2026Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 6.
Adriana Harmeyer — an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana
Will Yancey — a lecturer of history originally from Gadsden, Alabama
Long Nguyen — a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long | $4,000 | $5,200 | $19,600 |
$21,600
Winner: semifinalist |
$18,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Will | $1,600 | $4,600 | $7,400 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,400
17 R, 4 W |
| Adriana | $2,000 | $3,400 | $3,400 |
$6,800
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$3,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| THE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS | BODIES OF WATER | INBLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY | ANTONYMS | "E.E." | COMINGS |
|
$200
[28]
Her role in "Anora" bested 9 other stars as she danced away with Best Lead Performance in a Film
(Mikey) Madison
Adriana
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$200
[11]
In 1513 the first Europeans gazed on this body of water looking west from a Darién peak
the Pacific Ocean
Long
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$200
[29]
"The risk of conviction and punishment that a criminal defendant faces at trial"
jeopardy
|
$200
[24]
Of gloomy:This word that's also the surname of a famous Blake
lively
Adriana
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$200
[25]
Toynbee Hall & the Whitechapel Art Gallery can be found in this London area
the East End
Will
|
$200
[20]
50-plus years ago, Ling-Ling & Hsing-Hsing's arrival at the zoo of this institution began its giant panda breeding & conservation work
the Smithsonian
Adriana
|
|
$400
[23]
In 2019 biopic Renée Zellweger sang "By Myself" & "Get Happy" on her way to getting some Spirit love as this performer
Judy Garland
Adriana
|
$400
[4]
The largest island in a freshwater lake, 80-mile-long Manitoulin Island is found in this second-largest Great Lake
Lake Huron
Will
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$400
[30]
"The official act by which an attorney is deprived of the privilege of practicing law"
disbarment
Will
|
$400
[27]
Of natural:This word you'll find before intelligence or insemination
artificial
Adriana
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$400
[26]
Sharpshooters in video games like Skyrim can get special abilities with this "avian" name
eagle eye
Will
|
$400
[19]
Shakespeare described her grand entrance at Tarsus: "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned on the water"
Cleopatra
Long
|
|
$600
[10]
This TV show won Best Ensemble Cast in 2024: its sole non-actor, Ronald Gladden, realized he was still eligible for it in real life
Jury Duty
|
$600
[2]
Cythera & Paxos are 2 of the Heptanesos, 7 islands in a group in this sea believed to be named for a maiden
the Ionian Sea
Long
|
$600
[13]
"Dishonesty of belief, purpose, or motive... also termed mala fides"
bad faith
Will
|
$600
[8]
Of trivial:This word that's also a military rank & an elite tennis tournament
a major
|
$600
[5]
The first "Imperial" one of these objets d'art was created in 1885 for Empress Maria Feodorovna
an Easter egg
Long
|
$600
[14]
Just like Jesus did in Matthew 21, the first Crusaders went to this mount before entering a besieged Jerusalem
the Mount of Olives
Will
|
|
$800
[21]
Here's "The Lowdown": He survived "Training Day" to pick up a nom in 2025 for playing Tulsa's own Lee Raybon
(Ethan) Hawke
Long
|
$800
[1]
Puerto Miranda & Cabimas are ports on this 5,000-square-mile so-called lake, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea
Lake Maracaibo
Long
|
$800
[12]
"Latin:'the thing speaks for itself'"
res ipsa loquitur
Will
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Of seldom:This adjective that as a verb means to go somewhere often
frequent
Adriana
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$800
[6]
At Purdue, courses you might take for this major include Signals & Systems & Linear Circuit Analysis II
electrical engineering
Long
|
$800
[15]
The 1853 arrival of this U.S. naval officer's flotilla in Japan caused much consternation for the Tokugawa Shogunate
(Matthew) Perry
Will
|
|
$1,000
[22]
40 years ago, this film won twice at the first Independent Spirit Awards, for actorM. Emmet Walsh& Best Director--tie--Joel Coen
Blood Simple
|
$1,000
[3]
Of the 3 major rivers surrounding Manhattan, the Hudson is a tidal estuary; these other 2 are tidal straits
the East River & the Harlem River
Long
|
$1,000
[17]
"An interest in land owned by another person, consisting in the right to use... the land... for a specific limited purpose"
an easement
|
$1,000
[18]
Of misunderstand:This ability of prehensile things
grasp
Will
|
$1,000
[7]
In the days of multi-newspaper cities, the morning paper used to have this in circulation by around 2 A.M.
the early edition
Adriana
|
$1,000
[16]
Originally named Operation Fritz, the German invasion of Russia later was renamed this, same as a Holy Roman Emperor
Barbarossa
Will
|
| GETTING THE LITERARY JITTERS | WOMEN IN MUSIC | INTERNATIONAL OBSERVANCES | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS | MANY-LETTERED WORDS | REMAINS TO BE SEEN |
|
$400
[27]
Hemingway said Maia Wojciechowska knew more about this than any other woman; she wrote a novel about a boy afraid of entering the ring
bullfighting
Adriana
|
$400
[14]
In 2025, Billboard namedhernumber four of the Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st century
Adele
Will
|
$400
[29]
February 2 is the World these Day, for ecosystems like swamps & marshes in which water is the major environmental factor
Wetlands
Long
Will
|
$400
[22]
This pack animal is the largest domesticated South American member of the camel family
a llama
Will
|
$400
[30]
16 letters:The paper bag is an unofficial remedy for this type of breathing where your body expels too much carbon dioxide
hyperventilation
Will
|
$400
[24]
DNA confirmed that bones excavated from a mass grave near Yekaterinburg in 1991 were those of this royal & his family
Nicholas II
Will
|
|
$800
[28]
In a shipboard crisis, wobbly knees & mouth too dry to speak befall the title character of this author's "Lord Jim"
Conrad
Will
|
$800
[13]
She has not one but 2 Barbie dolls modeled after her--the first from her Fleetwood Mac days & more recently, a Bella Donna Barbie
Stevie Nicks
Adriana
|
$800
[26]
September 23 is the International Day of these, like BSL & CSL
Sign Languges
Adriana
|
$800
[21]
First thought to be a cat-sized species of rat, thequokkais actually a species of this marsupial in the kangaroo family
a wallaby
Long
Will
|
$800
[25]
18 letters:Most helicopter parents are guilty of this, the excessive tendency to shield others from harm
overprotectiveness
Will
|
$800
[23]
There are a lot of remains to be seen in these underground ossuaries below Paris, built when cemeteries were overcrowded
the Paris Catacombs
Long
|
|
$1,200
[2]
"An excessive nervous agitation" troubles this man of the house of Usher & things just get worse
Roderick (Usher)
Long
|
$1,200
[12]
In 2025, this singer of "Redneck Woman" showed she still has what it takes when she won Season 13 of "The Masked Singer"
(Gretchen) Wilson
Long
|
$1,600
[4]
June 18 is Sustainable this art of preparing & enjoying fine food Day
Gastronomy
|
DD
$1,600
[7]
Just between us, these mammals' genus is Odobenus, meaning "tooth walk"--they use their tusks to get out of the water
a walrus
Long
|
$1,200
[20]
20 letters:Confinement to a facility providing a certain type of long-term care; it doesn't have the nicest ring to it
institutionalization
|
$1,200
[19]
In 1954, theremainsof one of this king's ships was found buried next to his Great Pyramid
Khufu
Will
|
|
$1,600
[1]
In this James Jones war novel, soldiers are afraid but also fear being cowards, like Fife, played by Adrien Brody in the Terrence Malick film
The Thin Red Line
Long
|
$1,600
[11]
Amala Dlamini is the real name of this woman whose remix with Nicki Minaj of "Say So" was the first No. 1 hit for both
Doja Cat
Long
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
Meaning "new day" in Farsi, the March observance of Nowruz dates to spring rites of this ancient religion
Zoroastrianism
Long
|
$1,600
[6]
Preying on small animals by swooping down on them, the American type of this raptor is North America's smallest & most common falcon
a kestrel
Long
|
$1,600
[16]
17 letters:It's an inaccurate or deceiving version of the facts; if it's intentional, it becomes fraud
misrepresentation
Will
|
$1,600
[18]
The skeleton of this beloved horse whom Napoleon left behind at Waterloo is on display at a British Museum
Marengo
Long
|
|
$2,000
[3]
"The Tremor of Forgery" is one book that led Graham Greene to call this American novelist "the poet of apprehension"
Patricia Highsmith
Adriana
|
$2,000
[10]
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame called this"At Last" singer "forever the matriarch of the blues"
Etta James
Adriana
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$2,000
[9]
September 7 is Awareness Day for the Duchenne type of this genetic disorder
muscular dystrophy
|
$2,000
[8]
Snakeshave a highly specialized sensory organ called this, after the Danish anatomist who discovered it
a Jacobson's organ
Long
|
$2,000
[15]
20 letters:One seeking to overthrow a government that was established by overthrowing a previous government
counterrevolutionary
Long
Will
Adriana
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$2,000
[17]
Possibly hanged as a sacrifice, the body of this over-2,000-year-old man was discovered in a peat bog in Denmark in 1950
Tollund Man
|
A 1606 map of America shows this archipelago as part of a southern continent by a canoe with smoke billowing from its center
Tierra del Fuego