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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 33: 2026 Invitational Tournament Semifinal Game 2
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00:02From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:15Please welcome our second group of semifinalists.
00:20A creative executive, originally from San Jose, California, Allison Betts.
00:26A stay-at-home dad from Concord, California, Andrew Heave.
00:33And a quantitative researcher from New York, New York, Matt Amodio.
00:41And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:48Thank you, Johnny Gilbert, and welcome back to the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:52Friday was a close game, but in the end, it was JIT alum Roger Craig who pulled off the win
00:57and claimed the first spot in the finals.
00:59Today, it's Matt, Andrew, question mark, and Allison taking the stage with the same goal in mind.
01:05Of course, I wish all three of you the best of luck. Let's play Jeopardy!
01:08Your categories in the first round.
01:10We'll be first, oh, going all the way back.
01:13Remember January 2026?
01:16Then we have In a Bee Country, etymologically yours, we're watching movies in movies, then you'll be going back to
01:25high school, ooh, and finally, by invitation only.
01:29Matt Amodio, start us off.
01:30Country, 1,000.
01:32It's located between the Assam Bengal Plain and the Plateau of Tibet.
01:37Allison.
01:37What is Bhutan?
01:38Correct for 1,000.
01:39Uh, In a Bee Country, 800, please.
01:41Answer.
01:42It's a Daily Double right off the bat.
01:46You're one for one in the category, Allison.
01:49How much do you want to wager?
01:50I'll wager 1,000, please.
01:52All right.
01:52Your Daily Double.
01:53Going for $2,000 in a Bee Country.
01:57Cricket is the national sport of this Caribbean nation, and Anglicanism is the predominant religion.
02:03What?
02:06Is it the Bahamas?
02:07Sorry, no.
02:08Barbados.
02:09That was my other guess.
02:10All right.
02:11So it's a three-way tie again.
02:13Three-way tie.
02:13Let's do January for 1,000, please.
02:16The USA's first black elected governor, he came to the inauguration of Virginia's first
02:21female governor on his 95th birthday.
02:24Matt.
02:25What's Wilder?
02:27Doug Wilder, right.
02:28Uh, etymology 1,000.
02:30German words for world and pain combine to form this pessimistic feeling about life.
02:36Andrew.
02:36What is Weltschmerz?
02:39Correct, for 1,000.
02:40Invitation 1,000?
02:41At a 1966 party, McGeorge Bundy got a second invite, Let's Step Outside, from this Naked
02:48and the Dead author arguing over Vietnam.
02:50Matt.
02:51What's Mailer?
02:52Norman Mailer for 1,000.
02:53Uh, movie is 1,000.
02:55In Logan, Charles Xavier and Laura watched this 1953 Western, in which a boy implored Alan
03:01Ladd to come back.
03:03Andrew.
03:03What is Shane?
03:04Come back, Shane.
03:05Yes.
03:06High school 1,000.
03:07Latin.
03:08Translate and now live the phrase, Audentes Fortuna Juvent.
03:12Andrew.
03:13What is Fortune Favors the Brave?
03:15Or Bold.
03:16You got it.
03:17High school 8.
03:17U.S. History.
03:19Founded in 1886 with 138,000 members, this trade unionist group had nearly 3 million by
03:261924.
03:30That's the AFL.
03:31Back to you, Andrew.
03:32Movies, 800.
03:34Time-traveling Bruce Willis feels like he's seen Vertigo before in this 1995 film.
03:39Andrew.
03:41Uh, what is 12 Monkeys?
03:43That's the film.
03:43Movie 6.
03:45A captive audience watches Gilda as Andy asks Red to get Rita Hayworth for him in this
03:50movie.
03:50And Red does, in a way.
03:52Andrew.
03:52What is Shawshank Redemption?
03:54Right again.
03:55High school 6.
03:56Phys Ed.
03:57We'll see if you can break the record of a bit over 77 feet in this sport using an Olympics
04:02-ready
04:0216-pound sphere.
04:04Matt.
04:05What's shot put?
04:07That is the event, yes.
04:08Uh, invitation 800.
04:09On September 10th, 1971, inmates revolting at this prison, this prison, welcomed observers
04:16who later serve as intermediaries.
04:18Andrew.
04:19What is Attica?
04:20That's right.
04:21Etymologically yours, 8.
04:24Partly from Yiddish and from Russian, and literally destruction, it's an organized massacre
04:29of a class of people.
04:30Andrew.
04:32What is pogrom?
04:33Correct.
04:342026, 800.
04:36First and last name of the Potomac, Maryland resident who is in the news as a key figure
04:40in a speculated new Iranian regime.
04:46The name, Reza Pahlavi.
04:48Back to you, Andrew.
04:49B-country, 6.
04:50The Dnieper flows through this landlocked country on its way to the Black Sea.
04:54Matt.
04:56What's Belarus?
04:57Belarus is the right B-country.
04:59Yes, you're in second place with 3,200.
05:01Andrew's in the lead, and we need to pause for a moment.
05:03But the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament will continue after this.
05:08Alison Betts originally hails from San Jose.
05:11She's a creative executive.
05:12But you also play on a pretty elite quiz team, right?
05:15Yeah.
05:15So, you know, I think kind of one of the best things, the hidden advantages of getting on
05:19Jeopardy is the friends you meet along the way.
05:21And I have some pretty cool friends.
05:22I've become very good friends with Juveria and Victoria, who are actually out here in the
05:27audience today.
05:28You've got some big Jeopardy names in your fan section.
05:30Yeah.
05:30So we play Quip together in an online quiz league, and I'm there for the laughs, mostly.
05:36I'm glad your teammates are here to support you.
05:38Andrew, he is a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California.
05:40Tell us about your kid.
05:41How old is he now?
05:42Yeah, he's almost three.
05:43Time flies.
05:44Wow.
05:45We're solidly in, like, a singing and dancing phase right now.
05:48Okay.
05:49He has a favorite album, which is actually a Matea Roach suggestion.
05:53It's Snack Time by Bare Naked Ladies.
05:57Matea's suggesting Canadian content for your home.
05:59Exactly.
05:59Toronto-based bands.
06:01I love this.
06:01And I love the music.
06:02But we'll be out in public, and he'll say,
06:05Daddy, can I have the naked ladies on your phone?
06:12And I'll be like, we do the naked ladies on the phone in the privacy of our own home.
06:18That's great.
06:19Matt Amodio is here from New York, New York, a quantitative researcher.
06:22You've talked about the wiki deep dives you like to do to prepare for Jeopardy.
06:26Have you kept that up?
06:27Yes.
06:28I'm a big user of Wikipedia.
06:31I helped prepare for my run with this.
06:33I wrote an essay in support of Wikipedia afterwards.
06:36I'm now very flattered to have my own Wikipedia page.
06:41You have a Wikipedia page.
06:41And even more so, the subject of a Wikipedia edit war,
06:45because I was originally described as an American Jeopardy! contestant and mathematician.
06:51But one editor is very careful to always remove the and mathematician parts.
06:56They don't believe you're a mathematician.
06:57Yeah, not a notable one.
06:59You need to do some groundbreaking math right here on National TV
07:02so you can get that back in your Wikipedia entry, Matt.
07:04You also need to select first.
07:06Etymology, six.
07:08Hold your horses.
07:09One of the periods in a game of polo, it's from Sanskrit for circle.
07:13Andrew.
07:14What is chuka?
07:16Yes, or chukar.
07:17Imitation, six.
07:19When making reels, Instagram lets you invite multiple these,
07:22which sounds like you're plotting something nefarious, but it's all for fun.
07:27Allison.
07:27What are collaborators?
07:28Yeah, you can invite collaborators.
07:30January for 600, please.
07:32After 19 straight seasons without a losing record,
07:35this longest-serving current NFL or any major pro sport coach stepped down.
07:40Andrew.
07:41Who's Tomlin?
07:42It is Mike Tomlin.
07:432026-400.
07:44U.S. forces seized him, the president of a country,
07:47and brought him back to the U.S. with his first lady.
07:50Matt.
07:51What's Maduro?
07:52Right.
07:53Country four?
07:54Its capital of Belmopan came to be after Hurricane Hattie wrecked the old capital in 1961.
08:00Allison.
08:01What is Belize?
08:02Yes.
08:03Etymologically yours, 400.
08:05An oral vote that doesn't require a count of eyes and nays is by this, from the Latin for to
08:11shout.
08:11Andrew.
08:12What is acclamation?
08:13By acclamation, yes.
08:14Movies in Movies, 400.
08:16A character gets big-time meta in this horror franchise 3, Season of the Witch,
08:21watching an ad for the original film on a bar TV.
08:25Matt.
08:26What, Scream?
08:27No.
08:29Andrew or Allison?
08:31This takes me back.
08:32Halloween 3, Season of the Witch.
08:34Back to Andrew.
08:35Movies, 200.
08:36In I Am Legend, this actor showed an encyclopedic knowledge of the Shrek script,
08:41speaking along with the characters.
08:43Andrew.
08:43Who is Will Smith?
08:45Good.
08:46High school, 200.
08:47Math.
08:48It's the formula for the circumference of a circle.
08:51Andrew.
08:52What is 2 pi r?
08:53That's right.
08:54But you should really let Matt have the math stuff.
08:56He needs this.
08:57He wouldn't have gotten it.
09:00High school 4.
09:01English.
09:02The working-class greasers face off against the rich kid Sochas in this 1967 novel.
09:08Andrew.
09:09What's the Outsiders?
09:10Yes.
09:11Invitation 2.
09:12In 1970, Benny Binion invited seven players to Vegas, each paying a $5,000 fee, to participate
09:19in this, the WSOP.
09:21It's gotten bigger since.
09:22Matt.
09:23What's World Series of Poker?
09:25You got it.
09:26Country 2.
09:27The border between Bolivia and this eastern neighbor runs through Laguna Mondiore.
09:32Andrew.
09:33Uh, what is Argentina?
09:36No.
09:38Allison.
09:38What is Brazil?
09:39Gotta be a bee country, yes.
09:40Uh, Invitation 4.
09:42In a Mozart opera, this tidal rake invites folks to his castle for a nosh.
09:46He has eyes on Tsarlina and Z's fiancée, not pleased.
09:51Matt.
09:51What's Don Giovanni?
09:53That's the rake.
09:54Uh, remember 200?
09:56Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in a sub-zero January are called by the alliterative
10:01term weaponizing this.
10:03Allison.
10:04What is winter?
10:05Yes.
10:05And the last clue.
10:07Appropriately, this adjective is from the Latin for ox.
10:11Andrew.
10:12What is bovine?
10:15Bovine is right, yes.
10:16No matter how slowly you say it, it's still right.
10:18You have 8,400 in the lead after a strong round, Andrew, but what will happen in Double
10:22Jeopardy?
10:22We'll find out after the break.
10:26Matt and Allison have some catching up to do, but this is the round to do it.
10:29Double Jeopardy.
10:30Here are the new categories.
10:32We start with plays and playwrights.
10:34From there, some science goulash.
10:37State capital entertainment.
10:39Hmm.
10:40Then six-syllable words, take your marble and go home.
10:45Allison, what'll it be?
10:47Let's try six-syllable words for 800.
10:51It's a 150th anniversary.
10:53Colorado is celebrating its in 2026.
10:56Matt.
10:57What's sesquicentennial?
11:00Yes, good counting.
11:00Uh, playwright, 16.
11:03King Charles and Queen Camilla were among those who paid tribute to this witty, check-born
11:07playwright on his recent passing.
11:09Matt.
11:10What's stoppard?
11:12It is.
11:12Uh, plays, 12.
11:14Answer.
11:15You have found the Daily Double, Matt.
11:18And you know it's a chance for you.
11:20You can take the lead here.
11:21Uh, 6,200.
11:23That would be all the marbles.
11:24For 12,400, here's your clue.
11:27Plays and Playwrights.
11:28Set in a fictional town in the South, this 1955 courtroom drama was based on the Scopes trial.
11:34A film would follow.
11:37What's inherit the wind?
11:39We're not going to stump you with that.
11:40Yes, 12,400 for you.
11:45Science, 12.
11:47Here's one of many historical attempts to design this type of two-word machine.
11:51Alas, the laws of thermodynamics say it can't be done.
11:54Andrew.
11:55What is perpetual motion?
11:56Yes.
11:57Science, 16.
11:59Yellow fireworks and streetlight bulbs both make use of this element, which emits a brilliant
12:03yellow light when heated.
12:05Matt.
12:07What's sodium?
12:08Very good.
12:09Science, 2000.
12:11Latin for whiteness.
12:13It's a measure of the reflectivity of a planet or other surface.
12:16Andrew.
12:17What is albedo?
12:18You got it for 2000.
12:19Marble, 16.
12:21Answer.
12:22The other Daily Double.
12:26That's some elite Daily Double hunting, Andrew.
12:29You can retake the lead here.
12:306000.
12:31Okay.
12:32Going for another 6000 and the lead.
12:33Here's your clue.
12:34Take your marble.
12:35After some effort, the Brutalist director Brady Corbet got to film in the quarries of this
12:40Italian marble mecca.
12:45What are the Dolomites?
12:49Sorry, no.
12:50That's the famous Carrara marble.
12:52Got to shoot in Carrara.
12:54But you held some money back.
12:55You're still in second place.
12:56Where to?
12:56Plays, 2000.
12:58This pioneering absurdist playwright wrote the bald soprano.
13:01Andrew.
13:02It was Ionesco?
13:03Right.
13:04Go Home, 16.
13:06Experiments with these sharks named for women's headwear suggest the Earth's magnetic field
13:11guides them to home waters.
13:12Matt.
13:13What's bonnet?
13:14Right.
13:14Bonnet sharks.
13:15Marble, 2000.
13:17This four-letter type of colonnade was often made with marble.
13:20Pentelic for the one of Atlas in the Agora of Athens.
13:23Andrew?
13:24What is stoa?
13:25Stoa is right.
13:26Go Home, 2000.
13:27A film subject, the return of this peasant, or someone claiming his name to his French
13:33village in the 1550s, began a legal war.
13:38The film is the return of Martin Gare.
13:41Back to Andrew.
13:42Go Home, 12.
13:43If a young British person unexpectedly returns home because they've been sent down, they've
13:48been this.
13:52They've been kicked out of school.
13:53Back to you, Andrew.
13:55Take your marble, 1200.
13:56The charioteer seen here is carved in Prokinesian marble from the area of this Turkish sea whose
14:02name means marble.
14:06The Sea of Marmara.
14:08Andrew?
14:09Sixth syllable, 12.
14:10It's the full name of the life-saving treatment that utilizes an artificial kidney machine to
14:14cleanse the blood.
14:16Andrew?
14:17What is hemodialysis?
14:18Very good.
14:19Sixth syllable, 16.
14:21Poe wrote about this that's so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells.
14:27Matt?
14:27What's 10 to nabulation?
14:29You got it.
14:30Syllable, 2000.
14:32Thomas Huxley coined this word for the idea that the first forms of life evolved from non-living
14:37matter.
14:38Andrew?
14:38What is abiogenesis?
14:41That's the word.
14:43State capital, 12.
14:44Stardom was around the corner after Justin Bieber shared this singer's cover of At Last.
14:52With a state capital in her name, Madison Beer.
14:55Back to you, Andrew.
14:56State capital, 16.
14:57In 1990, she played Polonius' daughter in Hamlet.
15:01And in 2020, Millie Bobby Brown's mom in Enola Holmes.
15:08Who is Helena Bonham Carter?
15:10Andrew?
15:11Science goulash, 8.
15:13Bacteria reproduce primarily via the binary type of this asexual method.
15:17It ain't romantic, but it gets the job done.
15:20Andrew?
15:22What is fission?
15:23Binary fission.
15:24Well done.
15:25Science 400.
15:26The pangolin is the only mammal that's completely covered in these, which are made from cemented
15:31hairs.
15:32Matt?
15:33What?
15:33Scales?
15:34Yes.
15:35On state capital, 2000.
15:37The first and last names of this actor, whose credits include several seasons of American
15:42Horror Story, are state capitals.
15:47Star of stage and screen, Cheyenne Jackson.
15:50Back to you, Matt.
15:51Plays, 800.
15:52He wrote Tiny Alice, as well as Three Tall Women.
15:55Matt?
15:56What's Albee?
15:57Edward Albee.
15:57Um, state capital, 8.
16:00Marissa Tomei is in a trying relationship with an attorney who has an unusual office in
16:04this 2011 film.
16:08What is the Lincoln lawyer?
16:10Study your state capitals, guys.
16:12Matt, back to you.
16:13Uh, let's do it again.
16:15400.
16:16All right, I believe in you.
16:17Carnies and nuclear war are the only things that terrify this international man of mystery.
16:22Andrew?
16:23Who's Austin Powers?
16:24There we go.
16:25Plays, 400.
16:26In 1991, his play Lost in Yonkers, about a Jewish family, won a Tony and a Pulitzer.
16:31Andrew?
16:32Uh, who is Wilder?
16:34No.
16:34Oh.
16:35Matt?
16:35What's Simon?
16:36Neil Simon is right.
16:37Uh, Marble, 8.
16:39Change the prefix in a simple stark-ism to get this lavish style of designer Kelly Wurstler,
16:44featuring Cala Cata Marble.
16:48Not minimal, but maximalism.
16:51Matt?
16:51Uh, home, 8.
16:53It's one of the most dramatic plays in sports.
16:55Ty Cobb did it 54 times, and Jackie Robinson did it in game one of the 1955 World Series.
17:00Allison?
17:01What is stealing home?
17:02Right.
17:03Uh, six syllable, 400.
17:05Alex Wallace and Alex Wilson are two of these on-camera professionals for the Weather Channel.
17:10Allison?
17:10What is meteorologist?
17:12They are.
17:13Go home 4?
17:14In black culture, this event is often called a home-going, and TLC featured some elaborate
17:19ones on a show called Best This Ever.
17:24That's a funeral.
17:25Best funeral ever.
17:26Here's the final clue.
17:27Take your marble.
17:28Your countertops can be made of Danby marble, like this neoclassical domed memorial on Washington,
17:33D.C.'s Tidal Basin.
17:34Matt?
17:35What's Jefferson?
17:36Jefferson Memorial it is.
17:37You have the lead heading into final.
17:39Here's your category players.
17:41Men of Religion.
17:42We'll be back with the clue in just a moment.
17:45The champs are dealing with men of religion as their category today and final.
17:49Here's the clue.
17:51A 1660 book quoted Mary, Queen of Scots, as saying,
17:54She feared this man's prayers more than an army of men.
17:5830 seconds.
17:59Good luck.
17:59A 1760 book.
17:591, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8.
18:022, 3, 4, 6 and 8.
18:041, 2, 3, 4.
18:152, 4, 5, 4, 5.
18:155, 5, 6 and 9.
18:185, 6 and 9.
18:206 and 9.
18:277.
18:29Let's start with Allison Betts.
18:31$2,600 against these two, putting up quite a game.
18:33That's impressive.
18:34What did you get, Allison?
18:35You wrote down, these guys definitely won't bet at all.
18:38That's probably true this time, Allison.
18:41We'll see what happens.
18:42You wagered nothing.
18:44$2,600.
18:45You're in good shape if they do.
18:47Andrew, he in second place with $13,600.
18:49And he wrote down, who else thinks the best season of Jeopardy was?
18:54Was what season, Andrew?
18:56What did you wager?
18:57$38.
18:57Ah, season 38, right?
18:59I assume that was your season, Andrew.
19:01Yeah, hey, Matt.
19:01Ah, here we go.
19:02Season 38 reunion right here.
19:04Great season of Jeopardy, but you'll only lose $38,
19:06taking you down to $13,562.
19:10Forcing Matt Imodio to get this right.
19:12Did he actually put down a man of religion?
19:14Let's see.
19:15James I.
19:16I'm afraid that's incorrect.
19:18Mary, Queen of Scots, as a Catholic feared John Knox,
19:21leader of the Scottish Reformation.
19:23Scottish churchman John Knox.
19:25What did you wager, Matt?
19:278,001 drops you down to $11,199.
19:30That's second place today, because Andrew, he comes from behind and is headed to the final.
19:36Well done.
19:38We have one more finalist to determine.
19:40We'll find out who it is tomorrow.
19:41Thanks for joining us.
19:44We'll find out who it is tomorrow.
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