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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 27: 2026 Invitational Tournament Quarterfinal Game 2
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00:02From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:14Please welcome today's past champion, a librarian from Portland, Oregon, Veronica Vichit-Batican.
00:23An appliance scientist, originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Roger Craig.
00:30And a meteorologist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Eric Ahasek.
00:37And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:44Thanks, everyone. Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. And welcome back to the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:49Yesterday's first quarterfinal matchup was won by our reigning JIT champion, Matt Amodio, who advances to the semis.
00:55Today, Eric, Roger, and Veronica have returned to the Alex Rebeck stage, hoping to advance to the semifinals either by
01:01winning or by claiming one of our wildcard spots for our top three scores among non-winners.
01:06Good luck, champions. Let's play Jeopardy!, shall we? With these categories in the first round.
01:12We begin with ports of call. Then we have non-fiction. Some modern tech. Then blank and blank. The hand
01:22I've been dealt. And finally, filler up. P-H-I-L. Eric, where to first?
01:28I'll do ports of call for 600.
01:30A West Indies capital on the Gulf of Paria isn't port of Trinidad or port of Tobago, but port of
01:36this. Eric.
01:38What is port of Spain? Yes.
01:39Ports of call, 800.
01:41The Suzhou and Huangpu rivers flow through this, the world's busiest container port. Eric.
01:47What is Guangzhou? No. Roger.
01:50What is Shanghai? That's the port.
01:52The hand I've been dealt, 1,000.
01:53In Gin Rummy, after you've formed as many melds or card combos as possible, what's left in your hand is
02:00called this, like an HBO series. Roger.
02:03What is Leftovers?
02:05No. That's a good guess, though. Erica Veronica?
02:09Wrong HBO show. Deadwood is the correct response here. Back to you, Roger.
02:13Hand I've been dealt, 800.
02:15In Texas Hold'em, this starting hand, known as Big Slick, has great potential if played correctly. Roger.
02:22What is Ace King?
02:23Right.
02:24Hand I've been dealt, 600.
02:26Paddle steamers on the Mississippi were lively 19th century gambling spots, which may explain this other name for a full
02:33house. Roger.
02:34What is Boat or Full Boat?
02:36That's right.
02:37Modern Tech, 1,000.
02:39This mathematician and Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy popularized the word bug to describe unexplained computer problems. Roger.
02:47Who is Hopper?
02:48Admiral Grace Hopper, right.
02:50Modern Tech, 800.
02:52Alan Cormack shared a Nobel Prize for co-inventing this imaging technique. Many folks intro to the word tomography. Roger.
03:00What is CT or CAT scan?
03:02Yes.
03:03Ports of call, 1,000.
03:05With a population of less than 10,000, this southeastern Alaska port serves more than a million cruise passengers annually.
03:12Eric.
03:13What is Ketchikan?
03:14Correct. You're out of the hole.
03:15Non-fiction sits, please.
03:18The beast in the clouds tells of two of Teddy Roosevelt's sons and their successful search for this animal in
03:23the Himalayas. Roger.
03:26What is Yeti?
03:28No. Veronica.
03:30What's a yak?
03:31Also not a yak.
03:33Eric.
03:34What a scoop it would be if the Roosevelt's found the Yeti, but I'm afraid it was a giant panda.
03:39Back to you, Eric.
03:41Non-fiction 8.
03:43Pyramid schemes and the business model called MLM, short for this, are exposed in little bosses everywhere. Veronica.
03:50What's multi-level marketing?
03:52Right.
03:53Non-fiction for 1,000.
03:54A modern classic, Quiet told us of the power of these in a world that can't stop talking. Veronica.
04:01What's introverts?
04:02The power of introverts, right.
04:04Blank and blank for 600.
04:05You're taking too long to make a decision with this phrase that mentions a clothing border.
04:10Eric.
04:11What is hem and haw?
04:12Correct.
04:13Ports of call, 400.
04:15It's eight miles and about a 30-euro cab ride from Dunlera Harbor into the heart of this city.
04:21Roger.
04:21What is Dublin?
04:23That's the city.
04:24Blank and blank, 800.
04:26Answer there is a daily double for you, Roger.
04:30You have twice, Eric, score in second place. How big do you want to go about blank and blank?
04:352,800.
04:36True daily double. You'll have 5,600 if you're right. Here's your clue, Roger.
04:41Involving two elements of the magician's art, this idiom is used to describe a situation of deception.
04:54What is cloak and dagger?
04:56No.
04:57I'm afraid magicians are more at home with smoke and mirrors.
05:00Smoke and mirrors.
05:00Smoke and mirrors.
05:01You lose 2,800, but it's still in the early going.
05:04Nice close game as we hit our first break.
05:06Back with more Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament action after this.
05:11Veronica Vichabatigan is back with us from Oregon.
05:13A four-day champion, third place in your Tournament of Champions, and you were the alternate for this tournament last
05:19year.
05:19That's right.
05:19Happy to have you on the stage this time.
05:21What have you been up to since your Jeopardy! appearances?
05:23Well, as you know, one of the best things about being a Jeopardy! champ or being on Jeopardy! at all
05:28is that you get to hang out with other Jeopardy! players.
05:30Right.
05:30So we have an awesome Jeopardy! crew who plays bar trivia up in Portland, and they started an online trivia
05:38league with some other Jeopardy! players.
05:40It's called Quizzing in Progress.
05:42But the best part is that our mascot is a Quokka, probably the most underappreciated marsupial of Australia.
05:50You heard it here first, the underappreciated Quokka.
05:53Thank you for that representation, Veronica.
05:55Roger Craig is back, a six-game champion, a TOC winner.
05:58You've been a Jeopardy! master.
06:00You're married to Julia Collins, another all-time Jeopardy! great.
06:03And yet, here you are in JIT two years in a row.
06:06When do we get Julia, Roger?
06:07Yeah, we both would have loved to have come, but only one of us could make it.
06:11So we did a little Rock, Paper, Scissors, Rochambeau.
06:15Is that right?
06:15And I came out on top there.
06:17So every year, you leave it up to chance.
06:20We're going to have to wait until Julia wins a game of Rock, Scissors, Paper.
06:23I think, yeah, the next time she's invited, she will love to see you again, Ken.
06:28That's great. Well, we're always happy to have one of you.
06:30Thanks for being back here.
06:32Eric Ahasek is with us from Minneapolis.
06:34You're a six-time champ from Season 38, a semifinalist in your Tournament of Champions.
06:39What have you been up to since we saw you last?
06:40So my lovely wife, Kaylee, and I, we actually had a baby boy about a year ago.
06:45Hey, congratulations.
06:46Thank you, Ken.
06:47His name's Theo, and it's been really fun to, you know, see him grow up, see his personality,
06:52but also love to read to him every night.
06:53And one of my worst categories in my original run was children's literature, nursery rhymes.
06:58So being able to read to him all these classic books, you know, over the last year,
07:02hopefully I'm able to pick up a couple things.
07:04So just to be clear, you two decided to have a child just so you could be better at children's
07:07literature?
07:07Is that what I'm hearing?
07:09We'll leave it up to her.
07:11We'll see if it works out for you.
07:13Roger, make a selection for us.
07:14Um, blank and blank, 1,000.
07:17Trees are knocked down and lit up in this agricultural term.
07:21Eric.
07:22What is slash and burn?
07:23That's 1,000 for you.
07:24Modern text, 600.
07:26Abbreviated PV, these cells convert solar into electrical energy using layers of semiconductors.
07:33Veronica.
07:33What is photovoltaic?
07:35Yes.
07:36Uh, fill her up for 200.
07:38He's actually a natural righty, even though he plays lefty.
07:42Eric.
07:42Who is Mickelson?
07:43That's Phil Mickelson.
07:44Phil, 400.
07:45He's the pioneering talk show host seen here.
07:49Veronica.
07:49Who's Donahue.
07:50Yeah.
07:51Phil, 600.
07:52Thanks to the Concord, this drummer slash singer was the only person to perform at both Live Aid concerts on
07:59July 13th, 1985.
08:01Veronica.
08:02Who's Collins.
08:03Phil Collins is right.
08:04800, Phil.
08:05This Miami Vice actor coined the acronym EGOT, hoping to achieve the feat within five years.
08:12Veronica.
08:12Who's Philip Michael Vincent.
08:14No.
08:15Roger.
08:15Who is Philip Michael Thomas.
08:17That's right.
08:17Philip Michael Thomas, still working on that EGOT.
08:19Veronica, so close, but you were thinking of the late Jan Michael Vincent, I think.
08:23Roger.
08:24Fill her up 1000.
08:26Fill her up could have been the title of the series Somebody Feed Phil, starring this Everybody Loves Raymond producer.
08:35His name is Phil Rosenthal.
08:37Roger, select.
08:38Ports of call 200.
08:39You can take a water taxi from Marco Polo Airport to the cruise terminals at this city's port.
08:45Roger.
08:46What is Venice?
08:47Yes.
08:48Nonfiction 200.
08:49We the People is Jill Lepore's history of this document.
08:53Veronica.
08:53What's the U.S. Constitution?
08:55Of course.
08:56Nonfiction 400.
08:57The subtitle of The Stolen Crown mentions the death of this English dynasty that ended with Elizabeth I.
09:04Roger.
09:04What is Tudor?
09:05You got it.
09:06Modern Tech 200.
09:07The original limit for a tweet on Twitter was this many characters.
09:12Veronica.
09:13Which 140?
09:14Yes.
09:15Modern Tech 400.
09:16In 2012's U.S. v. Jones, the Supreme Court said cops need a warrant to attach one of these tracking
09:22devices to a suspect's car.
09:25Roger.
09:25What is a GPS tracking device?
09:27Yes.
09:28Blank and blank 200.
09:30Meaning essential, this also refers to two essential components of a good hash recipe.
09:35Eric.
09:36What are meat and potatoes?
09:37You need meat and potatoes.
09:38Yeah.
09:39Blank and blank 400.
09:40The bakers at Thomas's tout these features of their English muffins.
09:45Veronica.
09:45What are nooks and crannies?
09:46Correct.
09:47A hand for 200.
09:49It's the best Texas hold'em call you can make here.
09:53Roger.
09:54What is straight?
09:55Buzz without knowing and got it right, yes.
09:58Final clue.
09:59I'm at the blackjack table and I've got ace six, AKA this two-word flexible amount.
10:05Hit me.
10:06Roger.
10:06What is a soft 17?
10:08It is a soft 17.
10:10Yes, you've come back from the Daily Double Miss and we've got a great game.
10:13Double Jeopardy coming up next if you won't want to miss it.
10:16Roger Craig is one of the all-time Jeopardy greats, but he's in third at the moment.
10:20He'll select first in Double Jeopardy.
10:22The categories are first, traveling back to France in the 1600s.
10:26Then, further still, for creatures from myth, we have Notable Names, A Perfect Ten, their
10:34last film, and finally, hey, we're building words over here.
10:39Roger.
10:40Notable Names, 2000.
10:42Much of what we know about Italian Renaissance artists comes from his Lives of Painters, Sculptors,
10:48and Architects.
10:49Roger.
10:51Who is Ruskin?
10:53No.
10:55Eric or Veronica?
10:58Vasari.
10:58Who is Vasari?
10:59Came to rise or too late.
11:00Okay, sorry.
11:01Creatures from myth, 1600.
11:04Scottish lore tells of this creature that takes the form of a seal in the water and a
11:08human on land.
11:09Veronica.
11:10What's a silky?
11:11That's right.
11:12Let's do their last film for 400.
11:15Of this actor's swan song in Top Gun Maverick, the New York Times wrote, you can feel the weight
11:20of his legacy.
11:21Eric.
11:22Who is Tom Cruise?
11:23No.
11:24Roger.
11:25Who is Kilmer?
11:25Val Kilmer's last film.
11:27Their last film, 2000.
11:29Heath Ledger's final work was with this auteur director, playing an amnesiac in The Imaginarium
11:34of Dr. Parnassus.
11:36Veronica.
11:37Who's Gilliam?
11:38Good for 2000.
11:39Their last film, 16.
11:41Audrey Hepburn's last role was a cameo as an angel in this often overlooked Spielberg film
11:46about aerial firefighters.
11:48Veronica.
11:48It's Dogfight?
11:50No.
11:51Roger.
11:52What is Always?
11:53Always is the movie.
11:54Very good.
11:55France in the 1600s, 2000.
11:57Following in the footsteps of Richelieu, this cardinal served as first minister to the government
12:02from 1642 to 1661.
12:05Roger.
12:06Who is Mazarin?
12:06Cardinal Mazarin is right.
12:08France, 1600.
12:10Answer.
12:12The first daily double in this round goes to you, Roger.
12:15You've moved into second place and you can move into the lead here.
12:184,400.
12:19Going for the true daily double again.
12:21You'll have 8,800 if you're right.
12:23Here's your clue.
12:24France in the 1600s.
12:25Found on the left bank of the Seine, this veteran's hospital was built by architect Liberal Bruin
12:31in Baroque style.
12:37What is Invalides?
12:39Invalides is correct.
12:40Yes.
12:40You double up to 8,800.
12:42A $4,000 lead.
12:44Where to now?
12:46Notable name, 1600.
12:47No baloney.
12:49This Brazilian architect designed iconic buildings in Brasilia, such as the National Congress
12:53Palace.
12:54Eric.
12:55Who is Niemeyer?
12:56Oscar Niemeyer, right.
12:57Notable name is 1200.
12:59This Methodism founder was born in 1703 to an Anglican clergyman and his wife.
13:04Roger.
13:05Who is Wesley?
13:05Yes.
13:06Creatures from myths, 1200.
13:09An unholy union of Loki and the giantess Angerboda gave us Jormungandr, a.k.a.
13:14the serpent of this place, what the Norse called Earth.
13:17Eric.
13:18What is Midgard?
13:19The Midgard Serpent.
13:20Let's go notable names, 800.
13:22In 1921, President Harding welcomed her to America and presented her with a gram of radium
13:28for her use in research.
13:29Roger.
13:30Who is Curie?
13:32Yes, Marie Curie.
13:34Creatures from myth, 2000.
13:36Lightning was also a feature of this creature that figures prominently in Native American mythology.
13:41Eric.
13:43What is The Firebird?
13:44No.
13:45Roger.
13:46What is Thunderbird?
13:47Thunderbird, that's it.
13:48Their last film, 1200.
13:50In his last role, 90210 star Luke Perry fulfilled a wish from his bucket list, working with Tarantino on this
13:57film.
14:00He was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
14:03Roger.
14:04We're building words, 2000.
14:06The answer there, another Daily Double.
14:10The Daily Double luck has been with you, Roger.
14:12You found all three, and this time you have the lead.
14:154000.
14:16Going for 16,800 if you're right.
14:18Here's your clue.
14:19We're building words over here.
14:21Location of a eustachian tube plus a biblical evangelist equals this targeted sort of funding.
14:29What is earmark?
14:30Ear plus mark.
14:31You got it.
14:34Adding 4000 to your score.
14:36A perfect 10, 2000.
14:39Involved in speech and swallowing, the 10th and longest cranial nerve also has this name, from the Latin for wandering.
14:46Roger.
14:46What is Vegas?
14:47Correct for 2000.
14:49Perfect 10, 1600.
14:50The 10th and highest degree in York Rite Freemasonry dubs the initiate one of these, like a member of a
14:56crusader army.
15:00You become a Knight Templar.
15:02Roger.
15:03Perfect 10, 1200.
15:05In the King James Bible, the 10 commandments prohibit making these two words or any likeness of anything.
15:11Veronica.
15:12What's a graven image?
15:13Right.
15:14Their last film, 800.
15:16She and daughter Carrie Fisher are the subjects of the documentary Bright Lights.
15:20The close-knit pair died just one day apart.
15:23Roger.
15:23Who is Reynolds?
15:24Debbie Reynolds is right.
15:26Words over here, 1600.
15:28Old-timey punishment stick plus Wesley Snipes' half-vampire equals this pointy item.
15:35Roger.
15:36What is switchblade?
15:37Switch plus blade, yes.
15:38Words over here, 1200.
15:40Adjective for a short period of time plus ablative in grammar equals this document holder.
15:49Brief plus case.
15:50What is a briefcase?
15:51Back to Roger.
15:52Words, 800.
15:54Puget or Milford plus validity exercise in math equals this hushed state.
16:01Eric.
16:02What is soundproof?
16:04That is right, yeah.
16:05You had no faith in yourself.
16:07I don't.
16:07France in the 1600s for 1200.
16:10This saint founded charitable orders in and around Paris to help the poor, as the Vincentians
16:15he inspired still do today.
16:17Eric.
16:18Who is de Paul?
16:19It is Vincent de Paul.
16:20France in 1600s, 800.
16:22Established in 1635 to maintain standards of literary taste, this organization led by the
16:2840 Immortals still exists today.
16:31Veronica.
16:31What's, uh, Académie Française?
16:33Yes, the French Academy.
16:34Creatures from Myth, 800.
16:36The Thousand and One Knights told of the exploits of this big bird said to be able to pick
16:41up elephants.
16:42Roger.
16:42What is a rock?
16:43That's the bird.
16:44Creatures, four.
16:46Hercules' twelfth labor involved this beast that had three heads per Apollodorus, but
16:5150 according to Hesiod.
16:52Eric.
16:53What is Cerberus?
16:54You got it.
16:55France, 400.
16:57Assassinated in 1610, Henry IV of Navarre had brought peace and prosperity to France as
17:02the first king of this dynasty.
17:04Roger.
17:05What is Bourbon?
17:06Yes.
17:07Notable names, 400.
17:09She once said, the fact that I could be Secretary of State as a refugee and a naturalized American
17:14was a really big deal.
17:15Roger.
17:16Who is Albright?
17:16That's correct.
17:17Perfect, four.
17:19Decapods, creatures with ten limbs, include this one, known to exceed 40 feet in length.
17:24Veronica.
17:25It's a giant squid?
17:26Yeah.
17:27Perfect, ten.
17:28Eight.
17:28In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded this party and wrote its ten-point program to
17:34explain its platform.
17:35Roger.
17:36What is Black Panther?
17:37That's correct.
17:38One more time.
17:39We're building words over here.
17:41A food initially stored in combs plus satellite equals this phase of harmony.
17:47Roger.
17:47What is Honeymoon?
17:48Honeymoon is right.
17:49You'll have the lead with 24,000 heading into Final Jeopardy.
17:52Here's your category, champs.
17:54Art and artists.
17:55And we'll come back with the clue in just a moment.
17:58The category is art and artists.
18:00Champs, here's your artistic Final Jeopardy clue.
18:03He entered the Priory of San Marco in Florence in the 1430s and was commissioned
18:08to paint its altarpiece by the Medicis.
18:1030 seconds.
18:11Good luck.
18:42We'll begin with Eric Ahasek with 5,600.
18:45A painter who was also in a Priory.
18:47Who did you come up with?
18:48Botticelli is not correct, I'm afraid.
18:50Eric, you wagered everything, leaving you with zero.
18:54Veronica Vitch at Vatican was in second place with 7,200.
18:56What artist did you think of?
18:58Raphael is also not correct, I'm afraid, Veronica.
19:01You wagered everything as well.
19:03You, too, will finish with zero.
19:05But Roger Craig had a big lead with 24,000.
19:08His response?
19:10Michelangelo.
19:10No, you had to think of a renaissance painter who is also a cleric,
19:14Dominican friar, Fra Angelico.
19:16What did you wager, Roger?
19:18You'll lose 9,000, leaving you with 15,000
19:20and making you our second JIT semifinalist.
19:23Congratulations, Roger.
19:27The quarterfinals can be due Monday.
19:28We'll see you right back here.
19:29Have a great weekend.
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