Show #9506 2026-02-23 (taped 2026-02-02) Regular

Contestants

Katie Pach — a marketing coordinator from Chicago, Illinois

Zach Johnson-Dunlop — a lighting technician originally from St. Charles, Illinois

Trey Hart — a grant writer from Petaluma, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Trey $1,800 $1,400 $10,200 $10,200
2-day champion: $34,300
$10,200
17 R, 6 W
Zach $1,600 $2,000 $10,600 $600
2nd place: $3,000
$8,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Katie $1,600 $600 $4,000 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$5,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MAKES WORDS IN 20th CENTURY HISTORY NO STONE UNTURNED FROM THE GREEK JUMP THROUGH THESE HOOPS BOSTON SPACE
$200 [24]
After a 3-year hiatus, the Land Cruiser from this car company returned to the United States with its 2024 model
Toyota
Zach
$200 [16]
In 1987 she told British magazine Woman's Own, "There is no such thing as society"
Margaret Thatcher
Trey
$200 [29]
Even glass or pewter beer mugs may be called this, a word meaning "stone" in Germany
stein
Trey
$200 [28]
This singing voice comes from Greek words for "deep" & "pitch"
baritone
Trey Katie
$200 [30]
In the 1990s Scottie Pippen made 7 All-Star squads & won 6 NBA titles with this team--& was still "Robin"
the Chicago Bulls
Katie
$200 [27]
43 Monument Sq. is the address for the 221' obelisk that took 17+ years to build & is named for this battle it memorializes
the Battle of Bunker Hill
Zach
$400 [17]
This British brand no longer uses its classichood ornamentknown as the Leaper
Jaguar
Zach
$400 [7]
"Great Satan" was his shorthand for the United States in his 10 years ruling Iran before his death in 1989
Ayatollah Khomeini
Zach
$400 [23]
Weighing about 40 pounds, granite projectiles known as stones are launched roughly 140 feet in this competition
curling
Katie
$400 [22]
This type of diet gets its name from words for "large" & "life"
macrobiotic
$400 [19]
6'4"Tina Charlesis the WNBA's all-time leader in these, pulling down nine a game over her career
rebounds
Trey Zach
$400 [25]
New England Patriots can walk this 2.5-mile red line that passes by Granary Burying Ground & Park Street Church
the Freedom Trail
Zach
$600 [8]
This company's only U.S. production facility builds X3 & X5 vehicles in South Carolina
BMW
Zach
$600 [1]
Adlai Stevenson, at the U.N.: "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed... missiles & sites in" this country?
Cuba
Zach
$600 [11]
A cutlery supply company is a good source for one of these, a hard, fine-grained implement used to sharpen blades
a whetstone
Trey
$600 [4]
This word for a medicine or remedy is from the Greek for "given against"
antidote
Trey Katie
$600 [3]
The NCAA credits a high school official for this phrase & Brent Musburger for making it synonymous with the men's tournament
March Madness
Trey
$600 [15]
You can hop on over to the Frog Pond in this 50-acre pentagon
Boston Common
Trey Katie
$800 [9]
The Quadrifoglio, or four-leaf clover symbol, is seen on high-performance models of this two-word Italian car
Alfa Romeo
Zach Katie
$800 [2]
"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction", he said in 1927, urging Italians to grow to 60 million in number
Mussolini
Katie
$800 [12]
According to John 20, this person saw "the stone taken away from" Jesus' sepulchre
Mary Magdalene
Zach
$800 [5]
Greek for "slab" or "board" gives us the word for this very old-time calculator
an abacus
Trey
$800 [14]
SGA, this guy, won the 2024 to '25 NBA MVP Award to go along with the scoring title & NBA championship
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
$800 [21]
Truly a hall of fame, this was built in 1742 as a gift to Boston from a local merchant who did score naming rights
Faneuil Hall
$1,000 [18]
Tesla owners could follow the light to this Swedish electric car maker, which offered discounts on trade-ins in 2025
Polestar
Trey Zach Katie
$1,000 [6]
Israel's first PM David Ben-Gurion is often quoted as saying "In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in" these
miracles
$1,000 [13]
Inhisrenowned diary, he recounted the removal of a bladder stone from his body in 1658
Samuel Pepys
Trey
DD $1,200 [10]
This word for a release of emotions comes from Greek for "to purge" or "to cleanse"
catharsis
Katie
$1,000 [20]
This school boasts 12 NCAA women's basketball titles, or about one for every 1,000 residents in the village of Storrs
UConn
Zach
$1,000 [26]
The Boston Marathon finishes up in this alliterative neighborhood that includes Newbury Street & Comm Ave
Back Bay

Double Jeopardy! Round

REMAKES LINES FROM CLASSIC LIT AIRPORTS THE RELIGIOUS RITE SCIENCE TOUGH VOCAB
$400 [9]
Director Gus Van Santmade a shot-for-shot remake of this 1960 Hitchcock film, but in color
Psycho
Katie
$400 [19]
In this novel, Louisa May Alcott wrote, "Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow"
Little Women
Katie
$400 [30]
Since 1998 his name has been on the U.S. airport whose code is DCA
Ronald Reagan
Katie
$400 [16]
Catholics can get the sacrament of anointing of the sick when not quite on the brink; this final-sounding prep is for the end
last rites
Trey
$400 [28]
Most detected by sense of smell, these chemical substances are secreted by animals to attract mates & mark territory
pheromones
Trey
$400 [29]
This word meaning to cheat begins with a fast-growing tree-like grass of Southeast Asia
bamboozle
Trey
$800 [6]
In 2016, Jack Huston took the reins of this title role played by Charlton Heston in 1959
Ben-Hur
Katie
$800 [17]
Emily Brontë's Cathy Earnshaw says of him, "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
Heathcliff
Trey
$800 [26]
The slogan of Liverpool's John Lennon Airport, "Above us only sky", comes from this classic song
"Imagine"
Zach
$1,200 [7]
Temples in the LDS Church have a font, on the back of 12 sculpted oxen, for the proxy type of this for dead family members
baptism
Zach
$800 [22]
When lava cools quickly, it forms this type of volcanic glass that is usually black in color
obsidian
Katie
$800 [24]
More formal name for a badminton essential you can get from Dura Smash with "super white goose feathers"
a shuttlecock
Katie
$1,200 [3]
Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick took over from Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder in this madcap movie remake
The Producers
Trey
$1,200 [2]
Want to make an impression? Walk into any room & quote Ariel from this play: "Hell is empty and all the devils are here"
The Tempest
Zach
DD $1,000 [20]
Her name is on the world's busiest airport named for a woman
Indira Gandhi
Katie
$1,600 [8]
Puja are offerings to this founder; flowers are good--he likes flowers, they show the impermanence of life
the Buddha
Trey
$1,200 [14]
In 1868 he helped found the Russian Chemical Society; in 1869, his new periodic law was presented to it
Mendeleev
Zach
$1,200 [11]
This 3-syllable adjective means "using few words". First found in English in 1589. That's all I'll say
laconic
Trey Zach Katie
$1,600 [4]
Penélope Cruz was in "Abre los ojos" ("Open Your Eyes") & this English-language remake that co-starred Tom Cruise
Vanilla Sky
Trey
$1,600 [12]
From "A Farewell to Arms": "The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at" these
the broken places
$1,200 [1]
Alaska Airlines' main hub isn't in Alaska but at this airport in the Northwest
Sea-Tac
Trey
$2,000 [10]
In the Anglican communion, exhortation & examination are parts of this rite of appointing ministers
ordination
Zach Katie
$1,600 [15]
Canopus is the second-brightest star in the night sky; this one is first
Sirius
Trey
$1,600 [23]
Let's test your this, meaning keenness of perception, from Latin for "sharpen"
acumen
$2,000 [5]
The 2012 remake of this movie originally had China invading the U.S., but that was changed to North Korea
Red Dawn
Trey Katie
$2,000 [18]
"Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed" is from this inspiring W.E. Henley poem
"Invictus"
$2,000 [21]
As a goodwill gesture to Greece, Alexander the Great's name was removed from this North Macedonian capital's airport
Skopje
Zach
DD $3,000 [13]
Omiki is this, imbibed at Shinto ceremonies after it has been offered to the gods
sake
Zach
$2,000 [27]
From words meaning "ancient" & "recent", it was the epoch immediately following the dinosaurs' extinction
Paleocene
$2,000 [25]
This 8-letter adjective for having excessive interest in others' sex lives is naughtily chock-full of 2 Rs
prurient
Trey

Final Jeopardy!

18th CENTURY AMERICA

South Carolina's second-biggest cash crop in the mid-to-late 1700s was this inedible one named for a land far to the east

indigo

Katie "What istobaccoin" — wagered $4,000
Trey "What is cotton?" — wagered $0
Zach "What is Ceylon Tea?" — wagered $10,000

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