James Holzhauer game 10.James sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $131,127.
Lorelle Anderson — a law librarian from Sanford, Florida
Hannah Pierson-Compeau — an IT product manager from Washington, D.C.
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 9-day cash winnings total $566,660)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $6,600 | $11,400 | $71,114 |
$131,127
10-day champion: $697,787 |
$36,600
40 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Hannah | $1,000 | $1,400 | $5,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Lorelle | $2,600 | $3,000 | $5,400 |
$10,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
7 R, 0 W |
| PRESIDENTS BY DOG | POTATO SALAD | IN THE MIDDLE | CHILDREN'S BOOKS | MOVIE & TV TERMS | RHYME TIME |
|
$200
[30]
His service dog Sully was seen by his casket in the U.S. Capitol in December 2018
Bush 41
James
|
$200
[29]
Potato news is often found in the Idaho Statesman, this capital's newspaper since 1864
Boise
James
|
$200
[28]
If you tally it up in sequence, this Bible book is between Leviticus & Deuteronomy
Numbers
James
|
$200
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA.) The Eric Carle Museum displays "The Wolf and the Dog", one of the illustrations in Carle's book "Twelve Tales from" this ancient Greek author of fables
Aesop
James
|
$200
[25]
It can be the sailors on a boat or the people working on a movie or TV show
crew
Hannah
|
$200
[26]
A nursery rhyme pumpkin eater's units of measure
Peter's meters
Hannah
|
|
$400
[22]
He had a dog named Grits he liked to skritch
(Jimmy) Carter
James
|
$400
[21]
It's the anatomical name for the undeveloped buds on a potato's skin
eyes
James
|
$400
[20]
In the name of a metropolitan statistical area, it's between Tampa & Clearwater
St. Petersburg
James
|
$400
[14]
"A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers" is a chapter in "The Lightning Thief", book 1 about this kid "& the Olympians"
Percy Jackson
James
|
$400
[24]
Collective term for the actors' costumes & the department that handles them
wardrobe
Lorelle
|
$400
[19]
Paddy grain cost
rice price
James
|
|
$600
[15]
Buddy, his Lab, was struck & killed by a car in New York in 2002
Clinton
James
|
$600
[16]
It's believed this explorer introduced potatoes into Ireland around 1585, the year he was knighted
(Sir Walter) Raleigh
James
|
$600
[17]
Middle name of aviator Francis Powers or filmmaker F. Gray
Gary
James
|
$800
[12]
Crockett Johnson colored our world with his tale of this boy "and the Purple Crayon"
Harold
Hannah
|
$600
[23]
11-letter word for selecting an actor based only on appearance or previous roles
typecasting
James
|
$600
[18]
An overconfident thoroughbred rider
a cocky jockey
James
|
|
$800
[10]
This manly guy's dogs included Pete, a bull-y terrier
Theodore Roosevelt
Lorelle
|
$800
[11]
Heels in, heels out, repeat; that's the way to do this craze of a dance from the early 1960s
the Mashed Potato
James
|
$800
[9]
After some back & forth, let's stipulate that it's traditionally No. 3 in Kubler-Ross' 5 stages of grief
bargaining
James
Hannah
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
Dr. Seuss books with rhyming titles include "Fox in Socks" & this one that also has the line "Dad is sad"
Hop on Pop
Hannah
|
$800
[7]
Sounds fishy, but it's just the minimum pay approved by a union for a specific job
scale
Lorelle
|
$800
[8]
A tin pot for cooking or boiling water
a metal kettle
|
|
$1,000
[1]
His Airedale, Laddie Boy, had his own chair at Cabinet meetings (Laddie kept his nose clean during Teapot Dome)
(Warren) Harding
James
|
$1,000
[2]
Gary Sheffield's 509 taters aren't potatoes but slang for these
home runs
James
|
$1,000
[3]
It was the "E" in H.E.W., the Cabinet department created in 1953
Education
James
|
$1,000
[4]
A series of kids' books features this third grader with a rhyming name; her last name also hints at her many emotions
Judy Moody
|
$1,000
[6]
Ordinal term for the group that shoots crowd scenes, exteriors or other footage usually without the actors or director
second unit
Lorelle
|
$1,000
[5]
Ms. Doe without her makeup
plain Jane
James
|
| IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU! | ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES | BRAVING THE ELEMENTS | 5, 5 | MUSIC "MAN" | TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY |
|
$400
[30]
Before his untimely death, hehelped popularize martial arts movies
Bruce Lee
James
|
$400
[29]
With sections called "Leading Off" & "Scorecard":SI
Sports Illustrated
Lorelle
|
$400
[28]
The Latin word for iron gives it this elemental symbol
Fe
Hannah
|
$400
[25]
Wonder bakes loaves of this, also an adjective meaning bland
white bread
James
|
$400
[26]
25 years after Percy Sledge, Michael Bolton also had a No. 1 hit with this song
"When A Man Loves A Woman"
Lorelle
|
$400
[27]
Early in 2018, Paris was on alert as this river's banks became swollen with flood waters
the Seine
James
|
|
$800
[15]
Here's this film producer introducing two dog characters--a mutt & a cocker spaniel
Walt Disney
James
|
$800
[23]
Decorating & household tips, recipes & more from the woman who knows it all:MSL
Martha Stewart Living
Hannah
|
$800
[9]
Bearing the name of a Greek god, this radioactive element was the second transuranium element discovered
plutonium
|
$800
[24]
Traffic signal term that also means permission to proceed on a project
green light
James
|
$1,200
[17]
Johnny Cash wrote this song to explain his sartorial choices
"Man In Black"
James
|
$800
[5]
Even though pollution levels are high, Kolkata residents bathe in the Hugli, an arm of this holy river of Hinduism
the Ganges
James
|
|
$1,200
[10]
Here's a playful photo of this author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
(Truman) Capote
Hannah
|
$1,200
[1]
Showcasing innovative homes & design since 1920:AD
Architectural Digest
James
|
$1,200
[6]
Nuclear fission was confirmed when this element, symbol Ba, was produced by zapping uranium with neutrons
barium
James
|
$1,200
[13]
Mus musculus--it's the rhyming name of the rodent seen here
house mouse
James
|
$1,600
[18]
This song by Salt-n-Pepa says their fella has "a body like Arnold with a Denzel face"
"Whatta Man"
James
|
$1,200
[2]
"Blue" in a Strauss waltz, in reality it's a different hue altogether when it reaches Budapest
the Danube
Hannah
|
|
$1,600
[11]
Hewas the earliest president to be photographed, though by then he was serving in Congress
John Quincy Adams
James
|
$1,600
[22]
It celebrates the culture, cuisine & beauty of Dixieland:SL
Southern Living
Lorelle
|
$1,600
[7]
Used to make lenses, lutetium is one of these "uncommmon" metals
rare earth
James
|
$2,000
[16]
This software program for formatting movie & TV scripts has been around since 1990
Final Draft
|
$2,000
[19]
A Pearl Jam song says, "She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a" this, the song's title
"Better Man"
James
|
$1,600
[3]
This Southwest city is rehabilitating the wetlands of the Tres Rios area (the Gila, the Salt & the Agua Fria) just to its west
Phoenix
James
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this Sioux chief had a vision of soldiers falling like grasshoppers
Sitting Bull
James
|
$2,000
[21]
It's the top resource for all things Xbox, Wii, Playstation, etc:GI
Game Informer
|
$2,000
[8]
It was identified in 1828 & named for a Norse deity, long before it was found to be a nuclear fuel
thorium
James
|
DD
$11,914
[14]
It's the smart-sounding name for a group of experts who serve unofficially as advisers; FDR had his own
brain trust
James
|
DD
$25,000
[20]
Tammy Wynette said she spent 15 minutes writing this song about devotion & a lifetime defending it
"Stand By Your Man"
James
|
$2,000
[4]
Herodotus said this river originated near Feneos in Greece; Dante placed in the fifth circle
the Styx
James
|
His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird
Atticus Finch