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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 32: 2026 Invitational Tournament Semifinal Game 1
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00:02From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:15Introducing our first group of semifinalists.
00:19A writer from Birmingham, Michigan, Drew Basile.
00:23A teacher from Longmont, Colorado, Jen Giles.
00:28And an applied scientist, originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Roger Craig.
00:36And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:43Thank you, Johnny Gilbert, and welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:46Today kicks off the semifinals in this year's Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, or JIT, as we sometimes call it here, just
00:52for fun.
00:53Up first, we have Roger, Jen, and Drew. Only one will advance to the final, so good luck, champs.
01:00Let's get right into the game with these categories in the first round.
01:03I will read them to you now. We begin with women. Then we have, stock it to me.
01:10Common knowledge. Song and book, same title.
01:14Then we have some reversible words, and each response here is two words.
01:19And finally, down in the dump. Roger Craig, you're up first.
01:23Song and book, same title, 1,000.
01:26Irving Stone's novel was about Van Gogh. Iggy Pop liked the title for his song about drug addiction.
01:32Roger.
01:33What is Agony and Ecstasy?
01:35No.
01:36Jen.
01:36What is Lust for Life?
01:37That is the book and song.
01:39Book and title for 800.
01:40Answer. A Daily Double right after that for you, Jen.
01:45You have $1,000 to play with here.
01:47Um, let's go ahead and make it a true Daily Double.
01:50All right, going for 1,000 more in song and book, same title.
01:54Don Henley looks back at an old relationship.
01:57Roger Kahn looks back at the baseball players of the 1950s.
02:01Um, what is The Boys of Summer?
02:06The Boys of Summer is right, yes.
02:08Doubling you up to 2,000.
02:10Um, let's go with Women for 800.
02:14Once head of the IMF, the International Monetary Fund,
02:17Christine Lagarde is today president of this entity, the ECB.
02:21Drew.
02:22What is the European Central Bank?
02:23Yes.
02:24Women for 1,000, please.
02:2619th century scientist Mariah Mitchell discovered a comet in 1847
02:30and was this New York College's first professor of astronomy.
02:34Roger.
02:35What is Columbia?
02:36No.
02:38Jen or Drew?
02:39At Vassar.
02:41Back to you, Drew.
02:42Uh, Women for 600.
02:43In a 2025 film, Amanda Seyfried stars as Ann Lee,
02:48a leader of this 18th century religious sect.
02:53She led the Shakers.
02:55Drew?
02:56Women for 400.
02:57Born on an Osage reservation, Maria Tallchief was the first American with this two-word title.
03:03Roger.
03:04What is prima ballerina?
03:06You got it.
03:07Reversible words, 1,000.
03:09A summary of yesterday's soap opera episode and a horse trained to move at a special gate.
03:14Drew.
03:15What is recap taper?
03:17No.
03:18Roger or Jen?
03:20I think Drew knows what he did.
03:22Recap and pacer are the reversible words.
03:25Back to you, Roger.
03:26Common knowledge, 800.
03:28At the start of this piece by Aaron Copeland,
03:30three trumpets in unison give the flourish mentioned in the work's title.
03:34Drew?
03:35What is fanfare for the common man?
03:37That's it.
03:38Common knowledge for 1,000.
03:39A joint venture of the US government and the private sector,
03:43COBOL is an acronym standing for this language.
03:46Roger.
03:47What is common business oriented language?
03:50You got it.
03:51Common knowledge, six.
03:53This future Supreme Court justice gave a series of lectures in Boston on common law,
03:57which became his 1881 book, The Common Law.
04:03And that's Oliver Wendell Holmes.
04:05Roger.
04:06Stock it to me, 1,000.
04:08In one of these, each stockholder in a company gets additional shares,
04:12but per share value decreases proportionately.
04:15Roger.
04:16What is a stock split?
04:18That's correct.
04:18Stock it to me, 800.
04:20Stock prices are often driven by 10 Qs.
04:23Quarterly, these reports detailing a company's financial results.
04:27Drew?
04:27What are earnings?
04:29Right.
04:30Stock for six?
04:31GameStop is regarded as the first of these four-letter stocks,
04:35hyped via websites and social media.
04:37Drew?
04:38What are meme stocks?
04:39Yes.
04:39Stocks for four?
04:41These, LLCs, protect stock owners from potential losses beyond the amounts they've invested.
04:47Roger.
04:47What is a limited liability company?
04:50Yes, or corporations.
04:52Stock it to me, 200.
04:54Charles Schwab defines one of these as a market in which share prices have declined more than 20%
04:59from a recent high.
05:01Drew.
05:01What is a bear market?
05:02It is a bear market, but all three of you are looking bullish right now.
05:05Well played.
05:06We'll be right back with more of the Jeopardy! round after this.
05:10Drew Basile, the pride of Birmingham, Michigan, is with us.
05:13Drew, you played in the very first quarterfinal game,
05:16which means there was a lot of suspense for you in that round, right?
05:19Absolutely. And as your viewers may remember, last week I was creamed by Matt Imodio.
05:23And I came in third, and I didn't have a ton of money.
05:25And I thought that that was, you know, the end of my trivia journey.
05:28And I was heartbroken.
05:29And then the game started to go by, and I was still hanging in there for the wild card.
05:33And every game, it would come down to Final Jeopardy if I would keep it.
05:36And every Final Jeopardy, I managed to squeak in in that third place.
05:39You were watching every game.
05:40Every game.
05:40Watching the runner-up scores.
05:42Yep.
05:42To see if you, and you barely made it.
05:44I had it in my hands, and I squeaked through.
05:45I couldn't even watch the final game, but I'm very happy to be here.
05:47Congratulations, Drew.
05:49Jen Giles is here from Longmont, Colorado, a teacher.
05:52How have you been preparing for your return to the Alex Trebek stage?
05:55So I didn't want to go too hard like I did during the All-Star Games.
05:58So I've been, of course, perusing J-Archive daily.
06:03I do thrice that the Geeks Who Drink put out, a daily little quiz, and then the Sway app.
06:08I've never heard of any of these things, and you're telling me this is not hardcore.
06:11No, not really.
06:12This is a light trivia regimen.
06:14You even have one of the little practice buzzers at home.
06:16I do have a Fritz Holtsnagel original, and I had to switch up my grip when I did the
06:22All-Star Games because I was not being successful.
06:24I don't want to know what a heavy training regime looks like for you if you've got your
06:27own buzzer at home.
06:28Roger Craig, originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, an applied scientist.
06:32You got to do something fun recently in the world of sports.
06:35That's right.
06:36I was a spotter at the LPGA Championship, and that's where I wore a headset, and I'd phone
06:42in the yardage to the director.
06:45Oh, you get to report the lengths of all the shots.
06:47Yes, and you have to step out on the fairway, and there's markers in the fairway that say
06:52180 yards from the pin, and then you add seven or whatever to it.
06:56So I do that, and at one point, I realized that a very famous LPGA golfer and her caddy
07:03are yelling at me from about 40 feet away because she's going to take a swing, and I'm right
07:08there in her back swing.
07:09You're doing math.
07:10Yeah, and they're like, get off the fairway.
07:13You're the bad boy of the LPGA, Roger.
07:15I've always said it.
07:16Drew, back to you.
07:17Make a selection.
07:18Women from 200.
07:20Crystal Eastman's 1920 speech, Now We Can Begin, asks for this type of work to be recognized and
07:26have economic reward.
07:27Roger.
07:28What is housework?
07:29Yes.
07:29Common knowledge, 200.
07:31Compiled by Thomas Cranmer in 1549, the Book of Common Prayer is the liturgy of this
07:36Protestant branch.
07:37Drew.
07:38What is Anglican?
07:39Yes.
07:39Common for 400.
07:41Working title, Plain Truth, it was published anonymously in January 1776
07:46and sold 120,000 copies in the first three months.
07:50Drew.
07:51What is Common Sense?
07:52Write again.
07:52Song and Book for 600.
07:54Jay McInerney had a hit with the novel in 1984.
07:58In Jimmy Reed's classic blues song, the title elements have gone to my baby's head.
08:02Drew.
08:03What is Bright Lights, Big City?
08:04That's the book.
08:05Book for 400.
08:06The Smith's song wonders if the title woman will pull through.
08:10The Douglas Copeland novel also awaits her reawakening.
08:13Roger.
08:14What is Shakespeare's sister?
08:16No.
08:17Jen or Drew?
08:19You know it's serious.
08:21Girlfriend in a coma.
08:22Back to Drew.
08:23Books for 200, please.
08:25The Beatles song uses a sitar and is subtitled This Bird Has Flown.
08:29The book by Haruki Murakami mentions that song in chapter one.
08:33Drew.
08:33What is Norwegian Wood?
08:34Correct.
08:35Reversible words for 800, please.
08:37A stopwatch and a fancy way to say send payment.
08:41Drew.
08:41What is Timer Remit?
08:43Got them both.
08:44Reversible words for 600.
08:46Isle of Exile in the Tyrrhenian Sea and especially proficient.
08:50Drew.
08:51What is Elba and Abel?
08:52Correct.
08:53Reversible words for 400, please.
08:55A castle stronghold and a quick glance.
08:58Roger.
08:58What is Keep and Peak?
09:00Got it.
09:01Reversible 200.
09:03Grizzly feet and to exchange one thing for another.
09:06Drew.
09:07What is Swap and Paws?
09:08Right.
09:09Down in the dump for 200.
09:11While dumps tend to be unregulated, this government agency regulates landfills under the
09:16Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
09:18Drew.
09:19What is the EPA?
09:20Yes.
09:21Dump for 400.
09:22Some refer to this method of garbage disposal, which fertilizes the land and reduces
09:26landfill waste as nature's way of recycling.
09:29Jen.
09:30What is Compost?
09:31That's it.
09:32Down in the dump for 800.
09:33The Guinness record for largest landfill site in area belongs to Apex Regional Landfill in this
09:39county.
09:40Also home to Vegas, baby Vegas.
09:42Roger.
09:43What is McCarran?
09:46No.
09:47Jen or Drew?
09:49Vegas is in Clark County, Nevada.
09:52Back to Jen.
09:53Um, down in the dump for 1,000.
09:55Hazardous waste can take many forms, including liquid, gas, solid, and this icky one the OED describes as earthy or
10:03slimy.
10:04Roger.
10:04What is sludge?
10:05What is sludge?
10:05Sludge is right.
10:06One more clue from the dump.
10:09Organic materials decomposing in landfills produce a usable fuel called biogas, which is made up mostly of CH4, this compound.
10:17Drew.
10:18What is methane?
10:19CH4 is methane.
10:20Drew has the lead at the end of the Jeopardy! round, but there's a lot of cash on the board
10:23in Double Jeopardy! up next.
10:27We're all set up for Double Jeopardy! now. Roger will select first. Here are the categories.
10:32We begin with the Occidental tourist, then we have writers, a science brief, lockups, movie magic, and finally, first name
10:44words. Roger, where to?
10:47A science brief, 2,000.
10:49This 10-letter ball of cells is formed during the early embryonic stage of a mammal. Roger.
10:55What is blastocyst?
10:57Very good.
10:58Science, 1,600.
10:59Answer.
11:00It's a daily double there.
11:04You just moved into second place, Roger, and you can move into the lead here.
11:08Uh, well, I'm a scientist. I will wager everything.
11:12All right.
11:12Betting it all on his professional status, we're going for 6,400. Here's your clue in a science brief.
11:18The Cassini-Huygens mission found rippling sand dunes and liquid seas on this moon.
11:27What is Titan?
11:29Titan is the moon, yes. Putting you in the lead by just $400.
11:36Occidental tourist, 1,600.
11:38I'm visiting this walled city on the Brittany coast.
11:41It looks just like I imagined from reading all the light we cannot see.
11:44Jen.
11:45What is San Malo?
11:46That's right.
11:47Um, Occidental tourist for 2,000.
11:50I'm paying a visit to this former penal colony, a vowel heavy city on Tierra del Fuego.
11:55Just saw a penguin.
11:56Drew.
11:57What is Ushaka?
12:00No.
12:01Jen.
12:02What is Ushaya, Ushaya?
12:05I'm sorry, no.
12:08Ushwaya?
12:08What is not gonna I-a?
12:10Roger, not gonna try-a.
12:12What is Ushuwaya?
12:14Jen, you did get there, but just too late.
12:16Back to you, though.
12:17Let's do movie magic for 1,200.
12:19In this 80s horror comedy, David Naughton's male pattern hirsutness,
12:24as he gets all lupine, was filmed in reverse.
12:26Roger.
12:27What is An American Werewolf in London?
12:30That's the movie.
12:31Writers, 2,000.
12:32She said poetry mustn't be fancy, an approach that earned her a Pulitzer for her collection
12:37American Primitive.
12:41Who is the late Mary Oliver?
12:43Back to Roger.
12:44Writers, 1,600.
12:46V is the 1963 first novel by this man, whose later books have inspired two Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
12:53Drew.
12:54Who is Pynchon?
12:54Pynchon is right.
12:55Writers for 12.
12:56Answer, now one for Drew.
13:02You are $2,000 behind Roger at the moment.
13:05It's just got to be an all-in.
13:06It's got to be a true Daily Double.
13:08All right, 5,600 on the line.
13:10Here's your clue in writers.
13:12Dickens saluted this writer as,
13:14my dear sir, but also expressed doubt that it was actually a man behind the name.
13:19It wasn't.
13:21Who is George Eliot?
13:23George Eliot is right.
13:24Doubling brood at 11,200.
13:28A lot of game left to play though, Drew.
13:30Select.
13:30Science brief for 12.
13:32Fossils called Asteriocytes show where these sea creatures rested millions of years ago.
13:38Roger.
13:39What are starfish?
13:40That's correct.
13:41First name words, 2000.
13:43Old time transportation job seen here.
13:49That guy is a carter.
13:51Back to Roger.
13:52First name words, 1600.
13:54In an Anthony Trollope novel, characters talking about Fanny's guy reject this word for lover,
14:00which is at least English.
14:04They don't like the word bow, also a first name.
14:07Back to Roger.
14:08Let's go to lockups, 2000.
14:10A tour of the old Melbourne jail includes the 1880 execution site of him,
14:15Australia's most notorious outlaw.
14:17Roger.
14:18Who is Kelly?
14:19Ned Kelly for 2000.
14:20Lockups, 1600.
14:22Bluesmen have sung about this state's Parchman Farm, notorious for its conditions when it opened in 1901,
14:27and still open today.
14:32What is Mississippi?
14:34Back to Roger.
14:35Movie Magic 2000.
14:37Some movies use underexposure and color correction to depict evening with this three-word method,
14:42also the title of a Truffaut film.
14:44Roger.
14:45What is Day for Night?
14:47You add 2000.
14:48Back in the lead.
14:49Movie 1600.
14:51Sally Hawkins on a wire and light that seemed to come through liquid made this film's opening
14:55scene looked like it was under the sea.
14:57Roger.
14:58What is Shape of Water?
15:00Right again.
15:01Occidental Tourist, 1200.
15:03I'm walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, en route to the tomb of this martyred apostle and saint.
15:09Hola, my fellow pilgrims.
15:11Jen.
15:12Who is Saint James?
15:12Santiago is Saint James, yes.
15:14Occidental Tourist for 800.
15:16I'm on the Western Hemisphere's highest observation deck,
15:19atop this Toronto structure, and I can see New York.
15:22Roger.
15:23What is CN Tower?
15:24It is.
15:26Lockup's 1200.
15:27Told in Midnight Express, the story of Billy Hayes, sent to Imrali Prison,
15:32made this type of prison a byword for a bad one.
15:35Drew.
15:37What is Turkish?
15:38Turkish prison, yes.
15:39First word names for 12?
15:41One of the two plants and first names in the title of the traditional song heard here.
15:46The rising of the sun and the running of the deer,
15:50the playing of the merry old dance we sing in the world.
15:56That's the holly and the ivy.
15:57Those are the two names.
15:59Drew?
15:59First name's eight.
16:01It refers to a nose with a prominent bridge, also called aquiline.
16:06Roger.
16:06What is Roman?
16:07A Roman nose, you got it.
16:08First name's 400.
16:10Oh joy, this feminine first name comes from the Latin for happy.
16:15Jen.
16:15What is Felicity?
16:16Correct.
16:17Occidental tourist for 400.
16:19I'm heading to Zanze Shans, a historic windmill village 12 miles north of this capital.
16:25Roger?
16:25What is Amsterdam?
16:27Right.
16:28Writers 400?
16:29She wrote, to the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped, the world itself is the bad dream.
16:35Roger?
16:35Who is Plath?
16:36Yes.
16:37Writers 8?
16:38She got the title for her novel The House of Mirth from Ecclesiastes.
16:42Drew?
16:43Who is Wharton?
16:43Edith Wharton is right.
16:44Science for eight.
16:46It's the delicious term for being stretched out upon falling into a black hole.
16:50Jen?
16:51What is spaghettification?
16:52Yuck, that's correct.
16:53Um, let's do movie magic for 800.
16:56A matte painting was used for the military warehouse where an object from Exodus 25 is kept at the end
17:01of
17:01this film.
17:02Roger?
17:03What is Raiders of the Lost Ark?
17:05That's it.
17:05Movie 400?
17:07In The Wizard of Oz, the snow that falls on Dorothy and friends in the poppy field
17:11was actually this, which causes mesothelioma.
17:14Jen?
17:15Uh, what is asbestos?
17:17Sadly, it was asbestos.
17:19Lockups for 800.
17:20Jim Carroll rhymed this island in the New York area with ratting on some bikers.
17:24Roger?
17:25What is Rikers?
17:26Rikers Island.
17:27Science for?
17:29Commonly found in nature as quartz, this major constituent of sand has the formula SiO2.
17:35Drew?
17:35What is silica?
17:36Correct, silicon dioxide.
17:37Here's the last clue in lockups.
17:40Artist Paul de la Roche depicted two princes' 15th century captivity in this landmark.
17:45Drew?
17:46What is the tower?
17:47Can you be more specific?
17:48Uh, Tower of London?
17:50That's correct.
17:51What a round.
17:51Roger has the lead heading into final.
17:52Here is your category, champs.
17:55Saints.
17:56Think about the saints.
17:57Make your wagers.
17:58And we will return shortly with the clue.
18:01This game will be settled by the saints.
18:03That's the final Jeopardy category.
18:04And this is the clue.
18:07Mentioned several times in a 1599 play, this patron saint of cobblers had a feast day
18:13that coincided with the Battle of Agincourt.
18:15Thirty seconds.
18:17Good luck.
18:47Jen Giles came into final with $4,800.
18:50What was your response in final?
18:52Who is St. Swithin?
18:53Always a favorite, but not correct here, I'm afraid.
18:56You wagered $725, leaving you with $4,075.
19:01Drew Basile in second place with a whopping $14,000.
19:04What saint did you have, Drew?
19:06Who is Crispin?
19:07And that is correct.
19:09The famous St. Crispin's Day speech from Shakespeare's Henry V.
19:12So you're going to add to that $14,000.
19:14No, you won't.
19:15No bet.
19:16So $14,000 even will be your score.
19:18It's going to come down to Roger Craig.
19:20Is he correct?
19:21Did he think of St. Crispin's Day?
19:23He got it.
19:24He wagered $9,601, taking him to $28,001 and putting him into the Jeopardy!
19:30Invitational Tournament finals.
19:32Congratulations, Roger.
19:33What a great game.
19:34We have two more semifinal games to play, and they will begin next week.
19:38Have a great weekend.
19:39See you on Monday.
19:40Thanks.ktex.
19:42Thank you.
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