James Holzhauer game 25.
Liz Levin — an attorney from Los Angeles, California
Mary Peace — a high school teacher from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 24-day cash winnings total $1,867,142)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $8,800 | $11,800 | $43,314 |
$71,885
25-day champion: $1,939,027 |
$31,600
35 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Mary | $800 | $2,400 | $7,200 |
$7,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
11 R, 1 W |
| Liz | $-1,600 | $-400 | $-2,400 |
$-2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-400
8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| LONG AGO, IN THE 20th CENTURY | MUSICAL STATE SYMBOLS | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS, ENDS WITH ONE | JOLLY HOLIDAY | LET'S GO FLY A KITE | MARY POPPINS |
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$200
[27]
In the 1930s Wallace Carothers developed this fabric, synonymous with stockings by 1940
nylon
Liz
|
$200
[30]
This state has a state bluegrass song
Kentucky
Mary
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$200
[2]
It's the walkway between rows of airplane seats
the aisle
Mary
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$200
[21]
When April has just ended, time to dance around this tall item festooned with ribbons
a maypole
Liz
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$200
[24]
In Bermuda, kites are a tradition on this day marking Jesus' crucifixion, to symbolize his future ascension to heaven
Good Friday
James
Liz
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$200
[29]
As sure as the wind blows, "Mary Poppins Returns" to save the day with help from this actress in the title role
Emily Blunt
James
|
|
$400
[26]
Construction on this NYC landmark began on March 17, 1930; framework rose 4 1/2 stories per week, for a lot of weeks
the Empire State Building
Mary
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$400
[28]
Hawaii made the pahu the state traditional instrument & this the state modern instrument
the ukulele
Liz
|
$400
[12]
Capable of being heard, or a football play adjustment
an audible
Liz
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$400
[22]
This holiday that commemorates the victory of Mexico at the Battle of Puebla is also a day to celebrate Mexican culture
Cinco de Mayo
James
|
$400
[23]
This man used a Leyden jar & a metal key in his famous 1752 kite experiment
Ben Franklin
James
|
$400
[25]
At shopdisney.com you can purchase one of these accessories of Mary's complete with a parrot head
an umbrella
Mary
|
|
$600
[20]
The 4 murdered daughters of Russia's last czar were Olga, Tatiana, Maria & this one whom many women later claimed to be
Anastasia
Mary
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$600
[19]
A patriotic tune, this state song of Connecticut is probably the only one to contain the name of a pasta
"Yankee Doodle"
James
|
$600
[11]
It's a powerful feeling of anger, maybe about social injustice
outrage
Mary
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$600
[18]
This pre-Lenten festival of merrymaking typically ends with Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras
Carnival
James
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$600
[17]
Around 1900 these 2 brothers tested their biplane designs as kites
the Wright brothers
Liz
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$600
[16]
After Audrey Hepburn beat her out for the role of Eliza in "My Fair Lady", she agreed to play Mary Poppins & won an Oscar
Julie Andrews
James
|
|
$800
[9]
Dateline: Chicago, 1926! Gunmen put 1,000 rounds into this mug's Cicero Hotel HQ, but he comes out smellin' like a rose!
Al Capone
James
|
$800
[8]
Florida's state song is this Stephen Foster song subtitled "Old Folks At Home"
"Swanee River"
James
|
$800
[10]
Archimedes' exclamation after figuring out how to determine gold content in an alloy
"Eureka!"
James
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$800
[13]
It is customary to twirl graggers, special noisemakers, every time Haman's name is mentioned during the story of this Jewish festival
Purim
James
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$800
[14]
The multiline apparatus used to control a kite is called this, also the headgear of a horse's harness
bridle
James
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$800
[15]
This 2013 film starring Tom Hanks told the true story of Walt Disney's struggle to bring "Mary Poppins" to the big screen
Saving Mr. Banks
James
|
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
On Sept. 1, 1969 King Idris suddenly became ex-royalty in this African country & a colonel took power
Libya
James
|
$1,000
[7]
Bob Wills pioneered the country style called western this & Texas made it its state music
western swing
Mary
Liz
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$1,000
[3]
To treat a liquid with a gas
aerate
James
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$1,000
[1]
Named for a predator, a New Year's Day tradition in the Northern Hemisphere is this plunge
the polar bear plunge
Mary
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$1,000
[4]
A kite was used to carry a cable across this river between New York & Canada to help build its first suspension bridge
the Niagara
James
Liz
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$1,000
[5]
Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman wrote all new songs for "Mary Poppins Returns", while these brothers wrote the original movie's songs
the Sherman brothers (Richard & Robert)
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| THEIR THIRD SPOUSE | GEOGRAPHY | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK | TEST YOUR MUSCLE MEMORY | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY |
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$400
[29]
Jennifer Lopez:This Latin music star
Marc Anthony
James
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$400
[28]
It's loosely defined as the area from North Africa to Arabia; George Mitchell was a U.S. special envoy to try to make peace there
the Middle East
James
|
$400
[27]
Umbra is the Latin word for this dark area that can follow you around
shadow
James
|
$400
[17]
You guessed it, the nasalis muscles are found on each side of this feature & used in some facial expressions
the nose
Liz
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$400
[30]
A real Wilde read:"The Picture of" this beautiful young man
Dorian Gray
Liz
|
$400
[9]
Zephyr is a western this, or the god of it
wind
James
|
|
$800
[22]
Jane Fonda:This media mogul
Ted Turner
James
|
$800
[18]
This capital of Prince Edward Island was named for the wife of King George III
Charlottetown
Mary
|
$800
[26]
Crepuscule is another word for this 8-letter moment just before darkness falls
twilight
James
|
$800
[16]
This large muscle in the thigh gets its name from the Latin for "four"
a quadricep
Liz
|
$800
[14]
10-year-old Opal describes all the good things that happen to her "Because of" this dog
Winn-Dixie
James
|
$800
[8]
The dark void before creation (basically a huge mess) was called this 5-letter word
chaos
Mary
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Martin Scorsese:This actress & daughter of Ingrid Bergman
Isabella Rossellini
James
|
$1,600
[3]
Most of this 4-letter river's 530 miles lie in Poland
the Oder
James
|
$1,200
[25]
In the first line of Poe's "The Raven", this dark adjective describes midnight
dreary
James
|
$1,200
[15]
All muscles undergo these; the ones of the uterine muscles at the onset of labor are among the best known
contractions
James
|
$1,200
[11]
From 1830, "The Red and" this color
black
James
|
$1,200
[7]
This nymph was punished by Hera to only repeat what she heard
Echo
James
|
|
$1,600
[20]
Clark Gable:This beloved actress who died in a plane crash
Carole Lombard
James
|
$2,000
[2]
This canyon separates Idaho's Seven Devils & Oregon's Wallowa mountain ranges
Hells Canyon
James
|
$1,600
[24]
Shakespeare's Portia says, "How far that little" this "throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world"
candle
James
Liz
|
$1,600
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of muscles in the neck.) A group of muscles that helps rotate the neck are each attached to several vertebrae, resembling atriangle with three uneven sides, gives the muscles this name, also used for that type of triangle in geometry
scalene
Mary
|
$1,600
[10]
Ruth Ware's thriller set on a cruise ship, "The Woman in" this room
Cabin 10
|
$1,600
[5]
The Greek word for "she-goat" gave us this part-goat creature whose name also means "a hybrid"
a chimera
Mary
|
|
$2,000
[19]
James Cameron:This Oscar-winning director
(Kathryn) Bigelow
James
|
DD
$11,914
[4]
The southern border of Argentina's Pampas is this region that's about the size of Texas
Patagonia
James
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$2,000
[23]
Preserved in Jerusalem, "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness" is one of the 7 original these
Dead Sea Scrolls
|
$2,000
[12]
Muscles that help move this body part include the flexor pollicis longus & the extensor pollicis brevis
the thumb
James
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$2,000
[6]
The first novel by Junot Diaz:"The Brief Wondrous Life of" this title guy
Oscar Wao
James
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
This term for a cure-all bears the name of a daughter of Asclepius
panacea
Liz
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In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863
Virginia