2026Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament final game 2.
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 | $800 | $2,000 | $5,200 |
$5,200
2nd place |
$5,200
15 R, 7 W |
| Long | $5,400 | $6,600 | $21,600 |
$17,599
Winner: 1 match point |
$13,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Andrew | $-1,000 | $400 | $12,800 |
$67
3rd place: 1 match point |
$11,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WAY BACK WHEN | ACROSS THE LIBERAL ARTS | WAIT! MEASURES! | THISTLE DO NICELY | ROCK SONGS | SINGULAR & PLURAL ARE THE SAME |
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$200
[18]
Julius Caesar's heir Octavian got this royal name that preceded "Caesar" from Rome's Senate, & all subsequent emperors took it
Augustus
Long
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$200
[20]
Philosophy, with Plato, quoting Socrates: "The life which is" this "is not worth living"
unexamined
Roger
Andrew
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[23]
In 1958, the smoot was born when 5'7" frat pledge Oliver Smootwas used to measure the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge; a smoot, this many inches
67
Andrew
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$200
[25]
Popular in Portugal & dating to the 1100s, serra da estrela is a sheep's milk this coagulated with thistle flowers
cheese
Andrew
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$200
[30]
In a big hit, she sang, "I love rock & roll, so put another dime in the jukebox, baby"
Joan Jett
Roger
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$200
[28]
A place where multiple avenues meet
crossroads
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$400
[17]
More than just a lawgiver, this 6th Amorite king of Babylon helped build the city into a major power
Hammurabi
Andrew
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$400
[19]
Music:After Offenbach's 1880 death, colleagues finished "The Tales of" him, which premiered the following year
Hoffmann
Roger
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$400
[22]
An oxgang averages about 15 of these, about how much plowing one ox could handle in a single annual season
an acre
Long
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$400
[24]
At her 1986 royal wedding, shewore a Victorian style ivory satin dress embroidered with bees & thistles; but divorce followed
(Sarah) Ferguson
Andrew
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$400
[29]
In their signature song, this band just wanted to "rock & roll all nite & party every day"
KISS
Roger
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$400
[27]
A building or group of buildings in which military personnel are quartered
barracks
Andrew
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$600
[10]
Connecting Luxor & Karnak, a 2-mile road lined with half-human, half-beast statues is known as the Avenue of these
Sphinxes
Roger
Long
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$600
[13]
Poli sci:On June 25, 1998 the Supreme Court ruled this kind of presidential veto was unconstitutional
a line-item veto
Roger
Long
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$600
[7]
It can be the distance from the end of your thumb to your pinky in a spread hand & also an English measure equal to 9 inches
a span
Roger
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$600
[16]
St. Giles' Cathedralhas the Thistle Chapelin this capital; makes sense, as thistle is the beloved emblem of the country
Edinburgh
Roger
Long
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$600
[3]
The Ramones took us all down to "rock, rock, rock, rock" this title location
"Rock 'N' Roll High School"
Roger
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$600
[26]
One's children, or the group seen here
offspring
Roger
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$800
[9]
The earliest of the great Mesoamerican civilizations, it was centered in the modern Mexican states of Tabasco & Veracruz
the Olmecs
Long
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$1,000
[12]
Anthropology:An American who uses a fork & spoon & disses the Chinese use of chopsticks is an example of this 13-letter "-ism"
ethnocentrism
Roger
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$800
[6]
Neil de Grasse Tyson: "Classical Geek 101: a milli- is...1/1000, so a milli-helen is just enough" this "to launch a single ship"
beauty
Roger
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$800
[15]
Its shape tells you this name of a type of this tleoften grown as an ornamental
the globe thistle
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$800
[2]
The Rolling Stones shared that "I know it's only rock & roll, but" this is the result
I like it
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$800
[21]
With a man of faith in their name, they're known as the poor man's lobster
a monkfish
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$1,000
[8]
An 1877 book by Ferdinand von Richthofen gave us this term for the ancient trade route between Europe & East Asia
Silk Road
Roger
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DD
$2,400
[11]
Psychology:Before graduating from the University of Zurich in 1912, he got the nickname Klecks, or "Inkblot"
Rorschach
Long
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$1,000
[5]
George Lucas knows it may sound like a unit of time, but this is a distance measurement of about 19 trillion miles
a parsec
Long
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$1,000
[14]
Her 1920 book of poems "A Few Figs from Thistles" includes "But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--it gives a lovely light!"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Roger
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$1,000
[1]
Off their album "French Exit", "Lovers Rock" is the biggest hit by this "Girl" group big on TikTok
TV Girl
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$1,000
[4]
Borrowed from French, it means a jargon or dialect
patois
Roger
Andrew
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| ALL OVER THE COUNTRY | MAIL NOVELS | PERUSING SOME ARTICLES | NAMES IN FASHION | SHOWS ABOUT MURDER | PUTTING THE "DOUBLE" IN DOUBLE JEOPARDY! |
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$400
[24]
It's a long road from Arica in the north of this country to Punta Arenas in its south
Chile
Long
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$400
[25]
Eva writes a series of letters to her late husband about her criminal son in "We Need to Talk about" this person
Kevin
Andrew
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$400
[28]
"Armed attack against one... shall be considered an attack against them all", says Article 5 of this org.'s 1949 founding treaty
NATO
Andrew
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$400
[27]
Best known forwalking the runway, she also has her own clothing line, Guest in Residence, celebrating everything cashmere
Hadid
Long
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$400
[29]
Kate Winslet nailed the tricky Delco accent for her Emmy-winning role as this title detective working the murder of a local teen
Mare of Easttown
Andrew
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$400
[30]
Diplopia is the technical term for this, also the title of a song by Foreigner
double vision
Long
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$800
[17]
The Chenab, one of the Punjab or "five rivers", feeds into this long trans-Himalayan river in Pakistan
Indus
Roger
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$800
[19]
Father sends home mail to Marmee & his "Little Women" in this work by Geraldine Brooks--its title is the family's surname
March
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$800
[26]
Articles of impeachment from 2019 specified that aid to this country had been conditioned on announcement of some investigations
Ukraine
Roger
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$800
[23]
Julia Roberts & the Beckhams were among the celebs who paid tribute to this legendary Italian designer on his passing in 2025
Armani
Long
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$800
[22]
"Twin Peaks" had Special Agent Cooper & viewers asking the same question: "Who killed" this homecoming queen?
Laura Palmer
Andrew
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$800
[21]
Act IV of "Macbeth" has all 3 witches say these 5 words that precede "fire burn, & cauldron bubble"
double, double toil and trouble
Andrew
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$1,200
[11]
Paris is north-ish, Marseille is south-ish & this third-most populous French city is east-central-ish
Lyon
Andrew
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$1,200
[5]
In a 2008 novel Juliet Ashton gets mail from a man from this isle who is in a "Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society"
Guernsey
Roger
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$1,200
[16]
The Mormon Church's 13 Articles of Faith were written in 1842 by this man
(Joseph) Smith
Long
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$1,200
[15]
Rachel Brosnahan is the niece of this late designer whose maiden name was Brosnahan
Kate Spade
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$1,200
[20]
In 2024's "The Perfect Couple", the wedding of this actress& daughter of Bono is preempted by her maid of honor's murder
Eve Hewson
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$1,600
[7]
In Sikhism, the khanda is a ritual one of these weapons, symbolizing a fight against tyranny & a defense of righteousness
a double-edged sword
Roger
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$2,000
[10]
Malaysian ports like George Town in the north & Batu Pahat are both along this strait
Malacca
Roger
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$1,600
[4]
Later a Martin Scorsese film, this novel by Shusaku Endo is partly written in the form of a letter from a Jesuit missionary
Silence
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$1,600
[13]
The Continental Army's 1st articles of war were kinder than Britain's: a maximum punishment of 39 of these, not hundreds
lashes
Roger
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$1,600
[2]
During his 16 years as creative director of this company, Marc Jacobs helped elevate it from luggage maker to a fashion powerhouse
Louis Vuitton
Roger
Long
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$1,600
[1]
Emma Myers has played Wednesday Addams' bestie Enid & plucky detective Pip on this Netflix show set in a sleepy English town
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
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$2,000
[6]
Similar to Cheddar, this British cheese from the Cotswolds region is great for cheese toasties
Double Gloucester
Andrew
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DD
$8,200
[3]
The extinct volcano Ilyas Dag is near the westernmost part of Turkey, while this volcanic massif is near the easternmost part
Mount Ararat
Long
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$2,000
[12]
Mail is exchanged in "Letters of Two Brides", an 1842 novel from this Frenchman's "Human Comedy" series
Balzac
Andrew
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$2,000
[9]
They were the lowest rank of British nobility, but the Articles of them formed the basis of the Magna Carta
Barons
Long
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$2,000
[14]
One of the most iconic designers of the swinging '60s, her initials could have stood for "miniskirt queen"
Mary Quant
Andrew
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$2,000
[18]
First DCI Tom Barnaby, then his cousin John, solved killings in this British show whose title is a county, not a time of year
Midsomer Murders
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DD
$2,400
[8]
An article in the journal Nature was titled this "and the wronged heroine", about Rosalind Franklin
"The double helix"
Andrew
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Like an English-language one, this German first name of a physicist of sound & a 1930s film director means "serious"
Ernst