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00:00From the Alex Trebek stage and Tony
00:05Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy Tournament!
00:10of Champions!
00:15Please welcome our second group of Jeopardy Champions!
00:20Ph.D. Candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey, Allegra CUNY!
00:25A law student and away from home son
00:28from Vancouver, British Columbia!
00:30Canada, Brendon Leow, and a Judicial Law
00:35originally from Pupelo, Mississippi!
00:38Andrew Hayes!
00:40And now, here is the host of Jeopardy!
00:45Ken Jennings!
00:47Thank you, Johnny Gilbert, and welcome back to the
00:50quarterfinals in this year's Tournament of Champions!
00:52In yesterday's game, it was three-time champ Tom
00:55Devlin, who nabbed a spot in the semifinals.
00:57And today we have Andrew, Brendon, and Allegra back on
01:00the Alex Trebek stage and hoping to advance.
01:02Good luck!
01:03Let's get this underway with your category...
01:05in the Jeopardy! round.
01:07Up first, a cult band.
01:10Then we have National Parks of the World standing on
01:13Business.
01:15We have The Tail That Wags the Dog, followed by Ranks and
01:19Titles...
01:20And finally, a little rhyme time.
01:22Always fun.
01:23Andrew?
01:24Let's...
01:25Let's do National Parks for 800.
01:27A popular trekking destination, Simeon Mountain...
01:30The mountains National Park contains this country's
01:32highest peak, Ras Dejen.
01:35Brendan?
01:36What's India?
01:37No.
01:40What is Ethiopia?
01:41Back to Andrew.
01:42Let's do National Parks 1000.
01:45After visiting Banff, head north to this adjoining
01:48National Park to see its incredible...
01:50glaciers and wildlife.
01:55That's Jasper.
01:55National Park.
01:56Andrew?
01:57All right.
01:58Got that out of the way.
01:59Ranks...
02:00And Titles 800.
02:01This honorific for Muslim clerics, like 9-11-era...
02:05Taliban leader Omar, is roughly equivalent to Lorde.
02:08Andrew?
02:09What is sheik?
02:10No.
02:11Brendan or Allegra?
02:13It was Muller!
02:14Oh...
02:15Ranks in Titles 1000.
02:16This title...
02:17This title...
02:18This title...
02:19This title...
02:20It basically means deputy king.
02:22It's also the name of a butterfly that mimics the color pattern of the...
02:25Monarch butterfly.
02:27Brendan.
02:28What's viceroy?
02:29Correct, you're out of the hole.
02:30Tail...
02:30L-800, please.
02:32This beloved pooch, owned by Nick and Nora Charles in...
02:35Rachel Hammett's work was also beloved in film adaptations.
02:38Allegra.
02:39Who is Asta?
02:40Right.
02:41Rhyme time for 800.
02:43Nuptial coverlets.
02:45Allegra.
02:46What's wedding bedding?
02:47Yes.
02:48Rhyme time 1,000.
02:49Payroll time...
02:50Rhyme attacks for your work reading the book of the minor prophet that follows Jonah.
02:55You've got to pay your Micah Ficah.
03:00Allegra.
03:01Goodness.
03:02A cult band for 600.
03:04John Linnell.
03:05The title of TMBG, this group, says its audience would happily call themselves culty.
03:10Allegra.
03:11What's they might be giants?
03:12Yes.
03:13Cult band 800.
03:14This...
03:15This band of bassist Les Claypool is going strong 40 years after its founding and 30...
03:20plus after sailing the seas of cheese.
03:22Allegra.
03:23What's the flaming lips?
03:24No.
03:25No?
03:26Andrew or Brendan?
03:27What is Primus?
03:28Allegra?
03:29What is Primus?
03:30Allegra?
03:30Rhyme time 600.
03:31The Steeple Chorale.
03:32Brendan.
03:33The Steeple Chorale.
03:34Brendan.
03:35What's...
03:36What's...
03:37Sorry.
03:38No guess.
03:39No guess.
03:40Yes.
03:41Allegra.
03:42What's a Spire Choir?
03:43That's correct.
03:44Rhyme time 400.
03:45An Ursa...
03:45And that's gateau.
03:46Allegra.
03:47What's a fake cake?
03:48Right again.
03:49A tail...
03:50What wags the dog 600?
03:51Enzo, the philosophic dog in this Garth Stein tale...
03:55has a master with a hankering to win Formula One races.
03:58Allegra.
03:59What is the...
04:00part of racing in the rain?
04:01That's the book.
04:02Wag the dog for a thousand.
04:04You're on target.
04:05If you know this tough mutt owned by Bill Sykes in a Dickens tale had a face scratched and...
04:10torn in 20 different places.
04:15Bill Sykes's dog in Oliver Twist is called Bullseye.
04:18Back to you, Allegra.
04:20Ranks in title 600.
04:21In two very different senses, Oliver Perry and Lionel...
04:25Michael Ritchie.
04:26Brandon.
04:27What's Commodore?
04:28Yes.
04:29Business 8.
04:30This Houston company traces its roots back to 1919 and its namesake founder.
04:35An oil well cementing pioneer.
04:37Andrew.
04:38What is...
04:39Schlumberger?
04:40No.
04:41Brandon or Allegra?
04:42What is Halliburr...
04:43What is Halliburr...
04:44What is Halliburr...
04:45The Halliburr...
04:46The Halliburton origin story.
04:47Allegra's in the lead after doing well in rhyme time and we need to take a...
04:50very quick break.
04:51But we'll be back in no time for more Jeopardy.
04:55I'm a PhD candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey.
04:58Allegra, we haven't seen you since your Jeopardy adventure...
05:00Tell us what happened thereafter.
05:01Yeah, well, after two, you know, long and stressful tape days...
05:05I was with my mother and we thought we would decompress by going to the beach.
05:08So we went to Santa Monica and as I'm walking on the...
05:10beach, I stepped on a bee, which I didn't know was something that you could do at the beach.
05:14And it...
05:15It was, I felt like it was a message from the universe to...
05:17After, you know, having such high heights of...
05:20Winning Jeopardy!
05:21To kind of bring me down a couple levels.
05:23Yeah, because life be like that, right?
05:24Life...
05:25You...
05:26You...
05:27You win on Jeopardy!
05:28and then you step on a bee.
05:29Yeah.
05:30Who knows what...
05:30What adventures are ahead of you?
05:31That's true as well of Brendan Liao from Vancouver, British Columbia.
05:35Brendan, as you know, we announced you as a stay-at-home son...
05:38Yeah.
05:39...when you were first on Jeopardy! at your request.
05:40At my request, yeah.
05:41And people loved that.
05:42North America went nuts for a stay-at-home son.
05:43Yeah, they really did.
05:44I got a lot of...
05:45I got a lot of coverage locally first, and then the Wall Street Journal reached out,
05:48which is just absolutely insane.
05:50A financial take on being a stay-at-home son.
05:51Yeah, a financial take on being a stay-at-home son.
05:53And then that, like, kicked off, you know?
05:55Vanity Fair and, like, ABC News, and it's just...
05:57bonkers.
05:58It might happen again, because Johnny announced you as a...
06:00new coinage and away from home son.
06:02Yes.
06:03I did move out.
06:04I found a job.
06:05And then three days into the job, I got into law school.
06:08Oh, congratulations.
06:09So, yeah.
06:10I've noticed away from home son, Brendan, has a mustache.
06:12Is this new?
06:13Yeah.
06:14It is new.
06:15All the...
06:15All the news stations kept introducing me as BC Man.
06:17And so I think I had to grow a mustache out to be like, yeah, I'm not...
06:20I'm not a boy.
06:21I am a man.
06:22Yeah.
06:23British Columbia man.
06:24A real man.
06:25Right here.
06:26Check it out.
06:25Andrew Hayes is back with us, a judicial law clerk, originally from Tupelo, Mississippi.
06:29And you've had a...
06:30Big change in your life as well.
06:31Maybe even bigger than growing a mustache.
06:33Yes.
06:34My wife and I welcomed...
06:35Our little girl a couple of months ago.
06:37Congratulations.
06:39I understand you were a celebrity at the hospital.
06:40Yes.
06:41So, thankfully, my very minor celebrity didn't...
06:45impinge on the delivery itself, but the next day while we were recovering and...
06:50we were sitting in the room, the nurse who was on shift kept coming in and she would sort
06:54of give me sort of a...
06:55weird look and after the third or fourth time of doing this, she comes in and she says,
07:00Excuse me.
07:04Why are you doing the job at the hospital?
07:06Oh.
07:07Oh.
07:08Brendan, the next selection is yours.
07:09Uh, park six, please.
07:11Answer.
07:13Beely double, Brendan.
07:18You're up to 1,000 here.
07:19National Parks has not been going well for you guys so far.
07:21Missed the Jasper one, really embarrassing.
07:23Uh, I'll do 1,000, please.
07:25All right, that'll take you to 1,200.
07:26Here's your clue.
07:28The most famous feature of Venezuela's Canaima National Park,
07:32it has an...
07:33initial plunge of 2,648 feet.
07:36What's Angel Falls?
07:37It is...
07:38It is Angel Falls, yes.
07:43Uh, business for 1,000, please.
07:46This healthcare company that went through the...
07:48The death of executive Brian Thompson in 2024
07:50is number three on the 2025...
07:53Mission 500.
07:54Brendan.
07:54What's United Healthcare?
07:56Yes.
07:57Business 6.
07:58This Detroit native went to Cass Tech,
08:01designed Pontiac's GTO...
08:03then made his own two-seat sports car with going doors.
08:06Allegra.
08:07Who is DeLorean?
08:08Yes.
08:09Cult Band 1,000.
08:10Glasgow brothers Jim and William Reed form...
08:13this band with a vaguely biblical name.
08:15Allegra.
08:16Who are the proclaimers?
08:17No.
08:18Andrew or Brendan?
08:22Great, great band.
08:23The Jesus and Mary chain.
08:24Back to you, Allegra.
08:26A cult band for 200.
08:28Melvins were pioneers of this sound
08:30that put bands like Pearl Jam,
08:32but not Mel...
08:33into the stratosphere.
08:34Brendan.
08:35What's grunge?
08:35Early grunge band.
08:37Band 4.
08:38This Canadian trio was once known
08:40as the biggest cult band in the world.
08:43Allegra.
08:43Who are the tragically hip?
08:44No.
08:46Andrew or Brendan?
08:48More bad news at home for Brendan.
08:50That's Rush.
08:51Okay.
08:51Back to you, Brendan.
08:53Parks 4.
08:54This indigenous name for Easter Island
08:56is also the name of the...
08:58National Park that features all 900 or so
09:00of the iconic statues.
09:02Andrew.
09:02What is...
09:03What is Rapa Nui?
09:05Correct.
09:06Okay.
09:07Standing on business...
09:08$400.
09:08In 2025, this retail chain did not live up
09:11to its eternal name.
09:13Filing its second bankruptcy in six years
09:15with plans to wind down U.S. ops.
09:18Allegra.
09:19What is Forever 21?
09:20Write again.
09:21Tail That Wags a Dog, $400.
09:23This Bonnie Garmas bestseller
09:25about a scientist-turned-TV star
09:27features...
09:286.30, a pretty smart boy himself.
09:30Allegra?
09:31What is Lessons in Chemistry?
09:32That's right.
09:33Ranks in Titles, $400.
09:35Whether it comes before or after Professor...
09:38This Latin word indicates
09:39but is not synonymous with retirement.
09:42Brendan.
09:42What's...
09:43Meridus?
09:43Correct.
09:44Uh, ranks two.
09:46Use one syllable or two...
09:48to name this title for the crew member
09:49responsible for coordinating
09:51the rhythm of the rowers.
09:52Brendan.
09:53What's coxswain?
09:53Yes, or cox.
09:54Uh, tail.
09:56In his 1930 book...
09:58debut, this young reporter
09:59and his dog Snowy
10:00face off against bad guys
10:01in the land of the Soviets.
10:03Andrew.
10:04Who's 1010?
10:04That's him.
10:05Business 200?
10:06Clickable sections...
10:08Let the dot-com of this company
10:09include lighters, writing, and shaving.
10:12Brendan.
10:12Uh, or what...
10:13Let's pick.
10:13Yeah.
10:14Uh, parks.
10:15Rich in culture and wildlife,
10:17Cairngorm...
10:18Cairngorms National Park,
10:19the largest in the U.K.,
10:20is located in the highlands
10:21of this country.
10:23Brendan.
10:23What, Scotland?
10:24You got it.
10:24The final clue will be rhyme time.
10:27An additional...
10:28Matriarch.
10:29Brendan.
10:29What's another mother?
10:30That's right.
10:31You're on a roll
10:31and you're in the lead.
10:32Andrew S...
10:33We'll have some catching up
10:33to do in Double Jeopardy,
10:34which will begin right after this.
10:38Welcome back.
10:38Here's just some time
10:39for Double Jeopardy.
10:40Here are the categories.
10:42We have...
10:43Occult bans this time.
10:45Then lawyers...
10:47What a time to be a...
10:48live.
10:49Then role-playing roles...
10:51A little pop-up puri.
10:53And finally, backwards.
10:55Andrew?
10:56Well, I just passed the bar.
10:58So let's do lawyers for $2,000.
11:00Mary L. Bonato of Glad Law
11:02argued...
11:03on behalf of this Ohio man
11:04in a landmark Supreme Court case in 2015.
11:08Brendan?
11:08His Obergefell?
11:09Correct.
11:10Uh, lawyers, 16?
11:12His 2,000...
11:132005 Los Angeles Times obit
11:14recalls his legal strategy
11:16that put the competence in character...
11:18of the LAPD on trial.
11:20Allegra.
11:20Who is Johnny Cochran?
11:21Yes.
11:22Uh...
11:23Occult bans, 1,200.
11:25Explanations of girls' actions in Salem
11:27include...
11:28psychosis and fungus.
11:29But American Horror Story,
11:30this band,
11:31has a different idea.
11:33Witchcraft.
11:34Allegra.
11:34What is Coven?
11:35That was the name, yes.
11:37Uh, backwards.
11:38It's for 1,200.
11:39This plural word from French
11:41denotes an animal's hindquarters.
11:42If you...
11:43If you squat,
11:43it's what you're said to be sitting on.
11:45Andrew.
11:46What are...
11:46Haunches?
11:46Yes.
11:48Let's do backwards for 1,600.
11:50Answer there...
11:51is a daily double, Andrew.
11:53You are nearly in positive territory
11:55and can wager up to $2,000.
11:58I guess I better do 2,000.
12:00All right.
12:01Going for 2,200 and backwards.
12:03Here's your clue.
12:04Turn over a painting
12:05and you might find labels,
12:07notes, or even...
12:08a signature on this side.
12:09A five-letter word
12:10from Latin for to turn.
12:13What is...
12:18What is...
12:21Verso?
12:22Verso!
12:23In the nick of time
12:23is correct, yes.
12:252,200.
12:26The back of a painting
12:27is...
12:28Oh, brother.
12:30Backwards for 2,000.
12:32The...
12:33name of this fin
12:34at the very rear of a fish,
12:35also known as the tail fin,
12:37is also an adjective.
12:38Meaning near the posterior.
12:40Allegra.
12:40What is dorsal?
12:41No.
12:43Dorsal's the back.
12:46This is the caudal fin.
12:48Back to Andrew.
12:49What a time to be alive for 12.
12:51Abbasid Khalif Harun al-Rashid
12:53oversaw the Islamic Golden Age
12:55from this city.
12:55The caliphate ultimately collapsed
12:57in...
12:5812.58.
12:59Allegra.
13:00What is Baghdad?
13:00You got it.
13:01Time to be alive, 1,600.
13:03Answer.
13:03The final Daily Double of the game
13:05goes to you, Allegra.
13:08And you have a choice to make here.
13:10You're in second place.
13:12I'll...
13:13I'll wager...
13:144,000.
13:15All right.
13:16Going for the lead with 9,000.
13:18Your category?
13:19What a time to be alive.
13:21Mansa Musa I...
13:23You have recruited scholars
13:23and architects
13:24to go to Timbuktu
13:25during the height
13:26of this four-letter West African...
13:28empire.
13:29What is Mali?
13:31Mali is right for the lead.
13:34Thank you very much.
13:35Thanks very much.
13:37Thanks a lot.
13:38Occult bans for $400.
13:40Some areas of 16th century France went through a panic.
13:43Over packs of these, the Lou-Garrou.
13:46Andrew.
13:47What are...
13:48Werewolves?
13:48Yes.
13:49Occult bans, 1600.
13:5119th century...
13:53Spiritualism had journals, such as This Person and Daybreak.
13:57Issue 1 says...
13:58The icy finger of death is not the end of contact.
14:03What is the medium and daybreak?
14:06Andrew.
14:06Lawyers, 1200.
14:08The same year she got married to Michael Clayton,
14:10she was appointed to a public international law...
14:13panel in the U.K.
14:15Andrew.
14:15Who's Amal Clooney?
14:16That's right.
14:17Time to be alive.
14:182000.
14:19During the so-called Pax Romana,
14:20Roman general Varus lost to Herman the...
14:23in the battle of this forest in 9 AD.
14:26Andrew.
14:26What is Teutoburg Forest?
14:28Very good, for 2000.
14:29Role-playing roles, 2000.
14:31The will-they-won't-they between Charlotte...
14:33Nick Dow and Rob Mack in this video game industry show
14:35was retconned to not end in a kiss.
14:38Allegra.
14:39What is Mythic Quest?
14:40Good for 2000.
14:42Role-playing roles...
14:43In this 2023 film, Archie Madequille can flex on his lady...
14:48a little, after a Sony racing game lands him a job.
14:51Andrew.
14:51What is Turismo?
14:53No.
14:54Brendan.
14:54What's Gran Turismo?
14:55That's the name of the movie.
14:56Uh, Role-playing roles.
14:58In the final episode of this Judd Apatow series,
15:01cool guy James Franco plays...
15:03D&D with some nerdy freshman.
15:05Allegra.
15:06What is Freaks and Geeks?
15:06Yes.
15:08Pop-Up Paris for 400.
15:10Robert Sabuda's pop-up books include one that takes you...
15:13through this, with the Lincoln bedroom popping up.
15:16Andrew.
15:16What's the White House?
15:17Right.
15:18Pop-Up Paris 2000.
15:19As in the 1951 LeSabre, hidden or pop-up headlights...
15:23were a passion of this legendary GM car designer.
15:28Who is Harley Earl?
15:30Andrew.
15:31Pop-Up Paris 1600.
15:33The Food Lab is a space for pop-up restaurants in this facility on lower Manhattan...
15:38South Street, Allegra.
15:40What is the Seaport?
15:41Yes, South Street, Seaport.
15:42Uh...
15:43The Seaport bans for 800.
15:44In Matthew 26, it's a group of angels.
15:47But in Mark 5...
15:48it seems to imply a group of demons.
15:50My name is this, for we are many.
15:52Andrew.
15:53What is Legion?
15:53Good.
15:54Pop-Up Paris for 1200.
15:56Later, an off-and-on Yankees...
15:58manager, he saved the 1952 World Series for the team with a lunging catch of a...
16:03bases-loaded pop-up.
16:07Who is Billy...
16:08Billy Martin?
16:08Andrew?
16:09Uh...
16:10Occult bans for 2000.
16:11In 1898...
16:13the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn got this new member, the Brit who became the face of...
16:18magic and occultism.
16:19Allegra.
16:20Who is Crowley or Crowley?
16:21Crowley is right.
16:22Uh...
16:23backwards, 400.
16:24This word referred to the last car on freight trains of yore.
16:28It can also refer to buttocks of yore and otherwise.
16:31Allegra.
16:32What's a caboose?
16:32Yeah.
16:33Backwards, 800.
16:34No licking.
16:36Original this, the sticky stuff on the...
16:38back of the stamp can greatly enhance the stamp's value to a collector.
16:43That's the gum on the stamp.
16:46Allegra?
16:47Papa?
16:48Papa?
16:48Pop-up, Paris 800?
16:49Ethan Zuckerman invented the pop-up that put an ad in a separate one of...
16:53on a web page and later apologized.
16:55Allegra.
16:56What's a window?
16:57Yes.
16:58Role-playing roles, 400.
16:59The TV series, Happily Ever Avatar,
17:02includes a couple who fell
17:03in love after meeting
17:04in this MMORPG set in Azeroth.
17:07Brendan.
17:08The Queen of Warcraft?
17:09Yes.
17:10Alive, eight.
17:11The Queen is dead.
17:12Long live the King.
17:13And let's build homes in the style
17:14of this era that followed the Elizabethan.
17:18That would be King James.
17:21So the Jacobean era.
17:23Back to you, Brendan.
17:24Alive, four.
17:25This other nickname for the jazz age
17:27is said to-
17:28to come from a boating term
17:29for latitudes with strong winds.
17:31Brendan.
17:32What's the-
17:33Roaring 20s?
17:34Right.
17:35Lawyers, eight.
17:36His closing argument during the Leopold
17:38...
17:38and lobe case lasted around 12 hours.
17:40Andrew.
17:41Who's Darrow?
17:42Clarence Darrow.
17:43He was right.
17:44Lawyers for 400.
17:45Confirmed by the Senate,
17:47Loretta Lynch became-
17:48the first African-American woman
17:49to hold this government post.
17:51Allegra.
17:52What is Attorney General?
17:53Correct.
17:54One more clue for role-playing roles.
17:56Ty Sheridan spits game-
17:58Olivia Cooke while playing in the VR world
18:00called the Oasis in this film.
18:02Allegra.
18:03What is Ready Player One?
18:04That's correct.
18:05And you have a big lead heading
18:06into Final Jeopardy.
18:07The category for you three today-
18:08will be scientific words.
18:10And we'll have the clue for you
18:11after this short break.
18:13Scientific words is the Final Jeopardy!
18:16category today.
18:17Let's look at-
18:18Let's get the clue.
18:19A Nobel laureate coined this word
18:22to avoid the repetition-
18:23of the rather cumbersome phrase,
18:25mold broth filtrate.
18:2630 seconds.
18:27Good luck.
18:28could you of themets?
18:29Maybe?
18:30Ph brisy.
18:31Maybe?
18:32But you're in reasonable
18:32to avoid the test-
18:33of the enam�무� P
18:42I used the class as well as Diego
18:45A-
18:46A-
18:47A
18:47A
18:48B
18:49B
18:51A
18:53B
18:54A
18:55B
18:58Andrew Hayes, we'll come to you first.
19:00$6,200 and you wrote down...
19:03What is penicillin?
19:04Yes, much nicer to say than mold broth filtrate.
19:07How much will you add, Andrew?
19:09$1,801 taking you to $8,001.
19:11Brendan Lee...
19:12I was in second place with $8,000.
19:13Does he have penicillin there?
19:16He'll be adding as well.
19:17Paul, what did you wager?
19:18Up to $9,337 for you.
19:21But Allegra Cuny could not...
19:22He'll be caught today with $18,200.
19:24Did she have penicillin?
19:26No.
19:27What...
19:27What did you risk, Allegra?
19:29Just $10, leaving you with $18,000...
19:32...and making you today's winner.
19:34You're headed to the semifinals, Allegra.
19:36Well done.
19:37Thanks for being with us today on Jeopardy.
19:40We'll see you tomorrow.
19:42We'll see you tomorrow.
19:47We'll see you tomorrow.
19:47We'll see you tomorrow.
19:52We'll see you tomorrow.
19:52We'll see you tomorrow.
19:57We'll see you tomorrow.
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