	$2,000 [11] It's Latin for an object that serves as a reminder that death is inevitable memento mori Prasad	DD $6,000 [13] Now lightly populated, Delos in the Cyclades was once a hub of activity & also the supposed birthplace of this god Apollo Vickie	$2,000 [15] Michael Healy, a Black ship captain in the 1800s for the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, is one historical figure in "Alaska" by this man James Michener Vickie

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENTISTS

Joseph Lister said there was not "an individual to whom medical science owes more than to" this man, feted at the Sorbonne in 1892

(Louis) Pasteur

Yasmine "Who is Pasteur?" — wagered $5,000

Prasad "Who is Pasteur?" — wagered $10,000

Vickie "Who is Pasteur?" — wagered $150

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