Show #9405 2025-10-03 (taped 2025-09-08) Regular

TJ Fisher game 2.

Contestants

Ellie Baker — a lawyer originally from Louisville, Kentucky

Roberto Carabeo — an environmental designer from New York, New York

TJ Fisher — a marketing specialist from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,089)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
TJ $3,300 $8,100 $23,800 $23,800
2-day champion: $38,889
$21,000
31 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Roberto $1,600 $1,200 $800 $800
3rd place: $2,000
$800
6 R, 3 W
Ellie $-400 $800 $10,000 $10,000
2nd place: $3,000
$10,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MONOPOLY SPACES DOUBLE-LETTER ENDINGS MOTTO ZONE WE LOVE YOU, JUDY BRAVE THE ELEMENTS
$200 [17]
Park Place & this other property are the most expensive in the game
Boardwalk
TJ
$200 [22]
An old-time writing implement, or a porcupine's prickle
a quill
TJ
$200 [13]
Perhaps the lion in this movie studio's iconic logo is roaring the motto Ars Gratia Artis, meaning "art for art's sake"
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
TJ
$200 [19]
In 1945, Louis B. Mayer had the honor of giving away this beautiful bride to Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland
TJ Ellie
$200 [29]
Of this title reference from an 1850 novel, "They said it meant able, so strong was Hester Prynne"
the scarlet letter
TJ
$200 [27]
English chemist Joseph Priestley discovered laughing gas & in 1774, this other important gas
oxygen
Ellie
$400 [18]
This space bears the name of a railroad company that merged with competitor New York Central in 1968
the Pennsylvania Railroad
TJ Roberto
$400 [23]
I hit 5 out of 6 numbers in Powerball! Guess it's time to go on this buying binge
a shopping spree
Ellie
$400 [14]
This motto first appeared on U.S. coins due to increased religious sentiment during the Civil War
"In God We Trust"
Ellie
$400 [21]
Never one to shrink from a role, Judy Greerplayed Scott Lang's ex-wife, Maggie, in this big yet small 2015 Marvel movie
Ant-Man
TJ
$400 [30]
Ofglen is a valiant member of the group known as Mayday, part of the resistance inside Gilead in this novel
The Handmaid's Tale
Ellie
$400 [28]
Named for a married couple, it's used to power X-ray spectrometers in the Mars rovers
curium
TJ
$600 [1]
More power to you if you know Water Works & this other space are the utilities
the Electric Company
TJ
$600 [4]
We're going backstage! I got this kind of 2-word pass that will get VIPs like us in anywhere
an all-access pass
TJ
$600 [15]
William of Orange adopted the motto Je Maintiendrai, French for "I will maintain", which is still used today in this country
the Netherlands
Roberto
$600 [10]
A 2025 Netflixseriesre-imagined "Forever", a young adult novel written 50 years before by this legend of the genre
Judy Blume
TJ
$600 [16]
"Elphie" was written some 30 years after this book that began a series following brave Elphaba
Wicked
TJ
DD $500 [9]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory predictably has a webpage for this superheavy element, No. 117 on the periodic table
tennessine
TJ
$800 [2]
This space with a gold ring on it is also what a 1990 federal budget deal imposed, making yachts more expensive
a Luxury Tax
TJ
$800 [5]
Danish for "jest" may be related to this verb meaning to show derision or contempt for something
to scoff
$800 [24]
As of 2021 the Olympic motto is 4 words: Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter, meaning "faster, higher, stronger," this
together
TJ
$800 [11]
I've got an answer--the 1969 song "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" was written for Judy Collins by her ex-BF Stephen, 1/3 of this trio
Crosby, Stills & Nash
TJ
$800 [20]
Not one to shrink from bullies, this Roald Dahl heroine tricks her dad Mr. Wormwood into gluing his hat to his head
Matilda
TJ
$600 [7]
Of the 3 main gases that compose most of the Earth's atmosphere, this noble one makes up about 1%
argon
TJ
$1,000 [3]
The game has spaces named for these 2 types of cards; land on one, pick a card & you get what you get
Chance & Community Chest
TJ
$1,000 [6]
A CDC report ranked this aquatic leafy plant with a peppery taste as having the highest nutrient density of any fruit or vegetable
watercress
Roberto
$1,000 [25]
Rendered infamous by John Wilkes Booth, "Sic Semper Tyrannis" was & still is the motto of this state
Virginia
TJ
$1,000 [12]
A feminist artist with a city name, shethrew a 1970s dinner party, a banquet table filled with notable women's names
Judy Chicago
TJ
$1,000 [26]
In "The Wyrd Sisters", a book in his "Discworld" series, Granny Weatherwax is a witch to be reckoned with
Sir Terry Pratchett
$800 [8]
Alphabetically last, this element is used in nuclear reactors & medical devices
zirconium
TJ Ellie

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR GENERALS TV TITLE OVERLAPS LAKE LIVING SAFE WORDS GODS & GODDESSES ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
$400 [27]
Frederick Douglass noted the nausea-inducing praise of this Virginian--one officer said his "bosom shone translucent"
Lee
TJ
$400 [14]
Cash-strapped Korean TV contestants meet the mother of dragons, which should go well for everybody, right?
Squid Game of Thrones
Roberto
$400 [24]
Temple Square is a fixture ofthisU.S. capital, once referred to as New Jerusalem
Salt Lake City
Roberto
$400 [10]
According to the book "Mapping Gay L.A.", this 2-word term for a place for marginalized groups goes back to the mid-1960s
a safe space
Ellie
$400 [21]
Seeking bunnies in classic art? They may accompany this Roman fertility goddess, as in Piero di Cosimo's painting of her, Mars & Cupid
Venus
Ellie
$400 [17]
Insert 2 letters in "very" (a related word) to get this, meaning "indeed"
verily
TJ
$800 [25]
Did he invent baseball? Probably not, but this man did step up to the plate after John F. Reynolds' death at Gettysburg
Abner Doubleday
$800 [7]
As easy as ABC, the Dunphys meet Urkel; did we do that?
Modern Family Matters
Roberto
$800 [26]
New York's second-largest city, it's situated where Lake Erie tapers off into the Niagara River
Buffalo
TJ
$800 [11]
A NYC home that sold for $59 million in 2021 boasted a saltwater pool & this safe area, also a Jodie Foster film title
a panic room
TJ
$800 [15]
Baal was the god not only of rain but of this a.m. moisture, vital in the ancient Near East with months of no precipitation
dew
Roberto
$800 [16]
This adverb for when things are going very well begins with an Olympic sport
swimmingly
TJ
$1,200 [28]
Post-bellum, General Lew Wallace became gov. of the New Mexico Territory & exchanged letters with this 19-year-old outlaw
Billy the Kid
$1,200 [4]
Tom Selleck travels from Hawaii to join Ms. Ball in the 1950s
Magnum P.I. Love Lucy
TJ
$1,200 [8]
As in the name of a nearby lofty tourist attraction, these 4 letters come before Kawaguchiko, a beautiful Japanese lake town
F-U-J-I (Fuji)
TJ
$1,600 [12]
A frithstool in some medieval churches offered this 9-letter protection to fugitives
sanctuary
Ellie
$1,200 [1]
The holiday Sri Krishna Jayanti celebrates the eighth earthly avatar of this god
Vishnu
Roberto Ellie
$1,200 [18]
When it means "in reverse", it can end with an S, but when it means "underdeveloped", it can't
backward(s)
TJ
$1,600 [29]
According to one soldier, this gen. was not "loved or respected" by his men; in the 20th c. they still named a N.C. fort for him
Braxton Bragg
$1,600 [5]
Cybersecurity expert Rami Malek hacks into some satirical stop-motion animation with Seth Green & friends
Mr. Robot Chicken
TJ Ellie
$1,600 [22]
Once capital of the Helvetic Republic, this city lies on the lake that bears its name, as well as on the Reuss River
Lucerne
TJ Roberto Ellie
$2,000 [13]
30 years after the creation of OSHA, this government organization, workplace fatalities were reduced by 60%
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
TJ
$1,600 [2]
In the poem "The Shield of Achilles", W.H. Auden calls this fire god "the thin-lipped armorer"
Hephaestus
Ellie
$1,600 [19]
Framingham State University is far from this adjective for a school for teachers, having dropped it from its name
normal
TJ
$2,000 [30]
This risk-averse Union general ran for president in 1864; he retreated to Europe after his defeat
George McClellan
$2,000 [6]
Freddie Highmore's neurodiverse physician hops on a cruise ship in 2025 helmed by Captain Don Johnson
The Good Doctor Odyssey
Ellie
$2,000 [23]
Site of a dramatic commando raid in 1976, this Ugandan city juts into Lake Victoria
Entebbe
TJ
DD $4,500 [9]
A word meaning safely isolated, it's the title of Catherine Coldstream's memoir about her "Years as a Nun"
cloistered
TJ
DD $2,000 [3]
The protector deity of Alexandria was Serapis, an amalgam as his name suggests of this ruler of the dead & Apis
Osiris
Ellie
$2,000 [20]
2 Old English words combined, leading to this 9-letter word meaning "former"
erstwhile
TJ

Final Jeopardy!

GROUNDBREAKING DRAMA

Act I of this 1879 play opens in a room with "a small sofa", "a small table" & "a cabinet with china and other small objects"

A Doll's House

Roberto "WhatTheA Doll's House" — wagered $0
Ellie "What is The Glass Menagerie? Go cards!" — wagered $0
TJ "What is Uncle Vanya?" — wagered $0

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