2026 Champions Wildcard quarterfinal game 3.
Jason Singer — a real estate agent from Portland, Maine
Harvey Silikovitz — an attorney and worldwide karaoke singer originally from West Orange, New Jersey
Cameron Berry — a data analyst and college administrator from Brighton, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron | $5,200 | $8,200 | $12,800 |
$12,599
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Harvey | $1,400 | $3,000 | $13,000 |
$12,998
Automatic semifinalist |
$15,000
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jason | $1,000 | $1,500 | $3,900 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$5,400
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| IT'S GOVERNMENT POLICY | FEAR ITSELF | "K" POP | DEMON HUNTERS | GOLDEN | HOW IT'S DONE, DONE, DONE |
|
$200
[23]
Enunciated in 1899, the U.S. Open Door Policy insisted on equal access to this country's ports; Japan's violations helped spark WWII
China
Cameron
|
$200
[13]
This! at the Disco is enjoyable; this as an attack with a racing heart & sweating as symptoms, very much not so
Panic
Harvey
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$200
[12]
Back in the 1980s, she & the Waveshad us all "Walking On Sunshine"
Katrina
Cameron
|
$200
[27]
In "The Master & Margarita", beware Behemoth, a black one of these animals in the devil's entourage; it's a vodka-drinking demon
cat
|
$200
[11]
A golden apple thrown by Eris, the goddess of discord, led to an important decision by this Trojan prince
Paris
Cameron
|
$200
[28]
Put borax in water & then mix it with some watery Elmer's glue to make this gooey gunk beloved by kids
slime (gak)
Jason
|
|
$400
[24]
FDR's first inaugural address inspired this name for a U.S. policy of pursuing better relations with Latin America
the Good Neighbor Policy
Jason
|
$400
[25]
This suffix is from the Greek for "fearing"
phobia
Jason
|
$400
[4]
In 2023 SZA had a No. 1 hit with this rhyming tune worthy of a Tarantino film title
"Kill Bill"
Harvey
|
$400
[20]
After meeting Father Damien Karras in this William Peter Blatty novel, Regan says, "We've nothing to fear from you at all"
The Exorcist
Jason
|
$400
[10]
This first book in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series is also titled "Northern Lights"
The Golden Compass
Cameron
|
$400
[29]
Follow the teachings of Lee Strasberg & tell your friends & family you'll only answer to "Willy Loman" to practice this type of acting
Method acting
Jason
|
|
$600
[21]
17th century jurist Hugo Grotius used this term for a government's power to take private property for public use
eminent domain
Jason
|
$600
[15]
It's the "chilly" 2-word title of a story collection about women with second thoughts about getting married
Cold Feet
Cameron
|
$600
[3]
In this song, Prince let us know "Women, not girls, rule my world"
"Kiss"
Cameron
|
$600
[18]
Moloch in this Milton work pleads with Pandemonium's devils to go on the offensive & use all the weapons of hell against heaven
Paradise Lost
Harvey
|
$600
[9]
An Old West paper from 1869 said this object with a "nugget composing the head" was worth "something over four hundred dollars"
the Golden Spike
Harvey
|
$600
[7]
Wiring, pruning & repotting are essential steps in maintaining a small tree in this Japanese art
bonsai
Harvey
|
|
$800
[5]
This country's early 1900s "Ethical Policy" said it needed to repay its East Indies Colony for centuries of wealth extraction
the Netherlands
Harvey
|
$800
[14]
"The consternation... the consternation" not as great; good for "Apocalypse Now" for going with this synonym
the horror
Cameron
|
$800
[2]
Thisgroup composed of three Followill brothers & one cousin began its musical reign in Nashville
Kings of Leon
Cameron
|
$800
[17]
In Anne Rice's "Memnoch the Devil", this toothy vampire must contend with an infernal choice: heaven or hell?
Lestat
Cameron
|
$800
[8]
Altan Ordu, the Mongolian name of this group, may have come from the color of the tents used by their rulers like Batu Khan
the Golden Horde
Cameron
|
$800
[6]
For the skin type of this 4-letter haircut: start with the sides & blend the hair lengths until it "vanishes" by the scalp
a fade
Cameron
|
|
DD
$1,500
[22]
This U.S. policy of using implied force in foreign relations is also known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
the Big Stick policy
Jason
|
$1,000
[26]
This 6-letter verb means to trill with your voice, or to tremble with fear
to quaver
|
$1,000
[1]
After "OK Computer", Radiohead went deeper into the electronic sound with this 2000 album
Kid A
Jason
|
$1,000
[19]
This title hero of a Mesopotamian epic encounters the demonic Lilith in the Huluppu Tree & sends her scurrying
Gilgamesh
Cameron
|
$1,000
[16]
Mosaics made with gold leaf tesserae adorned the walls & domes of this Byzantine masterpiece upon its completion in 537
the Hagia Sophia
Harvey
|
$1,000
[30]
Avoid drowning & then risk road rash & shin splints for a total of 32 miles to complete this Olympic multisport event
a triathlon
Cameron
|
| WATER OVER THE DAM | GIMME SOME MONEY | MEMOIRS | THE BARE BONES | THEIR OWN MUSEUM | WORDS ABOUT BIRDS |
|
$400
[30]
The dam that creates the California lake seenhereis known for the Morning Glory Spillway & has this name, like Thomas Jefferson's home
Monticello
Cameron
|
$400
[29]
Purchased by eBay in 2002, this money-transfer service became a separate company in 2015
PayPal
Jason
|
$400
[28]
Shestarred in the video for "Uptown Girl", but her memoir of that title says Billy Joel didn't originally write the song about her
Christie Brinkley
Cameron
|
$400
[23]
The zygomatic bones are more commonly known as these; Katharine Hepburn had great ones
cheekbones
Harvey
|
$400
[15]
After seeing some of his soup can art at his Pittsburgh museum, you can pick up any number of soup can souvenirs
Warhol
Jason
|
$400
[19]
In French, to sell a half-duck once meant "to fool someone"; now this French word for duck is an English word meaning "hoax"
canard
Cameron
|
|
$800
[14]
This river's middle portion is from the Grand Coulee Dam to the Bonneville Dam
the Columbia
Harvey
|
$800
[25]
ETF stands for this kind of traded fund, for the type of marketplace at which they can be bought & sold
an exchange traded fund
Cameron
|
$800
[16]
"The Bigger Picture" is by Jon Landau, the late producer of blockbusters like "Titanic" & this one that taught us Na'vi
Avatar
Harvey
|
$800
[22]
In children, the 3 parts of this breastbone are connected by cartilage that will ossify in adulthood
the sternum
Cameron
|
$800
[4]
Objects at his Warsaw museum include casts of his hand, his last piano & handkerchiefs embroidered by George Sand
Chopin
Harvey
|
$800
[20]
It's a young bird that's just grown feathers, or an inexperienced person, typically without feathers
a fledgling
Harvey
|
|
$1,200
[13]
You'll find the Ardnacrusha Dam on this river ending in County Limerick
the Shannon
Cameron
|
$1,200
[18]
We can go in together on one of these funds named for the way they pool money from multiple investors, like Fidelity Value
mutual funds
Harvey
|
$1,200
[12]
HerTV role as a Connecticut matriarch named Emily gave Kelly Bishop her memoir title, "The Third..." this
Gilmore Girl
Jason
|
$1,200
[21]
It's your shinbone
the tibia
Cameron
Harvey
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Museums in Toledo, Spain & on Crete celebrate the works of this artist
El Greco
Cameron
|
$1,200
[24]
In Greek myth this word referred to a bird that nested on calm seas; now it describes something happy or calm, like certain days of yore
a halcyon
Harvey
|
|
$1,600
[5]
The Moses-Saunders Power Dam, named after a famous New Yorker & a famous Ontarian, is onthis744-mile-long river
the St. Lawrence
Cameron
Jason
|
$1,600
[9]
Sorry, action-movie screenwriters, but these alliterative notes payable to the physical holder are pretty well extinct nowadays
bearer bonds
Harvey
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
Presumably rejecting "Olaf Me", actor Josh's memoir has this title, punning on our national motto
In Gad We Trust
Harvey
|
$1,600
[17]
The bones of the forearm are the radius & this, the larger of the pair
the ulna
Harvey
|
$1,600
[2]
The centerpiece of an Oslo museum that honors Thor Heyerdahl is this balsa raft from a 1947 expedition
Kon-Tiki
Cameron
|
$1,600
[26]
As a noun, it's a bird known for its song; as a verb, it means to race playfully up & down a ship's rigging
to skylark
|
|
$2,000
[6]
The Santo Antônio & Jirau Dams are on this "wine"-ding river, the longest tributary in the Amazon basin
the Madeira
|
$2,000
[8]
The WSJ called this person-to-person payment service launched in 2017 a "Venmo-killer"; feel free to send me money via either
Zelle
Harvey
|
$2,000
[11]
The title of Kim Gordon's "Girl in a Band" refers to this post-punk outfit she co-founded
Sonic Youth
Cameron
|
$2,000
[10]
Your spinal column is topped by 7 of these vertebrae, from Latin for "neck"
cervical
Harvey
|
$2,000
[1]
In Colmar, France an exhibit on the creation of the Statue of Liberty is just one part of the museum devoted to this sculptor
Bartholdi
Jason
|
$2,000
[27]
A nod to the bird's squawking & showy plumage, this word that once referred to a parrot now refers to an arrogant dandy
a popinjay
Cameron
|
In a 21st century Pulitzer Prize winner, this character introduced in an 1876 work is biracial
Huck(leberry) Finn