2026 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.
Alex DeFrank — an analyst from Brooklyn, New York
W. Kamau Bell — a comedian and author from Oakland, California
Ashley Chan — a publicist from Lewisville, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley | $1,200 | $-200 | $5,400 |
$4,398
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist |
$5,400
8 R, 3 W |
| Kamau | $0 | $-200 | $2,600 |
$2,600
2nd place: $5,000 |
$2,600
4 R, 2 W |
| Alex | $0 | $5,000 | $6,400 |
$1,999
3rd place: $5,000 |
$16,000
29 R, 6 W (including 3 DDs) |
| LOVE ISLAND: ANCIENT GREEK MYTH | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS | ONLY BRANDS | AROUND THE AMERICAS | DAYS I WON'T BE AT WORK | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY OPENING NUMBER |
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$200
[30]
New bombshell in the villa! He's a fertility deity, said to be Hermes' son, & he's horny, because he has the features of a goat
Pan
Alex
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$200
[29]
Add steamed milk & milk foam to espresso & you get this
a cappuccino
Alex
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$200
[28]
A Teen Vogue article says this brand's Vapo Rub "is to Hispanic grandmas what Windex was to" the dad in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
Vicks
Alex
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$200
[27]
The port of Cristóbal adjoins this other "C" port on the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal
Colón
|
$200
[25]
I'll need 3 days off for feasting at the end of Ramadan, dates TBD depending on this type of calendar used in Islam
a lunar calendar
Alex
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$200
[2]
"Food, Glorious Food"
Oliver!
Alex
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$400
[14]
Ares & Aphrodite got caught making out at Soul Ties & this god, Aphrodite's husband, is hella mad! Now that's fire!
Hephaestus
Alex
|
$400
[18]
This type of center focuses on improving one's physical & mental health through exercise & activities like yoga & meditation
wellness
Alex
|
$400
[24]
This brand with a fowl name hatched from the earlier Van Camp Seafood
Chicken of the Sea
Kamau
Alex
|
$400
[1]
This Canadian territory is home to Lake Laberge, which appears on the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Yukon
Ashley
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$400
[26]
I'll be unreachable on Cinco de Mayo while celebrating Mexico's victory in the 1862 Battle of Puebla against this country's army
France
Ashley
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$400
[3]
At the Delta Nu sorority house: "Omigod You Guys"
Legally Blonde
Alex
|
|
$600
[12]
Reunion hijinks! Theseus steps in it when he calls this woman "Ariana" & her hubby Dionysus ain't havin' that disrespect
Ariadne
Alex
|
$600
[17]
In other words, a large bag or tote in which you can put a lot of stuff--everything, even
a carryall
Ashley
|
$600
[20]
By 1998 this pioneering athletic shoe co. had just a 2.3% market share, but with some help from Nike, Gen Z didn't chuck Chucks
Converse
Ashley
Kamau
Alex
|
$600
[7]
Fort Raleigh National Historic Siteon this island preserves the location of the first attempt at a North American English colony
Roanoke
Alex
|
$600
[23]
No federal holidays in August, but I'll still be unavails on Aug. 8, the national day of this sport in which a dink shot is a good thing
pickleball
Ashley
|
$600
[6]
Opening in 2000: "Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!"
Seussical
Alex
|
|
$800
[11]
At the "Snog, Marry, Pie" challenge, she gives Endymion a chaste peck, marries Zeus & pies Hercules
Hera
|
$800
[9]
Before hitting the ball, a golfer does this in preparation, which involves grounding the club
address
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$800
[19]
This Procter & Gamble brand for sweaty & smelly fellas has a clipper ship as part of its logo
Old Spice
Alex
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$800
[8]
Thought to be from the Inca period, the Pilko Kainaruins can be found on an island in this lake 12,500 feet above sea level
Lake Titicaca
Alex
|
$800
[22]
Like the Scandinavians, I trade work for merriment on this occasion, a national holiday in Sweden & Finland
Midsommar
Alex
|
$800
[5]
"Opening Night"/ "The King of Broadway"
The Producers
Ashley
|
|
$1,000
[13]
A mean social post is read aloud to the Greek islanders: this nymph "lives in the penthouse but Narcissus rejecting her is so low rent"
Echo
|
$1,000
[10]
From the name of a heroine of a 1913 novel, it's someone who's cheerfully optimistic
Pollyanna
Alex
|
$1,000
[16]
This brand has been bringing chocolate cheer since 1852, at the peak of the California gold rush
Ghirardelli
Alex
|
DD
$4,600
[15]
This Ontario city with a stormy name uses the slogan "superior by nature"
Thunder Bay
Alex
|
$1,000
[21]
I'll be in Japan for Golden Week, which has 4 distinct holidays including one honoring this emperor who died in 1989
Hirohito
Alex
|
$1,000
[4]
Overture, followed by the "Fisch Schlapping Song"
Spamalot
|
| FOREIGN LEADER FIRSTS | CLASSIC TV | CHEMISTRY | NONFICTION TO FILM | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS | A SILVER JUBILEE |
|
$400
[16]
He's the first French president to have been born after the death of Charles de Gaulle
Emmanuel Macron
|
$400
[3]
"The Hot Tub" & "The Puffy Shirt" were popular episodes of this sitcom
Seinfeld
Ashley
|
$400
[23]
Time to step on this scale that measures relative alkalinity; a peat bog goes as low as 3, so no skinny-dipping
pH scale
Alex
|
$400
[6]
Laura Hillenbrand subtitled her book, later a movie, about this champion "An American Legend"
Seabiscuit
Alex
|
$400
[29]
The perfidiousness! It's from the Latin for "unfaithfulness"
infidelity
|
$400
[30]
A Spanish diminutive of "silver" gives us the name of this precious silvery metal
platinum
Alex
|
|
$800
[14]
This Pakistani prime minister was the first elected head of state to give birth while in office (it was a girl!)
Bhutto
Ashley
|
$800
[1]
Her theme song said, "Love is all around no need to waste it, you can have the town, why don't you take it"
Mary Tyler Moore
Alex
|
$800
[28]
Announced in September 2025, the iPhone Air has a frame mainly of this durable element with a name derived from the Greek myths
titanium
Alex
|
$800
[10]
Jessica Bruder's book about life on the road was the basis for this film that earned Oscars for Chloé Zhao & Frances McDormand
Nomadland
Alex
|
$800
[26]
We're giving you the first degree... this one, a bachelor's from a college
baccalaureate
Alex
|
$800
[19]
Silver salmon is another name for this four-letter species
coho
Alex
|
|
$1,200
[12]
In 2023, this country elected Edgars Rinkēvičsas the EU's first openly gay president
Latvia
Ashley
|
$1,200
[2]
Jennifer Lopez & Carrie Ann Inaba were two of the Fly Girls on this sketch comedy series
In Living Color
Kamau
|
$1,600
[22]
The last member of the actinide series is named for this Ernest man who invented the cyclotron
Ernest Lawrence
Alex
|
$1,200
[7]
"The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History" was the subtitle of this book that became a 2007 Tom Hanks film
Charlie Wilson's War
Alex
|
$1,200
[25]
A common term in algebra, itcan have varying numbers of elements2x3+ x2- 5y + 7
polynomial
Alex
|
$1,200
[11]
The free silver movement gained political strength in the late 19th c. & nominated this man as its presidential candidate in 1896
William Jennings Bryan
Alex
|
|
$1,600
[13]
Kwame Nkrumahwas the first president of this new country, the first in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from colonial rule
Ghana
Alex
|
$1,600
[4]
Onthis British import of the 1960s, John Steed & Emma Peel weren't Marvel superheroes but secret agents extraordinaire
The Avengers
Kamau
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
s, p, d & f are used to designate the shapes of these, the regions around an atom's nucleus where its electrons tend to be found
the orbitals
Alex
|
$1,600
[8]
Winona Ryder helped usher this Susanna Kaysen memoir to the big screen after suffering from anxiety attacks herself
Girl, Interrupted
Ashley
|
$2,000
[27]
They're preliminary observations; in 1783 Kant wrote some "To Any Future Metaphysics"
prolegomena
|
$1,600
[17]
In literature he sacrifices his chance to win the silver skates, allowing his friend Peter to win instead
Hans Brinker
Ashley
|
|
$2,000
[15]
As the first Black head of state in the Americas, he made Haiti the first country to permanently abolish slavery
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
|
$2,000
[5]
Hey, hey, hey, it's the cast of this'70s sitcom; sadly, Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking Dee, passed away in 2025
What's Happening!!
Kamau
|
$2,000
[24]
This process named for one or 2 Germans (depending how you say it) is the main industrial method to make ammonia & fix nitrogen
the Haber process (Haber-Bosch)
|
$2,000
[9]
Tony Kushner's screenplay for "Lincoln" was based in part on a book by this baseball-loving female historian
Doris Kearns Goodwin
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
This adjective describes something worldwide in extent, or means representing every church
ecumenical
Alex
|
$2,000
[18]
Sounding like a name befitting an emperor, this silver coin of ancient Rome was so-called because it was equal to 10 asses
the denarius
Kamau
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A "word book" for the London premiere of this work began with the quote Majora canamus, "Let us sing of greater things"
Messiah