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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 21: 2026 Tournament of Champions Semifinal Game 3
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00:02From the Alex from X-State at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions!
00:15Today's last group of semifinals are a publicist from Louisville, Texas, Ashley Chan.
00:23A data analyst and college administrator from Brighton, Massachusetts, Cameron Berry.
00:30And a puzzle writer, originally from San Diego, California, Paolo Pascoe.
00:37And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings!
00:44Thank you, Johnny Hilbert. Welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:47We have reached the last of our semifinal games in this season's Tournament of Champions,
00:52and so far we know that Scott Riccardi and T.J. Fisher will be meeting in the finals.
00:57What we do not know is, will it be Paolo, Cameron, or Ashley who is joining them there?
01:02Good luck to all three of you.
01:03Let's get this game started with these categories in the Jeopardy! round.
01:07We have for you Scottish Geography Everywhere, followed by a Biblical Bestiary.
01:13Then it's phrases from sports, music of the spheres, from themagazine.com.
01:21And sixth and finally, somebody call me a doctor.
01:25Paolo, you're up first.
01:26A Biblical Bestiary for 800?
01:28In Exodus, God says that he carried the Israelites away from bondage on the wings of one of these.
01:34Cameron.
01:35What is a dove?
01:36No.
01:37Paolo.
01:38What is an eagle?
01:38Eagle is right.
01:39Bestiary, a thousand?
01:41Uh-oh.
01:41After a group of kids mocked the prophet Elisha's baldness, God sent some of these after them.
01:47Paolo.
01:48What are bears?
01:48Yeah, I hate when that happens.
01:50Bestiary 6?
01:51To see if the floodwaters had receded, Noah first sent forth one of these birds.
01:56Paolo.
01:57What is a raven?
01:58Yes.
01:59Phrases from sports for eight?
02:00Answer.
02:01You found a daily double, Paolo.
02:04This clue is for you alone, and you have $2,400 to bet.
02:08Sports.
02:09Uh, let's do a true daily double.
02:12All right.
02:13Due to your true love of sports, right?
02:16Yeah!
02:16Going for $4,800, phrases from sports.
02:19Here's the clue.
02:21This four-word phrase, meaning last minute, comes from stretching a cable across the finish
02:26lines in horse racing.
02:29What is just under the wire?
02:31That is correct.
02:33Just under the wire or down to the wire.
02:35You double up to $4,800, Paolo.
02:38What are you now?
02:40Uh, call me a doctor for six.
02:43Beaker is the lab assistant to this Muppet doctor.
02:46Paolo.
02:47Who is Honeydew?
02:49Unson Honeydew.
02:50That's right.
02:50Call me a doctor.
02:51Eight.
02:52Baby Doc Duvalier was 19 as president of this nation.
02:55He'd later flee to avoid a trial for abusing human rights.
02:59Cameron.
02:59What is Haiti?
03:00That's right.
03:01Uh, music of the spheres, 800, please.
03:03Containing the hit, My Favorite Mistake, her 1998 album, The Globe Sessions, won a Best
03:09Rock Album Grammy.
03:10Cameron.
03:11Who is Sheryl Crow?
03:11It is.
03:12Uh, music of the spheres, 1000.
03:14Stroll with the holy robe, then attack the globe, wrapped RZA as part of this acclaimed
03:19collective.
03:20Cameron.
03:21What is the Wu-Tang Clan?
03:22Yes, it is.
03:23Uh, music of the spheres, 600.
03:24Big balls.
03:25From this band's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is about formal high society dances.
03:30Sure it is.
03:31Cameron.
03:32What is ACDC?
03:33Right again.
03:34Music of the spheres, 400.
03:36All I wanted was to break your walls in this chart-topping hit from 2013.
03:40Cameron.
03:41What is Wrecking Ball?
03:42Yes.
03:43Music of the spheres, 200.
03:44Chapel Rhone sets the scene at the Pink Pony Club.
03:47Black lights and a mirrored This Dazzling Dance Floor item.
03:51Paolo.
03:51What is disco ball?
03:52That's correct.
03:53Magazine.com for six.
03:55Leslie Odom Jr.'s return sends Hamilton's box office skyrocketing, and more from last week's
04:01Broadway grosses.
04:02Paolo.
04:03What is Playbill?
04:04That's the magazine.
04:05Magazine.com for eight.
04:06Covering both.
04:07Ezra Dyer, the Nissan Ultima, and its thirst for mayhem.
04:11Ashley?
04:11What is motor trend?
04:12No.
04:14Paolo.
04:15What is car and driver?
04:16That is the magazine.
04:17Magazine.com for a thousand.
04:19Covering both.
04:20New Mexico earmarks record funding for wildlife crossings, and the 10 best bass lures ever
04:26made.
04:26Ashley?
04:27What is field and stream?
04:28Yes.
04:28You're out of the hole.
04:29Sports 600.
04:31In boxing, before this more familiar phrase, the boxer's team was chucking up the sponge.
04:37Paolo.
04:37What is throwing in the towel?
04:38That is correct.
04:39Although, I don't know why chucking up the sponge didn't catch on.
04:42Paolo, you're in the lead with 7600, but Cameron, Ashley, no need to chuck up the sponge.
04:46A lot of Jeopardy left to play.
04:48We'll be back with more right after this.
04:50Ashley Chan is a publicist from Louisville, Texas.
04:53Listen, Ashley, I'm told they are very proud of you back home in Louisville, right?
04:57Yes.
04:57I got an email after my first run from the mayor's office saying they wanted to honor
05:01my achievements, and they made February 3rd, Ashley Chan Day.
05:06No.
05:06Yes.
05:07Every February 3rd or just once?
05:08I think it was just once, but we're all going to celebrate it every year.
05:11Let's continue to celebrate it every February 3rd.
05:13Why not?
05:14Cameron Berry is back with us from Brighton, Massachusetts.
05:16You're a data analyst and a college administrator.
05:19For what school are you an administrator?
05:20I am a proud alum of Boston University.
05:24I'm a proud terrier.
05:25But since 2019, I've worked for the rival school, Boston College.
05:30So I'm hoping just somewhere between the two campuses on Boston's B-line, there will be
05:37a huge feud that erupts just based on who gets to claim me as some of their shine.
05:43You want to do so well on Jeopardy this time that you could actually create discord back
05:47home in Boston.
05:48I love strife.
05:49What a goal.
05:49More strife, please.
05:51Paolo Pasco is a puzzle writer originally from San Diego.
05:54And Paolo, when you were first here, you told us about a place, a wonderful place called
05:59Slowjamistan.
06:00Yes, indeed.
06:00Yeah.
06:01It's a nation, but it's also a state of mind.
06:03Yeah.
06:03It's a little bit out from San Diego.
06:06And when I shouted them out on the show, it was very fun for them.
06:10So they got my contact and they sent me like a honorary passport and a bunch of other stuff.
06:16You're now a citizen of Slowjamistan.
06:17Yeah.
06:18And I heard that they also made you a citizen.
06:20What?
06:21Yeah.
06:22I can flee to Slowjamistan.
06:25Yeah.
06:25At any time.
06:26To not even be the most successful Jeopardy contestant in my micronation.
06:30I haven't been there yet, Paolo.
06:33I think right now you're still number one.
06:34You also have control of the board.
06:36Make a selection.
06:37Call me a doctor for a thousand.
06:39To endure life in Dr. Zhivago, she sometimes needed religion to be accompanied by some inner
06:44music.
06:45Do you sense a theme?
06:47Paolo.
06:47Who is Laura?
06:48Laura is correct.
06:49Phrases from Sports 1000.
06:50This duration, that's exceptional for slam dunk artists, can also mean how long it takes
06:55for grapes on the vine to ripen.
06:57Cameron.
06:58What is hang time?
07:00Good.
07:01Scottish geography everywhere for a thousand.
07:03This colorful Scottish village just north of England was long the goal of couples eloping
07:08to seek a hasty marriage.
07:12The Vegas of the UK, I guess, is called Gretna Green.
07:16Back to you, Cameron.
07:17Scottish geography, 800.
07:18A milestone for this city, named for a Scottish county, was the 1870s telegraph link to the
07:24port of Albany, named for a Scottish dukedom.
07:27Paolo.
07:27What is MacKay?
07:29No.
07:29Cameron.
07:30What is Adelaide?
07:32It's also not Adelaide.
07:34Ashley?
07:35Not gonna try it?
07:36That's Perth.
07:37Back to you, Cameron.
07:38From the magazine.com 400.
07:41Tracking a rare tiger for 120 days to get the perfect cover shot.
07:45Paolo.
07:46What is National Geographic?
07:47Yeah.
07:47Scottish geography, 6.
07:49The Scots, called Orcadians, reside here, up in the north.
07:53Ashley?
07:54What is Orkney?
07:55Yes, the Orkney Islands.
07:56Scottish geography, 400.
07:58New Glasgow, in the north of this Canadian province, was once the area's industrial heart.
08:03Paolo.
08:03What is Nova Scotia?
08:05That's it.
08:06Scottish geography, 2.
08:07The commercial capital of northeast Scotland, the seaport of Aberdeen, lies where the rivers
08:12D and Don enter this sea.
08:14Cameron.
08:15What is the North Sea?
08:17That's right.
08:18Somebody call me a Dr. 400.
08:21Feet don't fail me now.
08:23Time to boot up this company that calls its footwear, like vegan boots, a badge of attitude
08:27and empowerment.
08:28Cameron.
08:29What are Doc Martens?
08:31Right.
08:32Phrases from Sports 400.
08:34Wearing a tinfoil hat to protect against mind control may be an idea out of this baseball
08:39location.
08:40Cameron.
08:41What is left field?
08:42Out of left field.
08:43Phrases from Sports 200.
08:45Originating in the world of racing at the turn of the 20th century, it means to false
08:49start.
08:52What is to literally jump the gun?
08:55Cameron.
08:56Somebody call me a Dr. 200.
08:58Feet don't fail me now.
09:00Time to insert this company, whose founder was born in 1882 and learned foot care from
09:04his shoemaker grandpa.
09:06Cameron.
09:06Who is Dr. Scholes?
09:08That's right.
09:09Biblical B.C.
09:10Area 400.
09:10The jockey of the pale horse is this last of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
09:15Paolo.
09:16Who is death?
09:17Death, yes.
09:18Finnish bestiary?
09:19The eighth of the ten plagues was a swarm of the creatures called Arbe in Hebrew, and
09:24these in the King James Bible.
09:26Paolo.
09:26What are locusts?
09:27You got it.
09:28Final clue.
09:30Seal spotlight.
09:31Avocado eco-organic mattress topper, which are words in an order I've never seen before.
09:39The seal here is the good housekeeping seal.
09:42Paolo's still in the lead at the end of the Jeopardy round, but never fear, Cameron and
09:45Ashley.
09:45Lots of time, lots of cash in double Jeopardy.
09:47That round begins right after this break.
09:51Looking to start off a comeback?
09:52Ashley Chan will select first in the double Jeopardy round.
09:55From these categories, we have, first up, vice presidents.
10:00Then, self-help through the ages.
10:02Followed by, I'm your blank Barry, no relation to Cameron Barry.
10:06Then, inventors and inventions, Pacific Northwest Entertainment.
10:11And finally, E before I.
10:14The E, I in each response, consecutive letters.
10:17Ashley?
10:18Pacific Northwest, 1,200.
10:21Kathleen Hanna told this state capitol's music history project she used to sing Jack and
10:25Diane a cappella at clubs there.
10:27Cameron?
10:28What is Olympia?
10:30It is Olympia, Washington.
10:31Okay, I'm your Barry, 1,200.
10:33Why not?
10:34A Southern California theme park sprang from a farm that grew this sweet but tangy berry
10:39named for its developer.
10:41Ashley?
10:42It was Knott's Berry?
10:43No.
10:45Paolo?
10:46What's Boysenberry?
10:47It is the Boysenberry at Knott's Berry Farm, yes.
10:50E before I for 16.
10:52Answer there is a daily double, Paolo.
10:55You plucked it out of the air and you're working from the lead here.
11:00$6,000.
11:01All right.
11:02$16,400 will be your total, if you're correct, in E before I.
11:07The Great Ice Age occurred during this epoch that preceded the one we're in now.
11:15What is Pleistocene?
11:17Pleistocene is correct, yes.
11:19You add $6,000.
11:24Inventors and inventions for 12th?
11:26Jimmy Smith was the king of this electronic instrument, named for its engineer inventor.
11:31Cameron?
11:32What's the hammered organ?
11:33Yes.
11:34Vice President's 12th?
11:35Answer.
11:36The other daily double.
11:38Oh, man.
11:39So, Cameron Berry will have a chance to respond.
11:41What's the wager here in Vice Presidents?
11:48All of it.
11:50Okay.
11:53The man loves his Vice Presidents.
11:55Going for $13,200, Cameron.
11:57Here's your clue.
11:59Nominating him at the convention, ex-VP Hubert Humphrey called this man, my personal friend
12:05and a truly great American.
12:13Cameron?
12:16Who is Mondale?
12:19You got that in before the Time's Up signal ended.
12:23Humphrey's fellow Minnesotan Walter Mondale is correct.
12:25And we have a much closer game, Cameron.
12:28Where to now?
12:30Pacific Northwest Entertainment 2000.
12:32Yes, back to the soothing Pacific Northwest.
12:35Matt Dillon's Seattle band is big in Belgium in this very 90s Cameron Crowe movie.
12:40Cameron?
12:40What is Singles?
12:41Yes.
12:42Pacific Northwest 16?
12:43A documentary called Fire on the Track and two Hollywood movies told of this athlete
12:49from Coos Bay, Oregon.
12:50Cameron?
12:51Who is Prefontaine?
12:53Right again, for the lead.
12:53Self-help through the age of 12.
12:56Fittingly, a 1513 Machiavelli treatise belongs to the genre of pre-modern advice literature
13:02called Mirror for These Leaders.
13:05Paolo?
13:06What are princes?
13:06Right.
13:07E before I-2000?
13:09Japanese for second generation.
13:10It's an American-born son or daughter of Japanese immigrants.
13:14Paolo?
13:15What are Nisei?
13:16Right again.
13:17Self-help 16?
13:18Published in over 50 languages since 2006, Rhonda Byrne's The Secret teaches that the
13:23key to happiness is the law of this.
13:28What is the law of attraction?
13:30Sorry to give away the secret.
13:32Paolo, back to you.
13:33Self-help 2000.
13:34This Pamela author also wrote a popular letter-writing manual, a 1700s version of the self-help book.
13:43Who is Samuel Richardson?
13:45Still your board, Paolo.
13:46Inventors and Inventions for 16.
13:48This man's 1852 invention of a safety device for elevators made modern skyscrapers possible.
13:54Paolo?
13:55Who is Otis?
13:56Yes.
13:57Inventors and Inventions 2?
13:59Harry Cameron co-invented this, B.O.P. for short.
14:02It didn't work so good for BP off the Louisiana coast in 2010.
14:09That was the blowout preventer.
14:11Paolo?
14:12I'm your berry for 16.
14:13A classic British dessert called fool is made with these avian-named berries.
14:18Paolo?
14:19What are gooseberries?
14:20Yes.
14:21Berry 2000.
14:22In this film, directed by Ingmar Bergman, B.B. Anderson picks the title fruit.
14:26Cameron?
14:27What is wild strawberries?
14:29Yeah, you know your berries, Mr. Berry.
14:31Vice President 16.
14:33He went to Cuba to seek a cure for his tuberculosis in 1853 and was sworn in as veep there.
14:39He would not be long for the job.
14:43More for this world.
14:44William Rufus Devane King was his name.
14:47Cameron?
14:47Vice President's ape.
14:49Naturally, George Dallas was from Philadelphia and served under this president from North Carolina
14:53who had a hard-knock's life.
14:58Knox for James Knox Polk.
15:00Cameron?
15:01Berry 800.
15:02Appropriately, the senior ants in arsenic and old lace poison their senior guests with wine made from these berries.
15:09Ashley?
15:09Elder berries?
15:10Yes.
15:11Putting you back on the plus side.
15:12Vice President's 2000.
15:14Ulysses S. Grant's first vice president.
15:16He was caught up in the credit mobilier scandal.
15:21His name was Skylar Colfax.
15:24Ashley?
15:24Pacific Northwest 800.
15:26This co-star of Portlandia says the espresso signs at service stations tell him he's in the Pacific Northwest.
15:33Cameron?
15:33Who's Armisen?
15:34That's right.
15:35Pacific Northwest 400.
15:36Out of the Northwestern wilds, Harry was this type of creature in the movie and sitcom Harry and the Hendersons.
15:43Cameron?
15:43What is a Sasquatch?
15:45Yes, or Bigfoot.
15:46Inventors and Inventions 800.
15:48Using mercury, Evangelista Torricelli invented an early version of this device used to measure atmospheric pressure.
15:55Paolo?
15:55What is a barometer?
15:56You got it.
15:57E before I, 1200.
15:58The soft down feathers of this sea duck are often used to fill pillows.
16:02Paolo?
16:03What is eider?
16:04Yes.
16:05E before I, 800.
16:06New Zealand has its own species of this flower that's small and white, clean and bright.
16:11Paolo?
16:11What is eidelweiss?
16:12No.
16:14Cameron or Ashley?
16:17Not eidelweiss, but eidelweiss.
16:19Back to you, Paolo.
16:20Self-help 800.
16:22Wisdom dispensed by Benjamin Franklin in this homespun periodical,
16:25eat to live and not live to eat, and men and melons are hard to know.
16:30Cameron?
16:30What is poor Richard's almanac?
16:32Yes.
16:33Berry 400.
16:34You can call them vaccinium vitus idea, or this Swedish-derived name,
16:38but either way, they go great on Swedish pancakes.
16:41Paolo?
16:42What are lingonberries?
16:43Yes.
16:43E before I, 4?
16:45Not smoke and mirrors, but mirrors and light are used to create one of these,
16:49and its magical patterns.
16:51Paolo?
16:51What is a kaleidoscope?
16:52You got it.
16:53Inventors and Inventions 4?
16:54It's the name Edison used upon inventing the first practical version in 1877,
17:00recording sound on tinfoil wrapped around a cylinder.
17:03Cameron?
17:03What is a phonograph?
17:06That's right.
17:08Vice President's War.
17:09Let's not make a case out of it or anything,
17:11but John Adams was the only vice president from this political party.
17:15Cameron?
17:15What is the Federalist Party?
17:17Yes.
17:18Final clue.
17:19Sabat, or teaching literature of this ancient civilization,
17:23includes the maxims of Tehotep, a letter of advice from father to son.
17:27Cameron?
17:28What is Egypt, ancient Egypt?
17:30Egypt is right.
17:31That pulls you very close to Paolo's lead.
17:34Just 2,800 now separating you two.
17:36So Final Jeopardy could not be more important today.
17:38Here's the category, bodies of water,
17:41and the clue is coming your way right after we pause for this commercial break.
17:45We'll be back with Final Jeopardy right after this.
17:50It's a nail-biter of a game so far,
17:53and bodies of water is the Final Jeopardy category.
17:55Here's the clue.
17:57This body of water with over one-third of the world's marine mammals,
18:01like the vaquita,
18:03has been called the aquarium of the world.
18:0530 seconds.
18:06Good luck.
18:37Let's begin with Ashley Chan.
18:39$400 up against two very tough competitors.
18:42What did you come up with in Final, Ashley?
18:44What is Lake Baikal?
18:45I'm afraid not.
18:47You wagered everything you had,
18:50so that'll drop you down to zero.
18:51Cameron Berry was in second place with $22,000.
18:54What was his response?
18:56He wrote down the Mariana Trench,
18:58and I'm afraid that's not right either, Cameron.
19:01What did you wager?
19:02He went big.
19:04He will drop $21,199,
19:06leaving him with $801.
19:09So it's all up to Paolo Pasco now.
19:11$24,800.
19:13What body of water?
19:15What a fun time.
19:16I don't know, though.
19:17Sorry.
19:18I appreciate your honesty, Paolo.
19:20Maybe the name vaquita would have clued you in
19:22that it's something Latin American.
19:24It is, in fact, the Sea of Cortez or Gulf of California.
19:27So everything's down to this wager, Paolo.
19:30How big was it?
19:31A zero wager from the lead
19:34leaves Paolo with $24,800,
19:36and he is going to the TLC Finals.
19:39What a game.
19:41We have a special treat for you tomorrow,
19:43an exhibition match between our three-seeded players,
19:46and then the Tournament of Champion Finals
19:48begin on Monday.
19:49of today.
19:49Thanks for watchin'.
19:50Thank you very much.
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