Responses for Show #9397 - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Steven Olson game 3.

Contestants

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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)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ANSWER IS 42!
(Ken: For our 42nd season.)
____ING BOOK TITLES
"G" TO "G"
THE PRE-FAME CELEBRITY AT WORK
AROUND ALABAMA
NAVY SEALS
(Taylor: I'm Taylor Kitsch.) (Chris: And I'm Chris Pratt. Real-life heroes isn't just an expression when it comes to the Navy SEALs.) (Taylor: We're honored to play SEALs on our show, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, and today we'll present a category about them.)
    $200 25
(Chadwick) Boseman

Steven
    $200 10
Catching

Justin
    $200 28
gong

Steven
    $200 30
(Justin: Who's Mark Hamill?)

Harrison Ford

HesterJustin
    $200 27
fire hydrant

Steven
    $200 29
(Ken: Our thanks to Chris and Taylor for that category; The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is streaming now on Prime Video.)

sniper

Steven
    $400 24
a "Lullaby"

Hester
    $400 4
(Ken: Faulkner, yes.)

Dying

Steven
    $400 13
glassblowing

Steven
    $400 22
(Hester: What is Brooklyn Nine-Nine-Nine?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, sorry, Hester, you added a nine.)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

HesterJustin
    $400 8
Auburn

Steven
    $400 26
extraction

Steven
    $600 16
Risk

Steven
    $600 3
(Hester: [*] Rock--what is [*] Rock?)

Hanging

Hester
    $600 12
a gasbag

Justin
    $600 21
(Bill) Hader

Justin
    $600 5
Talladega

Steven
    $600 17
the brotherhood

Steven
    $800 15
Juliet

Steven
    $800 1
Haunting

Steven
    $800 11
glug

Justin
    $800 20
(Ken: "We come to this place for magic", says [*] at the movie theater.)

Nicole Kidman

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
the boll weevil

Hester
    $800 18
trident

Steven
    $3,600 14
the Gutenberg Bible

Steven
    $1000 2
Thinking

Steven
    $1000 9
the gold bug

Hester
    $1000 23
(Justin: Who's Rihanna?)
...
(Ken: You could've seen [*] bringing you your bottomless shrimp.)

Nicki Minaj

Justin
Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
Dauphin (Island)

Hester
    $1000 19
Noriega

Justin

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Steven Hester Justin
$7,200 $3,400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Hester Justin
$11,200 $3,600 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT HISTORY
COMPOSERS
EW, DAVID!
9-LETTER WORDS
DISCOVERY
A SONG ON YOUR LIPS
    $400 25
(Hester: EW, DAVID! for $400.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: I like that.)

Giza

Hester
    $400 26
Philistines

Steven
    $400 27
(Steven: What's... xerograph?)
...
(Ken: A fax machine is short for [*].)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

facsimile

Steven
Triple Stumper
    $800 18
Pax Romana

Steven
    $800 16
The Phantom of the Opera

Steven
    $800 23
(Justin: What is Dexter?)
(Steven: What's... Dead Like Me?)
...
(Ken: Less than a minute to go, Hester.)

Six Feet Under

StevenHesterJustin
    $800 22
a harbinger

Justin
    $800 21
the Dead Sea Scrolls

Justin
    $800 14
[Ken pronounces "Apt." as "A-P-T" rather than "Apartment".]

Bruno Mars

Steven
    $1200 5
(Hester: What is Tabasco?)

Cholula

Hester
Triple Stumper
    $1200 12
(the) Grand Canyon (Suite)

Steven
    $1200 1
Stevenson

Justin
    $1200 13
absurdist

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
Northwest Passage

Steven
    $1200 20
your lips are movin'

Justin
    $1600 6
Leonidas

Steven
    $1600 9
Paganini

Steven
    $1600 2
(Ken: Yes, Alvin!, you gave me hantavirus!)
[Laughter]
(Ken: Famous quote.)

the Chipmunks

Hester
    $1600 10
(Steven: What's... oh... malphonia?)
(Justin: What's misophonia?)

cacophony

StevenJustin
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 7
(Steven: What's the North Pole?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
...
(Ken: It is [*], not the geographic one, that's right.)

the magnetic north pole

Steven
    $1600 19
"Our Lips Are Sealed"

Triple Stumper
    $2000 24
(Ken: What is [*]--the [*] Wars.)

servile

Triple Stumper
    $8,000 4
(Ken: So the band director has the lead and a Daily Double in COMPOSERS. Do you enjoy music, Steven?)
(Steven: I've heard of it.)
...
(Ken: You didn't sound sure, but you added $8,000, well done.)

Handel

Steven
    $2000 11
David Copperfield

Steven
    $2000 8
(Ken: Tough clue--what is [*]?)

an occlusion

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Hester: What is a Pterodactyl?)

Archaeopteryx

Hester
Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
(Ken: Oklahoma very proud of [*].)

The Flaming Lips

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Hester Justin
$27,800 $3,200 $4,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
(Ken: Not the right book, Hester, although I do love that book.)
...
(Ken: [To Steven] No, actually no horses in the book in question, I guess because they were so hard to draw; Maurice Sendak's [*]. I guess the Wild Things would have been more horse-like...)
[Hester laughs.]
(Ken: ...if he could've drawn horses.)
HesterWhat Harold and the Purple Crayon? Thanks everyone!!
$2,500
JustinWhat is Black Beauty?
$2,401
StevenWhat is... My Little Pony???
$17,117
Where the Wild Things Are

Final scores:

Steven Hester Justin
$10,683 $700 $1,599
3-day champion: $57,089 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steven Hester Justin
$19,800 $3,200 $4,000
27 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W		 9 R,
3 W		 10 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $27,000

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Game tape date: 2025-08-08
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