Show #9509 2026-02-26 (taped 2026-02-02) Regular

Contestants

Patrick Creech — a planning director originally from Pink Hill, North Carolina

Elizabeth Hurd — a pastor from West Bloomfield, Michigan

James Hirsh — a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,418)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $2,400 $6,200 $16,200 $20,000
3-day champion: $67,418
$20,200
26 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Elizabeth $1,600 $2,800 $6,000 $5,000
2nd place: $3,000
$6,400
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Patrick $200 $800 $1,200 $1,180
3rd place: $2,000
$3,200
9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME CONSONANT SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL FIRST LINES OF LITERATURE SOME IF/THEN STATEMENTS
$200 [28]
Timothée Chalamettransformed himself into Bob Dylan for this film & received an Oscar nomination
A Complete Unknown
James
$200 [29]
Wasabiis a Japanese version of this condiment
horseradish
James Elizabeth
$200 [30]
In 1931 psychologist Winthrop Kellogg raised his own son alongside one of these animals, our very close relative
a chimpanzee
James
$200 [25]
During wartime, President Wilson nationalized these for a 2-year period; standardized freight cars were one result
railroads
Patrick
$200 [24]
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
Pride and Prejudice
James
$200 [18]
If you have IgA nephropathy, then you have swelling in this organ & might take an ACE inhibitor to lower your blood pressure
the kidney
James
$400 [27]
As a tech guy, Jesse Eisenberg notes in this film, "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook"
The Social Network
James
$400 [26]
Tyler Henry, star of TV's "Life After Death" & "Live from the Other Side", is known as the Hollywood this
Medium
Elizabeth
DD $400 [8]
One step of Joseph Priestley's 1700s experiment to make soda water involved storing this gas in a sheep's bladder
carbon dioxide
Elizabeth
$400 [23]
As the sound era dawned, studios made movies in multiple languages using the same sets; here's the 1931 Spanish this
Dracula
Patrick
$400 [5]
"Samuel Spade's jaw was long & bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth"
The Maltese Falcon
Elizabeth Patrick
$400 [17]
If you've applied to this private Calif. university with its own ZIP code, 94305, then you have about a 4% chance of getting in
Stanford
James
$600 [3]
"You better think"--who else but Jennifer Hudson could've pulled off playing this legend in "Respect"?
Aretha Franklin
James
$600 [6]
In a trial, if a unanimous verdict can't be reached, the jury is said to be hung or this
deadlocked
$600 [19]
To test this man's theory, a scientist hired trumpeters to play from a moving train & listened for a drop in pitch as the train passed by
Doppler
James
$600 [22]
In the 1950s a blight all but wiped out the Gros Michel, the standard variety of this, & growers had to switch to the Cavendish
the banana
James
$600 [9]
From the 19th century: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
Anna Karenina
Elizabeth
$600 [14]
If x = 2, then y = thiswhen3x + y2= 55
7
James
$800 [1]
In a royal performance, Wu Tao played Pu Yi at age 15 in this 1987 Bertolucci film that won 9 Oscars
The Last Emperor
James Elizabeth
$800 [7]
It's the young animal seen here
a gosling
Elizabeth
$800 [20]
The Central Rotunda of the Griffith Park Observatory showcases the pendulum experiment tried by this man in 1851
Foucault
$800 [4]
During Prohibition, this St. Louis company sold ice cream, carbonated coffee &malt syrup which, wink, could be used to brew beer
Anheuser-Busch
Patrick
$800 [10]
Walter Mosley's first novel: "I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy's bar"
Devil in a Blue Dress
Patrick
$800 [16]
If you stroll west along the coast of Tunisia, then you'll cross into this country (& be done with leg day for a bit)
Algeria
James
$1,000 [2]
One year before the appropriately named Adam Driver played "Ferrari", Frank Grillo was this fellow Italian maker of fast cars
Lamborghini
Patrick
$1,000 [13]
It can be someone who sets things right, or an electronic device that converts alternating current into direct current
a rectifier
$1,000 [21]
In the 1860s he presented to the French Academy of Sciences his work undermining the idea of spontaneous generation
Pasteur
Elizabeth
$1,000 [12]
During World War II, General Motors made guns, planes & tanks, like the M4 named for this Civil War general
Sherman
Elizabeth
$1,000 [11]
By Zora Neale Hurston: "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in... for others they sail forever"
Their Eyes Were Watching God
James
$1,000 [15]
If you're this Greek god & you steal fire to benefit man, then you better have an escape plan, or like having your liver eaten on the reg
Prometheus
James

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY INSTRUMENTAL TUNES "BIT"S LA BELLE ÉPOQUE CONVICTED THE ROLL OF A LIFETIME
$400 [26]
Of the European countries with a Colonial presence in the Guianas, this one still has its overseas territory there
France
James
$400 [27]
A danceable "Theme from 'Mission: Impossible'" was a Top 10 hit in 1996 for Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen, aka 2/4 of this band
U2
Patrick
$400 [29]
It's the unit of currency comprising 100 million satoshis
bitcoin
$400 [13]
Completed in 1889, this landmark was later described by Jean Cocteau as "the beautiful giraffe in lace"
the Eiffel Tower
Patrick
$400 [25]
Nicola Bellomo killed a British officer in this type of camp & was one of the few convicted war criminals of Axis Italy
a POW camp (prisoner of war camp)
James Elizabeth
$800 [7]
Roll Call's "Casualty List" reports on folks who retire, die or leave this for various other reasons
(the U.S.) Congress
Patrick
$800 [1]
This country has 3 regions: the Costa on the west, the Andes in the center & the Amazonia on the east
Peru
James Patrick
$800 [19]
Inspired by a dance, this anthem of the disco era won a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental
"The Hustle"
Patrick
$800 [28]
From the German, this verb means to watch a card game & offer unsolicited advice to players
kibitz(ing)
James
$800 [12]
La Belley Époque began around 1871, after this war ended & the Paris Commune fell apart; by then, the French were ready to party
the Franco-Prussian War
James
$800 [14]
Sir Everard Digby pleaded guilty in this explosive 1605 plot, so he got to make a speech about Catholic rights
the Gunpowder Plot
James
$1,200 [6]
Hesang, "Lately I'm drowning my pain with a bottle and Mary Jane, no matter what I take, I feel the same"
Jelly Roll
James
$1,200 [2]
A tombolo is a sandy or pebbly one of these connecting an island to the mainland, like in Marblehead, Massachusetts
an isthmus
Elizabeth
$1,200 [4]
In 2013 YouTube streams became part of Billboard's chart metrics; the same week, this viral dance banger debuted at No. 1
"The Harlem Shake"
Elizabeth
$1,200 [3]
Once widely used as sedatives, this family of drugs has largely been supplanted by less risky benzodiazepines
barbiturates
Elizabeth Patrick
$1,200 [11]
A club regular, this artist painted a six-foot-tallposterfor the Moulin Rouge that made him famous overnight
Toulouse-Lautrec
James
$1,600 [15]
Cryptocurrency executive Caroline Ellison's BF was SBF, this man, & Caroline got 2 years
Sam Bankman-Fried
Patrick
$1,600 [5]
Not recommended for 787s, it's anair maneuverinvolving a 100% revolution around the longitudinal axis
a barrel roll
James
$1,600 [18]
If you're in Oslo but pining for the fjords, take a 7-hour trip on the railway line named for this Hanseatic city
Bergen, Norway
$1,600 [20]
This theme from "Beverly Hills Cop" enjoyed a second life in the aughts thanks to a viral remix involving a digital frog
"Axel F”
James
$1,600 [22]
Deputy Dawg (more than Yosemite Sam) used this "cuss" word, an example of "taboo deformation", i.e., a naughty word being made benign
dagnabbit
$2,000 [10]
Still in use today, Hector Guimard's fancifulsubway station gatesintroduced many Parisians to this emerging style
Art Nouveau
DD $2,000 [16]
It's no good when someone who had this job is convicted; the 68th, Richard Kleindienst, misled the Senate & got a suspended sentence
attorney general
Patrick
$2,000 [8]
Polynesians sailed thousands of miles using the feel of these "great" waves that keep rolling after the wind dies that caused them
swells
$2,000 [17]
This active volcano located on Antarctica's Ross Island is named after one of explorer James Clark Ross' ships
Erebus
Patrick
$2,000 [21]
This plucky tune first aired on "The Andy Griffith Show", but it became a No. 2 hit after a creepy cameo in "Deliverance"
"Dueling Banjos"
James
$2,000 [23]
In finance, it's the term for buying in one market & selling in another to profit from a price discrepancy
arbitrage
James
DD $4,000 [9]
Wondrous contraptions at the Paris Expo of 1900 included La Grande Roue, the world's biggest one of these
Ferris wheel
James
$2,000 [24]
The conviction of Genrikh Yagoda, purged by Stalin in 1938, was a foregone conclusion, as it is in this PR-based type of proceeding
a show trial
James

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY ORIGINS

As a child, Christopher Robin Milne loved feeding a London Zoo animal whose former owner hailed from this city

Winnipeg

Patrick "What is Pink Hill, NC [drawing of Winnie the Pooh's head and shoulders]" — wagered $20
Elizabeth "What's Austraila (so much fun ♡)" — wagered $1,000
James "What is Winnipeg" — wagered $3,800

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