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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 07: S41 Champions Wildcard Tournament Quarterfinal Game 5
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00:01From the Alex Rebecca stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:09Champions Wild Card.
00:16Introducing today's past champions, an airline ramp agent originally from Aurora,
00:22Colorado, Ian Morrison. A recent graduate from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Ryan
00:29Sharp. And a nuclear engineer from Frederick, Maryland, James Corson. And now, here is the
00:39host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:44Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. And welcome to the last of our five semifinal games in this
00:49year's Jeopardy! Champions Wild Card Tournament. At the end of this game, we will know the names
00:54of the nine players who will be advancing to next week's semifinals. But for now, James,
00:58Ryan and Ian are here in hopes of earning a spot and advancing one step closer to the
01:03Tournament of Champions. So good luck, players. Here are your categories as we move into the
01:07Jeopardy! round.
01:09First, all these things that I've done, followed by alliteration, biblical language, then that's
01:17fashionable. Why not football? And finally, teaching to the test. James, you select first.
01:24Let's do all these things I've done for eight. You could say he took a serious left turn after he
01:30finished med school in 1953, joining Castro's 26th of July movement. Ryan?
01:36Who is Guevara? That's him.
01:38Biblical language for a thousand.
01:40A long, mournful speech warning of disaster. It's taken from the name of the author of the
01:45Book of Lamentations. Ryan?
01:47What is a Jeremiah ad?
01:49Right.
01:49Biblical language for eight.
01:51Written on a woman's head in Revelation to symbolize decadence, the name of this city
01:56has been used of ancient Rome and Hollywood. Ian?
01:59What's Babylon?
02:00Right.
02:01Biblical for six.
02:02Answer.
02:03A daily double for you, Ian.
02:07You can wager up to a thousand, depending on how confident you feel about biblical language.
02:11Let's do the full thousand, Ken.
02:12All right. You'll be tied for the lead if you're right. Here's your clue. An Israelite
02:17military leader lends his name to this species of yucca.
02:23What is Gideon?
02:24No, sorry. The Joshua Tree. Name for Joshua. You are at negative 200. Select again, Ian.
02:31Let's go alliteration for six, please.
02:33I was not at Sloveniansinswimsuits.com. And no need for you to hit this left-pointing arrow
02:39to check. Ian?
02:41What's the back button?
02:42Right.
02:43Alliteration eight.
02:44She's also known as Dame Fortune. Ian?
02:47Who's Lady Luck?
02:48Yes.
02:48Alliteration a thousand.
02:50After going on too long or too obscurely, you might say the Tumblr-born phrase,
02:55thank you for coming to my this.
02:57Ryan?
02:57What is Ted Talk?
02:58Good for a thousand.
03:00Biblical language for four.
03:01Someone who brings misfortune might be called by the name of this prophet who was on a ship
03:06that hit rough water.
03:07James?
03:08Who is Jonah?
03:09You're on the board.
03:10Why not football for a thousand?
03:12Not only does he own the Dallas Cowboys and have a net worth of $19 billion or so, but
03:17he was surprisingly great as an actor on TV's Landman.
03:20James?
03:21Who is Jerry Jones?
03:22That's right.
03:23Football eight.
03:25If you're receiving a punt in the NFL, you can't be tackled if you make this signal.
03:29Arms straight up, waving a hand side to side.
03:32James?
03:33What's a fair catch?
03:34That's it.
03:35Football six.
03:37After college, his salary went up from $5.50 an hour in an Iowa grocery store to, I'm going
03:42to guess at least double that as a Super Bowl MVP.
03:45James?
03:46Who's Kurt Warner?
03:47That's him.
03:47Four.
03:48Football.
03:48Winning the war, but not the battle, this university took the national crown in 2025,
03:53but a loss to Michigan kept them out of the Big Ten title game.
03:57James?
03:57Who is Ohio State?
03:59Yes.
03:59Boo.
04:00Why not football 200?
04:02Finish it off with this.
04:03This team began in Oakland, moved to LA, thought about going to Irwindale, went back
04:08to Oakland, then hit the tables in Vegas.
04:11Ryan?
04:11Who are the Raiders?
04:12That's correct.
04:13You kept James from running the football category.
04:15Teaching to the test for 1,000.
04:17These exams date to 19th century reforms.
04:21New York's ask about smoke detectors on the firefighter one, jobless clients on the
04:25caseworker one.
04:29Those are civil service exams.
04:31Ryan?
04:32Biblical language two.
04:34First mentioned in the Bible as early as Genesis 21, this people has become a synonym
04:38for an uneducated and uncultured group.
04:41Ian?
04:42We're Philistines.
04:43You got it.
04:43Taking you to $1,400.
04:45Everybody's off to a good start.
04:46We will pause for a moment for a quick break, and then we'll come right back and chat with
04:49our players.
04:50Stay with us.
04:52Ian Morrison is an airline ramp agent, originally from Aurora, Colorado.
04:56Ian, you have some Jeopardy winnings.
04:58You're a Jeopardy champ.
04:59Do you have plans for what you won?
05:01Yeah, I'm starting a college fund for my nephew, Theodore, who just turned one recently.
05:06That's nice.
05:07So he's got some college in the distant future.
05:09Yep.
05:10Do you have plans for where he will go?
05:12It's up to his parents.
05:13Well, I mean, he doesn't know.
05:14He's just one.
05:15I mean, now's the time.
05:16You can have some input here, right?
05:18We'll see.
05:18Ryan Sharp is back with us from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, a recent graduate.
05:23Speaking of recent, we saw you not long ago on Second Chance.
05:26I understand you have a few regrets.
05:29Yeah.
05:29So there was one clue in Second Chance that was about the Bastille.
05:34I mentioned July 13th, the day before Bastille Day in France.
05:37Right.
05:38And I completely somehow glossed over the July 13th part of the clue and...
05:42You said...
05:43The Eiffel Tower instead.
05:44The Eiffel Tower.
05:45So I thought, you know, under any circumstances that would be kind of a silly mistake.
05:48But here's the kicker, Ken.
05:50Okay.
05:50I lived in France for two years, during which time I was studying French history.
05:54So...
05:55Well, I'm sure the French have forgiven you, Ryan.
05:58Congratulations on making it to Champions Wild Card.
06:00James Corson is back with us, a nuclear engineer from Frederick, Maryland.
06:04You told us in your first stint with us, James, about your breakfast cereal obsession.
06:09Yeah, that's right.
06:10Did any of your winnings go to fueling that normal and healthy collection you have?
06:15Of course.
06:15So, I mean, my supply was dwindling a little bit.
06:18I still had to wait for it to go on sale.
06:20I can't just buy full price.
06:22That's a little bit much.
06:23But once it went on sale, I made sure to fill up my shelves, and yeah.
06:26I'm told there's also a nice bottle of scotch.
06:28There is also a nice bottle of scotch.
06:30More seriously, that's what I got.
06:32That was a little bit more expensive.
06:33But you don't pour it on the cereal, I hope.
06:35No, no, no, no, no.
06:36Ian, you have control of the board.
06:38What'll it be?
06:39All these things I've done for a thousand.
06:41In 1940, a French military court sentenced him in absentia to death for defying Marshal Patan.
06:47But he'd make a big comeback.
06:49Ryan?
06:49Who is to call?
06:50Right.
06:51All these things that I've done for six.
06:53A violent young man, in 1919, he was transferred from the New York to the Chicago branch by superiors Frankie
07:00Yale and Johnny Torrio.
07:02Ian?
07:03Who's Al Capone?
07:03Yes.
07:04Oh, that's fashionable for six.
07:07This fashion designer from Queens worshipped Barbara Streisand, who went on to wear her clothes and become a close friend.
07:13Ian?
07:14Who's Donna Karan?
07:15It is.
07:16Fashionable eight.
07:16This style of boot gets its name from an area of swinging London, not RD New York.
07:23Ian?
07:23What's the Chelsea boot?
07:25Yes.
07:25Fashionable a thousand.
07:27Often applied to clothes, it's French for ready to wear.
07:30Ryan?
07:31What is it?
07:32Yes.
07:32You're redeeming yourself with the French here.
07:35Yeah.
07:36Okay.
07:36Alliteration for four.
07:38It's a presumably platonic female confidant in the office.
07:42James?
07:43What's a work wife?
07:44Yes.
07:45Teaching to the Tessie.
07:46A bar exam may ask about this two-word doctrine, allowing police to chase a fleeing suspect into a home
07:53without a warrant.
07:56That's the hot pursuit doctrine.
07:59James?
07:59Uh, let's do all these things I've done four.
08:02After learning to associate objects she felt with words spelled out in her palm, she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe
08:08in 1904.
08:09Ryan?
08:10Who is Keller?
08:11Yes, Helen Keller.
08:12Alliteration for two.
08:14Rodent-wise, it's the grind of keeping up with the competition.
08:17Ian?
08:18What's the rat race?
08:19Yes.
08:20Teaching six.
08:21To pass the exam to be a veterinarian in most of the U.S., better know what to do if
08:26an African gray one of these has seizures.
08:28Ryan?
08:29What's a parrot?
08:29Yes.
08:30All these things for two?
08:32She was provost at Stanford before becoming the first woman to serve as national security advisor.
08:38Ryan?
08:40Who's rice?
08:41Correct again.
08:42Fashionable for four?
08:43In the fashion biz, it's common to pronounce this word for a high-waisted dress style in the French way,
08:49as Napoleon might have.
08:53What is empire or empire, apparently?
08:56Ryan?
08:57Fashionable for two.
08:58You get a top grade if you can name this letter-perfect dress style introduced by Christian Dior in 1955.
09:05James?
09:06What's an A-line?
09:07It is.
09:08Teaching to test four.
09:09For the citizenship test, this pair limits the power of each branch of government.
09:14John Adams said, we will learn to prize them.
09:17James?
09:18What are checks and balances?
09:20You got them both.
09:21Here's the final clue in teaching to the test.
09:23Driving test prep.
09:25These should not be on within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle.
09:28Ryan?
09:29What are high beams?
09:30Yes.
09:30Don't have your brights on.
09:31You're in the lead with 6400.
09:33But all three players are playing very well.
09:35Let's hope that continues in Double Jeopardy when we come back.
09:39It's Double Jeopardy time.
09:41Ian will be selecting first from these categories.
09:44We have U.S. bodies of water.
09:47Then we have known whereabouts.
09:49Adapted for high school.
09:51Next, they call me mellow yellow.
09:54Followed by fantastic tales.
09:56And once again, teaching to the test.
09:58But this time, response is alphabetically between teaching and test.
10:02Ian?
10:03What looks good?
10:04U.S. bodies of water for 12, please.
10:06Pioneers heading west along the Oregon and Mormon trails
10:09followed this wide, shallow river of Nebraska.
10:12Ryan?
10:12What's the Platte?
10:14Yes.
10:14Bodies of water, 16.
10:16Whidbey is the largest of the islands that dot this deepwater estuary.
10:20Ryan?
10:21What's Puget Sound?
10:22Yes.
10:23Bodies of water, too.
10:24Answer there is a daily double, Ryan.
10:29You're two for two in U.S. bodies of water so far.
10:32How much do you want to risk on this daily double?
10:34I'd like to do $6,174.
10:38So you'll have $15,374.
10:41If you're right, here's your clue in U.S. bodies of water.
10:45Named for a duke, this nearly 700-mile-long river rises in Kentucky, flows through Tennessee, then back into Kentucky.
10:56What is the Cumberland?
10:58The Cumberland is correct.
11:00You have whatever that number was I said, and you're in the lead.
11:03Well done.
11:04Fantastic Tales for 12.
11:05A swashbuckling rodent sets off to rescue a princess in 2004's Newbery Medal winner, The Tale of This Mouse.
11:13Ryan?
11:14Who is Dustborough?
11:15Yes.
11:16Fantastic Tales, 16.
11:17A Pulitzer Prize winner set below the equator, Tales of This Place would turn out to be great musical material.
11:24James?
11:24What's the South Pacific?
11:26Right.
11:27Uh, Tales, 2,000.
11:28In this Judy Blume tale, Peter Hatcher feels ignored and overshadowed by his turtle-swallowing younger brother, Fudge.
11:35Ian?
11:36Was Tales of fourth grade nothing?
11:37Well done for 2,000.
11:39No whereabouts for 12.
11:41Mosul, Iraq was one stomping ground of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-proclaimed caliph of this organization.
11:47In 2019, he died in Syria.
11:50Ryan?
11:51What is ISIS?
11:52Yes.
11:53No whereabouts for 16.
11:55Albert DeSalvo, known as this notorious name of the 60s, lived with his wife and two kids in Malden, Massachusetts.
12:04He was also the Boston Strangler.
12:07Back to you, Ryan.
12:07Mellow Yellow for 12.
12:10Lying on the North Shore of Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife is the capital of this vast Canadian region.
12:16James?
12:17Uh, what is the Yukon?
12:19No.
12:20Ryan?
12:21What are the Northwest Territories?
12:22Yes.
12:22Well done for Canada.
12:23Mellow Yellow, 16.
12:24Answer.
12:25The other Daily Double.
12:30You have a big lead that has a lot of strange digits in it, Ryan.
12:33What do you want to wager here?
12:352,048.
12:362,048?
12:38Yeah.
12:38Okay.
12:39For 2,048 dollars, if you're right, here's your clue, and they call me Mellow Yellow.
12:44At the turn of the 20th century, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and this publisher's New York Journal spread lurid
12:51yellow journalism.
12:52Who is Hearst?
12:53It is William Randolph Hearst, yes.
12:55That takes you to $21,022.
12:59Uh, let's go back to Bodies of Water for eight.
13:02The Bighorn River is a major tributary of this river of Wyoming and Montana.
13:07Ian?
13:07What's the snake?
13:08No.
13:10Ryan?
13:11What's the Yellowstone?
13:12It is the Yellowstone.
13:13Bodies of Water for four?
13:14I'm going to take my RV and head out for a little R&R at this largest lake entirely in
13:19Wisconsin.
13:20Ryan?
13:21What's Lake Winnebago?
13:22Yes, Lake Winnebago.
13:23And toss your tails for eight.
13:25In 1837's Twice Told Tales by this man, a Puritan minister wears a mysterious black veil.
13:31James?
13:32Uh, who is Hawthorne?
13:34It is Hawthorne.
13:35Uh, teaching to the test for 12.
13:37Crab traps pose a threat to these salt marsh turtles.
13:41James?
13:42What are terrapins?
13:43Well done.
13:44Teaching to the test 16.
13:46Sir, I am astounded that you have the recklessness, the foolhardiness, the chutzpah, nay, the this, to speak to me
13:52thus.
13:56The temerity.
13:58James?
13:59Teaching to the test 2000.
14:00In geometry, it's the four-dimensional equivalent of a cube.
14:04In a wrinkle in time, it's how the Murray kids travel the universe.
14:08James?
14:08What's a tesseract?
14:09You had 2000.
14:11Adapted for High School 12.
14:13In this adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Amanda Bynes assumes the identity of her twin brother to play soccer.
14:19James?
14:20What, She's the Man?
14:21That's the movie.
14:22Adapted for High School 16.
14:24This 90s film based on Les Liaisons Dangerous with Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar was remade as a TV
14:30show in 2024.
14:32James?
14:33What is Cruel Intentions?
14:35Yes.
14:362000, High School?
14:38Ryan Johnson adapted what he called the weirdly poetic style of Dashiell Hammett for High School in this film starring
14:44Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
14:45Ian?
14:46What is Brick?
14:47That's the movie.
14:48Yellow for 2000.
14:50When an employee agrees as a condition of employment to not join a union, it's called this kind of unlawful
14:56contract.
14:59That's a yellow dog contract.
15:01Ian?
15:02Uh, whereabouts for two.
15:04This ranch where Charles Manson and his gang hung out has been absorbed into Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park.
15:13They were at the spawn ranch.
15:15Ian?
15:16Uh, metal yellow for eight.
15:17Yellow cake is a concentrated form of this element that, when refined further, can produce nuclear grade material.
15:24Ryan?
15:24What's uranium?
15:25It is.
15:26Metal yellow for four.
15:27In a line stretching back more than 600 years, the leader of the yellow hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism is
15:32the person with this title.
15:34Ryan?
15:34Uh, what's the Dalai Lama?
15:36Right.
15:37Whereabouts eight?
15:38On 36th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas, you're walking in the footsteps of bank robber and killer Charles Floyd, nicknamed
15:45this.
15:46Ian?
15:46Who's pretty boy?
15:47Yeah.
15:48Whereabouts for four?
15:49Once a resident of London's Carlisle Square, Kim Philby fled in 1963 to this country, for which he'd been working
15:56for decades.
15:58Ian?
15:58What's the Soviet Union?
16:00Right.
16:01Fantastic Tales four.
16:02This New Yorker, who wrote about a Tarrytown legend, also wrote about various Spanish legends in Tales of the Alhambra.
16:09James?
16:11Who is Irving?
16:13It is.
16:14Um, high school eight.
16:15In Do Revenge, this actress and Camila Mendez take a page from Strangers on a Train.
16:23That's Maya Hawk.
16:25James?
16:25High school four.
16:27It's loverly to think about what Shaw would have said of this 1999 remix of Pygmalion, starring Freddie Prinze Jr.
16:34Ian?
16:34What is she's all that?
16:36Yes.
16:37Uh, teaching to the test for eight.
16:38This adjective for looking good on the tube dates back to the 1930s, the infancy of the medium.
16:44James?
16:45What is televisual?
16:48No.
16:49Ryan?
16:50What's telegenic?
16:51Telegenic is the word.
16:52One last clue in teaching to the test.
16:54Some think of it as bluish green.
16:56Others as greenish blue.
16:58Ian?
16:58What is teal?
16:59We call it teal, taking you to 8800.
17:01Ryan has a big lead as we move into the final Jeopardy round.
17:04But remember those four wild card births players.
17:07Here's your category in final.
17:09Notable Americans.
17:10And we will be back with the clue right after we pause for this break.
17:15We'll be back with Final Jeopardy right after this.
17:20We have Notable Americans as our Final Jeopardy category today.
17:24Let's see the clue.
17:27Known in Mexican history as the sale of the Mesilla Valley, the 30,000 square mile deal
17:32was negotiated by this U.S. diplomat.
17:3530 seconds.
17:36Good luck.
18:07Ian Morrison came into final in third place with $8,800.
18:10What did you write down, Ian?
18:12Who is Gadsden?
18:13That's correct.
18:14James Gadsden negotiated the Gadsden purchase, Southern Arizona and New Mexico.
18:18What did you wager, Ian?
18:198800 takes you up to 17,600.
18:22We come now to James Corson in second place with 11,000.
18:25Does he have Gadsden?
18:27He had Gaston and wound up with Gadsen.
18:31And we cannot accept that.
18:32You never had both Ds at once, James.
18:34So close.
18:35What did you wager?
18:36Wagered everything.
18:37That'll drop him down to zero.
18:39Ryan Sharp had a big lead with 24,222.
18:42Was he thinking of the Gadsden purchase?
18:44He was.
18:45What did you wager?
18:46An even 1,729, taking him to $25,951.
18:51Ryan Sharp, you're headed to the semifinals.
18:54Congratulations.
18:58Joining Ryan will be our four other quarterfinal winners from this week.
19:03Stella Trout, Houston, Texas.
19:05Michelle Psy, Honolulu, Hawaii.
19:08Harvey Slocumitz, West Arms, New Jersey.
19:11Jonathan Hugendubler, Baltimore, Maryland.
19:14And then we have our four wildcard spots.
19:17Highest scoring non-winners.
19:19Those players will be...
19:21Vicki Tohola, Jersey City, New Jersey.
19:24Cameron Berry, Brighton, Massachusetts.
19:27Bill McKinney, San Diego, California.
19:30But that's only three because our fourth wildcard winner is here on stage.
19:33Ian Morrison with 17,600 makes it into the semis.
19:39The semifinals will begin Monday.
19:41Thanks for being with us this week on the Alex Trebek stage.
19:44We'll see you then.
19:45Have a good weekend.
19:45See you then.
19:47See you then.
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