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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:12Let's meet today's contestants.
00:16A special projects consultant from Trumble, Connecticut, Camila Tisdale.
00:21A technology director from El Paso, Texas, Luke Minton.
00:26And our returning champion, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey,
00:32Jamie Ding, whose three-day cash winnings totaled $77,800.
00:41And now, here is the host of Jeopardy, Ken Jennings.
00:48Thank you so much, Johnny Gilbert. It's good to have you with us today on Jeopardy!
00:52I hope you were with us yesterday, because if you were, you saw our three-day champion,
00:56Jamie Ding, deliver an all-timer of a Jeopardy! performance.
00:59He ran two categories. He responded correctly to both daily doubles he found.
01:04He finished with our highest single-day total of the season.
01:06And if you throw in Final Jeopardy! he was correct on 45 clues.
01:10To put that into perspective, only one other player has ever had a 45-clue game of Jeopardy!
01:17And I'm told it was me, back in 2004.
01:20Jamie is certainly making his mark here on the Alex Trebek stage.
01:22But your path to four wins today will go through Luke and Camila.
01:26Good luck to the three of you. Let's get to work in the Jeopardy! round.
01:29Here are your categories today, players.
01:32We have Sister Cities in the first spot.
01:35Then Brushing Up on Film Dentists.
01:38Followed by Ships and Boats.
01:40What's in the Time Capsule.
01:42Newer Meanings.
01:43And finally, cast your mind back to the White House on April 29th, 1962 for the Kennedy's Nobel Prize Dinner.
01:51Jamie, where to first?
01:52The Kennedy's Nobel Prize Dinner for $800.
01:55The answer there is a daily double right off the bat.
02:00If you don't have any money yet, Jamie, you can wager up to $1,000.
02:03$1,000.
02:05Going for $1,000, here's your clue.
02:06The Kennedy's Nobel Prize Dinner.
02:09JFK called the 49 Nobel winners the greatest gathering of talent and knowledge at the White House since this man
02:16dined alone.
02:23Jamie?
02:24It was FDR.
02:25Sorry, no.
02:26JFK was thinking of our famous polymath president, Thomas Jefferson.
02:30So you start in the hole with negative $1,000.
02:32Still your board.
02:33What's in the Time Capsule for $1,000?
02:36The 1876 Century Safe, opened in 1976, featured photos of Ulysses Grant and others by this photographer.
02:43Jamie?
02:44It was Brady.
02:45Matthew Brady is right.
02:46Film Dentists for $800.
02:48Steve Martin, DDS, saying,
02:50You'll be a dentist.
02:51You have a talent for causing things pain in this carnivorous plant-based movie.
02:56Luke?
02:57What is Little Shop of Horrors?
02:58Yes.
02:59Sister Cities for $1,000.
03:01Glastonbury, England is sister to this Greek island municipality, where St. John, by tradition, did his revelating.
03:07Jamie?
03:08What is Patmos?
03:09Right.
03:10Newer meanings for $800.
03:12If you are doing this, you are either trying to sound like a cat, old meaning, or strengthening your jawline,
03:18new meaning.
03:19Luke?
03:19What is mewing?
03:20Mewing is right.
03:21Ships and boats for $1,000.
03:23This German grof, or count, went down with his flagship in 1914.
03:27The warship named for him suffered a similar fate in 1939.
03:32Jamie?
03:32It was Spee.
03:33The Graf Spee, that's right.
03:34What's in the time capsule for $600?
03:37A silver plaque was the highlight of a capsule placed in 1795 in the Massachusetts Statehouse by Samuel Adams and
03:43this man.
03:44Jamie?
03:45It was Paul Revere.
03:46Yeah, silversmith.
03:47Newer meanings for $1,000.
03:49Not alpha, but this Greek letter means popular or cool.
03:52Luke?
03:53What is sigma?
03:54That's the letter.
03:55Sister cities for $800.
03:57In 2001, Lublin, Wisconsin, population 118, got sisterly with Lublin in this country, population $330,000.
04:05Jamie?
04:06What's Ireland?
04:06No.
04:07Luke?
04:08What is Poland?
04:08Poland is the country.
04:10Brushing up on film dentists for $1,000.
04:12This legendary British actor does chilling dental work in Marathon Man.
04:16It is most definitely not safe.
04:18Jamie?
04:19It was Olivier.
04:20That's right.
04:21Ships and boats for $600.
04:23Songs from this 1927 Hammerstein and Kern musical include Cotton Blossom, Life Upon the Wicked Stage, and Old Man River.
04:31Jamie?
04:31What is Showboat?
04:32That's the show.
04:33Kennedy's Nobel Prize Dinner for $1,000.
04:35Attendees included 48 male Nobel laureates and one female one.
04:40This author raised in Xinjiang, China.
04:42Jamie?
04:43It was Buck.
04:44Pearl Buck.
04:45Good.
04:45Time capsule for $800.
04:47A capsule buried in London in 2012 has a tin of anchovies to show that sell-by dates are stupid,
04:52and a map of this transit system.
04:54Luke?
04:55What is the tube?
04:56The London Underground, yes.
04:57Brushing up on film dentists for $600.
04:59King Schultz had the natural career progression of dentist to bounty hunter in this 2012 Tarantino period piece.
05:06Jamie?
05:07It was Django Unchained.
05:08Yes.
05:09Ships and boats for $800.
05:11Remembered in a Gordon Lightfoot song, this ship sank in Lake Superior in 1975 with the loss of 29 lives.
05:18Luke?
05:18What is the Edmund Fitzgerald?
05:20That is correct.
05:21It's been a shootout so far between you and Jamie.
05:23I'm afraid I need to stop while you're paused.
05:25We'll come back with lots more Jeopardy! action after this.
05:28Camila Tisdale is a special projects consultant from Trumbull, Connecticut.
05:32You're a Jeopardy! player, but you were also inspired by another Jeopardy! player to make a lifestyle change.
05:36What happened?
05:37Yes, I moved back home with my parents and I saw Brandon Liao call himself a stay-at-home son
05:43and I decided to embrace it.
05:45And I'm taking the title of live-in tech support.
05:48Ah, that's nice.
05:50So you're just rebooting printers and downloading drivers.
05:53Yes, unjamming things, showing how to put captions on the TV, you know, all of the above.
05:57Very nice.
05:58Good work if you can get it.
05:59I'm glad Jeopardy! could inspire America to move back in with their parents.
06:02It's important work we're doing.
06:04Luke Minton is a technology director from El Paso, but you haven't always been there.
06:08You lived overseas, right?
06:10Correct.
06:10When I was a freshman in high school, I found out that the World's Fair in 2017 was going to
06:15be in Kazakhstan and it became my dream to work in Kazakhstan.
06:18Just to go to the World's Fair?
06:19Exactly.
06:20And I spent a summer working there for the National Energy Company and Kazakhstan as a country is very nice.
06:27Very nice.
06:28That's the one thing I know about it, Luke.
06:30Jamie Ding is back with us, a bureaucrat and law student from New Jersey.
06:34Jamie, we share a Jeopardy! record now, but we also share a passion.
06:37You enjoy cryptic crosswords like I do, British-style crosswords, right?
06:41Yes.
06:42And I've even constructed a couple.
06:44Oh, wow.
06:44I'm the opposite of Paolo Pasco in that I'm not at all prolific, only two, but they have been published
06:49with an outfit, ABCX, and one of them is actually up for an award.
06:54Oh, congratulations.
06:55Yeah.
06:55They're very complicated for those who don't know, very Baroque clues, harder to write possibly than what Paolo writes, would
07:00you say?
07:01Yeah.
07:01There we go.
07:02Take that, Paolo.
07:03Luke, it's your board tied for the lead.
07:05What'll it be?
07:06Sister Cities for 600.
07:08An ancient city in the heart of Spain shares this name with a sister in the north of Ohio.
07:13Jamie.
07:14Or Toledo.
07:14Or Toledo, yes.
07:16Ships and boats for 200.
07:18Taking 18 days in 1838, the ship Sirius was the first vessel entirely under this power to cross the Atlantic
07:25Ocean.
07:25Luke.
07:26What is steam?
07:27Yes.
07:27What's in the time capsule for 400?
07:30The Crypt of Civilization capsule holds a quart of this, which the folks in 8113 can crack open when the
07:36capsule's opened.
07:40It'll have a 6,000-year-old beer to enjoy.
07:43Mmm.
07:43Luke.
07:44Sister Cities for 400.
07:46The biggest Texas city with a Spanish name.
07:48In 1953, it got with Monterey and became the first U.S. city to have a Mexican sister.
07:54Luke.
07:54What is San Antonio?
07:55Right.
07:56Sister Cities for 200.
07:58Dozens of cities are sister to this little town just south of Jerusalem, though not, oddly, a historic Pennsylvania steel
08:04center.
08:05Luke.
08:05What is Bethlehem?
08:06That's it.
08:07Film Dentist for 400.
08:09P. Sherman is the dentist in this animated film. 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney is P. Sherman's office address.
08:15Luke.
08:16What is Finding Nemo?
08:17Good.
08:18Film Dentist for 200.
08:19Some friend.
08:21In 2011, this actress was one of the horrible bosses as Dr. Julia Harris.
08:25Jamie.
08:26It was Aniston.
08:27Right.
08:28Kennedy's Nobel Prize Dinner for 400.
08:30Two Nobelist widows sat with JFK, George Marshalls and Mary, wife of this author.
08:36Mary took on the president about Cuba.
08:38Luke.
08:39Who is Hemingway?
08:40You got it.
08:40Newer meanings for 600.
08:42Merriam-Webster added utter disaster to the entry on this noun that Amy Schumer used as a film title.
08:48Jamie.
08:49What is Trainwreck?
08:49Correct.
08:50What's in the time capsule for 200?
08:52To be opened in the year 3000, a capsule commissioned by The New York Times Magazine
08:56contains a copy of this 1963 piece of oratory.
09:00Jamie.
09:01What is I Have a Dream?
09:02That's right.
09:03Nobel Prize Dinner for 600.
09:05JFK smoothly asked this Nobel-winning chemist who'd just protested against nuke tests,
09:10haven't you been around here already lately?
09:12Jamie.
09:13Who's Pauling?
09:13Well done, Linus Pauling.
09:15Newer meanings for 400.
09:17Five-letter butter maker seen here.
09:19As a noun, it can refer to the loss of existing customers.
09:23Luke.
09:23What is churn?
09:24Yeah.
09:25Ships and boats for 400.
09:26We remember the main, but how about the Iowa and the Texas,
09:30which helped win the decisive battle of Santiago in this war?
09:34Camila.
09:34What is the Spanish-American War?
09:36Yes, you're on the board.
09:37Newer meanings, 200.
09:39No longer just meaning in the center.
09:41This word also means just meh.
09:44Camila.
09:45What is middling?
09:46No.
09:47Jamie.
09:48What is mid?
09:48Mid is the new word.
09:50We have one more clue from the Kennedy's Nobel Prize Dinner.
09:53First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's table had this man,
09:55the national hero of the moment since orbiting Earth two months before.
09:59Luke.
09:59Who's Glenn?
10:00John Glenn is correct.
10:01You are just $200 behind Jamie after a heck of a round.
10:05Camila, tough to get in against these two guys,
10:07but you will select first when we come back.
10:09Double Jeopardy starts after this.
10:12Luke certainly put our champion Jamie to the test in the first round.
10:16Now it's time for Double Jeopardy.
10:17Twice as much money.
10:18These new categories.
10:21American literature comes up first.
10:23The astronomy of astrology follows it.
10:26Then it's holy days and festivals.
10:28His and hers, note the quotation marks.
10:31Then panic.
10:33Of course, at the disco.
10:35Where else?
10:36Camila?
10:37Let's do panic for $400.
10:39He scared a lot of people in 1950 when he said,
10:42in my opinion,
10:43the State Department is thoroughly infested with communists.
10:46Jamie?
10:47Who's McCarthy?
10:48Correct.
10:49At the disco for $1,200.
10:51LaDonna Gaines,
10:52aka the Queen of Disco,
10:53was hot stuff on the charts under this name.
10:56Luke?
10:56Who's Donna Summer?
10:57That's her.
10:58Holy Days for $2,000.
11:00Traditionally,
11:01during a harvest festival that follows Yom Kippur,
11:03Jews eat in a hut-like booth called this.
11:09The festival is Sukkot and the booth is a sukkah.
11:12Back to you, Luke.
11:13Holy Days for $1,600.
11:15Among other things,
11:16this Hindu festival of lights celebrates the victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
11:21Jamie?
11:22Or is it Diwali?
11:22Right.
11:23American Literature for $2,000.
11:25Saul Bellows,
11:26The Adventures of This Character sure fits the category,
11:29beginning I Am an American, Chicago-born.
11:32Luke?
11:32Who's Augie March?
11:33Well done.
11:34$2,000 more for you.
11:35Holy Days for $1,200.
11:37Declaration of the Bob and Birth of the Bob are Holy Days in this religion.
11:41Luke?
11:42What is Baha'i?
11:43That's right.
11:43Holy Days for $800.
11:45The people seen here are observing this day.
11:48Jamie?
11:49It's Ash Wednesday.
11:50Correct.
11:51Panic for $1,200.
11:52The answer there is a daily double.
11:57At a fortuitous time for you,
11:59because Luke has just taken away your lead.
12:02$8,200.
12:03Wow.
12:04A big wager.
12:05You'll wind up with $18,400 if you're correct.
12:07The category, remember, is panic.
12:10Millard Fillmore once belonged to this dim-sounding party
12:13that fueled moral panic via anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic views.
12:18Who were the know-nothings?
12:19That is the party, yes.
12:21You pull back into first place.
12:23But lots of time and another daily double left to go.
12:27Jamie?
12:27His and hers for $2,000.
12:29The economic center of western Afghanistan,
12:31this city, once famous for its carpets,
12:33was captured by the Arabs in 660 A.D.
12:36Luke?
12:37What is Kandahar?
12:38No.
12:40Jamie or Camila?
12:42It had her in it.
12:44What is herat?
12:45Back to you, Jamie.
12:46The astronomy of astrology for $1,600.
12:49The outlook is murky in Sagittarius.
12:51Its lagoon one of these regions is darkened by interstellar dust.
12:55Jamie?
12:56What is nebula?
12:56Lagoon nebula is right.
12:58At the disco for $2,000.
13:00This iconic New York City club launched in 1977
13:03as a playground for sex, drugs, and disco.
13:07Jamie?
13:07What is CBGB?
13:09No.
13:10Camila?
13:10What is Studio 54?
13:12You add $2,000.
13:13At the disco, $1,600.
13:15Rolling Stone called this ABBA hit
13:17a mirrorball anthem for every dreamer
13:19who's a disco goddess in her mind.
13:21Camila?
13:21What is Dancing Queen?
13:23You are the Dancing Queen, yes.
13:24At the disco, $800.
13:26Disco proudly celebrated self-expression
13:28in LGBTQ plus communities
13:30as when Diana Ross sang,
13:32I'm this title phrase.
13:33Luke?
13:34What is coming out?
13:35I want the world to know, yes.
13:36Panic for $2,000.
13:38In 1692, this enslaved woman
13:40from the house of Samuel Parris
13:41was the first person accused
13:43in the Salem witch panic.
13:44Luke?
13:45Who's Tituba?
13:46Good for $2,000.
13:47Astronomy of astrology for $2,000.
13:50You're a Libra, aren't you, darling?
13:51Find peace in knowing Libra is home
13:53to Gliese 581e.
13:55One of these bodies orbiting a red dwarf.
13:58Jamie?
13:58What's an exoplanet?
13:59Correct for $2,000.
14:01American literature for $1,200.
14:03Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren's
14:05Pulitzer winning All the King's Men
14:06was inspired by this Louisiana governor.
14:09Jamie?
14:09Who's Huey Long?
14:10That's him.
14:11Astronomy of astrology for $1,200.
14:14You're the pride of your pride
14:15if you know that Leo is home to NGC 2903,
14:18one of these galaxies with pinwheeling arms.
14:21Jamie?
14:22What's a spiral galaxy?
14:23Correct.
14:23His and hers for $1,600.
14:26The answer there.
14:27The final daily double of the game.
14:31Good news that you kept Luke from finding it,
14:33but you still have to be correct here, Jamie.
14:35What's the wager?
14:36$5,200.
14:37All right.
14:37Going for $27,600 if you're right.
14:40Here's your clue in his and hers.
14:43These organic compounds may induce
14:45the dilation of capillaries
14:46or the constriction of bronchial muscle tissue.
14:55Jamie?
14:56What are antihistamines?
14:59No.
14:59Close.
15:00But it's histamines that do that.
15:02So this game got a little bit closer.
15:04Select.
15:04Panic for $1,600.
15:06The panic of 1873 arose largely from the bursting
15:09of a speculative bubble in this industry
15:11just a few decades old.
15:13Jamie?
15:13What is railroad?
15:14Right.
15:15His and hers for $800.
15:17His other concerns made him also the god of roads,
15:19commerce, and invention.
15:21Luke?
15:21Who's Hermes?
15:22Yes.
15:22American literature for $1,600.
15:25In Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at This Structure,
15:27a man is to be hanged and will say no more.
15:30Jamie?
15:31What is Owl Creek Bridge?
15:32Right.
15:33Panic for $800.
15:34He starred in the Archibald MacLeish play Panic
15:37and later created the different kind of panic
15:39with War of the Worlds.
15:41Luke?
15:41Who's Wells?
15:42Yes.
15:43Orson Welles.
15:44His and hers, $1,200.
15:46When the Romans controlled the Iberian Peninsula,
15:48they divided it into several provinces
15:50and collectively called it this.
15:52Jamie?
15:53What is Hispania?
15:53Right.
15:54Astronomy of Astrology for $800.
15:57You might actually have a six-sided personality.
15:59Castor and this constellation is a system of six stars.
16:03Camilla?
16:04What is Gemini?
16:05Right.
16:06Astronomy for $400.
16:08I envision you'll be dependable enough
16:10to know that Aldebaran in Taurus
16:11is a reddish star known as the eye of this bovine.
16:15Luke?
16:15It was Taurus.
16:16No.
16:17Jamie?
16:18It was a bull?
16:19Yes, we gave Taurus in the clue.
16:20It's the eye of the bull.
16:21Back to you, Jamie.
16:22American literature for $800.
16:24F. Scott Fitzgerald completed four novels,
16:26with this last one set in Hollywood
16:28left unfinished in 1940.
16:30Jamie?
16:31What was the last tycoon?
16:32Right.
16:32At the disco for $400.
16:35What did all the grooviest cats wear to the disco?
16:37Per Vogue, if there was one fabric
16:39the 70s wrapped itself in, it was this.
16:42Camilla?
16:43What is polyester?
16:44It sure was.
16:45His and hers, $400.
16:47Similar to a tantrum,
16:48it's a childish display of anger or annoyance
16:51that someone might throw.
16:51So, Luke?
16:52Well, it's a hissy fit.
16:53Correct.
16:54Holy days for $400.
16:56A day to do good deeds and reflect on his teachings,
16:59Vesec celebrates his birthday, death, and enlightenment.
17:02Jamie?
17:02It was Buddha.
17:03Right.
17:04We'll finish off with American literature for $400.
17:07The letter in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
17:08was this one,
17:10initially standing for the wearer's perceived sin.
17:13Luke?
17:13What is A?
17:14Scarlet A is correct.
17:16Jamie has had a runaway in his first three games,
17:17but not today.
17:19Great play from Luke and Camilla.
17:20Here's your Final Jeopardy category, players.
17:23Bodies of water.
17:24We will come back with a clue
17:25when the wagers are in, in just a moment.
17:29For the first game in Jamie's time with us,
17:31we have suspense going into Final Jeopardy.
17:33Bodies of water is the category.
17:35Here's the clue.
17:37Bordered by three nations,
17:39it's the world's largest tropical lake
17:41and the world's second largest freshwater lake.
17:4430 seconds, contestants.
17:45Good luck.
17:47Bodies of water.
17:48Bodies of water.
17:50Bodies of water.
18:00Bodies of water.
18:05Bodies of water.
18:06Bodies of water.
18:09Bodies of water.
18:09Bodies of water.
18:10Bodies of water.
18:12Bodies of water.
18:13Bodies of water.
18:14Bodies of water.
18:15Bodies of water.
18:16Bodies of water.
18:16What part of the world would hold the world's largest tropical lake?
18:20We'll find out by starting with Camila with $5,000.
18:22She wrote down, what is Lake Tanganyika?
18:26It's the right part of the world, but not the right lake, I'm afraid, Camila.
18:29What will you lose? $4,999, leaving you with $1.
18:33Luke Minton gave Jamie Ding a heck of a game today, $14,400, a great total.
18:38Is he correct in final? His lake?
18:40Lake Managua, thinking of the new world. Also incorrect.
18:44Your wager, Luke? Everything.
18:45That'll knock you down to zero, I'm afraid.
18:48Jamie Ding with $23,200.
18:50Is he going to add to that in final?
18:52He wrote down Lake Victoria.
18:55That is correct.
18:56Bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.
18:58What did you wager today, Jamie?
18:59Less room to maneuver.
19:00$5,601 takes you up to $28,801.
19:03And now a four-day total of $106,601.
19:08Well done. You met the challenge.
19:11We'll be back here on the Alex Trebek stage for you tomorrow.
19:14See you then.
19:17of you.
19:34Oh, God.
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