2026Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament final game 3.
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 | $4,400 | $5,800 | $6,200 |
$0
3rd place: $50,000 |
$6,200
15 R, 3 W |
| Long | $3,000 | $6,400 | $24,400 |
$16,400
2nd place: $50,000 |
$14,000
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Andrew | $4,000 | $4,400 | $31,600 |
$48,801
Winner: $150,000 + advance to Jeopardy! Masters |
$25,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| SHE'S KIND OF A LOT POLISH AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANT | ON THE ROCKS | AFRICAN CAPITALS | CONDUCTORS | TV PETS | LOANWORDS |
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$200
[27]
Anna finds herself whistling tunes by him as she drives to LOT's hub airport in Warsaw, named for him
Chopin
Long
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$200
[24]
Being caught in a storm might have inspired Augustus Toplady to write this hymn
"Rock Of Ages"
Roger
Long
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$200
[23]
About 300 miles from Lagos, it was chosen as Nigeria's capital in 1991 because of its central location location location
Abuja
Long
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$200
[29]
He wanted to lead the premiere of his 9th symphony but the players followed conductor Michael Umlauf, who could hear them
Beethoven
Long
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$200
[26]
Created by Seth MacFarlane, hehas a wit as dry as the martini he drinks
Brian
Roger
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$200
[30]
Puzzle it out--it's from a shortening of the Japanese for "the numbers are restricted to single status"
Sudoku
Roger
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$400
[28]
If only Anna had been alive to fly with this man on the LOT plane that took him back to Rome after his historic 1979 trip home
John Paul II
Roger
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$600
[8]
The nickname for teams at this Pennsylvania university is the Rock & the mascot is Rocky the Lion
Slippery Rock
Long
Andrew
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$400
[17]
The largest city in Central Africa, Kinshasa is on this river, a little over 300 miles from its mouth
the Congo
Andrew
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$400
[22]
George Szelldidn't shout "Hello" this Midwest city! at concerts as he transformed its orchestra into one of the greatest
Cleveland
Long
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$400
[25]
On "The Office", Angela had several cats, but this one met with an untimely death thanks to Dwight & a freezer
Sprinkles
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$400
[18]
From the French, it's a pre-dinner alcoholic drink meant to stimulate the appetite
apéritif
Roger
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$600
[1]
When she flies to this U.S. city, Anna feels right at home in the "Polish Triangle" where Milwaukee, Ashland & Division intersect
Chicago
Long
|
$800
[7]
The Sacred or Foundation Stone in this Jerusalem shrine is thought by some to have been part of Solomon's Temple
the Dome of the Rock
Long
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$600
[5]
This capital was founded in the early 19th century during the administration of the American it's named for
Monrovia
Andrew
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$600
[14]
Bradley Cooper managed to direct "Maestro" while spending hours each day in makeup to portray this conductor
Bernstein
Roger
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$600
[21]
Walt's bestie on "Lost" was this beautiful blond pooch; I can hear the castaways yelling for him in the jungle even now
Vincent
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$600
[13]
We get this pluralized word for a remote area--& a comic strip about 2 African-American kids--from Tagalog for "mountain"
boondocks
Roger
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$800
[15]
Anna wasn't cast in LOT's safety video shot in an art museum & had even practiced saying, "8 wyjsc awaryjnych", meaning 8 of these
(emergency) exits
Roger
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$1,000
[9]
Also called a rock rabbit, this ungulate with a five-letter name is actually related to the elephant
a hyrax
Andrew
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$800
[2]
We're Ghana remind you the name of this capital is a corruption of a local word referring to its numerous black ants
Accra
Roger
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$800
[10]
Conductor Alexander Joel is Billy's half brother; they met when Billy was in his 20s, in this European city that "waits for you"
Vienna
Roger
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$800
[19]
Sharing a name with an angel of death, this feline companion of Gargamel means to make the Smurfs pay
Azrael
Long
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$800
[12]
2 German words that mean "lightning" & "war", respectively, combine to form this loanword
blitzkrieg
Roger
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|
$1,000
[16]
Anna knows LOT began in 1929 flying Ju F 13s from this maker whose name looks like a word for cars or planes ready for the scrap heap
Junkers
Long
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DD
$2,800
[20]
A Rhine River rock that produces an echo inspired the story of this siren who seduces sailors with her song
Lorelei
Long
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$1,000
[3]
The Tower of Hassan is a symbol of this city on the Atlantic coast
Rabat
Andrew
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$1,000
[6]
This Venezuelan who's made great music at Disney Hall & the Hollywood Bowl has been named musical boss of the New York Philharmonic
Dudamel
Andrew
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$1,000
[4]
1930s Yorkshire is the setting for this PBS adaptation with veterinarian James Herriot looking after animals like Tricki, a Pekingese
All Creatures Great and Small
Long
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$1,000
[11]
Italian for "set against" gives us this art history term for afigure with greater weight on one leg
contrapposto
Andrew
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| BOOKS & AUTHORS | OH, YOU FANCY | VITAMINS & MINERALS | A FANTASTICAL SETTING | WORLD HISTORY | LOAN WORDS |
|
$400
[25]
"A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea" & "A Submarine Forest" are 2 chapters in this 19th century novel
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Roger
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$400
[26]
From the Latin for "excess", this word refers to wealth & indulgence; it's sometimes subject to a tax
luxury
Long
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$400
[28]
This vitamin helps make collagen & other good stuff, but your body can't produce it, so take a supplement or go eat a grapefruit
C
Long
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$400
[30]
Jack Black makes "Steve's Lava Chicken" at Midport Village in the Overworld in this film
A Minecraft Movie
Long
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$400
[22]
Part of the War of the Spanish Succession, the 1702-1713 conflict fought in North America was known as her war
Queen Anne
Roger
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$400
[20]
At "close of" this process in a sale, a buyer's home loan has been fully approved & the transaction is completed
escrow
Andrew
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$800
[24]
Ride to the end of the alphabet for the first name of this Western author of "Riders of the Purple Sage"
Zane Grey
Long
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$800
[23]
The '50s columnist known as Cholly Knickerbocker popularized this term for fancy people leading fast-paced lives
the jet set
Andrew
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$800
[27]
Zinc & copper are this 2-word type of micronutrient; you need them to stay healthy, in very small amounts
trace minerals (elements)
Roger
Andrew
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$800
[29]
In a 2017 filmmonster chasersfind King Kong & life or death adventure when they travel to this title place
Skull Island
Andrew
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$800
[21]
After his death, Confucius' disciples began compiling a collection of his sayings known by this name in English
Analects
Andrew
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$800
[19]
A jumbo loan is one that exceeds the loan-service limits set by the federal corporations known by these 2 nicknames
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
Roger
Andrew
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$1,600
[5]
Rival students descend into the underworld in "Katabasis", a recent novel from this"Babel" writer
(R.F.) Kuang
Roger
Andrew
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$1,200
[14]
This sparkly portmanteau refers to people who are rich, beautiful & glamorous; but enough about me...
the glitterati
Roger
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$1,200
[3]
For your daily dose of selenium, a vital mineral for thyroid health, eat just two of these nuts, which are actually seeds
Brazil nuts
Long
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$1,200
[15]
This show on Apple TV begins with Gaal Dornick traveling to Trantor, the capital of the galactic empire
Foundation
Andrew
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$1,600
[2]
This city that was formerly the capital of Uzbekistan was also the capital under Mongol conqueror Tamerlane
Samarkand
Andrew
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$1,200
[16]
It has a new, non-aquatic meaning: owing more on your home than it's worth
underwater
Andrew
|
|
$2,000
[7]
A 2010 article in The Guardian called this Midwest author's "Freedom" the novel of the century
Franzen
Andrew
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$1,600
[8]
An ancient Greek city known for opulence gave us this word describing a person who enjoys the bougier things
sybarite (sybaritic)
Roger
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$1,600
[1]
If you've ever shopped for fancy skin creams, then you probably know this other name for vitamin A
retinol
Long
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$1,600
[11]
San Fransokyo is the setting of this animated film with the character Baymax
Big Hero 6
Andrew
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$2,000
[9]
Famed in legend for ordering the tide not to come in, he was king of Denmark & Norway as well as England at his death in 1035
Cnut
Long
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$1,600
[17]
In 1545 England's Parliament adopted "an act against" this 5-letter practice of lending money at high interest rates
usury
Andrew
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|
DD
$7,600
[6]
Pierre Boulle drew upon his wartime experiences for this 1952 novel about POWs building the Burma-Siam railway
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Andrew
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$2,000
[13]
This numerical designation for an exclusive set once meant Mrs. Astor's list of people worth knowing in gilded-age New York
The Four Hundred
Long
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$2,000
[10]
Vitamins are grouped into these 2 categories based on whether & how they're stored in the body
fat soluble & water soluble
Andrew
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$2,000
[12]
Novi Grad, capital of Sokovia, is the city lifted up into the sky in this sequel to "The Avengers" from 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Andrew
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DD
$9,200
[4]
In "Mundus Novus", a letter published in the early 1500s & attributed to him, he tells of discovering a new continent
(Amerigo) Vespucci
Long
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$2,000
[18]
Think carefully before taking out a HELOC, short for this type of loan that's sort of like using your house as a Visa card
home equity line of credit
Andrew
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Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is set in this town that in 1971 hosted the first what was then the European Management Symposium
Davos