Show #9521 2026-03-16 (taped 2026-02-11) Regular

Jamie Ding game 2.

Contestants

Andrew Ford — a data scientist from Madison, Wisconsin

Shannon Thomas — a nonprofit professional from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jamie Ding — a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,633)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jamie $4,000 $8,400 $34,000 $3,933
2-day champion: $26,566
$32,000
36 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Shannon $-200 $1,200 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $2,000
$-800
6 R, 4 W
Andrew $5,400 $5,600 $1,600 $882
2nd place: $3,000
$7,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AND THE WINNER IS... THE GREAT BRITISH SPELLING SHOW WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON BOARD GAMES TECH HISTORY GRIM GOOSE & GRIMM
$200 [24]
This team, in a 2025 World Series Game 7 thriller over the Toronto Blue Jays
the Dodgers
Shannon
$200 [20]
Time to play some tenacious "D" with this action of resisting attack
D-E-F-E-N-C-E
Jamie
$200 [28]
Busting, a natural & doubling down after splitting are all terms from this card game
blackjack
Shannon
$200 [29]
2 friends inspired by the success of Scrabble created this wedge-fest with 6,000 questions in its original version
Trivial Pursuit
Andrew
$200 [26]
The electromagneticdental pluggerpatented by George Green in 1875 is what's known simply as this at the dentist today
a drill
Jamie
$200 [30]
It's the 2-word weapon used to maim a trio of visually impaired rodents & honestly, I've never seen such a sight in my life
a carving knife
Jamie
$400 [25]
Rafael Nadal, of this clay court event every year ever (OK, just 14 times from 2005 to 2022)
the French Open
Jamie
$400 [17]
Looks like we're going into this political party once led by Tony Blair
L-A-B-O-U-R
Andrew
$400 [18]
Caleb Williams, Carmy's Restaurant on TV & the Jukumari are all these
bears
Jamie
$400 [21]
You can steal bills from the bank & skip out on paying rent in the Cheater's Edition of this classic game, because... fun?
Monopoly
Jamie
$400 [23]
Art history lectures & vacation recaps benefitted from this mid-20th century machine
a slide projector
Jamie Andrew
$400 [27]
A bit displeased upon hearing his name spoken aloud, he "seized his left foot with both hands and tore himself in two"
Rumpelstiltskin
Jamie
$600 [7]
This K.C. guy, MVP of the 2020, 2023 & 2024 Super Bowls
Mahomes
Andrew
$600 [2]
It's a long, slender filament of wool or an important part of a diet; either way, spell it like they do in Durham & Derby
F-I-B-R-E
Shannon
$600 [13]
Kelly Rowland, Grigori Rasputin (per new style) & Abraham Lincoln were all born under this sign
Aquarius
Jamie
$800 [5]
The New Yorker once joked that this game's moral lesson is "Never apologize for your success, unless doing so sarcastically"
Sorry!
Andrew
$600 [9]
In the '80s Warren Lieberfarb of Warner Bros. pushed for this optical disk format; "Rocky" & "The Mask" in 1997 were early releases
DVD
Andrew
$600 [14]
A rough 4 days for this guy who "took ill on Thursday" & was "buried on Sunday"; once again, that was written for kids
Solomon Grundy
Jamie
$800 [16]
Secretariat, clinching a Triple Crown with a 31-length win in this 1973 race
the Belmont Stakes
Jamie
$800 [3]
Let a 2018 movie title be your guide to this word describing an item you prefer over any other
F-A-V-O-U-R-I-T-E
Jamie
$800 [10]
This color is in AKAs of Aaron Chwatt, the Lakota leader Mahpiua-Luta & a "Captain America" villain
red
Jamie
$1,000 [4]
This ancient Chinese game is played with 361 pieces called stones
Go
Andrew
$800 [1]
Acousticmirrorsbuilt in England starting around 1915 to detect aircraft were a forerunner of this tech that got serious in the '30s
radar
Andrew
$800 [6]
Sit down & have a bier as you read how a tailor first met his beautiful bride--asleep & imprisoned in "The Glass" this
"Coffin"
Jamie Shannon Andrew
$1,000 [11]
This skier, birth name the not-as-fun Breanna, in the downhill for the USA's first gold at Milan Cortina 2026
(Breezy) Johnson
Shannon
$1,000 [12]
If you get caught nicking a tin of butter biscuits from Harrods, you may go to this very British 4-letter word for a lockup
G-A-O-L
Jamie
$1,000 [19]
Places this word is abbreviated as an "X": AX in fashion, FX in intl. commerce & EXO in a Microsoft platform
exchange
Shannon
DD $2,400 [8]
The times they were a-changin': by 1999, Hasbro changed this game's pink-&-blue-peg-holding station wagons to minivans
( The Game of ) Life
Andrew
$1,000 [15]
"Genius on Hold" is a film about Walter Shaw, whose ideas led to inventions like this--I dial your home & your mobile rings
call forwarding
Jamie Shannon
$1,000 [22]
He "cut out all the calves' and sheep's eyes", tossed them in a woman's face & the marriage is off; "Clever" him? No, psycho him!
Hans
Jamie

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC STATEMENTS THAT "BEING" THE TITLE LANDLOCKED! A REAL WORK OF ART POP CULTURE RHYME TIME HABITS UNBECOMING
$400 [22]
Otto von Bismarck, earning an epithet: "The great questions of the time are decided... by" this "and blood"
iron
Jamie
$400 [30]
This Wilde & witty play about mistaken identity has the subtitle "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People"
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jamie
$400 [27]
It's a North-Central African nation bounded by Niger & Sudan, or the name of that kid who crashed his dad's BMW at the '94 prom
Chad
Shannon
$400 [28]
Who else but this Spaniard could have served up 1941's "Soft Self Portrait with Grilled Bacon"?
Salvador Dalí
Shannon Andrew
$400 [29]
Thisband gets knocked down, but they get up again, you're never gonna keep them down
Chumbawamba
Jamie
$400 [24]
It's the word for doing 2 or more things at the same time, which sounds productive, but experts say it makes your brain tired
multitasking
Jamie
$800 [26]
Shortly after leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he declared, "It's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death"
Malcolm X
Jamie
$800 [25]
(Aaron Sorkin presents the clue.) I told Nicole Kidman that I wasn't looking for a Lucille Ball impersonation inthis2021 film that I wrote & directed about a week in the life of Lucy & Desi Arnaz
Being the Ricardos
$800 [21]
A U.S. state of landlockedness, it's bordered by 6 others, including Montana to its north & Colorado to its south
Wyoming
Jamie
$800 [1]
In Oslo you can look at "The Kiss", an 1897 painting by this man in which the lovers' faces meld into one
Munch
Jamie
$800 [23]
Thisshort-lived TV series set in the '80s helped launch the careers of stars like Jason Segel & Linda Cardellini
Freaks and Geeks
Jamie
$800 [6]
In wartime it's damaging the enemy's supplies; the "self-" type refers to undercutting your own efforts
sabotage
Jamie
$1,200 [16]
Campaign strategist James Carville made this 4-word statement into a catchphrase in 1992
it's the economy, stupid
Jamie
$1,200 [13]
Daniel Day-Lewis starred in the film adaptation of this Milan Kundera novel set in 1968 Prague
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jamie
$1,200 [3]
Enjoy the Pushkin Museum& the Stephen the Great Monumentbut not an offshore ocean cruise in Chisinau, capital of this Euro nation
Moldova
Andrew
$1,200 [20]
ARubenspainted for Antwerp & now in the Prado is one of the great works called this, adulation by wise men you might say
The Adoration of the Magi
$1,200 [18]
Theywon a Grammy, & "Girl, You Know It's True", the Grammy was revoked after a lip-synching scandal
Milli Vanilli
Jamie
$1,600 [12]
This word for obsessively perusing bad news on your mobile device gained traction during the pandemic, when most of us were doing it
doomscrolling
Jamie
$2,000 [19]
"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever", said Chief Joseph of this tribe in 1877
the Nez Perce
Jamie
$1,600 [8]
The title of this Y.A. novel by Stephen Chbosky alludes to the introverted teen Charlie
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Jamie
$1,600 [2]
They're prairie provinces, not port provinces; these are the only two Canadian provinces without a saltwater coast
Alberta & Saskatchewan
Andrew
$1,600 [14]
Many works by this American depict one solitary white woman; in 1955's "South Carolina Morning", she's Black
Hopper
Jamie
$1,600 [7]
In 2022, comedian Jenny Slate charmed at the box office voicing this anthropomophic fellow "with Shoes On"
Marcel the Shell
Andrew
$2,000 [17]
RBP is short for this type of procrastination, a new-ish term for mindless stuff you do at night when you should be sleeping
revenge bedtime procrastination
Jamie
DD $3,600 [5]
According to Suetonius, Caesar uttered this phrase as he took a big gamble & crossed the Rubicon
the die is cast ( alea iacta est )
Jamie
$2,000 [15]
This work by Sartre says that "man is a useless passion"
Being and Nothingness
Jamie Shannon
$2,000 [4]
India shares a more than 400-mile border with this country ruled by King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Bhutan
Jamie Andrew
$2,000 [9]
Around 1490 Leonardo drew this depiction of the body using proportions laid down by an ancient Roman architect
Vitruvian Man
Andrew
$2,000 [10]
Sibling rivalry got funny in the routine "Mom Always Liked You Best" by this duo
The Smothers Brothers
DD $8,000 [11]
Add 2 letters to a word for "loitering" to get this word for faking an illness to get out of work
malingering
Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY NOVELS

One of its epigraphs is from Genesis 30, about Leah, Rachel & Rachel's servant Bilhah

The Handmaid's Tale

Andrew "What is Beloved? ♡M+C" — wagered $718
Jamie "What is Song of Solomon?" — wagered $30,067

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