2026 SEASON 3 FINAL JACKPOT ROUND

7 teams competed in the Season 3 Final Jackpot Round.
The average number of questions correctly answered was 6.57 out of 12.

Question 1 - Which day of the week does the next public holiday in Brisbane fall on?

This is the only question in the entire round that every team answered correctly.

(This happened in the Season 2 Final as well.)

Pink Bits answered in 0.108 seconds, scoring 998 points and taking an early lead.

This would be the only time Pink Bits was in the top 3 places until Question 9!

Stuffed If Barney Knows scored 996 points and took 2nd place.

Team Nunya and COTR answered within 0.004 seconds of each other and jointly held 3rd place.

Pink Bits 998 points

Stuffed if Barney Knows 996 points

Team Nunya and COTR 992 points

Question 2 - The Riverina is an agricultural region of which Australian state? 

Pink Bits was 1 of 3 teams to get this wrong, answering very quickly and dropping down to last place!

Stuffed If Barney Knows moved into 1st place.

Betty Swallows were 14 points behind them in 2nd place.

Team Nunya took a little bit longer to answer correctly but stayed in 3rd place, 112 points behind Betty.

COTR dropped down to 4th place, 35 points behind Team Nunya.

Stuffed If Barney Knows 1971 points

Betty Swallows 1957 points

Team Nunya 1845 points

COTR 1810 points

Question 3 - According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, what is California's most valuable crop?

Stuffed If Barney Knows got this wrong and dropped down to 3rd.

 Both Betty Swallows and Team Nunya answered correctly and moved into 1st and 2nd respectively.

Betty Swallows 2850 points

Team Nunya 2780 points

Stuffed If Barney Knows 1755 points

Question 4 -  Which Major League Baseball stadium is well-known for its ivy-covered brick outfield walls?

Only Team Nunya, Ita Buttcheeks and Sunboyz got this right.

Nunya moved into 1st, Betty dropped down to 2nd and Ita Buttcheeks popped into 3rd place.

Team Nunya 3382 points

Betty Swallows 2640 points

Ita Buttcheeks 2354 points

Question 5 - Who painted this? (The Stoning of Saint Stephen)

Nobody got this right. 

Every team stayed exactly where they were.

Team Nunya 3253 points

Betty Swallows 2489 points

Ita Buttcheeks 2169 points

Question 6 - Which song contains the lines "Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sun / I know we only met but let's pretend it's love"?

Out of the top 3 teams, only Ita Buttcheeks got it right, swapping places with Betty Swallows.

Despite getting it wrong, Team Nunya held onto 1st place.

For the 2nd time in the round, Pink Bits was in last place!

Team Nunya 3100 points

Ita Buttcheeks 3054 points

Betty Swallows 2295 points

 Question 7 - How many red stripes are there on the flag of Zimbabwe?

Only 2 teams got this wrong, Ita Buttcheeks being one.

They swapped back places with Betty Swallows.

This is the beginning of Betty's run of correct answers.

They got every question right from now until the end!

Team Nunya 3717 points

Betty Swallows 3176 points

Ita Buttcheeks 2946 points

Question 8 -What does a ferroequinologist study?

Again, only 2 teams got this wrong, Ita Buttcheeks being one.

They dropped down to 5th place, while Sunboyz moved into 3rd.

Pink Bits was lurking just 10 points behind in 4th, ready to make a move!

Team Nunya 4516 points

Betty Swallows 3883 points

Sunboyz 2962 points

Pink Bits 2952 points

Question 9 - What is the unit of currency in Tokelau?

3 teams got this wrong, including Team Nunya and Sunboyz.

This was the beginning of a bad run until the end for Team Nunya.

It allowed Betty Swallows to move into 1st place for the first time since Question 3.

Team Nunya dropped to 2nd while Pink Bits moved into 3rd place.

Betty Swallows 4680 points

Team Nunya 4372 points

Pink Bits 3898 points

Question 10 - With which sport do you associate American Nelly Korda?

Betty Swallows and Pink Bits got this question correct but Team Nunya didn't.

Pink Bits and Team Nunya swapped places.

Betty Swallows 5658 points

Pink Bits 4769 points

Team Nunya 4238 points

 Question 11 - Which musical features a renegade group called the Bohemians who struggle to restore the free exchange of thought and culture in a vaguely Orwellian society?

Only Betty Swallows, Pink Bits and Sunboyz got this correct.

The top 3 places remained the same, while Sunboyz moved from last place into 4th.

Betty Swallows 6317 points

Pink Bits 5709 points

Team Nunya 4083 points

Sunboyz 3525 points

 Question 12 - Which U.S. state's official nickname is the Pelican State?

Only Betty, Barney, Ita and COTR got this right.

Betty stayed in 1st place, but increased their lead over Pink Bits to 1626 points.

Even if Pink Bits had answered correctly, he would not have been able to overtake Betty Swallows.

The only way Pink Bits could have won his 6th consecutive Major Jackpot would be to get this question right and Betty Swallows to get it wrong.

Ita Buttcheeks moved into 3rd place.

Betty Swallows 7158 points

Pink Bits 5532 points

Ita Buttcheeks 4066 points

Team Nunya 3964 points

Betty Swallows took out the Major Jackpot, winning $300.

Pink Bits took out the Minor Jackpot, winning $100.

 Betty Swallows' last Major Jackpot win was the Season 5 Final in December 2024.

Pink Bits' last Minor Jackpot win was the Season 4 Final in October 2024.

There was only 1 question that no team got correct.

(Q5 - Who painted this? (The Stoning of Saint Stephen by Rembrandt))

Betty Swallows was the only team who had an average score per correct answer in the 900s.

​​Highest average score and fastest buzzer (for correct answers) - Pink Bits

Lowest average score and slowest buzzers (for correct answers) - Sunboyz

(Sunboyz also achieved this 'honour' in the previous Season Final)

Highest average penalty (for incorrect answers) - Pink Bits

(Pink Bits also achieved this 'honour' in the previous Season Final)

Lowest average penalty (for incorrect answers) - Team Nunya

Greatest run of consecutive correct answers - 6 - Betty Swallows

Greatest run of consecutive incorrect answers - 4 - COTR and Team Nunya

(COTR also achieved this 'honour' in the previous Season Final)

 Most points for a correct answer - 998 points - Pink Bits

 (Q1 - Which day of the week does the next public holiday in Brisbane fall on?)

​Fewest points for a correct answer - 399 points - Sunboyz

 (Q6 - Which song contains the lines "Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sun /

I know we only met but let's pretend it's love"?)

(Sunboyz also achieved this 'honour' in the previous Season Final)

Highest penalty for an incorrect answer - 248 points - Pink Bits

 (Q2 - The Riverina is an agricultural region of which Australian state?)

Lowest penalty for an incorrect answer - 76 points - Ita Buttcheeks

(Q8 - What does a ferroequinologist study?)