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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:13Please welcome today's contestants.
00:17A data annotator from St. Clair, Michigan, Shannon Christenberry.
00:21A technology analyst from Midhurst, Ontario, Canada, Jeremy Roberts.
00:27And our returning champion and editor originally from Toledo, Ohio, Madeline Kaplan, whose one-day cash winnings total $31,700.
00:42And now, here he is, the host of Jeopardy, Ken Jennings.
00:49Thank you, Johnny. Welcome back to Jeopardy, everyone.
00:52Yesterday's game was a close one, with all three of our players heading into Final Jeopardy with five-digit scores.
00:57But in the end, it was Madeline Kaplan's knowledge of 1970s stand-up comedy that let her maintain her lead
01:02and made her our third new champion in as many games.
01:05Today, the new arrivals on the Alex Rebeck stage are Jeremy and Shannon.
01:09Good luck to all three of you. Allow me to familiarize you with these categories in the Jeopardy! round.
01:15First up, we have historic names. From there, we go to from book to film with a different title.
01:21Then it's a flag glossary, followed by 12-letter words, quotes about science.
01:27And finally, I have a question for you. Do you know how fast you were going? Madeline, make a selection.
01:32Historic names, 800.
01:34The remains of this U.S. hero, who died in France in 1792, were brought back and reinterred at the
01:40Naval Academy in 1913.
01:42Jeremy.
01:43Who is John Paul Jones?
01:45You are correct.
01:45I'll take historic names for 1,000, please.
01:48Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 map had two portraits, Ptolemy on the Old World and this namesake of the New World.
01:55Madeline.
01:56Who's Vespucci?
01:57Correct, for 1,000.
01:58Historic name, 600.
02:00Around 210 B.C., Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang was buried with his own army made of this earthy material.
02:07Shannon.
02:07What is terracotta?
02:08Terracotta warriors, right.
02:10Historic names, 400.
02:11Elizabeth I was long dead when this favorite of hers got the axe, literally, in 1618.
02:18Jeremy.
02:18Who is Raleigh?
02:19Yes.
02:20Historic names, 200.
02:21In 1811, Archduchess Marie Louise bore him his only legitimate heir.
02:29It was Napoleon's only legitimate heir. Jeremy.
02:32I will take flag glossary for 600.
02:35The sun on Uruguay's flag appears in the top inner quadrant, a.k.a. this part that shares its name
02:41with the city in Ohio where the NFL was born.
02:44Madeline.
02:44What is Canton?
02:45Yes.
02:4612 letter words, 800.
02:48This dark bread is made with rye flour and can be substituted for rye bread and sandwiches.
02:54Madeline.
02:54What is pumpernickel?
02:55That's the bread.
02:5612 letter, 1000.
02:57It's the student with the second highest ranking in a high school class.
03:01Shannon.
03:02What is the salutatorian?
03:03No.
03:05Jeremy.
03:05What is the salutatorian?
03:07Also incorrect.
03:08Madeline.
03:08What is salutatorian?
03:11Salutatorian with an O, yes.
03:12You were so close, Jeremy and Shannon.
03:14Flag glossary, 800.
03:15The Latin for goat gave us this word for the type of design seen here with a V shape that
03:21roughly evokes horns.
03:25That's called a chevron.
03:27Madeline.
03:2712 letter, 600.
03:29This word can refer to music played without vocals or, in another sense, anything helpful to a cause.
03:35Madeline.
03:36What is instrumental?
03:37You got it.
03:38Quotes about science, 800.
03:39Answer there is a daily double, Madeline.
03:44You have the lead and you could widen it here.
03:47What's the wager?
03:47True daily double, please.
03:48Okay.
03:49Going for $8,000 early.
03:51Here's your clue in quotes about science.
03:54This astronomer wrote,
03:55We are made of star stuff.
03:57We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
04:00Who is Sagan?
04:01Carl Sagan in Cosmos.
04:02You got it.
04:03Well done.
04:06Select again, Madeline.
04:07Quotes about science, 600.
04:08We knew the world would not be the same, was his understated recollection of the explosion of the first atomic
04:14bomb.
04:15Jeremy.
04:16Who is Oppenheimer?
04:17Yes.
04:17Quotes about science, 400.
04:19Here's Andy Richter.
04:21Who knows what really controls the universe?
04:23Even Einstein struggled with this mysterious subatomic science, writing that,
04:28An inner voice tells me it is not yet the real thing.
04:32Jeremy.
04:33What is quantum physics?
04:34Yes, we'll take that.
04:35Quantum mechanics.
04:36Quotes about science, 1000.
04:38With gravity, this great Brit wrote,
04:41To explain all nature is too difficult to task for any one man or even for any one age.
04:46Jeremy.
04:47Who is Newton?
04:47You add 1000.
04:48Do you know how fast you were going? 600.
04:51It's no joke.
04:52Drag racer Bob Tasker III hit 341 miles per hour in this type of vehicle seen here.
05:01No joke, but that is a funny car.
05:03All right, we're midway through the round and we need to pause.
05:05You three can relax.
05:07You're watching Jeopardy.
05:14Shannon Cristenberry.
05:15Shannon Cristenberry here is from St. Clair, Michigan.
05:16She's a data annotator and even more interestingly, if such a thing is possible, a rock musician.
05:21Right?
05:21What do you play?
05:22Well, I am a long time guitarist, but I have a lot of friends who are great guitarists and I
05:27found my niche playing rock flute.
05:29Rock flute.
05:30You can really stand out over even high volume instruments.
05:34And, you know, why should Jeff Dortel have all the fun?
05:37Exactly.
05:37Are there a lot of rock bands looking for flautists today?
05:40There's a couple in St. Clair.
05:42Nice.
05:42And so you've recorded?
05:43Yeah, that's right.
05:44That's exciting.
05:45I love that.
05:46You're the first rock flautist I've ever met, I think.
05:48Oh.
05:48Jeremy Roberts is a technology analyst from Midhurst, Ontario, Canada.
05:52You have a degree in something very specific.
05:54What is it?
05:54Yes, ethnic politics in Kyrgyzstan in the former Soviet Union.
05:58What made you study Kyrgyzstan?
05:59Well, I watched the movie Borat, and the enlightened Jeopardy viewer will know that he's not actually from Kyrgyzstan.
06:05Right, Kazakhstan, right?
06:06Yes, but I was pretty curious about, you know, K-stan countries after that.
06:09I was like, I can't really be like that.
06:10So I did some research.
06:11It's not actually like that, as it turns out.
06:13The casual viewer would just get interested in Kazakhstan, but as a Jeopardy mind, you were like, you know what?
06:18The adjacent stands, too.
06:19Why not?
06:20There are too many vowels in Kazakhstan.
06:22Kazakhstan has all those vowels.
06:23Our returning champion is Madeline Kaplan, originally from Toledo.
06:26An editor and a former documentary intern, right?
06:30Tell me about your work.
06:31Yes.
06:31When I was in college, I interned as like a research intern on a documentary about Jane Goodall.
06:36Okay.
06:36Which is an amazing documentary.
06:37My job mostly was to read through thousands of pages of information about the sexual behavior of chimpanzees.
06:44And I think I was supposed to pick out like if anything felt especially good or like a story or
06:50something that should be included, which it did not.
06:52What you're saying is there is a very specific Jeopardy category you were looking for today.
06:57Yes.
06:58Well, fingers crossed, everybody.
06:59Yeah.
06:59We'll see what happens.
07:00Jeremy, you have command of the board.
07:02Pick up your buzzers, you three, because we are back in the game.
07:04Do you know how fast you were going for 800?
07:06Let's find out.
07:08When the boat police pull you over for doing 75 miles per hour, you can say,
07:12come on, I was only doing 65 of this unit of measure.
07:16Shannon.
07:16What is not?
07:17Yes.
07:18From book to film with a different title for 800.
07:21This Joseph Conrad work enlisted as Apocalypse Now.
07:25Jeremy.
07:26What is Heart of Darkness.
07:27Right.
07:28Same category, 1000, please.
07:30How do I loathe thee?
07:31Let me count the ways, was a tagline for this high school set adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew.
07:36Shannon.
07:37What is 10 Things I Hate About You?
07:38Correct.
07:39From book to film, 600.
07:41Any pinhead might know Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart has bled, uh, led to this movie franchise.
07:48Shannon.
07:49What is Hellraiser?
07:50Correct.
07:51Book to film, 400.
07:53The Stephen King novella The Body became this movie.
07:56Also a better choice for a song title.
07:58Jeremy.
07:59What is Stand By Me?
08:00That's the right movie.
08:01Flag Glossary, 1000.
08:03Back to flags.
08:04From Latin for end, it's the protective or decorative object atop a flagpole, like the
08:09eagle seen here.
08:10Shannon.
08:11What is Finial?
08:12You got it for 1000.
08:13I'll do Flag Glossary, 400.
08:16Consisting of at least one flag bearer and two armed guards, it's a group of soldiers charged
08:21with protecting and presenting the flag.
08:23Madeline.
08:24What is Honor Guard?
08:25Correct.
08:25Or Color Guard.
08:2612 letter words, 400.
08:28Though he favored his left, James Garfield was this, from words meaning right-handed on
08:33both sides.
08:34Madeline.
08:34What is Ambidextrous?
08:35He was.
08:36Quotes about Science, 200.
08:38Darwin.
08:39I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
08:44this.
08:44Madeline.
08:45What is Evolution?
08:46No.
08:47Jeremy or Shannon?
08:50Close, but he called it Natural Selection.
08:52Back to you, Madeline.
08:5312 letter words, 200.
08:55It's a person with a compulsive urge to cop, crib or boost.
08:59Jeremy.
08:59Was a kleptomaniac?
09:01Yes.
09:02Flag Glossary, 200.
09:03Fans of winning baseball teams know this term for a flag that's longer on one side than
09:08the other, often tapering to a point.
09:10Shannon.
09:11What is a pennant?
09:12Yes.
09:12As a Mariners fan, I have no idea.
09:15Let's do Book to Film, 200.
09:17In Easy A, Emma Stone gets high marks in an adaptation of This Study in Morals from 1850.
09:23Madeline.
09:24What is the Scarlet Letter?
09:25Correct.
09:26How fast you were going, 1,000.
09:29Launched on September 5th, 1977, this probe has lived up to its name, traveling 16 billion
09:34miles and going about 38,000 miles per hour right now.
09:38Madeline.
09:39What is Voyager?
09:40Good for 1,000.
09:41400.
09:42Xiphius Gladius, this game fish, can be 1,000 pounds and is said to hit 60 miles per hour.
09:48Also, look out, because it's always packing a blade.
09:51Madeline.
09:51What is Swordfish?
09:52Yes.
09:53Final clue.
09:54In 2024, a 17-year-old known as Mythical Rocket hit 300 words per minute typing on this
10:00standard keyboard.
10:02Shannon.
10:02What is QWERTY?
10:03The QWERTY keyboard, yes.
10:04You're in third place still, but only by 200.
10:06Double Jeopardy's up next, and we will return.
10:14Just like yesterday, a big daily double wager has given Madeline the lead early, but so much
10:18cash on the board in Double Jeopardy.
10:20Let's see the new set of categories.
10:21We'll begin with Around the Volcano.
10:24After that, we'll need some ID.
10:27Then it's School of Lit.
10:29What the TV show title means.
10:32Here you'll name the series.
10:34Women in Photography.
10:35And finally, everybody.
10:38Shannon.
10:39School of Lit, 1600.
10:41Tragedy strikes the fictional Devon School in New Hampshire in this John Knowles tale
10:45of Gene and Finney.
10:47Shannon.
10:48What is this separate piece?
10:49It is.
10:50School of Lit, 1200.
10:52Eleanor and Franklin had an important early meeting on a train.
10:55Eleanor and him, in Rainbow Rowell's book, meet on the bus to high school.
11:02That book is Eleanor and Park.
11:04Back to you, Shannon.
11:05Let's do School of Lit, 2000.
11:07The answer there is a daily double.
11:13You're in second place, Shannon.
11:14What do you want to bet?
11:16I'll do 4000.
11:17Okay, a big wager would put you just 1200 off the lead if you're right.
11:20Your clue in School of Lit is this.
11:23Sharing the title of a Dostoyevsky novel,
11:25this Elif Batuman book is about a smart but also clueless Harvard freshman.
11:30What is the idiot?
11:31That is correct.
11:32Tightening this game up.
11:37Women and photography, 1600.
11:39The answer, back to back, is another daily double.
11:44This time you're in position to take the lead, Shannon.
11:47Oh, let's see, 5000.
11:50Okay, you'll have $14,000 and the lead if you're correct in women and photography.
11:55Documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark is perhaps best known for images of runaway teens on this city's Pike Street.
12:04What is Seattle?
12:06Seattle is correct and you're in first place.
12:12What the TV show title means 1600?
12:16Originally starring Pedro Pascal, Spanish for drug traffickers.
12:20Jeremy.
12:21What is Narcos?
12:21That's the show.
12:22TV show title 2000.
12:23On HBO, the 98% of the world's population who didn't mysteriously disappear.
12:30Shannon.
12:30What is The Leftovers?
12:31Yes.
12:33TV show 1200.
12:35Nothing to do with horses.
12:36It's the bland, innocuous category that Emilia Clarke and Haley Lou Richardson fit into in a 2026 show.
12:42Madeline.
12:43What is ponies?
12:44Persons of no interest.
12:45You got it.
12:46Women in photography, 12.
12:47Vivian Meyer left tens of thousands of negatives, but her intentions are up for debate, as she saw very few
12:53through this process.
12:54Shannon.
12:55What is development?
12:56Or printing, that's right.
12:58Women in photography, 2000.
13:00Maroy Morse, seen here in the 1940s, was a key researcher at this company and the founder's right arm.
13:06Jeremy.
13:07What is Kodak?
13:08No.
13:10Madeline or Shannon?
13:11Madeline.
13:12What is Leica?
13:12Also incorrect.
13:14Shannon's shaking her head.
13:16You're looking at a Polaroid there.
13:17Back to you, Shannon.
13:19Everybody, 1600.
13:21These three words mean everybody in French, as in blank, blank, blank, on parle.
13:26Everybody's talking about it.
13:28Shannon.
13:28What is Touloumont?
13:29Right.
13:30The whole world.
13:31Everybody, 2000.
13:32The US Senate would move even more slowly without this type of agreement to speed up business.
13:37UC for short.
13:42That's unanimous consent.
13:43Shannon.
13:44Everybody, 1200.
13:46Numbers and musicals for the entire cast include this song that begins 525,600 minutes.
13:53Shannon.
13:54What is Rent?
13:55No.
13:56Madeline.
13:56What is Seasons of Love?
13:57That's the song from Rent, yes.
13:59ID, 1200.
14:01Featured in such magazines as Architectural Digest and Elle Decor, Nate Burkus is a well-known
14:06one of these to the stars.
14:08Madeline.
14:09What is Interior Designer?
14:10Yes.
14:11ID, 16.
14:13Hormonal and Copper are the two main types of this form of birth control.
14:17And we need the full name, please.
14:19Madeline.
14:19What is Intrauterine Device?
14:21Correct.
14:22ID, 2000.
14:23It was the pen name of Danish author Baroness Karen Blixenfenecke.
14:31Better known as Isak Dinesen.
14:33Back to you, Madeline.
14:34ID, 800.
14:35It's been a regular Winter Olympic event since 1976.
14:39Jeremy.
14:40What is Ice Dancing?
14:41Yes.
14:41Around the volcano, 1200.
14:43Be careful flying around this peak that blew its top in 1980.
14:47The US Geological Survey ranks it the number one volcanic threat to aviation.
14:51Shannon.
14:52What is Mount St. Helens?
14:53No.
14:54Jeremy.
14:55What is Mount St. Helens?
14:56Helens with the S, yes.
14:58Around the volcano, 1600.
15:00A new island called Child of This Volcano has grown up nearby since its parent went bluey
15:05in 1883.
15:06Madeline.
15:07What is Krakatoa?
15:07Child of Krakatoa, that's correct.
15:09What the TV show title means, 800.
15:12Set in the 18th century.
15:14Also, an epithet applied to Catherine, Empress of Russia.
15:17Shannon.
15:17What is The Great?
15:18Correct.
15:20Skolalit, 800.
15:2114-year-old Lee from Indiana moves to Massachusetts to attend the title type of school in this
15:27first novel by Curtis Sittenfeld.
15:29Shannon.
15:30What is Prep?
15:30You got it.
15:31Around the volcano, 800.
15:33For my sake, the writers used the shorter name of Eyafiol, a volcano some 70 miles southeast
15:39of this capital.
15:41Madeline.
15:41What is Reykjavik?
15:42Good.
15:43Women in photography, 800.
15:45Barbara Morgan gained fame with the book, Martha Graham, 16 Vs in Photographs.
15:50But not the Shugaloo or the Camel Walk.
15:53Madeline.
15:53What are dances?
15:5416 dances, that's it.
15:55Women in photography, 400.
15:57Young Victorian Alice Little was much photographed, including by Julia Margaret Cameron and, of
16:03course, by this Oxonian author.
16:05Shannon.
16:06Who is Lewis Carroll?
16:07Yes, she was his Alice.
16:08Everybody, 800.
16:10In 1865, Susan B. Anthony and friends circulated the petition for this type of suffrage, meaning
16:15voting for all adults.
16:17Madeline.
16:18What is Universal?
16:18Correct.
16:20Everybody, 400.
16:21It's a meta-mystery.
16:23Mystery authors are the travelers in the novel, Everyone on the Train is this, the possible
16:27killer.
16:28Madeline.
16:29What is the suspect?
16:30That's right.
16:31Around the volcano, 2000.
16:32Long the largest overseas U.S. Air Force base, Clark Air Base on Luzon was closed after the
16:381991 eruption of this nearby volcano.
16:41Jeremy.
16:42What is Mount Pinatubo?
16:43That's right.
16:44Around the volcano, 400.
16:45A national park established in this state in 1961 surrounds two active volcanoes.
16:51Madeline.
16:51What is Hawaii?
16:52Right.
16:53ID 400.
16:54It arrives every four years, usually on January 20th.
16:58Madeline.
16:59What is Inauguration Day?
17:00Correct for the lead.
17:01TV show title.
17:02A beloved sitcom, a nickname for the Manhattan skyscraper where the sketch show TGS is filmed.
17:07Shannon.
17:08What is 30 Rock?
17:09Right.
17:09You're back on top.
17:10The final clue is in School of Lit and made aside the lead.
17:13Connell and Marianne from a provincial town both end up in college in this big city in
17:18Normal People by Sally Rooney.
17:20Shannon.
17:21What is Dublin?
17:22Dublin is right and it means you will have the narrowest of leads heading into Final Jeopardy.
17:26Great game from all three of you.
17:27Here's your category.
17:29The Canadian Album Charts with a Canadian contestant.
17:32We will see what happens when we come back.
17:36By the luck of the draw, today's Final Jeopardy! category is the Canadian Album Charts.
17:41And this is the clue.
17:43In 2025, Taylor Swift tied Drake and this singer for the most number one albums on Billboard's
17:50Canadian Albums Chart with 15.
17:5230 seconds now, players.
17:54Good luck.
17:54Good luck.
17:55Good luck.
18:13Good luck.
18:22You're welcome to those songs.
18:24Jeremy Roberts in the middle might be feeling the pressure from back home right now.
18:28$7,200, is he correct in final?
18:30You wrote down, who is Celine Dion?
18:34And that is correct.
18:35She and Drake were tied with 15.
18:37What did you wager, Jeremy?
18:39$2,800 takes you up to $10,000 American even.
18:43We come now to Madeline Kaplan, our champion in second place, with $18,600.
18:47Does she have Celine?
18:49Oh, Alanis Morissette, no.
18:51What did you wager?
18:52You'll drop $3,000 to $15,600.
18:56Shannon Christenberry, in a distant third, coming into Double Jeopardy, had a great round and now is in the lead.
19:01Did she know it was Celine Dion?
19:03She did.
19:04What was the wager?
19:06Wow, another big payday two days in a row.
19:09Doubling up takes her to $38,400.
19:12Shannon, congratulations.
19:13You're now a Jeopardy champion.
19:15We're giving a lot of money away this week.
19:17Let's find out what happens tomorrow.
19:18Thanks for watching.
19:22Thanks.
19:22I'm sorry.
19:23I'm sorry.
19:36Thanks.
19:38I'm sorry.
19:40Thanks.
19:40Thanks.
19:41Thanks.
19:41Thanks.
19:43See you next.
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