Alex and company will tape three specials from April 9-13. The first set of free tickets will be released on Monday at 6 a.m.

Samuel J. Seymour, who was a five-year-old boy who was in the audience at Ford’s Theatre the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot, lived long enough to appear on a television game show in 1956.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a bunch of D.C. media types will be competing in the “Power Players” edition of Jeopardy! to be taped Saturday at DAR Constitution Hall.

Jeopardy! is bringing its “Power Players Week” back to Washington in April, when a batch of television anchors, presidential historians and maybe even a few politicians will compete to determine who spends the most time inside the Washington bubble.