Show #9531 2026-03-30 (taped 2026-02-23) Regular

Jamie Ding game 12.

Contestants

Barbara McIntyre — a writer from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Fr. Paul Baker — a Catholic priest from St. Paul, Minnesota

Jamie Ding — a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (whose 11-day cash winnings total $291,820)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jamie $3,200 $6,200 $24,900 $22,620
12-day champion: $314,440
$23,800
31 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Fr. Paul $600 $3,000 $11,000 $9,999
2nd place: $3,000
$12,000
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Barbara $1,200 $2,000 $6,000 $270
3rd place: $2,000
$6,000
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHECK MY FLOW LITERARY GENRES ARTISTS BY SUPER BOWL SETLIST CHEW MUST REMEMBER THIS PO-PO-PRI ONE THROUGH TEN
$200 [19]
This river highlightedhererises 12,000 feet above sea level in the Rockies
the Rio Grande
Jamie
$200 [28]
England is a dictatorship in "Children of Men", a book of this sci-fi subgenre whose name comes from the Greek for "bad"
dystopian
Barbara
$200 [30]
2001:"Jaded","I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"
Aerosmith
Jamie
$200 [25]
A hollow thump is a good indicator of the ripeness of this fruit, whether it's the picnic or icebox type
watermelon
Barbara
$200 [29]
Keeping in rhythm with the streets, a type of police officer who patrols on foot is said to be "walking the" this
the beat
Jamie
$200 [24]
It's among the gnarliest of surfingmaneuvers, executed from the very front of a perfectly balanced long board
hang ten
Jamie
$400 [27]
This 1,560-mile-long river rises on the Indian side of the border with Tibet
the Ganges
Fr. Paul
$400 [26]
A Bildungsroman is a work about the education & formative years of the protagonist, like this novel by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Jamie
$400 [20]
"Suit & Tie","Filthy" &"Sexy Back"
Timberlake
Jamie
$400 [8]
The potato dish calledpommes gaufrettesis also known as this, sounding like a breakfast item
waffle fries
Jamie
$400 [3]
This numerical slang term for the police comes from a TV show set on Oahu
Five-O
Fr. Paul
$400 [23]
This term can refer generically to all the navigable waters of the Earth or to a lucky number of specific ones
the Seven Seas
Barbara
$600 [21]
Entering Idaho through the Palisades Reservoir, it winds its way across the state up into Washington, south of Pasco
the Snake
Jamie
$600 [9]
Types of poetry include narrative as well as this one with a name that tells you the verse is meant to be sung
lyrical (lyric)
Fr. Paul
$600 [13]
"Pump It","Boom Boom Pow" & "Where Is The Love?"
the Black Eyed Peas
Jamie
$600 [2]
Macrolepiota procera is a type of edible mushroom called this, like an umbrella used as a sunshade
a parasol
Barbara
$600 [4]
A broadcast alert to all police stations in the area is called an APB, short for this
an all-points bulletin
Jamie
$600 [7]
In baseball it's slang for a home run
a four-bagger
Barbara
$800 [14]
2,900 miles long, this river, formerly the Zaire, flows into the Atlantic
the Congo
Jamie
$800 [1]
"A Tale of a Tub" is one of these, which Samuel Johnson defined as a work "in which wickedness or folly is censured"
a satire
Jamie
$800 [12]
"Only Girl (In The World)","Rude Boy" &"Run This Town"
Rihanna
Fr. Paul
$800 [16]
You don't have to eat this Japanese rice cake with ice cream; in Japan, it's traditionally served to celebrate the new year
mochi
Jamie
$800 [22]
During a pursuit, the cop car taps the fleeing vehicle near the rear wheel, causing it to spin in this 3-letter maneuver
PIT (pursuit intervention technique)
$800 [6]
We likely owe this term for a chaotic situation to the showmanship of P.T. Barnum
a three-ring circus
Fr. Paul
$1,000 [18]
Bingen Bonn! Those 2 cities will be on your tour as you pass along the "Middle" section of this river
the Rhine
Fr. Paul
DD $1,000 [10]
This portmanteau word is used of the genre that blends passion with dragon riders & such, as in "Fourth Wing"
romantasy
Fr. Paul
$1,000 [15]
Her in 1996:"You Can't Hurry Love","Reach Out & Touch (Somebody's Hand)" &"Chain Reaction"
Diana Ross
Jamie Barbara
$1,000 [5]
Just one vowel different from a pasta is this word for white beans that Tuscans use in soups & elsewhere
cannellini
Fr. Paul Barbara
$1,000 [11]
A 1982 article in The Atlantic introduced this controversial theory that petty crimes would lead to larger ones
broken windows
Jamie
$1,000 [17]
This idiom from Shakespeare means all at once or with a single, quick effort, like a hawk diving for prey
one fell swoop
Fr. Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHAT A LOAD OF B.C. NEOLOGISMS TV TOUGH GUYS & GALS GEEZ, LOUISE! SECRETS OF THE BEES ALL PREACHERS GREAT & SMALL
$400 [26]
An iteration of Troy was founded in the Greek these, a term long used of the supposedly ignorant & backward early medieval time
the Dark Ages
Barbara
$400 [27]
One study says 11 words is the ideal length of this kind of headline to get you to hit a link; try starting with "You Won't Believe"
clickbait
Jamie
$400 [30]
You can tell Lucy Lawless's Xenais tough just from this, the show's subtitle
Warrior Princess
Jamie
$400 [22]
Before taking the throne, she had a beloved governess named Louise Lehzen, born in Germany like the queen's future husband
Victoria
Barbara
$400 [28]
The two-colored Mason bee has been compared to a witch, as itgatherstwigs in a way that resembles this conveyance
a broomstick
Jamie
$400 [29]
To the people around the Jordan River, this honey-eating biblical preacher was a voice crying in the wilderness
John the Baptist
Jamie
$800 [18]
For more years Çatalhöyük, a city with houses but no streets, thrived in the Anatolia region of what's now this country
Turkey
Fr. Paul
DD $500 [25]
In Rebecca Solnit's essay that helped launch this word, a guy informs Rebecca about an important book that he doesn't realize she wrote
mansplaining
Jamie
$800 [17]
You've gotta be tough to be a double agent, like Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow on this series
Alias
Jamie
$800 [15]
Robert Edwards won a Nobel Prize for developing this, which resulted in the birth of Louise Brown on July 25, 1978
IVF (in vitro fertilization)
Jamie
$800 [23]
Filmed for the first time, a bee uses a droplet of this sugar-rich liquid to stop pollen from blowing off during her flight home
nectar
Jamie
$800 [24]
When this evangelist retired in 2005, his son Franklin became the leader of the ministry
Billy Graham
Jamie
$1,200 [8]
Tel Lachish was the most important city after Jerusalem in this biblical kingdom south of Israel
Judah
Fr. Paul
$1,200 [11]
This colorful term is used for making a product or service appear more environmentally friendly than it really is
greenwashing
Fr. Paul
$1,200 [1]
A katana used by Danai Gurira as this "Walking Dead" character is in the National Museum of American History
Michonne
$1,200 [3]
The beautiful Lake Louise is in this prairie province
Alberta
Fr. Paul
$1,200 [19]
Thesemale honeybees are gifted with eyes twice the size of their sisters'; they use them to spot queens from other hives to mate with
drones
Jamie
$1,600 [6]
This Puritan minister raised some eyebrows with "The Wonders of the Invisible World", his 1693 book about Salem's witch trials
Cotton Mather
Fr. Paul
$1,600 [9]
A royal tomb from the early B.C. era of this 3-letter dynasty yielded the skeleton of a giant panda
Han
Jamie
$1,600 [12]
It's no longer just a swimming stroke, it's a verb meaning to improvise a rap
freestyle
Jamie
$1,600 [2]
On "How to Get Away with Murder", some killers do, because this Viola Davis character is for the defense
Annalise Keating
$1,600 [4]
Herbobbed hair & her portrayal of the sensual side of the flapper in films like "Pandora's Box" made her a film icon
Louise Brooks
Barbara
$1,600 [16]
An Asian honeybee can pile on & cook their foes with heat, like this type of Asian wasp that invaded the U.S. in the past decade
murder hornets
Jamie Barbara
$2,000 [20]
Thisfounder of Saddleback megachurch retired in 2022 but not before making some waves by ordaining three women as pastors
(Rick) Warren
Fr. Paul
$2,000 [7]
Around 1000 B.C. these people, no kin to Conan the Barbarian despite the name, were among the first to occupy Crimea
Cimmerians
$2,000 [21]
A very early example of this is an 1853 image of"Sally and Mrs Reed"with not just Sally & Mrs. Reed in it
a photobomb
Jamie
$2,000 [10]
In agony from arthritis, Clay Morrow, leader of this title crew, has his hands strapped to his bike
Sons of Anarchy
Jamie
$2,000 [5]
Is there an EGOT equivalent for writers?Thispoet won a National Book Award, Bollingen Prize, Pulitzer, & in 2020, the Nobel
(Louise) Glück
Jamie
$2,000 [13]
Honeybeescan tell one another where food is, how far & directions to take through a shaking dance known by this six-letter word
waggle
Jamie
DD $2,600 [14]
Once known as "the most famous man in America", this abolitionist preacher also had a famous abolitionist sister
Beecher
Jamie

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

Literary theories say the first name of this 1847 title character is meant to evoke plainness while the last name hints at a bequest

Jane Eyre

Barbara "Who is Will?" — wagered $5,730
Fr. Paul "Who is David Copperfield?" — wagered $1,001
Jamie "Who is Kansas Testament?" — wagered $2,280

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