James Holzhauer game 15.
Wayne Erxleben — an engineer from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Silvija Ozols — a copy editor from Astoria, New York
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 14-day cash winnings total $1,061,554)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $8,600 | $20,000 | $49,621 |
$73,621
15-day champion: $1,135,175 |
$32,000
37 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Silvija | $1,000 | $3,200 | $2,400 |
$2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
7 R, 1 W |
| Wayne | $1,000 | $2,200 | $12,400 |
$19,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| WHERE AM I? | SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY | CAR TALK | WOMEN ON TV | TIME CAPSULE TIME | GIVE ME A "MINUTE" |
|
$200
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at the Shuvalov Palace, now home to the Fabergé Museum in this city that was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991
St. Petersburg
Wayne
|
$200
[29]
The adder
a snake
Wayne
|
$200
[24]
Ferdinand Porsche & his son designed the first model of this "people's car"
the Volkswagen
James
|
$200
[26]
She turned the world on with her smile as Laura Petrie & later, on her own eponymous shows
Mary Tyler Moore
Silvija
|
$200
[27]
One of these "as fresh as the day it was rolled" gave the smell of tobacco to a 1900 capsule opened in Pennsylvania in 2013
a cigar
Wayne
|
$200
[23]
It tells you when it's quarter till or half past
the minute hand
Wayne
|
|
$400
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm outside South Africa's oldest building, the Castle of Good Hope in this city, named for its location on a peninsula
Cape Town
Silvija
|
$400
[28]
The stilt
a bird
James
|
$400
[7]
The song "Baby Got Back" mentions a Benz & a turbo Vette & rhymes this car make with "anaconda"
Honda
James
|
$400
[25]
In 1992 Dan Quayle criticized this reporter played by Candice Bergen for having a baby out of wedlock
Murphy Brown
James
|
$400
[15]
A 1993 capsule opened in Virginia in 2018 included a music recital recorded on this format, but no Walkman to play it
cassette
James
|
$400
[22]
A piece of thin, quickly cooked beef
a minute steak
Wayne
|
|
$600
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in the Nyhavn area of this capital--it looks like a fairy tale setting, & fairy tales like "The Princess and the Pea" were written here
Copenhagen
James
|
$600
[21]
The hognose
a snake
Silvija
|
$600
[19]
I'd like to ride coast to coast in this classic Lincoln model
Continental
James
|
$600
[16]
In 2018shebecame the new permanent co-anchor of the "Today" show
(Hoda) Kotb
Silvija
|
$600
[10]
A 1913 "century chest" opened in 2013 included a pen used by this president to sign the 1900 Oklahoma Free Homes bill
McKinley
Silvija
|
$600
[17]
Near the end of the second & fourth quarters of an NFL game, a timeout for both teams accompanies this
the two-minute warning
James
|
|
$800
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm here on this spectacular island, the largest in all of French Polynesia
Tahiti
James
|
$800
[20]
The tamarin
a monkey
Silvija
|
$1,000
[4]
Introduced in the 1980s, this Ferrari model has a name that means "red head"
the Testarossa
|
$800
[14]
This Oscar-nominated actress plays a dedicated mom on "Speechless"
Minnie Driver
James
|
$800
[9]
In 2015 Boston opened a 1795 capsule from Sam Adams & this guy, including a silver plate he's thought to have made
Paul Revere
James
|
$800
[11]
In 1774 the Pennsylvania Gazette reported these "each...should be immediately equipped with an effective fire-arm"
minutemen
James
|
|
$1,000
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at the Estonian Open Air Museum in this capital city
Tallinn
James
|
$1,000
[6]
The killdeer
a bird
Wayne
|
DD
$9,200
[18]
The 2015 50th anniversary edition of this pony car was limited to a production run of 1,964
the Mustang
James
|
$1,000
[3]
She played Dr. Izzie Stevens on "Grey's Anatomy", & beginning in 2018, she's set the bar high as Samantha Wheeler on "Suits"
Katherine Heigl
James
|
$1,000
[1]
A capsule created for this event in Queens, N.Y. is scheduled to be opened in 6939, 5,000 years after it closed
the World's Fair
James
|
$1,000
[2]
A 1914 book on parliamentary practice says after roll call "the secretary will" do this
read the minutes
James
|
| POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES | ROMAN NAMES | SCIENCE CENTRAL | SMORGAS-WORD | WHAT DAY IS THAT SONG? | GROSS CONFESSIONS |
|
$400
[29]
Brobdingnagian, meaning "of huge size", comes from this satire by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
James
|
$400
[17]
In 27 B.C. Octavian was awarded this title meaning "revered one", & it became part of his name
Augustus
James
|
$400
[4]
Seismically speaking, put these 3 letters before "center" to get the spot on the surface above the rupture in the crust
epi-
James
|
$400
[26]
Starts with 3 consonants:Ask Atlas--this type of motion conveys indifference
shrug
James
|
$400
[14]
"Goodbye" this title of a No. 1 hit by the Rolling Stones
"Ruby Tuesday"
James
|
$400
[30]
This actress said, "I hated wearing that outfit & sitting there rigid straight, & I couldn't wait to kill" Jabba the Hutt
Carrie Fisher
James
|
|
$800
[20]
Meryl Streep played the title woman when this William Styron novel became a movie
Sophie's Choice
James
|
$1,200
[7]
The name of this rebel who died in 71 B.C honors a Greek city
Spartacus
James
|
$800
[3]
A 2017 study by astronomers shows that this part of our sun rotates 4 times as fast as the surface
the core
Wayne
|
$800
[25]
Retronyms:Before the electric guitar, we had what's now known as this 8-letter kind
acoustic
James
|
$800
[13]
"There's many lost, but tell me who has won?" asks this U2 song
"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
James
|
$800
[28]
After an accident, this author learned his nurses had been told by their boss "in no uncertain terms, don't make any 'Misery' jokes"
Stephen King
Wayne
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Wragby Hall is a setting in this controversial novel by D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Wayne
|
$1,600
[5]
Publius Cornelius Scipio got the honorific Africanus due to his success in the second of these wars
the Punic Wars
Wayne
|
$1,600
[1]
In 1916 the great chemist Gilbert Lewis called the central part of an atom this, a word we use for the seed in an apricot pit
the kernel
James
|
$1,200
[24]
Portmanteaus:To air a program at the same time on TV & radio led to this portmanteau
simulcast
James
|
$1,200
[12]
Sam Cooke faced "Another" one
"Saturday Night"
James
|
$1,200
[27]
Learning archery "changed (her) body"; by "Catching Fire", "my shoulders were 2" broader, my right arm is 1" longer than my left"
(Jennifer) Lawrence
Silvija
|
|
$1,600
[21]
Somerset Maugham made himself a character in this novel with a sharp title
The Razor's Edge
James
|
$2,000
[8]
His surname meaning "chickpea", this orator had the image of one inscribed on a ceremonial plate in place of his name
Cicero
James
|
$2,000
[6]
The 1880s observation that tall parents have shorter kids than you'd expect is an example of RTM, "regression to" this
the mean
James
|
$1,600
[23]
Same first & last letter:This type of "arrest" means your body's main pump isn't working
cardiac
James
|
$1,600
[11]
Boomtown Rats song in which "I want to shoot the whole day down"
"I Don't Like Mondays"
James
|
$1,600
[16]
He said an ad on his Swift boat service "was skillfully done as an attack ad... if I heard that ad, I wouldn't vote for me"
(John) Kerry
Wayne
|
|
$2,000
[18]
This work by Norman Mailer tells of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who chose death by firing squad
The Executioner's Song
Wayne
|
DD
$10,021
[9]
If Libertus were part of your name, you were previously one of these
a slave
James
|
DD
$2,200
[2]
The nucleolus is really central as the most prominent structure in the nucleus of this
a cell
Wayne
|
$2,000
[22]
Almost BEFORE & AFTER:"Ne m'oubliez pas" flowers bloom as a "Dallas" TV spinoff
forget-me- Knots Landing
|
$2,000
[10]
Rebecca Black went viral with this song
"Friday"
James
|
$2,000
[15]
This "In the Night Kitchen" author was childless, but would've preferred a daughter; "if I had a son, I'd leave him at the A & P"
Maurice Sendak
James
Silvija
|
This term for an area of the Atlantic originated in 1964 in Argosy, a pulp magazine
the Bermuda Triangle