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00:00From the Alex Trebek stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:13Please welcome today's contestants.
00:16A game design director from Austin, Texas, Will Wallace.
00:20A PhD candidate from Baltimore, Maryland, Stephanie Cooper.
00:25And our returning champion, a re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia, Tristan Brown,
00:32whose one-day cash winnings totaled $22,700.
00:41And now, here is the host of Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings.
00:47Thank you, folks. Thank you, Johnny.
00:49Welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:51With the only correct response in final yesterday, Tristan Brown emerged as our new champion,
00:56and that brings him back today against some new competition, Stephanie and Will.
01:00My best of luck to all three of you.
01:02Let's see what categories you'll be dealing with as we enter the Jeopardy! round.
01:06First up, I'm selling insurance.
01:09Then, that's just part of the story.
01:11We have six by six names.
01:14Each response will be a six-letter first name and a six-letter last name.
01:18After that, TV transports.
01:20It's a peninsula.
01:22An M before N.
01:24Each response will have those two letters in that arrangement.
01:27Like the word arrangement.
01:28Tristan, start us off.
01:30Can I have peninsula for six?
01:32Yalta Sea, Livadia Palace, or Sevastopol on this peninsula.
01:36Tristan.
01:37What is the Crimean?
01:38Right.
01:39TV transports for four.
01:41The S.S. Minnow was only supposed to provide a three-hour tour for its guests,
01:45but ended up shipwrecked on this sitcom.
01:48Tristan.
01:49What is Gilligan's Island?
01:50Right again.
01:51TV transports for 600.
01:53In the 80s, this lucky title guy got to drive a Ferrari 308 GTS around Hawaii for eight seasons.
02:00Stephanie.
02:04Didn't get there.
02:05Tristan.
02:06Who is Magnum P.I.?
02:07Magnum, yes.
02:08TV transports, eight.
02:10Since 1969, Scooby-Doo and the gang have gotten around in a van with this alliterative name.
02:16Tristan.
02:17What is the Mystery Machine?
02:18Yes.
02:19TV transports, 1,000.
02:20The coffin-based Dragula Roadster made a fast and furious appearance
02:24in the Hot Rod Herman episode of this comedy.
02:28Stephanie.
02:29What is the Munsters?
02:30Yes.
02:32It's a peninsula, 400.
02:34Though it looks like it should be part of Wisconsin,
02:36the Upper Peninsula was ceded to this state after a border war with, of course, Ohio.
02:41Tristan.
02:42What is Michigan?
02:43Yeah.
02:446x6 names, 200.
02:46This daughter of a minister was Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
02:52Tristan.
02:53Who is Angela Merkel?
02:54Correct.
02:556x6, 400.
02:56She died at age 23 in a hail of bullets along with her outlaw partner
03:01sitting in a stolen Ford outside Sales, Louisiana.
03:04Will.
03:05Who is Bonnie Parker?
03:06That's right.
03:07I'll take 6x6 for 6.
03:09This actress, known for movies and British TV like Fleabag and Broadchurch,
03:14is not related to fellow 6x6 thespian Ronald.
03:18Tristan.
03:19Who is Olivia Colman?
03:20Yes.
03:216x6, 8.
03:22In 1966, he was elected governor of California,
03:25beating the incumbent Edmund G. Brown in a landslide.
03:29Stephanie.
03:30Who is Ronald Reagan?
03:31That's him.
03:32That's just part of the story for 800.
03:34The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was,
03:38at least not until after a family reunion in this 1839 short story.
03:46That's Madeline Usher, the fall of the House of Usher.
03:48Back to you, Stephanie.
03:50That's just part of the story 600.
03:52The hero of this tale thinks,
03:54do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?
03:59Stephanie.
04:00What is the old man in the sea?
04:01That's correct.
04:02That's just part of the story 400.
04:04We have real dinosaurs out there now.
04:06That's what people want to see.
04:08Tristan.
04:09What is Jurassic Park?
04:10That's the book.
04:11Part of the story 2.
04:12On the question of life, the universe, and everything in this book series,
04:15the answer is 42, which is a little aggravating.
04:18Will.
04:19What is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
04:21You got it.
04:22I'll take story for 1,000.
04:24It's the last name of Philip Roth's character Alexander,
04:27who has at least one issue with his mom, Sophie.
04:30Tristan.
04:31What is the Portnoy's Complaint?
04:32You got it.
04:33You have the lead with an even 5,000.
04:34We're going to pause real quick before we come back with more Jeopardy! in just a moment.
04:38This is a game design director with an international music career, I'm told.
04:42Yeah, I was living abroad, and I played an Americana festival in a pub,
04:46and they cleared the place out, put straw on the floor, tiny American flags,
04:50and I get up, and I play my songs, and I get off stage,
04:53and this guy comes up and says,
04:54oh, mate, how long did it take you to perfect the American accent?
04:59And I just looked at him and said, years of practice.
05:02That's right.
05:03You convinced the British audience. I love it.
05:05Yeah, you know.
05:06Stephanie Cooper from Baltimore is a Ph.D. candidate.
05:08What are you studying, Stephanie?
05:10I study Near Eastern Studies, but specifically serpents in images and in literature
05:15in the ancient Middle East, basically.
05:17Do you handle serpents in person?
05:19Are you also a reptile?
05:20I don't, but I do like snakes.
05:21I think they've been very misunderstood,
05:23and I love how ancient people all the way to modern cultures
05:26have dealt with that kind of fear or reverence for snakes.
05:30That's great, but you still don't own one.
05:32I don't yet.
05:33Yet.
05:34Tristan Brown from Richmond, Virginia, is a reentry employment advocate
05:37who also has a history with animals that can bite, right?
05:41Yes, I do.
05:42When I was a kid, about 11, I was living in Guatemala with my family,
05:44and we'd gone up on a family trip to Tikal to see the Mayan ruins there,
05:48and our hotel was like, I don't think it was an eco hotel,
05:51but it had little cabanas, and amongst the cabanas were multiple little monkeys,
05:55and my mother had said, don't play with the monkeys.
05:57I said, of course not, and then right before we go back,
05:59I play with the monkey a little bit.
06:01It steals my baseball cap.
06:02I pull at it.
06:03It does a little outbreak monkey thing and then jumps on my knee and bites it,
06:06and then I'm like, I have to go tell Mom I got bitten by a monkey.
06:09Fortunately, she knew a nurse back in Guatemala City, so we flew back.
06:12I got rabies shots and wept in the basement of my classmate's house,
06:15and they were watching Growing Pains.
06:17Anyway, it was a whole thing.
06:18You survived your monkey encounter and got to see Growing Pains.
06:20That's a win.
06:21You also have control of the board right now, Tristan.
06:23Pick up your buzzers, everybody.
06:24Where are we going next?
06:26We are going to TV Transports for two.
06:29A passenger jet from Oceanic Airlines delivered this show's characters
06:33right into the heart of a mystery.
06:35Stephanie.
06:36What is lost?
06:37Yes.
06:38It's a peninsula, too.
06:39The Strait of Gibraltar separates the southern tip of this peninsula from Africa.
06:43Tristan.
06:44What is the Iberian Peninsula?
06:45Yes.
06:46Peninsula eight?
06:47The westernmost point of the North American continent
06:50is at the tip of this Alaskan peninsula,
06:52named for a man crucial to the state's history.
06:55Will.
06:56Who is Seward?
06:57That's it.
06:58I'll take in before in for six, please.
07:00The U.S. Equestrian Federation advises scrubbing the underside when cleaning this.
07:04It's usually the dirtiest area.
07:07Stephanie.
07:08What is the abdomen?
07:09No, I'm sorry.
07:12These are tips for cleaning the mane of a horse.
07:15Back to you, Will.
07:16I'll take in before in for eight.
07:18This spice, a member of the parsley family,
07:20is a key ingredient in the Indian potato dish jeera aloo.
07:24Stephanie.
07:25What is cumin?
07:26Correct.
07:27In before n, 400.
07:29In 1924, Andre Breton published one of these declarations of surrealism.
07:34Tristan.
07:35What is a manifesto?
07:36It was.
07:37In before n, 1,000.
07:39This word for a balcony level in a theater
07:41comes in part from an Italian word for middle.
07:44Will.
07:45Good for 1,000.
07:46It's Peninsula for 1,000.
07:48Answer, Daily Double.
07:52You just pulled into second place, Will.
07:54How big will your bid?
07:55Let's make it a true Daily Double.
07:57Betting it all on Itza Peninsula.
07:59Here's your clue.
08:01At the tip of Penelas Peninsula,
08:03it's nicknamed the Sunshine City
08:05and has a major sister city in Russia.
08:08Will.
08:14Will.
08:15What is Key West?
08:16No, I'm sorry.
08:17It was in Florida, but the name's the same as the Russian city.
08:20It's St. Petersburg, Florida.
08:22All right, you got some making up to do.
08:24Make a selection.
08:25Insurance, 1,000.
08:27In 1950, an exec at Allstate had a sick daughter,
08:30but his wife reported positively on the doctor,
08:32saying Joanne was in these.
08:36She was in good hands, leading to their famous slogan.
08:40Back to you, Will.
08:41Insurance, 800.
08:42For a new ad campaign in 2019,
08:44this company introduced its dynamic duo
08:47of Lemu Emu and Doug.
08:49Tristan.
08:50What is Liberty Mutual?
08:51Yes.
08:52Insurance, 6.
08:53In 2005, this company changed its logo
08:56to include its famous duck.
08:58Will.
08:59What is Aflac?
09:00Yeah.
09:01Insurance, 400.
09:02Early in his career,
09:03Barry Manilow composed commercial jingles,
09:05including this company's Like a Good Neighbor.
09:08Will.
09:09What is State Farm?
09:10You got it.
09:116x6, 1,000.
09:12In 1517, he sent a letter
09:14to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz,
09:16criticizing the sale of indulgences
09:18to free sinners from divine punishment.
09:20Stephanie.
09:21Who is Martin Luther?
09:22Good for 1,000.
09:23M before N, 200.
09:25The whiff and flu liner
09:27are parts of this household mainstay,
09:29where Santa starts his B&E hijinks.
09:32Tristan.
09:33What is a chimney?
09:34That's right.
09:35We'll finish off selling insurance as well.
09:37An alumnus of L.A.'s groundlings,
09:38Stephanie Courtney is best known
09:40for portraying this perky pitch woman.
09:42Tristan.
09:43Who is Flo?
09:44That's Flo from Progressive.
09:45Yes, taking you to 6,800 and the lead.
09:47After his bummed daily double luck,
09:49Will will select first in Double Jeopardy,
09:51and it starts right after this.
09:53In Double Jeopardy,
09:54there are two daily doubles hidden on the board.
09:56Where are they?
09:57Somewhere in these categories.
09:59We have the Dutch colonial empire first.
10:01From there, we go to pop stars,
10:03the cultural 19th century.
10:05We have some French words and phrases,
10:08chemistry,
10:09and finally, she's a saint.
10:12Will, start us off.
10:13I'll take the 19th century for 1,200.
10:16This Deerslayer author
10:17came up with the Bread and Cheese Club,
10:20a meeting of early 19th century minds.
10:22Will.
10:23Who is Irving?
10:24No.
10:25Tristan or Stephanie?
10:27That's James Fenimore Cooper.
10:29Back to you, Will.
10:3019th century, 1,600.
10:32Rachmaninoff's first opera, Alekho,
10:34was based on a work by this 19th century Russian poet.
10:38Tristan.
10:39Who is Pushkin?
10:40Yes.
10:41Pop stars, four.
10:42This singer has said,
10:43nobody but yours,
10:45to wives Miranda Lambert and Gwen Stefani.
10:48Stephanie.
10:49Who is Blake Shelton?
10:50Correct.
10:51French words and phrases for four.
10:52French for in the manner of,
10:54it can precede neige, suisse, or king.
10:58Stephanie.
10:59What is a la?
11:00You got it.
11:01French for eight.
11:02No, no, my friend.
11:03Quite the opposite.
11:04Or in two French words, this.
11:07Tristan.
11:08What is au contraire?
11:09That is correct.
11:11French, 12.
11:13Another term for megalomania
11:14is the French folie de this.
11:20That's folie de grandeur,
11:21delusions of grandeur.
11:23Back to you, Tristan.
11:24French, 1,600.
11:25A big party thrown by the Vanderbilts
11:27at their home known as the Petit This
11:29inspired a storyline on the Gilded Age.
11:32Tristan.
11:33What is Versailles?
11:34No.
11:35Stephanie or Will?
11:36Doesn't look very petite.
11:38That's the Petit Chateau.
11:39Back to you, Tristan.
11:40Let's keep it French, 2,000.
11:42The French now use visage for face.
11:45An older, shorter form
11:47gave us this alternative to
11:48regarding the matter of.
11:50Stephanie.
11:51What is vis-a-vis?
11:52Correct, for 2,000.
11:53Pop stars, for eight.
11:56Since her 2022 diagnosis,
11:58this Canadian singer has opened up
12:00about her battle with stiff person syndrome.
12:02Tristan.
12:03Who is Celine Dion?
12:04Right.
12:05Pop stars, 12.
12:06This singer-slash-rapper's Old Town Road
12:08used a sample from Nine Inch Nails'
12:1034 Ghosts 4.
12:12Stephanie.
12:13Who is Lil Nas X?
12:14It is.
12:15Pop stars, 16.
12:17Leroy Moore, Boyd Tinsley,
12:19Carter Beaufort, and Stéphane Lessard,
12:21his band,
12:22are 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
12:25Will.
12:26Who is the Dave Matthews Band?
12:27That's right.
12:28Pop stars, 2,000.
12:30Snow Angel is the debut album
12:32of this woman,
12:33who left TV's
12:34The Sex Lives of College Girls
12:35to focus on being a pop star.
12:37Stephanie.
12:38Who is Renee Rapp?
12:39Good, for 2,000.
12:40Chemistry, for 400.
12:42The FDA calls it
12:43a highly addictive chemical compound
12:45present in a tobacco plant.
12:47Stephanie.
12:48What is nicotine?
12:49Yes.
12:50Chemistry, for eight.
12:51A substance's lowest possible energy state
12:53is this two-word term,
12:55negative 273.15 degrees Celsius,
12:58or an equally frosty
13:00negative 459.67 Fahrenheit.
13:03Will.
13:04What is absolute zero?
13:05Yes.
13:06Chemistry, 12.
13:07Fe203 is the chemical formula
13:09for this four-letter concern.
13:11Will.
13:12What is rust?
13:13Yes.
13:14Chemistry, 16.
13:15And so there is a Daily Double, Will.
13:18You're back to 3,400 after the last one.
13:20I'll wager 2,000.
13:22Here's your clue in chemistry.
13:24John's Jacob Berzelius
13:26honored the gods of his Swedish ancestors
13:28naming this element,
13:30now a powerful nuclear reactor fuel.
13:32What is thorium?
13:33Yes.
13:34This time you add 2,000 dollars.
13:365,400.
13:38Chemistry, for 2,000, please.
13:40It's a mixture or blend of mercury
13:43with another metal.
13:44Tristan.
13:45What is alloy?
13:46Can you be more specific, Tristan?
13:47What is a mercurial alloy?
13:49No.
13:51Stephanie or Will?
13:53Specifically, it's an amalgam.
13:55Back to you, Will.
13:56Dutch colonial empire for 12.
13:58The Dutch moved into the Caribbean
14:00to mine salt used to pack and preserve this fish.
14:03They love the matjes type.
14:05Stephanie.
14:06What is sardine?
14:07No.
14:09Will.
14:10What are herring?
14:11They love herring, yes.
14:12Dutch for 16.
14:13And so there,
14:15the third and final Daily Double.
14:17This time, Will, you're in second place
14:19with a chance to move into the lead.
14:21I'll do 2,000.
14:22That would do it.
14:23Here's your clue in the Dutch colonial empire.
14:25In 1633, when New Netherland
14:28occupied part of New York State,
14:29ancestors of this 19th century US president
14:32settled in Rensselaer County.
14:34Who was Martin Van Buren?
14:35He was the Dutch one, yes.
14:36You are in the lead by 200 bucks.
14:39I'll take Dutch for 2,000, please.
14:42The Dutch seized Fort Willoughby from the British
14:44in this future capital of Suriname
14:46and renamed it Fort Zeelandia.
14:51Capital of Suriname, Paramaribo.
14:54Back to you, Will.
14:55She's a saint for 1,200.
14:57On May 30th, 1431,
14:59the English threw her ashes into the Seine River.
15:02Tristan.
15:03It was Joan of Arc.
15:04Yes.
15:05Saint 8.
15:06This Nobel Prize winner reached the ranks of the blessed
15:08in the church's then shortest time
15:11and was canonized in 2016.
15:13Tristan.
15:14It was Mother Teresa.
15:15That's right.
15:16Saint 4.
15:17Tradition says that St. Priscilla
15:19allowed this New Testament figure,
15:21also called Simon,
15:22to use her home as his HQ while in Rome.
15:25Stephanie.
15:26Who was Peter?
15:27Yes.
15:28Saint for 16.
15:29The sixth station of the cross is
15:31this saint wipes the face of Jesus.
15:33Tradition says she used her veil.
15:37That's Saint Veronica.
15:39Back to you, Stephanie.
15:40She's a saint, 2,000.
15:42This Italian-born patron saint of immigrants
15:44came to New York City in 1889 to help immigrants.
15:50That's Mother Cabrini.
15:52Back to you, Stephanie.
15:53We'll do cultural 19th century for 2,000.
15:56French for half world.
15:58This term described a class of women
16:00who'd lost status due to indiscreet behavior.
16:03Tristan.
16:04What is Demiland?
16:05Correct, you're back in the lead.
16:0619th century, 800.
16:08German art moved from Romanticism to this other R-ism,
16:12as in Adolf Menzel's The Iron Rolling Mill.
16:15Will.
16:16What is realism?
16:17Yes.
16:18Cultural 400.
16:19Thomas Wilson's exhaustive work
16:21The Treasures of Terpsichore
16:23cataloged popular English country these.
16:26Stephanie.
16:27What are dances?
16:28Right.
16:29Dutch for 800.
16:30Batavia, founded in 1619 on Java,
16:33resembled a Dutch town with canals.
16:35Three centuries later, it was renamed this.
16:38Stephanie.
16:39What is Jakarta?
16:40That's right.
16:41And we'll finish off the Dutch colonial empire,
16:43if it's not finished off already.
16:44The Netherlands colonial empire was mainly split
16:47between these two directional trading companies.
16:50Tristan.
16:51What are the East and West trading companies?
16:53No.
16:55Stephanie.
16:56What are the East India Trading Company
16:58and West India Trading Company?
17:00That we will accept, yes.
17:02The Dutch East and West India Companies is right.
17:05That puts you in the lead by just $400 over Tristan.
17:08We got a tight game here.
17:09The Final Jeopardy! category is...
17:11Detective Authors.
17:13Make your wagers and we'll come right back with the clue.
17:16Just $1,000 separating first and third
17:18as we roll into Final Jeopardy!
17:20Detective Authors is the category.
17:22Here's the clue.
17:24For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street
17:27in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
17:3030 seconds, players. Good luck.
17:32We'll begin on the end with Will Wallace,
18:01Which writer did you think of, Will?
18:04Who is Hammett?
18:05That's correct.
18:06Dashiell Hammett set works like
18:07The Maltese Falcon in San Francisco.
18:09How much did you wager, Will?
18:11Ooh, almost everything.
18:12Big bet takes you to $18,799.
18:15You're in the lead right now.
18:16Tristan Branson Champion had $10,000 even.
18:18Did he come up with Hammett?
18:20Who is Mosley?
18:21Walter Mosley, I'm guessing.
18:23That is incorrect, we now know.
18:25What did he wager?
18:26He wagered everything.
18:27That drops him down to zero.
18:29Stephanie Cooper had the lead with $10,400.
18:31Did she think of Dashiell Hammett?
18:33No, but she had fun.
18:35I guess there is that.
18:36How much did you wager, Stephanie?
18:38That'll drop you down $5,000 to $5,400 to second place
18:41Because Will Wallace is our new Jeopardy! champion
18:43From third place, $18,799.
18:46Congratulations.
18:48He looks surprised, but he will be back tomorrow.
18:50Hope to see you then as well.