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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 34: 2026 Invitational Tournament Semifinal Game 3
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00:02From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:15Let's welcome our last group of semifinalists.
00:19A journalist from Washington, D.C., Drew Goins.
00:23A professorial lecturer of international affairs from Chesapeake, Virginia, Karen Farrell.
00:31And a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada, Long Nguyen.
00:37And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:44Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Thank you, folks.
00:47And welcome to the last of our three semifinal games in this Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:52We already know we'll be seeing Roger Craig and Andrew He in the finals.
00:56But will it be Long, Karen, or Drew joining them?
00:59Good luck, players, with the last spot in the finals on the line.
01:02Let's reveal your categories in the Jeopardy! round.
01:06We have, first for you, Landlocked Inn.
01:09Then Words with a Silent Letter.
01:12I'm Cleaning Out the Garage. Little update about me.
01:15Then Green Stuff.
01:17All sorts of entertainment.
01:19And finally, we'll play Poem at a Letter.
01:22Long, you make the first choice.
01:25Landlocked Inn for eight.
01:26In the past few years, tourists have trickled into this country to see where the Buddha statues of Bamiyan once
01:32stood.
01:33Karen?
01:33Was it Afghanistan?
01:34You're right.
01:35Poem for six.
01:37Answer.
01:38Daily double, Karen, right off the bat.
01:42You can wager up to a thousand.
01:44Let's wager a thousand.
01:45Going for $1,800 then in Poem at a Letter.
01:49Keats looks back on an unfortunate day as a line cook in Athens when his hand blistered after touching a
01:55hot gyro plate.
01:56What is Ode on a Grecian Burn?
01:59Yes, adding the B. Ode on a Grecian Burn.
02:03You figured the category out, and it gives you $1,800.
02:06Let's go Poem for eight.
02:08In this poem, Madam Lazarus writes of a seemingly gigantic salamander yearning to breathe free.
02:14Long.
02:15What is the Newt Colossus?
02:17Newt Colossus, yes.
02:19Uh, landlocked for one thousand.
02:21This second longest South American river borders a landlocked nation with the same first four letters.
02:27Drew?
02:28What is the ParanĂ¡?
02:29ParanĂ¡, well done.
02:31Words with a silent letter for eight.
02:32From the French for red, this thickening base for soups and sauces contains flour.
02:38Drew?
02:38What is a roux?
02:39With a silent X.
02:40Silent letter for a thousand.
02:42The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says this, formed from two words with one meaning wave,
02:49can have a wavelength in excess of 300 miles.
02:51Drew?
02:53What is a tsunami?
02:54Tsunami, yes.
02:55Silent letter for six.
02:56At the start of the 2024 to 25 NBA season, the average for this was 78.54 inches.
03:04Drew?
03:05What's height?
03:05Player height.
03:06Silent letter for four.
03:08Following the French pronunciation, both the Z and the S are silent in this word for an appointed place.
03:14Drew?
03:15What is rendezvous?
03:16Right again, well said.
03:17Uh, silent letter for whatever 200 is in French, please.
03:21You've become a legatee of your uncle's estate, which also makes you one of these.
03:25Drew?
03:26What is an heir?
03:27Also an heir.
03:28You got all five.
03:29Well done.
03:33We'll do poem at a letter for 200.
03:36Poe waxes poetic about his fond affection for an onion relative who lives in a seaside sepulcher.
03:42Karen?
03:43What is Annabelle Leek?
03:44With the extra K, Annabelle Leek.
03:46A poem for four.
03:47In this one, Robert Frost ponders the end of the world, perhaps by conflagration, perhaps by wingless blood-sucking insects.
03:55Karen?
03:56What is fire and lice?
03:58Not fire and ice.
03:58Fire and lice.
03:59Let's do poem for a thousand.
04:01Elizabeth Barrett Browning, perhaps entertaining the idea of a menage a quatre, once asked this lusty poetic question.
04:11Not how do I love thee, but many have wondered, how do I love three?
04:15Karen, back to you.
04:17Let's do garage for six.
04:19I've never used this exercise gadget that became infomercial famous in the 90s.
04:23And I don't plan to start anytime soon.
04:28So I'm throwing away my thigh master.
04:31Back to Karen.
04:33Garage for eight.
04:34Some of these structural parts of my car's suspension system were loose on the garage floor.
04:38And I, for one, was shocked.
04:41Long?
04:41What are struts?
04:42Those are struts.
04:43Garage for a thousand.
04:45Time to offload this power tool that cuts wood and metal using a continuous steel strip.
04:50It takes up half my garage, and I've used it never.
04:53Drew.
04:55What is a miter saw?
04:56No, I'm sorry.
04:57Long.
04:58What is a band saw?
04:59A band saw is correct, taking you to 2600.
05:01All three of you playing well, tightly bunched.
05:03Time for a break, though.
05:04We'll be back with more JIT action after this.
05:08Drew Goins is a journalist from Washington, D.C., whom we used to announce as a journalist from Honolulu.
05:14What's up lately in your life, Drew?
05:15Um, rather poetically, I left the middle of the Pacific to go work for the magazine, The Atlantic.
05:21Ah, I see.
05:22Um, where I am, among other things, now writing trivia for the magazine.
05:26So, I, my job is possibly on the line here.
05:29Everybody wants a puzzles vertical today.
05:31Exactly.
05:31Good job.
05:32You guys are propping up the media.
05:34We're working on it.
05:34I appreciate that.
05:35And we learned you don't own a Thighmaster, so.
05:37I don't.
05:37More, more Drew fact.
05:38Maybe with the winnings.
05:39Ah, something to shoot for.
05:41Karen Farrell, a professorial lecturer of international affairs from Chesapeake, Virginia.
05:46You said your time on Jeopardy! was kind of shaped by your relationship with your mom, right?
05:50Yeah, absolutely.
05:51We watched Jeopardy! together when I was growing up.
05:53My first audition for the show, we took a girls' road trip to go to the audition.
05:58She came out for my, a couple games for my initial run.
06:02Sadly, we lost her very unexpectedly last fall.
06:06I'm sorry.
06:06But I made sure to have a little bit of her with me here as best I can.
06:09Oh, is that hers?
06:10Yep.
06:11Well, that's lovely.
06:11She's here on the Alex Trebek stage with us.
06:13Absolutely.
06:13Well, condolences for your loss, but I'm glad you made it back here.
06:16Long Nguyen is a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada.
06:21This is appropriate since you're from Vegas, Long.
06:23Tell us what you did with your last set of Jeopardy! winnings.
06:25Last year, the Raiders drafted a lot of good players, and I got excited.
06:30Okay.
06:31I thought they were going to win the Super Bowl.
06:32Uh-huh.
06:33So I was walking through the casino at the beginning of the season, and I saw they were
06:37a three-point underdog to the Patriots.
06:39Long, tell me you did not put all of your Jeopardy! money on a single Super Bowl.
06:43Not all of it, but all the money in my pocket.
06:46I bet, I bet $500 on them, and they won.
06:49But they only won two more games the entire season.
06:53So maybe we'll try again next season.
06:55$500, you're not getting back, Long.
06:57I'm sorry to hear that.
06:57But you do have control of the board. Make a selection.
07:01Uh, landlocked in for $600.
07:03The spirit of Gobi has been called this country's answer to Coachella.
07:07Long?
07:07What is Mongolia?
07:09Yes.
07:09Uh, landlocked in for $4.
07:11Gabarone is the capital of this nation, the world's second largest diamond producer by value.
07:17Drew?
07:17What is Botswana?
07:19That's correct.
07:20Green stuff for $6.
07:22Here's the envy variety of this flower in the daisy family.
07:25It's mainly derived from Mexico, but named for a German botanist.
07:30Long.
07:30What is Zinnia?
07:32It is Zinnia. Very good.
07:34Uh, landlocked in for $2.
07:36Volerao and Voicesburg in Schweiz have some of the highest concentrations of millionaires in this landlocked country.
07:42Karen?
07:43What's Switzerland?
07:43Good.
07:44Uh, green stuff for $8.
07:45This composer's song-psycho, the Schöne-MĂ¼llerin, includes two leader about the color green, one for and one against.
07:53Long?
07:53Who is Schubert?
07:54That's the composer.
07:55Uh, green for $1,000.
07:57The internet very nearly exploded after J-Lo wore a green dress by this designer to the 2000 Grammys.
08:04Long?
08:04Who is Versace?
08:05Can you be more specific?
08:06Uh, Gianni Versace?
08:08It is not Gianni Versace.
08:10Karen?
08:10Who is Donatella Versace?
08:11Donatella is correct.
08:13Uh, entertainment for $6.
08:15Jason Bateman came up with the name of this podcast he hosts with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes to reflect
08:20that the three know nothing.
08:25And that's why it's called Smartless.
08:27Karen?
08:28Uh, entertainment for $8.
08:30Sarah McLachlan helped found this female-centric music festival that ran from 1997 to 1999.
08:35A 2025 documentary looked back at it.
08:38Drew?
08:39What's Lilith Fair?
08:40Yes.
08:40Green Stuff for $4.
08:42A coveted pin made for the 2002 Winter Olympics features a bowl of green J-Lo, a nod to this
08:48host city's snacking affinities.
08:50Long?
08:51What is Salt Lake City?
08:52Right.
08:53Entertainment for $1,000.
08:54This actor, who won an Oscar for CODA, said he hoped his role in Black Rabbit would open doors for
08:59more deaf actors.
09:01Long?
09:02Who is Kotzer?
09:02Very good.
09:03Troy Kotzer.
09:03Um, Garage for $4.
09:06I've never even played this sport that's named after a British Duke's country estate, so these rackets can definitely go.
09:12Long?
09:13What is Mad Mitten?
09:14Right.
09:15Garage for $2.
09:16Found a box labeled Angling, whatever that means. Inside were a bunch of fuzzy things for use in this alliterative
09:22pastime.
09:23Drew?
09:24What's fly fishing?
09:25That's it.
09:25Green Stuff.
09:27Here's secret agent Perry the Platypus, the greenish pet of this duo who returned to TV in 2025 after a
09:33decade-long hiatus.
09:34Drew?
09:35Who are Phineas and Ferb?
09:36To the excitement of my kids, that's right.
09:38400.
09:39In the 1930s, Warner Brothers featured animated shorts titled Looney Tunes and this alliterative companion one.
09:49There were also Merry Melodies. Final clue? Astute gamers know that NES refers to this company's entertainment system. Long?
09:57What is Nintendo?
09:58The N is for Nintendo. Yes, it means you will have a narrow lead at the end of the Jeopardy!
10:02round.
10:02Karen selects first when we come back. Don't go anywhere. It's Double Jeopardy!
10:07As promised, it's Double Jeopardy! time. Let's show our semi-finalists the categories.
10:12From left to right, we have The Comeback, Maps and Globes, Opera, then Brit Speak, Celebrity Collectives, and finally, a
10:23question.
10:24Are you not entertained? Karen, you select first.
10:28Opera for 16.
10:30The aria Casta Diva from this Bellini opera is a prayer from the title druid priestess to the goddess of
10:35the moon.
10:36Long?
10:37What is Norma?
10:38That is Norma.
10:39Maps and Globes for 16.
10:41Answer.
10:41A daily double for you, Long.
10:47How do you feel about Maps and Globes?
10:48Everything.
10:49Okay. You like geography, I think. You're betting it all. $14,400 if you're right. Here's your clue, Maps and
10:56Globes.
10:57Lines of Latitude are also called these from their geometric layout. You're just about standing on the 34th.
11:04What are parallels?
11:05They are parallels.
11:07The risk pays off. Long has a big lead, but there's a lot of game left. Long select.
11:13Opera for 12.
11:14Answer is the other daily double.
11:20Do you feel just as good about opera as you did about geography?
11:23No.
11:23Um, 5,000.
11:26Okay. With 5,000 more on the line, here's your clue in opera.
11:30Maidens guard the title object of this opera, the first of the ring cycle.
11:41Long?
11:41What is the ring of the Nibelung?
11:44Sorry, no. The first opera there is called Das Rheingold.
11:47Rheingold, yeah.
11:48The Rheingold.
11:49So we get a little bit closer. Good news for Karen and Drew. Select Long.
11:52Um, opera 2,000.
11:54Devieni non tardar, O Come Do Not Delay, is also known as Susanna's aria in this comic opera.
12:00Karen?
12:01Is the marriage a figure?
12:02Yes.
12:03Brits speak for 12.
12:05Don't worry, mate. It's all this.
12:07More than just arranged in categories, it means fixed, settled, taken care of.
12:12Drew?
12:13What is sordid?
12:14It's sordid.
12:15The comeback for 16, please.
12:17Alfred the Great of this Anglo-Saxon kingdom survived a Viking onslaught circa 878, then took back much of southern
12:24England.
12:25Long.
12:26What is Wessex?
12:27That's it.
12:28Maps for 2,000?
12:30Need to hike around Poison Canyon in Utah?
12:33At USGS.gov, you can build your own this type of detailed map with contour lines.
12:38Drew?
12:39What's a topographical map?
12:41You are correct for 2,000.
12:42Opera for eight.
12:43Coolidge is the apt presidential middle name of this composer of modern operas, like the death of Klinghoffer.
12:49Long.
12:50Who is Adams?
12:51John Adams, right.
12:52Uh, comeback for 2,000?
12:53After years of defeat, a Roman army under this general, known as Africanus, won a decisive victory over Hannibal in
13:00202 BC.
13:01Long.
13:02Who is Scipio?
13:032,000 more for you.
13:04Uh, maps for 12?
13:06Dating to 1492, the oldest surviving globe shows why Columbus thought he had a straight shot to Asia.
13:13Sipengu is this.
13:14Karen?
13:15West Japan.
13:16You got it.
13:17Uh, Britspeak for 16?
13:18It means a wild party and precedes Mother Brown in a song that some say has sexual meanings, but Rafi
13:24sang it.
13:28In Britain, a party is a knees up.
13:30Back to Karen.
13:31Uh, Britspeak for 2,000.
13:33If it's time to go to sleep, you're headed for this ceremonial county, home to Clapham.
13:38Think of the first three letters in its name.
13:43You're heading for Bedfordshire.
13:45Karen?
13:46Uh, not entertained for 12.
13:49A knotted pile rug called an ensi was hung over the entrance of this tent-like structure of nomadic Turkmen.
13:54Karen?
13:55Was it Europe?
13:56You got it.
13:57Uh, not entertained for 16?
13:59He made his name with the play The Blood Knot, about two half-brothers in South Africa.
14:03One who can pass as white, one who can't.
14:06Long.
14:07Who is Peyton?
14:08No.
14:09Karen or Drew?
14:12That's Athelfugard.
14:13Back to you, Karen.
14:15Uh, let's do Knot for 2,000.
14:17The Incas used a record-keeping system of knotted strings called this.
14:21Drew?
14:21What is Kipu?
14:22Good for 2,000.
14:23Celebrity Collectives for 16.
14:26This character actor seems to turn up everywhere, including in George Clooney's core group of pals called The Boys.
14:32Drew?
14:33Who is Richard Kind?
14:34The great Richard Kind.
14:35Nice.
14:37Maps and Globes for eight.
14:38Cartographers call the size-warping of the Mercator projection map this problem, after an island that looks way too big.
14:45Drew?
14:46What is the Greenland problem?
14:48Right, and you're tied with Long for the lead.
14:50Brits speak for eight.
14:52If you say you can't go to the pub because you're skint, that's this reason.
14:56Drew?
14:56Uh, you're out of money.
14:57You're broke.
14:58You're, you're, you're, you don't have money.
15:01No, I'm sorry.
15:02Karen?
15:02What is your out of money?
15:04Yes, you forgot your phrasing, Drew.
15:05I'm so sorry.
15:06Oh, my. Oh, God.
15:08Karen?
15:09Uh, come back for 12.
15:11After being fired by Ford, this man joined Chrysler as president in the late 1970s and brought it back from
15:17the brink of bankruptcy.
15:18Long?
15:18Who is Iacocca?
15:19It is.
15:21Uh, celebrity for 2000.
15:23The Staten Island buddies known as the Tenderloins created this TV show of dares and humiliations.
15:31The show is Impractical Jokers.
15:33Long, back to you.
15:34Uh, celebrity for 12.
15:36Fittingly, Amber Tamblyn, America Ferreira, Blake Lively, and Alexis Bledel kept a bond long after making this movie together.
15:43Long?
15:44What is the sisterhood of the traveling pants?
15:46You're right.
15:47Uh, come back for eight.
15:49Czar Simeon II of this Balkan land was replaced by communists in 1946, but returned to serve as its prime
15:56minister in 2001.
15:58Long?
15:59Uh, what is Romania?
16:01No.
16:02Karen?
16:03What is Bulgaria?
16:03Bulgaria is right.
16:05Opera for four?
16:06How to pronounce this title of Puccini's last opera?
16:09It's not French, so probably the final T should be articulated.
16:13Drew?
16:14What is tur-en-dot-t-t?
16:16Yeah, I hit the T.
16:17Are you not entertained for 800?
16:20Dust off that handmade vest from grandma.
16:23A 2023 New York Times headline declared that this knot-tying craft is back and in fashion.
16:28Long?
16:28What is macrame?
16:29Macrame is right.
16:30They were wrong.
16:31It's not back in fashion, by the way.
16:32Just want to say that here.
16:34Celebrity for 800.
16:36Passing on in 2007, Joey Bishop was the last surviving member of this showbiz social group.
16:42Long?
16:42What is the Rat Pack?
16:43Yes.
16:44Uh, maps for 400.
16:46An analemma shows points where the sun is directly overhead throughout the year.
16:50It hits this line at 23 and a half degrees north around June 21st.
16:55Drew?
16:55What's the equator?
16:57No.
16:58Long?
16:58What is the Tropic of Cancer?
17:00That's correct.
17:01Comeback for four?
17:02Defeated by JFK in 1960, in 1963, he was playing piano on Jack Parr's show and started to change
17:09his image.
17:10Five years later, he was elected.
17:12Karen?
17:12There's Richard Nixon.
17:13Right.
17:14Brits speak for four?
17:15In a video teaching British slang, Idris Elba explains, chirpsing means hitting on and is related
17:21to this word for a woman.
17:23Drew?
17:23What is a bird?
17:24A bird.
17:25That's it.
17:26Collectives for four.
17:28It's a singer or actress's group of friends.
17:30Best forever or not.
17:32Joy Behar says, we used to call it a click in my day.
17:38Now it's a squad.
17:39A girl squad.
17:40One more time.
17:41Are you not entertained?
17:43These are made from a rope of dough and tied in a knot.
17:46One theory says the shape is meant to mirror arms in prayer.
17:50Drew?
17:50What is a pretzel?
17:52That's correct.
17:52Three strong showings today, but Long has the lead heading into Final Jeopardy.
17:56Let's see what category you're dealing with.
17:59Writers.
18:00We'll pause while they make their wagers and we'll be back with the clue.
18:04Time to determine our last finalist.
18:06Writers is the category.
18:07Here's the Final Jeopardy clue.
18:09The winner of three Pulitzer Prizes in two different categories, he called his home in Connecticut
18:14the house the bridge built.
18:1630 seconds.
18:17Good luck.
18:48We need the author of a work about a bridge.
18:50Let's see what Karen Farrell came up with, with $10,000.
18:53She wrote, ah, didn't get anything down.
18:56What did you risk, Karen?
18:58Nothing at all.
18:58So you still have $10,000.
18:59Drew Goins with $12,200 wrote down A.G. and it is not James A.G.
19:07What did you risk, Drew?
19:09He went big.
19:10$12,197 leaves him with just $3.
19:13So Long Nguyen has the lead at the moment.
19:16His response?
19:19He thought of Thornton Wilder, the bridge of San Luis Rey.
19:22And that is correct.
19:23He won Pulitzer's for that novel and for his place, Our Count and The Skin of Our Teeth.
19:27So what did you wager, Long?
19:28$5,001 for a total of $20,801.
19:32More importantly, Long, you are headed for the JIT finals.
19:35Congratulations.
19:36Great game, everybody.
19:38The finals begin tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to it.
19:41We'll see you right back here.
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