2026 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.
Ashley Chan — a publicist from Lewisville, Texas
Cameron Berry — a data analyst and college administrator from Brighton, Massachusetts
Paolo Pasco — a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paolo | $7,600 | $9,200 | $24,800 |
$24,800
Finalist |
$18,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Cameron | $2,800 | $4,200 | $22,000 |
$801
2nd place: $10,000 |
$16,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Ashley | $200 | $800 | $400 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$400
3 R, 2 W |
| SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHY EVERYWHERE | A BIBLICAL BESTIARY | PHRASES FROM SPORTS | MUSIC OF THE SPHERES | FROM THE MAGAZINE.COM | SOMEBODY CALL ME A DOCTOR! |
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$200
[23]
The commercial capital of northeast Scotland, the seaport of Aberdeen lies where the Rivers Dee & Don enter this sea
the North Sea
Cameron
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$200
[29]
The eighth of the 10 plagues was a swarm of the creatures called arbeh in Hebrew & these in the King James Bible
locusts
Paolo
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$200
[26]
Originating in the world of racing at the turn of the 20th century, it means to false-start
jump the gun
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$200
[11]
Chappell Roan sets the scene at the "Pink Pony Club": "Black lights and a mirrored" this dazzling dance floor item
disco ball
Paolo
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$200
[30]
"Seal Spotlight: Avocado Eco Organic Mattress Topper", which are words in an order I've never seen before
Good Housekeeping
|
$200
[27]
Feet don't fail me now! Time to insert this company whose founder was born in 1882 & learned foot care from his shoemaker grandpa
Dr. Scholl's
Cameron
|
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$400
[22]
New Glasgow in the north of this Canadian province was once the area's industrial heart
Nova Scotia
Paolo
|
$400
[28]
The jockey of the pale horse is this last of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Death
Paolo
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$400
[25]
Wearing a tinfoil hat to protect against mind control may be an idea "out of" this baseball location
left field
Cameron
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$400
[10]
"All I wanted was to break your walls" in this chart-topping hit from 2013
"Wrecking Ball"
Cameron
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$400
[20]
"Tracking a rare tiger for 120 days to get the perfect cover shot"
National Geographic
Paolo
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$400
[24]
Feet don't fail me now; time to boot up this company that calls its footwear, like Vegan Boots, a badge of attitude & empowerment
Doc Martens
Cameron
|
|
$600
[21]
The Scots called Orcadians reside here, up in the north
(the) Orkney (Islands)
Ashley
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$600
[3]
To see if the flood waters had receded, Noah first sent forth one of these birds
a raven
Paolo
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$600
[15]
In boxing, before this more familiar phrase, the boxer's team was "chucking up the sponge"
throwing in the towel
Paolo
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$600
[9]
"Big Balls" from this band's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is about formal high-society dances--sure it is!
AC/DC
Cameron
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$600
[12]
"Leslie Odom Jr.'s Return Sends 'Hamilton''s Box Office Skyrocketing, and More From Last Week's Broadway Grosses"
Playbill
Paolo
|
$600
[5]
Beaker is the lab assistant to this Muppet doctor
(Bunsen) Honeydew
Paolo
|
|
$800
[19]
A milestone for this city named for a Scottish county was the 1870s telegraph link to the Port of Albany named for a Scottish dukedom
Perth
Paolo
Cameron
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$800
[1]
In Exodus God says that he carried the Israelites away from bondage on the wings of one of these
an eagle
Paolo
Cameron
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$1,000
[17]
Thisduration that's exceptional for slam dunk artists can also mean how long it takes for grapes on the vine to ripen
hang time
Cameron
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$800
[7]
Containing the hit "My Favorite Mistake", her 1998 album "The Globe Sessions" won a Best Rock Album Grammy
Sheryl Crow
Cameron
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$800
[13]
Covering both: "Ezra Dyer: The Nissan Altima... and Its Thirst for Mayhem"
Car and Driver
Paolo
Ashley
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$800
[6]
"Baby Doc" Duvalier was 19 as president of this nation he'd later flee to avoid a trial for abusing human rights
Haiti
Cameron
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|
$1,000
[18]
This "colorful" Scottish village just north of England was long the goal of couples eloping to seek a hasty marriage
Gretna Green
|
$1,000
[2]
Uh-oh! After a group of kids mocked the prophet Elisha's baldness, God sent some of these after them
bears
Paolo
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DD
$2,400
[4]
This 4-word phrase meaning "last minute" comes from stretching a cable across the finish lines in horse racing
just under the wire (down to the wire)
Paolo
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$1,000
[8]
"Stroll with the holy robe, then attack the globe", rapped RZA as part of this acclaimed collective
the Wu-Tang Clan
Cameron
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$1,000
[14]
Covering both: "New Mexico Earmarks Record Funding for Wildlife Crossings" & "The 10 Best Bass Lures Ever Made"
Field & Stream
Ashley
|
$1,000
[16]
"To endure life" in "Doctor Zhivago", she sometimes needed religion "to be accompanied by some inner music"; do you sense a theme?
Lara
Paolo
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| VICE PRESIDENTS | SELF-HELP THROUGH THE AGES | I'M YOUR ____BERRY | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS | PACIFIC NORTHWEST ENTERTAINMENT | "E" BEFORE "I" |
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$400
[29]
Let's not make a case out of it or anything, but John Adams was the only vice president from this political party
the Federalist Party
Cameron
|
$400
[30]
Sebayt or "teaching" literature of this ancient civilization includes "the maxims of Ptahhotep", a letter of advice from father to son
Egypt
Cameron
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$400
[26]
You can call them Vaccinium vitis-idaea or this Swedish-derived name, but either way, they go great on Swedish pancakes
lingonberries
Paolo
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$400
[28]
It's the name Edison used upon inventing the first practicalversionin 1877, recording sound on tinfoil wrapped around a cylinder
a phonograph
Cameron
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$400
[21]
Out of the Northwestern Wilds, Harry was this type of creature in the movie & sitcom "Harry & the Hendersons"
a sasquatch (Bigfoot)
Cameron
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$400
[27]
Not smoke & mirrors but mirrors & light are used to create one of these& its magical patterns
a kaleidoscope
Paolo
|
|
$800
[17]
Naturally, George Dallas was from Philadelphia & served under this president from North Carolina who had a hard Knox life
James Knox Polk
|
$800
[25]
Wisdom dispensed by Benjamin Franklin in this homespun periodical: "Eat to live, & not live to eat" & "Men & melons are hard to know"
Poor Richard's Almanack
Cameron
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$800
[18]
Appropriately, the senior aunts in "Arsenic and Old Lace" poison their senior guests with wine made from these berries
elderberries
Ashley
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$800
[22]
Using mercury, Evangelista Torricelli invented an early version of this device used to measure atmospheric pressure
a barometer
Paolo
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$800
[20]
This co-star of "Portlandia" says the espresso signs at service stations tell him he's in the Pacific Northwest
Armisen
Cameron
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$800
[24]
New Zealand has its own species of this flower that's small & white, clean & bright
edelweiss
Paolo
|
|
$1,600
[16]
He went to Cuba to seek a cure for his tuberculosis in 1853 & was sworn in as veep there; he would not be long for the job
William Rufus DeVane King
|
$1,200
[8]
Fittingly, a 1513 Machiavelli treatise belongs to the genre of pre-modern advice literature called "mirror-for-" these leaders
princes
Paolo
|
$1,200
[2]
A Southern Californiatheme parksprang from a farm that grew this sweet but tangy berry named for its developer
boysenberry
Paolo
Ashley
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$1,200
[4]
Jimmy Smithwas the king of this electronic instrument named for its engineer inventor
the Hammond organ
Cameron
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$1,200
[1]
Kathleen Hanna told this state capital's Music History Project she used to sing "Jack & Diane" a capella at clubs there
Olympia
Cameron
|
$1,200
[23]
The soft down feathers of this sea duck are often used to fill pillows
eider
Paolo
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|
$2,000
[19]
Ulysses S. Grant's first vice president, he was caught up in the Crédit Mobilier scandal
Schuyler Colfax
|
$1,600
[10]
Published in 50+ languages since 2006, Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret" teaches that the key to happiness is the "law of" this
attraction
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$1,600
[14]
A classic Britishdessertcalled fool is made with these avian-named berries
gooseberries
Paolo
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$1,600
[12]
This man's 1852 invention of a safety device for elevators made modern skyscrapers possible
Otis
Paolo
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$1,600
[7]
A documentary called "Fire on the Track" & two Hollywood movies told of this athlete from Coos Bay, Oregon
Prefontaine
Cameron
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$2,000
[9]
Japanese for "second generation", it's an American-born son or daughter of Japanese immigrants
Nisei
Paolo
|
|
DD
$6,600
[5]
Nominating him at the convention, ex-VP Hubert Humphrey called this man "my personal friend & a truly great American"
(Walter) Mondale
Cameron
|
$2,000
[11]
This "Pamela" author also wrote a popular letter-writing manual, a 1700s version of the self-help book
Samuel Richardson
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$2,000
[15]
In this film directed by Ingmar Bergman, Bibi Andersson picks the title fruit
Wild Strawberries
Cameron
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$2,000
[13]
Harry Cameron co-invented this, BOP for short; it didn't work so good for BP off the Louisiana coast in 2010
the blowout preventer
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$2,000
[6]
Matt Dillon's Seattle band is big in Belgium in this very '90s Cameron Crowe movie
Singles
Cameron
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DD
$6,000
[3]
The great ice age occurred during this epoch that preceded the one we're in now
Pleistocene
Paolo
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This body of water with over 1/3 of the world's marine mammals, like the vaquita, has been called "the Aquarium of the World"
the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California)