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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 36: 2026 Invitational Tournament Final Game 2
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00:02From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament.
00:15Let's welcome back our finalists. A stay-at-home dad from Concord, California, Andrew He.
00:23A retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada, Wong Nguyen. And an applied scientist, originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Roger Craig.
00:37And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:44Thank you, folks. Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. And welcome back to the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament Finals.
00:50In yesterday's Game 1, it was Andrew He who added the first checkmark to his column.
00:55But remember, this is a first-to-two-wins final.
00:58So a lot is at stake today for all three of our finalists, Roger, Long, and Andrew.
01:03Good luck to you three. Let's see what categories await you in the Jeopardy! round as we get underway in
01:07Game 2.
01:08First, we're headed way back when.
01:11Then, across the liberal arts.
01:14Weight, measures, followed by thistle-do nicely.
01:18Firstly, we have rock songs.
01:20And finally, words where singular and plural are the same.
01:24Roger Craig, you're up first again.
01:25Rock songs, 1,000.
01:27Off their album French Exit, Lover's Rock is the biggest hit by this girl group big on TikTok.
01:36This is good. We're all too old for this.
01:37What is TV girl?
01:39Back to you, Roger.
01:40Rock songs, 800.
01:42The Rolling Stones shared that, I know it's only rock and roll, but this is the result.
01:50This one I know. It's only rock and roll, but I like it.
01:53Roger, try again.
01:54Let's try rock songs, 600.
01:56Back to the rock songs.
01:57The Ramones took us all down to rock, rock, rock, rock, this title location.
02:02Roger?
02:03What is rock and roll high school?
02:05Yes.
02:06Singular, plural, are the same 1,000.
02:09Borrowed from French, it means a jargon or dialect.
02:12Andrew?
02:14What is pigeon?
02:16No.
02:17Roger?
02:18What is argot?
02:19Also not argot.
02:20All right.
02:20Long, he wins by not saying anything.
02:23What is patois, or what are patois?
02:25Roger?
02:26Weight, measures, 1,000.
02:27George Lucas knows it may sound like a unit of time, but this is a distance measurement
02:32of about 19 trillion miles.
02:34Long.
02:35What is a parsec?
02:36That's correct.
02:37Weight, measures, for 800.
02:39Neil deGrasse Tyson.
02:41Classical Geek 101.
02:43A milli is 1,1000.
02:44So a milli, Helen, is just enough this to launch a single ship.
02:48Roger?
02:50What is face, or beauty?
02:53Yes, what is beauty?
02:55Measure 600.
02:57It can be the distance from the end of your thumb to your pinky in a spread hand, and
03:01also an English measure equal to nine inches.
03:04Roger?
03:04What is the span?
03:05It is.
03:06Way back when, 1,000.
03:08An 1877 book by Ferdinand von Richthofen gave us this term for the ancient trade route
03:14between Europe and East Asia.
03:16Roger?
03:16What is Silk Road?
03:17Right again.
03:18Way back when, 800?
03:20The earliest of the great Mesoamerican civilizations, it was centered in the modern Mexican states
03:25of Tabasco and Veracruz.
03:27Long.
03:27What are the old mechs?
03:28Yes.
03:29Way back when, for six?
03:31Connecting Luxor and Karnak, a two-mile road lined with half-human, half-beast statues
03:36is known as the avenue of these.
03:39Roger?
03:40What are pharaohs?
03:41No.
03:42Long.
03:43What else?
03:43Sphinxes?
03:44Yes, they were sphinxes.
03:46Liberal arts for 800.
03:47Answer.
03:48You found a Daily Double on.
03:53You had mixed luck with them yesterday, but you're in the lead right now.
03:56Everything.
03:57Going for the true Daily Double in Across the Liberal Arts for 4,800 if you're right.
04:02Psychology.
04:03Before graduating from the University of Zurich in 1912, he got the nickname Clex or Inkblot.
04:09Who is Rorschach?
04:10That's correct, his famous test.
04:134,800 for you now.
04:16Liberal arts for 1,000.
04:18Anthropology.
04:19An American who uses a fork and spoon and disses the Chinese use of chopsticks is an example
04:24of this 13-letter-ism.
04:26Roger?
04:28What is imperialism?
04:31No.
04:33Long or Andrew?
04:35The 13-letter word?
04:37Ethnocentrism.
04:38Long.
04:39Liberal arts for 600.
04:40Poli-Sci.
04:41On June 25, 1998, the Supreme Court ruled this kind of presidential veto was unconstitutional.
04:48Roger?
04:48What is a pocket veto?
04:50No.
04:50Long.
04:51What is a line item veto?
04:52That's the one.
04:54Nicely for 1,000.
04:55Her 1920 book of poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, includes,
05:00But Ah My Foes and Oh My Friends, It Gives a Lovely Light.
05:04Roger?
05:04Who is Edna St. Vincent Millay?
05:06Very good.
05:07Thistle 800.
05:09It's shape tells you this name of a type of thistle, often grown as an ornamental.
05:16That is the globe thistle.
05:18Long is off to the best start here, but lots of game left for Roger and Andrew.
05:21We need to pause for a moment, but the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, or JIT, will continue.
05:33We have a time-honored Alex Quebecker tradition here of letting our tournament finalists say some thank yous during one
05:39of their final games.
05:41This might be it. We don't know.
05:42Andrew, who would you want to shout out?
05:44I'd like to thank my partner, Sarah. Without her, I definitely wouldn't be here.
05:47And I'd also like to thank the writers for the show, because without them, it would probably just be 61
05:53cat videos.
05:56Very confusing game show. 61 cat videos every half hour.
06:00Thank you for shouting out the writers. I think they appreciate that.
06:03Long, what about you? Who are you going to say thank you to?
06:05I'd like to thank my friend Stan. He volunteered to be my chauffeur this week, and we got it figured
06:11out.
06:11If I win this tournament, we're going to play pickleball. If I lose, we're going to play pickleball.
06:17Now, I know you're a big pickleball fan, especially since you took a little break from trivia.
06:21Does Stan even like pickleball?
06:22He loves it. We play all the time.
06:24I'm glad pickleball generation is here. Thank you, Long.
06:27Roger Craig, you've had this chance many times on this stage. Who are your thank yous for this time?
06:32I'd love to thank my parents and grandparents for instilling learning, my wife, Julia, for everything, and also every teacher
06:40I've ever had.
06:41That's a great message. Teachers don't hear that often enough. You have command of the board, Roger. Where to?
06:47Thistle 600.
06:49St. Giles Cathedral has the Thistle Chapel in this capital. Makes sense, as Thistle is a beloved emblem of the
06:55country. Roger.
06:57What is Cardiff?
06:58No. Long.
07:00What is Edinburgh?
07:00Yeah, it's Scotland that loves the thistle.
07:02Uh, way back when for 400.
07:04More than just a lawgiver, this sixth Amorite king of Babylon helped build the city into a major power.
07:10Andrew.
07:11Who is Hammurabi?
07:12That's him.
07:13Way back when, 200.
07:15Julius Caesar's heir Octavian got this royal name that preceded Caesar from Rome's Senate, and all subsequent emperors took it.
07:22Long.
07:23What is Augustus?
07:24Correct.
07:25Liberal arts for four.
07:26Music.
07:28After Offenbach's 1880 death, colleagues finished The Tales of Him, which premiered the following year.
07:34Roger.
07:35Who is Hoffman?
07:36That's right.
07:37Liberal arts, 200.
07:38Philosophy, with Plato quoting Socrates.
07:41The life which is this is not worth living.
07:44Andrew.
07:46What is unexplored?
07:47No.
07:48Roger.
07:49What is unexamined?
07:51Unexamined.
07:52That's it.
07:53Singular 800.
07:55With a man of faith in their name, they're known as the poor man's lobster.
08:02You're looking at a monkfish there.
08:04Roger.
08:05Measures 400.
08:07An ox gang averages about 15 of these.
08:10About how much plowing one ox could handle in a single annual season.
08:14Long.
08:14What is an acre?
08:15Yes.
08:16Measures for two.
08:18In 1958, the Smoot was born when five-foot-seven-inch frat pledge Oliver Smoot was used to measure
08:24the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, a Smoot this many inches.
08:28Andrew.
08:29What is 67?
08:31Yes, six-seven, as the kids say.
08:33Thistle four.
08:35At her 1986 royal wedding, she wore a Victorian-style ivory satin dress embroidered with bees and
08:41thistles, but divorce followed.
08:43Andrew.
08:44Who is Ferguson?
08:45That's right, Sarah Ferguson.
08:46Thistle 200.
08:48Popular in Portugal and dating to the 1100s, Sarah da Estrela is a sheep's milk this coagulated
08:54with thistle flowers.
08:56Andrew.
08:57What is cheese?
08:58It is a cheese.
08:59Singular and plural 600.
09:01One's children or the group seen here.
09:04Roger.
09:05What are offspring?
09:07The offspring, yes.
09:08Singular 400.
09:09A building or group of buildings in which military personnel are quartered.
09:13Andrew.
09:14What is barracks?
09:15You got it.
09:17Singular 200.
09:18A place where multiple avenues meet.
09:23What is or are crossroads?
09:26Andrew.
09:27Rock songs for.
09:28In their signature song, this band just wanted to rock and roll all night and party every
09:33day.
09:34Roger.
09:34Who, our kiss?
09:35That's right.
09:36One more rock song.
09:37In a big hit, she sang, I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby.
09:43Roger.
09:44Who is Joan Jett?
09:44Joan Jett is right.
09:46Roger, you and Andrew fought back, but that was Long Nguyen's round.
09:48He's got the lead as we head into Double Jeopardy.
09:51It begins after this short break.
10:00We have doubled the amount of cash on that board.
10:02Anything is possible in Double Jeopardy.
10:04Your categories finalists will be first all over the country, or we have male novels, perusing
10:12some articles, names in fashion, shows about murder, if you're into that, and finally putting
10:19the double in Double Jeopardy.
10:21Andrew, start the round for us.
10:24Shows about murder, 16.
10:26Emma Myers has played Wednesday Addams' bestie Enid and plucky detective Pip on this Netflix
10:32show set in a sleepy English town.
10:37That's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
10:39Andrew?
10:40Names in fashion, 16.
10:42During his 16 years as creative director of this company, Mark Jacobs helped elevate it
10:47from luggage maker to a fashion powerhouse.
10:50Roger.
10:50What is Coach?
10:51No.
10:52Long.
10:53What is Louis Vuitton?
10:55Louis Vuitton?
10:55Yes, Louis Vuitton is the company.
10:57All over the country for 16.
10:59Answer.
11:00A little double, Long.
11:05Is this still a score situation where you make a big wager?
11:09I have to.
11:10Really?
11:10Yeah, everything.
11:11Okay, going for 16,400 in all over the country, Long.
11:15Here's your clue.
11:16The extinct volcano Ilias Dog is near the westernmost part of Turkey, while this volcanic
11:22massif is near the easternmost part.
11:25What is Mount Ararat?
11:27It is Mount Ararat, pulling you up for $16,400.
11:36Male novels for 16.
11:39Later, a Martin Scorsese film, this novel by Shusaku Endo is partly written in the form
11:44of a letter from a Jesuit missionary.
11:49The book and the movie are called Silence.
11:51Long.
11:52Novel, so 12.
11:54In a 2008 novel, Juliet Ashton gets mail from a man from this aisle who is in a literary
11:59and potato peel pie society.
12:01Roger.
12:02What is Guernsey?
12:03Yes, Guernsey's right.
12:04Double Jeopardy 2000.
12:06Similar to cheddar, this British cheese from the Cotswolds region is great for cheese toasties.
12:12Andrew.
12:13What is double Gloucester?
12:15That's correct.
12:16Wow.
12:17Double 1600.
12:18In Sikhism, the Khanda is a ritual one of these weapons, symbolizing a fight against
12:23tyranny and a defense of righteousness.
12:25Roger.
12:26What is a double dagger?
12:29No.
12:30Longer, Andrew.
12:32It is a double-edged sword.
12:35Back to Andrew.
12:36Double 12.
12:37Answer.
12:38Final Daily Double of the game will be yours, Andrew.
12:42You're down 14,000.
12:43How much do you want to risk?
12:45I'll do 2400.
12:46Going for the True Daily Double in Putting the Double in Double Jeopardy.
12:50An article in the journal Nature was titled This and the Wronged Heroine about Rosalind
12:55Franklin.
12:57What is double helix?
12:58That's right.
12:59She was watching in Crick's Collaborator.
13:01That adds 2400 to your score.
13:05Some articles, 2000.
13:06They were the lowest rank of British nobility, but the articles of them formed the basis of
13:11the Magna Carta.
13:13Long.
13:13What are barons?
13:14The articles of the barons, yes.
13:15All over the country for 2000.
13:18Malaysian ports like Georgetown in the north and Batu Pahat are both along this straight.
13:23Roger.
13:24What is Malacca?
13:25Yes.
13:26All over the country, 1200.
13:28Paris is North-ish.
13:29Marseille is South-ish.
13:31And this third most populous French city is East Central-ish.
13:35Andrew.
13:35What is Lyon?
13:36That is the city.
13:38Male novels, 2000.
13:39Male is exchanged in Letters of Two Brides, an 1842 novel from this Frenchman's human comedy
13:45series.
13:46Andrew.
13:46Who is Balzac?
13:48You add 2000.
13:49Some article, 16.
13:51The Continental Army's first articles of war were kinder than Britain's, a maximum punishment
13:56of 39 of these, not hundreds.
13:59Roger.
14:00What are lashes?
14:01Yes.
14:02Fashion 2000.
14:03One of the most iconic designers of the swinging 60s, her initials could have stood for miniskirt
14:08queen.
14:09Andrew.
14:10Who is Quant?
14:12Mary Quant.
14:12That's right.
14:13Fashion 12.
14:14Rachel Brosnahan is the niece of this late designer, whose maiden name was Brosnahan.
14:21It's kind of fun.
14:23She's Kate Spade's niece.
14:24Back to you, Andrew.
14:25Some articles, 12.
14:27The Mormon church's 13 articles of faith were written in 1842 by this man, Long.
14:33Who is Smith?
14:34Joseph Smith, right.
14:36All over the country, for eight.
14:37The Chenab, one of the Punjab, or five rivers, feeds into this long trans-Himalayan river in
14:43Pakistan.
14:44Roger.
14:45What is Indus?
14:46That's right.
14:47Murder 2000.
14:48First, DCI Tom Barnaby, then his cousin John, solved killings in this British show, whose
14:54title is a county, not a time of year.
14:59Those are the Midsummer Murders.
15:01Back to Roger.
15:02Novels 800.
15:04Father sends home mail to Marmee and his little women in this work by Geraldine Brooks.
15:08Its title is the family's surname.
15:13Those are the March sisters.
15:15What is March?
15:16Back to you, Roger.
15:17Shows 1200.
15:18In 2024's The Perfect Couple, the wedding of this actress and daughter of Bono is preempted
15:24by her maid of honor's murder.
15:28Who is Eve Hewson?
15:30Roger.
15:31Double Jeopardy 800.
15:33Act 4 of Macbeth has all three witches say these five words that precede fire burn and
15:38cauldron bubble.
15:39Andrew.
15:39What is Double Double Toil and Trouble?
15:41Right.
15:42Shows about Murder 8.
15:44Twin Peaks had Special Agent Cooper and viewers asking the same question.
15:47Who killed this homecoming queen?
15:50Andrew.
15:51Who is Laura Palmer?
15:51Yes.
15:52Fashion 8.
15:53Julia Roberts and the Beckhams were among the celebs who paid tribute to this legendary
15:57Italian designer on his passing in 2025.
16:01Long.
16:01Who is Armani?
16:02That's him.
16:03All over the country, 4.
16:04It's a long road from Arica in the north of this country to Punta Arenas in its south.
16:09Long.
16:10What is Chile?
16:12Yes.
16:13Male novels for 4.
16:14Eva writes a series of letters to her late husband about her criminal son in We Need to
16:19Talk About This Person.
16:21Andrew.
16:22Who is Kevin?
16:23That's right.
16:24Some Articles 8.
16:26Articles of Impeachment from 2019 specified that aid to this country had been conditioned
16:31on announcement of some investigations.
16:33Roger.
16:33What is Ukraine?
16:35Right.
16:36Fashion 4.
16:37Best known for walking the runway, she also has her own clothing line, guest in residence,
16:42celebrating everything Kashmir.
16:44Long.
16:44Who is Hadid?
16:45Correct.
16:47Articles for 4.
16:48Armed attack against one shall be considered an attack against them all, says Article 5 of
16:53this organization's 1949 founding treaty.
16:56Andrew.
16:57What is NATO?
16:57Yes.
16:58Shows 4.
16:59Kate Winslet nailed the tricky Delco accent for her Emmy-winning role as this title detective,
17:04working the murder of a local teen.
17:06Andrew.
17:07Who is mayor of Easttown.
17:08Yes.
17:09Here's the last clue.
17:10Putting the double in double jeopardy one more time.
17:13Diplopia is the technical term for this.
17:15Also the title of a song by Foreigner.
17:18Long.
17:18What is double vision?
17:20Yes.
17:20You had a great game, but Andrew kept this close enough that this is not over yet, folks.
17:24Final Jeopardy matters and the category will be world of first names.
17:29Interesting.
17:30We will come back with the clue right after this pause.
17:33Looks like we're exploring the wide world of first names in Final Jeopardy today.
17:38Let's take a look at the clue.
17:40Like an English language one, this German first name of a physicist of sound and a 1930s film
17:46director means serious.
17:4830 seconds now, players.
17:50Good luck.
18:21Let's begin with Roger Craig with $5,200.
18:24What did you write down, Roger?
18:27Interesting.
18:28What is I hope long writes ernst?
18:31What do we think, judges?
18:32Thumbs up.
18:33This implies that you believe the response is ernst, and that's correct.
18:37Ernst Mach, the physicist.
18:38Ernst Lubitsch, the director, just like Ernest in English.
18:41So you're going to add, Roger, you wagered, you will not add.
18:44You wagered nothing at all.
18:45$5,200 still for you.
18:46Andrew, he was in second place with $12,800.
18:49What do you have, Andrew?
18:52Heinrich, and we know that is not correct.
18:54You wagered almost everything.
18:57You will be left with $67.
18:59$67.
19:00Something for the kids, Andrew.
19:03Long win, $21,600.
19:05Does he have Ernst?
19:07Ah, dashing Roger's hopes, he has Heinrich.
19:10So it comes down to the wager.
19:12Just $4,001 leaves you with $17,599.
19:16We now have one win for Long win, one win for Andrew Heath.
19:22Roger Craig has yet to score.
19:25But we'll see what happens in game three coming your way tomorrow.
19:28Thanks for being with us today on The Alex, The Next Stage.
19:31I'm Ken Jeff.
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