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00:00From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony...
00:05This is the Jeopardy!
00:10The Tournament of Champions!
00:15Introducing our first group of Jeopardy! Champions!
00:20A sports anchor from Seattle, Washington, Aaron Levine!
00:25An attorney from Washington, D.C., Tom Devlin!
00:30And a payment program manager from Columbus, Ohio...
00:35William Starnes!
00:37And now, here is the host...
00:40...of Jeopardy!
00:41Ken Jennings!
00:45Thank you, Johnny Gilbert!
00:46And welcome all to the Tournament of Champions!
00:49This year...
00:50...our field of 21 will compete in a series of games...
00:53...with only one emerging as the ultimate...
00:55...victor in this, our 33rd Tournament of Champions!
00:58Today, in our first quarterfinal...
01:00...match-up, we welcome back Liam, Tom, and Aaron!
01:03Good luck to all three of you!
01:04Let's kick off the...
01:05...toC, shall we?
01:06With these categories...
01:07...in the Jeopardy! round!
01:10First up, we have literary quotations...
01:12...followed by anime...
01:15...it's hyphenated...
01:16...then Iowa history represented...
01:19...followed by...
01:20...let's tool around...
01:22...and switch the first letter!
01:24Liam, you're up first!
01:25...Iowa history, a thousand!
01:27Why not?
01:281850s Mormon...
01:30...pioneers set off from Iowa City to Utah...
01:32...pulling this transport...
01:34...rhyming with...
01:35...to make a start in a song they sang.
01:37Tom.
01:38What's a wagon cart?
01:39No.
01:40Liam or Aaron?
01:42It's a hand cart!
01:44Pulled them...
01:45...into their own...
01:47...tran�시e this Fernando that they PRIME AND THEMSELVES.
01:48Back to you Liam...
01:49...iowa history 800...
01:50This Iowa senator...
01:50made news when, discussing Medicaid cuts at a town hall, she made the point, we are
01:55all are going to die. Liam. Who is Ernst? Joni Ernst is right. I-
02:00Iowa history 600. The first white men to set foot in what's now Iowa were most likely-
02:05these two French explorers in the 17th century. Aaron. Who are Joliet and Marc-
02:10Marquette? Yes. Literary quotations eight. What novel but this 50s class-
02:15classic would have the exchange, where are we going man? I don't know but we gotta go.
02:19Liam.
02:20What is on the road? That's the book. Literary quotations a thousand. Answer.
02:25A daily dub, Liam. And you have $1600.
02:30$1600 to wager. How much do you want to put at stake in literary quotations?
02:33Let's make it a true daily double.
02:35Alright, going for $3200 early. Here's your clue, Liam. William Blake wrote-
02:40that if these portals were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
02:45let's lift, at least it's infinite.
02:49In the Muncy.
02:50Alright.
02:51So, let's do this.
02:53So, let's do it again.
02:54You know, for now, we have to work with your current age and age,
02:57we have to do it again for 30 seconds.
03:00We have to do it again.
03:01So, let's do this.
03:02Alright.
03:03Let's do it again.
03:04Let's do it again.
03:05So, we can get to this.
03:06Alright.
03:07Now we're going to do it again.
03:08Now, I'm going to do it again.
03:09I'm going to do it again.
03:10So, let's do it again.
03:11You know, I'll give a lot of you.
03:12I love them.
03:13So, let's do it again.
03:14in the Indian Ocean.
03:15Liam.
03:17What is femur and lemur?
03:18Correct again.
03:19Switch the first letter, 600.
03:21Rapid flapping of wings on a bird or butterfly.
03:24And what Marie Kondo wants you to get rid of.
03:27Aaron.
03:28What is flutter?
03:29Flutter and clutter.
03:30Correct.
03:31Literary quotation six.
03:32Mark Twain wrote...
03:34Adam was but human.
03:35He did not want the apple for the apple's sake.
03:37He wanted it only because it was there.
03:39What is this?
03:40Liam.
03:41What is forbidden?
03:42Yes.
03:43Switch the...
03:44First letter, 800.
03:45A small compressed block of sugar and the eastern...
03:49Malayas to World War II pilots.
03:54What is a lump and the hump, they called it.
03:57Back to you, Liam.
03:58Switch the...
03:59First letter, 1000.
04:00A small fatty bit of bacon and to absolve...
04:04Of a crime.
04:05Tom.
04:06What are lardone and pardon?
04:07You got it.
04:08It's...
04:09Typhenated 600.
04:10In the kitchen, clean hands and clean surfaces are key to prevent...
04:14This.
04:15The spread of bacteria from one food to another.
04:17Tom.
04:18What is cross-contam...
04:19Right.
04:20It's hyphenated for eight.
04:22Aspirin and ibuprofen are both known...
04:24Known as this type of drug.
04:25So named because they are designed to reduce pain and swelling.
04:28Eric.
04:29Good.
04:30What are anti-inflammatory.
04:31Good.
04:32Literary quotations, four.
04:33This...
04:34Austin Dad asks Lizzy, for what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and last...
04:39We'll get off of them and our turn.
04:40Hurt.
04:41Hurt.
04:42Hurt.
04:43Hurt.
04:44Hurt.
04:44Your dad has just called Mr. Bennett.
04:46Aaron, back to you.
04:47It's hyphenated 1,000.
04:48Not as well...
04:49Well known as the Research Triangle is North Carolina's metro area of High Point, Greensboro
04:54and...
04:54And this birthplace of Krispy Kreme.
04:56Tom.
04:57What is Winston-Salem?
04:59That is correct.
05:00Tom, you're now in second place and we need to take a quick break.
05:02The Tournament of Champions will continue...
05:04in a moment.
05:09Seattle viewers might recognize four...
05:10Seattle viewers might recognize four...
05:14It's anchor Aaron Levine back with us.
05:16Aaron, what we didn't know when you made your first Jeopardy! appearance is...
05:19You had a little help there.
05:20Tell us about your Etsy purchase.
05:21Yes.
05:22My tape day was on the heels of a...
05:24Mariners 10-game winning streak and it was widely publicized that a Mariners fan hired...
05:29an Etsy witch to relieve them of bad jujus.
05:31Yes.
05:32So the morning of my tape date, I...
05:34spent $17 and hired an Etsy witch to...
05:38maybe give me...
05:39some good vibes for that day and it ended up working.
05:42I won three games, but of course...
05:44I lost to none other than...
05:45a pastor.
05:46Oh!
05:47We have found maybe...
05:49the weakness of the Etsy witch.
05:50Yes.
05:51Etsy witch is two for two in Seattle sports this season.
05:53Absolutely.
05:54Good to know.
05:55Tom Devlin is back with us.
05:56He's an attorney from Washington, D.C.
05:58Tom, you were...
05:59delighted to find what a diverse audience Jeopardy has when your shows appeared, right?
06:03Yeah.
06:04So...
06:04So in my first game, we had a celebrity category that culminated with a $2,000 clue where the
06:09response...
06:09response was, who is bad baby?
06:10The Jeopardy! folks put that in the social media.
06:12There's an entire generation of TikTok...
06:14users that said, how did this 43-year-old white man know who bad baby is?
06:19And the answer is, Jeopardy! contains multitudes.
06:20It does!
06:21And so do you, apparently.
06:22I guess so.
06:23And you're a TikTok star.
06:24Who are now?
06:25Who knew?
06:26Liam Starnes is a payment program manager from...
06:29Columbus, Ohio.
06:30You just moved to Columbus, but you're originally from the Chicago area, right?
06:33I am.
06:34And you had a cool Chicago experience after being on Jeopardy!
06:37I was invited to throw out...
06:39the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game.
06:41Fun!
06:42Even though I'm a Cubs fan.
06:43Oh!
06:44Did you think about saying no?
06:47That's tricky in Chicago.
06:48I'm hoping that if...
06:49if I win the TOC, the Cubs will come calling.
06:51I see.
06:52Do you want to do the seventh inning?
06:54Can you take me out to the ball game?
06:55I would love to.
06:56All right.
06:57Right now, Tom has come out of the board.
06:58Take a look at...
06:59What's left, Tom?
07:00What'll it be?
07:01Uh...
07:02Let's do anime for 800.
07:03In a film from this...
07:04this franchise, Goku and Vegeta encounter Brawly, the legendary Super Saiyan.
07:09Tom?
07:10What is Dragon Ball?
07:11Yes, Dragon Ball Z.
07:12Uh...
07:13anime for six?
07:14Two young girls find unusual forest creatures living near their new home in this Miyazaki
07:19film.
07:19Aaron?
07:20What is Spirited Away?
07:21No.
07:22Tom?
07:23What is My Neighbor Totoro?
07:24That's right.
07:25Let's tool around for 600.
07:27Note the rounded shape of the end...
07:29opposite the face of this type of hammer.
07:31Tom?
07:32What is a ball-peeing hammer?
07:33Right.
07:34Let's tool around for 800.
07:36Plumbers use handheld snakes for minor cloth...
07:39When the clogging gets tough, they reach for this thicker-cabled relative.
07:43Aaron?
07:44Oh.
07:45What are portable snakes?
07:47No.
07:49Liam or Tom?
07:50That would be an auger or roto-rooter.
07:53Tom?
07:54Uh...
07:55Anime for 1,000?
07:56The walls just aren't enough to keep out the horrific man-
07:59eating and totally nude giant humanoids on this show.
08:02Aaron?
08:03What is Attack on Titan?
08:04Yes.
08:05Uh...
08:06Let's tool around 1,000.
08:07A drill bit is held in place by a...
08:09clamp called this, also a male nickname.
08:14That's the Chuck.
08:15Aaron?
08:16Iowa History 4.
08:17Around 8...
08:19In 1838, Fort Madison newspaper editor James Edwards began promoting this nickname...
08:24for Iowans.
08:25Aaron?
08:26What are Hawkeyes?
08:27Yes.
08:28It's hyphenated for...
08:29It's the military version of a trial for service members.
08:32A summary one is for less serious...
08:34Tom?
08:35What is a court-martial?
08:36Yes.
08:37Uh...
08:38Anime for 4?
08:39This...
08:39Mischief-making lad from the village hidden in the leaves gives his teachers at the ninja
08:43academy all they...
08:44They can handle.
08:45Who is Naruto?
08:48Who is Naruto?
08:49Tom?
08:50No anime cred.
08:51Let's tool around.
08:52400.
08:53The spirit...
08:54Or bubble type of this is fine for smaller projects, but for big jobs the laser type is...
08:59usually more accurate.
09:00Tom?
09:01What is a level?
09:02It is a level.
09:03Tool for 2?
09:04Introduced in 1907, this type of adjustable wrench is a brand name, not just a shape.
09:09Crescent wrench is...
09:13Crescent wrench is...
09:14Crescent wrench is a brand.
09:15Tom?
09:16Iowa for 2?
09:17In 1857, the word fort...
09:19Crescent wrench was removed from the name of this city and it became the state capital.
09:22Liam?
09:23What's Des Moines?
09:24You got it.
09:25Uh, hyphen 8200.
09:26We got this term for an impossible situation...
09:29from the title of a 1961 novel.
09:31Tom?
09:32What is Catch-22?
09:33Right.
09:34Uh, literary 2.
09:35In a tribute to a dead friend, Tennyson wrote, tis better to have...
09:39done this than never to have loved at all.
09:41Tom?
09:42What is loved and lost?
09:43That's correct.
09:44What...
09:44One more time.
09:45Back to anime.
09:46In Death Note, a high school student called Kira can...
09:49kill you using his mystical notebook if he does this.
09:52Tom?
09:53What is write your name?
09:54And it is correct.
09:55You have the lead with $5,000 and Double Jeopardy is up next.
09:58Don't go anywhere.
10:00.
10:04...
10:06Welcome back!
10:07Our six-time champ Liam Starnes will be...
10:09Selecting first in double jeopardy from these categories.
10:12First, we have the era of good.
10:14Seelings, followed by what are you listening to, then it's all
10:19from Greek to me, mountains, 20th century women of the world.
10:24And finally, how terrific, Liam, select.
10:29How terrific, 2000.
10:30Answer!
10:31Nearly doubled, right off the bat.
10:34You can wager up to $2,000.
10:39All right.
10:40$3,400.
10:41All right.
10:42$3,400.
10:43All right.
10:44$3,400.
10:44Answer it if you're right.
10:45Here's your clue.
10:46How terrific.
10:47Senate.gov called this...
10:49The 1930 piece of tariff legislation, among the most catastrophic acts in Congressional
10:54history.
10:55What is the Smoot-Hawley tariff?
10:57Smoot-Hawley is correct.
10:58$3,400 for you.
10:59Second place.
11:03Mountain.
11:041,600.
11:05To complete the seven summits, you have to top this Antarctic mountain.
11:09Aaron.
11:10What's...
11:11Vincent Massif?
11:12Right.
11:13Okay.
11:14Uh, mountains, 12.
11:15Just north of the Alps, these mountains in France and Switzerland...
11:19may get their name from a word meaning forest.
11:25Those are the Jura Mountains.
11:27Aaron.
11:28Mountains, 800.
11:29Katherine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful after visiting this mountain and...
11:34has a statue in Colorado Springs.
11:36Aaron.
11:37What is...
11:38Pike's Peak?
11:39Right.
11:39It's all Greek to me, 16.
11:41Now often meaning a part of a song, in ancient...
11:44Greece, it meant a band of dramatic singers and dancers.
11:47Tom.
11:48What is chorus?
11:49Yes.
11:49Greek for 12.
11:50The name of this device is from Greek for spiral and wing.
11:54Not that the ancient Greeks ever saw one.
11:56Tom.
11:57What is helicopter?
11:58You got it.
11:59Greek for two.
12:00From the Greek for long lasting, this term for a good buddy comes...
12:04from 17th century Cambridge University slang.
12:07Liam.
12:08Uh, what's a...
12:09chum?
12:10No.
12:11Tom or Aaron?
12:13From...
12:14Kronos?
12:15What is a crony?
12:16Back to you, Tom.
12:17Huh.
12:18Listening for 16.
12:19I can't stop listening to this 1995 album that featured the songs Wonderwall and Champ...
12:24contain supernova.
12:25Tom.
12:26What's the story, Morning Glory?
12:27Correct.
12:28In the form of a question.
12:29Uh, what are you listening to for 12?
12:31This track from Sabrina Carpenter's 2025 album Man...
12:34best friend is a question and apparently refers to Devin's glow up.
12:39Aaron.
12:40What is...
12:41When did you get hot?
12:42That's the title.
12:43Mm-hmm.
12:4420th century women, 16.
12:47Answer.
12:48Daily Double for you.
12:49Now, Aaron.
12:50A chance to make a move.
12:54You're in...
12:54in second place.
12:55What do you want to bet here?
12:575,600.
12:59Okay.
13:00Trying the True Daily Double in 20th century women of the world.
13:03Here's...
13:04Here's your clue for the lead.
13:06In 1935, she became director of the Vienna...
13:09Psychoanalytic Training Institute.
13:15Who is...
13:16Joliet Curie?
13:17No.
13:18Anna Fro...
13:19I'm afraid.
13:20Who is Anna Fro...
13:21You're down to zero again, but a lot of money on the board, Aaron.
13:23Okay.
13:2420th century women of the world, too.
13:26This Brit worked tirelessly for women's suffrage.
13:29And died just three weeks before the UK Equal Franchise Act was adopted in 1928.
13:34Liam.
13:35Who is Pankhurst?
13:36Right.
13:37Mounds, 2000.
13:38The highest...
13:39The highest point in the Atlas Mountains is this peak that's south of Marrakesh.
13:42Liam.
13:43What is Jebel?
13:44A tube call?
13:45That's correct.
13:46Yes.
13:47How terrific.
13:481600.
13:49Tariffs.
13:49Tariffs were a major source of government revenue until 1913, when passage of this
13:54Const...
13:54Constitutional amendment led to a federal income tax.
13:57Aaron.
13:58What is the 16th?
13:59It is.
14:00Era of good ceiling, 16.
14:02Ceiling's called pressed...
14:04This metal, often really iron, were big around 1900, as in the Palace Saloon.
14:09Florida's oldest bar.
14:10Tom.
14:11What is tin?
14:12It is.
14:13What are you listening...
14:1418 to 2000?
14:15In 90s songs like Killing in the Name and Testify, you can hear...
14:19the anger of this band.
14:20Tom.
14:21What is Rage Against the Machine?
14:22Right.
14:23For 2000.
14:24Uh...
14:24Good ceilings for 12.
14:25The Beaux-Arts era in the U.S. produced elaborate coffering...
14:29like at this city's Copley Plaza Hotel.
14:31Tom.
14:32What's Bastin?
14:33Yes.
14:34The Era of Good Ceilings for 2000.
14:36Here's a cathedral ceiling in Spain's last Gothic...
14:39cathedral in this city with the name of a famed guitarist.
14:42Liam.
14:43What is Villalobos?
14:44No.
14:45Tom.
14:46What is Segovia?
14:47Segovia is right.
14:4820th Century Women, 12.
14:49Milliner Lily Deshaies designed Tutti Frutti headgear for this Portuguese-born...
14:54Brazilian movie star.
14:55Tom.
14:56Who is Miranda?
14:57Right.
14:58Carmen Miranda.
14:59Terrific for 1200.
14:59Aimed at boosting economic recovery after World War II, the General Agreement on...
15:04tariffs and trade led to the creation of this group in 1995.
15:08Liam.
15:09What...
15:09Here's the WTO?
15:10Right.
15:11How-trific 800.
15:12This agency...
15:13This agency...
15:14That collects tariffs at U.S. ports of entry was formed in 2003 as part of the Department
15:18of Homeland...
15:19Homeland Security.
15:20That's the CBP...
15:24Customs and Border Protection.
15:25Liam.
15:2620th Century Women, 800.
15:29When fashion designer Paul Poire asked her, for whom are you in mourning, she replied,
15:33for you.
15:34Who?
15:35Liam.
15:36Who is Coco Chanel?
15:37Right.
15:38Uh...
15:39Greek 800.
15:40This word for a type of gymnast with no fear of heights comes in part from...
15:44a Greek word for highest.
15:45Tom.
15:46That's an aerialist?
15:47No.
15:48Liam.
15:49Or Aaron?
15:50What is an acrobat?
15:52Liam?
15:53What are you...
15:54Are you listening to 800?
15:55Naturally, this R.E.M. song mentions the rapture, as well as...
15:59A tournament.
16:00A tournament.
16:01A tournament of lies.
16:02Tom.
16:03What is the end of the...
16:04It's the...
16:04The end of the world as we know it.
16:05That's the title.
16:06Uh...
16:07Ceilings for eight.
16:08This era of 19...
16:0920s and 30s design is seen in a ceiling in Chicago's carbide and carbon building.
16:14Tom.
16:15What is archdeco?
16:16Right.
16:17Uh...
16:18Women for four.
16:19A motto of this now sainted...
16:19None was...
16:20Let us do something beautiful for God.
16:22Tom.
16:23Who's Mother Teresa.
16:24Right again.
16:24A tariff for four.
16:25This economicism that uses tariffs to bolster domestic...
16:29The industry.
16:30Helped get William McKinley elected in 1896.
16:32Tom.
16:33What's protection...
16:34Right.
16:35Mountains for four.
16:36This highest peak in the lower 48 is at the...
16:39Eastern border of Sequoia National Park.
16:41Liam.
16:42What is Mount Whitney?
16:43Correct.
16:44Uh...
16:45Greek 400.
16:46The Greek word xylos gave us this adjective meaning envy...
16:49Yes.
16:50Tom.
16:51What's jealous?
16:52Yes.
16:53Listening for four.
16:54This duo's icky...
16:54Thump says...
16:55White Americans...
16:56Why don't you kick yourself out?
16:57You're an immigrant too.
16:59Tough truth from the White Stripes.
17:04Here's the final clue.
17:05We go back to the era of good ceilings.
17:07The era of this Soviet...
17:09Greek Tater was not great in many ways, but did birth the Moscow Metro and the great ceilings...
17:14in some stations.
17:15Liam.
17:16Who is Stalin?
17:17Stalin is correct.
17:18You're in second place with...
17:196,200.
17:20But what a game Tom Devlin had today.
17:21Here's your final Jeopardy! category, players.
17:24Famous photos!
17:25After the wagers are in, we will return with the clue.
17:29Famous photos!
17:30The first final Jeopardy! category of the TOC.
17:33Here's the clue.
17:34Being only 5'5", photographer Joe Rosen...
17:39Thal had to climb on top of a Japanese sandbag to snap a photo while on this piece...
17:4430 seconds.
17:45Good luck.
17:49Thanks for attending!
17:50Here's the clue.
17:51You need to know the next one.
17:53RUN.
17:54Be sure to jump on the next step in.
17:55What was the title?
17:57It is very good.
17:59It was very interesting.
18:00I was able to review the title.
18:02I had it.
18:03I had it.
18:04To be continued...
18:05Here, you came in.
18:06Here, who was the name?
18:07In my book, here, I got it.
18:08I am the Supreme Court.
18:09I made it!
18:10It was very nice.
18:11I ended up being this...
18:12Let's be
18:17begin on the end with Aaron Levine who has $1600 coming into Final Jeopardy and wrote down
18:22what is Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima bring back the song
18:27you are correct three times yes it is Mount Suribachi the famous photo of
18:32Iwo Jima and the flag raising what did you wager Aaron just a dollar you finish with 1600 and one
18:37Liam Starnes was in second place with 6200 did you come up with Mount Suribachi
18:42Iwo Jima you knew the photo but you didn't know the name of the mountain what did you wager Liam
18:476200 that'll drop you down into third place but Tom Devlin could not be caught today
18:5219,400 his final Jeopardy response
18:57change from Mount Fuji to Iwo Jima close but no cigar will it matter what did you wager Tom
19:02nothing at all 19,400 makes you today's quarter final winner
19:07congratulations Tom Devlin
19:10the quarter finals will continue tomorrow
19:12right here on the Alex Trebek stage we'll see you then
19:17thank you
19:22thank you
19:27thank you
19:32thank you
19:33thank you
19:37thank you
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