2026 Tournament of Champions exhibition game for players with byes into the semifinals.Played between the quarterfinals and the semifinals but televised after the semifinals.
Paolo Pasco — a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California
Laura Faddah — a manager from Memphis, Tennessee
Scott Riccardi — an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $1,400 | $3,200 | $5,200 |
$5,200
3rd place |
$5,200
15 R, 5 W |
| Laura | $800 | $2,400 | $8,800 |
$10,401
2nd place |
$8,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Paolo | $6,200 | $15,600 | $29,000 |
$30,118
Winner |
$18,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| POLITICS RHYME TIME | SPORTS | "Q_ED" | I'M TALKIN' HERE! | FACTS | FACE CARDS |
|
$200
[30]
A hesitant member of the House
a tentative representative
Paolo
|
$200
[28]
The winner of this invitational golf tournament is rewarded with 7 figures of prize money & a green jacket
the Masters
Scott
|
$200
[29]
Repeated someone else's remark
quoted
Scott
|
$200
[27]
His "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet" were the first spoken words in a landmark 1927 movie
Jolson
Paolo
|
$200
[26]
Wilson's Creek in 1861 was the second major battle of this war
the Civil War
Laura
|
$200
[25]
To seize a 727 in flight
hijack
Scott
|
|
$400
[17]
A jocular panel of elected officials holding hearings & conducting oversight
a witty committee
Laura
|
$400
[22]
In the late 1980s & early '90s, the Pittsburgh Pirates Killer B'sfeatured Bobby Bonilla & this even more feared slugger
(Barry) Bonds
Scott
|
$400
[18]
Fitted for a particular purpose; you're all well this to respond
qualified
Paolo
|
$600
[3]
Alexander Graham Bell's first words spoken by telephone summoned this man
Watson
Paolo
|
$400
[23]
It's the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
epsilon
Scott
|
$400
[24]
There's a federal law known as this statute, after the "royal" drug lords it targets
Kingpins
Scott
|
|
$600
[1]
The sheen of a Senate delaying tactic
a filibuster luster
Scott
|
$600
[13]
This race entered the Olympic Games in 1900, though it was only standardized at 3,000 meters later
the steeplechase
|
$600
[7]
Based on its number of feet, almost every type of mammal, whether elephant or mouse, is this
a quadruped
Paolo
|
$800
[12]
This Texan of "60 Minutes" & the "CBS Evening News" shares folksy thoughts like "If a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun"
(Dan) Rather
Scott
Laura
|
$600
[8]
New York City co-starred on HBO's "How to with" him
John Wilson
Paolo
|
$600
[10]
On "Star Trek" the use of one of these devices made a ship invisible
a cloaking device
Scott
|
|
$800
[2]
A public meeting to discuss the minimum number of legislators necessary to transact business
a quorum forum
Paolo
|
$800
[14]
In 2025 the Dallas Mavericks made this Duke star the first white American taken No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft since 1977
Cooper Flagg
|
$800
[6]
I'm sorry I did this, raised a petty objection over the size of the diamond you gave me
quibbled
Paolo
|
$1,000
[16]
In 1858, hetold a debate audience that Abe Lincoln was trying to abolitionize the old Whig Party
Douglas
Paolo
|
$800
[15]
Fiction fact: Anastasia Steele has this passionate boyfriend
Grey
Paolo
|
$800
[9]
When the trailer on a semi swivels at the coupling, causing a V-shape, it is said to be doing this
jackknifes
|
|
$1,000
[4]
A supplement to a question being put to direct popular vote
referendum addendum
Scott
|
$1,000
[20]
Based in the Hammersmith & Fulham borough of London, this British pro soccer team is nicknamed "the Blues"
Chelsea
Laura
|
$1,000
[5]
An 1846 story in the Knickerbocker magazine said, "The stoutest hearts" did this avian thing "with fear"
quailed
Paolo
|
DD
$7,600
[19]
Neil Armstrong said he meant to put an "a" in between these 2 of his first words on the Moon
for man
Paolo
|
$1,000
[21]
Milwaukee is at the confluence of the Milwaukee, the Kinnickinnic &this river
the Menomonee
|
$1,000
[11]
A character in the animated TV show "Mike Tyson Mysteries" was the ghost of this marquess
Queensberry
Paolo
|
| INTERNATIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | THE FILMS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK | MEDICINE | THE 2012TIME100 | HOW ARE YOU FEELING? | NOTHING A LITTLE OPERA CAN'T CURE! |
|
$400
[23]
You'll find Australian National University in this capital city
Canberra
Laura
|
$400
[27]
The climax to Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" takes place at this Black Hills locale
Mount Rushmore
Paolo
|
$400
[25]
In Minnesota in the 1950s, C. Walton Lillehaipioneered this 3-word type of procedure right on the old ticker
open-heart surgery
Scott
|
$400
[28]
"He retired from Bain Capital in 1999 to take over as CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics"
(Mitt) Romney
Paolo
|
$400
[29]
Intentionally crinkled, like certain velvet
crushed
Laura
|
$400
[30]
Benjamin Britten's only opera for TV, "Owen Wingrave" premiered in 1971 on this broadcaster2
BBC2
Scott
|
|
$800
[22]
There are some great brains at McMaster University in Hamilton in this Canadian province, including part of Einstein's in a lab
Ontario
Laura
|
$800
[26]
Later to be royalty, she starred in 3 films for Hitchcock: "To Catch a Thief", "Dial M for Murder" & "Rear Window"
(Grace) Kelly
Paolo
|
$800
[24]
Great strides have been made in the treatment of this disease that its child sufferers sometimes call "65 roses"
cystic fibrosis
Laura
|
$800
[21]
"You can't take your eyes off" this bipolar CIA agent played by Claire Danes on "Homeland"
Carrie Mathison
|
$800
[20]
Last word Francis Scott Key wrote in a poetic fervor on Sept.14, 1814
brave
Paolo
|
$800
[19]
Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street" is set in this ethnic area of NYC; Bleecker once vied with Mulberry St. as its epicenter
Little Italy
Scott
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Some say the univ. in South Africa's Eastern Cape named for this 19th c. colonialist Brit should become Steve Biko University
Cecil Rhodes
Scott
|
$1,200
[13]
She won an Oscar for "Terms of Endearment", but made her big screen debut at age 21 in 1955's "The Trouble with Harry"
(Shirley) MacLaine
Paolo
|
$1,200
[1]
While president, Chester Arthur learned that he was dying of Bright's disease, an affliction of these organs
kidneys
Scott
|
$1,200
[4]
"He's dispelled the idea that Asian-American guards somehow couldn't hack it in the NBA"
(Jeremy) Lin
Paolo
|
$1,600
[17]
This way--in other words, I'm in high dudgeon
angry, irate, offended
|
$1,200
[8]
His 1836 "Das Liebesverbot", or "The Ban on Love", had a shaky second night with an audience of 3 & a brawl by the cast
Wagner
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[15]
The University of Macedonia is in this Greek city once known as Salonika
Thessaloniki
Laura
|
$1,600
[5]
As Marion Crane in "Psycho", Janet Leigh checks into this eerie inn with $40,000 in stolen money, but she does not check out
the Bates Motel
Paolo
|
$1,600
[2]
It's the 6-syllable "E" in CTE, caused by repeated blows to the head over time
encephalopathy
Scott
|
$1,600
[10]
Sarah Burton, the "right hand" of this late British designer, "did the undoable--a royal wedding dress" that lived up to dreams
Alexander McQueen
|
$2,000
[18]
This sad way, like I ate too many canned pineapple chunks
doleful
Scott
|
$1,600
[7]
An oil rigger is the romantic lead in this 2016 opera based on a Lars von Trier film
Breaking the Waves
Scott
|
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
Woof! AIU is this "International University" in Japan focusing on liberal arts & foreign languages
Akita
Laura
|
$2,000
[12]
As the 3-word title of this 1938 Hitchcock thriller suggests, elderly Miss Froy goes missing on a train
The Lady Vanishes
Paolo
|
$2,000
[3]
The undesirable list of awful medical eponyms includes Moritz Kaposi, who in 1872 reported on this type of tumor
a sarcoma
Laura
|
$2,000
[11]
"With the Court dividing 5-4", this Supreme Court justice is "nearly always... the decisive vote"
(Anthony) Kennedy
Scott
|
DD
$5,000
[6]
2014 Pharrell Williams hit
"Happy"
Paolo
|
$2,000
[9]
Queen Henrietta, the widow of King Charles I, is held captive by these title religious folks in a Bellini opera
Puritans
|
Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, may have been the last place on Earth where this 2-word prehistoric mammal lived
wooly mammoth