2026 Champions Wildcard semifinal game 3.
Harvey Silikovitz — an attorney and worldwide karaoke singer originally from West Orange, New Jersey
Ian Morrison — an airline ramp agent originally from Aurora, Colorado
Stella Trout — a software engineer originally from Houston, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stella | $4,200 | $5,000 | $14,000 |
$19,601
Finalist |
$20,600
20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ian | $1,200 | $4,200 | $10,600 |
$1,599
3rd place: $10,000 |
$10,600
17 R, 2 W |
| Harvey | $8,000 | $8,800 | $9,800 |
$19,600
2nd place: $10,000 |
$11,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| WILD, CARDS! | CLASSICAL MUSIC | WE'RE BEEFING | IN THE MOVIE'S TITLE | IT'S GOOD TO "B" IN THE CITY | WORD ORIGIN LANGUAGES |
|
$200
[30]
That's nuts! The name of this card game tells you which card is wild--just its number, not its suit
Crazy Eights
Stella
|
$200
[29]
No one knows "Für" sure who is the title girl of this Beethoven piece, aka Bagatelle No. 25
"Für Elise"
Harvey
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$200
[21]
Oddly, one of the first mentions of this Hot Pocket-like British dish bearing the name of a duke was in the Los Angeles Times
Beef Wellington
Ian
|
$200
[28]
Surely a little alarming, this punctuation mark came at the end of "Airplane" in the 1980 movie
an exclamation point
Ian
|
$200
[27]
Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familiahas long been held as a symbol of this Catalan city
Barcelona
Harvey
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$200
[26]
Da, the name of this strong drink comes from the Russian for "little water"
vodka
Ian
|
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$400
[23]
Another name for the card game solitaire is this, said to be a virtue
patience
Ian
|
$600
[7]
The memorable piece heardheretakes place "In The Hall Of" this royal who presides over a band of trolls
"The Mountain King"
Stella
|
$400
[20]
One type of thin cut steak is called this, just like a thin building in Manhattan
flat iron
Ian
|
$400
[24]
If you're trying to find "Star Wars: Episode IV", you should know that these 3 words come at the end of the title
A New Hope
Harvey
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$400
[13]
Found on the River Lagan, it was the site of a famous peace agreement on Good Friday in 1998
Belfast
Stella
|
$400
[25]
This state of transcendence & enlightenment in Buddhism means "extinction" in Sanskrit
nirvana
Ian
|
|
$600
[22]
Draw 2, Wild & Reverse are cards in this game
Uno
Stella
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$800
[4]
Bach likedthis5-letter sort of polyphonic composition; he paired one with a toccata in D minor
fugue
Harvey
|
$600
[19]
"Mastering the Art of French Cooking" calls this braised stew "one of the most delicious beef dishes concocted by man"
beef bourguignon
Ian
|
$600
[17]
This duo of stop-motion animation fame dealt with "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" in a 2005 film title
Wallace & Gromit
Ian
|
$600
[6]
Get in a good spot on the Chao Phraya River in this capital when it's fireworks night, perhaps for New Year's
Bangkok
Harvey
|
$600
[9]
Swedish for "bread & butter table" gives us this word for abuffet with a variety of foods
a smorgasbord
Stella
|
|
$800
[10]
The joker's (sometimes) wild in this type of poker that's an adaptation of an Asian domino game
Pai Gow
Ian
Harvey
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$1,000
[3]
This Russian wrote the music for "Romeo and Juliet" for the Kirov Ballet, where it premiered in 1940
Prokofiev
Ian
|
$800
[18]
It's not only large striped felines that weep when they try this spicy Thai dish consisting of marinated beef & a dipping sauce
crying tiger
|
$800
[11]
The middle character of this Brad Pitt film title from 1995 is stylized as a certain number
Se7en
Harvey
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$800
[2]
This double-talk German city known for its spas lies on the Oos river
Baden-Baden
Stella
|
$800
[8]
Yiddish gave us this word for a clumsy or awkward person
a klutz
Stella
|
|
$1,000
[16]
This trick-taking card game makes for a great Scrabble score, with a Z & a Q in its name
bezique
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
United Airlines began using this Gershwin piece in its ads in the 1980s
"Rhapsody In Blue"
Harvey
|
$1,000
[15]
Peter Luger Steak House is famed for this cut; a N.Y. strip is on one side of its T-bone shape & a filet mignon is on the other
a porterhouse
|
$1,000
[14]
Not a Guns N' Roses documentary, the 2017 "Jumanji" reboot had this subtitle
Welcome to the Jungle
Stella
|
$1,000
[5]
The Flame Towers are large & in charge over this Azerbaijani capital skyline
Baku
Ian
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$1,000
[1]
It's suggested that this term for an imaginary creature comes from old Irish for "small body"
leprechaun
Harvey
|
| 2020s VISION | SOME SCIENCE | FAMILY TV | BILLS OF RIGHTS | 3-NAMED AUTHORS | I'M "CC"ING YOU |
|
$400
[23]
2021 saw the container ship Ever Givenget stuck in this vital artery, disrupting global trade
the Suez Canal
Ian
|
$400
[27]
Able to become billions of times as bright as the Sun, it's called "the 'last hurrah' of a dying massive star" by NASA
a supernova
Harvey
|
$400
[26]
He played dad to Malcolm in the Middle & to Walter White Jr.
Bryan Cranston
Ian
|
$400
[30]
The Taxpayer Bill of Rights includes "the right to challenge" this agency's "position & be heard"
the IRS
Stella
|
$400
[29]
She was just a little woman when she was part of the Utopian community she wrote about in "Transcendental Wild Oats"
Louisa May Alcott
Stella
|
$400
[28]
The name for this book of the Bible is a rough translation of the word "preacher"
Ecclesiastes
|
|
$800
[22]
2022 trades of basketball players included Kristaps Porzingis for Spencer Dinwiddie & arms dealer Viktor Bout for her
Griner
Stella
|
$800
[24]
Often seen in swirls of green, the northern lights are also known by this Latin name
the aurora borealis
Harvey
|
$800
[25]
On "Wednesday", Catherine Zeta-Jonesplays her, the title character's mom
Morticia Addams
Stella
|
$800
[16]
The Seventh Amendment provides that in federal courts, you're entitled to this type of trial even in a civil matter
a trial by jury
Ian
Harvey
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$800
[12]
London's Adelphi Terrace was home to J.M. Barrie, John Galsworthy & this man who wrote "Man and Superman" there
George Bernard Shaw
Ian
|
$800
[1]
It's a casino game of way more luck than skill, typically played for high stakes; sounds like my kind of game
baccarat
Ian
|
|
$1,600
[15]
In 2025 President Trump did a favor for the machatunim when he made Charles, father of this man, ambassador to France
Jared Kushner
|
$1,600
[6]
Originally obtained from ants, today this chemical used as a preservative & antibacterial agent is mostly made synthetically
formic acid
Stella
|
$1,200
[21]
On "Downton Abbey" Violet is the matriarch of this family, holders of the noble title of Grantham
the Crawleys
|
$1,200
[14]
In 2021 New York state legalized the gestational type of this reproductive arrangement with a Bill of Rights
surrogacy
Stella
|
$1,200
[9]
He & Charles Dickens had been friendly rivals until the Garrick Club Affair; shortly before he died, he made peace with Chuck
William Makepeace Thackeray
Stella
|
$1,200
[2]
It's Paul McCartney's nickname, because "they abbreviate everything in Liverpool"
Macca
Ian
|
|
$2,000
[20]
An ammonium nitrate explosion in this Mediterranean city in 2020 saw much of its port destroyed & hundreds killed & injured
Beirut
Stella
|
$2,000
[5]
"Discover" magazine said, "Few organisms rank lower in life than the gelatinous, pond-dwelling"this genus of protozoans
Paramecium
Ian
|
$1,600
[19]
After losing their parents in a car accident, the Salinger siblings were left to fend for themselves on this series
Party of Five
Harvey
|
$1,600
[10]
Bernie Sanders says this is a "right & not a privilege"; FDR also called it a right in his "Second Bill of Rights" in a 1944 speech
healthcare
Ian
Harvey
|
$1,600
[8]
Works by this influential 19th century English philosopher include "On Liberty" & "Principles of Political Economy"
John Stuart Mill
Stella
|
$1,600
[3]
This word for a minor offense derives partly from Spanish, in which "little sins" are distinguished from more serious ones
a peccadillo
Stella
|
|
DD
$5,000
[17]
It's the somewhat self-deprecating title of the bestselling 2023 memoir by Prince Harry
Spare
Harvey
|
DD
$6,600
[4]
God bless this radioactive element discovered in 1944 by a group of U.S. scientists when they bombarded plutonium with neutrons
americium
Stella
|
$2,000
[18]
Set almost 200 years before "Game of Thrones", "House of the Dragon" focuses on this family, Daenerys' ancestors
the Targaryens
Stella
|
$2,000
[11]
2022's A.I. Bill of Rights says no to "discrimination by" these, the sets of instructions that computers rely on to problem solve
algorithms
Harvey
|
$2,000
[7]
During his lifetime this Quaker poet was a household name in both the U.S. & England
John Greenleaf Whittier
Stella
|
$2,000
[13]
It's an occasion of drunken revelry &/or other behaviors we aren't at liberty to discuss
a bacchanal (bacchanalia)
Harvey
|
Once called Grontabricc, it's named for a structure spanning a tributary of the Great Ouse River
Cambridge