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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 16: 2026 Tournament of Champions Quarterfinal Game 4
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00:02From the Alex from X-State and Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
00:15Today's Jeopardy! champions are an analyst from Brooklyn, New York, Alex DeFrank.
00:22A comedian and author from Oakland, California, W. Kamau Bell.
00:28And a publicist from Louisville, Texas, Ashri Chan.
00:35And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:42Thank you, Johnny Gilbert, and welcome back to the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
00:46In yesterday's quarterfinal, we saw our recent Champions wildcard winner Cameron Berry advance to the semifinals,
00:53one step closer to the $250,000 grand prize.
00:56Today sees the return of two four-game champs from season 41, Ashley and Alex.
01:01And in between them, what's this? A Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, W. Kamau Bell is back.
01:06Good luck to all three of you.
01:07Let's take a look at the categories we have in store in the Jeopardy! round.
01:12Up first, we're going to Love Island, but the ancient Greek myth version.
01:16Then double-double-letter words, only brands, followed by Around the Americas,
01:23Some days I won't be at work, and finally, Broadway musicals by opening number.
01:29Ashley, the first selection is yours.
01:31Let's go Around the Americas, 400.
01:34This Canadian territory is home to Lake LaBarge, which appears in the poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee.
01:40Ashley.
01:41What is Yukon?
01:42Yes.
01:43Broadway musicals, 200.
01:45Food, glorious food.
01:47Alex.
01:48What is Oliver?
01:48Good.
01:49Broadway musicals, 400.
01:51At the Delta New Sorority House.
01:53Oh my God, you guys.
01:55Alex.
01:56What is Legally Blonde?
01:57Right again.
01:58Broadway musicals, 1,000.
02:00Overture, followed by the fish-lapping song.
02:05The opening to Spamalot.
02:08Alex.
02:09Broadway musicals, 800.
02:10Opening night, The King of Broadway.
02:14Ashley.
02:14What is The Producers?
02:15It is, very good.
02:16Let's finish Broadway for 600.
02:18Opening in 2000.
02:20Oh, the thinks you can think.
02:22Alex.
02:23Was Seussical.
02:24Seussical, that's the musical.
02:25Around the Americas, 600.
02:27Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on this island preserves the location of the first attempt
02:32at a North American English colony.
02:35Alex.
02:35What is Roanoke?
02:36Yes.
02:37America's 800.
02:39Thought to be from the Inca period, the Pilko-Kaina ruins can be found on an island in this lake,
02:4512,500 feet above sea level.
02:47Alex.
02:48What's Lake Titicaca?
02:49That's right.
02:50Double-double-letter words, 800.
02:52Before hitting the ball, a golfer does this in preparation, which involves grounding the
02:57club.
03:00You have to address the ball.
03:03Alex.
03:04Double-double-letter words, 1,000.
03:06From the name of a heroine of a 1913 novel, it's someone who's cheerfully optimistic.
03:11Alex.
03:12What is Pollyanna?
03:13Good for 1,000.
03:14Love Island, 800.
03:15At the Snog Mary Pie Challenge, she gives Endymion a chaste peck, marries Zeus, and pies
03:22Hercules.
03:26Married to Zeus?
03:27That's Hera.
03:28Back to Alex.
03:29Love Island, 600.
03:31Reunion hijinks.
03:33Theseus steps in it when he calls this woman Ariana, and her hubby Dionysus ain't having that
03:37disrespect.
03:39Alex.
03:39Who's Ariadne?
03:40Ariadne, right.
03:42Love Island, 1,000.
03:43A mean social post is read aloud to the Greek islanders.
03:47This nymph lives in the penthouse, but Narcissus rejecting her is so low rent.
03:55That famous pair, Echo and Narcissus.
03:57Who is Echo?
03:58Back to Alex.
03:59Love Island, 400.
04:01Ares and Aphrodite got caught making out at soul ties, and this god, Aphrodite's husband,
04:05is hella mad.
04:06Now that's fire.
04:08Alex.
04:08Who is Hephaestus?
04:09Yes.
04:10Around the Americas, 1,000.
04:12Answer there is a daily double, Alex.
04:17You're off to a strong start, so you have $4,600 to wager in Around the Americas.
04:23True daily double.
04:24Okay.
04:25Going for it here.
04:26You'll have $9,200 if you're right.
04:28Around the Americas is the category.
04:30Here's the clue.
04:31This Ontario city with a stormy name uses the slogan, Superior by Nature.
04:41Was Toronto?
04:43Sorry, no.
04:44Thunder Bay on Lake Superior.
04:46Easy come, easy go.
04:47Alex, you're down to zero.
04:48Tied with Kamau in second place.
04:49Ashley, congrats on the lead.
04:51Well done.
04:51We'll be back with more Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions after this.
04:56Alex DeFrank is an analyst from Brooklyn, New York.
04:59Alex, after your initial Jeopardy! appearance aired, you had some fun on social media.
05:03What was going on?
05:04Yeah.
05:04Well, one of my stories was about playing against Lil Romeo, or as we knew him, Percy, in fourth
05:10grade.
05:11And after that aired, you and he interacted on Instagram, but I don't have Instagram.
05:17So I made an account.
05:18I named it Super Secret Burner Account 1.
05:22And before I got the chance to see what y'all said, they flagged it and shut it down.
05:27Which I don't understand.
05:28I didn't misrepresent anything.
05:29You still don't know what me and Percy were talking about.
05:32No, no.
05:32The nicest things, Alex.
05:33Nicest things.
05:34We said the nicest.
05:34You weren't talking about me at all.
05:36Look who's here.
05:37It's W. Kamau Bell, a writer and comedian from Oakland, California.
05:40Welcome back, Kamau.
05:42I understand you said yes to the Jeopardy! tournament champions, mostly for one reason.
05:47Yeah, because this is the coolest thing I've ever done in the eyes of my kids, is be on
05:50Jeopardy!
05:50This is for your kids?
05:51This is for the kids.
05:52That's right.
05:52We got the shirt on.
05:53Me and my daughter.
05:54She made this, everybody.
05:55Oh, that's so nice.
05:56It's identical.
05:57It looks exactly like us.
05:59I'm going to say you're the tall one.
06:00Yes.
06:01Nice.
06:01You are a Jeopardy! champ.
06:03Nailed it.
06:04Whatever happens in this game, they're going to be able to see you again on Jeopardy!
06:07Right?
06:07You're going to be in Celebrity Jeopardy!
06:09All-Stars.
06:10Starting next month on ABC.
06:11Yes.
06:12It's a full-time job doing this now, yes.
06:14You're going to be a Jeopardy! champion, writer and comedian.
06:18It's going to come first in the list.
06:19Also with us, Ashley Chan, a publicist from Louisville, Texas.
06:24Ashley, after you were on Jeopardy!
06:26You learned some family Jeopardy! lore, right?
06:28Yeah.
06:28I am not the first person in my family to be on Jeopardy!
06:31And you didn't know this?
06:32No.
06:32My grandma was on in 1974 on the original Art Fleming version.
06:36She didn't win, but nobody got to see her episode because it got interrupted by breaking news.
06:42Oh, no.
06:43So you're the first person on Jeopardy! that anyone's seen in your family.
06:46Yes.
06:46Congratulations.
06:47Still a first.
06:48Alex, you gave us our last correct response.
06:50Also our last incorrect response, but in either case, it's your board.
06:53All right.
06:54Only Brands, 1,000.
06:56This brand has been bringing chocolate cheer since 1852, at the peak of the California
07:00Gold Rush.
07:02Alex.
07:02What is Ghirardelli?
07:03In San Francisco, right.
07:04Double double letter, 600.
07:06In other words, a large bag or tote in which you can put a lot of stuff.
07:11Everything even.
07:12Ashley.
07:13What is Neverfull?
07:14No.
07:16Kamau or Alex?
07:17I like that, Ashley, but I don't know if it's a word.
07:19This is a carry-all.
07:21Back to you, Alex.
07:22All right.
07:23Double words, 400.
07:25This type of center focuses on improving one's physical and mental health through exercise
07:29and activities like yoga and meditation.
07:32Alex.
07:33What is Wellness?
07:33A Wellness Center.
07:34Brands, 800.
07:36This Procter & Gamble brand for sweaty and smelly fellas has a clipper ship as part of
07:41its logo.
07:42Alex.
07:42What is Old Spice?
07:43Yes.
07:44Brands, 600.
07:45By 1998, this pioneering athletic shoe company had just a 2.3% market share, but with some help
07:52from Nike, Gen Z didn't chuck chucks.
07:55Kamau.
07:55What are Chuck Taylors?
07:57No.
07:58Ashley.
07:59What is All Star?
08:00Also incorrect.
08:01Alex.
08:02What's Converse?
08:03We needed the company.
08:03It's Converse.
08:04Yes.
08:05Days, 1000.
08:07I'll be in Japan for Golden Week, which has four distinct holidays, including one honoring
08:12this emperor who died in 1989.
08:14Alex.
08:14Who's Hirohito?
08:15Right.
08:16Days, 800.
08:17Like the Scandinavians, I trade work for merriment on this June occasion, a national holiday
08:23in Sweden and Finland.
08:25Alex.
08:25What is Midsommar?
08:26Also a movie, yes.
08:27600.
08:28No federal holidays in August, but I'll still be unavails on August 8th, the national day
08:34of this sport in which a dink shot is a good thing.
08:37Ashley.
08:37What is Dodgeball?
08:38No.
08:40Kamau or Alex?
08:42That's National Pickleball Day.
08:44Don't forget to celebrate.
08:45Alex.
08:46Brands, 400.
08:47This brand with a foul name hatched from the earlier Van Camp Seafood.
08:52Alex.
08:53Ooh.
08:55What's Birdseye?
08:56Not Birdseye.
08:56Come out.
08:58What is Chicken of the Sea?
08:59Well done, yes.
08:59Oh, my God.
09:01All right.
09:02All right.
09:02Days, I won't be at work for 200.
09:05I'll need three days off for feasting at the end of Ramadan.
09:08Dates TBD, depending on this type of calendar used in Islam.
09:12Alex.
09:12What is a lunar calendar?
09:13It is.
09:14Days, 400.
09:16I'll be unreachable on Cinco de Mayo while celebrating Mexico's victory
09:19in the 1862 Battle of Puebla against this country's army.
09:24Ashley.
09:24What is France?
09:25France.
09:25You got it.
09:26America's 200.
09:28The port of Cristobal adjoins this other seaport on the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal.
09:36There's Cristobal and Cologne.
09:39Ashley.
09:40Brands, 200.
09:41A Teen Vogue article says this brand's vapor rub is to Hispanic grandmas what Windex was
09:47to the dad in my big fat Greek wedding.
09:49Alex.
09:49What is Vicks?
09:50Vicks vapor rub.
09:51Double 200.
09:52Add steamed milk and milk foam to espresso and you get this.
09:57Alex.
09:57What is a cappuccino?
09:58You do.
09:59Bring it.
10:00Last clue.
10:00Back to Love Island.
10:02New bombshell in the villa.
10:03He's a fertility deity said to be Hermes' son.
10:06And he's horny because he has the features of a goat.
10:09Alex.
10:10Who is Pan?
10:11Pan has the features of a goat.
10:12You're in the lead with $5,000.
10:14Ashley and Kamau tied for second place as it were.
10:16And lots of time to catch up in double jeopardy.
10:19We'll be back with that round right after this.
10:23Alex is off to a great start but scores can change very quickly in double jeopardy.
10:27Here are the categories champs.
10:29We have foreign leader firsts followed by classic TV.
10:35Chemistry.
10:36Then non-fiction to film.
10:38Some five syllable words.
10:40And finally, a silver jubilee.
10:43Ashley, you're up first.
10:44Classic TV, $800.
10:46Her theme song said,
10:48Love is all around.
10:49No need to waste it.
10:50You can have the town.
10:51Why don't you take it?
10:53Alex.
10:53Who is Mary Tyler Moore?
10:54Right.
10:55TV, $1,200.
10:57Jennifer Lopez and Carrie Ann Inaba were two of the fly girls on this sketch comedy series.
11:02Kamau.
11:02What is In Living Color?
11:03You got it.
11:04You're out of the hole.
11:05Oh, thank God.
11:06Classic TV for $400.
11:07The hot tub and the puffy shirt were popular episodes of this sitcom.
11:12Ashley.
11:13What is Seinfeld?
11:14Yes, you're out of the hole.
11:15Classic TV, $1,600.
11:17On this British import of the 1960s, John Steed and Emma Peel weren't Marvel superheroes,
11:22but secret agents extraordinaire.
11:24Kamau.
11:25What is The Avengers?
11:26You are correct.
11:27Classic TV, $2,000.
11:29Hey, hey, hey, it's the cast of this 70s sitcom.
11:32Sadly, Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking D, passed away in 2025.
11:37Kamau.
11:38What is What's Happening?
11:39Correct for $2,000.
11:40Non-fiction of film, $400.
11:42Laura Hillenbrand subtitled her book, later a movie, about this champion, an American legend.
11:48Alex.
11:50With Seabiscuit?
11:50Yes.
11:51Film, $1,200.
11:52The extraordinary story of the largest covert operation in history was the subtitle of
11:58this book that became a 2007 Tom Hanks film.
12:01Alex.
12:02What is Charlie Wilson's War?
12:03Well done.
12:04$1,600.
12:05Winona Ryder helped usher this Susanna Kaysen memoir to the big screen after suffering from
12:10anxiety attacks herself.
12:12Ashley.
12:12What is Girl Interrupted?
12:14That is the movie, yes.
12:15Non-fiction to film, $2,000.
12:17Tony Kushner's screenplay for Lincoln was based in part on a book by this baseball-loving
12:22female historian.
12:26Partly based on Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
12:29Back to you, Ashley.
12:30Non-fiction, $800.
12:32Jessica Bruder's book about life on the road was the basis for this film that earned
12:36Oscars for Chloe Zhao and Frances McDormand.
12:39Alex.
12:40What is Nomadland?
12:41You are correct.
12:42Silver Jubilee, $1,200.
12:43The Free Silver Movement gained political strength in the late 19th century and nominated this
12:48man as its presidential candidate in 1896.
12:51Alex.
12:52Who is William Jennings Bryan?
12:54Correct.
12:54Foreign leader first, $1,200.
12:56In 2023, this country elected Edgars Rinkovich as the EU's first openly gay president.
13:03Ashley.
13:04Who is Latvia?
13:04Well done.
13:06Foreign leader, $1,600.
13:08Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of this new country, the first in sub-Saharan Africa
13:13to gain independence from colonial rule.
13:15Alex.
13:16Was Ghana?
13:17Yes.
13:18Foreign leader, $800.
13:20This Pakistani prime minister was the first elected head of state to give birth while in
13:24office.
13:24It was a girl.
13:26Ashley.
13:26Who's Butoh?
13:27That's right.
13:28Foreign leader, $2,000.
13:30As the first black head of state in the Americas, he made Haiti the first country to permanently
13:35abolish slavery.
13:39And that's Jean-Jacques de Salines.
13:41Back to Ashley.
13:42Foreign leader, $400.
13:44He's the first French president to have been born after the death of Charles de Gaulle.
13:51Sitting president, Emmanuel Macron.
13:53Back to Ashley.
13:54Silver Jubilee, $1,600.
13:56In literature, he sacrifices his chance to win the silver skates, allowing his friend Peter
14:00to win instead.
14:02Ashley.
14:02Who's Hans Brinker?
14:03Good.
14:04Silver Jubilee, $2,000.
14:06Sounding like a name befitting an emperor, this silver coin of ancient Rome was so called
14:11because it was equal to 10 asses.
14:13Come out.
14:14What is a Caesar?
14:15No.
14:16Ashley or Alex?
14:18It's called the Denarius.
14:20Ashley.
14:21Silver Jubilee, $800.
14:23Silver Salmon is another name for this four-letter species.
14:27Alex.
14:28What is Coho?
14:29Correct.
14:29Five syllable, $16.
14:31Answer.
14:31A daily double for you, Alex.
14:37How confident are you with five-syllable words?
14:39They're pretty long.
14:40You have $11,800 to wager.
14:42Let's go $3,000.
14:43All right.
14:43$3,000 at stake in five-syllable words.
14:46Here's your clue.
14:47This adjective describes something worldwide in extent, or means representing every church.
14:58Alex?
14:59What is Unitarian?
15:00Sorry, no.
15:01Ecumenical.
15:02Ah.
15:02What is ecumenical?
15:03So the game gets a little closer.
15:04You're down to $8,800.
15:06Chemistry, $12.
15:07Answer.
15:08The other daily double.
15:13Same situation, a little less to wager, Alex.
15:16A little less.
15:16$2,000.
15:17Okay.
15:17With $2,000 at stake, going for $10,800 in chemistry.
15:22S, P, D, and F are used to designate the shapes of these, the regions around an atom's nucleus where
15:28its electrons tend to be found.
15:32What is valence?
15:33No, sorry.
15:35Those are the orbitals.
15:36Ugh.
15:37All right.
15:37So $6,800 now.
15:38A tighter game.
15:39Select, Alex.
15:40Chemistry, $16.
15:41The last member of the actinide series is named for this earnest man who invented the cyclotron.
15:47Alex?
15:47Who's Rutherford?
15:48No.
15:49Oh.
15:50Ashley or Kamau?
15:52There's another earnest.
15:53It's Ernest Lawrence.
15:54Ah.
15:55Alex?
15:55Chemistry, $400.
15:57Time to step on this scale that measures relative alkalinity.
16:00A peat bog goes as low as three, so no skinny dipping.
16:04Alex?
16:04It's a pH scale.
16:05That's the scale.
16:06Chemistry, $2,000.
16:07This process, named for one or two Germans, depending how you say it, is the main industrial method to make
16:13ammonia and fix nitrogen.
16:18What is the Haber process, or Haber-Bosch?
16:20Alex?
16:21Five syllable, $1,200.
16:22A common term in algebra, it can have varying numbers of elements.
16:27Alex?
16:30Oh.
16:31What's quadratic?
16:32No.
16:33Ashley or Kamau?
16:34Wow.
16:35The five-syllable response, polynomial.
16:38Back to Alex.
16:39Five syllable, $800.
16:41We're giving you the first degree.
16:42This one, a bachelor's from a college.
16:45Alex?
16:46What is baccalaureate?
16:47Right.
16:47$2,000.
16:48They're preliminary observations.
16:51In 1783, Kant wrote some to any future metaphysics.
16:58Very tough response.
16:59What are prolegomena?
17:00Of course.
17:02Of course.
17:02Come out on the tip of his tongue.
17:04No.
17:05Just three left, Alex.
17:06Chemistry, $800.
17:08Announced in September 2025, the iPhone Air has a frame mainly of this durable element, with a name derived from
17:15the Greek myths.
17:16Alex?
17:16What is titanium?
17:17That's right, you're back in the lead.
17:19Five-syllable, 400.
17:20Oh, the perfidiousness.
17:22It's from the Latin for unfaithfulness.
17:27What is infidelity?
17:29Final clue, from a silver jubilee.
17:32A Spanish diminutive of silver gives us the name of this precious silvery metal.
17:37Alex?
17:37What is platinum?
17:38Yes, plata in Spanish.
17:40So you wind up with a $1,000 lead over Ashley as we head into Final Jeopardy, Kamau in third.
17:44Here is your category, players.
17:4718th century arts.
17:48Consider it carefully, make your wagers, and we'll come back with the clue.
17:51Stay tuned.
17:53In Final Jeopardy, our champions today are dealing with 18th century arts.
17:58Here's the clue.
18:00A word book for the London premiere of this work began with the quote,
18:04Majora Canemis, let us sing of greater things.
18:0830 seconds.
18:08Good luck.
18:09The End
18:39We'll begin in the middle with W. Kamau,
18:41Bell, $2,600, and he wrote down three people who have never been in my kitchen.
18:46Yes, yes, yes.
18:47There we go. The Cliff Clavin shout out. We love it. How much did you wager, Kamau?
18:51Not a penny, so you still have $2,600. Ashley Chan was in second place with $5,400.
18:57What did she write down? I was glad to be back.
19:01I was glad.
19:02You were just glad in general.
19:03Yeah.
19:03I love it. Not correct, unfortunately. You wagered $1,002, leaving you with $4,398.
19:10Alex DeFrank had the lead with $6,400. He wrote down, what is water music?
19:16You have the right composer. It is Handel, but in fact, this is from the premiere of his Messiah.
19:21The word book with the words to the Messiah.
19:24So it all comes down to your wager, Alex.
19:25You bet. $4,401 takes you down to $1,999.
19:29It means Ashley Chan comes from second place and just made the semifinals.
19:34Congratulations, Ashley.
19:38How about that?
19:39The quarterfinals looking to you tomorrow right here.
19:42We'll see you then.
19:58You
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