It turns out that years of watching “Jeopardy!” is helpful for something besides winning trivia nights.

In the case of a trio from our area, it earned them an appearance on Amazon Prime’s pop culture version of the popular TV game show.

Babylon residents Jack Nix and his husband Dan Walsh and their friend Amy Keyes, of Patchogue, appeared on Wednesday’s episode of “Pop Culture Jeopardy!,” hosted by “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update cohost Colin Jost.

They were one of the 81 teams competing for a $300,000 grand prize on the show, which began streaming on Dec. 4.

While the trio weren’t at liberty to say before the episode aired how their South Shore Squad team fared, they did say they had a lot of fun, including kibitzing with Jost.

The Staten Island native, who Walsh said was “super nice,” understood the South Shore reference in the team’s name and kidded them about the matching denim jackets they wore.

“Where’s my denim jacket?” he asked.

Just being selected to appear on the show was kind of miraculous.

More than 50,000 people took an online test in which they had to answer questions about pop culture. Nix, Walsh and Keyes passed that hurdle and were eventually selected to do an audition on Zoom, in which they competed against another team.

The three of them were having pizza together one night when they got a text message that they would be flown to Los Angeles to compete.

“We didn’t have any real expectation that we’d hear from them, let alone that we’d make it on the show,” said Walsh, who is event coordinator at Farmingdale State College.

Yet, a couple of weeks later, there they were, at Sony Pictures Television studios.

The taping itself went so quickly, it was “kind of a blur,” said Nix, who is community engagement librarian at South Country Library.

For Keyes, who is director of operations for Girl Scouts of Suffolk County, appearing on the show was extra special because her grandfather had appeared on “Jeopardy!” in the 1960s, winning a set of encyclopedias, she said.

And to find out how South Shore Squad did on the show, check out their episode, which started streaming on Amazon Prime on Wednesday.