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Jeopardy! - Season 2025 Episode 202 -
Harrison Whitaker, Blythe Roberson, Kara Brown
Harrison Whitaker, Blythe Roberson, Kara Brown
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00:00This is Jeopardy!
00:09Today's contestants are a payroll manager from Seattle, Washington, Cara Brown.
00:16A writer from Brooklyn, New York, Blythe Roberson.
00:21And a returning champion, a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, Harrison Whitaker,
00:28whose seven-day cash winnings totaled $208,201.
00:37And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:43Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:46It was win number seven for our champ Harrison Whitaker yesterday.
00:50And luckily for Harrison, he could not be caught at the end of the double Jeopardy! round
00:54because for the first time in his run with us, Harrison was unable to come up with the correct response in Final Jeopardy!
00:59But he got away with it, so he's back on the Alex Trebek stage today to face Blythe and Cara.
01:04Good luck, everybody. Let's take a look at your categories in the Jeopardy! round and get underway.
01:10First up, I have some ominous news. AI is coming for you.
01:13Then we have Homophones, Caldecott Medal and Honor Books, Anniversaries, Goodbye Fish and Chips,
01:22and finally, International Hoops Terms with Cleanthony Early, the much-traveled ex-New York Nick.
01:29Harrison, where to?
01:29Hoops Terms, eight.
01:31Let's see what this is all about.
01:33With Al Arabi Club Doha, Cleanthony could execute Hotwokod, this two-part play also used in soccer.
01:40Pass, move, get the ball back.
01:43That's Arabic for the give-and-go. Back to you, Harrison.
01:48Anniversary, six.
01:502015's presidential proclamation for the 150th anniversary of this amendment said it ushered in a new birth of freedom.
01:58Cara.
01:58What is the 14th amendment?
02:00No. Harrison.
02:02What is the 13th amendment?
02:02Abolishing slavery, right.
02:04AI, six.
02:06These two types of autonomous devices, moving on land and in the air,
02:10come up in the scenario AI 2027, as machines mop up humanity.
02:15Harrison.
02:16What are drones and self-driving cars?
02:18No.
02:19Well, either Cara?
02:22Drones is correct.
02:23The land-based ones are just robots in that scenario.
02:25Back to you, Harrison.
02:27AI for eight.
02:28It's when a human seems to see an object that's not there,
02:31or when a large language model gives wrong or inane output.
02:35Harrison.
02:36What is hallucination?
02:36Yes.
02:37Anniversary is eight.
02:38A historian from the Lowell Observatory,
02:40Aunt Clyde Tombaugh's son,
02:42spoke during a 90th anniversary celebration of its discovery.
02:46Cara.
02:47What is the Big Bang?
02:48No.
02:49Harrison.
02:50What is Pluto?
02:50Pluto is right.
02:52Homophone six.
02:53Eight letters.
02:55Manually crafted and a personal female servant.
02:58Harrison.
02:59What are hand-made and hand-made?
03:01That's right.
03:02Uh, AI 1000.
03:04Drop miss from an adjective for one who hates humanity
03:07to get this company,
03:08whose smartest AI assistant is named Claude.
03:11Cara.
03:12Oh, what is anthropic?
03:14Anthropic is right.
03:15Homophones for 800.
03:17Changed another's opinion and napped leather.
03:21Cara.
03:22What is suede?
03:22Very good.
03:24Goodbye fish and chips for six.
03:26This British meal compares to our continental one.
03:29The same named tea is a blend of Assam and Ceylon varieties.
03:33Harrison.
03:34What is breakfast?
03:35No.
03:37Blythe.
03:38What is English breakfast?
03:39English breakfast is the tea, yes.
03:41Um, let's do Caldecott books for 600.
03:441982.
03:45Chris Van Alsberg came up with this title game
03:48that truly had a life of its own for Peter and Judy.
03:51Harrison.
03:51What is Jumanji?
03:52Yeah.
03:53Fish and chips, eight.
03:55An amphibian is put in its place in the name of this Brit dish.
03:58Sausage is cooked in what's basically Yorkshire pudding.
04:01Blythe.
04:02What is toads in a hole?
04:04No.
04:05Harrison.
04:06What is toad in the hole?
04:07Toad in the hole.
04:07So close, Blythe.
04:09Hoops term's six.
04:10With Otomaromu SE, if Cleanthony learned basic basketball Hungarian, he'd know palonk is this,
04:17what you use when you go glass.
04:20Cara.
04:20What is a layup?
04:21No.
04:23Harrison.
04:23What is the backboard?
04:24You use the backboard, yeah.
04:25Anniversary's 1,000.
04:26Answer.
04:28It's a daily double for you, Harrison.
04:29How much of that 3,600 would you like to wager?
04:362,600, please.
04:37Okay.
04:38You'll have 6,200 if you're right.
04:40Here's your clue in anniversaries.
04:42For the 40th anniversary of her death, she was on a 100 zloty coin.
04:46For the 50th, a 100 franc coin.
04:49Who is Marie Curie?
04:50Yes, Poland and France, that's correct.
04:52The Polish-French scientist.
04:54You now have 6,200.
04:56Holophone's 1,000.
04:58Grass of the Family Poesi and 1935's 12-episode Tailspin Tommy and the Great Air Mystery.
05:05Cara.
05:06What is cereal and cereal?
05:07Yes, they're both cereal.
05:09Goodbye, fish and chips for 1,000.
05:11Combining a day of the week and the cooking action required, this beef and potato dish
05:16is served with carrots and Yorkshire pudding.
05:18Cara.
05:19What is a Sunday roast?
05:20It is a Sunday roast, yes, and you've made a great move with those two clues.
05:23You have 1,800, but we're going to pause for a moment for this break.
05:26Jeopardy! will continue.
05:27Stay with us.
05:30Cara Brown is a payroll manager.
05:32Like me, you're from Seattle.
05:33Like me, you're a big fan of the Seattle Theater.
05:35Yep, absolutely.
05:35What do you do on the theater scene there?
05:37My favorite thing in our scene there is 1448.
05:40It's a theater festival that's 14 brand new plays in 48 hours.
05:44It's exhausting to do and incredible to watch.
05:48Oh, wow.
05:48They're written overnight, rehearsed and performed that next night, then written overnight
05:52again, rehearsed and performed the next day.
05:54They're even being written over the 48 hours.
05:56Yep.
05:56That's crazy.
05:57Thank you, Cara, for your support of the theater.
05:59Blythe Robertson is here from Brooklyn, New York.
06:01Mm-hmm.
06:01You're a writer, and you have a fun kind of writing ritual that you do every week.
06:05Yeah, my dad and I write a letter to each other every week.
06:08Aw.
06:08Yeah, and normally they're pretty newsy.
06:10Like, my dad will be like, started softball practice or read a book about snakes or Pat
06:15Conroy dead sad, which was horrible.
06:19But the peak was during COVID.
06:21We kept it going, even though nothing was happening, and we lived together.
06:25And one day, I went to the mailbox, and I had a letter from my dad written in Klingon.
06:29Oh, wow.
06:30Yes, which he does not speak.
06:31I don't speak.
06:32In COVID, you couldn't find an in-person translator.
06:34All the Klingons were unavailable.
06:36Harrison Whitaker is our champion.
06:38He's a researcher originally from Terre Haute.
06:40When did your love of Jeopardy begin, Harrison?
06:42It really began in high school, in French class.
06:45I had a wonderful French teacher who was more than willing to turn a blind eye to a corner
06:50of us in the classroom.
06:52Basically, people would ask me Jeopardy questions until I got one wrong.
06:56Oh, wow.
06:57Well, you're doing very well in English as well.
06:58You're a bilingual Jeopardy champ.
07:00Cara, you have command of the board.
07:02Go ahead and select.
07:03Let's do AI for 400.
07:06This word for an AI-created hoax changing filmmaking and elections gets its first part from a type
07:12of machine learning.
07:14Harrison?
07:14It was a deep fake.
07:15Yes.
07:16Homophones, four.
07:17Paraffin and carries out a mafia hit.
07:20Harrison?
07:21What is wax?
07:21Right again.
07:23Hoops, terms, 1,000.
07:24With the Rebeldes del Enriquillo in the DR, 6-foot-8-inch Mr. E could be this type of forward
07:30who plays near the basket, a la pivot.
07:33Harrison?
07:33It was a power forward.
07:34That's right.
07:35Caldecott, eight.
07:371942.
07:38This book pictured Mrs. Mallard and her kids jack, cack, lack, mac, knack, whack, pack,
07:44and quack.
07:45Harrison?
07:46What is Jemima, Puddle Duck?
07:48No, I'm sorry.
07:50Blythercara?
07:52They are the titular ducklings in Makeway for Duckling.
07:55Harrison, back to you.
07:56Caldecott, 1,000.
07:581970.
07:59Though Shrek never made the final Caldecott, this man got a medal for Sylvester and the
08:03Magic Pebble.
08:07Shrek created by William Steig.
08:09Back to you, Harrison.
08:10Session chips, four.
08:11More than just a pittance, wine-soaked sponge cake with macaroons, jam, whipped cream, and
08:16custard make up this British dessert.
08:19Harrison?
08:19It was a trifle?
08:20That's right.
08:20Anniversaries, four.
08:21The 250th anniversary celebrations of this U.S. military service ended in November 2025
08:28at the Commandant's Birthday Ball.
08:31Cara?
08:31What is the Navy?
08:32No.
08:33Harrison or Blythe?
08:35We're the Marines.
08:37Back to you, Harrison.
08:38AI, too.
08:40It's ensuring your car wheels point the same direction, or ensuring the goals of an AI program
08:45fit with those of humanity.
08:47Harrison?
08:47What is alignment?
08:48Yes.
08:49Hoops, four.
08:50Getting fouled while playing for the Antibes Sharks sent Cleampany here.
08:54La ligne de lancé franc.
08:57Harrison?
08:57It's the free throw line.
08:58That's what we call it.
08:59Caldecott, four.
09:011950.
09:02America's this revolutionary war hero didn't go too deep on his desire to annex Vermont
09:06to Canada.
09:08Harrison?
09:08Who is Ethan Allen?
09:09Yes.
09:10Homophones, two.
09:12To merit and an ornamental vase.
09:15Blythe?
09:15What is to earn?
09:16Yes.
09:17Fish and chips for $200.
09:18Finish off the British food.
09:20I say, comparable to an English muffin and oft paired with tea, this small bread is toasted
09:25whole and has small holes in its top.
09:28Harrison?
09:29What is a crumpet?
09:29Yeah.
09:30Hoops, two.
09:31Sure, Mr. Early went off for 56 points in a 2022 game with the Taiwan Beer Hero Bears,
09:37but Clee also dished out seven Zhugong, or these.
09:40Harrison?
09:41What are assists?
09:41Right.
09:42Anniversaries, too.
09:43Let's do the time warp again indeed.
09:45This film that turned 50 in 2025 has become a cult classic thanks to midnight showings.
09:51Blythe?
09:52What is Rocky Horror Picture Show?
09:53Yes.
09:54The last one.
09:54Last clue from Caldecott Medal and Honor Books.
09:571948.
09:58Young Marco fished in McElligot's pool, written by this man who really was cool.
10:03Harrison?
10:03Who is Dr. Seuss?
10:04An early Dr. Seuss book.
10:05Yes, you'll have $9,200 at the end of the Jeopardy! round.
10:08Blythe's out of the hole.
10:08Good to see.
10:09But she'll select first when Double Jeopardy! begins after this.
10:15If you're ready for Double Jeopardy!, we are two.
10:17Two Daily Doubles on the board this time.
10:19They're hidden in these categories.
10:22We have appropriately named places.
10:25Then, settle down.
10:27Followed by Americana.
10:29Funny people.
10:31After you.
10:32In that these are all responses that come after you in the dictionary.
10:36And then, traveling back to 1929.
10:40Blythe, what'll it be?
10:41Let's do Americana for $1,200.
10:44On Shepard Fairey's famous poster of Barack Obama,
10:47progress was the original caption.
10:49Soon to be replaced by this word.
10:51Blythe.
10:51Was hope.
10:52Yes.
10:53Americana for $1,600.
10:54Born more than 60 years after his grandfather's death,
10:58the last grandchild of this 10th president passed away in 2025 at 96.
11:03Harrison.
11:04It was Tyler.
11:04Yeah, Tyler still had grandkids.
11:06Appropriately named places, 12.
11:08This beautiful town in central Switzerland
11:10lies between Lake Brienz to the east and Lake Thun to the west.
11:16That's why it's called Interlaken.
11:18Back to you, Harrison.
11:20Appropriately named 16.
11:22Pan Am built a hotel on this aisle at 177.4 west longitude,
11:27where its clippers refueled.
11:29Cara.
11:30What is Midway?
11:31That's right.
11:32Funny people for 12.
11:34She won an Emmy for a song she did for Jimmy Kimmel Live
11:37about her close relationship with Matt Damon.
11:40Blythe.
11:41Who's Sarah Silverman?
11:42Yes.
11:42Funny people for $1,600.
11:44After The Daily Show,
11:46she went full frontal with a comedy news show of her own.
11:49Cara.
11:49Who is Samantha Bee?
11:50Right.
11:51Let's do After You for 12.
11:54To detach from dependence on something,
11:56like medication or food straight from Mama.
11:59Blythe.
12:00What's Withdraw?
12:01No.
12:02Cara.
12:03What is Ween?
12:04Ween is right.
12:05Settle Down for 12.
12:07Answer there is a Daily Double, Cara.
12:09Yeah.
12:13You're making a little bit of a move in Double Jeopardy.
12:15How much of a move do you want to try to make here?
12:17Settle Down is your category.
12:18Let's go for 3,000.
12:20All right.
12:21You'll have 8,800 if you're right,
12:22which is 2,000 off the lead.
12:24Here is your clue.
12:26The first chapter of this man's Bible book says,
12:29So they took him and cast him into the sea,
12:31and the sea ceased from her raging.
12:37Cara.
12:38Who is Job?
12:40Oh, I'm sorry.
12:41No.
12:41That's what happens when you throw Jonah off your ship.
12:44He gets eaten by a fish, but the waves settle down.
12:47Yep.
12:47So you lose a little bit there,
12:48but you're still in 2nd, Cara.
12:49Let's do Settle Down for 1,600.
12:52The hills around it can funnel storms into its placid waters.
12:55A popular art subject is Christ calming it.
12:59Blythe.
12:59What is the Red Sea?
13:00No.
13:02Cara.
13:02What is the Dead Sea?
13:04Also incorrect.
13:05Harrison's going to try it.
13:06What is the Sea of Galilee?
13:07That's right.
13:0919.29 for 12.
13:11With sloped forehead and thick brow ridge,
13:13the first complete skull of the hominid
13:15then called this man was unearthed in China.
13:18Harrison.
13:18It was Peking Man.
13:19Yes.
13:2019.29, 16.
13:22Oh, that long, low look
13:24due to the lack of a drive shaft
13:25as the Chord L29
13:26was the first successful mass-produced car
13:29with this type of drive.
13:31Cara.
13:31What is front-wheel drive?
13:33Yeah.
13:33After you for 16.
13:35Two-word term for a policy
13:37of severe punishment
13:38for rule-breaking
13:39with no exceptions.
13:43That kind of policy
13:44is zero tolerance.
13:46Back to you, Cara.
13:47Let's do appropriately named places
13:49for two.
13:50Answer.
13:51The other Daily Double
13:52is around, Cara.
13:53Great.
13:55You have found them both.
13:56You have 2,800 on hand
13:58to wager here.
13:59I guess I'll go all in.
14:01All right.
14:01True Daily Double
14:02attempted in appropriately named places.
14:05Here's the clue.
14:06This down-under state
14:07is bounded by the Timor Sea,
14:09the Indian Ocean,
14:10the Southern Ocean,
14:12and a whole lot of desert.
14:17What is Western Australia?
14:19That is correct, yes.
14:20Wow.
14:21Taking you to 5,600.
14:24Where to now, Cara?
14:26Settle down for two.
14:27Word for a listless feeling
14:29or a region of calm winds.
14:31Byron wrote,
14:32I saw her in these,
14:33for the wind was light
14:34and baffling.
14:35Cara?
14:36What is The Doldrums?
14:37Yes.
14:38Funny People for two.
14:39A 2025 special from this comic
14:41was subtitled,
14:42Legend of Fluffy.
14:44Live.
14:44Who's Iglesias?
14:45Yes, Gabriel Iglesias
14:46takes you out of the hole.
14:47Funny People for 800.
14:49She says her book,
14:50The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo,
14:52is all true stories
14:53but not an autobiography.
14:55Harrison?
14:56Who's Schumer?
14:56Yes.
14:571929, too.
14:58This man with different views
15:00on socialism from Stalin's
15:01was expelled from the USSR
15:03and went to Turkey for four years.
15:05Cara?
15:05Who is Trotsky?
15:06That's good for 2,000.
15:07After you for two.
15:09Meaning a distinct type
15:11within a larger group.
15:12This eight-letter word
15:13is often applied to wine
15:14made from a particular grape.
15:16Blythe?
15:17What's varietal?
15:18Yes.
15:18Uh, Funny People 400.
15:20Here's a clue from Fortune Feimster.
15:22On the Mindy Project,
15:23I played Colette,
15:25making medicine funny
15:26with my comedic partner in crime,
15:28this man whom Jeopardy! fans know well.
15:32Harrison?
15:33Who's Barinholtz?
15:33It is Ike Barinholtz.
15:34Americana, too.
15:36First illuminated in 1791,
15:38this historic lighthouse
15:39is the oldest in Maine
15:41and one of the most photographed
15:42in America.
15:43Blythe?
15:44What's the nubble?
15:45No.
15:46Harrison or Cara?
15:48It's called the Portland Head Light.
15:51Harrison, where to now?
15:521929, eight.
15:53Andrew Ross Sorkin's book, 1929,
15:56depicts stock crash figures
15:57like Jesse Livermore,
15:58who made $100 million
16:00doing this to profit
16:01from the price drops.
16:03Harrison?
16:03What is shorting?
16:04Yes.
16:05After you ate.
16:06To golfers and pitchers,
16:08these anxiety-induced muscle spasms
16:10are a real four-letter word.
16:12Blythe?
16:12What are yips?
16:13Correct.
16:13Americana, eight.
16:15Historically known as
16:16Emancipation Day
16:17and Black Independence Day,
16:18it became a federal holiday
16:20in 2021.
16:21Blythe?
16:22What is Juneteenth?
16:23Right again.
16:23Americana, 400.
16:25This home where Elvis lived
16:27and died was designated
16:28a National Historic Landmark
16:30in 2006.
16:31Harrison?
16:32What is Graceland?
16:32Yes.
16:33Settle down, eight.
16:34Weather.com traces this cliché
16:36to the tendency
16:37of foul weather systems
16:38to suck in warm, moist air,
16:40leaving an area dry
16:41and quiet for now.
16:44Blythe?
16:44What is an eye of the storm?
16:46No.
16:48Harrison?
16:48What is the calm before the storm?
16:49That's the right cliché.
16:50Appropriately named places, eight.
16:52The salinity of this body of water,
16:54fed by the Weber
16:55and two other rivers,
16:56ranges as high as 27%.
16:58Kara?
16:59What is the Great Salt Lake?
17:00That's right.
17:02Appropriately named places for four.
17:04Commercial vessels
17:05and cruise ships
17:06dock at this U.S. port city
17:07way up north
17:08at the head of Cook Inlet.
17:10Kara?
17:10What is Anchorage?
17:11Right.
17:12Settle down for four.
17:14Proverbially,
17:15to pour this on troubled waters
17:16means to calm a volatile situation.
17:21That's why you pour oil
17:23on troubled waters.
17:24Kara, two clues left.
17:26After you for four.
17:28V is for this word,
17:29meaning really, really hungry.
17:31Blythe?
17:31What's voracious?
17:32Yes.
17:33And finally,
17:33this clue from 1929.
17:35The United Kingdom election
17:36was nicknamed
17:37for these young 1920s women
17:38as females 21 to 29
17:40could vote for the first time.
17:42Harrison?
17:43What are suffragettes?
17:44No.
17:45Kara?
17:46Who are the flappers?
17:47It was the flapper election.
17:48That's right.
17:49With 11,200,
17:50you are not too far
17:52from Harrison's lead
17:52at the moment, Kara.
17:53All three of you involved
17:54in Final Jeopardy today,
17:55here's the category.
17:57Women authors.
17:59And we'll come back
17:59with a clue
18:00right after this.
18:03Women authors
18:03is the Final Jeopardy category today,
18:05and this is the clue.
18:08In her 2016 New York Times obituary,
18:11this author was said
18:12to have, quote,
18:12gained a reputation
18:13as a literary garbo.
18:1530 seconds, players.
18:16Good luck.
18:32Garbo is famously reclusive,
18:48but who's the Garbo-esque writer?
18:50Blythe Robertson will start
18:51with you, $3,000.
18:53Your response was?
18:55Alice Munro,
18:56and I'm afraid
18:56it's not Alice Munro.
18:57You wagered all of it,
18:59taking you down to zero.
19:00Kara Brown,
19:00you were in second place
19:01with 11,200.
19:03Your response?
19:04Wolf.
19:05I'm afraid not.
19:06You wagered 5,201.
19:08That leaves you
19:09with 5,999.
19:11Harrison Whitaker
19:12had the lead
19:12with 16,400,
19:14but today he could be caught.
19:15Was he correct in Final?
19:16Who is?
19:17Well, it's been fun.
19:18It has been fun.
19:19The reclusive novelist here,
19:21Harper Lee
19:21of To Kill a Mockingbird fame.
19:23How much did you wager, Harrison?
19:256,001 will knock you down
19:27to 10,399,
19:29but you dodged a bullet.
19:30Today, that's enough.
19:31You are an eight-day
19:32Jeopardy! champion
19:32with $218,600.
19:37And we'll be with you again tomorrow
19:38from the Alex Provex stage.
19:40See you then.
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