2026Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 3.
Drew Goins — a journalist from Washington, D.C.
T.L. Cubbage — a lawyer from Dallas, Texas
Liz Feltner — a law student from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liz! | $2,200 | $4,800 | $6,200 |
$1,599
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,200
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| T.L. | $2,000 | $3,600 | $5,400 |
$1
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,400
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Drew | $600 | $2,800 | $5,200 |
$1,600
Winner: semifinalist |
$8,200
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| OTHER INVITATIONALS | CANNED GOODS | ...SAID THIS NOVEL CHARACTER | I'M BACK ON THE APPS | FROM SAMUEL JOHNSON'S 1755 DICTIONARY | THE DREADED JAZZ OPERA CATEGORY |
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$200
[30]
In the early days of college basketball, the National Invitation Tournament held in this legendary New York City venue was a bigger deal than the NCAA Tournament
Madison Square Garden
Drew
|
$200
[29]
The website for this brand claims Hawaii eats 7 million cans of its products every year
Spam
Drew
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$200
[27]
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear!... The house must have fallen on her. Whatever shall we do?"
Dorothy
T.L.
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$200
[26]
In 2015 cars from this ride-sharing app ditched their large pink mustaches
Lyft
Drew
|
$200
[23]
Perhaps feeling a bit lazy, Sam defined this 4-letter item simply as "something put between the foot and shoe"
a sock
Liz!
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$200
[25]
A love triangle turns tragic in "Blue Monday", a Harlem-set jazz opera by this man of "Porgy & Bess" fame
Gershwin
Drew
|
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$400
[28]
The Waldner Cup pits a table tennis team from this continent against the rest of the world; in 2024, the continent won
Asia
Liz!
Drew
|
$400
[20]
An Italian chef's name was changed to a more phonetic spelling to be packaged for U.S. consumers as this brand
Chef Boyardee
Drew
|
$400
[19]
"Those who are good with their noses must come in the front with us lions to smell out where the battle is"
Aslan
Liz!
|
$400
[17]
In 2025 the green owl mascot from this app "died", but on the 13th day, rose again, having apparently faked his own death
Duolingo
Drew
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$400
[12]
We think of it as a courteous title of address; to Sam, it was "a term of reproach for a Frenchman"
monsieur
|
$400
[24]
"Yardbird" is in the title of an opera about this alto saxophonist that includes scenes at Birdland & in Kansas City
Parker
T.L.
|
|
$600
[14]
The "Super Bowl" of this sport, the Eddie Aikau Invitational takes place only when conditions are right at Waimea
surfing
Drew
|
$600
[10]
Campbell Soup executive Donald E. Goerke was known as "the Daddy-O" of this brand
SpaghettiOs
Drew
|
$600
[1]
"Vampires like baseball?"
Bella
Liz!
|
$600
[16]
Catalogue & review films you've seen on this app founded in 2011; it's been called Goodreads for movies
Letterboxd
Liz!
|
$600
[4]
To us, it's a stipend paid to a retiree; to Sam, it was "pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country"
a pension
T.L.
|
$600
[7]
A so-called "Hepcat Opera" about Archy & Mehitabel, 1957's "Shinbone Alley" was co-written by this man known for "Blazing Saddles"
Brooks
T.L.
|
|
$800
[15]
At the Bullshooter Invitational Shootout in this sport, elite competitors diddle to see who goes first in 501
darts
Liz!
|
$800
[9]
Don Prudencio Unanue bought this 4-letter name for his canned goods & liked how it sounded like a Spanish artist
Goya
Drew
|
$800
[2]
"Then why don't you ground me? I'm crazy. Ask Clevinger... ask any of the others. They'll tell you how crazy I am"
Yossarian
T.L.
|
$800
[6]
It makes sense that the name of this app means "everything" in Arabic since you can gamble on just about everything on it
Kalshi
Drew
|
$800
[5]
Definitely not what it sounds like! A urinator is one of these "who searches under water", perhaps for pearls
a diver
Liz!
|
$800
[8]
Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding collabed on "Iphigenia," an opera about the daughter of this king of Mycenae
Agamemnon
Drew
|
|
$1,000
[22]
The golf invitational named forhimawards a red cardigan sweater like the one he wore when charging with his army
(Arnold) Palmer
T.L.
|
$1,000
[21]
This man hired Henry Ginaca to make a machine that could trim & core pineapple & more than tripled its canning production
Dole
Drew
|
$1,000
[3]
"Is Mr. Edward Ferrars... going to be married?"
Elinor Dashwood
|
$1,000
[18]
Merriam-Webster notes that the name of this app from xAI "may be the only English word that derives from Martian"
Grok
Liz!
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
Self-effacing Sam defined this, his occupation at the time, as "a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing" words
lexicographer
Drew
|
$1,000
[13]
Duke Ellington's unfinished "Queenie Pie" opera about a beautician was inspired by this real-life hair care millionaire "Madam"
Madam C.J. Walker
|
| ANCIENT TIMES | IT IS A CONTEST | 8-LETTER U.S. CITIES | SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SIMCHA | SCIENTIFIC MINDS | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL |
|
$400
[29]
In the 600s B.C. the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal built one of these that housed more than 30,000 clay tablets
a library
Drew
|
$400
[28]
Guinness has run these contests with your own pub in Ireland as the prize; the entry must begin, "The perfect pint..."
an essay contest
T.L.
Drew
|
$400
[25]
The Becky Thatcher Houseis in this Missouri port city
Hannibal
T.L.
|
$400
[30]
When influencer & model Sofia Richie married Elliot Grainge in 2023, this man, her dad, was under the chuppah with her
Lionel Richie
|
$400
[26]
This primatologist left the Earth with a message of hope on an episode of "Famous Last Words" recorded in March 2025
Goodall
Liz!
|
$400
[27]
Try to make sure your income exceeds this word, constructed as an antonym of income
outgo
Liz!
T.L.
|
|
$800
[24]
In Rome you'd be 2 days late for an appointment if you forgot that this fell on the 15th in March but on the 13th in April
the ides
T.L.
|
$800
[16]
Andrew Prekker said the North Star was his focus in designing the winning contest entry that's now this state'sflag
Minnesota
T.L.
|
$800
[5]
Founded in 1854 to keep the area free from slavery, this city is now home to the University of Kansas
Lawrence
Drew
|
$800
[23]
Also a writer herself, this actress married "Game of Thrones" co-creator David Benioff in a Jewish ceremony
Amanda Peet
Drew
|
$1,200
[15]
Astronomer Jill Tarterwas the inspiration for Dr. Ellie Arroway in this novel by Carl Sagan
Contact
T.L.
|
$800
[10]
Unfinished after 20 years, an office building in Seminole County, Florida became known as the "I-4" this unlovely sight
Eyesore
Drew
|
|
$1,200
[7]
Ancient Peruvians ate a wild & toxic version of this plant, Solanum tuberosum; eating with clay likely absorbed toxins
the potato
Drew
|
$1,200
[12]
Think of Nebraska's nickname to know this type of contest held in Grand Island in 2025; in the '30s, NBC used to cover similar events
cornhusking
Liz!
|
$1,200
[4]
This Michigan city is home to Henry Ford College
Dearborn
|
$1,200
[20]
The lavish bat mitzvah of Portia Umansky, daughter of "Real Housewives of" this place star Kyle Richards, was held in... Encino?
Beverly Hills
Drew
|
$1,600
[17]
1920 Nobel Prize winner August Krogh was a founder of what's now this Danish company that manufactures Ozempic
Novo Nordisk
Liz!
T.L.
|
$1,200
[6]
It's the horizontal orx-coordinateof a point of the Cartesian coordinate system
the abscissa
|
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$1,600
[8]
Under this 600s B.C. Athenian lawgiver, there were many capital crimes--stole an apple? Believe it or not, straight to death
Draco
T.L.
|
$1,600
[13]
Create a device that does a simple task in a silly way & you can win the contest named for this man whose dad wanted him to be an engineer
Rube Goldberg
Liz!
|
$2,000
[3]
This city near Tulsa was once the headquarters of the 5 Civilized Tribes
Muskogee
T.L.
|
$1,600
[21]
A bit ironically, he sang, "I was born with the gift of a golden voice" & showed it at his 1947 bar mitzvah in Montreal
Leonard Cohen
|
$2,000
[18]
"Uncle Tungsten", a memoir by this late neurologist, says a kid could buy cyanide in the London of his youth
Oliver Sacks
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$1,600
[1]
From Latin for "accursed thing", it's a ban or condemnation pronounced with religious authority
anathema
T.L.
|
|
$2,000
[11]
One of the main centers of the Indus civilization along with Harappa, its hyphenated name is said to mean "mound of the dead"
Mohenjo-daro
|
$2,000
[14]
The 1958 Eurovision song contest popularized Italy's 3rd place finisher, "Nel blu dipinto di blu", also known by this one-word title
"Volare"
T.L.
|
DD
$3,000
[2]
After Jackson, this city well to the southeast is Mississippi's largest
Gulfport
T.L.
|
$2,000
[22]
We'd guess that in 2008 this "Beautiful" singer & new mom was crying at the bris of Max Bratman
Christina Aguilera
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Scientists in Brno dug up the remains of this local hero around the bicentennial of his birth & analyzed his genetic code
(Gregor) Mendel
Liz!
|
$2,000
[9]
Though its name is a word meaning "huge", this Nile River island ofancient templesis less than a mile long
Elephantine
|
In 1950 he won a Tony for Best Play & 18 years after his 1965 death, he would go on to win 2 Tonys for a musical
T.S. Eliot