James Holzhauer game 13.
Rebecca McNitt — an archivist from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Rob Hornick — a product manager from San Francisco, California
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 12-day cash winnings total $851,926)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $6,200 | $10,000 | $52,126 |
$90,812
13-day champion: $942,738 |
$33,600
37 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Rob | $2,000 | $2,400 | $2,000 |
$2,727
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,000
6 R, 2 W |
| Rebecca | $1,600 | $3,800 | $4,600 |
$4,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,600
11 R, 2 W |
| HAPPY EARTH DAY TO YOU! | REALITY TV | DOUBLE-LETTER PLACES | JEOPARD"IZED" | THEY PLANNED THEIR OWN FUNERAL | THE 20-TEENS |
|
$200
[9]
Earth Day is observed on April 22; some who can't wait that long think it should be on the vernal this
the equinox
Rob
|
$200
[29]
Snooki, Pauly D & the rest of the cast reunited for some fun in Miami & later Las Vegas for this show's "Family Vacation"
Jersey Shore
James
|
$200
[25]
This capital of the Bahamas bears the name of a defunct duchy
Nassau
James
|
$200
[4]
Made consistent:The SAT & ACT are this type of test
standardized
James
|
$200
[16]
This "Cleopatra" actress requested that she arrive 15 minutes late for her own funeral
Liz Taylor
Rebecca
|
$400
[27]
This augmented reality game, where you try to capture Pikachu in a store or forest was a summer craze in 2016
Pokémon Go
James
|
|
$400
[20]
Senator Gaylord Nelson created the first Earth Day in 1970 after seeing a huge one of these off the coast of Santa Barbara, Cal.
an oil spill
Rob
|
$400
[28]
Some of the stunts from its first season in 2001 included a snake pit, a cricket crunch & a worm coffin
Fear Factor
Rebecca
|
$400
[26]
Italians know this famous peak as Monte Cervino
the Matterhorn
James
|
$400
[24]
Made generally known via a press release
publicized
Rebecca
|
$400
[17]
Guests this First Lady invited to her own Simi Valley funeral included Wayne Newton & Mr. T
Nancy Reagan
Rebecca
|
$600
[22]
This New Jersey governor won praise for his response to superstorm Sandy
Chris Christie
James
|
|
$600
[10]
John Denver wrote a song called "Earth Day Every Day" but a concert for Earth Day 2011 was named for this bigger hit of his
"Rocky Mountain High"
|
$600
[11]
Disguised CEOs work alongside their employees to examine the inner workings of their companies on this CBS series
Undercover Boss
James
|
$600
[23]
The West Texas Walk of Fame in this city began as a tribute to native son Buddy Holly
Lubbock
James
|
$600
[15]
Admitted to Mount Sinai in New York or to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles
hospitalized
Rebecca
|
$600
[18]
Known by this title, the royal who died aged 101 in 2002 had viewed rehearsals of her funeral & reportedly had 1 horse replaced
the Queen Mum
James
|
$800
[6]
On Jan. 1, 2014 in Denver, 1/8 ounce of Bubba Kush was the USA's first legal sale of this for recreational purposes
marijuana
James
|
|
$800
[21]
For the 20th Earth Day, 750,000 crowded Central Park & this first Afr.-Amer. NYC mayor said, "Black & white... we are all green"
(David) Dinkins
James
|
$800
[19]
Now divorced, the couple seenherewas back turning houses for a profit on season 8 of this show
Flip or Flop
Rebecca
|
$800
[12]
About 20 miles south of Kampala, this city is at the end of a peninsula that juts into Lake Victoria
Entebbe
James
|
$800
[13]
Small, like a child, or containing 16 ounces
pint-sized
James
|
$800
[14]
At his request, everyone wore jeans as this Southern rocker was laid to rest near brother Duane in 2017
Gregg Allman
Rob
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Theflagcalled the Estelada is the symbol of the independence movement for this region of Spain
Catalonia
James
|
|
$1,000
[5]
An ad that debuted on Earth Day 1971 showed a crying Indian & the slogan "People start" this word; "people can stop it"
pollution
Rob
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[8]
A TLC series subtitled "Buried Alive" focused on people with this title disorder
hoarding
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[2]
Belonging to Canada, it's the fifth-largest island in the world
Baffin
James
|
$1,000
[7]
Combined with element No. 8
oxidized
James
|
$1,000
[3]
Instructions by this American that his body was not to lie in state were found a few days too late in 1945
Franklin Roosevelt
Rebecca
|
— |
| COMMUNITIES | I WROTE IT | WORDS FROM ITALIAN | ACTORS | NEW COUNTRY | SCIENCE & NATURE |
|
$400
[30]
The 1820s utopian community New Harmony had what's been called the USA's first of these schools for 5-year-olds
kindergarten
James
Rob
|
$400
[27]
The 1513 political treatise "The Prince"
Machiavelli
Rebecca
|
$400
[28]
A man's singing or speaking voice in a register that's artificially much higher than normal
falsetto
James
|
$400
[21]
He played Romeo in "Romeo + Juliet" & Howard Hughes in "The Aviator"
(Leonardo) DiCaprio
Rob
|
$400
[25]
With independence in 1993, Eritrea made Ethiopia landlocked, cutting off its access to this sea
the Red Sea
James
|
$400
[23]
Vitamin K is essential for blood to be able to do this normally
clot
James
|
|
$800
[29]
Los Angeles has been described as "100" of these communities "in search of a city"
suburbs
James
|
$800
[26]
"The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck" (did the illustrations too)
Beatrix Potter
James
|
$800
[19]
A "little house" for gambling activities... how about the Golden Nugget?
a casino
James
|
$800
[20]
She won a Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in "If Beale Street Could Talk"
Regina King
Rebecca
|
$800
[24]
A 24-year armed conflict led to the independence of this nation from South Africa in 1990
Namibia
James
|
$800
[22]
This branch of physics deals with the relationship between heat & other forms of energy
thermodynamics
James
|
|
$1,200
[5]
Though never a CEO, Barack Obama worked in his 20s in Chicago as a C.O., short for this
community organizer
James
|
$1,200
[12]
"Invisible Man", a classic of African-American lit
Ralph Ellison
James
|
$1,200
[18]
Crew up for this, a sporting event consisting of a series of boat races
a regatta
James
|
$1,200
[17]
The Ancient One in "Doctor Strange", sheuses a shortened form of her middle name, Matilda
Tilda Swinton
James
|
$1,600
[2]
Until 1994 the nation of Palau was part of this "small" Pacific island group
Micronesia
James
|
$1,200
[10]
Resembling a hedgehog, the echidna is also known as the "spiny" this creature
anteater
James
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Considered an oxymoron, it's the 2-word concept of the world as one community linked by modern communications
global village
|
$1,600
[9]
"The Silver Chair", in which King Caspian is an old man
C.S. Lewis
James
|
$1,600
[7]
A long short story, running about 100 pages
novella
Rob
|
$1,600
[16]
In a 2018 TV movie Peter Dinklage played this co-star of "Fantasy Island"
Hervé Villechaize
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[14]
Russia & China do not recognize the sovereignty of this Muslim majority nation that broke away from Serbia in 2008
Kosovo
James
|
$1,600
[1]
The difference between fluorescence & this type of glow named for element No. 15 is--complicated
phosphorescence
James
|
|
$2,000
[6]
It's a Hindu spiritual community like Sabarmati, where Gandhi stayed
an ashram
|
DD
$11,914
[13]
"The Social Contract", 1762 advice on how to recover liberty
Rousseau
James
|
$2,000
[8]
The name of a Venetian ship factory gave us this word for a place where arms & ammunition are stored
an arsenal
Rob
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[15]
Thisactor played a very good guy on "The West Wing" & a very bad guy in "Get Out"
(Bradley) Whitford
James
|
DD
$9,812
[3]
The 2 Saudi-adjacent countries called this (Aden) & this (Sanaa) merged in 1990 to form a new nation
North and South Yemen
James
|
$2,000
[11]
An experiment in which animals are reared in isolation to see what features are innate is named for this foundling of 19th c. Germany
Kaspar Hauser
|
In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a "plunderer"
(Lord) Elgin