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00:01From the Alex from X-State at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy! Champions Wild Card.
00:15Here are today's past champions. An attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama, Dargan Ware.
00:24A hospitality executive from San Diego, California, Bill McKinney.
00:30And a software engineer, originally from Houston, Texas, Stella Trout.
00:36And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:43Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Thank you, folks.
00:46Welcome to Jeopardy! Champions Wild Card.
00:49Over the next two weeks, 15 champions will be returning to the Alex Trebek stage
00:53in hopes of accomplishing the ultimate goal they fell short of achieving,
00:57qualifying for the Tournament of Champions.
00:59Today, we welcome back Stella, Bill, and Dargan.
01:02Good luck, everybody. Here are your categories in the Jeopardy! round.
01:08We'll start you off with the best and the brightest. How appropriate.
01:12Then we have World Geography. Let's get wild.
01:16404, page not found.
01:19Then historic names.
01:21And some 90s number one hits.
01:24Stella, the first pick goes to you.
01:25Let's do World Geography for 1,000, please.
01:27Called Tito Grad from 1946 to 1992, Podgorica is the capital and largest city of this former Yugoslav republic.
01:37Dargan.
01:37What is Montenegro?
01:38That's right.
01:39World Geography for 8.
01:41Popular with tourists, the resort city of Cabo San Lucas is found at the extreme southern tip of this peninsula.
01:48Stella.
01:49What's Yucatan?
01:49No.
01:50Dargan.
01:51What is the Baja, California?
01:53Yes.
01:54Let's get wild for 800.
01:56Buffalo Bill's successful extravaganza featuring gunplay and an attack on a stagecoach had this name.
02:03Dargan.
02:04What is the Wild West show?
02:05Yes.
02:06Let's get wild for 1,000.
02:09Described in the books of Matthew and Mark, John the Baptist's diet was said to be locusts and this sweet
02:14edible.
02:15Dargan.
02:16What is wild honey?
02:17Another 1,000 for you.
02:19Historic names for 600.
02:21When asked, where are your lands now?
02:23This Lakota leader, also called Tasunka Witko, said, my lands are where my dead lie buried.
02:30Bill.
02:30Who's Sitting Bull?
02:31No.
02:33Stella.
02:33Who's Crazy Horse?
02:34It is Crazy Horse.
02:35Historic names, 1,000.
02:37In 48 B.C., this Roman got the title Master of the Horse, basically assistant to the dictator, but got
02:43sacked for not keeping order.
02:46Dargan.
02:46Who's Julius Caesar?
02:47No.
02:49Stella or Bill?
02:51That was Mark Antony working for Julius Caesar.
02:54Back to you, Stella.
02:55Historic names for eight.
02:57As its name implies, the Sistine Chapel was named for a pope with this name.
03:02Confusingly, the fourth.
03:04Stella.
03:04What's Sextus?
03:05No.
03:06Dargan.
03:07What is Sextus?
03:08Sextus with an eye, that's it.
03:1090's number one hits for six.
03:12Peebo Bryson and Regina Bell took a magic carpet ride to number one with this theme from Aladdin.
03:18Dargan.
03:18What is I Can Show You the World?
03:21No.
03:22Stella.
03:22What's a whole new world?
03:23Yes, that's the name of the song.
03:25404, page not found for 1,000.
03:27In 2009, a digital wrecking ball was taken to the various world metropolises at this personal web hosting site.
03:35Stella.
03:35What's GeoCities?
03:36RIP GeoCities.
03:38404, page not found for 8.
03:39In March 2017, this Disney-owned social network for kids waddled away to extinction.
03:46Stella.
03:46What's Club Penguin?
03:47Right.
03:48The best and brightest for 8.
03:50Answer.
03:51Daily double for you, Stella.
03:55You were in the negative territory early, but you've made your way back.
03:581,400 to risk here on the best and the brightest.
04:01I'd like to wager 1,400, please.
04:02All right.
04:03You will be tied with Dargan for the lead if you're right.
04:05Here is your clue.
04:07Founded in 1946 as a motel chain, this now international hotel brand is appropriately headquartered in Arizona.
04:21Stella.
04:22What is Sun City?
04:24Sorry, no.
04:26The category might have helped a little here.
04:27It's Best Western.
04:28What is Best Western?
04:30All right.
04:30You're starting from scratch again, Stella.
04:32Make a selection.
04:32Best and brightest for 1,000.
04:34Need a really bright flashlight?
04:36Look, metaphorically, into the Imolent MS-32, rated at 200,000 LM, these units.
04:44Dargan.
04:44What are Lumens?
04:46That's right.
04:46Best and brightest for 6.
04:48The best regular season record in NBA history is 73-9 by this squad that lost to Cleveland and LeBron
04:55in the finals.
04:56Bill.
04:56Who are the Warriors?
04:57That's correct.
04:58You're out of the hole.
04:59World Geography, 600.
05:00This island group, a common destination for migrants trying to reach Spain by sea, is about 60 miles from Morocco.
05:07Dargan?
05:08What are the Balearic Islands?
05:10No.
05:11Bill.
05:11What are the Canary Islands?
05:12Canaries is right.
05:14World Geography, 400.
05:15In the Northeast, the Indian state of Tripura is surrounded on three sides by this neighboring country.
05:22Dargan.
05:23What is Bangladesh?
05:24That's right.
05:24All around Bangladesh.
05:25You're in the lead with 3,600.
05:27Stella and Bill have some catching up to do, but there is a lot of Jeopardy! left to play.
05:33Dargan Ware is an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama.
05:37Dargan, you left an unusual footprint on the culture from your Jeopardy! appearance, right?
05:42Apparently, I did, yes.
05:43Tell us about it.
05:44Some people of Blue Sky made D&D characters based on me.
05:51Some dwarves, some wizards.
05:53I can't imagine what it is about your appearance that would inspire.
05:56I'm not seeing it, frankly.
05:58I love the idea that there's a bunch of Dargans around right now, slaying trolls and whatnot.
06:02Bill McKinney is back with us as well, a hospitality executive from San Diego.
06:06You also have a footprint on the internet now, right?
06:09Yeah, someone made an IMDb page for me, but they put the picture, instead of my picture,
06:15it's the picture of the late character actor Bill McKinney, who is not exactly famous for
06:20being a dapper, leading man.
06:23He's famous for something else in the movie Deliverance.
06:26Yeah, you don't look a lot like that guy.
06:27We should go fix your IMDb page.
06:29Appreciate that.
06:30Stella Trout is a software engineer originally from Houston.
06:33Stella, you also, your appearance inspired Jeopardy! fans, right?
06:37Yeah, people online said I looked a lot like this indie musician, Snail Mail.
06:41Do you look like Snail Mail?
06:43Apparently, because everybody online thought so, and then she saw it, and so then she followed
06:46me, and now we follow each other, and I'm like, Snail Mail, let me be your stunt double or
06:49something.
06:50Just put me in your video.
06:51I don't think indie musicians need to stunt doubles, do they?
06:54I don't know.
06:54Do they have more glamorous lives than we know?
06:56Probably.
06:57Dargan, you have control of the board.
06:59Take a look at the categories.
07:00Make a selection.
07:01World Geography for two.
07:02The Lincoln Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean, borders this island, known as Kalashlit Nunat
07:08locally.
07:09Stella.
07:10What's Greenland?
07:10That's right.
07:1190s hits for 1,000?
07:13This song was a solo hit for Elton John in the 70s, and a number one hit in the 90s
07:18as a duet with George Michael.
07:23What is Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me?
07:25Stella?
07:26Let's get wild for six.
07:27This organization's logo reflects its commitment to protecting endangered species and their
07:33habitats.
07:33Stella?
07:34What's the World Wildlife Federation?
07:36No.
07:37Dargan?
07:38What's the World Wildlife Fund?
07:39The F is for fund, yes.
07:41Let's get wild for four.
07:43Sewing these is a metaphor for carousing and behaving immoderately when young.
07:48Stella?
07:48What are wild oats?
07:49Good.
07:50404 for six.
07:51Even after raising $82.5 million in an IPO, this dot-com, known for its sock puppet spokes
07:58dog, rolled over and did more than Playdead in 2000.
08:02Dargan?
08:03What is pets.com?
08:04Correct.
08:05Best and brightest for four.
08:07In a Robert Burns poem, the best laid schemes of these gang after glee, or as we might say,
08:13often go wrong.
08:14Bill?
08:15What are mice and men?
08:16That's right.
08:17Historic name's 400.
08:19Devoting himself to philanthropy, this man sold his steel company to banker J.P. Morgan
08:23for $480 million in 1901.
08:26Bill?
08:27Who is Carnegie?
08:28Right.
08:29Number one hits, 800.
08:31Madonna's This Used to Be My Playground was the theme to this film in which she co-starred.
08:36Stella?
08:37What's A League of Their Own?
08:37That's right.
08:3890s hits for 400?
08:40She had seven number one hot country songs in the 90s, including You Win My Love and You're
08:45Still the One.
08:46Bill?
08:47Who's Shania Twain?
08:48Right.
08:49404, 400.
08:50This search engine was founded in 1996, but just 10 years later, a certain butler was unemployed.
08:56Stella?
08:57What's Ask Jeeves?
08:58Four Jeeves, yeah.
08:59The best and brightest?
09:00Regulus, Latin for little king, is the brightest star in this constellation, named for the king
09:05of beasts.
09:06Dargan?
09:07What is Leo?
09:08You got it.
09:09Historic name's 200.
09:10Though she was empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, she was born to a German prince in
09:16Stettin, Prussia.
09:18Stella?
09:18Who's Catherine the Great?
09:19That's right.
09:20404, page not found for two.
09:23In 2017, it took Twitter at least six seconds to shut down this video service.
09:28Dargan?
09:28What is Vine?
09:29Yes.
09:30Wild for 200.
09:32A strike by workers without the approval of their union.
09:35Dargan?
09:36What is a wildcat strike?
09:37You got it.
09:38And we'll finish off 90s number one hits.
09:40The first new number one hit of the 90s was his, How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?
09:46Bill?
09:47Who's Bolton?
09:47It is Michael Bolton.
09:49Well done.
09:49He would have been very sad if you three didn't know that.
09:51Can't have that.
09:52Everybody's doing well.
09:53Dargan's on the lead at the end of the Jeopardy round, and we will be back with Double Jeopardy.
09:57Stay tuned.
10:00Stella will be selecting first in the Double Jeopardy round.
10:03Six new categories for you, champs.
10:04Here they are.
10:06We have Literary Beginnings, first up, followed by Lucky 13 Letters, then Backwards, The Vikings,
10:15a fluvial category, and finally, a performative male.
10:20Stella, you select first.
10:22Let's do the Vikings for $1,600.
10:24Answer.
10:25A daily double there, Stella.
10:29You can wager up to $2,000.
10:31I'd wager $2,000, please.
10:33All right.
10:33For $3,400, if you're right, here's your clue.
10:35In the Vikings, the first evidence of European presence in America is an 11th century Viking
10:41settlement at Lonzo Meadows on this island.
10:47What is Newfoundland?
10:48It is Newfoundland, yes.
10:50You're not just $2,000 off the lead.
10:54I'd like to do a fluvial category for 12.
10:57Also known as source streams, streams of this type, furthest from a river's endpoint, are small,
11:02yet make up the majority of U.S. river miles.
11:06Dargan.
11:06What are tributaries?
11:07Can you be more specific?
11:09Extreme tributaries?
11:10No.
11:11Stella, or Bill?
11:14The farthest point?
11:15These are headwaters.
11:16Headwaters streams.
11:17Back to you, Stella.
11:18Literary beginnings for 12.
11:20Answer.
11:21The other daily double.
11:25You found all three of them, Stella, and now you're wagering for the lead.
11:28Yes.
11:29I'd like to make it a true daily double.
11:31All right.
11:31You would be on top with 6,800, if you're correct, in literary beginnings.
11:37Jorge Luis Borges' story collection, A Universal History of Infamy, has been called the first
11:42book in this literary genre.
11:50What is magical realism?
11:52Magical realism is correct, yes.
11:57He's here to 6,800.
11:59Select again.
12:01Literary beginnings for two, please.
12:03Before Bond, Richard Hanna was a secret agent of Scottish roots in John Buchan books, starting
12:09with this 1915 numerical titled one.
12:12Bill.
12:12What is the 39 steps?
12:14Well done.
12:15Literary beginnings, 1,600.
12:16This Hugo and Nebula-winning author of works like Kindred was the first sci-fi writer to
12:21receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
12:23Bill.
12:23Who is Butler?
12:25It is Octavia Butler.
12:27Backwards, 1,200.
12:29Six Flags St. Louis lets you go 70 miles per hour backwards on the reverse blast roller coaster
12:34named for this Batman nemesis and cryogenics expert.
12:38Stella.
12:39Who's Mr. Freeze?
12:40That's right.
12:41The Vikings for 2,000.
12:43Jeopardy! is seen here in the style of these characters used by the Vikings, with a name
12:47meaning secret.
12:48Bill.
12:49What are runes?
12:50You got it.
12:51Fluvial, 2,000.
12:52From Greek for tree, this word describes the shape of intricate drainage patterns like
12:58that of the Amazon River, seen here.
13:00Stella.
13:01What's dendritic?
13:02Dendritic is correct, yes.
13:03Fluvial for 16.
13:05Named for a U-shaped livestock collar, this type of lake forms when a bend in a river gets
13:10cut off from the original water source.
13:13Dargan.
13:13What is an oxbow lake?
13:14Yes.
13:15Vikings for 12.
13:17Made up of as many as 6,000 Vikings, the Varangian Guard were bodyguards and mercenaries for this
13:23empire's rulers.
13:24Dargan.
13:25What is the Ottoman Empire?
13:27No.
13:28Bill.
13:29What's the Holy Roman Empire?
13:32Also incorrect.
13:34Stella shaking her head.
13:35What is the Byzantine Empire?
13:37Back to you, Dargan.
13:38Uh, backwards for 16.
13:40Film character who delivers the line, it's never too late, or in my case, too early to
13:45be whoever you want to be.
13:47Stella.
13:48Who's Benjamin Button?
13:49Right.
13:49Backwards for 2,000.
13:51This Nobel-winning playwright based Betrayal, his 1978 backward-flowing play, on his own
13:57long-time affair with a BBC reporter.
14:00Stella.
14:00Who's Pinter?
14:01It is.
14:02Performative male for two.
14:04He learned from Gustavo Duramel for his performance as classical conductor Rodrigo de
14:08Sousa on Mozart in the Jungle.
14:11Bill.
14:12Who's Bernal?
14:13Yes.
14:14Gael Garcia Bernal is correct.
14:16Performative male, 16.
14:17This actor from An American Werewolf in London and After Hours was Joan Gideon's nephew
14:23by marriage.
14:27Who is Griffin Dunn?
14:28Back to you, Bill.
14:30Uh, 1,200.
14:31Performative male.
14:31There was a movie, 8 Mile, and there was this actor as Future, a rap battle host and
14:37Eminem's friend.
14:38Bill.
14:39Who's Mekhi Pfeiffer?
14:40Yes.
14:41Performative male, 800.
14:43This Academy Award-winning actor began his career as a guest star on his brother River's
14:47TV show, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
14:50Stella.
14:51Who's Joaquin Phoenix?
14:52Correct.
14:52Lucky 13 for 2,000.
14:54Greetings and these.
14:56A 13-letter form of congrats.
14:59Dargan.
14:59What are salutations?
15:01No.
15:02Stella or Bill?
15:04In this case, greetings and felicitations.
15:07Stella.
15:07Lucky 13 for 16.
15:09In Celtic myth, the Morrigan is capable of this metamorphosis, so she's a beautiful woman
15:14today and a crow tomorrow.
15:16Bill.
15:17What's shape-shifting?
15:18That's it.
15:2013 letters, 1,200.
15:21This word means an estimate close to the actual value of something.
15:25You know, kind of, sort of.
15:27Dargan.
15:27What is gistimation?
15:28No.
15:30Bill.
15:30What's approximation?
15:31That's correct.
15:33Backwards, 800.
15:34You may have heard your astrologer use this term for the apparent backward motion of another
15:39planet as seen from Earth.
15:41Dargan.
15:41What is retrograde?
15:42Right.
15:43Backwards for 4.
15:45From the book of Genesis, the nameless wife of this Sodom resident looked back from behind
15:49him.
15:50A poor choice in hindsight.
15:52Stella.
15:53Who's Lot?
15:53Yes.
15:54Literary beginnings for 8.
15:56Echoing works by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Royal Tyler's 1787, The Contrast, is considered
16:02the first American one of these plays.
16:05Dargan.
16:05What is it, a restoration play?
16:07No.
16:08Stella or Bill?
16:10Comedy of Manners.
16:11Back to you, Stella.
16:13Lucky 13 for 8.
16:14It's an alternate name for intellectual history's age of reason.
16:18Stella.
16:19What's enlightenment?
16:19Yes.
16:20The Vikings for 8.
16:22In the Viking pantheon, he was the god of beauty, sadly struck down due to a trick by Loki.
16:28Stella.
16:28This balder?
16:29Yeah.
16:29The Vikings for 4.
16:31These birds, associated with Odin, appeared on many Viking flags and were said to have the
16:36ability to find land.
16:38Bill.
16:38What are ravens?
16:39Good.
16:40Fluvial, 800.
16:41At the mouth of a river, this type of landform develops from sediment deposits that accumulate
16:46over time.
16:48Stella.
16:48What's an estuary?
16:49No.
16:50Dargan.
16:51What's a delta?
16:52Delta is correct.
16:53Literary beginnings for 4.
16:55This iconic hero was introduced in a 1912 magazine story subtitled, A Romance of the Jungle.
17:01Stella.
17:02It was Tarzan.
17:02Yes.
17:03Lucky 13 for 4.
17:04You are now viewing a brine shrimp at 20x this, meaning enlargement.
17:10Bill.
17:10What's magnification?
17:11Correct.
17:13Fluvial, 400.
17:14This river valley of Central Europe is known for its many fluvial terraces, stair-like landforms
17:20that offer clues to its geologic past.
17:22Bill.
17:23What's the Danube?
17:24No.
17:25Dargan.
17:25What's the Rhine?
17:26It is the Rhine Valley.
17:27Final clue in a performative male.
17:30In Barbie, this Celebrity Jeopardy! contestant wanted to beach off Ryan Gosling's Ken.
17:35Bill.
17:36Who's Lou?
17:37It is Simu Liu, that's right.
17:38Stella has the lead heading into Final Jeopardy!
17:40Here's your category today, players.
17:43Science.
17:44We'll be back with the clue in just a moment.
17:47We'll be back with Final Jeopardy! right after this.
17:52This champion's wildcard game comes down to this Final Jeopardy! category, science.
17:57Here's the clue.
17:59Important in developing vaccines against TB, they were domesticated as a food source in
18:05the Andes region around 5,000 B.C.
18:0730 seconds, players, good luck.
18:38PIANO PLAYS
18:39We'll begin with Dargan Ware on the end, $2,600.
18:43What did you come up with, Dargan?
18:45Wrote down, what are llamas?
18:47That is a domesticated animal of the Andes,
18:49but I'm afraid not the right one, Dargan.
18:51What did you wager?
18:53You'll lose just $400, leaving you with $2,200.
18:56Bill McKinney was in second place with $13,200
18:59and wrote down, he crossed out guinea pigs.
19:02And I'm afraid we cannot accept a crossed-out response, Bill.
19:05I was just trying to underline it.
19:08You were a little high on the underline.
19:10What did you wager?
19:11You just lose $1,000, leaving you with $12,200.
19:15Stella Trout had the lead with $16,000.
19:17She came up with guinea pigs
19:19and made the wise decision not to cross it out.
19:21Yes, the famous lab animals, guinea pigs,
19:23still a food source in the Andes.
19:25So you're going to win this game, Stella,
19:27adding $10,401, taking you to $26,401
19:32and putting you in the Champions Wild Card semifinals.
19:35But there are wildcard spots available.
19:38So a good total, for example, like Bill's right now,
19:40may get you into the semis as well.
19:42We will see as the week goes on.
19:44We'll be back tomorrow
19:45as Jeopardy! Champions Wild Card continues.
19:47APPLAUSE
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