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Jeopardy! - Season 2026 Episode 84 - Greg Shahade, Alice Jiang, Chris Argento
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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Picture Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:14Please welcome today's contestants.
00:17A high school teacher originally from Bayonne, New Jersey, Chris Argento.
00:22A student originally from Redwood City, California, Alice Jung.
00:27And our returning champion, a chess player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greg Shahadi,
00:34whose one-day cash winnings totaled $33,000.
00:41And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:48Thank you, Johnny. Welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:51Yesterday, our chess master Greg Shahadi added Jeopardy! Giant Killer to his game-playing resume.
00:57As it was checkmate for 31-game champion Jamie Ding.
01:00Greg found and responded correctly to all three Daily Doubles yesterday,
01:04adding $16,800 to his score on those three clues alone.
01:08And that catapulted him to a runaway win.
01:10Jamie had certainly seemed unstoppable for weeks, but it just goes to show anything can happen here on the Alex
01:15Rebeck stage.
01:15As we welcome Alice and Chris to face Greg, good luck to all three of you.
01:19Let's see what categories are in store in the Jeopardy! round.
01:23First up, international national parks, followed by 2025 bestsellers.
01:30Then we have sitcoms, last names, a little repetitive stress, and finally, it's rhyme time.
01:38Greg, as our new champion, you select first.
01:41International national parks, $800.
01:43This bay in eastern Canada lends its name to a national park where you can gaze at its impressive 50
01:48-foot tides.
01:49Greg.
01:50What's Fundy?
01:52That's right.
01:53International parks, $1,000.
01:55The scenic alpine beauty of Fjordland National Park isn't to be enjoyed in Norway, but in this land, 11,000
02:02miles away.
02:03Chris.
02:04What is Argentina?
02:05No.
02:06Greg or Alice?
02:08It is in the southern hemisphere, Chris, but it's New Zealand.
02:11Back to you, Greg.
02:12Last name's 800.
02:14This last name of a famous poet is also a nickname from Middle English for a guy who is a
02:19tall glass of water.
02:23What is Longfellow?
02:25Greg.
02:26Last name's 1,000.
02:28Over 100 million people, including an American fashion designer, have this four-letter surname that means king in Mandarin.
02:35Alice.
02:36What is Wong?
02:36Yes.
02:37Rhyme time, 200.
02:39A stack of Scrabble letters.
02:41Chris.
02:42What is a pile of tiles?
02:44No.
02:45Greg.
02:46What's piles of tiles?
02:48Yes, we can take piles of tiles because the words rhyme exactly.
02:52Back to you, Greg.
02:54Um, bestsellers, 800.
02:56This Maggie O'Farrell book about the death of an 11-year-old boy in 1596 sold big in 2025
03:02thanks to a film adaptation.
03:04Alice.
03:05What is Hamnet?
03:05You got it.
03:06You got it.
03:06Rhyme time, 400.
03:07A woolen cap for a bivalve.
03:11Greg.
03:12Why'd I buzz?
03:14What is a...
03:17Uh...
03:17Out of time, I'm afraid.
03:19Alice.
03:19What's a clam sham?
03:20No.
03:22Chris?
03:23Care to take it?
03:24You were close, Alice.
03:24It's a clam tam.
03:26Alice.
03:262025 for 1,000.
03:28When the going was good recounts this vanity fair editor's adventures during the last golden age of magazines.
03:37That's Graydon Carter.
03:39Alice.
03:40Rhyme time, 600.
03:41To use far more glue than is necessary.
03:45Greg.
03:45What's waste paste?
03:46Yes.
03:47Parks, 600.
03:49Back to Parks.
03:50Spain's Garajonay National Park occupies 15 square miles of La Gomera, one of these islands off Africa's Atlantic coast.
03:57Chris.
03:58What's the Canary Islands?
03:59Yes.
04:00Um, sitcoms, 1,000.
04:02In a 2021 live version of this sitcom, Jennifer Aniston played Blair Warner and Gabrielle Union was 2D.
04:09Greg.
04:10What's Facts of Life?
04:11That's correct.
04:13Um, Repetitive Stress, 800.
04:14Answer.
04:15The Daily Double in the round goes to you, Greg.
04:19You're wagering from an $800 lead.
04:21How do you feel about Repetitive Stress?
04:23I don't even know what it is.
04:24That's what's happening to me, I guess.
04:25Uh, 2,200.
04:27Going for the true Daily Double even though he doesn't know what the category is.
04:30Here's your clue.
04:30In Repetitive Stress.
04:32Anaphora is the repetition of the start of a clause ending in different ways.
04:37Like these four words in an August 28th, 1963 speech in D.C.
04:46What is, I have a dream?
04:49Those are the repeated four words.
04:51Yes, a famous Anaphora.
04:53You double up to 4,400.
04:56Where to now?
04:58Uh, let's do Rhyme Time, 1,000.
05:00Deep-seated ill will among news broadcasters.
05:04Greg.
05:04What's Anchor Rancor?
05:06Oh yeah, I hate Anchor Rancor.
05:07Let's do Rhyme Time, 8.
05:09Finish off Rhyme Time to really think about what's over there.
05:12That-a-way.
05:13Alice.
05:13What is Ponder Yonder?
05:14You got it.
05:152025, 600.
05:17His memoir, The Uncool, includes interviewing the Allman Brothers band when he was 16,
05:22and writing Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
05:24Chris.
05:25Who's Crowe?
05:26Cameron Crowe is that writer-director.
05:27Pulls you back up to zero.
05:28Well done.
05:29We need to pause for a moment, but Jeopardy will continue.
05:31Don't go anywhere.
05:34Chris Argento, originally from Bayonne, New Jersey, is a high school teacher, and that's
05:38how you got into board games, right?
05:40It is.
05:41Uh, myself and my colleagues use board games to teach math concepts in class.
05:44I know what you're thinking, how do the two go together, but they absolutely do.
05:48In a board game, I teach you the rules, I teach you some strategies, and you have to get
05:52to the end point.
05:52Same thing with solving an equation.
05:54Plus you're tricking the kids into actually doing the thing.
05:56Constantly.
05:57That's gotta be the hardest part to do, right?
05:58And we just called them right now.
05:59Oh no, I gave it away.
06:01Also with us is Alice Jung, originally from Redwood City, California.
06:05She's a student who once made a 30-foot what?
06:07Manta ray, out of styrofoam.
06:09Why were you making a 30-foot manta ray out of styrofoam, Alice?
06:12So there was a room in my high school that I thought was giving Natural History Museum.
06:15So for art class, I wanted to build a giant animal to hang from the ceiling.
06:18And so I was sawing away at styrofoam with a box cutter for weeks, and ended up bringing it to
06:22fruition, and only ended up in the ER once.
06:24Only ended up in the ER once?
06:26Yes.
06:26Box cutters are sharp.
06:27Well if that room wasn't giving museum then, I'm sure it is now, with that 30-foot manta ray.
06:31Well done.
06:32Our returning champion is Greg Shahadi, a chess player from Philadelphia, and not the only chess
06:37player in your family, right?
06:38No, my sister was two-time US Women's Champion, and my dad was four-time Pennsylvania State Champion.
06:44Oh wow.
06:44And you're quite a champion as well, right?
06:46Oh man.
06:46I don't want you to brag about yourself, but...
06:48The title, International Chess Master.
06:50International Chess Master is a pretty good title.
06:52If I was an International Anything Master, I would talk about nothing else.
06:55Chris, do you have control of the board?
06:57What'll it be?
06:58Sitcoms, eight.
06:59This comedy ran for seven seasons in the 1990s, and one additional season in 2019.
07:05Chris.
07:05What is Mad About You?
07:07That is the show.
07:07Sitcoms, six.
07:09Tiffany Thiessen and Mark Paul Gosler played Bayside High School's Golden Couple on this
07:13sitcom.
07:14Chris.
07:15What is Saved by the Bell?
07:16Right again.
07:16Sitcoms, four.
07:18Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage is a spin-off of this series that was a spin-off of The Big
07:22Bang Theory.
07:23Greg.
07:24What's Young Sheldon?
07:25Yes.
07:27Repetitive Stress, 200.
07:29We'll go on this phrase from the Latin for, to a sickening extent, say it in Latin too.
07:34And we can't emphasize sickening enough.
07:36Greg.
07:38What's ad nauseum?
07:39That is the phrase.
07:40Stress, 1000.
07:42It can mean superfluous, but also describe an important duplicate part, so a single item
07:46won't cause a system failure.
07:48Chris.
07:49What is a redundancy?
07:50That's right.
07:51Sitcoms too?
07:52Still popular in reruns, this sitcom is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026.
07:58Chris.
07:59What is Everybody Loves Arraignment?
08:00That's right.
08:01Last name, Six.
08:02In 2016, this Israeli actress told Jimmy Kimmel that her last name means riverbank in Hebrew.
08:09Greg.
08:10Who's Gadot?
08:11That's right.
08:12Last name's four.
08:13Having the last name Howland or Eaton might mean one of your relatives was on this ship
08:18that left England in September 1620.
08:20Greg.
08:22What's Mayflower?
08:23You got it.
08:24Stress, 600.
08:26The Gaia tree, one of these repetitive verbal prayers of Hinduism, is meant in part to increase
08:31concentration and prosperity.
08:33Greg.
08:34What's Mantra?
08:35Right.
08:36Stress, 400.
08:36In Greek myth, an angry Hera, when wasn't Hera angry, forced this nymph to only be able
08:42to repeat the last thing somebody said.
08:45Alice.
08:45Who's Echo?
08:46Yes.
08:46Last name's 200.
08:48The Claveria Decree of 1849 required Filipino families to adopt a surname predominantly from
08:54this language.
08:55Alice.
08:56What is Spanish?
08:56Right again.
08:572025, 400.
08:59Dealing with her late husband's will, elderly Eleanor Barnett is the title character in this
09:04John Grisham novel.
09:05Chris.
09:06What is The Widow?
09:07Yes.
09:07The best sellers too.
09:09Lee and Andrew Child's exit strategy entered this big guy into trouble, which he finds a
09:14lot of for the 30th time in his series.
09:16Greg.
09:17Who's Reacher?
09:18Yep.
09:18Jack Reacher.
09:19Parks, 200.
09:20Cumbre de Monterrey National Park in this nation is in the Sierra Madre Oriental range
09:25with many peaks over 7,000 feet.
09:28Chris.
09:29What is Mexico?
09:29That's correct.
09:30The last clue I'm legally allowed to take.
09:32It's the only one left.
09:34India's Ghir National Park has the only wild habitat left for an Asian subspecies of this
09:39feline, smaller than its African cousins.
09:42Chris.
09:43What's a lion?
09:43There is a lion there.
09:44Yes.
09:45You're in second place with 3,600.
09:46Greg has the lead.
09:47And Double Jeopardy is on deck.
09:49Come right back.
09:51Welcome back.
09:52Time now for Double Jeopardy.
09:53We have 30 freshly baked clues in these six categories.
09:57Medical AKAs is the first.
10:00Followed by Nearer My Pod to Thee.
10:03Then it's Business History.
10:05Then we're wishing Happy 100th Birthday Route 66.
10:09Followed by Oh Captain My Captain.
10:11And I'll stay with the ship.
10:13Ship in quotation marks.
10:15Alice, what first?
10:16Ship 400, please.
10:18Still in college and looking for a summer one of these?
10:20You might get one paying $4,800 a week at the hedge fund Citadel.
10:24Greg?
10:25What's internship?
10:26An unusually good internship.
10:28Yes.
10:28Oh, Captain.
10:29My Captain's 16.
10:30Answer there is a daily bubble for you, Greg.
10:35You're in the lead.
10:36How do you feel about captains?
10:38How much do you want to wager?
10:42$6,000.
10:43Okay, a big wager then.
10:44Going for $6,000 more in Oh Captain My Captain.
10:47Here's your clue.
10:49A national hero as an Austrian sub-captain during World War I,
10:53he'd later gain more fame after marrying a woman named Maria.
11:03Greg?
11:05Who is...
11:07Maybe more famous to theater fans than Navy buffs,
11:10he's Captain Von Trapp from The Sound of Music.
11:12Who is Georg Von Trapp?
11:14Okay.
11:15This drops you down into third place, Greg.
11:16Select.
11:17Oh, no.
11:18Medical, a.k.a. is 16.
11:20This common name for tinea corporis is misleading.
11:24Right shape, circle, but wrong pathogen.
11:26It's a parasitic fungus.
11:28Chris?
11:29What is ringworm?
11:29Well done.
11:31Medical, a.k.a. is 2,000.
11:32This medical term for the worsening of close-up vision as we age
11:36derives from ancient Greek for old man.
11:38How dare you?
11:39And I.
11:41Greg?
11:42What's presbyopia?
11:43Good for 2,000.
11:44Business history, 16.
11:46The answer there, the final daily double of the game.
11:51This time you're $1,000 off the lead and business history is your category, Greg.
11:54Um, $4,200.
11:57Going for the true daily double.
11:58You'll be in front.
11:59You'll have $8,400 if you're correct in business history.
12:01This company was born in 1911 after four years of talks among the International Time Recording Company, Computing Scale Company,
12:09and Tabulating Machine Company.
12:11What?
12:17Greg?
12:18What's IBM?
12:20It is IBM, yes.
12:21Those are all business machines.
12:25And you have $4,200.
12:26Uh, nearer my pod to the $400.
12:29Jody Sweeten and Andrea Barber are the co-hosts of How Rude, Tanner Ridos, a rewatch podcast about this sitcom.
12:37Chris?
12:37What is Full House?
12:38Correct.
12:39Ship, 2,000.
12:40In anthropology, this seven-letter type of group, based on real or imagined lineage, was at the core of most
12:46prehistoric societies.
12:48Alice?
12:49What's a kinship?
12:50Correct.
12:50Ship, 16.
12:52In apartheid South Africa, places like Umlazi and Soweto were these segregated public housing estates.
12:59Greg?
13:00What's Township?
13:02Yes.
13:03Captain, 8.
13:04Military leader of the Plymouth Colony, this captain also served as treasurer.
13:09Greg?
13:10What's Standish?
13:11Miles Standish is right.
13:12Uh, Captain, 12.
13:14The last to hold the rank of Fleet Admiral, he made Captain in 1927 and has a class of aircraft
13:19carrier named for him.
13:21Alice?
13:21Who's Nimitz?
13:22That's right.
13:23Ship, 12.
13:24It's a hyphenated word that means anything you can do, I can do better.
13:28Chris?
13:29What is one-upsmanship?
13:30Yes, or one-upmanship.
13:31Either one.
13:32Ship, 800.
13:33Fresh out of 19th century grade school and looking for one of these, Pip from Great Expectations gets one and
13:39works as a blacksmith.
13:41Chris?
13:41What is an apprenticeship?
13:43Yes.
13:43Medical, a.k.a. is 12.
13:45Otitis externa is an infection better known by this name, after a Phelpsian activity that sometimes leads to it.
13:52Chris?
13:52What is swimmer's ear?
13:53You got it.
13:54Medical, a.k.a. is 8.
13:55You probably have 10 to 45 of these small brown spots, also known as nevi.
14:00If one looks abnormal, you might want to see a dermatologist.
14:04Greg?
14:05What's birthmark?
14:06No.
14:07Alice?
14:08That's a mole.
14:08Mole, that's right.
14:09Medical a.k.a. is for 400.
14:11Your doc might call these tiny mineral masses renal calculi.
14:15You might call them a real pain in the urinary system.
14:18Greg?
14:18What's kidney stone?
14:20Yes.
14:20Route 66, 12.
14:22So-called muffler men built from this material used in insulation were once advertising fixtures along the road.
14:29Many still stand today.
14:33They're made of fiberglass.
14:35Greg?
14:35Route 66, 800.
14:37From Rolla to Springfield, Missouri, Route 66 roughly overlaps with part of this path traversed by the Cherokees in 1838.
14:45Chris?
14:46What is the Trail of Tears?
14:47That is correct.
14:48Route 66, 2000.
14:50Steinbeck coined this famous nickname for Route 66 in the Grapes of Wrath, where the highway is a lifeline for
14:56refugees in flight.
15:00That's why it was called the Mother Road.
15:02Back to you, Chris.
15:03Route 66, 16.
15:05On Route 66 in Eric, Oklahoma, the 100th Meridian Museum honors the unofficial eastern boundary of this U.S.-Canadian region.
15:16It marks the border of the Great Plains.
15:18Chris?
15:19Uh, Pod, 2000.
15:21Don't Hitchhike and Never Get in a White Van are among the life rules followed by superfans of this hit
15:27podcast.
15:30It's called Crime Junkie.
15:32Chris?
15:33Podcast 16.
15:34On Reclaiming, this 90s newsmaker with a complicated backstory gives guests like Amanda Knox a chance to share their own.
15:42Greg?
15:43What's Lewinsky?
15:44That's right.
15:45Captain 400.
15:47Australia's National Museum shows pages from this man's 1770 journal, detailing his sights as captain of the Endeavour.
15:54Greg?
15:55Who's Cook?
15:56Yes.
15:57Captain 2000.
15:58Some time between 1487 and 1488, this man, who later sailed with da Gama, rounded the Cape of Good Hope,
16:05but likely never saw it.
16:09That's Bartulomau Diaz.
16:11Back to you, Greg.
16:12Business history, 800.
16:14The end of an EV tax credit in 2025 hurt sales for Tesla and other makers like this one, about
16:21to introduce the R2.
16:22Alice?
16:23What is Rivian?
16:24Right.
16:24Business, 2000.
16:26In the 1960s and 70s, Black-owned Johnson Products was famous for this item, whose name includes a hairstyle.
16:33Alice?
16:34What's an Afro pic?
16:34No.
16:36Greg or Chris?
16:38They made the product Afro-Sheen.
16:40Alice?
16:41Business, 1200.
16:43Hatch Showprint, in business since 1879, produced the posters when singer Roy Acuff ran for governor of this state in
16:501948.
16:54He was a Grand Ole Opry legend.
16:56What is Tennessee?
16:57Alice?
16:5866, 400.
16:59Soon after its 1926 creation, Route 66 was sold as the best and most scenic route from Chicago through St.
17:06Louis to this city.
17:07Chris?
17:08What is Los Angeles?
17:09You got it.
17:101200.
17:11Pod.
17:12Debuting in 2024, Not Gonna Lie stars this future sister-in-law of Taylor Swift.
17:20Her name is Kylie Kelsey.
17:21Two clues left, Chris.
17:23Pod, 800.
17:24At the Golden Globes in 2026, the inaugural award for best podcast went to good hang with this SNL alum.
17:31Chris?
17:32Who is polar.
17:33That's correct.
17:34And business history for?
17:35The capstone of the Washington Monument is of this, then more valuable than gold, but soon to be mass smelted
17:41by Alcoa.
17:42Alice?
17:42What is aluminum?
17:43That is correct.
17:44Greg has a narrow lead at the end of the double jeopardy round.
17:46Here is your category for final, you three.
17:50Playwrights.
17:50We'll come back with the clue right after this.
17:53Final Jeopardy today concerns playwrights.
17:56Let's reveal the clue.
17:58When she was seven, her family moved to the mostly white Chicago neighborhood of Woodlawn,
18:03leading to attacks and a Supreme Court case.
18:0530 seconds, players.
18:06Good luck.
18:06The race is a new kind.
18:07Go.
18:08Go.
18:21Go.
18:23Go.
18:37This might remind you of one of her plays.
18:39We'll start in the middle with Alice Zhang,
18:40in third place with $6,000.
18:42She wrote down Hansberry.
18:44That is correct.
18:45Lorraine Hansberry, helping to inspire A Raisin in the Sun.
18:47How much will you add, Alice?
18:49$3,200 takes you to $9,200.
18:52Chris Argento is in second place with $10,800.
18:54Did he think of Lorraine Hansberry?
18:56He's correct as well.
18:57He wagered $1,601.
19:00So he now has a $1 lead over our champion, Greg Shahadi,
19:03who needs to get this right.
19:05Does he have Hansberry there?
19:06He's correct as well.
19:07Did he wager the $1?
19:09$9,201 takes him to $21,601.
19:13After a great game, Greg emerges a two-game champion.
19:16His total, $54,601.
19:18And we'll see you back here on the Alex Provex Stage tomorrow.
19:21Thanks for watching.
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