Oakland Spirit Tunnel turned a tight Pop Culture Jeopardy! final into another win on Thursday, May 21, 2026, answering the TV Show Cameos clue correctly to finish Season 2, Game 9 as 2-time champions. The team will now go for win No. 3 on Friday, May 22.
The final category asked for a TV cameo, and the right response was Warren Buffett, who appeared as a job candidate in the Season 7 finale of The Office, Search Committee. Oakland Spirit Tunnel wrote Dunder Mifflin, the same guess made by The Big Ducks, while Losers, In Other Words went with Waystar Royco. Only Oakland Spirit Tunnel had the answer that counted, and the team’s 21,200 points entering Final Jeopardy held up. The Big Ducks came in at 4,600 and Losers, In Other Words at 15,000.
The scoreline did not come out of nowhere. Oakland Spirit Tunnel had already built the lead through Double Jeopardy, where it found Daily Doubles on back-to-back clues and picked up 14 correct responses in the round. It also went 3-for-5 in Oscar gowns, while The Big Ducks were 3-for-5 in Bravo Daily Double and Losers, In Other Words went 3-for-5 in acting athletes and 3-for-5 in For All Womankind. After 30 clues, The Big Ducks were leading, but everyone was still within 800 points of one another.
That close margin made the ending feel less like a rout than a scramble. The Big Ducks found a Daily Double in a category they clearly liked and wagered just 400 points, a cautious move for a team named after a Long Island tourist attraction. Losers, In Other Words carried its own in the lineup that included recent Jeopardy! star Drew Goins and his brother Zach, a name drawn from an Alex Trebek interview quote. The third team, Oakland Spirit Tunnel, was named for fans of the Jennifer Hudson Spirit Tunnel, and the group stayed steady when the game tightened.
The result leaves Oakland Spirit Tunnel in position to press its run further on Friday, while the other two teams head back to the sidelines with a game that was still alive well into Final Jeopardy. For Oakland Spirit Tunnel, the bigger story is simple: it has turned a previous day’s runaway victory into a two-game streak, and the only thing now standing between it and win No. 3 is the next board.
