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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Picture Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:13Please welcome today's contestants.
00:16A commodity trader from Houston, Texas, Pranit Nanda.
00:21A bookstore clerk originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, Abigail Marcellini.
00:26And our returning champion, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey,
00:33Jamie Ding, whose seven-day cash winnings total $195,203.
00:42And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:48Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:51There was another runaway win yesterday for our champion, Jamie Ding.
00:55And when I asked him after the game if he has any Jeopardy! winnings goals for himself
01:00at this point in his run, he jokingly said that maybe $8 billion seemed a little high.
01:05But hey, the way Jamie's been playing, the sky is the limit.
01:07Today, he's challenged by Abigail and Pranit.
01:10Good luck to both of you.
01:11Let's see what categories will be in play in the Jeopardy! round.
01:15First up, some endangered species.
01:18We also have presidential nicknames, the sounds of non-silence, followed by they play one on TV,
01:26it's a plane, and finally, phrase it in the form of some Latin.
01:30And a question. Jamie?
01:32Phrase it in the form of some Latin for $800.
01:35This kind of attack goes after an opponent's character rather than the argument that was made.
01:40Jamie?
01:41What is ad hominem?
01:41That's it.
01:42It's a plane for $400.
01:44Sikorsky developed a rotary wing craft called this in the 1980s, a few years after Luke
01:50first flew the same-named starfighter.
01:52Jamie?
01:53It was an X-wing.
01:54It was.
01:54The sounds of non-silence for $600.
01:57Here's Johnny Gilbert doing the hog call of this university for your dining and dancing
02:01pleasure.
02:04Whoop-ing-sui!
02:07Abigail?
02:08What is the University of Arkansas?
02:09Correct.
02:10Presidential nicknames for $600.
02:12Liberal columnist Molly Ivins nicknamed him Shrub.
02:16He called himself the Decider.
02:18Jamie?
02:18It was George W. Bush.
02:20Yes.
02:21The sounds of non-silence for $1,000.
02:23Sheb Woolley, who hit number one in 1958 with the Purple People Eater, is said to be the
02:28likely man behind this iconic two-word movie effect.
02:33Pranit?
02:34What is the Wilhelm scream?
02:35Famous Wilhelm scream.
02:37You got it for $1,000.
02:37Uh, let's do Endangered Species for $800.
02:40At the beach on the Big Island, keep an eye out for rare hatchlings of Hawksbill Vs, Honuea
02:46and Hawaiian, headed for the ocean.
02:48Jamie?
02:49What is sea turtles?
02:49Yes.
02:50It's a plane for $1,000.
02:52You can tell this maker's planes from its rival Boeings by the rounder noses and windows,
02:57as well as the A prefix to the model number.
02:59Jamie?
03:00What is Airbus?
03:01You got it.
03:02Some Latin for $600.
03:03The Brennan Center for Justice says this is a principle of constitutional democracy that
03:08protects against unlawful detention.
03:11Jamie?
03:11What is habeas corpus?
03:12Correct.
03:13Endangered Species for $1,000.
03:15The Sunda tiger, aka this subspecies of tiger named for its home island, has no natural predators,
03:21which makes sense because yikes.
03:24Pranit?
03:25What is Sumatran?
03:26Very good.
03:27It's a plane, $800.
03:28The answer there is a daily double, Pranit.
03:33You can't quite take the lead here, but you can come close.
03:36What do you want to bet on?
03:37It's a plane.
03:38$2,000.
03:39All right.
03:39True daily double, then.
03:40Here's your clue.
03:41It's a plane.
03:43Despite this rhyming nickname, the Hughes Aircraft H4 Hercules Flying Boat was built almost entirely
03:48of birch.
03:50What is Spruce Goose?
03:52Spruce Goose is correct, yes.
03:53Those $200 now separate you from Jamie?
03:58Uh, presidential nickname was $1,000.
04:00From his Rough Rider days, Theodore Roosevelt was the hero of this Cuban elevation.
04:05Jamie?
04:06Or to San Juan Hill?
04:07Right.
04:07They play one on TV for $800.
04:10Keri Russell has been Emmy nominated for this streaming series, in which the title is also
04:14her job.
04:15Pranit?
04:16What is The Diplomat?
04:17That's her.
04:18Latin for $1,000.
04:19This phrase means, let the buyer beware, and you've now purchased the clue.
04:24So it'll cost you $1,000 if you don't know it.
04:27Jamie?
04:27What is Caveat M-Sor?
04:29Yes.
04:29You add $1,000.
04:31It's a plane for $600.
04:33Generating lift without wings, the NASA M2F1 Flying Bathtub helped pave the way for this
04:38craft that first launched in 1981.
04:41Abigail?
04:41What is the Challenger?
04:43No.
04:44Jamie?
04:45What is the Space Shuttle?
04:45That's correct.
04:46Columbia was first, I'm afraid.
04:47Abigail?
04:48Back to you, Jamie.
04:49The sounds of non-silence for $800.
04:51Oral History says this xylophone relative with an African name once used gourds as its
04:56resonators.
04:58Jamie?
04:59What is the marimba?
05:00We were enjoying the marimba there, yes.
05:01You have the lead as we come into our first break, but don't go anywhere, please.
05:05There is lots more Jeopardy!
05:06still to come.
05:11Pranit Nanda is a commodity trader from Houston, and even before you were Jeopardy!
05:16You were pretty famous, Pranit.
05:16You were pretty famous in your high school, it seems.
05:19What happened?
05:19Yeah, so when I was in high school, the government of the city of Reno, Nevada, where I lived at
05:23the time, sent a document to my school saying that they found out about a scholarship I had
05:28won and they were declaring a day in my name.
05:31I did not expect that to happen, but I had my own day.
05:33It was Pranit Nanda Day in Reno, and you found out from school?
05:37Yeah, pretty much.
05:38What happened on Pranit Nanda Day?
05:40Any perks?
05:40Well, I was not in Reno on that day, but I heard that at my school, my face was posted
05:48throughout the hallways by several of my friends.
05:50I hope you're there for the next one.
05:51Also with us, Abigail Marcolini, originally of Scottsdale, a bookstore clerk who is celebrating
05:56today.
05:56What are you celebrating besides Jeopardy?
05:58Today is my 26th birthday.
06:00Hey, happy birthday, Abigail.
06:01Thank you very much.
06:02Is this a good way to spend your birthday on Jeopardy, or is it a little too stressful?
06:05I think this is the best way I could have spent any birthday.
06:08This is totally a dream come true, so best birthday ever.
06:12Plans later?
06:14To be determined.
06:15This was my plan for the day, so.
06:17Everything leads up to this moment.
06:18Yes.
06:18Well, I hope you enjoy your birthday with us, Abigail.
06:21Jamie Ding is a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
06:24We're here in Los Angeles, Jamie, which is the site of one of your first memories.
06:28Your earliest memory was here?
06:30So I was born in Australia, and then when I was two years old, we moved to Nashville,
06:34but we stopped in Los Angeles along the way, and we went to Universal Studios.
06:39So my earliest memory is being on the studio tour and suddenly roaring out of the darkness.
06:44It's King Kong.
06:45Oh, are you traumatized by King Kong?
06:47No longer.
06:48I was at the time.
06:49For many, many years, Ken.
06:50And then he burned down in 2008, unfortunately.
06:53Rest in peace, but I'm still here.
06:56Well, thanks for coming back to a different studio lot today and putting those bad memories
07:00to bed.
07:01Do you also have control of the board?
07:02Jamie, make a selection.
07:04Presidential nicknames for 800.
07:06The grandson of an earlier president, he was the front porch campaigner for giving speeches
07:10to crowds gathered at his home.
07:12Pranit.
07:13Who's Harrison?
07:14Can you be more specific?
07:15Benjamin.
07:16That's the right Harrison.
07:17TV 1000.
07:18Young investment bankers are the focus of this HBO drama that's been called a combo
07:23of Succession and Grey's Anatomy.
07:25Jamie.
07:26What is Industry?
07:26Yeah, great show.
07:28They play one on TV for 600.
07:29The main character on New Heart held this job, which Lauren Graham on Gilmore Girls also
07:34came to have.
07:35Jamie.
07:36What is Innkeeper?
07:37Correct.
07:37Presidential nicknames for 400.
07:39There may have been a bit of mockery in calling 5'7 John Adams this kind of tall monument
07:45of independence.
07:47Abigail.
07:47What is an obelisk?
07:49No, not obelisk.
07:50Jamie or Pranit?
07:53He was the colossus of independence.
07:55Back to you, Jamie.
07:56They play one on TV for 200.
07:59Relentless optimism and a screening of the Iron Giant are two of Ted Lasso's unorthodox
08:03tactics as a newcomer to this job.
08:06Jamie.
08:07What is a soccer manager?
08:08Yes, or soccer coach.
08:10Phrase in the form of some Latin for 400.
08:12You'll be on the money if you say this phrase that means out of many, one.
08:17Jamie.
08:18What is E pluribus unum?
08:19Correct.
08:20Endangered species for 600.
08:22That's not an antelope.
08:24It's a Sao La, a critically endangered bovine found only in mountains of Vietnam and this northwestern
08:29neighbor.
08:33Also Laos.
08:34Jamie.
08:36Endangered species for 400.
08:37Pink dolphins in the Amazon basin face many threats, including mercury contamination caused
08:43by illegal mining of this element.
08:45Jamie.
08:46What is gold?
08:47You got it.
08:47The sounds of non-silence for 200.
08:50Ah, yeah.
08:51Here's what a 1993 Testarossa from this company sounds like.
08:56Abigail.
08:57What is Ferrari?
08:58It is.
08:58It's a plane for 200.
09:01Iconic small planes from Piper Aircraft include the Cherokee and this one named for a young
09:06animal.
09:10That's the Piper Cub.
09:11Abigail.
09:12Phrase it in the form of some Latin for 200.
09:15Time to school you with bounteous mother.
09:18This two-word phrase.
09:20Pranit.
09:21What is all modern?
09:22That's right.
09:23TV 400.
09:24Phil Dunphy on Modern Family had this job, which he once described as ninja in a blazer.
09:31Pranit.
09:31What is realtor?
09:32Correct.
09:34Nance Island's 400.
09:36Being razor-toothed and carnivorous wasn't enough.
09:38This South American fish has got to make the sound it does here.
09:43Jamie.
09:44What's a piranha?
09:45Listening to a piranha there.
09:46Presidential nicknames to 200.
09:48This Ronald Reagan nickname came from a role he played in the movie Newt Rockne All-American.
09:53Pranit.
09:54What's Dutch?
09:55No.
09:56Jamie.
09:56What's the gipper?
09:57The gipper.
09:58George Gipp.
09:58Final clue from endangered species will be this.
10:01All three species of this large mammal are endangered.
10:04Habitat loss, poaching, and the ivory trade all pose major threats.
10:08Pranit.
10:09What is elephant?
10:10Elephant is correct.
10:11You're in second place.
10:11Jamie has the lead.
10:12Abigail will select first when we come back.
10:14Double Jeopardy starts after this.
10:21Our champ is in the lead, but the birthday girl gets the select first in Double Jeopardy.
10:25Categories will be these.
10:28Endangered theses this time.
10:30Then post-breakup playlist songs.
10:33Books of the 1990s.
10:35The Great Wealth Transfer.
10:37Then Cities on Islands.
10:40And finally, a little Je Portmanteau.
10:43Abigail, what do you like?
10:44Let's do Cities on Islands for 1,200.
10:47The southernmost city within the continental U.S.
10:50It was the site of a 19th century naval base guarding against pirates.
10:54Jamie.
10:55What is Key West?
10:56It is.
10:57Books of the 1990s for 1,600.
10:59Men Go to Their Caves and Women Talk is a chapter in this John Gray Guide to Relationships.
11:05Jamie.
11:06What is Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus?
11:08That's the book.
11:10Endangered theses for 1,200.
11:11The Catholic Church condemned Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which took dead aim at the sale of these religious pardons.
11:19Jamie.
11:19What are indulgences?
11:21Yes.
11:22Post-breakup playlist songs for 2,000.
11:24It's unnatural.
11:25You belong to me, I belong to you, sang Boys to Men.
11:28Clearly not happy to arrive at this title location.
11:35Big number one hit.
11:36They've come to the end of the road.
11:38Back to you, Jamie.
11:39The Great Wealth Transfer for 1,600.
11:41One of the largest donations ever was a $1.5 billion bequest by Joan Kroc to this organization, founded as
11:49a mission in the East End of London.
11:51Jamie.
11:51What is The Salvation Army?
11:53That's it.
11:54Cities on Islands for 2,000.
11:56Founded on St. Mary's Island as a military post in 1816 to suppress the slave trade, Banjul is the capital
12:02of this African nation.
12:04Jamie.
12:05What is The Gambia?
12:06Good for 2,000.
12:06The Portmanteau for 1,200.
12:08To congeal like blood, plus someone who shows up way after the party starts.
12:17That would be a coagulate-comer.
12:19Here's a word no one's ever said before.
12:21Jamie.
12:22Endangered theses for 2,000.
12:24This Frenchman and Darwin predecessor posited that acquired traits could be inherited.
12:29Mendel's peas proved otherwise.
12:32Pranit.
12:32Who's Lamarck?
12:33Very good for 2,000.
12:34Islands, 1,600.
12:36St. Helier is the chief city of this largest of the Channel Islands that's only 14 miles from France.
12:42Jamie.
12:43What is Jersey?
12:43Yes.
12:44It's a portmanteau for 800.
12:46Another word for a spittoon, plus a triangular treat from Frito-Lay.
12:54These are proving difficult.
12:56What is a cuspidorito?
12:58Cuspidor and Dorito.
12:59Jamie.
13:00The great wealth transfer for 1,200.
13:02Answer there is a daily double.
13:05And you have an even $20,000 to mess with here, Jamie.
13:09How aggressive do you want to be?
13:106,000.
13:11You'll have 26,000 if you're right.
13:13Here's your clue in the great wealth transfer.
13:15The corporation of this immigrant who died in 1919 says his fortune has supported Insulin's Discovery and Sesame Street.
13:30Jamie?
13:30It was Levi.
13:32No, sorry.
13:33That's the Carnegie Corporation.
13:35Andrew Carnegie.
13:36So the game gets a little bit closer.
13:38Still have the lead, Jamie.
13:39Where to now?
13:39Books of the 90s through 2000.
13:41This Tim O'Brien book refers to the dog tags, photos, comic books, military equipment, and much more.
13:47A platoon hauls around Vietnam.
13:49Jamie.
13:50What is the things they carried?
13:51Yes.
13:52Endangered theses for 1,600.
13:54The answer there.
13:55The other daily double.
13:59If you had no luck with Andrew Carnegie, do you feel any better about endangered theses?
14:043,000.
14:05Okay.
14:053,000 this time.
14:06Going for 19,000 in endangered theses.
14:09The so-called interaction problem is a classic objection to this French guy's theory that mind and body are separate.
14:16Who was Descartes?
14:18Descartes is correct.
14:19Yes.
14:20You add $3,000.
14:23Select again.
14:24Jif Portmanteau for 2,000.
14:26Violent Whirlpool plus Italian Volcano that's also the name of a pizza-like treat.
14:32Jamie.
14:33What is Male Stromboli?
14:34Male Strom and Stromboli, right.
14:36Post-Breakout Playlist songs for 1,600.
14:39It's the Breakout and Breakup hit in which Lizzo snipes to an X.
14:43That's the sound of me not calling you back.
14:45Pranit.
14:46What is Truth Hurts?
14:47Yes.
14:48Well Transfer, 2,000.
14:50JPMorgan gave $500,000 to the Wadsworth Athenaeum located in this city of his birth.
14:59That's Hartford, apparently.
15:02Pranit.
15:02Ajportmanteau, 16.
15:04French-derived word meaning sleight of hand, plus big computer that serves as a hub.
15:10Pranit.
15:11What is Ledger Domain Frame?
15:12Well done, yes.
15:14Books of the 90s, 1200.
15:16The Nobel folks called Svetlana Alexievich's books a monument to suffering and courage, like voices from this nuclear site.
15:24Pranit.
15:24Pranit.
15:25What is Chernobyl?
15:26Right.
15:27Songs, 12.
15:28In Irreplaceable, Beyonce reminds us the best way to handle an X's belongings.
15:33Everything you own in the box here.
15:35Abigail.
15:36What is to the left?
15:37That's correct.
15:38Cities on Islands for 800.
15:40Seat of the Parliament and High Court, Nuke is the capital and main seaport of this large island.
15:46Jamie.
15:47It's Greenland.
15:47Yes.
15:48Books of the 90s for 400.
15:50As its name suggests, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket was the first book that began a series of these
15:56title happenings.
15:58Jamie.
15:58What are Unfortunate Events?
16:00Yes.
16:01Endangered Theses for 800.
16:02The 19th century geological thesis of deluvialism, arguing for the origin of structures in this type of event, didn't hold
16:09up long.
16:10Jamie.
16:11What is the flood?
16:12You got it.
16:13Cities on Islands for 400.
16:15Victoria, British Columbia is on this island that shares its name with a big city nearby.
16:20Jamie.
16:21What is Vancouver?
16:21Vancouver Island.
16:22Nineties books for 800.
16:24Six years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, something has survived in this novel, the only sequel Michael Crichton ever
16:31wrote.
16:32Jamie.
16:32What is the Lost World?
16:33That's the book.
16:34Endangered Theses for 400.
16:36Sitcom watchers know the Steady State Theory, positing a universe of constant density, is less in favor than this theory.
16:43Jamie.
16:44What is the Big Bang Theory?
16:45Right.
16:45Ja'Port Ranteau for 400.
16:47Type of literature that allows one to avoid reality, plus car part that moves in a cylinder.
16:53Jamie.
16:54What is Escape Piston?
16:55Yes.
16:56Great wealth transfer for 800.
16:58Mackenzie Scott's donations to HBCUs included a $20 million gift to this college for men in Atlanta.
17:05Jamie.
17:05What is Morehouse?
17:06Right.
17:07Post-breakup playlist songs for 400.
17:09In a 1997 hit, Natalie Imbruglia laments,
17:12I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is this title word.
17:16Jamie.
17:17Was Torn.
17:18That's the song.
17:19Great wealth transfer for 400.
17:20In 2023, he donated $4.6 billion worth of stock to charity.
17:26Prunit.
17:27Who's Buffett?
17:27It is Warren Buffett.
17:29The last clue?
17:30Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone, proclaims Kelly Clarkson, proudly solo in this 2011 anthem.
17:36Jamie.
17:36But a stronger.
17:37That is correct.
17:38You went on a tear at the end of Double Jeopardy, sir, and hold the lead as we move to
17:42Final Jeopardy.
17:42The category for you three is...
17:46Homophones.
17:46And we will return with the clue as soon as the wagers are in.
17:49Don't you go anywhere.
17:51Our last clue of the day concerns homophones.
17:54Here's that Final Jeopardy clue.
17:56A 2008 Best Picture Oscar nominee and a Roman goddess both have names that are homophones of this state capital.
18:0430 seconds now, players.
18:05Good luck.
18:09Good luck.
18:18Good luck.
18:20Good luck.
18:26Good luck.
18:29Good luck.
18:36Good luck.
18:37We are in trouble.
18:38$20,000 in front of her and wrote down for Final Jeopardy, which state capital? What is Augusta?
18:43I'm afraid not, Abigail. What did you wager? Almost everything. We'll leave you with $1.
18:49Pranit Nanda had $13,000. Very impressive in second. He wrote down a response almost immediately.
18:55And it's the right one. Juno, Alaska, but also Juno, The Wife of Jupiter, and the Elliot Page
19:00movie. What did you wager? You'll add $3,000, bringing you up to $16,000, but you might have
19:06to settle for second place today. Jamie Ding put this thing away late. He has $27,000.
19:10He thought about this. Did he come up with Juno in the end? He did. He wagered. He didn't
19:16wager anything. He'll stand pat at $27,000 and is now an eight-day Jeopardy! champion.
19:22His total? $222,203. It's starting to run into money. We'll see if it keeps going tomorrow.
19:31Join us now.
19:56We'll see you next time.
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