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Jeopardy! - Season 2025 Episode 224 -
S41 Second Chance Tournament Group 2 Semifinal Game 1
S41 Second Chance Tournament Group 2 Semifinal Game 1
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00:00...studios, this is Jeopardy! Second Chance!
00:08Please welcome our next group of Second Chance contestants.
00:13A tutor, originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Michelle Sine.
00:19An English professor from New York, New York, Molly Murray.
00:23And a retired librarian from Lexington, Kentucky, Bob Callen.
00:30And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:37Thank you, Johnny Gilmore. And welcome back to Jeopardy! Second Chance.
00:41If you tuned in yesterday, you witnessed a rollercoaster of a game with big stakes and big wagers.
00:46Any of the three could have won, but in the end it was Guy Branum who advanced to our finals.
00:51Today we have three more players with us, back for redemption.
00:54Bob, Molly, and Michelle. Best of luck to all three of you.
00:57Let's get right into the Jeopardy! round, shall we?
00:59These are the categories we have for you.
01:01From left to right, U.S. place names, then young adult novels, Christmas entertainment,
01:08followed by a proverbial mess.
01:10You'll need to restore each proverb to its more traditional and correctly ordered form.
01:14Then it's CB.
01:17And what's your handle?
01:20Breaker Breaker.
01:20Bob, you select first.
01:22Young adult novels for 800, please.
01:25Rose and Lissa attend this secret boarding school hidden in rural Montana for paranormal royalty and their protectors.
01:33Bob.
01:33What's Miss Peregrine School for Unusual Children?
01:36No.
01:36Molly or Michelle?
01:40This is Vampire Academy in this series.
01:42Back to you, Bob.
01:43Young adult novels for 1,000.
01:45Just a teenager when she wrote her first YA novel, Solitaire, she's known for the heartstopper romance comics.
01:52Who is Alice Oseman?
01:57Bob, we're going to stick with YA?
01:59Yeah, that's enough of that.
02:01Let's go with U.S. place names for 800.
02:03Over to place names.
02:05The name of this state capital likely comes from a word used by the Seminoles to mean old town.
02:10Michelle.
02:11What is Tallahassee?
02:12Right.
02:13Let's do U.S. place names for 600.
02:15This Westchester County city abuts Wakefield in the Bronx.
02:19Both are plantation names associated with George Washington.
02:23Bob.
02:23What is Mount Vernon?
02:24Right.
02:25U.S. place names for 1,000.
02:27This once booming town at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio is in an area of Illinois known as Little Egypt.
02:34Michelle.
02:35What is Cairo?
02:37Cairo, but yes.
02:37Okay.
02:39CB for 800.
02:40Answer there is a daily double, Michelle.
02:45You're the only one with any money at the moment.
02:48How much of that 1,800 will you put at stake?
02:50Let's do 1,800.
02:51All right.
02:51Going for the true daily double.
02:53The category is CB.
02:54The clue is this.
02:56When you analyze information in a manner that tends to bolster your pre-existing beliefs, it's called this.
03:03What is confirmation bias?
03:04Yes.
03:05Taking you to 3,600.
03:10Let's do Christmas entertainment for 600.
03:12Why not?
03:13Tis the season.
03:14A perennial hit originally from this duo says,
03:17Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away.
03:21Molly.
03:22What is Wham?
03:23Right.
03:24A proverbial mess for 600, please.
03:27Angels fear fools in rush to tread where?
03:31Michelle.
03:31What is fools rush in where angels fear to tread?
03:34You got it.
03:35Do proverbial mess 800.
03:37A raise to it takes a village child.
03:40Michelle.
03:41What is it takes a village to raise a child?
03:44Yes.
03:45A proverbial mess for 1,000.
03:47Sincerest flattery of form is the imitation.
03:50Michelle.
03:51What is imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
03:54Good for 1,000.
03:55CB for 1,000.
03:56This Latin phrase refers to any event or speech that justifies a declaration of war.
04:02Molly.
04:02What is a cousin's belly?
04:04That's good for 1,000.
04:05CB for 600, please.
04:08Joe Burrow gave up his LSU tiger stripes to become a big cat with this NFL franchise in 2020.
04:14Michelle.
04:15What is Cincinnati Bengals?
04:16Right.
04:17Do CB for 400?
04:18Similar to a clam bake, this type of feast that's also a party likely involves dungeon-esque items
04:24along with corn and potatoes.
04:27Michelle.
04:27What's a crab bake?
04:28No.
04:29Ah.
04:30Bob.
04:30What's a crab boil?
04:31Got to boil them, yes.
04:33Christmas entertainment for 800.
04:35In A Christmas Story, the musical, Ralphie sings,
04:38What you really need to be a cowboy is this carbine action BB gun.
04:43Bob.
04:43What is Red Rider?
04:44He wants a Red Rider gun.
04:46Christmas entertainment, 1,000.
04:48Voicing the conductor in this film, Tom Hanks says,
04:51Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.
04:55Michelle.
04:55What's the Polar Express?
04:56That's right.
04:57I'm having Polar Express flashbacks.
04:59You're in the lead with 7200.
05:00Bob and Molly have some catching up to do, but it's early yet.
05:03Much more Jeopardy!
05:04Second chances coming your way after this.
05:10Michelle Psy is a tutor originally from Honolulu.
05:12And Michelle, you played very well in your first Jeopardy!
05:16But people might remember more than how you played your sweater.
05:20Yeah, I knit that sweater myself.
05:22It was from a pattern from a designer called Midsummer Knits.
05:25And after the Jeopardy! episode aired, everyone was looking for the pattern.
05:29Where can I knit this?
05:30And she actually had her biggest sales ever for that month.
05:33That's amazing.
05:34What about this?
05:34Are you wearing something else from the Michelle Psy catalog?
05:36Yes.
05:37This is also from the Michelle Psy catalog.
05:39This is my pigeon sweater.
05:40Oh, it is a pigeon.
05:41It's got the colors and everything.
05:43Yeah.
05:43They're one of my favorite animals.
05:45It's giving pigeon.
05:45I didn't even notice.
05:46That's amazing.
05:47Molly Murray is with us from New York City.
05:49Molly, you're very proud about your first appearance on the Alex Trebek stage.
05:53Because unlike your son, you thought you didn't embarrass yourself, right?
05:57Yeah.
05:57Yeah, I felt pretty proud of myself.
06:00He was inconsolable that I did not come in.
06:03He wanted mom to win.
06:04Fair enough.
06:05He did.
06:05We had a little chat about it.
06:06It's not about winning.
06:07It's, you know.
06:08Does he have any advice for you this time?
06:10Yeah.
06:11He recommended that I answer more questions correctly.
06:14Oh.
06:15Just good advice.
06:17Yeah.
06:17He's been looking at the stats.
06:19You've got a coach now.
06:20Yeah.
06:20Bob Callen is a retired librarian from Lexington, Kentucky.
06:24You were in the lead going into Final Jeopardy!
06:26in your game, and your mom was proud, I hear.
06:28Right.
06:29Yeah.
06:29Mom was convinced at that point that I was going to go on to break your record.
06:33Oh, wow.
06:34Yeah.
06:34She had big dreams.
06:35So, super disappointing for her that I did not win.
06:40But I guess it's nice for you that she believed in you so much, right?
06:43Yeah.
06:43Moms, am I right?
06:44Moms, right?
06:45Like, they're always going to believe in us.
06:47Michelle has control of the board and the lead.
06:49Choose a category and a dollar amount, Michelle.
06:51Let's do Christmas entertainment for $400.
06:53In 2007, his Noel became the first Christmas album since Kenny G's Miracles to top the billboard
06:59200.
07:01Michelle.
07:01Who is Josh Groban?
07:02It is.
07:03Christmas for two.
07:04In a classic holiday pop song, it's what I saw mommy doing underneath the mistletoe last
07:09night.
07:10Michelle.
07:11What's kissing Santa Claus?
07:12That's right.
07:13A U.S. place names for $400.
07:15You'll find this two-word city with a state in its name in the Hampton Roads area.
07:21Michelle.
07:21What is Virginia Beach?
07:22Right again.
07:23U.S. place names $200.
07:25This university town in North Carolina was founded in 1793 and named for the location of
07:31a Church of England building.
07:32Michelle.
07:33What is Chapel Hill?
07:34Correct.
07:35CB for $200.
07:36Typically, this type of repast consists of coffee and some baked goods.
07:41Michelle.
07:41What's Continental Breakfast?
07:43That's right.
07:43What's your handle for $600?
07:45Arm day finally pays off when you circle your body around this apparatus with two handles
07:50and a heavy rump used in men's gymnastics.
07:53Michelle.
07:54What's Pommel Horse?
07:55Correct.
07:56What's your handle, $800?
07:57A shortage of foreign materials during the 40s led this Italian company to use burnished
08:02cane to make the handle of its bamboo bag.
08:05Molly.
08:06What is Gucci?
08:07It is a Gucci.
08:08What's your handle for $1,000?
08:09This type of simple machine is in the name of a horizontally inclined door handle.
08:15Bob.
08:15What's a lever?
08:16That's a lever handle, right.
08:17What's your handle for $400?
08:19The flat handles retract automatically on the Model 3 EV made by this company.
08:25Michelle.
08:26What is Tesla?
08:26Yes, Tesla.
08:27What's your handle, $200?
08:28A controller with two grip handles and X and O buttons was released with this gaming console,
08:34celebrating its 30th anniversary in the U.S. in 2025.
08:38Bob.
08:39What is the PlayStation?
08:40Yes.
08:41Proverbial mess, $400.
08:43Many spoil the broth, cooks too.
08:46Michelle.
08:46What is too many cooks spoil the broth?
08:49Correct.
08:50Proverbial mess, $200?
08:52Where is the heart is home.
08:54Molly.
08:55Home is where the heart is?
08:56Correct, but remember your phrasing.
08:57Oh, what is, sorry.
08:59It's okay.
09:00We remind you during the Jeopardy round.
09:01Young adult novels for $600, please.
09:04Cassandra Clare's City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters, is book three in this lethal series.
09:13What is the mortal instruments?
09:16Two more chances at YA, Molly.
09:18$400.
09:19In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians adventure books, Percy finds out that this god is his father.
09:26Michelle.
09:26Who is Poseidon?
09:27It is Poseidon.
09:28Here's the last clue from young adult novels.
09:30As the book's title suggests, in Lauren Kate's Fallen, Lucinda Price falls for the mysterious Daniel Grigory, one of these beings.
09:38Molly.
09:38What is an angel?
09:39Fallen angel.
09:40That's correct.
09:41You're in second place at the end of the Jeopardy round.
09:43Michelle's got a big lead, but lots can happen in double Jeopardy.
09:45So much cash on the board.
09:46We're going to get that round underway after this.
09:48Bob and Molly have a little catching up to do.
09:58Let's see what they think about the categories in double Jeopardy.
10:00First, we have the 20s.
10:03Then, restor-auteurs.
10:05We're hitting you with hard science.
10:07Look out.
10:08Then, four-syllable words.
10:10Tunes in tunes.
10:12And finally, lady and the stamp.
10:16Bob, what do you want first?
10:18Let's do four-syllable words for $1,600.
10:21Sanctioning is a synonym for this word.
10:23Also, what you want to happen to your parking ticket at that fancy shopping mall.
10:27Michelle.
10:27What's validation?
10:28Right.
10:30Hard science for $1,200.
10:31Answer.
10:32A daily double for you, Michelle.
10:37Wagering from a pretty big lead.
10:40What'll it be?
10:41Let's do $4,000.
10:42All right.
10:42Going for $16,000 if you're right.
10:45Here's your clue in.
10:45Hitting you with hard science.
10:48Latin for hair gives us the name of these blood vessels.
10:52What are capillary vessels?
10:54Capillaries is right.
10:55Yes.
10:55Taking you to $16,000.
10:57Select again.
10:59Let's do the 20s for $1,200.
11:02He came to power after leading the March on Rome in October 1922.
11:06Michelle.
11:07Who is Mussolini?
11:08Yes.
11:0920s for $1,600.
11:11In 2022, a draft of the majority opinion written by this Supreme Court
11:15Justice overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press.
11:19Molly.
11:19Who is Alito?
11:20Yes.
11:22Restaurateurs for $1,200.
11:24He's seen here around the time he published his early novel Bone in the Throat
11:28about a Manhattan Sioux chef.
11:31Molly.
11:31Who's Anthony Bourdain?
11:33Yeah.
11:33Four-syllable words for $1,200.
11:36O'Reilly Auto Parts sells the flux this, currently out of stock, but not the plutonium it needs
11:42for time travel.
11:43Molly.
11:44What's a capacitor?
11:45Yes.
11:46Four-syllable words for $2,000.
11:48These are known as great circles that pass through the Earth's poles.
11:55Those are meridians.
11:57Molly.
11:58Restaurateurs for $1,600.
12:00Ezra Tull runs the title establishment in this city in Ann Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick
12:05Restaurant.
12:06Michelle.
12:06What is Baltimore?
12:07Yes.
12:08The 20s for $2,000.
12:10In 1429, Joan of Arc took up arms against the English to bring succor to this besieged
12:16city.
12:17Molly.
12:18What is Orleans?
12:18Good for $2,000.
12:19The 20s for $8.
12:21In August 1521, the Aztec Empire ended.
12:24Its last ruler, Quauhtemoc, this man's nephew and son-in-law, was captured.
12:29Michelle.
12:29Who is Montezuma?
12:30Yes.
12:31Lady and the stamp for $1,200.
12:33A 2020 stamp honors this esteemed late journalist and moderator of PBS's Washington Week.
12:40Michelle.
12:40Who is Ifill?
12:42Yes.
12:43Gwen Ifill is correct.
12:43Ifill.
12:45Lady and the stamp for $1,600.
12:46A recruitment poster overlaid with code appears on the 2022 Forever stamp titled,
12:52Women, These Experts of World War II.
12:57Those are women cryptologists.
12:59Michelle.
13:00Lady and the stamp, $2,000.
13:02Rejected by U.S. flight schools for her race and gender, this aviator got her pilot's
13:07license in France and her own stamp in 1995.
13:10Michelle.
13:11Who is Coleman?
13:12S.E. Coleman for $2,000.
13:14Restaurateurs for $2,000.
13:16Documentarian Matt Turnhour directed a 2025 film about this man, whose black cod with
13:21miso is a signature.
13:24Molly.
13:25Who is Nobu?
13:25We will accept Nobu.
13:26Nobu Matsuhisa.
13:28Tunes and Tunes for $1,200.
13:30In one week, the Barenaked Ladies mention Aquaman and this character, a.k.a. Usagi Sukino,
13:37a.k.a. Princess Serenity.
13:42Better known as Sailor Moon.
13:43Molly.
13:44Tunes and Tunes for $1,600.
13:46Devo sang of this rhyming monkey of Powerpuff Girls fame, I'm wound tight, hot-wired, about
13:52to explode.
13:53Michelle.
13:54Who is Mojo Jojo.
13:55It is.
13:56Tunes and Tunes for $2,000.
13:58Nicki Minaj name drops this Autobot nemesis in a 2019 song title and also tells of her predilection
14:04for rum, Bob.
14:06Who's Optimus Prime?
14:07No.
14:10Michelle.
14:11What is Decepticon?
14:12No.
14:12No.
14:15It is a Decepticon, but it's Optimus Prime's opposite number, Megatron.
14:19Back to you, Michelle.
14:20Um, let's do Lady and the Stamp for $800.
14:23Answer.
14:24The other Daily Double is yours as well, Michelle.
14:29The category is Lady and the Stamp.
14:31How confident are you here?
14:32What do you want to risk?
14:33Um, let's do $6,000.
14:39All right.
14:39$28,400 will be your total, but you have to be correct in Lady and the Stamp.
14:44The Columbian Exposition series features the first U.S. commemorative postage stamps, including
14:50seven stamps that feature her.
14:57Michelle.
14:58Who is Sacagawea?
15:00Sorry, no.
15:01These are Columbus-themed stamps.
15:03Queen Isabella is on several of them.
15:05Ah.
15:06So you dropped $6,000, giving us a closer game.
15:08Let's do hard science for $2,000.
15:11The 1930s added a zeroth law of this, saying two objects in thermal equilibrium with a third
15:17are in equilibrium as well.
15:19Bob.
15:20What is motion?
15:21No.
15:22Michelle.
15:22What is thermodynamics?
15:23That's correct.
15:24Hard science for $1,600?
15:26Coral polyps excrete hard skeletons made of this, CaCO3.
15:30Get enough of the little guys together and you get a reef.
15:34Michelle.
15:34What's calcium carbonate?
15:36Yes.
15:37Four-syllable words for $800?
15:40The national board exam for this Asian medical technique is called in full,
15:44this with point location.
15:46Michelle.
15:46What's acupuncture?
15:47Yes.
15:48Hard science for $800?
15:51Here's some really hard science.
15:53The pink form of this igneous rock is prized for use in countertops and more.
15:57Molly.
15:58What is granite?
15:58Yes.
15:59Um, restaurateurs for $800?
16:02This actor and presenter of the glories of Italian food made his movie directorial debut
16:06with the restaurant tale Big Night.
16:09Molly.
16:10Who's Stanley Tucci?
16:11It is.
16:11Um, restaurateurs for $400?
16:13Novelist Stuart O'Nan portrays a bittersweet Last Night at the Lobster
16:18about a dying restaurant in this chain.
16:21Michelle.
16:21What is Red Lobster?
16:22You got it.
16:23The 20s for $400?
16:25Born in Gdansk, then Danzig,
16:28he introduced his eponymous temperature scale in 1724.
16:32Michelle.
16:32Who is Fahrenheit?
16:33Correct.
16:34Toons and Toons for $800?
16:36The Sex Pistols asked,
16:38Who killed this Disney creature?
16:40Gentle pretty thing who only had one spring?
16:43Molly.
16:43Who is Bambi?
16:44Who killed Bambi, yes.
16:46Toons and Toons for $400?
16:48Coolio's song about this kid says,
16:50It's going down in the laboratory.
16:52There's no young boy cartoon genius better.
16:55Michelle.
16:55Who is Dexter?
16:56That is Dexter.
16:57Four syllable words for $400?
16:59Pre-princess, Diana Spencer was an assistant at a school for Tiny Tots
17:03called Young England This.
17:04Molly.
17:06What is Montessori?
17:07No.
17:08Michelle.
17:08What is kindergarten?
17:09Right.
17:10Hard science for $400?
17:12The name of a direct-to-consumer genetic info company
17:15includes this number,
17:17the total chromosome pairs in a typical human cell.
17:20Michelle.
17:20What is 23?
17:21Yes, 23 and me.
17:22Final clue, lady in the stamp.
17:25In 1971, Patricia Roberts Harris, seen here,
17:28became the first black woman to sit on the board of a major U.S. corporation,
17:32this computer giant.
17:34Molly.
17:34What is IBM?
17:35IBM is correct, yes.
17:37$13,200 means Michelle's lead is not out of reach for you as we enter Final Jeopardy.
17:41Bob, unfortunately, you won't be playing Final Jeopardy.
17:44Thanks for coming back for Second Chance.
17:45We loved having you back with us.
17:47Molly and Michelle, here is your Final Jeopardy category today.
17:51It's authors.
17:52We'll pause while those two make their wagers,
17:54and then we will return with the clue.
17:55We'll be back with Final Jeopardy right after this.
18:01The wagers are in.
18:03The final Jeopardy category is authors, and here's the clue.
18:08Before his sudden death in 2004,
18:10this journalist and author was researching the unsolved assassination
18:13of Prime Minister Olaf Palme.
18:1630 seconds.
18:17Good luck.
18:17The final Jeopardy
18:47Molly Murray, you finished in second place with $13,200,
18:52and you wrote down which author?
18:55Stig Larsson.
18:56That's correct.
18:56Paul Mann was the prime minister of Sweden.
18:58Larsson, of course, wrote the Elizabeth Salander books.
19:00What will you add, Molly?
19:02You bet everything.
19:03You had to.
19:04$26,400 gives you the lead over Michelle Tsai.
19:08Michelle, did you come up with Stig Larsson?
19:11Yes, misspelled, but we will accept that.
19:13What did you wager?
19:15Here, $36,01.
19:17That means by $1, $26,401.
19:20Michelle Tsai, you advance to the Second Chance Finals at the end of the week.
19:24Well done.
19:26We have one more semifinal tomorrow.
19:29We'll see you back here on the Alex Kovac stage.
19:52OK, follow you next time.
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