2026 Champions Wildcard quarterfinal game 4.
Jonathan Hugendubler — an adjunct professor and trivia host from Baltimore, Maryland
Vickie Talvola — a quantitative trader from Jersey City, New Jersey
Pete Johnston — a filmmaker and educator originally from Alma Michigan
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pete | $2,000 | $3,800 | $10,800 |
$3,199
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Vickie | $-800 | $800 | $9,200 |
$13,600
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Jonathan | $3,400 | $4,800 | $9,200 |
$18,400
Automatic semifinalist |
$9,200
15 R, 3 W |
| HOLIDAY RO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OAD | POETS & POETRY | THE GOLDEN GLOBES | "A"NTONYMS | FURNITURE I NEED HELP MOVING | PIVOT! |
|
$200
[26]
Montauk Highway in the Hamptons is often busy, especially on this holiday that marks the end of the season, darling
Labor Day
Pete
|
$200
[24]
Asking about a dream deferred, Langston Hughes wrote an 11-line poem titled for this New York locale
Harlem
Vickie
|
$200
[21]
In 2010, heclocked in as The Golden Globes' first host in 15 years; he'd host for a fifth time in 2020
Gervais
Pete
|
$200
[25]
Of descendant
ancestor
Jonathan
|
$200
[28]
This chair will be easy to move! It's a malleable sack of polystyrene beads, so we can just squish it out the door
a bean bag
Vickie
|
$200
[30]
After months of failed attempts from the North, this Union general won at Vicksburg with a change in strategy: come from the South
Grant
Vickie
|
|
$400
[23]
From Lance Bass of musical fame comes a children's book with the rhyming title this activity "On Scary Street"
Trick or Treat
Vickie
|
$400
[18]
This 2-letter-titled Kipling poem ends, "Yours is the earth & everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a man, my son!"
"If—"
Jonathan
|
$400
[20]
A Golden Globe for excellence in television on or off the screen is named for this legend, its first recipient
Carol Burnett
Pete
|
$400
[22]
Of digital
analog
Jonathan
|
$400
[27]
I have this type of low bed where the mattress rests on slats, kind of a rigid futon frame, so we won't have to move a box spring
a platform (bed)
Pete
|
$400
[29]
In a pivot towards conservatism, the 1994 midterms gave Republicans control of Congress &this Georgian control of the House
Newt Gingrich
Jonathan
|
|
$600
[4]
Special Valentine's Day events are sometimes held on atrailin San Francisco's Presidio with this romantic, alliterative name
Lovers' Lane
Jonathan
|
$600
[17]
This humorous American poet wrote the verses "A flea and a fly in a flue" & "Oh to be odd!"
(Ogden) Nash
Vickie
|
$600
[19]
And here's to you, Dustin Hoffman, named New Star of the Year in 1968 for his role in this film
The Graduate
Pete
Jonathan
|
$600
[10]
Of enact or ratify
abolish
|
$600
[15]
I took almost all the china out of this tall storage & display piece with cabinets on the bottom shelves on top--get her moved!
a (china) hutch
Pete
|
$600
[16]
Call it a branding pivot: he started using his Roman name, Paul, after a funny thing happened on the road to Damascus
Saul
Jonathan
|
|
$800
[3]
Boston Marathoners cross the finish line on Boylston Street on the third Monday in April, this Massachusetts state holiday
Patriots' Day
Jonathan
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
"Bless my baby bless my baby bright", wrote Gertrude Stein to her
Alice B. Toklas
Pete
|
$800
[7]
Thisactor & show creator who's taken casts to hotels all over the world accepted the 2023 Golden Globe for Best Limited Series
(Mike) White
Pete
|
$800
[9]
Of stinky or unscented
aromatic
Pete
|
$800
[14]
We'll get a great workout moving this freestanding, French-named furniture piece with 2 doors that's great for storing clothes
armoire
Pete
|
$800
[12]
Facing angry seas at Cape Horn, the Bounty's Capt. Bligh changed course: he went 1,000s of miles the other way to reach this island
Tahiti
Vickie
|
|
$1,000
[2]
Each year on this day, the pope symbolically goes on the road to Calvary on a trek around the Colosseum
Good Friday
|
$1,000
[5]
Mentioning poppies & "crosses, row on row", John McCrae (Canadian, not Belgian) wrote of this alliterative title place
Flanders Fields
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[6]
In 2025, this funny lady made history as the first woman to host the awards solo; in 2026, she's back to host again
Nikki Glaser
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[8]
Of ineloquent or incoherent
articulate
Vickie
|
$1,000
[13]
We'll have such fun moving mycabinet with lots of small drawers named for this type of tradesman who once used it
an apothecary
Pete
|
$1,000
[11]
While prepping for a North Pole trip in 1909, he heard Robert Peary was already there, so he went to the South Pole instead
Amundsen
Pete
Vickie
|
| LET'S RADIOCARBON DATE | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS | POP QUIZ | IN THE RANGE | BROADWAY WRITING TEAMS | I'D LIKE TO BUY A VOWEL |
|
$400
[30]
In the 1940s Willard Libby made one of the 1st attempts at radiocarbon dating with charred bread from this ancient city near Naples
Pompeii
Vickie
|
$400
[29]
A CIO, short for this, is an exec in charge of a company's tech stuff
chief information officer
Pete
|
$400
[26]
Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, is known as the "Father of" this present-day nation
Iran
Vickie
|
$400
[24]
Call it Denali, call it Mount McKinley--either way, it's in this stately mountain range
(the) Alaska (Range)
Jonathan
|
$400
[25]
This1960 show, a hit in the Kennedy White House, had songs by Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner, a friend of JFK's from Choate
Camelot
Vickie
|
$400
[28]
2 A's! It pairs with & follows alas to express great disappointment in a Shakespearean kind of way
alack
Pete
|
|
$800
[21]
A man given this nickname who was found in the Alps (not Encino) in 1991 was dated to c. 5,300 years ago in the Copper Age
Ötzi (the Iceman)
Jonathan
|
$800
[20]
If you print a document & it looks the same on paper as it does on your screen, it's WYSIWYG, this
what you see is what you get
Pete
|
$800
[23]
Joseph Haydn is considered the "Father of the Symphony" & of this form that has many fewer players
string quartet
Jonathan
|
$800
[22]
14,000-foot Mount of the Holy Crossis in the Sawatch Range, part of this bigger North American chain
the Rockies
Pete
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
John Kander & Fred Ebb knew how to open a show, with "All That Jazz" & this language-lesson number that begins "Cabaret"
"Willkommen"
Pete
|
$800
[27]
U makes a tasty contribution as the only vowel in this type of cake, whose classic pans generally hold 12 cups of batter
Bundt
Pete
|
|
$1,600
[1]
Disheveled after days of work leading to the discovery of this carbon dating isotope, Martin Kamen was detained by suspicious police
carbon-14
Vickie
|
$1,200
[19]
You probably know your own ZIP Code, but do you know that ZIP stands for these 3 words?
Zone Improvement Plan
Pete
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[7]
Before Penn &... came Ulam & Teller--Edward Teller was "Father of" this but mathematician Stanislaw Ulam has a claim to the title
the H-bomb
Pete
Vickie
|
$1,200
[4]
GPS & Argentina disagree over the height of this tallest South American peak, but everybody agrees it's in the Andes
Aconcagua
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[8]
"You Will Be Found" is a big number by Benj Pasek & Justin Paulfor this show about a teen's letter gone astray
Dear Evan Hansen
Vickie
|
$1,200
[15]
One U in this word from Yiddish, used to mean a synagogue by Ashkenazi Jews
a shul
|
|
$2,000
[2]
Researchers used seeds at Djoser's Step Pyramid to help pinpoint this Egyptian kingdom's timeline between 2691 & 2625 B.C.
the Old Kingdom
|
$1,600
[12]
When someone comments "BUMP", it stands for these 4 words (the first word is actually not bump)
bring up my post
|
$1,600
[9]
This 14th century scholar & Laura-loving author of the "Canzoniere" is known as the "Father of Humanism"
Petrarch
Vickie
Jonathan
|
$1,600
[5]
Wolves, bears & other big carnivores abound in this range that arcs through Central & Southeast Europe
the Carpathians
Vickie
|
$1,600
[17]
This New Testament-based show by 2 Brits, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice, opened on Broadway in 1971 before an 8-year run in London
Jesus Christ Superstar
Pete
|
$1,600
[14]
Only one A in this word for a loud, harsh cry; Walt Whitman sounded a "barbaric" one
yawp
Pete
|
|
DD
$2,400
[3]
Found in Portugal, the skeleton of a love child from a Homo sapiens & this species has been dated at 27,000+ years old
a Neanderthal
Vickie
|
$2,000
[11]
Involved in ovulation, FSH is short for this hormone
follicle stimulating hormone
Vickie
|
$2,000
[10]
One hundred public parks, including Chicago's Jackson Park, were designed by this"Father of American Landscape Architecture"
Olmsted
Pete
|
$2,000
[6]
Don't worry, you don't have to spell this tallest Australian peak, named for a Polish patriot & found in the Snowy Mountains
Mount Kosciuszko
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[16]
The 2025 movie "Blue Moon" tells of this man, played by Ethan Hawke, left standing alone as Rodgers teams up with Hammerstein
(Lorenz) Hart
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[13]
Only I & uh oh! a silent D in this word for a being with supernatural powers in Islamic culture
djinn
Vickie
|
3 of Michelangelo's panels on the Sistine Chapel ceiling deal with him, including his "drunkenness" & "sacrifice"
Noah