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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 17: 2026 Tournament of Champions Quarterfinal Game 5
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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions!
00:13Introducing our fifth group of Jeopardy! Champions, an attorney originally from South Charleston, West Virginia, Matt Massey,
00:23a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Josh Weicker, and a band director from Princeton, Illinois, Stephen Olsen.
00:35And now, here is the host of Jeopardy, Ken Jennings!
00:42Thank you, Johnny Gilbert, and welcome back everyone to the quarterfinals of this season's Tournament of Champions.
00:47In yesterday's game, Ashley Chan pulled off our first come-from-behind win of the TOC and is headed to
00:53the semifinals.
00:54Hoping to join her in about 26 minutes' time, we have Stephen, Josh, and Matt.
00:59Good luck to the three of you. Let's get right into the Jeopardy! round.
01:02Your categories, champions, will be...
01:04First, we have a random five-course meal for you, followed by a little tree-paree, then Asian geography,
01:13numeric words and phrases, I can adapt,
01:15and finally, in the sixth spot, we have 21st-century game shows. Stephen, you're up.
01:21Asian geography for 800.
01:23The building of this sacred structure in the holy city of Amritsar was begun by Arjun, the fifth Sikh guru.
01:32That's the golden temple there. Stephen?
01:35Asian geography for 600.
01:37Important to the world's oil supply and seaborne shipping, this strait separates Oman and Iran.
01:43Stephen?
01:44What's Hormuz?
01:45Strait of Hormuz is right.
01:46Numeric words and phrases, 800.
01:48Surgeons and seamstresses cling to this 18th-century proverb that says,
01:53careful work now will prevent patch-up work later.
01:56Stephen?
01:57What's a stitch in time saves nine?
02:00That's the proverb.
02:01I can adapt, 800.
02:03Nocturnal fruit-eating cave dwellers, oil birds navigate using this 12-letter sensory system.
02:09Matt?
02:10What's echolocation?
02:11You are on the board.
02:12Asian geography, 1,000.
02:13Found east of the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea, it's the People's Republic of China's only tropical
02:19island.
02:20Stephen?
02:21What's Hainan?
02:22It is for 1,000.
02:24Numeric words and phrases for 600.
02:26On CB radio, if you want to know someone's location, you ask, what's your this number?
02:32Stephen?
02:32What's six?
02:33No.
02:34Josh?
02:35What's 20?
02:35What's your 20?
02:36Right.
02:36Numeric words and phrases for 1,000.
02:38This four-digit number, taken from California's Welfare and Institutions Code, now has come to refer to anyone unstable.
02:48What is 5150?
02:50Back to Josh.
02:51I can adapt for 1,000.
02:52A cephalopod, like the squid and octopus, this creature can let loose with a colored ink secretion when chased by
02:59a predator.
03:00Matt?
03:01What's a cuttlefish?
03:02It is.
03:0321st Century Game Show's 1,000.
03:05This show, hosted by comedian Ben Bailey, survived the rise of rideshare apps, but sadly, not the people staying home
03:12of the pandemic.
03:13Matt?
03:14What's Cash Cab?
03:15The late, great Cash Cab.
03:1621st Century Game Show's 8.
03:18Contestants navigate an extreme obstacle course to win a cash prize on this show, where spectacular failure is right there
03:25in the title.
03:26Josh?
03:26What is Wipeout?
03:27That's the show.
03:28Tree Pari for 800.
03:30Arz el-Rab, or the Cedars of God, are what's left of an ancient cedar forest in this nation.
03:35Josh?
03:36What is Lebanon?
03:36Right again.
03:37Tree Pari for 1,000?
03:38Answer.
03:39Daily double for you, Josh.
03:43In a close game, what do you want to risk on Tree Pari?
03:462,000.
03:47All right, going for 4,200 and the lead.
03:49Here's your clue.
03:51Its name meaning enlightenment.
03:53This type of fig tree is sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists.
04:01What is lotus?
04:02Sorry, no, it's the Bodhi tree.
04:04Knocking you down to 200.
04:06Where to now, Josh?
04:07Let's stick with trees for 600.
04:09Andrew Jackson's troops nicknamed him Old This, a comparison of his toughness to the wood
04:14of a certain tree.
04:15Josh?
04:16It was hickory.
04:16That's right.
04:17Tree Pari for four.
04:19As an expression of grief in the aftermath of World War I, Monet did a series of paintings
04:23of these trees at Giverny.
04:25Josh?
04:26What are weeping willows?
04:27Yes.
04:28Random five-course meal for 1,000.
04:30The cheese plate includes slices of Havarti, originally from this country.
04:33Let's get one for the table.
04:35Josh?
04:36What's Denmark?
04:37Havarti is from Denmark.
04:38Well done.
04:39Sadly, the other four courses will have to wait because we need to pause.
04:42Back with more Tournament of Champions action in a moment.
04:45Matt Massey is an attorney, originally from South Charleston, West Virginia.
04:50Not long ago, you had a big milestone birthday, right?
04:52Yes.
04:53I turned 30 this last summer.
04:56And you had a pretty good surprise, right?
04:58Yes.
04:58It happened to fall during a planned family vacation to Italy.
05:03My wife, for my birthday, she arranged for us a semi-private tour of the Vatican.
05:09Ooh.
05:09And so that meant we got to see the Sistine Chapel with only about 10 or 11 other people
05:14in the entire room.
05:15That's amazing because normally it's so packed.
05:17It was magnificent.
05:18How did your wife have so much pull with the Vatican and or God?
05:21Her name is Mary Anna, so...
05:25Happy birthday belatedly, Matt.
05:27Josh Weikert is back with us, a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
05:31You got a rare honor after you appeared on Jeopardy.
05:34What happened?
05:35I did.
05:35The notoriety that comes with Jeopardy takes a lot of forms, and I joke that they could
05:39keep all the money but for this one thing that happened, and that is my local pizza
05:43place in Collegeville, the Italian bakery there.
05:45I put my name up on, like, their sign out front, and maybe the Pizzaiolo of the day.
05:50And this is the kind of thing that, like, Super Bowl champions and state championship football
05:55teams and, like, Olympians get.
05:57So to get to go out there and do that was just amazing.
05:59Don't sell yourself short, Josh.
06:01You are a very deserving Pizzaiolo of the day, whatever that is.
06:05I'm not sure.
06:06It's unclear what it is, but well done.
06:08Stephen Olsen is a band director from Princeton, Illinois, and, in fact, you were band directing
06:13on the night your Jeopardy episode aired, right?
06:16What happened?
06:17So we...
06:17I had a game that night, so I was in rehearsal with the students.
06:19I didn't get to watch it at 4.30 when it aired.
06:22And at halftime, we finished a song, they transitioned back, and then the announcer cut
06:27in with a special announcement.
06:28The band had learned the Think music.
06:30Without my knowing, a student had arranged it for them to play, passed it out, all behind
06:35my back, and they announced me and played that music for me, and it was very special.
06:40The place must have gone nuts when the Jeopardy music played.
06:43Yeah, it was really nice.
06:44As a band director, you don't condone the band mutinying and playing their own pieces normally,
06:47right?
06:48Broadly speaking, no.
06:49But in this case, it was okay.
06:50Josh, it's your board.
06:51Make a selection for us.
06:53Oh.
06:53A random five-course meal for $800, please.
06:56Mushrooms and veggies are an excellent choice for this type of pressed sandwich with an Italian
07:00name.
07:01Stephen.
07:02What's panini?
07:03Right.
07:04I can adapt $600.
07:06One type of the leaf-tailed this reptile uses its tail when lying flat to look like moss
07:10or lichen.
07:11The Brit accent from TV isn't adaptive.
07:14Matt.
07:14That's a gecko?
07:15Yeah.
07:1621st century game shows for $6.
07:18No trivia questions, just hyper-realistic baking on the Netflix game show whose title asks this
07:24peculiar question.
07:25Josh.
07:26What is, is it cake?
07:27That is the question.
07:29Random five-course meal for $6.
07:31Oui.
07:31Let's go with this salad that includes French green beans, herbs, tuna, and hard-boiled
07:36eggs.
07:36Josh.
07:37What is a niçoise?
07:38That is a niçoise.
07:39Five-course meal for $400.
07:41They're more like lobster than shrimp.
07:43But anyway, I'm up for a nap of the shellfish called Dublin Bay V's.
07:47Josh.
07:48What are langoustine?
07:49We will take that.
07:50Or prawns.
07:51Asian geography for four.
07:53The Mekong port city of Luang Prabang in this nation is home to Mount Poo Si, where a footprint
07:59of Buddha is enshrined.
08:00Stephen.
08:01What's Thailand?
08:02No.
08:03Josh.
08:04What is Vietnam?
08:05Also incorrect.
08:06Matt, going to try it?
08:08What is Cambodia?
08:09I'm sorry, no.
08:10But there is one more Southeast Asian nation.
08:12What is Laos?
08:13Back to you, Josh.
08:14Numeric words and phrases for four.
08:15A chef calls a certain number when out of a dish.
08:18This is the number called when that item is back on the menu.
08:22Josh.
08:22What is 68?
08:23You reverse 86.
08:25Right.
08:25I can adapt for $400.
08:27I can adapt, sort of.
08:28It's armored up with plates called the carapace, but sadly, the nine-banded this is still known
08:33as the Texas speed bump.
08:35Stephen.
08:36What's armadillo?
08:37Yes, very sad.
08:38Bummer.
08:38Tree per e for two?
08:40From a Spanish word for raft, this tree yields an extremely lightweight wood that's been used
08:45in making rafts.
08:46Josh.
08:46As balsa?
08:47Yes.
08:4821st century game shows for four.
08:50Megan Markle and Chrissy Teigen both got their start as briefcase girls.
08:54Seriously, they call them that on this show.
08:56Stephen.
08:57What's deal or no deal?
08:58Right.
08:59Numeric words, 200?
09:01A brief period is being described when these two words precede of a lamb's tail.
09:06Josh.
09:07What is a shake?
09:07No.
09:11We needed the numeric phrase, two shakes of a lamb's tail.
09:14Back to Stephen.
09:15Asian geography for $200.
09:17The largest continuous area of sand in the world, the Rubal Kali Desert, is mainly in
09:22this country.
09:23Josh.
09:24What is Mongolia?
09:25No.
09:26Stephen.
09:26What's Saudi Arabia?
09:27That's the right place.
09:28Five-course meal for $200.
09:30This type of uncooked soup from Andalusia for you.
09:33Martha Stewart recommends a few shavings of manchego cheese.
09:37Stephen.
09:38What's gazpacho?
09:39Yes.
09:39I can adapt for $200.
09:41This semi-aquatic Aussie creature has fur keeping it dry as it swims, and that snout
09:46is really efficient.
09:47It's not just a divine joke.
09:49Stephen.
09:50What's a platypus?
09:51That's correct.
09:52One more time, we have 21st century game shows.
09:54The New York Times described this show, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, as,
09:58Duncy adults match wits, sort of, with children.
10:02Stephen.
10:02Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
10:04Is in the form of a question.
10:05Well done.
10:06Yes.
10:06That puts you in the lead with $3,800.
10:08We have a very close game as we move into Double Jeopardy.
10:10That round will begin right after this pause.
10:12Stay tuned.
10:14We've got a tight game brewing.
10:16I like it.
10:17Double Jeopardy now.
10:18These new categories for you, champs.
10:20Military history up first, followed by a basic category.
10:25Then we have colorful lit, debut albums, going pro, note the quotation marks, and finally,
10:32some national anthem lore.
10:34Matt, start off the round for us.
10:36I like national anthem lore for $16,000.
10:39This Bengali poet did double duty, composing the anthems of both India and Bangladesh.
10:47Who is Rabindranath Tagore?
10:50Back to you, Matt.
10:50I like national anthem lore for $2,000.
10:53This saberdance composer wrote the music for the Armenian anthem that was used until 1991.
10:59Stephen.
10:59What's Kacaturian?
11:01Yes.
11:02A basic category for $1,200?
11:04Joe Esterhas wrote this 1992 film and announced plans for a TV reboot in 2025.
11:10Stephen.
11:11What's Basic Instinct?
11:13Correct.
11:14Colorful Lit for $1,200.
11:16Answer.
11:16A big double for you, Stephen.
11:20You've already put some daylight between you and your competitors.
11:23What's the bet here on Colorful Lit?
11:25All of my beans, please.
11:26Going for $7,000?
11:27Yes, please.
11:28All right.
11:28$14,000, if he's right, in Colorful Lit.
11:32The wide corridor up the center of E-Block was floored with linoleum the color of tired
11:36old limes in this 1996 bestseller.
11:40What's the Green Mile?
11:42By Stephen King.
11:43That's it.
11:44Taking you to $14,000.
11:46Wow.
11:48Going pro for $1,600?
11:51Appearing before quad in a Latin phrase.
11:53By itself, it means a stipulation added to an agreement.
11:57Josh.
11:58What is proviso?
11:59Well done.
12:00Military history for $2,000.
12:02In 1759, the British captured Quebec in the French and Indian War as a result of the
12:07battle of these plains on the edge of the city.
12:09Stephen.
12:10What's Abraham?
12:11The Plains of Abraham, right.
12:13Military history, $16,000.
12:15Answer there.
12:16The other daily double.
12:19You surprised me with your wager last time, so I'm not even going to guess here, Stephen.
12:23How big do you want to go on military history?
12:27$3,000.
12:27Okay.
12:28Going for $19,000 if you're right.
12:30Here is your clue.
12:32The largest of the Ryukyu Islands, it was the site of a grueling 1945 battle with 12,000
12:38American and 100,000 Japanese troops killed.
12:42What's Okinawa?
12:43Okinawa gives you $3,000 more.
12:48Back to you, Stephen.
12:49Going pro for $2,000.
12:51This hormone that's produced by the pituitary gland induces milk production in nursing mothers.
12:56Matt.
12:57What's progesterone?
12:58No.
12:59Stephen.
13:01I'm sorry.
13:02Doesn't have it.
13:03Josh, also not going to try.
13:05Nobody here has prolactin.
13:07None of you secrete prolactin.
13:09Back to Stephen.
13:10Not yet.
13:11Going pro for $1,200.
13:13It's been defined as any long, flexible snout and informally as a person's nose, especially
13:18if large.
13:19Stephen.
13:19What's proboscis?
13:21Yes.
13:22Military history for $1,200.
13:23The son of Darius, this Persian king waged war against Greece with an army Herodotus said
13:28was over $5 million strong.
13:31Stephen.
13:31What's Xerxes?
13:32Yes.
13:33National anthem for $12?
13:35Bernardo de Verri Pintado was commissioned to write Chile's anthem after this guy with
13:39the same first name led them to freedom.
13:41Matt.
13:42Who's Bernardo O'Higgins?
13:43You are correct.
13:44Debut album's 2000.
13:46One of Britain's biggest bands of the early 2000s, they broke the ice with whatever people
13:51say I am, that's when I'm not.
13:53Matt.
13:53What are the Arctic Monkeys?
13:55Good for 2000.
13:55Colorful lit 2000.
13:57The title of this classic Harlem Renaissance novel is from a folk saying that ends, the
14:02sweeter the juice.
14:03Matt.
14:04What's the blackberry?
14:06No.
14:07Josh.
14:08What's the darker the berry?
14:09Also incorrect.
14:10Stephen.
14:10What's the blacker the berry?
14:12That's the title.
14:13You are correct.
14:14Going pro for $800?
14:16From 1881 to 1956, Tunisia was this type of French territory.
14:21Matt.
14:22What's a protectorate?
14:22Yes.
14:23Basic category two?
14:25The modern library's anthology called Basic Writings of Existentialism includes an excerpt
14:30from his Myth of Sisyphus.
14:32Stephen.
14:33What's Camus?
14:34You got it.
14:36National anthem for $800?
14:38It began using Patria in 1975 after independence from Portugal and adopted it in 2002 after independence
14:44from Indonesia.
14:46Matt.
14:46What's Timor-Leste?
14:47Yes.
14:48East Timor.
14:49Debut album, 16.
14:51With their 1990 debut, Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, and Don Robinson, aka this group,
14:58showed they were born to sing.
15:02That's En Vogue.
15:04Back to Matt.
15:05Colorful lit, 16.
15:07In this classic by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a woman sees a human form in the title decor,
15:12peeling in her room.
15:16What is the yellow wallpaper?
15:18Back to Matt.
15:19Can I get a basic category for 16?
15:22Navy SEALs might be BUDS, but they also undergo a training program called BUDS, standing for
15:28basic, these two words, SEAL.
15:31Josh.
15:31What is Underwater Demolition?
15:32Well done.
15:34Debut albums for 12.
15:35In 2014, she won the Grammy for Best Country Album with her major label debut, Same Trailer,
15:41Different Park.
15:42Matt.
15:42Who's Kacey Musgraves?
15:44Yes.
15:44Debut albums, eight.
15:46According to Rolling Stone, their Appetite for Destruction was the biggest selling debut
15:50album of the 1980s.
15:52Steven.
15:53What's Guns N' Roses?
15:54Good.
15:55Debut albums for four.
15:56Three years prior to Back to Black, she released Frank, the title in tribute to Frank Sinatra.
16:02Matt.
16:03Who's Amy Winehouse?
16:04Well done.
16:04Colorful Lit, eight.
16:06This title character first appears in an 1891 novel, Wonderfully Handsome and Unspotted
16:11from the World.
16:12Steven.
16:13What's Black Beauty?
16:15No.
16:16Josh or Matt?
16:18He stays unspotted, but not his painting.
16:20Who is Dorian Gray?
16:22Back to you, Matt.
16:23Let's get a basic category for eight.
16:25The four basic or fundamental forces in physics are electromagnetic, gravitational, and these
16:31two that sound like opposites.
16:33Steven.
16:33What are strong and weak?
16:35Yes.
16:36Going pro, 400.
16:38It's the original model on which something is based, like Motorola's first portable phone,
16:43the over two-pound Dynatac in 1973.
16:46Matt.
16:47What's prototype?
16:47You got it.
16:48Military history, eight.
16:51The Guerra Grande, or Ten Years' War of 1868 to 1878, was the first of three this Caribbean
16:57island would fight to gain freedom from Spain.
16:59Josh.
17:00What's Cuba?
17:01Correct.
17:02Military history for four.
17:03It's the name of the operation to expel invading Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991.
17:09Steven.
17:09What's Desert Storm?
17:11Correct.
17:12Basic category, 400.
17:13Daniel Handler published the Basic Eight under his own name before using this pen name for
17:18a series of unfortunate events.
17:20Steven.
17:21What's Lemony Snicket?
17:22He is Lemony Snicket.
17:23National Anthem for 400.
17:24A marching song composed in 1792.
17:28It was originally called Chant de Guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin.
17:31Steven.
17:32What's the Marseillaise?
17:34That's correct, from France.
17:35Bring it.
17:35Final clue, colorful lit.
17:37Color in the titles of a classic novel set in Puritan New England and a swashbuckling
17:42novel set in the French Revolution.
17:44Steven.
17:44What's Scarlet?
17:45Yes, Letter and Pimpernel.
17:47You finished with 25,800.
17:48An impressive total.
17:50Here is your final Jeopardy category, players.
17:52Capital Cities.
17:53We'll be back with a clue right after this.
17:57We are ending the week with this final Jeopardy category, Capital Cities.
18:01And this clue.
18:03One of the two Canadian provincial capitals that share their names with a nation's capital
18:09city.
18:0930 seconds.
18:10Good luck.
18:41Josh Weikert in the middle came into final Jeopardy with $5,600 to his name.
18:45What did you come up with, Josh?
18:46You wrote down, what an amazing group of people.
18:49Thank you so much.
18:50We're happy to have you back.
18:51What did you wager, Josh?
18:52Nothing at all.
18:53So you still have $5,600.
18:55Matt Massey was in second place with 5,800.
18:57He wrote down, what is Victoria?
19:00And that is one of them.
19:01Well done.
19:01British Columbia and the Seychelles.
19:03What did you wager, Matt?
19:05You'll add 5,800, taking you to 11,600.
19:08But Stephen Olsen was way out in front today with 25,800 after the big daily double wager.
19:13Did he have Victoria?
19:14He does.
19:15The other one, by the way, St. John's, Newfoundland and Antigua and Barbuda.
19:19How much did you wager, Stephen?
19:21You'll be adding $7,117.
19:23You finished today with $32,917, putting you into the semifinals.
19:29Great game, Stephen.
19:31We have one more quarterfinal game to play, but you need to wait till Monday.
19:35Have a great weekend.
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