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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 24: 2026 Tournament of Champions Final Game 2
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00:02From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions!
00:14Please welcome back the finalists. A marketing specialist from San Francisco, California, T.J. Fisher.
00:23A puzzle writer, originally from San Diego, California, Paolo Pasco.
00:30And an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey, Scott Riccardi.
00:36And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings!
00:43Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. And welcome back to the finals of the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
00:48In Friday's Game 1, it was Paolo Pasco who found both daily doubles in the double Jeopardy! round
00:53and bet big to clinch the runaway victory.
00:56But remember, three wins are required to win this tournament, so there is plenty of opportunity left for Scott and
01:02T.J.
01:03Good luck to the three finalists. Let's see what your categories are today in the Jeopardy! round as we enter
01:08Game 2.
01:09First up, let's see some ID. Looking at you, Paolo.
01:13Then we have On the Endangered and Threatened list. Cover songs. Back in the USSR. Followed by Bags. And then
01:24we have Words of Mouth. Scott, start us off.
01:27Back in the USSR for 1,000.
01:30Convicted in a show trial and executed in 1938, Nikolai Bukharin had been the editor of Pravda
01:36and this other Soviet newspaper. Paolo?
01:40What is Izvestia? You got it.
01:42Bags for 800?
01:44Bags is the first single off of this singer-songwriter's 2019 album, Immunity. Paolo?
01:49Who is Clairo? It is Clairo.
01:51Words of Mouth, 800?
01:52Answer. Another Daily Double for you.
01:58You have 1,800 to risk. The category is Words of Mouth. What do you think?
02:01Uh, let's risk that 1,800.
02:03Okay, going for 3,600 then. Here is your clue.
02:07A World War II ad campaign warned Americans about the risks of giving info to the enemy,
02:12leading to this four-word rhyming slogan.
02:15What is Loose Lips Sink Ships?
02:17That was the slogan.
02:19You now have $3,600. Select again.
02:23Uh, Words of Mouth for 1,000.
02:25You are acting very cool, but you're insincere if this won't happen.
02:30It was already a saying back in the 1540s.
02:33TJ?
02:34What is paying lip service?
02:36No.
02:37Scott or Paolo?
02:40That saying? Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth. Back to Paolo.
02:44Cover songs for a six.
02:46This genre-crossing 2024 album included the cover of the Beatles' Blackbird.
02:51Paolo?
02:51What is Cowboy Carter?
02:53By Beyoncé, yes.
02:54Cover songs 800.
02:56Jeff Buckley and Andrea Bocelli are among the many who have covered this tune.
03:00Leonard Cohen's magnum opus.
03:02TJ?
03:03What is Hallelujah?
03:04Yes.
03:05Endangered and Threatened for six.
03:07A member of the weasel family.
03:09The black-footed this.
03:11TJ?
03:11What is a stoat?
03:12It is not a stoat.
03:14Paolo?
03:14What is ermine?
03:15Also not an ermine.
03:17Scott's gonna try.
03:18What's a ferret?
03:18It is a ferret.
03:19You're on the board.
03:20Cover songs for 1,000.
03:21A Rolling Stone readers poll ranked Jimi Hendrix's version of this Bob Dylan song as the greatest cover ever.
03:27TJ?
03:28What is war?
03:29No.
03:30Scott?
03:31What is all along the watchtower?
03:32That's correct for 1,000.
03:33Endangered and Threatened for 1,000.
03:35This double-talked species of lemur.
03:38Paolo?
03:39What is the aye-aye?
03:40It is the aye-aye.
03:41Back in the USSR for eight.
03:43This landlocked Central Asian Soviet Republic was the last to formally declare independence
03:48before the USSR was dissolved in 1991.
03:51TJ?
03:53What is Azerbaijan?
03:55No.
03:55No.
03:56Scott or Paolo?
03:58What is Kazakhstan?
04:00Back to Paolo.
04:00Uh, let's see some ID for six.
04:03Many websites and applications now require a secondary layer of ID, abbreviated 2FA, standing for this.
04:10Paolo?
04:10What is two-factor authentication?
04:12Yes.
04:13Uh, ID for eight.
04:15A 1920 League of Nations conference on these documents recommended they should measure six
04:19and one-eighth by four and one-eighth inches.
04:22TJ?
04:23What are passports?
04:24Yes.
04:25Bags for six.
04:27The 1990s saw a rise in popularity of this crossbody bag with a name that honors the bicycle
04:32couriers who used them.
04:33Scott?
04:34What is a messenger bag?
04:35Good.
04:36Bags for 1,000.
04:37Bags from this fashion house include the popular hug bag and the Fiamma, named for founder Salvatore's
04:46daughter.
04:46That would be Salvatore Ferragamo.
04:49Scott, back to you.
04:50Words of mouth, 600.
04:51In Waking Up in Vegas, Katy Perry sings,
04:54shut up and do this, meaning it's time to stop talking and act.
04:59Paolo?
04:59What is put your money where your mouth is?
05:01That is correct, Paolo, taking you to 5,800 and taking us to our first break.
05:05But the Tournament of Champions will continue right after this.
05:10TJ Fisher is from San Francisco.
05:12He's a marketing specialist.
05:13And TJ, I understand you've been trying some unusual, what should we say, supplements in
05:17your journey back to Jeopardy?
05:19Yes.
05:19The state drink of Maine is a soda called Moxie, which has been around since 1884 and
05:24was originally sold as a patent medicine.
05:26And I thought that I would try it during training because it's not clear to me how well it's working
05:31at this moment, but it is supposed to prevent against such ailments as nervousness,
05:37imbecility, softening of the brain, hysteria.
05:39I could go on.
05:40Somebody sent me a case of it once and I don't want to insult anybody in Maine,
05:43but it's an acquired taste, should we say?
05:46That's fair.
05:47I've been accused of being an acquired taste myself.
05:53Paolo Pasco is a puzzle writer originally from San Diego.
05:56And you were posted on the Instagram page of a place you've never been.
06:01Why?
06:01Yeah, I was tagged in a post by the Pasco County School District.
06:05No relation.
06:06I have not set foot in Florida ever, but they saw it and they saw that my name was their
06:11name.
06:12So I made the grid.
06:13There's a Pasco in Washington as well.
06:15You could come visit that one too, right?
06:16I would love to.
06:17Do a Pasco tour.
06:18Scott Riccardi is an engineer originally from Somerville, New Jersey.
06:22Scott, during your run, you mentioned several times that you wanted to buy a marimba
06:26with your winnings.
06:27What's new with your marimba journey?
06:29So I have yet to actually get one because it's a bit of a...
06:31Scott!
06:33You had one job.
06:34It's a bit of a logistical challenge.
06:36They're pretty big.
06:36They're pretty heavy.
06:37I'm sorry to let you down.
06:38But what I was surprised is that when you mentioned it on the show,
06:41a bunch of marimba companies just started messaging me,
06:44all, uh, you know, looking for me to potentially get one from them.
06:47But nobody offered to send you a free one.
06:49No, there was talk of a factory tour.
06:50So I mean, you know...
06:51Oh, marimba factory tour.
06:52I love it.
06:53You're like the Charlie Bucket of marimba factories.
06:56Apollo, it's your board.
06:58Select.
06:58Uh, on the endangered and threatened list for 800.
07:02Sadly, hunted for their meat and hides, this mammal of the Americas.
07:06Scott.
07:06What's a tapir?
07:07It is.
07:08ID for 1,000.
07:10Various types of this card all carry a name and number.
07:13One says valid for work only with DHS authorization.
07:17TJ.
07:18What are green cards?
07:20No.
07:21Scott.
07:21What is a visa?
07:22Also incorrect.
07:24Hello?
07:25Not gonna try it.
07:26That's a social security card.
07:28Back to you, Scott.
07:29USSR 600.
07:31This 1939 pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany to refrain from mutual hostility
07:36was concluded mere days before World War II began.
07:40TJ.
07:40What is Molotov-Ribbentrop?
07:43That's right.
07:43The non-aggression pact.
07:45Bags for four?
07:46These toiletry bags for men are named for a German leather goods maker
07:50from the early 20th century.
07:52TJ.
07:52What are dop kits?
07:54It is a dop kit.
07:55Bags for two?
07:56In the 1950s, Harry Wazielick and Larry Hanson developed polyethylene trash bags
08:01now sold under this four-letter brand.
08:04Paolo.
08:05What is GLAAD?
08:06Right.
08:07Let's see some ID for 400.
08:09If you're over 18 and have U.S. permanent resident status, you're required to carry this
08:13with you at all times.
08:15TJ.
08:15What is a green card?
08:16Yes, now it's a green card.
08:17Fun.
08:18Cover songs for four, please.
08:20Indie rock darling Lucy Dacus wowed fans with a dreamy cover of this 90s share smash.
08:25Scott.
08:26What is Believe?
08:27That's the song.
08:28USSR 400.
08:28At about 2.5 million, this city was the most populous Soviet city not in Russia at the time
08:34of the USSR's end.
08:39That was Kyiv, now Kyiv.
08:41Back to Scott.
08:42Endangered and threatened for 400.
08:44Manatees and this sea cow cousin of the Indian and South Pacific Oceans.
08:49Paolo.
08:50What is dugong?
08:50That's correct.
08:51Words of mouth for 400.
08:53Two body parts are involved in this expression that means ironic or flippant.
08:57Paolo.
08:58What is tongue in cheek?
08:59Good.
09:00Endangered and threatened for 200.
09:03Several subspecies of this pocket rodent, including the Olympia and Roy Prairie.
09:07Scott.
09:08What's a gopher?
09:09That is right.
09:09Words of mouth 200.
09:11This way of saying someone has gotten old is a reference to horses receding gum lines.
09:16Scott.
09:16What is long in the teeth?
09:17Long the tooth?
09:18Yes.
09:18Back in the USSR for 200.
09:20By invading Afghanistan, forcing a boycott, the Soviets denied themselves
09:24seeing Tracy Calkins swim in this city in 1980.
09:28Scott.
09:28What is Los Angeles?
09:31No.
09:32TJ.
09:33What is Mexico City?
09:35Also incorrect.
09:37Allos shaking his head.
09:38LA was 84.
09:39This is Moscow.
09:40Scott, two clues left.
09:42Cover songs 200.
09:43Cover Me is an album of covers of songs written by him, like For You and Atlantic City,
09:48though oddly, not Cover Me.
09:53Those are Springsteen songs.
09:55And one more time, you three, let's see some ID.
09:58A 2005 act of Congress mandated the adoption of this.
10:01TSA began asking for it in May 2025.
10:05TJ.
10:05What is Real ID?
10:06Real ID is right.
10:07You're getting closer and closer to positive territory, TJ.
10:10You'll select first when we come back with Double Jeopardy in a moment.
10:15Howell has started a stronger game, too.
10:17But Double Jeopardy is where the scores can really change.
10:19Here are the categories.
10:21We have, oh, before, during, and after.
10:23TOC favorite.
10:25Then, odd political terms.
10:27Followed by, that's a long title.
10:29U.S. geography.
10:31There are spies in my TV.
10:34Alarming.
10:34And finally, as Black History Month begins, we have African-American trailblazers.
10:38TJ.
10:39African-American trailblazers for 12.
10:42The first African-American woman to serve in Congress,
10:45she represented the Brooklyn District in the House from 1969 to 1983.
10:49Paolo.
10:50It was Chisholm.
10:51It is Shirley Chisholm.
10:52Before, during, and after for 16.
10:54Answer.
10:55Beely double, Paolo.
11:00How do you feel about these before, during, and afters?
11:03What do you want to wager?
11:04Uh, let's wager 8,000.
11:05Okay.
11:09He will have 16,000 if he's right.
11:11Here's the clue.
11:12Before, during, and after.
11:14Pie scene entry in a Douglas Adams sci-fi series that's in an unusual or uncomfortable situation
11:19listening to a handle suite.
11:22What is so long and thanks for all the fish out of water music.
11:25That is a mouthful, but it is correct.
11:30You at $8,000, Paolo?
11:32Where to now?
11:33Uh, a long title for 12.
11:35Answer.
11:37Back to back.
11:39The other daily double.
11:41You just doubled up, Paolo.
11:42Are you considering doing it again?
11:44Not in the slightest.
11:46Uh, 6,000, please.
11:48All right.
11:4922,000 and a big lead will be yours if you're right.
11:51That's a long title.
11:53This swift title continues,
11:55for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents.
12:00What is a modest proposal?
12:01That is the work.
12:04Taking you to 22,000.
12:06A lot of money on the board left, though.
12:08This is not over.
12:09Uh, before, during, and after for 2,000.
12:11Frontier's Woman of Yore stars on a TV series where a woman is accidentally inseminated
12:16and joins Eugenides' literary Lisbon sisters.
12:24Very complicated.
12:25What is Calamity Jane the Virgin's Suicides?
12:28Back to you, Paolo.
12:29Before, during, and after for 12.
12:31Intense equine leg pain that's slang for a western movie where you wear small binoculars.
12:37Paolo?
12:37What is Charlie Horse Opera House?
12:40No.
12:40Opera Box?
12:42What is Charlie Horse Opera Glasses?
12:45Opera Glasses.
12:46Those are the small binoculars.
12:47Political terms for 12.
12:50Journalist Michael Kinsley wrote that a gaff is when a politician inadvertently tells this.
12:55Paolo?
12:56What is the truth?
12:57Right.
12:57Uh, that's a long title for 16.
13:00And Tozaki Shange won an Obie Award and moved to Broadway with
13:04for colored girls who have considered suicide when this is enough.
13:08Paolo?
13:09What is the rainbow?
13:09When the rainbow is enough, right.
13:11Long title for 2,000.
13:12With a few revisions, Mark Twain's Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog became more celebrated under this title.
13:18T.J.
13:19What is the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County?
13:23Correct.
13:23And you're out of the hole.
13:24Thank goodness.
13:25Uh, geography for 12.
13:27Home to alpine lakes and spectacular scenery, this range of the Rockies in central Idaho is named for its jagged
13:33peaks.
13:33Scott?
13:34What is the sawtooth?
13:35What is the sawtooth?
13:36Geography, 1600.
13:38Pottsville and Reading both lie on this river that enters the Delaware at Philadelphia.
13:42T.J.
13:43What is the Lackawanna?
13:45No.
13:46Scott?
13:47What's the Skulkel?
13:48Skulkel?
13:49Yes, the Skulkel.
14:17Skulkel?
14:18What is the Skulkel with this portmanteau?
14:19It's when companies offer less product, like fewer chips.
14:23Paolo?
14:24What is Shrinkflation?
14:26That's it for 2,000.
14:27Spies on My TV for 16.
14:29Also a novel and 70s film, this streaming series co-stars Lashana Lynch as a British spy
14:35playing dog and mouse with Eddie Redmayne.
14:37Scott?
14:38What is the Day of the Jackal?
14:39That's right.
14:40Spies on My TV, 2000.
14:42A flatulent Gary Oldman leads the ragtag spies of slow horses from this MI5 building.
14:47their unsavory base of operations.
14:50Paolo?
14:50What is Slough House?
14:51Another 2,000.
14:53African-American Trailblazers, 16.
14:55This dancer and choreographer provided the platform for other black dancers
14:59with the founding of his American dance theater.
15:01Paolo?
15:02Who is Ailey?
15:02It is.
15:03Trailblazers, 2000.
15:05Tennis great Arthur Ashe once said he wouldn't have had the chance to do what he'd been able to do
15:09if she hadn't blazed a trail.
15:11T.J.
15:12Who is Althea Gibson?
15:13It is.
15:14Trailblazers for eight.
15:15Real first and middle names Edward Kennedy.
15:18He was one of the most recorded jazz artists of all time.
15:21T.J.
15:22Who is Duke Ellington?
15:23That's right.
15:23Trailblazers for four.
15:25For his work in the preservation of plasma, Dr. Charles Drew is known as the father of
15:29this type of storage place.
15:31T.J.
15:32What is The Blood Bank?
15:33Right again.
15:33Spies for 12.
15:34He was beloved as Bunk Moorland on The Wire before doing four seasons as James Greer,
15:39the loyal field boss and co-spy of Jack Ryan.
15:45Bunk was the great Wendell Pierce.
15:47T.J.?
15:48Geography for eight.
15:50This Michigan resort island was once the headquarters of John Jacob Astor's American
15:54Fur Company.
15:55T.J.
15:56What is Mackinac?
15:56Mackinac is right.
15:57Mackinac.
15:58Geography.
15:59Sorry, Michigan.
16:00Geography four, please.
16:01You don't have to watch MTV to know that this coastal region stretches 130 miles from
16:07Sandy Hook to Cape May.
16:08T.J.?
16:09What is The Jersey Shore?
16:10Right.
16:10Spies for eight.
16:12Taylor Sheridan's female-focused CIA series starring Zoe Saldana has this she-beast in
16:17the title.
16:18Scott.
16:19What is Lioness?
16:20Right.
16:20Odd Political Terms 800.
16:22Britannica calls Rachel Maddow a policy this word.
16:26Add a Y to the end and the word becomes off-kilter.
16:29T.J.?
16:30What is a wonk?
16:30Policy wonk.
16:31Right.
16:32Politics for four.
16:33A 19th century redistricting map in Massachusetts resembling a certain
16:37amphibian helped create this portmanteau.
16:40Paolo.
16:41What is gerrymandering?
16:42Right.
16:42Long title for eight.
16:44At seven words, the short happy life of Francis McComber ties for this laconic man's
16:49longest story title.
16:51T.J.?
16:51Who is Washington Irving?
16:53No.
16:54Paolo.
16:55Who is Hemingway?
16:55That's it.
16:56Before, during, and after for eight.
16:58Novel featuring Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and the actress who played a Downton Dowager
17:03whilst packing a .357 Magnum.
17:06Paolo.
17:07What is the hunchback of Notre Dame Maggie Smith and Wesson?
17:09That's right.
17:12Spies on my TV for four.
17:14The 2018 finale of this series was titled Start, like the 1980s arms control negotiations
17:20between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
17:22Scott.
17:23What is the Americans?
17:24Right.
17:24Before, during, and after 400.
17:27Storybook Fowl and her precious ova become a breakfast dish
17:30for the man who played Alan Turing on film.
17:35What is the goose that laid the golden eggs, Benedict Cumberbatch?
17:40One more clue.
17:41Appropriately enough, that's a long title.
17:43The life and strange surprising adventures of him of York, Mariner,
17:47who lived eight and 20 years all alone, keeps going.
17:53Mariner of York is Robinson Crusoe.
17:56Paolo did it again.
17:57Found the Daily Doubles has 31,200 heading into Final Jeopardy.
18:01Here's your category, finalists.
18:03American Artists.
18:04We'll come back with the clue as soon as the wagers are in.
18:07Don't you go anywhere.
18:10American Artists is our Final Jeopardy category today.
18:13Here's the clue.
18:15His 1967 New York Times obituary called him a painter of loneliness.
18:2130 seconds.
18:22Good luck.
18:52Let's begin with T.J. Fisher, who has $4,600 at the moment.
18:56And his response was, who was Hopper?
18:59Yes, Edward Hopper, the painter of lonely canvases like Nighthawks.
19:03What did you wager, T.J.?
19:04You'll add $3,177, moving you, wow, to an even lucky 7777.
19:09Scott Riccardi's in second place with $9,800.
19:12Did he think of Edward Hopper?
19:14He got it as well.
19:15He wagered $0, so you still have $9,800.
19:19But Paolo Pascow, all three daily doubles in this game, he finishes up with $31,200.
19:25Does he have Edward Hopper?
19:26He's right.
19:27What did he wager?
19:29$11,05, giving him a total today of $32,305.
19:33I'm putting a second check mark in front of him.
19:37Two wins for Paolo so far in these finals.
19:39Scott and T.J. have yet to notch a win.
19:42So Scott and T.J. are facing must-win territory in tomorrow's game.
19:46We'll see you then.
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