James Holzhauer game 24.
Jason Mangano — a freelance writer from Fords, New Jersey
Kate Kelly — a nonprofit finance professional from New York, New York
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 23-day cash winnings total $1,780,237)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $11,800 | $15,000 | $55,895 |
$86,905
24-day champion: $1,867,142 |
$31,400
34 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Kate | $2,200 | $3,400 | $6,600 |
$13,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
10 R, 0 W |
| Jason | $2,600 | $3,600 | $12,400 |
$14,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
14 R, 0 W |
| TV CARTOON SERIES BY CHARACTERS | POTENT POTABLES | ACRONYMS & INITIALISMS | PEOPLE | TAKING UP MOST OF THE EASTERN BORDER | ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK |
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$200
[24]
Shaggy, Daphne, Velma
Scooby-Doo
Jason
|
$200
[30]
It's the main alcoholic ingredient in a pina colada
rum
James
|
$200
[29]
When filling out a form, DOB is this
date of birth
Kate
|
$200
[28]
Some of this promoter's boxing extravaganzas included the Thrilla in Manila & the Rumble in the Jungle
Don King
Jason
|
$200
[27]
Of Portugal's
Spain
Kate
|
$200
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) The birthplace & former home of 2 U.S. presidents, Adams National Historical Park is in this Massachusetts town that shares a name with the younger of the two men
Quincy
James
|
|
$400
[23]
Fry the delivery guy, Turanga Leela, Morbo
Futurama
James
|
$400
[18]
To make a Long Island iced tea, combine vodka, tequila & other booze with sour mix & this soft drink
Coke
James
|
$400
[17]
Hopefully, you never get to the hospital DOA, this
dead on arrival
Kate
|
$400
[22]
In 2013 this NSA contract employee leaked classified documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald
Edward Snowden
James
|
$400
[21]
Of Pakistan's
India
James
|
$400
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) Here in 1776, this future First Lady wrote to her husband in the Continental Congress to "remember the ladies who will not hold ourselves bound by any law in which we have no voice"
Abigail Adams
Kate
|
|
$600
[19]
Hank, Peggy, Luanne Platter
King of the Hill
James
|
$600
[15]
A classic martini gets an olive, but a Gibson martini has a pearl one of these instead
an onion
James
|
$600
[16]
The use of this 6-letter acronym for our country's highest court actually goes back to 1879
SCOTUS
Jason
|
$600
[14]
This prime minister of Canada is the son of a longtime prime minister of Canada
Justin Trudeau
Kate
|
$600
[20]
Of Iraq's
Iran
James
|
$600
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) At his desk in 1779, John Adams drafted the Massachusetts constitution--it pioneered the use of three branches of government & this type of legislature, from the Latin for "twin chambers"
bicameral
Kate
|
|
$800
[8]
Chuckie, Tommy, Angelica
Rugrats
James
|
$800
[11]
This Greek liqueur is flavored with anise, a Mediterranean plant
ouzo
James
|
$1,000
[5]
The SWAT team has arrived bearing these, the S-W in its name
special weapons
James
|
$800
[3]
In 2012 the Mo Ibrahim Foundation gave this South African archbishop a special award for "speaking truth to power"
Desmond Tutu
Jason
|
$800
[10]
Of Libya's
Egypt
Jason
|
$800
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) With this seal, John Adams literally sealed the deal to end the Revolutionary War, leaving his wax impression on the 1783 Treaty of this city
Paris
James
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Tina, Gene &Linda Belcher
Bob's Burgers
Jason
|
$1,000
[6]
"Look out for the bull" was Schlitz' longtime slogan for this beer with a high alcohol content
malt liquor
James
|
DD
$4,800
[9]
In 2018 this dividing strip of land was the site of a historic meeting between Kim Jong Un & South Korea's president
the DMZ
James
|
$1,000
[4]
Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm her as Secretary of Education in 2017
(Betsy) DeVos
James
|
$1,000
[1]
Of Sweden's
Finland
James
|
$1,000
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) Sitting here on July 4th, 1826, 90-year-old John Adams suffered a fatal stroke--his whispered last words were this man "survives", as he didn't know that his longtime friend & sometime rival had died earlier that same day
Jefferson
Kate
|
| NEW IN SCIENCE | 1990s SONGS | PLAY TITLES IN THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | PHOTOGRAPHY | KEY "KEY" | DO YOU LOVE ME? |
|
$400
[29]
The blood vessels in its gills gave a clue that the opah is an unusual fish of this type AKA homeothermic
warm-blooded
James
|
$400
[2]
"Her skin's the color of mocha" in this Ricky Martin hit from 1999
"Livin' La Vida Loca"
Jason
|
$400
[28]
"En Attendant Godot"
Waiting for Godot
James
|
$400
[27]
Six-letter term for a type of photography that captured the view seen here; the camera can be mounted on a plane or a drone
aerial
Jason
|
$400
[22]
You can play the field type or the ice type
hockey
Jason
|
$400
[30]
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love & this 4-letter-named son of hers is the Greek god of love
Eros
Kate
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Scientists hope synthetic hormone DMAU, which reduces this hormone first isolated in 1935, can be the male birth control pill
testosterone
James
|
$800
[3]
With the death of Lauren Bacall in 2014, the list of stars mentioned in this 1990 Madonna song are all deceased
"Vogue"
James
|
$800
[1]
Sophocles:"Oidipous Tyrannos"
Oedipus Rex
Jason
|
$800
[23]
In digital photography, it's the opposite of portrait mode
landscape
James
|
$800
[21]
A republic of Asia Minor & the Balkans
Turkey
James
|
$800
[15]
Greek for "loving" gives us this word for one who loves the land of Cherbourg & Champagne
Francophile
James
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Researchers have extracted cells from Alzheimer's patients to create these, AKA nerve cells
neurons
Jason
|
$1,200
[5]
"If It Makes You Happy" & "My Favorite Mistake" were 2 of her '90s hits
Sheryl Crow
James
|
$1,200
[8]
Chekhov:"Tri Sestry"
Three Sisters
James
|
$1,200
[24]
Inthistype of photography, you can watch the sun set in just seconds
time lapse
Kate
|
$1,200
[20]
They were the silent slapstick lawmen in Mack Sennett movies
the Keystone Cops
James
|
$1,200
[13]
Courtney Love married him in 1992
Kurt Cobain
Jason
|
|
$2,000
[7]
Subject of "The Imitation Game", this British mathematician wrote one chemistry paper & it's being used in a new desalination method
(Alan) Turing
James
|
$1,600
[11]
This Flavor Flav group criticized emergency response in "911 Is A Joke"
Public Enemy
James
|
$1,600
[9]
Ionesco at the opera:"La Cantatrice Chauve"
The Bald Soprano
|
$1,600
[25]
High-resolution digital images can contain millions of these tiny squares of color
pixels
Kate
|
$1,600
[19]
A false shirt front
a dickey
James
|
$1,600
[12]
In 2015 #Love Wins was a popular hashtag when the Supreme Court upheld this in a 5-4 decision
same-sex marriage
James
|
|
DD
$11,381
[16]
NASA's Juno spacecraft recently solved the mystery of lightning seen on this planet
Jupiter
James
|
$2,000
[14]
Heather DeLoach was the "Bee Girl" in the video for this band's "No Rain"
Blind Melon
Jason
|
$2,000
[10]
Latin American thriller:"La Muerte y la Doncella"
Death and the Maiden
Jason
|
$2,000
[26]
This company near the end of the alphabet has won 3 Academy Awards in science & engineering for its camera lenses
Zeiss
|
$2,000
[18]
Cocktail of soda, lime, sugar & gin
a Rickey
James
|
DD
$11,914
[17]
Seen here, she wrote one of the most famous love poems ever around 1847
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
James
|
Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars
Glory