James Holzhauer game 7.
Mike Dindoffer — a writer and teacher from Greenfield, Massachusetts
Ali Filipowicz — a homemaker from Alexandria, Virginia
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 6-day cash winnings total $325,877)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $8,600 | $22,012 | $58,148 |
$89,158
7-day champion: $415,035 |
$29,400
32 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Ali | $3,200 | $3,600 | $13,200 |
$14,801
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
16 R, 0 W |
| Mike | $800 | $1,800 | $7,400 |
$7,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
12 R, 2 W |
| GENERAL KNOWLEDGE | WOMEN OF POLITICS | I'D LIKE TO SELL A VOWEL | AMERICAN LITERATURE | CITY ADJECTIVES | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 |
|
$200
[28]
In the DC universe, they're the dynamic duo
Batman and Robin
James
|
$200
[24]
This Brit has been dubbed "Madam Brexit"
Theresa May
Mike
|
$200
[30]
Ms. Winfrey asks, would you like to subscribe to this magazine that asks you to "live your best life"?
O
Ali
|
$200
[29]
This Washington Irving character "fell asleep on the mountain...and every thing's changed--and I'm changed"
Rip Van Winkle
Ali
|
$200
[25]
Of or from Europe's "City of Lights"
Parisian
James
|
$200
[26]
Every year, this best pal has been the most searched-for type of animal
dog
James
|
|
$400
[27]
Appropriately, it's the 3-letter symbol of the company that makes Scotch tape & Scotch-Brite products
MMM
James
|
$400
[23]
This first name of California senator Harris means "lotus" in Sanskrit
Kamala
Mike
|
$400
[22]
I think you need tablets of the element with this symbol--it will help you with your goiter
I
James
|
$400
[17]
George & Nick are professors in the college town of New Carthage in this play by Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike
|
$600
[19]
Coming from the Fab Four's hometown, like their accents
Liverpudlian
James
|
$400
[21]
The top movie searches of 2006 & 2016 were for this franchise with "The Last Stand" & "Apocalypse" installments
X-Men
James
|
|
$600
[14]
At 969, this son of Enoch was the Bible's longest-lived person
Methuselah
James
|
$600
[15]
Tortured under the Pinochet regime, Michelle Bacheletbecame the first female president of this country in 2006
Chile
Ali
|
$600
[18]
I don't have any Ford Model T's B's, F's or R's, but I do have this other 20th century model
(Model) A
James
|
$600
[9]
Her alter ego Jo March gets $100 for a story she has written
(Louisa May) Alcott
Ali
|
$800
[3]
"C"oming from an ancient Peloponnesian city, like an order of architecture
Corinthian
James
|
$600
[16]
Each year the most searched-for author has been not a novelist but this man who penned "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
MLK (Martin Luther King)
James
|
|
$800
[13]
In 2011 a newly revised 11th edition of this book on parliamentary procedure was published
Robert's Rules of Order
Mike
|
$800
[12]
Kay Hagan beat her in North Carolina in 2008, making her the first female incumbent to lose a Senate seat to a woman
(Elizabeth) Dole
James
|
$800
[11]
You can have this Cirque du Soleil show staged in your basement if you have room for a 1.5-million-gallon tank
O
James
|
$800
[8]
"More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene
Tropic of Cancer
James
|
$1,000
[4]
Of or relating to a northern Italian city, like veal coated with breadcrumbs
Milanese (or Parmesan)
James
Mike
|
$800
[10]
For 2016 & 2017 the most searched athlete was this Dublin-born MMA fighter
Conor McGregor
James
|
|
$1,000
[7]
With this kitchen gadget that sounds more like a musical instrument, you can slice up a potato, paper thin, in seconds
a mandoline
James
|
$1,000
[6]
This Bronx native with a hyphenated name wowed politicos with a Big Apple win in 2018
(Alexandria) Ocasio-Cortez
James
|
$1,000
[2]
I'll sell you 2 vowels--this network with shows like "Born This Way" & "Intervention"
A&E
Ali
|
$1,000
[1]
This O. Henry story about a poor husband & wife trying to buy each other Christmas presents has a twist ending
"Gift of the Magi"
James
|
DD
$9,812
[20]
Cantabrigian means from one of 2 noted college cities named this
Cambridge
James
|
$1,000
[5]
Since 2005 the Bible has been the most searched book & No. 2 has been this somewhat more recent sacred text
the Koran
Ali
Mike
|
| MOOLAH | SCIENCE | A "B"6 SHOT | COLOMBIA PICTURES | CLASSIC FILM | 5 EASY PIECES |
|
$400
[29]
For the sake of our currency, Tim Geithner & Jack Lew both underwent signature remediation before taking this job
Secretary of the Treasury
Mike
|
$400
[20]
When exposed to electricity, this mineral vibrates at regular intervals, so it's used in wristwatches to keep accurate time
quartz
Mike
|
$400
[26]
A narrative folk poem, or a simple, romantic song
ballad
James
|
$400
[30]
A major tourist attraction, the Tequendama Fallsare on this river that shares its name with Colombia's capital
Bogotá
Ali
|
$400
[22]
A line from this 1972 classic:"It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes"
The Godfather
Ali
|
$400
[24]
16-year-old Euphemia Allen composed this easy piano piece with the name of eating utensils
"Chopsticks"
Ali
|
|
$800
[28]
This bill is sometimes called a fin, from finf, the Yiddish word for its numerical value
five
Mike
|
$800
[19]
The largest one of these ever recorded was 1,720 feet high & slammed into the Alaskan panhandle in 1958 following an earthquake
a tsunami
Ali
|
$800
[25]
A government reward, perhaps put "on your head"
bounty
Ali
|
$800
[27]
The world's highest-paid TV actress, thisU.S. sitcom star was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1972
Sofía Vergara
James
|
$800
[21]
This 1994 prison drama starring Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman reminds us that hope can set you free
The Shawshank Redemption
Mike
|
$800
[23]
Just switch 2 letters in a word for "60 seconds" & you'll have this type of dance
a minuet
Ali
|
|
$1,200
[7]
Something unimportant is said to be this 2-word miniscule poker bet
penny ante
James
|
$1,200
[4]
These objects that collide with the earth are divided into 3 major types: stone, iron & stony-iron
meteorites
James
|
$1,200
[18]
It's the printed name of the author of an accompanying news story
byline
James
|
$1,200
[9]
The Orinoco River flows northwest towards Colombia, where it forms part of the border between Colombia &this country
Venezuela
Ali
|
$1,200
[3]
She won an Oscar for playing Clarice Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs"
Jodie Foster
James
|
$1,200
[17]
Thissimple little Beethoven piece may be just what you were looking für
"Für Elise"
Ali
|
|
$2,000
[12]
This 5-letter word refers to a special non-circulatingcointhat collectors prize for its fine detail & mirror-like finish
a proof coin
|
$1,600
[5]
2.54 million light-years away, the nearest major galaxy to ours is this one named for a mythological maiden
Andromeda
James
|
$1,600
[14]
It's the crime of having 2 wives at once
bigamy
Mike
|
$1,600
[10]
Aracataca, the birthplace of this Nobel Prize winner, once held a vote to add its name to Macondo, a town in one of his novels
Gabriel García Márquez
James
|
$1,600
[2]
1930s comedy classics starring this zany trio include "A Day at the Races" & "A Night at the Opera"
the Marx Brothers
Ali
|
$1,600
[16]
This composer's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is so easy to learn, even the mouse king will stand to applaud
Tchaikovsky
Mike
|
|
DD
$11,914
[8]
The mint in this western city produces about half of U.S. coinage & is the USA's second-largest gold depository
Denver
James
|
$2,000
[6]
This structure in the respiratory tract forms the Adam's apple in males & is used in making sounds
the larynx
James
|
$2,000
[13]
Job title of a college treasurer
bursar
Ali
|
DD
$11,022
[11]
There are greatbeachesat the walled city founded as this de Indias, meaning "Carthage of the Indies" in English
Cartagena
James
|
$2,000
[1]
In the U.S. Sergio Leone's spaghetti western "Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo" has this title
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Mike
|
$2,000
[15]
If playing this 6-letter kind of piece, choose an easy one like Mozart's Facile, meaning "easy"
sonata
James
Mike
|
The director of the 2018 TV version of this 1953 classic said, yes, books were harmed in the making of this motion picture
Fahrenheit 451