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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 22: 2026 Tournament of Champions Exhibition Match
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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions exhibition game.
00:15Please welcome back today's past champions.
00:19A puzzle writer, originally from San Diego, California, Paolo Pasco.
00:24A manager from Memphis, Tennessee, Laura Fada.
00:28And an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey, Scott Riccardi.
00:35And now, here is the host of Jeopardy, Ken Jennings.
00:43Thank you, Johnny Gilbert.
00:44Welcome to this special exhibition game of Jeopardy!
00:47Our three highest ranked players in the Tournament of Champions, based on the number of games they won,
00:53received a bye in the quarterfinals of this tournament and were seeded directly into the semifinals.
00:58So what that means is that Scott Riccardi, Laura Fada, and Paolo Pasco never had a chance to warm up,
01:03as it were, before making their TOC debut.
01:06So what we're going to do today is to let them warm up.
01:09They will face off in this matchup purely for bragging rights, no prize money at stake.
01:13Good luck, champions.
01:14Let's kick off this special exhibition game of Jeopardy! with these categories in the first round.
01:19First up, politics rhymetime.
01:23Second, we have sports, then Q, blank, E-D, followed by I'm talking here, then facts, and face cards,
01:33because each response will contain one.
01:36Scott, you start us off.
01:37Politics rhymetime for $600.
01:39The sheen of a Senate delaying tactic.
01:42Scott.
01:43What is a filibuster luster?
01:44Right.
01:45Politics rhymetime for $800.
01:46A public meeting to discuss the minimum number of legislators necessary to transact business.
01:52Paolo.
01:53What is a quorum forum?
01:55That's right.
01:55I'm talking here, $600.
01:57Very nice.
01:58Alexander Graham Bell's first words spoken by telephone summoned this man.
02:03Paolo.
02:03Who is Watson?
02:04Correct.
02:05Rhymetime, 1,000?
02:06A supplement to a question being put to direct popular vote.
02:11Scott.
02:12What is a plebiscite...
02:15What is a referendum addendum?
02:15Oh, in the nick of time!
02:17I was waiting to hear what word you thought rhymed with plebiscite.
02:20That was going to be interesting.
02:22Q-E-D for 1,000.
02:24An 1846 story in the Knickerbocker magazine said,
02:27The stoutest hearts did this avian thing with fear.
02:31Paolo.
02:32What is quailed?
02:33They quailed with fear.
02:34Q-E-D, 800.
02:36I'm sorry I did this raised a petty objection over the size of the diamond you gave me.
02:41Paolo.
02:42What is quibbled?
02:43Yes.
02:43Uh, Q-E-D, 6.
02:45Based on its number of feet, almost every type of mammal, whether elephant or mouse, is this.
02:51Paolo.
02:51What is a quadruped?
02:52It is.
02:53Facts for 600.
02:55New York City co-starred on HBO's How To with him.
03:00Paolo.
03:00It was John Wilson.
03:01Yes.
03:02Face cards for 8.
03:03When the trailer on a semi swivels at the coupling, causing a V shape, it is said to be doing
03:08this.
03:12That's when a truck jackknifes.
03:14Jack is the face card.
03:15Paolo.
03:16Face cards for a 6.
03:18On Star Trek, the use of one of these devices made a ship invisible.
03:22Scott.
03:23What is a cloaking device?
03:24Can't spell it without keying, right.
03:26Face cards for 1,000.
03:27A character in the animated TV show Mike Tyson Mysteries was the ghost of this Marquis.
03:32Paolo.
03:33What is Queensberry?
03:34Good for 1,000.
03:35I'm talking here 8.
03:36This Texan of 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News shares folksy thoughts like,
03:41if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.
03:45Scott.
03:45Who's Rooney?
03:46No.
03:47Laura.
03:48Who's Rather?
03:48Dan Rather is right.
03:50Sports for 6.
03:51This race entered the Olympic Games in 1900, though it was only standardized at 3,000 meters later.
04:00What is the steeplechase?
04:02Laura.
04:03Sports for 8.
04:04In 2025, the Dallas Mavericks made this Duke star the first white American taken number
04:10one overall in the NBA draft since 1977.
04:16Who is Cooper Flagg?
04:18Laura.
04:18Facts for 800.
04:20Fiction fact.
04:21Anastasia Steele has this passionate boyfriend.
04:24Paolo.
04:25Who is gray.
04:26That's right.
04:26We found out you guys don't like sports, but you love 50 Shades of Gray.
04:30Paolo's on the lead right now with 6,200.
04:32As we come to our first break, we'll be back with more Exhibition Jeopardy! action after this.
04:38Paolo Pasco is a puzzle writer originally from San Diego.
04:42Paolo, you had great Jeopardy! success, seven wins, but you have some regrets.
04:46Uh, yeah, there's a couple of stuff I got out buzzed on, uh, John Wick, which is the only
04:50movie franchise I think I've ever seen my dad love, uh, Downton Abbey, which my mom has watched
04:55so much around me, did not get in once.
04:57Uh, but the big one was my first Daily Double miss was about who was president during, like,
05:02blah, blah, blah, Suez Crisis.
05:03Okay.
05:03And after my run, my U.S. history teacher in high school sent me a message saying,
05:09great run, loved watching you.
05:10And also, uh, screenshot of a slide from the review presentation in his class with Eisenhower,
05:16Suez Crisis.
05:17Wow.
05:18Yeah.
05:18History teachers are watching Jeopardy! hoping to right decades-old wrongs, right?
05:22Yeah.
05:22Well, I hope you told him he had a point.
05:25I'm sorry, Mrs. Ciliano.
05:26I'm so sorry.
05:28Laura Fata from Memphis, Tennessee, is a manager, an eight-game Jeopardy! champion.
05:33In your first appearance here, you told us about a slightly upsetting holiday tradition
05:36you have, dipmas.
05:38You eat nothing but dips.
05:39That's right.
05:40If you don't like to chew, it is the holiday for you.
05:43Um, and after letting the Jeopardy! audience know about that glorious tradition, I was able
05:48to combine my watch party with dipmas.
05:50We set up at my church, uh, we had 50 dips, I don't know how many dips, and then we
05:57put
05:57the show on the big screen and had the sound and everything with it.
06:00Yeah, and you could hear everything because nobody was chewing.
06:02That's right.
06:03Genius!
06:04Genius, Laura.
06:05Scott Riccardi is back, a 16-time winner, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey.
06:09Your final, final Jeopardy!, Scott, I don't mean to traumatize you here, was about William
06:14Randolph Hearst.
06:15Have you moved on from this?
06:17Uh, well, you know, I've been trying my best every day is another step in a long journey.
06:21But, uh, so, since that, I got that one wrong, and it would have helped if I had potentially
06:26seen Citizen Kane beforehand.
06:27Okay.
06:28Um, what I told the producers when they asked for some new stories was that I watched Citizen
06:32Kane to prepare ahead of this tournament, but what actually happened was that I said
06:37that to light a fire under my feet in the hopes that I would do it.
06:40And, Ken, you will never guess what did not happen.
06:43How many minutes of Citizen Kane have you seen Scott Riccardi?
06:45I paged over it on the airplane.
06:49You actually saw it on the menu and were like, nope.
06:51It wasn't the time.
06:52Nope.
06:52There's some John Wick movies here.
06:54I'm not doing that.
06:55Paolo, make the next election for us.
06:57I'm talking here for 1,000.
06:59In 1858, he told a debate audience that Abe Lincoln was trying to abolitionize the old
07:04Whig party.
07:06Paolo.
07:06Who is Douglas?
07:07Good for 1,000.
07:08Politics Rhyme Time 4.
07:10A jocular panel of elected officials holding hearings and conducting oversight.
07:15Laura.
07:16What's a witty committee?
07:17You are correct.
07:18QED for 400.
07:20Fitted for a particular purpose, you're all well this to respond.
07:24Paolo.
07:25What is qualified?
07:26That's right.
07:27I'm talking here for?
07:28Answer.
07:29A daily double.
07:30Paolo.
07:35You have a pretty big lead at the moment.
07:36It's imaginary money.
07:38What are you going to do?
07:38Uh, 7,600 imaginary dollars.
07:41Why not?
07:42It's only fake money.
07:4315,200 if you're right.
07:45Here's your clue.
07:46And I'm talking here.
07:48Neil Armstrong said he meant to put an A in between these two of his first words on the
07:53moon.
07:54What is for man?
07:56Yes.
07:56He meant to say for a man.
07:58You have $15,200.
08:02Uh, let's try sports for 1,000.
08:05Based in the Hammersmith and Fulham borough of London, this British pro soccer team is nicknamed
08:10the Blues.
08:11Laura.
08:12Who is Chelsea?
08:12Good for 1,000.
08:13Good for 1,000.
08:14Facts for 1,000.
08:15Milwaukee is at the confluence of the Milwaukee, the Kinnickinick, and this river.
08:23Even more fun to say than Kinnickinick.
08:25The Menominee.
08:26Back to you, Laura.
08:27Uh, sports for four.
08:28In the late 1980s and early 90s, the Pittsburgh Pirates' killer bees featured Bobby Bonilla and
08:35this even more feared slugger.
08:37Scott.
08:37Who is Bonds?
08:38A less jacked-looking Barry Bonds there, yes.
08:41Uh, facts for 400.
08:42It's the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet.
08:45Scott.
08:45What is epsilon?
08:47It is.
08:48Face cards, 400.
08:49There's a federal law known as this statute after the royal drug lords it targets.
08:55Scott.
08:55Who are kingpins?
08:56Yes.
08:57Face cards, 200.
08:58To seize a 727 in flight.
09:01Scott.
09:02What is hijack?
09:02Yes.
09:03Facts, 200.
09:05Wilson's Creek in 1861 was the second major battle of this war.
09:09Laura.
09:10What's the Civil War?
09:10You are right.
09:11I'm talking here 200.
09:13His, wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet, were the first spoken words
09:17in the landmark 1927 movie.
09:20Paolo.
09:21Who is Gilson?
09:22In the Jazz Singer, yes.
09:23Sports for 200.
09:24The winner of this invitational golf tournament is rewarded with seven figures of prize money
09:29and a green jacket.
09:31Scott.
09:31What is the Masters?
09:32Right.
09:33QED 200.
09:35Repeated someone else's remark.
09:37Scott.
09:37What is quoted?
09:38That's correct.
09:39We have one more politics rhyme time, and it's a doozy.
09:42A hesitant member of the House.
09:45Paolo.
09:45What is a tentative representative?
09:47Well done.
09:48A tentative representative.
09:49You have a big lead thanks to the Daily Double, but Scott and Laura, never fear.
09:53There is lots of imaginary money on the board in double jeopardy.
09:56Stay tuned.
10:00Paolo Pasco, the man with the little bird cartoon in his name,
10:03has the lead as we head into double jeopardy.
10:05Here are your new categories, super champs.
10:07First, we have international colleges and universities, followed by the films of not Orson
10:13Wellescott, Alfred Hitchcock.
10:15Then we have medicine, the 2012 Time 100.
10:18I'm wondering, how are you feeling?
10:21And finally, nothing a little opera can't cure.
10:25Laura, first selection.
10:26Medicine for 12.
10:27While president, Chester Arthur learned that he was dying of Bright's disease, an affliction
10:32of these organs.
10:33Scott.
10:34What are kidneys?
10:35Yes.
10:35Medicine, 1600.
10:37It's the six-syllable E in CTE, caused by repeated blows to the head over time.
10:42Scott.
10:43What is encephalitis?
10:44No.
10:45Laura or Paolo?
10:47What is encephalopathy?
10:49Back to Scott.
10:50Medicine, 2000.
10:52The undesirable list of awful medical eponyms includes Moritz Kaposi, who, in 1872, reported
10:58on this type of tumor.
11:00Laura.
11:00What's a sarcoma?
11:01Yes, name for him today, Kaposi's sarcoma.
11:042012 for 1200.
11:06He's dispelled the idea that Asian-American guards somehow couldn't hack it in the NBA.
11:11Paolo.
11:12Who's Lynn?
11:12Jeremy Lynn is right.
11:14Alfred Hitchcock, 16.
11:16As Marion Crane in Psycho, Janet Leigh checks into this eerie inn with $40,000 in stolen money,
11:21but she does not check out.
11:23Paolo.
11:24What is the Bates Motel?
11:25Yes.
11:26How are you feeling for 12?
11:27Answer.
11:29Another daily double for you, Paolo.
11:33How much do you want to risk this time?
11:34Big read at the moment.
11:36Uh, $5,000.
11:37All right.
11:37Going for $23,400.
11:39Here's your clue in How Are You Feeling?
11:432014 Pharrell Williams hit.
11:45What is Happy?
11:46You should be.
11:47You have $23,400.
11:52What's your now, Paolo?
11:53Uh, Little Opera for 16.
11:55An oil rigger is the romantic lead in this 2016 opera based on a Lars von Trier film.
12:01Scott.
12:02What is Five Easy Pieces?
12:03No.
12:04Laura or Paolo?
12:07That's Breaking the Waves.
12:09Back to Paolo.
12:09Uh, Opera for 12.
12:12His 1836 Das Liebesverbot, or the ban on love, had a shaky second night with an audience
12:18of three and a brawl by the cast.
12:20Scott.
12:21Who's Wagner?
12:21Yes.
12:22Opera 2000.
12:23Queen Henrietta, the widow of King Charles I, is held captive by these title religious folks
12:29in a Bellini opera.
12:33Who are Puritans?
12:35It's E. Puritani.
12:36Back to Scott.
12:372012, time 100 for 1600.
12:39Sarah Burton, the right hand of this late British designer, did the undoable, a royal wedding
12:45dress that lived up to dreams.
12:49Who is Alexander McQueen?
12:51Scott.
12:52Time 100 for 2000.
12:54With the court dividing 5-4, this Supreme Court justice is nearly always the decisive vote.
13:00Scott.
13:00Who is Kennedy?
13:02It was Anthony Kennedy.
13:04Alfred Hitchcock for 2000.
13:06As the three-word title of this 1938 Hitchcock thriller suggests, elderly Miss Froy goes missing
13:11on a train.
13:13Paolo.
13:13What is The Lady Vanishes?
13:15You got it.
13:15Hitchcock 12.
13:17She won an Oscar for Terms of Endearment, but made her big screen debut at age 21 in 1955's
13:23The Trouble with Harry.
13:24Paolo.
13:25Who is McLean?
13:25Shirley McLean.
13:26You got it.
13:27International Colleges and Universities 12.
13:29Some say the university in South Africa's Eastern Cape, named for this 19th century colonialist
13:35Brit, should become Steve Biko University.
13:38Scott.
13:38Who is Stanley?
13:39No.
13:40Laura or Paolo?
13:43It's currently named for Cecil Rhodes.
13:45Back to you, Paolo.
13:47International Colleges and Universities for 1600.
13:50The University of Macedonia is in this Greek city, once known as Thessaloniki.
13:55Laura.
13:55What's Thessaloniki?
13:56You are right.
13:58Colleges for two.
13:59Answer.
13:59A Daily Double.
14:03I don't know how bold you're feeling at the moment, Laura, but you could turn this into
14:07a game.
14:09Uh, 2,000.
14:10Just 2,000 at stake in international colleges and universities.
14:14Here's your clue.
14:15Woof.
14:16AIU is this international university in Japan, focusing on liberal arts and foreign languages.
14:23What is Akita?
14:24Akita is right.
14:25Yes, you have 8,000.
14:26Very nice.
14:30How are you feeling, 1,600?
14:33This way.
14:33In other words, I'm in high dudgeon.
14:38High dudgeon means you're angry, irate, offended.
14:42Like I am that you didn't know what in high dudgeon means.
14:44Laura.
14:45Sorry.
14:46Uh, feeling for 2,000.
14:47This sad way.
14:49Like a too many canned pineapple chunks.
14:51Scott.
14:52What is Doleful?
14:53Yes.
14:54Opera for 800.
14:56Monati's The Saint of Bleecker Street is set in this ethnic area of New York City.
15:01Bleecker once vied with Mulberry Street as its epicenter.
15:04Scott.
15:05What is Spanish Harlem?
15:06No.
15:07Laura or Paolo?
15:09It's Little Italy.
15:10Back to you, Scott.
15:11Uh, feeling for 800.
15:13Last word Francis Scott Key wrote in a poetic fervor on September 14th, 1814.
15:19Paolo.
15:20What is Brave?
15:20Last word of the Star-Spangled Banner.
15:22Uh, Time 100 for 8.
15:24You can't take your eyes off this bipolar CIA agent played by Claire Danes on Homeland.
15:33This one might have been easier in 2012.
15:35Who is Carrie Matheson?
15:36Back to you, Paolo.
15:37Uh, International Colleges and Universities for 8.
15:40There are some great brains at McMaster University in Hamilton in this Canadian province,
15:45including part of Einstein's in a lab.
15:48Laura.
15:48What is Ontario?
15:49Yes.
15:50Colleges for 4.
15:51You'll find Australian National University in this capital city.
15:55Laura.
15:56What is Canberra?
15:57Write again.
15:58Medicine for 8.
15:59Great strides have been made in the treatment of this disease that its child sufferers sometimes
16:04call 65 roses.
16:06Laura.
16:07What is Scarlet Fever?
16:08No.
16:09Scott or Paolo?
16:1165 roses sounds a little like cystic fibrosis.
16:15Back to Laura.
16:16Uh, Medicine for 4.
16:18In Minnesota in the 1950s, C. Walton Lillehigh pioneered this three-word type of procedure right
16:25on the old ticker.
16:26Scott.
16:27What is open heart surgery?
16:28That's correct.
16:29Hitchcock 800.
16:30Later to be royalty, she starred in three films for Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief, Dial M for Murder,
16:35and Rear Window.
16:37Paolo.
16:37Liz Kelly?
16:38Yes, Grace Kelly.
16:39Alfred Hitchcock 4.
16:40The climax to Hitchcock's North by Northwest takes place at this Black Hills locale.
16:45Paolo.
16:46What is Mount Rushmore?
16:47Write again.
16:48Time 100 for 4.
16:49He retired from Bain Capital in 1999 to take over as CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
16:56Paolo.
16:57Who is Romney?
16:58Yes, Mitt Romney.
16:59How are you feeling for?
17:01Intentionally crinkled, like certain velvet.
17:04Laura.
17:05What is crushed?
17:05You're feeling crushed.
17:06That's right.
17:07Here's the final clue in opera.
17:09Benjamin Britten's only opera for TV, Owen Wingrave, premiered in 1971 on this Broadcaster 2.
17:16Scott.
17:16What is BBC 2?
17:17Correct. BBC 2 taking you to 5,200.
17:20Paolo has a big lead after those Daily Doubles.
17:22Let's see what your final Jeopardy! category is today.
17:26Mammals.
17:27Ponder the mammals.
17:28Make your way, Julius Players, and then we will come back with the clue.
17:33Our champions today lucked out.
17:34All three of them are mammals, and the final Jeopardy! category is mammals.
17:39Here's the clue.
17:41Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, may have been the last place on Earth
17:45where this two-word prehistoric mammal lived.
17:4830 seconds.
17:49Good luck.
18:17All three of them are mammals, and then we will come back to the coast of Siberia, may have been
18:20the last place on the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the
18:20coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of
18:20the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast
18:20of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the
18:20coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of
18:20the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast
18:20of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the
18:20coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of
18:20the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast
18:20of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast of the coast
18:20Why don't we begin on the end with Scott Riccardi, $5,200 and he wrote down what
18:26two-word mammal? The woolly mammoth and that is correct. Yes, on that tiny island
18:31they lived until just a few thousand years ago, believe it or not. What did
18:35you wager, Scott? Nothing, so you still have $5,200. Laura Fata had $8,800. Does
18:41she have woolly mammoth here? Let's see. What is a woolly mammoth? She will add
18:45the $1,601 that she wagered, taking her up to $10,401. But Paolo
18:50Pasco had a huge lead with $29,000. Is he correct in final? Yes, what is the
18:55woolly mammoth? What did Paolo wager? A lucky $1,118, taking him to $30,118 and
19:04making him the winner of this Jeopardy exhibition game. We hope you enjoyed
19:09this exhibition game from our Tournament of Champions. We'll see you next time on
19:12Jeopardy.
19:15Don't miss it. The Tournament of Champions Finals begin Monday.
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