- 2 minutes ago
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Picture Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:13Let's meet today's contestants.
00:17A former engineer from Mount Prospect, Illinois, George Thomas.
00:22An events planner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jessica Frankenfield.
00:28And our returning champion, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey,
00:34Jamie Ding, whose 13-day cash winnings totaled $360,000.
00:42And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:49Thank you so much, folks. Thank you, Johnny Gilbert.
00:52Good to have you with us today on Jeopardy!
00:54Yesterday, our champion, Jamie Ding, hit lucky 13 wins.
00:58And today, he finds himself going for a record that has only been reached by 13 other players in Jeopardy!
01:04history.
01:04Most recently, Harrison Whitaker, who won 14 games earlier this season.
01:08But standing in his way of that record, Jessica and George are with us.
01:11Good luck to all three of you.
01:12Let's reveal the categories in the Jeopardy! round.
01:16We begin on the left with some world flags.
01:19Then, a trip around the U.S. Capitol, followed by must-be hump day.
01:25Four E's, a jolly good fellow.
01:28Then, terms from Olympic sports.
01:30And finally, a category that's last year's news.
01:34Jamie, where do we start?
01:35Around the U.S. Capitol for $800.
01:37Answer.
01:38A daily double right off the bat.
01:42Sadly, you have no money yet, but you can wager up to $1,000.
01:45$1,000.
01:47Here's your clue from around the U.S. Capitol.
01:50This central interior space has a volume of approximately 1.3 million cubic feet.
01:57What is the rotunda?
01:59It is the Capitol Rotunda, so you're on the board with $1,000.
02:04Four E's, a jolly good fellow for $600.
02:07A cigar, shorter and with thinner ends than a corona.
02:11Or the vodka endorsed by Craig, Daniel Craig.
02:14Jamie.
02:15What is Belvedere?
02:16Right again.
02:16Olympic sports for $1,000.
02:18Plates, snatch.
02:21Jamie.
02:21What is weightlifting?
02:22Good for $1,000.
02:23World flags for $800.
02:25The two triangles of Nepal's flag represent these two major religions of the country.
02:30Jamie.
02:31What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
02:32You got them both.
02:33Must be hump day for $1,000.
02:34These cattle that originated in India are characterized by a distinctive shoulder hump.
02:43Those are Brahmin cattle.
02:45Jamie.
02:45U.S. Capitol for $600.
02:47A 9'7 king representing this state was moved from Statuary Hall to Emancipation Hall.
02:53Jamie.
02:54What is Hawaii?
02:55Right.
02:55Four E's for $800.
02:57Diminutive.
02:58Or one participating in youth hockey at age 11 or 12.
03:02Jamie.
03:03What is peewee?
03:03Peewee hockey.
03:04Last year's news for $1,000.
03:07Some $2,000 feet under the sea, the colossal species of this cephalopod was recorded in
03:12its natural habitat for the first time.
03:14Jamie.
03:15What is squid?
03:15The colossal squid, right.
03:17Terms from Olympic sports for $600.
03:19Heavy ice, shot rock.
03:22Jamie.
03:23What is curling?
03:23Yes.
03:24World flags for $400.
03:26Each of the stars on its flag represents a particular state and are drawn as they appear in the night
03:31sky above its most famous city.
03:33Jamie.
03:34What is Brazil?
03:35That's correct.
03:36Hump day for $600.
03:37Bactrian camels have two humps.
03:39Arabian camels, also known as these, have one.
03:43Jamie.
03:43What a dramedy area.
03:44Yes.
03:45U.S. Capitol for $1,000.
03:47The Capitol has three subway lines, two to the Senate and one to the House building named for this legendary
03:52speaker from Texas.
03:54Jamie.
03:55It was Rayburn.
03:55You had $1,000.
03:57Last year's news for $800.
03:59On November 12th, a Greek omega sign appeared next to a bearded man to mark the last of this item.
04:09There was an omega on the last run of the penny next to Lincoln.
04:12Back to you, Jamie.
04:13Four E's for $1,000.
04:15We'll even add a fifth E.
04:17This job keeps a golf course neat.
04:19And before having the gig in Caddyshack, Bill Murray was once an assistant one.
04:24Jamie.
04:25Was it Greenskeeper?
04:26Yes.
04:27World flags for $1,000.
04:29This constellation appears on the flags of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
04:33Jamie.
04:34What is the Southern Cross?
04:35That is correct.
04:35And it's been a clean sweep for you in the first 15 clues of the round.
04:38But Jessica and George, fear not.
04:40Lots of Jeopardy left to be played.
04:41We'll get underway after we pause for this break.
04:49George Thomas here is a former engineer from Mount Prospect, Illinois, who picked up a new skill in the eighth
04:54grade.
04:55What did you learn?
04:56Yeah, that's right.
04:56So in the eighth grade, I was in India at an international school.
04:59And some of the Korean students in my class brought a Rubik's Cube to class.
05:03And I had seen one before, but I was like, oh, I'm too dumb to try it.
05:05You know, how do you do this?
05:06I can't do it.
05:07They're like, no, you can borrow it and learn it.
05:09And so I went home.
05:10I watched some videos.
05:11And a new hobby of mine was born called speedcubing, where you just solve the Rubik's Cube as fast as
05:16you can.
05:16Speedcubing is insane.
05:17It's one of the things I see on the Internet that I cannot believe.
05:20Do you still do it?
05:21Yeah, occasionally I do it.
05:22I'm very washed.
05:23Whenever I pick it up, I can never even reach the records I used to have.
05:26That's true of all of us.
05:27Yeah.
05:27It's amazing being young, right?
05:29Jessica Frankenfield is an events planner from Philadelphia who also had a great blog.
05:34Tell me about your cooking blog.
05:35Yeah, so I studied history.
05:36And in grad school, I studied public history, which is like interpreting history for the public.
05:40So, you know, a blog is a great way to do that.
05:42I sourced a bunch of old cookbooks and manuscripts to cook through them to really understand the process of how
05:50they were made.
05:51So you're making food that's hundreds of years old.
05:53Yes.
05:53That's great.
05:54Did it taste fresh?
05:55Um, no.
05:57A lot of spices.
05:58Our champion, of course, is Jamie Ding, the pride of Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
06:02People now know you from Jeopardy, Jamie, but you were famous before that.
06:06There's a chapter in a book about you, I'm told.
06:08Correct.
06:08What's the book?
06:09The book is American Bee by James McGuire, and it's a history of the National Spelling Bee.
06:13And there's a chapter about you because of?
06:16Originally because I sat behind the author on a bus, and I guess he liked me well enough to include
06:21a chapter about me.
06:22There were, I guess, five or so different spellers.
06:24Out of those, I got eliminated the earliest out of the spellers profiled in that book, but it was a
06:30fun time.
06:31That's great.
06:31You must be a very good bus company to get a book mention just on the strength of that.
06:35I guess so.
06:36It's your board, Jamie. Pick up your signaling devices, everybody.
06:39World flags for 600.
06:41In 1918, this country adopted a two-color flag representing blue skies over golden wheat fields.
06:48It was readopted in 1992.
06:50George.
06:51What is Ukraine?
06:51Yes, you're on the board.
06:53Uh, let's do hump day for 800.
06:55Railroad hump yards used the force of gravity to sort these cars named for their load-carrying role.
07:01Jamie.
07:02What are freight cars?
07:02That's it.
07:03Four E's for 400.
07:05It describes one who saves another from sin.
07:08It's also in the name of a nearly 100-foot-tall statue of a certain man in Rio.
07:13George.
07:13What is Redeemer?
07:14Write again.
07:15Uh, let's do Olympic sports for 800.
07:17Cutback.
07:18Beach break.
07:20George.
07:21What is volleyball?
07:22No.
07:23Jamie.
07:23What is surfing?
07:24That is the Olympic sport.
07:26Last year's news for 400.
07:27In his election night victory speech, he thanked Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, among many others.
07:34Jamie.
07:35It was Mayor Mamdani.
07:36Right.
07:37U.S. Capitol for 200.
07:38A space below the Capitol's crypt was designed as a tomb for this man, but he said he preferred to
07:43be buried elsewhere.
07:45Jamie.
07:45It was George Washington.
07:46Correct.
07:48Olympic sports for 400.
07:50Corner throw.
07:51Bathing cap.
07:52Jessica.
07:53What is swimming?
07:54No.
07:55George.
07:56What is water polo?
07:56Corner throw means water polo, yes.
07:58Uh, let's do world flags for 200.
08:00You'll find these birds on the flags of Albania, Kazakhstan, and Serbia, though not the United States.
08:06Jamie.
08:07Order eagles.
08:07That's right.
08:08Last year's news for 600.
08:10On June 11, 2025, a former resident of the South Side rocked a cap of this MLB team at his
08:16new home in Vatican City.
08:18George.
08:18Who are the Cubs?
08:19No.
08:20Jessica.
08:21Who's Pope Leo?
08:22Also incorrect.
08:24Jamie.
08:24Who are the White Sox?
08:25We didn't need the team, but Leo is a White Sox fan.
08:28Olympic sports for 200.
08:30Riposte, hilt.
08:32Jamie.
08:33What is fencing?
08:34You're correct.
08:35Hump day for 400.
08:37During World War II, the hump was a dangerous air supply route from India to China over the southern edge
08:43of these mountains.
08:44Jamie.
08:45Order of the Himalayas.
08:45Correct.
08:46U.S. Capitol for 400.
08:48Somewhat ironically, the enslaved Philip Reed helped cast the figure atop the Capitol, named not Liberty, but this.
08:55Jamie.
08:55What is freedom?
08:56It is.
08:57Four E's for 200.
08:59Concentrix is a major employer of these fellows, who have goods and services to inform you about over the phone.
09:04Jessica.
09:05What are telemarketers?
09:06Right.
09:07Last year's news, please.
09:09Dictionary.com's word of the year was this one that's really two formerly innocuous numerals.
09:14Jamie.
09:15Order 6-7.
09:166-7.
09:17And the final clue must be hump day.
09:20This 19th century novel character has a huge head bristling with red hair between his shoulders, an enormous hump.
09:26George.
09:27Who's the hunchback of Notre Dame?
09:29That is right.
09:30You finish in positive territory.
09:31Jessica was coming back as well, but she will select first when we return.
09:34Double Jeopardy begins in a moment.
09:43Jamie has been a steamroller so far, but the good news for Jessica and George, this is the comeback round.
09:48Lots of cash on the board in Double Jeopardy and these categories.
09:52First one could have been an email.
09:54Then we have banned books.
09:56We have documentaries.
09:58Followed by foreign words and phrases.
10:01Then mind your P's and Q's.
10:06Jessica.
10:07Documentaries for $1,600.
10:10With narration by Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell, The Battle of Midway was a short film by this director, best
10:16known for his Westerns.
10:17Jamie.
10:18Who's Ford.
10:18John Ford is right.
10:19Could have been an email for $1,200.
10:22Why go when it turns out to be the worst thing in my life, as JFK said of a 1961
10:26summit with this man who savaged Kennedy?
10:30Jamie.
10:31Who's Khrushchev.
10:31Yes.
10:32Mind your for $1,600.
10:34The answer there is a daily double for you, Jamie.
10:40A wide lead at the moment, but how much do you want to risk here?
10:43$7,600.
10:44Okay, a big wage.
10:46You'll have $25,000 even if you're right.
10:48The category is mind your.
10:51Carl Jung coined this two-word term for primordial memories and impulses that he theorized were shared by everyone.
10:58What is the collective unconscious?
11:00Is right, taking you to $25,000.
11:07Keys and Qs for $800.
11:09Perhaps the people lining up to get into this museum are there to see Surbaran's 1640 masterpiece, Agnus Dei.
11:19Here it's P for Prado in Madrid.
11:22Jamie.
11:22Foreign words and phrases for $1,200.
11:25Meaning, my daughter, this four-letter Spanish word can be used affectionately to refer to any young woman.
11:31Jessica.
11:31What is mija?
11:32That's right.
11:33P's and Q's for $12.
11:34Fans camped out overnight to get into his surprise July 7th, 2007 show at Minneapolis' First Avenue Club.
11:41Jamie.
11:42It was Prince.
11:43That's right.
11:44Foreign words and phrases for $1,600.
11:46This French phrase for beautiful gesture gained popularity with a 1924 novel by Percival Wren and the following film.
11:57That phrase is beau-gest.
11:59Jamie.
12:00Banned books for $2,000.
12:01In 2020, an Arkansas senator sought to cut funding for schools using the bestseller titled This 17th Century Year Project.
12:09Jamie.
12:10What is $1,619?
12:11You add $2,000.
12:12Documentaries for $1,200.
12:14He was a mentor to Judd Apatow, and following his death, Apatow directed a documentary about him.
12:19Jessica.
12:20Who is Shandling?
12:21It is Gary Shandling.
12:22Banned books $16.
12:24In 2024, this Salman Rushdie work returned to bookstore shelves in India after a 36-year ban.
12:31Jamie.
12:31What is the Satanic Verses?
12:33Yes.
12:34P's and Q's for $1,600.
12:36It can be a long wait to get into this legendary New Orleans venue and see its eponymous jazz band.
12:41Jessica.
12:42What is the Preservation Hall Jazz Band?
12:44Right.
12:45Mind your 12.
12:47Freud said the human mind's most socially important achievement was its reaction against this myth-named set of feelings.
12:53George.
12:54What is Oedipal?
12:57Oedipus?
12:59No, I'm sorry.
13:01Jamie or Jessica?
13:04On the right track, George, but the set of feelings is the Oedipus Complex.
13:07Back to you, Jessica.
13:09Banned books are 12.
13:10In 1959, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. post office could no longer confiscate copies of this D
13:16.H. Lawrence novel.
13:17Jamie.
13:18What is Lady Chatterley's Lover?
13:19That's the novel.
13:20Documentaries for 2000.
13:22One day in September gave new insight into the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in this
13:28city.
13:28Jessica.
13:29What is Munich?
13:30Yes.
13:31Could have been an email 16.
13:33Why schlep out to these New Hampshire woods in 1944?
13:36Three weeks for a summit on banking?
13:39Boring.
13:40Jamie?
13:41What are Bretton Woods?
13:42Right.
13:43P's and Q's for 2000.
13:44The answer there, the final Daily Double of the game.
13:50You can see the scores, Jamie.
13:52How do you feel about P's and Q's?
13:5512,400.
13:56Whoa, okay.
13:57You will have 45,000 exactly, if you're right, in P's and Q's.
14:02More than 3 million people a year queue up to visit this Paris cultural center named for a French president.
14:08Or is it the Pompidou?
14:10Sandra Pompidou is correct, taking you up to a whopping $45,000.
14:16Foreign words and phrases for 2000.
14:18Men in Portugal say thank you with this word that begins and ends with the same letter.
14:23Jamie?
14:23What is Obergato?
14:24That's right, for 2000.
14:26Documentaries for 800.
14:28It's first weekend in release, his Fahrenheit 9-11 became the highest grossing documentary of all time.
14:34Jamie?
14:34It's Michael Moore.
14:35It is.
14:36Could have been an email for 400.
14:38Summer in this city for the Continental Congress?
14:40No thanks.
14:41John Adams said its air has been like the fierce breath of a hot oven.
14:45Jamie?
14:46What is Philadelphia?
14:47Yes.
14:48Mind your for 2000.
14:49Produced in the brain and associated with a feeling of pleasure, dopamine is one of these chemical messengers.
14:55Jamie?
14:56What are neurotransmitters?
14:57Right.
14:58Documentaries for 400.
14:59A classic from the 60s, The Endless Summer followed two Californians in search of the perfect this.
15:05Jessica?
15:06What is a wave?
15:07You got it.
15:08Email for 2000.
15:09The first council of this place, 325, did come up with a creed, but failed to establish a uniform date
15:16for Easter.
15:17Jamie?
15:17What is Nicaea?
15:182000 more for you.
15:20Band books for 800.
15:21A memoir of his LGBTQ youth, George M. Johnson's 2020 bestseller, All Boys Aren't This Color, is a frequent band
15:29target.
15:30George?
15:30What is pink?
15:31No, sorry.
15:32Jamie?
15:33What is blue?
15:33Yeah, aren't blue.
15:35Could have been an email for 800.
15:37In 1521, he appeared before the Diet of Worms, facing a charge of heresy.
15:41Could have just left him a note on his door instead.
15:44Jamie?
15:45It was Martin Luther.
15:46Right.
15:46Mind your for 400.
15:49Psychopathology, the study of mental disorders, is also known as this unusual psychology.
15:56Jessica?
15:56What is abnormal?
15:57Well done.
15:59Mind your 800.
16:01Spelled with an initial A, not an E. In psychology, it means an observable emotional response.
16:07Jamie?
16:08What is affect?
16:09Yes.
16:09P's and Q's for 400.
16:11There's a long, long waiting list to buy this team's Lambeau Field season tickets.
16:15They've been sold out since 1960.
16:18Jamie?
16:18We're the Green Bay Packers.
16:20Right.
16:20Foreign words and phrases for 800.
16:22The Korean word gosu is used primarily to refer to anyone who is a master at this pastime.
16:29Jessica?
16:30Was taekwondo?
16:31No.
16:32Jamie or George?
16:34Gosu is a master of gaming, video games.
16:36Jamie?
16:37Band books of 400.
16:39Pen America ranked this Anthony Burgess work as the most banned book of the 2024 to 25 school year.
16:45Jamie?
16:46What is it, clopper corunch?
16:47That's right.
16:48We have one more clue from foreign words and phrases, and it's this.
16:52In Arabic, as-salamu alaykum translates to this be upon you.
16:56Jamie?
16:56What is peace?
16:57That is correct.
16:58And after a stunner of a game, Jamie has $55,800 going into Final Jeopardy, breaking his own record for
17:03the season.
17:04George, I'm sorry you were unable to come back from the red, but we loved having you here.
17:08You'll receive our third place prize of $2,000.
17:10Jamie and Jessica, for Final Jeopardy, your category will be...
17:13The Calendar.
17:15And we'll be back after this.
17:24We head to the calendar for Final Jeopardy today.
17:27The wagers are in, so here's the clue.
17:30Mark Twain wrote the quip that on this day of the year, we are reminded of what we are on
17:34the other 364.
17:3630 seconds.
17:38Good luck.
17:38Good luck.
17:39Good luck.
17:52Good luck.
18:08If you have a calendar at home while you're watching, it may have been helpful here.
18:12Jessica Frankenfield was in second place with 5200.
18:15What day did you write down?
18:18What is April Fool's Day?
18:20That's correct.
18:20We're fools the other 364 days, so you'll be adding to that.
18:24Jessica, you wager $800, bringing you to an even $6,000.
18:28Jamie Ding had $55,800, an astonishing game.
18:32Was he correct?
18:33Did he think of April 1st, today's date as this show airs?
18:36No, he wrote Labor Day.
18:38How much did he wager?
18:41Wow.
18:41He was going for an even $100,000, which would have put him in the top 10 all-time, surrounded
18:46by a bunch of James Holtzauer games.
18:47But sadly, he drops down to $11,600, but that is enough today to make him a 14-day Jeopardy!
18:54champion.
18:55His total, $371,600.
18:58I love that wager.
19:00He may have the chance to go for $100,000 again.
19:03Who knows?
19:03We'll find out here on the Alex Trevick stage.
19:05See you next time.
19:30See you next time.
19:35Bye.
19:38Bye.
19:39Bye.
19:39Bye.
19:39Bye.
19:40Bye.
19:41Bye.
19:42Bye.
19:43Bye.
19:43Bye.
19:44Bye.
Comments