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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 18: 2026 Tournament of Champions Quarterfinal Game 6
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00:02From the Alex from X-State at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
00:14Please welcome our next group of Jeopardy! Champions.
00:19A marketing specialist from San Francisco, California, T.J. Fisher.
00:24A technology manager from Portland, Oregon, Mike Dawson.
00:29And an actor, comedian, and activist, originally from Washington, D.C., Lisa Ann Walter.
00:38And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:44Thank you, Johnny Gilbert, and welcome to Jeopardy!
00:47We have reached the last of our quarterfinal games in this season's Tournament of Champions,
00:52and what that means is that just one coveted spot in the semifinals remains.
00:56Here today, hoping to claim it, we have a three-game champion, Mike Dawson,
01:01a five-time winner, T.J. Fisher, and what's this? A celebrity Jeopardy! champion.
01:05Welcome back to Lisa Ann Walter.
01:07Good luck to all three of you.
01:09Let's reveal the categories in play in the Jeopardy! round.
01:13First up, trade in history, followed by women's sports, a little bus podge, classic American literature,
01:24seize this category by the horns, and finally, redacted.
01:28Lisa Ann, the first choice is yours.
01:31Let's do bus podge for $600, please, Ken.
01:35Congested cities are embracing these bendy buses, which can seat way more people than conventional buses.
01:41T.J.?
01:42What are articulated buses?
01:43Right.
01:44Uh, horns for six.
01:48What's that sound?
01:49It must be this old-fashioned electric horn that can start with C or K.
01:53T.J.?
01:54What is a klaxon?
01:55Right again.
01:56Women's sports for eight.
01:57MMA fighter Weili Zhang used a rear-naked choke to recapture this organization's strawweight belt in 2022.
02:08What is the UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship?
02:11T.J.?
02:12Trade in history for six.
02:14Seen here is a replica of a cog, an amazingly capacious ship that helped this organization dominate northern European trade
02:21for centuries.
02:22T.J.?
02:23What is the Hanseatic League?
02:24Yes.
02:25Literature for six.
02:26This main character confronting mediocrity in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead was based in part on Frank Lloyd Wright.
02:33Mike.
02:34Who is John Galt?
02:35No.
02:37Lisa Ann or T.J.?
02:39John Galt is in Atlas Shrugged.
02:41This is Howard Rourke from The Fountainhead.
02:43Back to T.J.?
02:43Redacted for six.
02:44It's clear that the famous actress redacted redacted redacted is the senator's this from french for through love.
02:52T.J.?
02:53What is paramour?
02:55Paramour.
02:55That's the word.
02:56Very nice.
02:57Redacted for eight.
02:58The detainee went through redacted and a bit of redacted, both classified by the CIA as these two-word non
03:05-torture techniques.
03:06Mike.
03:07What is enhanced interrogation?
03:08Yes, that's what they say.
03:10Redacted for a thousand.
03:11The grand jury heard testimony about redacted, which would qualify as this, official misconduct with a prefix meaning bad.
03:19T.J.?
03:20What is malpractice?
03:23No.
03:24Mike.
03:24What is malfeasance?
03:25Malfeasance is right.
03:27Category by the horns, 800.
03:29Of the four coronations that make up the Horn of Africa, this one is the smallest in area.
03:34Mike.
03:35What is Djibouti?
03:36Yes.
03:37Horns for a thousand.
03:38In Norse myth, this guardian carries an instrument called the Gjallarhorn to use to awaken the gods for the battle
03:44of Ragnarok.
03:45Mike.
03:46Who is balder?
03:46No.
03:48Lisa Ann or TJ?
03:50That's Heimdall.
03:52Back to you, Mike.
03:53Let's do bus podge for 800.
03:56Answer.
03:56It's a ding-a-double, Mike.
04:00You're $400 off the lead.
04:01How much of that thousand do you want to wager on bus podge?
04:04Let's make it a true daily double.
04:05All right.
04:05Going for the lead with 2,000.
04:07Here's your clue, Mike.
04:08A former Greyhound bus depot in Anniston, Alabama is part of the national monument dedicated to these activists.
04:15Who are the Freedom Riders?
04:16Yes.
04:17That's correct.
04:17You're in the lead with 2,000.
04:19All right.
04:21Trade in history for 800.
04:23The lungs and skill of these craftsmen in Syria in the first century BC enabled a brisk trade in beads.
04:30Lisa Ann.
04:31What is glassblowing?
04:32That's right.
04:33Trade in history for 400.
04:36Maybe the fragrance lingers along what's called this route,
04:39which took goods like myrrh from Arabia to the Mediterranean.
04:42TJ.
04:44What is the spice road?
04:46No.
04:47Lisa or Mike?
04:49That's the incense route.
04:52Back to Lisa Ann.
04:53Let's go women's sport 600, please.
04:56Florence Griffith Joyner's record of 10.49 seconds in this event was set in 1988,
05:01four years before the current number two mark holder's birth.
05:05Mike.
05:06What is the 100 meter?
05:07That's right.
05:08Bus Podge 1000.
05:09This polymath, with his own type of triangle,
05:12pioneered fixed-route carriage service in 17th century Paris, a precursor of today's city bus.
05:20That would be Pascal of Pascal's Triangle fame, early transit buff.
05:24Mike's in the lead after the Daily Double.
05:26We need to pause, but we'll be right back with more Tournament of Champions after this.
05:30TJ Fisher, a marketing specialist from San Francisco, had a great Jeopardy run,
05:34but your one regret was missing a clue about who?
05:37About Judy Garland.
05:38Oh.
05:39And the category had Judy in it, and I saw Minnelli, and my whole body shut down,
05:43so I thought I would say Liza Minnelli.
05:45And you even have a cat named after Judy.
05:47Yes.
05:47So in order to cleanse myself of my deep, deep shame,
05:51I thought that I would go back to the shelter that I adopted my two cats from,
05:54and they named litters according to theme, so we're going to do some of Judy's movies.
05:58We're going to do cats with those names.
06:00That's fun.
06:00That's great.
06:01You're making amends, and you're helping out the cats.
06:04Mike Dawson is a technology manager from Portland,
06:06and Mike, you've had an eventful life since you were on Jeopardy!
06:09Yeah, a couple months ago, I had some unplanned brain surgery,
06:12which is always fun.
06:13Not the kind of brain surgery you want.
06:14No, no, a little PSA for the audience.
06:16You know, if you ever suddenly have trouble speaking and half your body goes numb,
06:20that's the time to call 9-1-1, so...
06:21Wow, so serious, but it seems like you're doing okay.
06:24Well, yeah, I mean, it's only been two and a half months,
06:26but, you know, when I was laying in the neurotrauma ICU,
06:28and the doctors were there talking to me, and I'm like,
06:31please, you gotta fix my brain in time for the Tournament of Champions.
06:35I did.
06:36Doctor, will I ever play Jeopardy! again?
06:38All right.
06:38Well, we're glad to see you looking so well.
06:40Lisa Ann Walter is back with us, an actor and a comedian originally from DC.
06:44Lisa, you already have a Jeopardy! trophy.
06:48I do.
06:48It's giant.
06:49For winning Celebrity.
06:50And you have plans for it.
06:51Yes, I'm going to be buried in it.
06:53It's my urn.
06:55I fought for it, I won it, and it's gonna go to good use,
06:58and I am not kidding.
06:59It is now in my will.
07:00I will be interred in that thing, and it will sit in my children's house.
07:05That's great.
07:06Our miracle patient, Mike, has control of the board.
07:09Select again, Mike.
07:11Uh, let's do trade and history for a thousand.
07:12This city at the edge of England's West Country was a leading British slave trading port in
07:17the 18th century.
07:19Mike.
07:20Uh, what is Bristol?
07:20It is.
07:21Um, women's sports for a thousand.
07:23Russian gymnast Larissa Latanina is tied for most women's Olympic golds with this American,
07:28who may try for more in 2028.
07:31Lisa.
07:32Who is Simone Biles?
07:33No.
07:34Mike or TJ?
07:37It's a swimmer, Katie Ledecky.
07:39Back to Mike.
07:39Uh, classic American lit for 800.
07:42In this Charles Jackson novel, writer Don Burnham attempts to pawn his typewriter in
07:47order to purchase alcohol.
07:51That's in The Lost Weekend.
07:52Back to Mike.
07:53Uh, classic American literature for a thousand.
07:55Admired by Herman Melville, 1823's The Pilot by this three-named author launched a whole genre
08:01of maritime fiction.
08:03TJ.
08:03Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
08:05No.
08:07Lisa Ann or Mike?
08:09Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
08:11Your board, Mike.
08:13Um, redacted for 400.
08:15I fear the patient has redacteds redacted, and her pharyngitis, better known as this,
08:20is not just from a cold.
08:22TJ.
08:23What is a sore throat?
08:24Yes.
08:25Redacted 2.
08:26I have reason to believe the secretary of redacted was this six-letter source,
08:30who gave a journalist sensitive info.
08:33TJ.
08:34What is a leaker?
08:35Right.
08:36Horns for four.
08:37This species of hornbill is named for another animal with a prominent horn.
08:41Mike.
08:42What is a rhino?
08:43Yes.
08:43Horns for two.
08:44If you're choosing between two bad things, you are said to be on the horns of this type of predicament.
08:50Lisa.
08:51What is a dilemma?
08:52Right.
08:53Classic American literature, 400.
08:55Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires was an early title considered for this jazz age novel.
09:00TJ.
09:01What is The Great Gatsby?
09:02Correct.
09:03Bus for four.
09:04Roger Ebert wrote of this 1994 film,
09:07Can a bus really leap a 50-foot space?
09:09This is the kind of movie where you don't ask questions like that.
09:12Mike.
09:13What is speed?
09:13Right.
09:14A bus bus for two.
09:15Transport for London retired its last fleet of route masters,
09:19a beloved front-engined type of this bus, in 2021.
09:23TJ.
09:23What is a double-decker?
09:24You got it.
09:25Sports for two.
09:26After five losses in the finals dating to 1997,
09:30this franchise brought a WNBA championship to New York in 2024.
09:34TJ.
09:35Who are the Liberty?
09:36Yes.
09:36Literature for two.
09:38In a 1925 DuBose Hayward novel,
09:41Catfish Row is the neighborhood home of this title guy.
09:44TJ.
09:44Who is Porgy.
09:45Right.
09:46Sports for four.
09:47American tennis star Corey Goff is better known by this sweet nickname.
09:51Mike.
09:52What is Coco?
09:53Coco Goff, right.
09:54And trade in history for 200?
09:55In the 18th century, it was America's biggest port, trading for linen and tea.
10:00Later, it traded for Steve Carlton and Roy Halliday.
10:03TJ.
10:04What is Boston?
10:05No.
10:06Lisa Ann.
10:07What is New Orleans?
10:08No, I'm sorry, Mike.
10:11You're gonna be in trouble, Lisa Ann.
10:12It's Philadelphia, oops.
10:16But you've come back out of the hole.
10:17I don't mind losing, but I have a job that I like.
10:22They will educate you on Philadelphia baseball.
10:24Okay, got it.
10:25Mike's in the lead.
10:25We'll be back with Double Jeopardy right after this.
10:29Welcome back as we move into Double Jeopardy.
10:32Here are the new categories.
10:33We have, here's the math you asked for.
10:37Then 15 letter words, oof.
10:39Some lake news, followed by choices.
10:43Legal this and that.
10:45And finally, red acted.
10:48Two words this time.
10:49Lisa?
10:50You know what?
10:51Let's do 15 letter words for 800.
10:53Why not?
10:54Partly from Greek for form, this adjective describes art made to look human or human attributes on deities.
11:03I see counting.
11:05What is anthropomorphic?
11:06Lisa?
11:0715 letter words for 1200.
11:10This ecclesiastical sentence means no more church for you.
11:13TJ?
11:14What is excommunication?
11:16Right.
11:16Choices for 16.
11:18A model in economics says individuals allocate time between working and relaxing.
11:23These two words that begin with the same letter.
11:25TJ?
11:27What are labor and leisure?
11:29Yes, well done.
11:30Legal for 12.
11:30The NCAA had to fork over $2.8 billion as its restriction of payments to athletes
11:36was deemed restraint of trade, violating this type of law.
11:40TJ?
11:40What is antitrust?
11:42Correct.
11:42Red acted for 12.
11:44This show's 1980 finale was a showdown between McGarrett and malevolent Chinese agent Wofat, played by Kai Di.
11:54It's the end of Hawaii Five-0.
11:56TJ?
11:5715 letter words for 16.
11:59Answer.
12:00A daily double, TJ.
12:04You've just nosed into the lead ahead of Mike.
12:06How much do you want to wager on 15 letter words?
12:08Oh my gosh, a true daily double.
12:10Really?
12:10Okay.
12:11Going for 10,800.
12:13Here is your clue.
12:1415 letter words.
12:15This word for a small comment that displays prejudice was coined in a 1970s essay called
12:21Offensive Mechanisms.
12:23What is microaggression?
12:25That's right.
12:26You got it.
12:28And a $6,000 lead for you now.
12:30Well done.
12:31Oh, boy.
12:32Uh, choices for 12.
12:34On film, Anthony Quinn played this man, chosen by a crowd to go free instead of Jesus.
12:39TJ?
12:40Who is Barabbas?
12:41Yes.
12:42Legal for 16.
12:43The EJI, this group founded by lawyer Bryan Stevenson, helps those illegally convicted or
12:49unfairly sentenced.
12:50Mike?
12:51What is the Equal Justice Institute?
12:53No.
12:54Lisa or TJ?
12:56It's the Equal Justice Initiative.
12:59So close, Mike.
13:00Back to TJ.
13:01Red acted for 16.
13:02In this 2024 HBO miniseries, Huachande is the Captain, a communist who has infiltrated South
13:09Vietnam.
13:12What is the Sympathizer?
13:14TJ?
13:15Math for 12.
13:16Four-thirds pi r cubed is the volume of one of these.
13:20TJ?
13:20What is a Cylinder?
13:22No.
13:23Lisa or Mike?
13:25It's a Sphere.
13:26Back to TJ.
13:27Math for 16.
13:29This property of addition says the quantity a plus b plus c equals a plus the quantity b
13:34plus c.
13:35Mike?
13:36What is transitive?
13:37No.
13:38TJ?
13:39What is commutative?
13:40Also not it.
13:42Lisa, not going to try it?
13:43Are you kidding?
13:45Not here for the math.
13:46What is the associative property?
13:48Back to you, TJ.
13:49Okay.
13:50Lake for 12.
13:50Answer there, the other Daily Double.
13:56You're still in the lead.
13:57How much do you want to wager this time, TJ?
13:59Uh, um, a delicate 2,000, please.
14:03Okay.
14:04Not 2,000, but a delicate 2,000.
14:06Very nice.
14:07Here's your clue in Lake News.
14:09In 2017, the New Yorker called this lake in a same-named African country,
14:14the site of the most complex humanitarian disaster.
14:21What is Lake Chad?
14:23You add a delicate 2,000.
14:26Oh, oh, oh, oh.
14:26Taking you to 11,200.
14:28Well done.
14:29Oh, boy.
14:31Uh, Lake for 16.
14:33The Jerusalem Post reported on desalinated seawater being pumped into the Sea of Galilee,
14:38aka Lake This City on its western shore.
14:44Also called Lake Tiberias.
14:46TJ?
14:4715 letter for 2,000.
14:48In 1779, John Jay went to Spain as America's minister this seven-syllable word,
14:54meaning having all the powers.
14:56TJ?
14:56What is plenipotentiary?
14:58Good for 2,000.
14:59Legal for two?
15:00In this proceeding, the accused is brought to court to hear the charges
15:04and enters a plea of guilty or not guilty.
15:06TJ?
15:07What is an arraignment?
15:08That is it.
15:09Red acted for two?
15:11Michael Palin plays Molotov in the hilarious, really, movie
15:14about the 1953 panic following this event.
15:17The film's title?
15:18Lisa?
15:19What is War of the Worlds?
15:20Sorry, no.
15:21Mike or TJ?
15:24It's a good movie.
15:25The Death of Stalin.
15:26Back to you, TJ.
15:27Lake for two.
15:28The New York Times called Mussolini's death by firing squad on the shores of this lake
15:32a fitting end to a wretched life.
15:35Mike?
15:35What is Lake Como?
15:37It is.
15:37Oh, all right.
15:38Choice is 2,000.
15:39In 1958, most of French Africa said yes to joining the French community.
15:44Sekou Touré and this country said no.
15:46Independence, s'il vous plaît.
15:48TJ?
15:49What is Gabon?
15:50No.
15:52Lisa or Mike?
15:54That's Guinea.
15:56Back to you, Mike.
15:57Uh, math for 2,000.
15:58The constant E is known as the number of this Swiss genius,
16:02whose name started with E, but is pronounced with an OI.
16:05Mike?
16:05Who's OI there?
16:06Yes.
16:07Choice is for eight.
16:07Other girls of the Plymouth Colony must have envied Priscilla Mullins getting to choose
16:12between John Alden and this shy suitor.
16:17Who is Miles Standish?
16:19Courtship of Miles Standish.
16:20Mike?
16:21Lake News for 800.
16:22The Detroit News has reported on the quagga species of this type of bivalve,
16:27which has devastated the Great Lakes ecosystem.
16:30Lisa?
16:31What is an oyster?
16:34Sorry, not an oyster.
16:35What the hell?
16:36You had to guess.
16:36Mike?
16:36What is a muscle?
16:37It is a muscle.
16:38Legal this and that for eight.
16:40This type of court, with a pair of double consonants in its name, reviews the judgment
16:44of a lower court or tribunal.
16:46TJ?
16:46What is appellate?
16:48Yes.
16:48Legal for four?
16:50The Miranda warning begins with a reminder of this right.
16:52If you don't avail yourself of it, it can be used against you in court.
16:56TJ?
16:56What is the right to remain silent?
16:58Yes.
16:59Red acted for eight.
17:00In a hit on 50s radio, Dana Andrews played the title undercover op in I was a communist for this
17:06agency.
17:07TJ?
17:08What is the FBI?
17:09Yes.
17:10Red acted for four?
17:11Louise Bryant, a writer for the magazine The Masses and much besides, was Diane Keaton's role in this film.
17:17The category should help.
17:19Lisa?
17:19What is reds?
17:20Yes.
17:22Choice is 400.
17:24In the movies, Morpheus offers these two options of a comfortable existence and deeper knowledge.
17:30Mike?
17:30What is the red pill and the blue pill?
17:32Yeah, and the matrix.
17:33Lake News for 400.
17:34Per CNN, social media has crowned Blue Lake on this country's South Island, the world's clearest lake.
17:40Mike?
17:41What is New Zealand?
17:41Right again.
17:42Math for eight.
17:44I is used to represent the square root of negative one.
17:46This type of unreal but handy as a concept number.
17:49Mike?
17:50What is imaginary?
17:51Yes.
17:52Math for four.
17:52A perfect number is equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
17:56For example, 28 equals one plus two plus four plus these two integers.
18:04It's other divisors, seven and 14.
18:06Here's the last clue.
18:07A contender in the third to last round of a tournament.
18:10In March Madness terms, one of the elite eight.
18:13TJ?
18:16What is a quarter finalist?
18:18Yes, like you three, a quarter finalist.
18:20You have the lead going into final.
18:21Lisa and you will not be with us for final, but it was so lovely to see you again.
18:25Thanks for coming back.
18:26TJ and Mike, here's your final Jeopardy! category.
18:29U.S. States.
18:30Back with the clue right after this.
18:33This game is not over yet.
18:34U.S. States, the final Jeopardy! category.
18:36Here's the clue.
18:38This border state produced about half of the gunpowder for the union.
18:4230 seconds.
18:43Good luck.
18:57Good luck.
19:13Mike Dawson made a game of this.
19:15He has $8,000, and he wrote down, what is Maryland?
19:18No, wrong border state.
19:19Sorry, Mike.
19:20You wagered everything, dropping you down to zero.
19:23T.J. Fisher had the lead with $15,600.
19:25Did he come up with it?
19:26He has Kentucky.
19:28No, then is now, famous for its many chemical manufacturers like DuPont.
19:32What is Delaware?
19:34How much did you wager, T.J.?
19:36Didn't go crazy.
19:37401 leaves him with $15,199, and you are our sixth and final semifinalist.
19:43Well done, T.J.
19:45The semis begin tomorrow.
19:47We'll see you right back here.
19:58We'll see you right back here.
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