-- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny gilbert. and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you very much. in this marvellous venue. and by the time this program ends in about 29 minutes, our celebrities, the power players, will have earned over $350,000 for their charities, and that is most impressive. [ cheers and applause ] so, matthew, david, and melissa, welcome aboard and good luck. let's go to work in the jeopardy! round. now here are the categories for you.

-- alex trebek! thanks, johnny. [ cheers and applause ] thank you, ladies and gentlemen. big day for seth. yesterday, if you were watching, but the final worked in seth's favor. so he's the defending champion today against rachel and bryan. let's see how it works out. good luck, here we go. now the categories... we start off today with... followed by... ...but don't. we'll have a... ...for you. we'll take you... and you'll be... seth, start us, please. endlessly rocking for $200, please. seth. who is aerosmith? yes. rocking, $400. bryan. who is zz top? yes, bryan.

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. we started the week with a big win. yesterday, a modest one. it's those darn finals, you know? scott and barbara, welcome aboard, and good luck to all three. here we go. the jeopardy! round. first round in play today. and you're dealing with these categories. sounds weird, i know. each correct response will begin with the letter "e." elizabeth, start us off. got to go "friends" for $200. barbara. who is jennifer aniston? yes. "friends," $400. elizabeth. who is courteney cox?

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny gilbert. ten asked by people in our studio audience, "why do you like your job so much?" and my answer has always been the same -- because for 30 minutes each day, i get to spend time with three very bright contestants. and for the past week and a half, it's been my pleasure to spend a lot of time with our current champion, seth wilson. very engaging and bright young man who could go over the $200,000 mark today. but anne and damien will have something to say about that. let's see how it all works out. good luck. here we go. all right. time to find out what the categories are. alex: seth, start us. episodes of the sitcom for $200, please.

-- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. and welcome again to "power players." which of these three will wind up winning $50,000 for their charity today? will it be michael, lara, or anderson? good luck to all three of you. let's put you to work right now in the jeopardy! round. and here are the categories... [ laughter ] followed by...

-- alex trebek! [ applause ] thank you, johnny. ank you, ladies and gentlemen. wow. every time we come to washington, d.c., and it looks like we lucked out again today. thank you so very much. i hope you folks have been watching the tournament for the past week and a half, because if you he, you hav seen some great perfnces. and these three finalists deserve to be here -- jason, jill, and kaberi. this is the first ha of the two-day final. you know that. good luck. let's go to work in the first round. here are the categories for you. in this category, u haveo remove the word "jpardy!" from the quote and put in the correct word for us. m-a-c will appear at the beginning of the correct response or at the end.

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. i'm so happy that johnny gilbert is in good voice today because we are beginning that's quite something. [ applause ] now, i hope all of you had a good summer, enjoying, revisiting some of our special tournaments from the past season, but starting today, it's all brand-new. courtney has been waiting quite a few weeks to play again and defend. let's see how well she does today against annie and david. good luck to all three. here we go. the jeopardy! round, as you know, has one daily double today in one of these categories. see the quotation marks around the word "best." alex: courtney, start us. u.s. cabinet departments for $200, please. courtney. what is the department of state? you're right.

-- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you all, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome again. for the past week and a half, i've been telling you how much i really enjoy coming back to washington, d.c. for these programs, because we have a lot of great loyal fans here, and people who are genuinely kind and nice. case in point -- a few moments ago, one of those fans came up to me and gave me a gift, which i would like to share with all of you right now. take a look at this. i hope it's a homemade cookie. it says "d.c. hearts 'jeopardy!'"

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny gilbert. e last day of the teachers tournament for this year. so, we'll talk about money. first of all, i want to acknowledge our partner in the teachers tournament, farmers insurance, which each year gives $1 milli in grant money to worthy teachers all around the country. [ applause ] next, the prize money for this tournament -- $100,000 to the winner, a guarantee of $50,000 for the runner-up, of $25,000 for the third-place finisher. now, the dollar figures you see in front of the contestants will be added to whatever they earn today to determine the champion. all right, now we go to work in this first round today. and here are your categories.

-- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome. we are delighted to be able to spend another week with all of you here in washington, d.c. all of this week, our contestants are gonna be people who report the news, comment on the news, and sometimes even make the news themselves. you've met our three power players for today's game. now let's put them to work. good luck.

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. even though we are less than one full week into our new season, another big for siddharth yesterday. over $20,000. brandon and christine, it could happen to you, too, you know. let's see if it does. here we go. jeopardy! round. and here come the categories, starting off with... that was a good year. "u" in quotations marks. you all know what that means. alex: there's a theme there, siddharth. start us off. um, bat dance for $200. siddharth. what is blood? no. brandon or christine? [ beep ] it's found in their saliva. back to you, siddharth.

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny gilbert. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. he came in as the champion, the defending champion on monday. all right. erica and walt, you're here today to stop him. he's a nice guy, but you can do it. good luck. here we go -- jeopardy! round, these categories now in play. people in the news who have quit twittering, tweeting. "oot" & "aboot" in canada, and finally, because october 2nd is national custodial workers recognition day, we're gonna be sweeping the nation. -seth, start us. -the civil war for $200, please. -walt. -who is robert e. lee? alex: you are right.

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. and welcome, again. annie got our new season off to a great start yesterday, winning a lot of money. andr? and elizabeth, welcome aboard. but then builds up a momentum and she came up with the correct response in final jeopardy! all of that is good news for her. let's see how it works for you today. here we go. the jeopardy! round is the first round of play, and today we have these categories for you. then you get to deal with... a-ha. alex: annie. spices for $200. i thought you might start there. elizabeth. -what is a pepper? -be more specific. what is a hot pepper? mm, nope. i want more than that. annie. -what is a chili? -chili pepper. yes.

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-- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny gilbert. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. the program for over 32 years, i was still having fun. and i said, "of course, i am." and the reason is, i love spending time with bright people, like our current champion, winning over $100,000 in just four days of competition. we know that elena and charlie are bright also. otherwise, they wouldn't have qualified to be contestants on the program. let's go to work. now the categories for the jeopardy! round... that sounds easy, doesn't it? we'll give you some choices. next... that sounds tough. followed by... i think as a nod to our 33rd season of "jeopardy!" programs. seth, start us.

and now here is the host of jeopardy, alex trebek! thanks, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i'd be very happy having seth as my partner, because so far in the past week or so, he has demonstrated broad knowledge in a wide variety of categories. but today, new challengers in bing and miranda. let's see how that works out. good luck, players. here we go. now let's take a look at the categories, starting off with... each correct response will be two words, each word having five letters. seth, start. historic documents for $200. seth. what is the emancipation proclamation?

-- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for tuning us in once again as we start another exciting week of competition here on "jeopardy!" and two good challengers. today, dorcas and seth. welcome aboard. let's see how well you guys do against the champ. here we go. the categories in this first round of play today are... that sounds like fun. next... name the maker of the product for us. and finally, this one... i'm eric garcetti, the 42nd mayor of los angeles, with clues about our great city. and a bit of information about the first category up there with the george clooney films. you have to identify the motion picture. siddarth, you get to start us. george clooney for $400. seth. what is "a perfect storm"? good. clooney for $600, please.

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our show. jeopardy! and that kind of intimidated one of his challengers who came up with the correct response but didn't have enough money at the end to replace him as champion. what's gonna happen today with erin and harold? we'll start finding out right now. good luck. players, here we go. and the categories are... each correct response beginning with a "t" and a "b" and a "d" will come later. seth, start. college football stadium nicknames for $200. seth. who are the notre dame fighting irish? -yes. -stadium nicknames, $400. here's a white-out at beaver stadium, also known as happy valley,

-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. we are just two weeks into it, but already our returning champion, seth, has help get this 33rd season off to a great start -- not only for us, but for himself, as well. he's won a lot of money. but today is another day. dennis and jocelyn are hoping it's another day for them. good luck. here we go. let's find out what today's categories are. for the first round... we haven't seen clouds for a while. uh-oh. p-a-l in quotation marks. all right, seth, you're the champ. you go. sean connery & burt reynolds for $200. jocelyn. who's dr. no? correct.

-- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thanks, johnny. and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome. if you're good and you're lucky, to seth wilson, our champion. averaging $30,500 for each of his two wins. sala and sharren, welcome aboard. good luck. here we go into the jeopardy! round, a round with one daily double. it'll come up in one of these categories... you give us the correct english word from the lyric. followed by... "poly" in quotation marks. what does polly want? ...of course. seth, off you go. '80s pop lyrics in latin for $200. seth. what is girl? good. '80s pop lyrics, $400. sharren. what is sugar? good. science for $200. the ragweed variety of this material