Bessemer native Dargan Ware extends Jeopardy! winning streak

ByPat Byington
LAST UPDATED10/21/25

Reviewed by: Grace Howard

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Dargon Ware Jeopardy — Jeopardy! – Season 42 – Show #9415 – Airdate 10/17/25 (Sony Television)

Bessemer’s own Dargan Ware won his second game of Jeopardy! on the Monday, October 20 show.

Tonight he goes for his third consecutive win on CBS 42 from 3-4PM.

Local lawyer and writer

Ware, who is a local lawyer with Davis & Norris, LLP and President of the Alabama Poetry Society, answered correctly Monday’s Final Jeopardy category topic: Celebrity Authors.

Here is a video of his game clinching answer.

Over two days Ware has won an impressive $47,801 and “questioned” 51 answers correctly while missing only 7.

How to watch

Need an excuse to take a late afternoon Jeopardy! break? Ware can be seen locally on CBS 42 from 3-4PM. If you can’t get off work, you can always stream the episode on Hulu and Peacock.

Will you be tuning in to see Dargan Ware compete on Jeopardy!? Let us know—tag us on social @bhamnow.

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Pat Byington

Longtime conservationist. Former Executive Director at the Alabama Environmental Council and Wild South. Publisher of the Bama Environmental News for more than 18 years. Career highlights include playing an active role in the creation of Alabama's Forever Wild program, Little River Canyon National Preserve, Dugger Mountain Wilderness, preservation of special places throughout the East through the Wilderness Society and the strengthening (making more stringent) the state of Alabama's cancer risk and mercury standards.