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00:00From the Alex Trebek stage at Sony Picture Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:14Here are today's contestants.
00:17A re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia, Tristan Brown.
00:22A record store clerk from Portland, Oregon, Marcus Ghirangelli.
00:28And our returning champion, a librarian from Medford, Massachusetts, Kelly Gates,
00:34whose one-day cash winnings total $23,201.
00:43And now, here is the host of Jeopardy, Ken Jennings.
00:50Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Welcome to Jeopardy.
00:53In Friday's game, we saw Kelly Gates here defeat three-time champion Rishabh Upalapati.
00:58As a librarian, Kelly felt pretty confident with our final Jeopardy category of Literary Geography,
01:04and was able to make a big bet and pull off a win.
01:07Today, Marcus and Tristan are here to challenge you. Good luck to all three of you.
01:10Should we play some Jeopardy?
01:12Here are your categories in the first round.
01:15We begin with I Ran So Far Away.
01:19Then we have Lose a Letter. Each response will be two words.
01:23Then a little pup quiz.
01:25We have fashion, defined by the Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion.
01:29Then some nursery rhyme lines.
01:32And finally...
01:33I'm Andrew Garfield.
01:34And I'm Florence Pugh.
01:36Romantic comedy is all well and good, but sometimes a cry feels better than a laugh.
01:40We'll have clues about great romantic dramas and our new movie in that field, We Live in Time.
01:45Kelly, begin the game for us.
01:47All right, let's start with Great Movie Rom-Drams for $800.
01:52Deborah Winger gets her guy as a uniformed Richard Gere carries her off at the end of this film
01:58to the tune of Up Where We Belong.
02:01Kelly?
02:02What is an officer and a gentleman?
02:03That's the film.
02:04Um, Rom-Drams, $1,000.
02:08In We Live in Time, we play Tobias and Almut,
02:11who experience the ups and downs of life, first as a couple, and then as a family.
02:16It's directed by John Crowley, who also did this Rom-Drama,
02:19in which Saoirse Ronan plays an Irish immigrant who finds love in America.
02:24Tristan?
02:25What is Brooklyn?
02:26You get $1,000.
02:27Uh, can I get Lose a Letter for $4?
02:29A member of the Corps loses a letter and becomes a New England state.
02:33Tristan?
02:34Oh, no. Nope. Nope, nope, nope.
02:37Did not come to you. Marcus?
02:39What is Maine?
02:41I'm sorry, no.
02:43Kelly?
02:44What are Maine and Marine?
02:45Both words, Marcus. Marine and Maine.
02:47Uh, let's go back to Rom-Drams for $600.
02:51Before his final goodbye, Sam tells Molly he's always loved her,
02:55and the love inside, you take it with you, in this 1990 film.
03:00Marcus?
03:01What is Ghost?
03:02That's right.
03:03Uh, I Ran So Far Away for $800.
03:05Also called Persian, this language is not related to Arabic,
03:08though it is written with the same characters.
03:11Tristan?
03:12What is Farsi?
03:13Yes.
03:14After puberty, all Iranian females are controversially required by law
03:19to wear one of these Arabic-named items in public.
03:22Tristan?
03:23What is a hijab?
03:24Yes.
03:25Uh, I Ran Six.
03:26Biblical personages traditionally said to be buried in Iran
03:29include this dream interpreter who had been exiled to Babylon.
03:35Who is Daniel?
03:37Tristan?
03:38Uh, I Ran Four.
03:39The poet Ferdowsi's epic chronicle of early Persian history
03:43is the Shahnameh, or Book of These.
03:49Shah? It's the Book of Kings.
03:51Back to you, Tristan.
03:52Uh, I Ran Two.
03:53The P in IPA, an Iranian trade association,
03:57is for these green nuts, a big export for the country.
04:00Marcus?
04:01What are pistachios?
04:02That's correct.
04:03Uh, I Lose a Letter for $800.
04:05A word for an abundant banquet loses a letter
04:08and becomes a compass direction.
04:10Marcus?
04:11What is feast and east?
04:12Uh, I Lose a Letter for $600.
04:14Lose a letter from a word meaning a sorceress
04:17to become a preposition.
04:21What are which and with?
04:23Marcus?
04:24Lose a Letter $1,000.
04:25The answer there is the Daily Double in the round.
04:31You can pull into a tie for the lead, Marcus, if you bet big.
04:33Let's do it $1,200.
04:34Alright, betting it all on Lose a Letter.
04:36Here's your clue.
04:37Lose a letter from a word meaning to declare allegiance
04:41and get a projection from a wall of rock.
04:43Uh, what is pledge and ledge?
04:45It came to you. That's correct.
04:46You're tied for the lead.
04:50Pop Quiz for $800.
04:51The Australian Stumpy-Tailed Cattle Dog
04:54traces back to a crossing of an English smithfield
04:57with this local wild dog.
04:59Kelly?
05:00What's a dingo?
05:01Heart dingo, yeah.
05:02Fashion-defined $1,000.
05:04Pattern creating a continuous V-shaped design
05:07used in tweeds.
05:08Tristan?
05:09What is houndstooth?
05:10I'm sorry, no.
05:11Kelly?
05:12What is herringbone?
05:13It is herringbone.
05:14Fashion for $800.
05:15Leather shorts usually made with bib top,
05:18originally a Tyrolean style.
05:20Marcus?
05:21What are lederhosen?
05:22It is lederhosen.
05:23We don't often see those on Jeopardy.
05:25None of you are rocking lederhosen today.
05:27We have to take a quick break.
05:28We'll be back with more of the game right after this break.
05:31From Richmond is a re-entry employment advocate.
05:33Tell us what that means, Tristan.
05:35Yes, I work with people coming out of incarceration
05:36to help them find jobs.
05:37It's obviously very difficult when you have a record
05:39and they've been inside for a month or 10 years
05:42and their lives have been totally disrupted.
05:44So my job is to help them find a job.
05:46The organization I work with
05:47helps them in other things like housing,
05:49transportation, just kind of general assistance.
05:51Through a tricky transition.
05:52Yeah.
05:53Well done.
05:54Marcus Ghirangeli from Portland, Oregon
05:55is a record store clerk
05:56and perhaps not the world's best speller.
05:58Tell us your spelling story.
06:00I'm a pretty good speller.
06:01I was doing academic team in high school.
06:03My mom was a high school teacher at our school.
06:05She was one of the reading the questions
06:07and the question was like,
06:08some state names are hard to spell.
06:10Spell Connecticut.
06:11And I rang in and I was like,
06:12K-E-N-T-U-C-K-Y.
06:15And then she looked at me
06:17with a mixture of disappointment and amusement
06:21and she's, no.
06:23No, I'm pretty sure I spelled that right.
06:25And then the other team spelled the actual state
06:27and I realized how wrong I had been.
06:28You spelled a different state correct.
06:29Yeah, exactly.
06:30Correct with an asterisk.
06:31Well done.
06:32Kelly Gates, our champion,
06:33is a librarian from Medford, Massachusetts.
06:35Tell us about your pandemic era hobbies, Kelly.
06:38Oh, yes.
06:39Well, like many other people,
06:40I started sourdough baking.
06:42And everyone who bakes sourdough
06:43knows that the most important thing
06:44is naming your starter.
06:46So I chose Ryan yeast crust.
06:49So Ryan, call me for wheel.
06:51It's a better wheel story,
06:54but you used it on me anyway.
06:56You didn't have a Ken Jennings pun for your...
06:59No, next time.
07:00It's not coming to me either.
07:01Marcus, you've got control of the board right now.
07:03Let's get back into the round.
07:05Lose a letter, 200.
07:07A product's cost loses a letter
07:09and becomes a starchy staple.
07:11Tristan.
07:12Price.
07:13What is price and rice?
07:14Yes.
07:15Pop quiz, 400.
07:16Bred in ancient China,
07:18this dog, or dog dog,
07:20is known for its unusual blue-black tongue.
07:23Tristan.
07:24What is a chow?
07:25Yes.
07:26Pups, six.
07:27A descendant of the English one,
07:29the American breed of this dog
07:30was brought to the states
07:31by 19th century immigrants.
07:33Kelly.
07:34What's a bulldog?
07:35Correct.
07:36Pop quiz, 1,000.
07:37Despite a fluffy white coat,
07:39the Bichon Frise is considered
07:41this 14-letter adjective,
07:43making it easy on the sneezy.
07:45Tristan.
07:46What is hypoallergenic?
07:47That's right.
07:48Pop quiz, two.
07:49It's this breed, Charlie Brown,
07:51that one study showed
07:52could detect lung cancer in humans
07:54with astonishing accuracy.
07:56Tristan.
07:57What is a beagle?
07:58Right.
07:59Movie rom-droms, four.
08:01Back to Florence and Andrew.
08:02When they meet on an ocean liner voyage,
08:04Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
08:06agree to rendezvous six months later
08:08atop the Empire State Building
08:10in this 1957 Weepy.
08:12But fate intervenes.
08:14Kelly.
08:15What's an affair to remember?
08:16You got it.
08:17Rom-droms, two.
08:18One more time, Andrew and Florence.
08:20It's still the same old story,
08:22but this 1942 film about Rick and Ilsa
08:25remains not just one of the great love stories,
08:27but one of the greatest films of all time.
08:29Kelly.
08:30What's Casablanca?
08:31It is Casablanca.
08:32Our thanks to Andrew and Florence
08:33for helping us out with that category.
08:35Their new movie, We Live in Time,
08:36is in theaters now.
08:38Kelly.
08:39Fashion-defined, 600.
08:41Perfect for school days.
08:42Now a basic style of low shoe
08:45usually fastened with shoelaces.
08:47Kelly.
08:48What's Oxford?
08:49Correct.
08:50Fashion, four.
08:51They're the geographic-named
08:53tight-fitting three-quarter length pants
08:55seen here.
08:56Tristan.
08:57What are capris?
08:58Yes.
08:59Fashion, two.
09:00Two-piece swimsuit introduced in 1946
09:03by designer Jacques Haim,
09:05who called it the Atom
09:06because of its small size.
09:08Marcus.
09:09What is it, a bikini?
09:10Right.
09:11Nursery rhyme lines, 800.
09:13There was an old lady who swallowed a fly,
09:15but shockingly, this is next on the menu.
09:20She swallowed a spider to catch the fly.
09:22Marcus.
09:23Nursery rhyme line, 600.
09:25Old King Cole doesn't need much to be merry.
09:27His pipe, his bowl,
09:28and this musical act.
09:33With your pipe and your bowl,
09:34you gotta have Fiddler's Three.
09:35Back to you, Marcus.
09:36Rhyme lines, 400.
09:38Sing a song of sixpence
09:40and include this somewhat imprecise amount of rye.
09:43Marcus.
09:44What is it, a bushelful?
09:45No.
09:46Kelly.
09:47What's a pocket?
09:48Pocketful?
09:49Pocketful, yeah, a little less.
09:50Nursery rhyme, 1,000.
09:52The talkative bells of St. Clement's
09:55articulate this fruity pear.
09:59Oranges and lemons,
10:00say the bells of St. Clement's.
10:02Here's your final shot at nursery rhyme glory.
10:04Hey Diddle Diddle sets up a possible sequel
10:06featuring the dish as it runs away with this.
10:09Tristan.
10:10What is the spoon?
10:11That is correct.
10:12You're in second place heading into the next round.
10:14Marcus, you'll select first for Double Jeopardy.
10:16It's up next.
10:17Stay tuned.
10:18Players started strong.
10:19Champ has the lead as we head into Double Jeopardy
10:21with these new categories.
10:23First, we're getting invested.
10:25Then a little non-fiction.
10:27We have rock and pop firsts.
10:29Assassins.
10:31Then inconsequential.
10:33These are responses made up of letters in the word consequential.
10:36And finally, coasting.
10:39Marcus, select.
10:40Assassins for 1,200.
10:42In 1977, this assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
10:46escaped from prison but was recaptured after 54 hours.
10:49Tristan.
10:50Who is Ray?
10:51Right.
10:52Assassins, 1,600.
10:54Just days after stabbing Jean-Paul Marat through the heart,
10:57she lost her head on the guillotine.
11:02It was Charlotte Corday who killed Marat.
11:04Tristan.
11:05Assassins, eight.
11:06In 1984, two of her Sikh bodyguards
11:09shot her outside her home in New Delhi.
11:11Marcus.
11:12Who is Indira Gandhi?
11:13Correct.
11:14Inconsequential, 1,200.
11:15Answer.
11:16D and double.
11:19A chance for you to make a move from third place, Marcus.
11:22Let's do 2,500.
11:25All right.
11:26That would put you in the lead if you're correct.
11:28Here's your clue.
11:29Inconsequential.
11:30We rarely start a clue with from the Anglo-Norman,
11:33but this legal verb is from the Anglo-Norman for to exonerate.
11:45Marcus.
11:46No.
11:47Don't have it.
11:48That's a shame.
11:49What is to acquit?
11:50Mm.
11:51Acquit.
11:52All right.
11:53You lose a little, but lots of money left.
11:54Make a selection.
11:55Coasting for 12.
11:56The Cabot Trail takes you by some epic coastal views
11:59of this cape, actually an island, in Nova Scotia.
12:02Marcus.
12:03What is Cape Halifax?
12:04No.
12:05I'm sorry.
12:06Kelly or Tristan?
12:07What is Cape Breton Island?
12:09Back to you, Marcus.
12:10Rock and pop firsts for 800.
12:12In 1998, this Cher song became the first hit record
12:16to use auto-tune to distort the music.
12:19Tristan.
12:20What is Believe?
12:21Yes.
12:22Rock and pop, 1,200.
12:23The first pop song featuring a sitar
12:25was this 1965 Beatles tune that begins,
12:28I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.
12:32Marcus.
12:33What is Norwegian Wood?
12:34That's the song.
12:35Rock and pop firsts for 1,600.
12:37In 1987, Los Lobos took this Richie Valens hit to number one,
12:41the first Spanish language song to top the Hot 100 chart.
12:45Tristan.
12:46What is La Bamba?
12:47You got it.
12:48Rock and pop, 2.
12:49In 1957, they became the first rock and roll duo
12:52to have a number one hit, with Wake Up Little Susie.
12:55Tristan.
12:56Who are the Everly Brothers?
12:57Good for 2,000.
12:58Nonfiction, 8.
12:59Shunmio Masuno offers 100 ways to bring yourself happiness
13:03and calm in this form of Buddhism,
13:05the art of simple living.
13:07Kelly.
13:08What is Zen?
13:09Yes.
13:10Nonfiction, 12.
13:12Inspiring a Leonardo DiCaprio film,
13:14this Frank Abagnale memoir is subtitled
13:17The True Story of a Real Fake.
13:19Marcus.
13:20What is Catch Me If You Can?
13:21Correct.
13:22Nonfiction for 1,600.
13:24In The Demon of Unrest, this Devil in the White City author
13:27writes about the months between Lincoln's election
13:30and the start of the war.
13:32Kelly.
13:33Who is Eric Larson?
13:34Right.
13:35Nonfiction for 2,000.
13:36The answer there is the last clearly double of the game, Kelly.
13:41I've got a strong category for you.
13:42You're knocking on the door of that lead.
13:44I'm going to go with 2,500.
13:48Okay.
13:49That would put you in first place, if correct.
13:51Your clue in nonfiction,
13:52the epigraph to this classic 1962 book quotes Keats,
13:57the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing.
14:02What is Silent Spring?
14:08Silent Spring is right.
14:09Yes.
14:10You move into first place.
14:11You pulled it out.
14:13Nonfiction for 4.
14:15In a 1987 book, Robert Ballard detailed his quest
14:18to find this at the bottom of the Atlantic.
14:21Marcus.
14:22What is the Titanic?
14:23Yes.
14:24Rock and Pop first for 400.
14:25She deserves a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T
14:28for being the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
14:31back in 1987.
14:33Marcus.
14:34Who is Aretha Franklin?
14:35Correct.
14:36Inconsequential for 1,600.
14:38Diplomatically, one of these can function like an embassy,
14:41but on a smaller scale.
14:45That's a consulate.
14:47Back to you, Marcus.
14:48Coasting for 800.
14:50Vestlandet, a region of this Scandinavian country,
14:53features rugged North Sea coastline.
14:55Tristan.
14:56What is Denmark?
14:57No.
14:58Marcus.
14:59What is Norway?
15:00That's the right one.
15:01Coasting for 1,600.
15:03Californians are used to hearing of road closures
15:05due to erosion in this coastal community
15:07between San Simeon and Carmel.
15:12What is Big Sur?
15:13Back to Marcus.
15:14Coasting for 2,000.
15:16The name of these cliffs on the coast of County Clare
15:19comes from a Gaelic word meaning ruined fort.
15:25Those are the Cliffs of Moher.
15:27Marcus, where to now?
15:28Getting invested for 400.
15:30Bonds with a credit rating of BB plus or below
15:33are known as high yield, or, less flatteringly, this.
15:37Tristan.
15:38What are high risk?
15:39No.
15:40Kelly.
15:41What are junk?
15:42Junk bonds is right.
15:44Assassins for 4.
15:46It's a tradition to leave pennies atop this assassin's tombstone
15:49at Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore.
15:52Marcus.
15:53Who is John Wilkes Booth?
15:54Yeah, Lincoln's on the penny.
15:55Assassins for 2,000.
15:57In 222, eccentric Roman Emperor Elagabalus
16:01was assassinated by this group that was supposed to protect him.
16:04Tristan.
16:05We're the Praetorian Guard.
16:06Good for 2,000.
16:07Inconsequential for 2,000.
16:09I say, old chap, let's toss small circular ropes onto a peg
16:13in a game of this.
16:17It's called Quoits.
16:19Tristan, back to you.
16:20Consequential, 8.
16:22That's so high school.
16:24It's a tiny exclusive group like the Sportos, the Motorheads,
16:27Geeks, Wasteoids, Dweebies.
16:30Kelly.
16:31What's a quick?
16:32Right.
16:33Consequential for 4.
16:34It means resembling the animal seen here,
16:36even when not going off at 150 to 1.
16:39Tristan.
16:40What is equine?
16:41Yes.
16:42Coasting for?
16:43A near dozen limestone stacks by the Great Ocean Road in Australia
16:47are collectively called the 12 These Biblical Folks.
16:51Marcus.
16:52What are the apostles?
16:53Right.
16:54Getting invested for 1,200.
16:56Term for investors trying to change a firm's direction.
16:59In a February 2024 letter,
17:01Disney's board warned against that type of hedge fund.
17:04Tristan.
17:05What is activist?
17:06Right.
17:07You're in the lead.
17:08Invested 8.
17:09Measuring the performance of 2,000 smaller companies,
17:11the Russell 2000 is a small cap one of these indicators.
17:16Marcus.
17:17What is an index?
17:18Yes.
17:19Getting invested for 16.
17:20The knock-in type of this is a contract that allows the holder to buy a stock
17:24once the price reaches a certain level.
17:29It's a kind of option.
17:30Here's your last clue.
17:31Getting invested for 2,000.
17:33No investor wants to get this call in which a broker demands additional deposits
17:38be made in the same named type of account.
17:41Tristan.
17:42What is margin?
17:43No one wants a margin call.
17:44That's it.
17:45You have the lead heading into final.
17:46Here's your category, my friends.
17:48Italian words and phrases.
17:50Think about your Italian and we'll come right back with the clue.
17:54Our judges determined during the break that Tristan's response of high-risk bonds
17:57was also acceptable, so he got 800 bucks back before the wagers were made.
18:01Italian words and phrases is our final Jeopardy! category.
18:04Here is the clue.
18:06This theme, tackled in art by Bellini and Michelangelo,
18:09isn't explicitly mentioned in the Bible but is part of the Seven Sorrows of Mary.
18:1430 seconds.
18:15Good luck.
18:23♪♪♪
18:44Marcus Gerengali is up first.
18:45$5,700.
18:46Their response was not completed.
18:49How much did you wager, Marcus?
18:502,400.
18:512,400 will take you down to 3,300.
18:54The champ was in second place with 11,300.
18:57What did she come up with?
18:58Oh, didn't complete her response either.
19:00She wagered much less.
19:02500 will drop her down to 10,800.
19:04So it's all riding on Tristan Brown's response.
19:07He wrote down, what is pietà?
19:09That is correct.
19:10Mary holding the body of Christ.
19:12So he will add to that.
19:13He wagered 8,100, bringing him to $22,700 and making him our new Jeopardy! champion.
19:19Well done, Tristan.
19:20We'll see you right back here on the Alex Perfect stage tomorrow.
19:23♪♪♪♪