James Holzhauer game 14.James breaks the $1 million mark.
Kevin Donohue — a principal from Los Angeles, California
Claudia Walters — a grant writer from Mesa, Arizona
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 13-day cash winnings total $942,738)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $7,800 | $20,000 | $68,816 |
$118,816
14-day champion: $1,061,554 |
$34,000
41 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Claudia | $800 | $1,200 | $8,400 |
$15,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
8 R, 0 W |
| Kevin | $600 | $600 | $7,800 |
$15,593
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,800
8 R, 1 W |
| ARCHITECTURE | RHYMING PHRASES | POTPOURRI | MERCURY | QUEEN | WE WILL ROCK YOU |
|
$200
[30]
Kids know it as a place to go play video games, but it's also a term for a kind of gallery that features arches
an arcade
Claudia
|
$200
[29]
It describes the spider that went up the waterspout
itsy-bitsy
James
|
$200
[28]
In TV commercials Reba McEntire served as this brand's first female Colonel Sanders
KFC
James
|
$200
[27]
Since the early 2000s, many states have banned mercury-in-glass these, once a staple of the family medicine cabinet
a thermometer
Claudia
|
$200
[26]
During her reign, she's had at least 30 corgis, all descended from one given to her on her 18th birthday
Elizabeth II
James
|
$200
[14]
Playing for over 160,000 E. Germans in 1988, he hoped "one day all the barriers will be torn down"; the Boss got his wish in 1989
Springsteen
James
|
|
$400
[21]
Doric & Ionic are types of this basic support structure
a column
James
|
$400
[22]
It's the rhyming feline name for a complacent, rich person
a fat cat
James
|
$400
[23]
"Rabbit of Seville" & "Rabbitson Crusoe" are cartoons both featuring this character
Bugs Bunny
James
|
$400
[24]
In mythology Mercury is sometimes identified as the father of this guy who carried a bow & arrows
Cupid
James
|
$400
[16]
Succeeding her father, Margrethe II took the throne of this country in 1972
Denmark
James
|
$400
[25]
In 2018 this band "didn't have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high, high hopes"
Panic! at the Disco
James
|
|
$600
[20]
The Arc de Triomphe was designed so that 12 avenues radiate out, forming une étoile, this luminous body
a star
James
|
$600
[8]
Beginning with a pocket square, it refers to illicit behavior
hanky-panky
James
|
$600
[18]
The stems of the shiitake type of this are extremely tough; remove them & use them to flavor sauces
mushroom
James
|
$800
[11]
Causing near-hysteria, it was presented on radio October 30 1938 by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre
War of the Worlds
James
|
$600
[15]
In 1891 she became Hawaii's first & only ruling queen
Liliuokalani
James
|
$600
[19]
This 2015 Rock Hall inductee: "We came back to Liverpool, & there was a knock on my door. The drummer wasn't well & would I sit in?"
Ringo Starr
James
|
|
$800
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a Hong Kong building on the monitor.) With feng shui in mind, some buildings in Hong Kong are designed with holesin the structures that are considered gates for these mythical serpents as they travel down from the mountains & out towards the sea
dragons
Kevin
|
$800
[7]
It precedes "brown cow" in a phrase used to teach elocution
how now
Kevin
|
$800
[13]
On June 30, 1987 80 million of these dollar coins tookflightacross Canada for the first time
loonies
Claudia
|
$1,000
[3]
Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury was born on this island of Tanzania
Zanzibar
James
|
$800
[10]
Marrying off her kids to Greek & Serbian royalty, Marie of Romania was the "mother-in-law of" this region of southeast Europe
the Balkan
James
|
$800
[9]
You can ponder if Euterpe herself inspired this band to write, "Dig down...dig down...dig down and find faith"
Muse
James
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Cliff May, raised on this type of homestead, developed the same-named style of 1-story, light-filled home
ranch
James
|
$1,000
[5]
The plane seenhereis called one of these due to its ability to collect water efficiently
a super scooper
Kevin
|
$1,000
[4]
Maine's state flower is actually a cone from this tree
a pine
James
|
DD
$8,200
[17]
While the planet Mercury doesn't have rings or moons, it's full of these with names like Bach, Beethoven & Tolstoy
craters
James
|
$1,000
[1]
The widow of Jordan's King Hussein, todayshe's an advocate for peace & cross-cultural understanding
(Queen) Noor
James
|
$1,000
[2]
In November 2018 this band flew high with 12 of 50 songs on the Hot Rock Songs chart, including "Bandito", "Morph" & "My Blood"
Twenty One Pilots
|
| THE MAGIC OF TELEVISION | PREGNANCY | WORLD NEWSPAPERS | DO "OVER" | TALKING DEAD | SOLID BLACK |
|
$400
[30]
On the BBC Colin Morgan played this magician in his teen years, around when he meets Prince Arthur
Merlin
James
|
$400
[2]
They're the standard 12-week-long divisions of a pregnancy
a trimester
Claudia
|
$400
[12]
Il Giornale di Vicenza
Italy
Kevin
|
$400
[27]
A slumber party with just a friend or 2
sleepover
James
|
$400
[28]
From "Gatsby", "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" is on his grave
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James
|
$400
[29]
Under Emir Abd Al-Rahman Khan, who died in Kabul in 1901, this present country used an all-black flag
Afghanistan
Kevin
|
|
$800
[22]
As Alex Russo on the Disney Channel, this young singer was one of the "Wizards of Waverly Place"
Selena Gomez
James
|
$800
[3]
Allowing a mother to nourish an unborn baby, the umbilical cord connects the fetus to this temporary organ
the placenta
James
|
$800
[8]
The Magyar Hirlap
Hungary
James
|
$800
[25]
Your bank may offer you this type of protection so that your check doesn't bounce
overdraft protection
Kevin
|
$800
[26]
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water" & "Feb. 24th 1821" are writ on the tombstone of this tubercular poet
(John) Keats
James
|
$800
[17]
The cover art of "Smell the Glove" by this mockumentary band was changed to solid black
Spinal Tap
James
|
|
$1,200
[21]
From 2005 to 2010 Criss Angel blew all our cerebrums with this very modern magic TV show
Mindfreak
James
|
$1,200
[9]
In an ectopic pregnancy, a fertilized egg is embedded outside the uterus, often in these tubes
Fallopian tubes
James
|
$1,200
[7]
The Chosun Ilbo
South Korea
James
|
$1,200
[24]
To depose a world leader, or hurl a ball too far
overthrow
Claudia
|
$1,600
[18]
"I am Providence", says the Rhode Island headstone of this horror master & Cthulhu creator
(H.P.) Lovecraft
James
|
$1,200
[16]
In 1915 Kazimir Malevich unveiled the artwork seen here, yet wrote that this & texture are the essence of painting
color
James
|
|
$1,600
[20]
"Bewitched" gave birth to a sequel about her, Samantha's daughter who had inherited magical powers
Tabitha
James
|
$1,600
[10]
Also known to highlanders on film, it's the term for a mother's first perceptions of fetal movement
quickening
Claudia
|
$1,600
[4]
O Globo (in South America)
Brazil
Kevin
|
$2,000
[13]
The King James version of the 23rd Psalm says "Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup" doeth this
runneth over
Kevin
|
$2,000
[6]
This poet's memorial plaque in Somerset, England, carries a quotation from his "Four Quartets"
(T.S.) Eliot
James
|
$1,600
[15]
The screen is dark for the first 15 seconds or so of this 1968 Stanley Kubrick film
2001: A Space Odyssey
James
|
|
$2,000
[5]
This early 2000s WB drama about 3 sisters with unique powers got a reboot in 2018
Charmed
Kevin
|
$2,000
[11]
If you were having a baby at 35 or older, it used to be called a geriatric pregnancy; now the AMA prefers this, AMA for short
advanced maternal age
Claudia
|
$2,000
[1]
Al-Ahram (a daily in north Africa)
Egypt
Claudia
|
DD
$20,000
[23]
This organization says its only requirement for membership is a desire to stop consuming food compulsively
Overeaters Anonymous
James
|
DD
$10,016
[19]
"Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" says this poet's tombstone in Ireland's County Sligo
(William Butler) Yeats
James
|
$2,000
[14]
The 1760 novel "Tristram Shandy" devotes a black page to the passing of this man with the same name as Hamlet's jester
Yorick
James
|
On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them
Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee