Show #40 2026-03-13 (taped 2025-10-11) Celebrity

2026 PrimetimeCelebrity Jeopardy!All Stars quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Katie Nolan — a sports media personality and host originally from Framingham, Massachusetts

Mark Duplass — an actor, writer, and producer originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Rachel Dratch — an actress and podcaster originally from Lexington, Massachusetts

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rachel $1,200 $3,200 $10,900 $6,299
2nd place: $30,000 to Family Reach
$16,600
28 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Mark $300 $700 $4,500 $0
3rd place: $30,000 to The Soul Points Fund
$9,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Katie $1,800 $2,800 $8,000 $30,801
Winner: semifinalist
$17,900
32 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

YOU'RE INVITED TO THE WEDDING WORLD HISTORY QUIZ ____, ____ & ____ THE OLD COLLEGE TRY STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS THE KING JAMES BIBLE TELLS ME SO
$100 [28]
...of Ross & Emily on this TV series; you'll want a good seat, so arrive early--Ross is gonna say the wrong name!
Friends
Katie
$100 [30]
Perhaps we're all related to this Mongol emperor who pillaged & plundered from 1206 to 1227
Genghis Khan
Rachel Mark
$100 [1]
In Christianity, the Trinity refers to the unity of these 3 in one godhead
the Father, the Son & the Holy Ghost
Mark
$100 [2]
What began as a small school that opened in 1838 in Randolph County, N.C. became this university named for a tobacco magnate
Duke University
$100 [15]
Microsoft introduced this spelling feature in 1993; we still use it today, even though sometimes it drives us nits
autocorrect
Rachel
$100 [26]
"Where is Abel thy brother? and he said, I know not: am I" these 3 words?
my brother's keeper
Katie
$200 [27]
...of Daphne & Simon, aka the Duke of Hastings, on this steamy show that's the talk of the "ton"
Bridgerton
Katie
$200 [29]
South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela wrote "Bring Him Back Home", about this leader imprisoned for 27 years
Nelson Mandela
Rachel
$200 [3]
Meaning "completely", these 3 elements are part of a firearm
lock, stock & barrel
Rachel Katie
$200 [9]
In 2020 this Ivy League school in New Jersey dropped Woodrow Wilson's name from 2 institutions
Princeton
Mark
$200 [8]
It's a feeling of elation or well-being; some feel it in nature or at the gym, others while watching Zendaya on TV
euphoria
Rachel
$200 [25]
"And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out" this man "upon the dry land"
Jonah
Rachel
$300 [19]
...of Georg von Trapp in this film; oddly, during the ceremony you'll hear nuns sing about how his bride Maria is a problem
The Sound of Music
Katie
$300 [16]
In July 1588thisfleet of ships under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia was spotted off the English coast
the Spanish Armada
Rachel
$300 [7]
Geoff Emerick used this Beatles song as the title of his memoir of being their sound engineer
"Here, There and Everywhere"
$300 [12]
This East Coast school says it's "obsessed with numbers"; even its janitors are math geniuses, at least onscreen
MIT
Rachel
$300 [4]
You can clean a wound with a tincture made from this element, but it's gonna sting, so put on your big-kid pants
iodine
Katie
$300 [24]
"If thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring" these insects "into thy coast"
locusts
Katie
$400 [20]
...of these two guys on "Modern Family"--nothing will stop the wedding! Not even a wildfire, or theofficiant's water breaking
Mitch & Cam
DD $300 [17]
After making the mistake of shacking up with the wrong beefcake, she became the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt
Cleopatra
Rachel
$400 [10]
It's been said flat out that romaine is the best to use in this sandwich; the other 2 marquee ingredients can be Nueske's & vine-ripe
bacon, lettuce & tomato
Katie
$400 [13]
In 1967 the tech school bearing the name of this man merged with a science research center called the Mellon Institute
Carnegie
Rachel
$400 [5]
Sometimes confused with an anteater, this nocturnal mammal is also known as an earth pig
an aardvark
Katie
$400 [22]
"Howbeit the hair of" this man's "head began to grow again after he was shaven"
Samson
Rachel
$500 [21]
...of Lillian & Doug in this movie; Rose Byrne, who's in the wedding party, hired Wilson Phillips to sing "Hold On"!
Bridesmaids
Mark
$500 [18]
This ninth leader of the Aztec empire tried to pay Hernán Cortés in gold to stay away--Cortés kidnapped him
Montezuma
$500 [11]
Dating from the time of the revolution, this trio makes up the national motto of France
liberté, égalité, fraternité
Rachel
$500 [14]
Course fees, an annual stipend of about $25,000 & 2 flights, to & from the U.K., are part of this scholarship at Oxford
the Rhodes Scholarship
Katie
$500 [6]
It's a gooey medicine for your skin, but be careful--sometimes there's a fly in it
ointment
Rachel
$500 [23]
"And" this man "said, divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"
(King) Solomon
Rachel

Double Jeopardy! Round

WE'RE BLINDING YOU WITH SCIENCE WORDPLAY IN RAP MIDDLE "D" HELP A POET OUT STAMP OF APPROVAL LET'S GO TUBING!
$200 [29]
Salamandersare amphibians, while lizardsare actually this type of animal that includes turtles & snakes
reptiles
Mark
$200 [28]
I wanna say thanks "A Milli" for the phonetics lesson from this rapper who taught us "Gs move in silence like lasagna"
Lil' Wayne
Katie
$200 [26]
Author James oracting's Alec
Baldwin
Katie
$200 [30]
As if a candle were going out, Dylan Thomas wrote, "Rage, rage against the dying of" this
(the) light
Rachel
$200 [23]
The critters featured in the Baby Wild Animals stamp set include owls, a deer & a kit, the word for the young of this sly canine
fox
Mark
$200 [25]
The Columbia River sounds like a great ride, but we should jump out before it empties into this ocean, as it could be dangerous
the Pacific Ocean
$400 [21]
There are a total of 46 of these in most human cells, & genes within them contain all our hereditary information
chromosomes
Rachel Mark
$400 [27]
On the song "Gloria" this rapper aka K.Dot personifies his writing as a woman whose favorite movie is "The Notebook"
Kendrick Lamar
Katie
$400 [13]
It's never a fun day when you find out the IRS wants to conduct this type of review of your tax returns
an audit
Mark
$400 [4]
Lewis Carroll had a walrus talk of many things: "of shoes--& ships--& sealing-wax--of cabbages--&" these rulers
kings
Katie
$400 [22]
The Bluegrass stamp depicts a guitar, mandolin, fiddle & this stringed instrument with a 5-letter name
banjo
Katie
$400 [24]
Can't decide whether to pump up the tubes & head down the Blue or the White branches of this long African river
the Nile
Mark
$600 [8]
If you have a high or fast this, the process by which the body provides you energy, you burn calories quickly, even when at rest
metabolism
Katie
$600 [5]
Wear a sweater when Big Boi from this duo is on the mic--on "ATLiens", he raps, "I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails"
OutKast
Katie
$600 [1]
These 3 letters follow the dot in Stanford's URL
edu
Mark
$800 [12]
The Ancient Mariner in Coleridge's famous poem shot this seabird & "about my neck" it "was hung"; curses!
an albatross
Katie
$600 [18]
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, a recent stamp set depicts a midnight rider & this city's Old North Church
Boston
Mark
$600 [16]
The Amazon River has these razor-toothed fishies, but most are scavengers or plant-eaters & won't bother us tubers
piranhas
Katie
$800 [9]
Molten rock that is below the surface of the Earth is called this 5-letter word; when ejected, it's called lava
magma
Rachel
$800 [6]
Posthumously released, "Thugz Mansion" by this rapper imagines a heaven where you can drink schnapps with Sam Cooke
Tupac
$800 [2]
To lead the orchestra
conduct
Rachel
$1,000 [20]
Perhaps feeling merciful, Alexander Pope wrote, "to err is human, to forgive," this
divine
Katie
$800 [17]
A Love stamp, with radiating black lines & simple outlined figures, is by this graffiti artist, gone too soon aged 31 in 1990
Keith Haring
Rachel
$800 [15]
Let's tube through this Dutch city on the Amstel river, the source of the city's name
Amsterdam
Mark
DD $1,500 [10]
Sounding a bit like dinnerware, they're the components of blood that gang up together to form clots
platelets
Rachel
$1,000 [7]
Onthisgroup's album "The Low End Theory" Phife Dawg boasts of being "smooth like butter" with the ladies
A Tribe Called Quest
$1,000 [3]
The red elm & blue beech are this type of tree that sheds leaves seasonally
deciduous
Rachel
DD $2,000 [11]
She wrote the immortal "Because I could not stop for Death--He kindly stopped for me"
Emily Dickinson
Rachel
$1,000 [19]
Honored with a 2023 stamp, this civil rights leader & U.S. congressman was committed to making "good trouble"
John Lewis
Rachel
$1,000 [14]
Don't spill your cerveza waving at both Texas & Mexico while tubing down this 5th-longest North American river
the Rio Grande
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

ANIMALS

The genus name of this animal is Phascolarctos, meaning "pouched bear"

a koala

Mark "What is the Kangaroo?" — wagered $13,200
Rachel "What is an opossum" — wagered $9,101
Katie "What is koala?" — wagered $9,101

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