Show #9514 2026-03-05 (taped 2026-02-03) Regular

Contestants

Nishal Shah — a research scientist originally from Parsippany, New Jersey

Cory Aiello — a development officer from Indianapolis, Indiana

Quentin Powers — a returned Peace Corps volunteer from Arlington, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,798)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Quentin $1,600 $3,000 $5,000 $9,999
3rd place: $2,000
$6,000
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Cory $4,200 $7,400 $17,400 $17,930
New champion: $17,930
$16,600
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Nishal $2,200 $2,400 $8,000 $11,001
2nd place: $3,000
$10,000
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SOUNDS ALL AROUND TV CROSSOVERS "U-G-H" BUT NOT "UGH"! SAY YOUR PRAYERS HAIL, MARY OUR FATHER
$200 [29]
The loudness of sound is measured in these units; a crying baby can hit 120
decibels
Quentin
$200 [12]
Hijinks ensued when the Paddy's Pub gang from this show found themselves at Abbott Elementary
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Nishal
$200 [27]
In a lullaby when this breaks, "the cradle will fall"
the bough
Cory
$200 [30]
A prayer about things needing change, things that can't be changed & knowing the difference has this peaceful name
the Serenity Prayer
Cory
$200 [21]
She flew off with an Oscar for playing Mary Poppins
Julie Andrews
Cory
$200 [24]
His kids Edward, Mary & Elizabeth succeeded him consecutively on the throne of England
Henry VIII
Nishal
$400 [25]
Singultus is the medical term for these noisy spasms most of us have experienced; boo!
hiccups
Cory
$400 [6]
In a rare reality show sci-fi show crossover, Mulder & Scully from this seriesteamed up with a "Cops" documentary crew
The X-Files
Nishal
$400 [26]
It's the best medicine, according to a proverb
laughter
Cory
$400 [28]
"Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink" is from a prayer in this many-chaptered Bible book
Psalms
$400 [20]
Cordon Bleu trained, she's written more than 80 cookbooks & was one of the original hosts of "The Great British Baking Show"
Mary Berry
Cory
$400 [23]
He was born in Vermont in 1801; by the time he died in Utah 76 years later, he'd wed 50+ times & had more than 50 kids
Brigham Young
Cory
$600 [1]
Change 1 letter in the sound a frog makes to get this sound a spooky door makes in a haunted house
a creak (from croak)
Quentin
$600 [3]
In a rare 3-show crossover, Mr. Drummond & George Jefferson appeared at the Banks family home in this swanky L.A. neighborhood
Bel Air
Cory
$600 [16]
Home to Vassar College, this city on the Hudson River is approximately 75 miles north of New York City
Poughkeepsie
Cory
$600 [17]
Early in daily prayers, Muslims lift both hands near their ears to say these 2 Arabic words affirming God's greatness
Allahu Akbar
Quentin
$600 [19]
Mary Travers was one-third of this famous folk trio
Peter, Paul and Mary
Cory
$600 [22]
In Greek mythology, the 9 Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, & this god
Zeus
Quentin
$800 [15]
"Snapping celery sounds a lot like a breaking bone" is one tip for this kind of artist who creates movie sound effects
a foley artist
Cory
$800 [4]
The hard-drinking Homer Simpson shares a beer with this hard-drinking robot on the crossover episode "Simpsorama"
Bender
Cory
$800 [7]
Like the Trobriand one in the Southwestern Pacific, it's a long but shallow depression in the seabed
a trough
Nishal
DD $1,000 [14]
"O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you", begins the Act of this, a synonym for repentance
Contrition
Quentin
$800 [2]
Now married over 30 years, she & James Carville have been called the quintessential bipartisan power couple
Mary Matalin
Cory
$800 [10]
This Taj Mahal builder had 4 sons who wanted to succeed him but was deposed (& imprisoned) by son Aurangzeb
Shah Jahan
Nishal
$1,000 [9]
Thissound maker popular for centuries takes its name in part from "string"; many are plucked when it's played
a harpsichord
$1,000 [5]
In a 2018 episode of "Scandal", Kerry Washington teamed up with Viola Davis from this show on a class-action case
How to Get Away with Murder
Cory
$1,000 [8]
Thistype of battleship takes its name from one launched in 1906, suggesting that it feared zero others
a dreadnought
Quentin
$1,000 [18]
Hebrew for "hear", this prayer has been said for centuries by Jewish martyrs & is uttered by Dr. Robby in a moment of crisis on "The Pitt"
the Shema
Cory
$1,000 [13]
She's the American-born artist seenherein a self portrait from 1878
Cassatt
Quentin
$1,000 [11]
This great orator had 2 daughters, Ruth & Grace, & one son, William Jr., who died in 1978
William Jennings Bryan
Cory

Double Jeopardy! Round

THEIR FIRST STUDIO ALBUM EPONYMS POETS FLOWERS ASIA MAJOR THE 18th CENTURY WORLD WITH JAMIE FRASER
$400 [17]
1977:"Bat Out of Hell"
Meat Loaf
Cory
$400 [19]
A chef named Ignacio in Piedras Negras, Mexico is said to have lent his nickname to this dish using tortilla chips
nachos
Quentin
$400 [30]
Lady Caroline Lamb, once the lover of this poet, caricatured him as Lord Glenarvon in an 1816 novel
Lord Byron
Cory
$400 [28]
Fleur-de-lis can refer to a lily as well as to this flower whose name also has 4 letters
the iris
Nishal
$400 [26]
In Korea, the equivalent of the fairy tale opener "Once upon a time" is "Back when" these big cats "used to smoke"
tigers
Quentin
$400 [29]
(Sam Heughan presents the clue.) Reaching continental America, we become involved with this Iroquois tribethat sided with the British; I believe the production did justice to the famoushairstyles
the Mohawk
Nishal
$800 [5]
2019:"When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"
Billie Eilish
Quentin
$800 [18]
This type of internal combustion engine was named for a German guy with the first name of Rudolf
Diesel
$800 [25]
What Carl Sandburg was to Chicago, Amiri Baraka was to this largest New Jersey city with poems like "Lullaby of Avon Ave."
Newark
Nishal
$1,200 [20]
That's Rory McIlroy about to chip his ball out of these flowering bushes at the 2018 Masters
azaleas
$800 [22]
The city of Oral in this country was founded around 1620 by the Cossacks, mighty horsemen with a name related to the country's
Kazakhstan
Nishal
$800 [15]
(Sam Heughan presents the clue.) Clare & Jamie travel to France to try to influence the Jacobites, & encounter King Louis XVat this palace that he made once again the seat of government
Versailles
Cory
$1,200 [4]
1994:One of the best-sellingdebutsof all time,"Cracked Rear View"
Hootie & the Blowfish
Cory
$1,200 [13]
In 4-letter figure skating jumps, the Axel is from a skater's first name & this one was originally a last name
a Lutz
Nishal
$1,600 [24]
In the 1987 film "Barfly", this L.A. poet who inspired the film fittingly plays a patron in a bar
Bukowski
Cory
$1,600 [7]
Touch-me-not is another name for a variety of this flower, & please don't keep us waiting
impatiens
Cory
$1,200 [11]
Rudyard Kipling's poem has inspired some to refer to the Irrawaddy River as "the road to" this city
Mandalay
Quentin
$1,200 [14]
(Sam Heughan presents the clue.) When we crossed the Atlantic, who but our friend & Jamie's admirer, Lord John Grey, should be governor of this island of bondage & mystery when its capital was still called Spanish Town
Jamaica
Quentin Nishal
$1,600 [3]
2013:"Pure Heroine"
Lorde
Cory
$1,600 [8]
From the name of an Old Testament patriarch, this adjective refers collectively to Judaism, Christianity & Islam
Abrahamic
Quentin
DD $2,000 [16]
Best known for writing about Lady Liberty, she penned "Venus of the Louvre" about a different statue
(Emma) Lazarus
Cory
DD $2,000 [23]
A contemporary of Linnaeus, German botanist Traugott Gerber has a variety of this flower named in his honor
a daisy
Nishal
$1,600 [1]
In April 1975 victorious Vietnamese forces announced that this city had been renamed after Ho Chi Minh
Saigon
Cory
$1,600 [9]
(Sam Heughan presents the clue.) Jamie gets to meet Scottish heroine Flora MacDonald, famous for helping Prince Charlie make a daring escape, as heard in the "Outlander" theme song, "over the sea to" this isle
Skye
Quentin
$2,000 [2]
1977:"My Aim Is True"
Elvis Costello
Cory
$2,000 [12]
Named for a Paris professor of medicine, this syndrome causes numbness due to cold or stress
Raynaud's
Nishal
$2,000 [27]
In 2020 Juan Cole put out a new English version of the "Rubáiyát of" this Persian poet, most famous in a 19th c. translation
Omar Khayyam
Quentin Nishal
$2,000 [21]
Carlsbad, California is famous for its fields of these flowers of the buttercup family that carpet the hills in spring
ranunculus
$2,000 [6]
In 1971 George Harrison & Ravi Shankar hosted the "Concert for" this country, which served as a benefit for its people
Bangladesh
Nishal
$2,000 [10]
(Sam Heughan presents the clue.) In pre-Revolution America Jamie & Clare are caught up in a rebellion in this coastal state where Governor Tryonangered the people by building apalaceat New Bern
North Carolina

Final Jeopardy!

21st CENTURY HEROES

In his memoir, he referenced Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" while writing about a near-disaster

(Chesley) "Sully" Sullenberger

Quentin "Who is Captain Sully? (Hey Marinos!)" — wagered $4,999
Nishal "Who is Sully? (Sullenberger)" — wagered $3,001
Cory "Who is Sully Sullenberger?" — wagered $530

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