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Jeopardy! - Season 2026 Episode 96 -
Tristan Williams, Nishi Kantamneni, Anne Benjaminson
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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:15Today's contestants are a foreign service officer, originally from New York, New York, Ann Benjaminson.
00:22A platform engineer, originally from Pleasanton, California, Nishi Tantamnini.
00:28And our returning champion, a data scientist originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Tristan Williams, whose six-day cash winnings total $113
00:40,699.
00:45And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:51Thank you so much, Johnny Gilbert. Welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:55In yesterday's game, it was win number six and runaway win number five for our champion Tristan Williams,
01:00who, despite loving the movie Groundhog Day, he says, was unable to come up with that correct response in yesterday's
01:06game.
01:07In fact, despite his very strong gameplay overall, that round has proven to be a little bit challenging for Tristan.
01:13He is now two for six in Final Jeopardy! when it comes to correct responses.
01:16So that may be some hopeful news for our newcomers, Nishi and Ann.
01:20Good luck to all three of you. All right, let's light this candle.
01:22The Jeopardy! round is up first with these categories.
01:26First, Eye on Asia.
01:28Then we have Warning Worthy Weather.
01:31Followed by Ambrose Pierce's Devil's Dictionary.
01:34Then Small Business.
01:36A Last Time for Everything.
01:39And finally, the end of the reality show.
01:42Tristan, you're up first.
01:44Sue, Eye on Asia for $800.
01:46Baikonur in this landlocked Stan is the longtime spot from which the Soviet and now Russian space programs have gotten
01:52liftoff.
01:53Tristan.
01:54What is Kazakhstan?
01:54Good.
01:55Eye on Asia $600.
01:57In 1972, Salon changed its official name to Sri Lanka, which appropriately translates as resplendent this.
02:07Resplendent Island. Back to you, Tristan.
02:10All right. Warning-worthy weather for $800.
02:13Though strong winds can also be deadly, the greatest threat to life during a hurricane comes from this two-word
02:19rise in sea level.
02:21Anne.
02:21What is Storm Surge?
02:23That's right.
02:24Let's do End of the Reality Show for $600.
02:28Folks with autism navigate dating and relationships. Love on this.
02:32Nishi.
02:33What is The Spectrum?
02:34That's the show.
02:35Reality for $400.
02:37Elite real estate brokers in L.A. selling here.
02:41Nishi.
02:42What is Sunset?
02:43Selling Sunset, right.
02:44Reality for $800.
02:46Second chances for both pups and people in New Orleans. Pit bulls and them.
02:51Anne.
02:51What is Parole Leeds?
02:52You got it.
02:53Eye on Asia $1,000.
02:55This city is home to Ragunan Zoological Park with its Komodo dragons and Sumatran tigers.
03:01Tristan.
03:02What is Jakarta?
03:02Good for $1,000.
03:05Weather $1,000.
03:06The National Weather Service issues a warning if sustained winds or gusts reach 39 to 54 miles per hour, at
03:13which point they're called these.
03:15Anne.
03:16What are Gale Force winds?
03:18Yes, Gales is correct.
03:21Small Business for $600.
03:23Walt Disney hired brothers Richard and Robert Sherman to write this song that can never be unheard after a visit
03:29to Disneyland.
03:29Nishi.
03:30What is It's a Small World?
03:32That's right.
03:33Last Time for Everything for $600.
03:35New York City's horse-drawn streetcars started service in 1832 and ended it in 1917 on this named major street.
03:43Anne.
03:44What is Broadway?
03:45That's the street.
03:46Eye on Asia $400.
03:48Shinjuku and Shibuya are regarded as Tokyo's two most confusing of these essential hubs.
03:53Anne.
03:54What is Crossing?
03:55No.
03:57Tristan and Nishi.
03:59They are train stations.
04:00Back to you, Anne.
04:01End of the reality show, 1,000.
04:04Seeking legendary treasure with modern tech.
04:07The curse of this place.
04:11Looking for treasure on Oak Island.
04:13The curse of Oak Island.
04:14Back to Anne.
04:16Devil's Dictionary, 800.
04:18This building.
04:19A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
04:23Tristan.
04:24What's the planetarium?
04:25No.
04:26Nishi, you're Anne.
04:29Close, but it's an observatory.
04:30Back to you, Anne.
04:32Last Time for Everything, 800.
04:34It still gets carried around, but was last worn by Charles II at Schoon in 1651.
04:43That's the Scottish crown.
04:45Now back to Anne.
04:46Small Business 1000.
04:48This Silicon Valley company made macro money by pioneering microprocessors like the Pentium.
04:54Anne.
04:55What is Intel?
04:55Intel is correct.
04:56It's all about the Pentiums.
04:58Anne's in the lead as we reach our first break.
05:00Don't go anywhere.
05:01You're watching Japanese.
05:04Anne Benjamin Sen is with us, a foreign service officer from Arlington.
05:08Where has the State Department sent you?
05:09You've lived all over the world.
05:10True.
05:10I've lived in six countries.
05:12Hungary, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Myanmar, and currently Vietnam.
05:16So you're currently in Vietnam.
05:17Yes.
05:18I flew here from Vietnam for this show.
05:20Were you allowed?
05:21Did Uncle Sam let you off for this?
05:22Yes.
05:23I have really great coworkers at the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City.
05:26And they are all so excited.
05:28And also, I think, kind of baffled that I was willing to do this flight.
05:32But that's how much I love Jeopardy!
05:33Exactly.
05:33You love Jeopardy!
05:34Thank you for coming all this way.
05:36And speaking of a love of Jeopardy!
05:38Nishi Kantamneni, originally from Pleasanton, California.
05:41You're a platform engineer, but you grew up watching this show, right?
05:44It means a lot to your family.
05:45Correct.
05:46I started watching in elementary school with my parents every night.
05:49So it's sort of like a full circle moment that I'm here and they're in the crowd.
05:53Were they excited to get you on?
05:54Is this why they were showing you Jeopardy!
05:55Oh, yeah, of course.
05:56This is their dream and yours.
05:57Long call, yeah.
05:58Well, I'm glad.
05:59I hope they're excited.
05:59She did it!
06:00Well done, Nishi!
06:01Our returning champion is Tristan Williams, originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, a data scientist.
06:06You've taken us for over $110,000 here, Tristan.
06:09But you have been winning prizes for being smart further back than that.
06:13What did you win in high school?
06:14Yeah, in high school, my German teacher one day was like, you're going to take a national test.
06:18If you do well, you could win headphones.
06:19Got the results.
06:20I did well beyond headphone level, I guess.
06:23People from the company that put it on started calling me and asking me more questions auf Deutsch.
06:27It turns out I won a trip to Germany for a month.
06:30That's amazing!
06:31A month in Germany.
06:32Yeah.
06:32Well, that prepared you for the amazing Jeopardy! winnings, I hope, because you could travel with what you've won here.
06:37Oh, we'll go back.
06:38Right now, Anne has control of the board.
06:40Make a selection for us, Anne.
06:42Eye on Asia, 200, please.
06:45Much reproduced and recited in Asia, the Heart Sutra, a text of this religion, touches on karma, rebirth, and enlightenment.
06:52Mishi.
06:53What is Buddhism?
06:54Yes.
06:55Last time for everything for 200.
06:57On February 7th, 1951, Captain Lewis Millett shouted, fix these!
07:03And led the last U.S. Army charge, sticking enemy soldiers with them.
07:07Tristan.
07:07What are bayonets?
07:08You got it.
07:09Last time for everything, 1,000.
07:11With months to live, this correspondent made his last CBS radio broadcast in 1964 on a farewell to the network's
07:18historic Studio 9.
07:20Tristan.
07:21Who was Murrow?
07:22It was Edward R. Murrow.
07:23Small business, 800.
07:25Simon & Schuster helped launch this line of conveniently-sized paperbacks and its kangaroo logo in 1939.
07:32Tristan?
07:32What is pocket?
07:33Yes, pocketbooks.
07:35Weather, 600.
07:36The most destructive tornadoes come from supercells, which are this loud and wet 12-letter event souped up with a
07:43rotating updraft.
07:46It's a type of thunderstorm.
07:49Tristan?
07:50Devil's Dictionary, 600.
07:51Often heard in zydeco music, an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
07:57Anne.
07:58What is a banjo?
07:59No.
08:00Tristan?
08:01What's an accordion?
08:02Harsh words about the accordion.
08:03Yes.
08:04Dictionary, 1,000.
08:06This Roman god, a convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
08:11Anne.
08:11What is Bacchus?
08:12You got it for 1,000.
08:14End of the reality show, 200.
08:16Facing a major life change, 16 and in this condition.
08:20Anne.
08:21What is pregnant?
08:22That's right.
08:23Warning-worthy weather, 400.
08:25Noah's advisory about this phenomenon is likely if surface temps fall below the mid-30s during the growing season.
08:31Anne.
08:32What is frost?
08:33Frost is right.
08:34Small business, 400.
08:36Advertising age named this car company's 1959 Think Small campaign the best of the 20th century.
08:42Anne.
08:43What is a Volkswagen?
08:44Right again.
08:45Devil's Dictionary, 400.
08:47This medieval outfit, the kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
08:52Tristan.
08:53What is armor?
08:54Yes.
08:55Last time for everything, 400.
08:56Answer there is a daily double.
08:58We finally find it.
08:59And you're in second place, Tristan.
09:01A chance to take the lead.
09:04Let's do 3,000.
09:05All right.
09:06Going for 7,000, if you're correct, in a last time for everything.
09:10In 1957, Mike Stepovich was sworn in as the last governor of this territory.
09:16Not yet a state.
09:17He was also the first born there.
09:21What is Alaska?
09:23Alaska is the right one.
09:25Yes.
09:25You move into the lead.
09:26Three clues left, Tristan.
09:29Yeah.
09:29Small business, 200.
09:30This category of clothing size is specifically for women who are 5'4 or less.
09:36Anne.
09:37What is petite?
09:37Right.
09:38Devil's Dictionary, 200.
09:40A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
09:45Nishi.
09:45What is a funeral?
09:46Funeral is right.
09:47The last clue is from Warning Worthy Weather.
09:50It's a measure of how cold people feel.
09:52And below minus 20, as in, it's five degrees.
09:55But with blank, blank, minus 25, the effects can be dangerous.
10:00Anne.
10:00What is a wind chill?
10:01Wind chill.
10:02You got it.
10:02You finish in second place with 5,600.
10:04Nishi, you're in third and we'll go first when we come back.
10:06Because Double Jeopardy is on deck.
10:11Looks like the dollar amounts on the board have doubled.
10:13It's time for Double Jeopardy with these new categories.
10:16We have it's all history up first, followed by book recommendations.
10:21Then in the nick of time, responses here are made up of letters in the words, the nick
10:25of time.
10:27After that, travel and tourism.
10:29She directed it.
10:31And finally, ooh, a category about me it sounds like.
10:34Good hang.
10:35Nishi.
10:36I'll take book racks for 1,200.
10:39Judy Blume said this 1939 work set at an all-girl boarding school in Paris was the first
10:44book she fell in love with.
10:46Tristan.
10:47What is Madeline?
10:47Right.
10:48Book recommendations, 1,600.
10:50Filmmaker Emerald Fennell loves the British restraint of this 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
10:56A perfect story of lost love and regret.
10:58Anne.
10:59What is The Remains of the Day?
11:00That is the novel.
11:01Uh, travel and tourism, 1,200.
11:04Houston, we have a sightseer.
11:06You can take a tour of mission control at this Texas facility.
11:12At the Johnson Space Center.
11:14Anne.
11:15History, 1,600.
11:17A medieval legend said this tutor of Alexander the Great got ridden like a horsey by Phyllis,
11:22a consort at the Macedonian court.
11:25Tristan.
11:25Who is Aristotle?
11:26Or Aristotle, yes.
11:28History, 1,200.
11:29Answer.
11:30It's a daily double.
11:33You have a narrow lead over Anne at the moment, Tristan.
11:375,000.
11:38All right.
11:38Going for 14,800.
11:40Depending on your response in, it's all history.
11:43A failed attempt to convert a chieftain to Christianity led to this man's death at the
11:48Battle of Maktan in 1521.
11:56Tristan?
11:57Who is Suleiman?
11:59No.
12:00Wrong part of Asia.
12:01This is Magellan.
12:02Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
12:04Oh.
12:04All right.
12:05That drops you into second place.
12:06Select.
12:07Travel and Tourism, 1,600.
12:08Take a tour of the Vienna State Opera House and see the frescoes depicting Papageno, a character
12:14in this Mozart opera.
12:18What is the magic flute?
12:20Tristan?
12:21She directed it, 1,600.
12:23Near dark and zero dark 30.
12:25Anne?
12:26Who is Bigelow?
12:27Right.
12:27Catherine Bigelow.
12:28Nick of Time, 1,200.
12:30If you're on an extremely low carb diet, this type of organic compound makes up your primary
12:35source of energy.
12:37Anne?
12:38What is protein?
12:39No.
12:40Tristan?
12:41What is fat?
12:41Also incorrect.
12:43Nishi?
12:44Not going to try it.
12:45What is a ketone?
12:46Back to you, Anne.
12:47Travel and Tourism 2000.
12:49This country may be landlocked, but you can take a safari in its Okavango Delta to see
12:54birds and the endangered African wild dog.
12:57Nishi?
12:58What is Botswana?
12:59Well done, yes.
13:00Book Wrecks for 2,000.
13:03Alison Bechdel of Fun Home fame loves Mansfield Park and identifies with this lead character.
13:11That's Fanny Price in that book.
13:13Back to you, Nishi.
13:14It's all history for 800.
13:16In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu was formally appointed to this position by the emperor.
13:22Tristan?
13:23What is Shogun?
13:23Good.
13:25She directed it, 1,200.
13:26Ava DuVernay, 13th, and this 2018 film based on the novel by Madeline L'Engle.
13:32Anne?
13:33What is The Wrinkle in Time?
13:34Right.
13:35Good Hang, 1,600.
13:36The first helicopter rescue was in 1945, and the pilot of the chopper with the guy hanging
13:41off it was the nephew of this aircraft designer.
13:44Tristan?
13:45With Sikorsky?
13:45Yes.
13:46Good Hang, 1,200?
13:48Answer.
13:48Another Daily Double for you.
13:51The last one knocked you down in a second.
13:53You can move back into the lead here, Tristan.
13:553,000.
13:56All right.
13:57That will put you on top, but only by 200 bucks.
13:59In the category Good Hang, here's your clue.
14:02In the atrium of the East Building of the National Gallery in Washington, hangs a large
14:06and gently spinning work by this American artist.
14:09Who is Calder?
14:10Alexander Calder, yes.
14:12One of his mobiles.
14:14You're in the lead.
14:16All right.
14:17History, 2,000.
14:18Before dying in a French jail in 1803, this Caribbean leader craftily played European
14:24superpowers against one another.
14:26Tristan?
14:26Who is Loverture?
14:27Toussaint Loverture is right.
14:29Directed at 2,000?
14:30The first woman to direct a superhero movie with a $100 million budget, 2017's Wonder Woman.
14:39That's Patty Jenkins.
14:40Back to Tristan.
14:42Good Hang, 2,000.
14:42With both high sugar levels and tangy acidity, the grapefruit hanging in IRC, this Southeast
14:49Florida county, is tempting to pluck.
14:54In Indian River County.
14:56Back to Tristan.
14:57Book recommendations, 800.
14:59Jay Mack and Ernie called this love story of a bootlegger and a Southern Belle the Rosetta
15:04Stone of the American Dream.
15:05Tristan?
15:06What is Gone with the Wind?
15:07No.
15:09Nisha Uran?
15:10That's The Great Gatsby.
15:12Back to you, Tristan.
15:13Nick of Time, 2,000.
15:15PayPal is part of this industry with a portmanteau name, in which digital tools are used to enhance
15:20traditional banking services.
15:22Anne?
15:23What is FinTech?
15:24Right.
15:25Nick of Time, 1,600.
15:27Make way for this traditional cooking technique that involves slow cooking meat in its own fat.
15:33Anne?
15:33What is Brazing?
15:34No.
15:35Tristan or Nishi?
15:37What is Konfi?
15:39Back to you, Anne.
15:41Travel and Tourism, 800.
15:42The Pearl of the Orient.
15:44This Chinese seaport is home to the historic Yu Garden and a Disney resort.
15:48Tristan?
15:49What is Hong Kong?
15:50No.
15:51Anne?
15:51What is Singapore?
15:52Also incorrect.
15:54Nishi?
15:55No.
15:56What is Shanghai?
15:57Anne, back to you.
15:58Nick of Time, 800.
15:59This word for a doctrine or principle has a bonus feature.
16:03It's also a palindrome.
16:05Tristan?
16:05What's a tenet?
16:06Yes.
16:07Good Hang, 800?
16:08The flag code says this piece of red, white, and blue cloth should drape the front of a
16:13platform, blue on top, red at the bottom.
16:15Anne?
16:16Ruth Bunting?
16:17Right.
16:17She directed at 800.
16:19Yentl and the Prince of Tides.
16:22Tristan?
16:22Who is Streisand?
16:23Right.
16:24Directed at 400.
16:25Greta Gerwig, this highest grossing film of 2023.
16:29Tristan?
16:30What is Barbie?
16:30That's right.
16:31Travel and Tourism, 400.
16:32Philly is home to an institute named for this scientist and founding father.
16:36The statue of him in its rotunda weighs 30 tons.
16:39Tristan?
16:40Who is Franklin?
16:40Yes.
16:41Book recommendations, 400.
16:43Roxane Gay's go-to book is this Pulitzer Prize winner by Edith Wharton set in Old New York.
16:48Tristan?
16:48What is the Age of Innocence?
16:49Yeah.
16:50Nick of Time, 400.
16:51In Italy, this word refers not to tiny, festive bits of paper, but to sugar-coated almonds.
16:57Anne?
16:57What is confetti?
16:58That's right.
16:59Good Hang, 4.
17:01In poetry, t'was the night before Christmas, and these were hung by the chimney with care.
17:06Anne?
17:06What are stockings?
17:07The stockings, yes.
17:08One more clue from It's All History.
17:10The Marduk Gate and the Ishtar Gate were two of the eight fortified entrances into this ancient
17:15city.
17:16Anne?
17:17What is Baghdad?
17:17No.
17:19Nishi?
17:19What is Babylon?
17:20Babylon is correct, taking you to 4400.
17:23A very close game between Tristan and Anne.
17:26Not a runaway for Tristan today.
17:27Let's see the Final Jeopardy category.
17:30Inspired By.
17:31Interesting.
17:32We'll be back with the clue as soon as the wagers are made.
17:34Stay with us.
17:36An interesting Final Jeopardy category today.
17:38Inspired By.
17:39Let's see the clue.
17:42This 1982 number one hit was inspired by Splendor in the Grass, a classic film about
17:47the failed expectations of teens Wilma and Bud.
17:50You have 30 seconds starting now, players.
17:52Good luck.
17:53On the back.
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18:051
18:081
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18:231
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18:231
18:23Anybody's game, but we'll start in the middle with Nishi Cantamneny,
18:26who had $4,400 at the end of Double Jeopardy and wrote down,
18:31What is IDK, but thanks for having me.
18:33We were delighted to have you, Nishi.
18:35What did you wager?
18:37You'll drop $2,700, leaving you with $1,700.
18:40Anne Benjaminson, narrowly in second place with $9,600,
18:43came up with what song?
18:45It was about to be summer of 69, and it was not summer of 69,
18:48if that's any consolation, Anne.
18:50You were not just one pen stroke away from being correct.
18:53What did you wager?
18:54Oh, she went all in.
18:55That'll drop her down to zero.
18:57Tristan Williams looking a little better now with that $12,200.
19:00You wrote down what song?
19:02What is Jack and Diane?
19:04That is correct.
19:05John Mellencamp's Little Diddy,
19:07about two American kids growing up in the heartland.
19:10What did you wager, Tristan?
19:11You'll add $7,001, taking you to $19,201 today.
19:15And now, a seven-day total of $132,900.
19:20What a great game.
19:22Coming your way later tonight on this ABC station,
19:24the last semifinal game of Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars,
19:27also streaming on Hulu.
19:29Thanks for watching.
19:31So, thank you very much for watching.
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