2026Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament final game 1.
Andrew He — a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California
Long Nguyen — a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada
Roger Craig — an applied scientist originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roger | $3,800 | $5,800 | $10,600 |
$0
3rd place |
$10,600
20 R, 4 W |
| Long | $1,600 | $1,600 | $2,000 |
$67
2nd place |
$8,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Andrew | $3,600 | $10,400 | $16,400 |
$11,599
Winner: 1 match point |
$12,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| NAMES IN SPORTS | QUOTABLE NOTABLES | WELL, THAT'S PATHETIC | A GOOD OLD JOB | HOW'D THEY COME UP WITH IT? | FORESTRY FICTION |
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$200
[20]
The cover of the video game NHL 2026 from EA Sports features Matthew Tkachuk of this Florida team raising the Stanley Cup
the Panthers
Roger
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$200
[22]
Sophocles gave us the expression this "eases all things"
time
Long
|
$200
[24]
It means relatively minor; legally, it precedes a type of misdemeanor theft
petty
Roger
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$200
[27]
Lectores were used at factories for this product in Ybor City & Havana--they read to workers hand-rolling dried leaves
cigars
Long
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$200
[29]
The Zenith Radio Nurse, the first of these, was invented following the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's son
a baby monitor
Roger
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$200
[30]
In "Where the Wild Things Are", this kid threatened to eat his mother & was sent to bed; soon after, a forest grew & grew there
Max
Roger
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$400
[21]
2025 was a big year for this man; he was named the NFL's MVP for the previous year, &he married Hailee Steinfeld
Josh Allen
Roger
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$400
[23]
On the eve of the Normandy invasion, he told allied troops, "The eyes of the world are upon you"
Eisenhower
Roger
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$400
[25]
This 3-word phrase completes the bestselling Erma Bombeck title, "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing" here?
in the Pits
Andrew
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$400
[26]
Gandy dancers & traqueros worked on these, making racks by digging along tracks
railroads
Roger
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$400
[28]
A Nintendo employee saw a bored commuter playing with a calculator, leading to this product that was released in 1989
Game Boy
Roger
Andrew
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$400
[17]
Fangorn in Tolkien's works is the name of a spooky forest near the Misty Mountains & an alias for this Ent who presides over the place
Treebeard
Roger
Long
|
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$600
[16]
Thistennis star & 2018 U.S. Open winner shares her last name with one of the most populous cities in Asia
Osaka
Andrew
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$600
[7]
Descartes came up with this famous dictum in his "Discourse on Method"
I think, therefore I am
Long
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$600
[18]
This hyphenated word uses a body part & a twisting tool to mean very sad, but it also sounds very painful if taken literally
heart-wrenching
Andrew
|
$800
[2]
Machines by Brunswick & AMF put pinsetters out of a job in these specialized recreation facilities
bowling alleys
Long
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$600
[13]
Roy Raymond created this lingerie store since he felt trained corsetieres at department stores treated men as outsiders
Victoria's Secret
Roger
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$600
[15]
This play taught me not to sleep in the forest; someone might put drops in my eyes & make me fall in love with an ass
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Roger
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$800
[14]
Now with A.C. Milan, this U.S. Men's National Soccer Team star got to play in Europe at 16 on his Croatian passport
(Christian) Pulisic
Andrew
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$800
[3]
Predating his famous invention, he said, "I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity"
Morse
Roger
Long
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$800
[11]
Deserving commiseration, like Warren Zevon's "Poor Poor...Me"
"Pitiful"
|
$1,000
[1]
In old textile factories, slubber doffers, often kids, removed this type of spool that held the yarn for spinning machines
the bobbin
|
$800
[10]
Civil War vet John Pemberton's attempt to make an opiate-free painkiller eventually led him to create this drink
Coca-Cola
Roger
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$800
[8]
Ann Patchett said "The best novel ever written about trees" is this one by Richard Powers; it did win the Pulitzer
The Overstory
Andrew
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$1,000
[5]
After winning the WNBA Finals MVP in 2025, this centerinvited Beyoncé to the Las Vegas Aces championship parade
(A'ja) Wilson
Andrew
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$1,000
[6]
He's the Spanish-born American philosopher who opined, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
Santayana
Roger
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$1,000
[12]
Boasting a silent G within it, this word has positive connotations like emotional & moving, though it's also just darn sad
poignant
Long
|
DD
$4,800
[19]
The name of this profession is also the action done by the worker who pulls a handle to make fizzy nonpotent potables flow
a soda jerk
Andrew
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$1,000
[4]
NASA scientist Lonnie Johnson came up with this alliterative toy after a heat pump he was working on shot a stream of water
a Super Soaker
Andrew
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$1,000
[9]
She won a 1973 Hugo Award for her novella "The Word for World Is Forest"
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
| PEOPLE OF THE WORLD | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS | THAT DRINK IS NAMED FOR ME! | A MUSICAL LANGUAGE LESSON | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY | BEAUTIFUL THINGS |
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$400
[20]
The lifestyle of Argentina's Crianceros is herding this horned animal that, like sheep, produces meat & wool
a goat
Andrew
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$400
[26]
In Old English, a "shot" was a type of payment, leading to this not-actually-Caledonian-related term for "without having to pay"
scot free
Long
Andrew
|
$400
[28]
Naturally, Scotch is the main ingredient in this alliterative cocktail bearing the name of a highland outlaw
Rob Roy
Long
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$400
[30]
Hey, "Sexy Lady", this No. 2 hit from 2012 uses "oppa", which means older brother in Korean
"Gangnam Style"
Roger
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$400
[24]
Once towering over Mandraki Harbor, this massive statue of a sun god collapsed during an earthquake in the 3rd century B.C.
the Colossus of Rhodes
Long
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$400
[21]
Alexandros, a sculptor of Antioch, made this statue that may actually be Amphitrite, a Greek goddess of the sea, & not Aphrodite
the Venus de Milo
Andrew
|
|
$800
[19]
In 1935 journalist Eric Sevareid wrote an account of this 4-letter First Nations people going from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay
the Cree
Long
Andrew
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$800
[25]
A proverbial example of something fake; the Continental Congress issued them, with a motto meaning "the outcome is in doubt"
a $3 bill
|
$800
[27]
The uninitiated should beware of the Bloody Caesar, augmented with the juice of one of these creatures
clam juice
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$800
[29]
"Quiero respirar tu cuello" (I want to breathe in your neck) this Spanish adverb, says a No. 1 hit
despacito
Roger
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$800
[23]
This aircraft combusted 200 feet above an airfield in Lakehurst, N.J., then crashed to the ground; oh, the humanity!
the Hindenburg
Andrew
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$800
[22]
This type of antelope, like the dama or the Thomson's, is used in a simile about gracefulness
a gazelle
Andrew
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Formerly known as Boers, they're South Africans of Dutch or Huguenot descent
Afrikaners
Roger
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$1,200
[7]
A small carnivore appears in this phrase meaning to sneakily avoid an obligation
to weasel out
Roger
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$1,200
[17]
Invented in the late 19th century in the Big Easy, this frothy libation invented by Henry Ramos uses an egg white & cream
a Ramos Gin Fizz
Andrew
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$1,200
[6]
The Talking Heads asked, "Psycho Killer", this French question
qu'est-ce que c'est?
Andrew
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$1,200
[4]
On April 9, 2003, Firdos Square in this capital city was the site of a notable, if partly staged, statue toppling
Baghdad
Long
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$1,200
[3]
Thiswaltz was written to boost the morale of the Viennese, who were bummed out by losing the Austro-Prussian War
"The Blue Danube"
Andrew
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|
DD
$2,000
[1]
At about 70 million, the Hausa are the largest group in this African country, about 30%
Nigeria
Long
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$1,600
[8]
As what you "give" someone to eject them, it's 2 words & possessive; meaning to crash a show, one word, no 's
the bum's rush (bum-rush)
Roger
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$1,600
[16]
Harvey Wallbangers may not be named for a real guy, but this Italian liqueur in them has the name of an Italian war hero
Galliano
Long
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$1,600
[14]
This Billy Idol song is classed up with the French lyrics "les yeux sans visage" playing through it
"Eyes Without A Face"
Roger
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$1,600
[2]
Despite having lost an arm at Shiloh, this geologist led the first party to descend the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
(John Wesley) Powell
Roger
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$1,600
[9]
This American's portrait of Madame X, actually Madame Gautreau, was shocking in its time--1884
Sargent
Long
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Salata od hobotnice, octopus salad, is often bitten by this, someone from Croatia's southwest coastal strip
Dalmatian
Roger
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DD
$6,400
[11]
To insist on a point until people start to doubt you & it is to do this, spoken by Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet"
protest too much
Long
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$2,000
[15]
A fave of Elizabeth II, this quinine-laced drink was named for its inventor, a French chemist hoping to prevent malaria
a Dubbonet
Roger
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$2,000
[13]
Some of the words flowing in this Beatles song are "jai guru deva om", a Sanskrit mantra
"Across The Universe"
Roger
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$2,000
[5]
In 1960, Don Walsh & this Swiss oceanographer were the first to descend to the deepest known part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench
(Jacques) Piccard
Long
Andrew
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$2,000
[10]
File under "J": this tree whose purple blooms are beautiful but produce a sticky mess when they fall
jacaranda
Long
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She wrote the foreword for a 1971 cookbook sponsored by the Jackson Symphony League
Eudora Welty