James Holzhauer game 28.
Scott Swartz — a medical student from Berkeley, California
Monica Foy — a financial planner from San Francisco, California
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 27-day cash winnings total $2,065,535)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $18,600 | $21,800 | $72,022 |
$130,022
28-day champion: $2,195,557 |
$37,600
40 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Monica | $0 | $600 | $6,600 |
$13,195
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
8 R, 0 W |
| Scott | $1,000 | $3,000 | $6,200 |
$12,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
10 R, 0 W |
| THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES | THE YEAR'S BIGGEST HIT SONG | NATIONAL FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | VERB: ATE 'EM | SOME TIMES | 1 LETTER IS ALL YOU NEED |
|
$200
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Beekeeping was practiced in ancient Egypt where honey was important not just in everyday life, but in the afterlife; the 1922 discovery of this king's tomb included jars of honey, still edible 3,000 years later
King Tut
Scott
|
$200
[25]
2014:Pharrell Williams must have been pleased by its success
"Happy"
James
|
$200
[30]
Seen here is the flag of this Central American country where the U.S. once held some valuable real estate
Panama
Monica
|
$200
[28]
In ancient Rome the dangerous job of Halotus was to do this to the food of Emperor Claudius
taste
Scott
|
$200
[29]
The "Age" of this alloy finished second, not third, falling between the Stone & Iron Ages
bronze
Monica
|
$200
[23]
Nominative singular pronoun
I
Monica
|
|
$400
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for figuring out that bees communicate the distance & direction of a food supply to other members of a hive by using a series of rhythmic movements called these; a circling one means food is within 75 meters while a waggling one means a greater distance
a dance
James
|
$400
[24]
2011:Adele could've had it all, & did
"Rolling In The Deep"
Scott
|
$400
[8]
Horizontal stripes of these 3 colors are found on the flags of Colombia, Ecuador & Venezuela
red, yellow and blue
James
|
$400
[27]
A South Carolina BBQ joint is named for this phrase meaning to make a hog of yourself
pig out
James
|
$400
[21]
In the U.S. the "Roaring" these are also called the "Tribal" these, as the rise in nativism led to the growth of the KKK
the Twenties
Scott
|
$400
[22]
A Roman 1,000
M
James
|
|
$600
[18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) In ancient Greece, this father of medicine recommended honey as a cure for everything, from thirst & pain to fevers & ulcers
Hippocrates
James
|
$600
[17]
2017:Ed Sheeran was in love with it
"The Shape Of You"
James
|
$600
[7]
A nutmeg seed adorns theflagof this island nation the U.S. invaded in 1983
Grenada
James
|
$600
[11]
Pronounced one way, it's a Norwegian artist; the other way, a verb meaning to eat
Munch and munch
James
|
$600
[20]
1760 is a traditional start date for this period of technological development in Britain
the Industrial Revolution
James
|
$600
[14]
It precedes "peg" regarding compressed pics
J
James
|
|
$800
[16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) In the 1870s, beekeepers were using asmokerto calm bees; the smoke works by dulling the attack receptors of these chemical secretions
pheromones
Scott
|
$800
[15]
1976:You'd think that people would've had enough of this Wings tune
"Silly Love Songs"
James
|
$800
[6]
A West Indies nation's flag has 2 stars--we don't know if one represents Nevis & the other, this
St. Kitts
James
|
$800
[10]
When cows chew their cud, they do this; in another sense of the word, you meditate over a subject
ruminate
James
|
$1,000
[4]
A volume of the "Oxford History of the United States" covers "Reconstruction &" this "Age" of robber barons
the Gilded Age
James
|
$800
[13]
Type of "frame" very common in house construction
A
James
|
|
$1,000
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Worker bees produce a nutritious milky substance long thought to be what made certain female larvae become queen bees, hence this name; recent research is challenging that assumption
royal jelly
James
|
$1,000
[1]
1980:Blondie was phoning it in with this hit from "American Gigolo"
"Call Me"
James
|
$1,000
[5]
Swords, rifles, a scroll declaring "libertad" & a resplendent one of these birds are found on Guatemala'sflag
a quetzal
Scott
|
$1,000
[9]
In tech, this 6-letter word is half a byte; the mildly hungry often do it with their food
nibble
James
|
DD
$8,200
[12]
Though this era is associated with Monroe, the joy began in Madison's administration as the War of 1812 ended
the Era of Good Feelings
James
|
$1,000
[3]
2r
D
James
|
| MY CABINET JOB | 16-LETTER WORDS | POETIC GEOGRAPHY | IMPERIAL-ISM | ACTRESSES | FEELING ART "C" |
|
$400
[27]
1795:Oliver Wolcott Jr., taking over for Hamilton but getting no eventual musical
Secretary of the Treasury
James
|
$400
[29]
Anything that excludes you from consideration for a job
disqualification
Monica
|
$400
[28]
Carl Sandburg's poem about this city declares it "Hog Butcher for the World"
Chicago
Scott
|
$400
[23]
The imperial system of weights & measures was officially used in Great Britain until 1965 & the adoption of this system
the metric system
Scott
|
$400
[30]
On this TV series Taylor Schilling plays the incarcerated Piper Chapman
Orange is the New Black
James
|
$400
[8]
This French-named technique involves sticking photos, papers or really anything onto a canvas or backing
a collage
James
|
|
$800
[26]
1975 & back for more in 2001:Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
James
|
$800
[24]
Adjective meaning working the opposite way from what instinct suggests
counterintuitive
Scott
|
$800
[20]
"The Merchant's Tale" & "The Squire's Tale" are 2 offerings in this 14th century work
The Canterbury Tales
James
|
$800
[22]
"La Bayadere" was premiered in 1877 by the Russian Imperial this, later the Kirov, now the Mariinsky
ballet
James
|
$800
[25]
This South African-born beauty won an Oscar for playing a "Monster", serial killer Aileen Wuornos
Charlize Theron
James
|
$800
[7]
MoMA has a series of 32 Andy Warhol paintings of these cans, including clam chowder & chicken noodle
Campbell's soups
Monica
|
|
$1,200
[13]
1993:Janet Reno dances into the Cabinet
Attorney General
James
|
$1,200
[17]
The paper bag method is no longer widely recommended if you find yourself doing this--learn controlled breathing
hyperventilating
James
|
$1,200
[3]
Emerson wrote a "Hymn" to this Massachusetts town that got in on Revolutionary War action on day one
Concord
James
|
$1,200
[21]
Also known as the Crown of Charlemagne, the Imperial Crownwas created in the 10th century for coronations of these emperors
Holy Roman (emperors)
James
|
$1,200
[10]
Constance Wu, Jessica on "Fresh Off the Boat", hit the big screen in this 2018 rom-com
Crazy Rich Asians
James
|
$1,200
[1]
Botticelli painted Athena with this type ofmythic creature
a centaur
James
|
|
$1,600
[12]
2003:Tom Ridge, the first to hold the job
Secretary of Homeland Security
James
|
$1,600
[16]
Adjective for the part of the life & career of George W. Bush that began in January 2009
postpresidential
Scott
|
$1,600
[2]
In "Sailing to" this ancient city today known as Istanbul, Yeats sought the comfort of past ages
Byzantium
Monica
|
$1,600
[19]
This "small" guy & The Imperials had R&B pop hits like "Tears On My Pillow" & "Goin' Out Of My Head"
Little Anthony
Monica
|
$1,600
[9]
On "The Handmaid's Tale", Ann Dowd plays this imposing & authoritarian aunt
Aunt Lydia
|
$1,600
[5]
Though her dad said he'd rather see her dead, she moved to Paris in 1866 & later exhibited with the Impressionists
(Mary) Cassatt
Monica
|
|
DD
$20,000
[14]
A few names, if one isn't enough:Albert Fall (who very much did), James Watt, Sally Jewell
Secretary of the Interior
James
|
$2,000
[15]
Look at a map of the contiguous U.S. & you'll see that this 16-letter superlative adjective applies to Maine
northeasternmost
James
|
DD
$11,022
[4]
"Harlem", sometimes called "A Dream Deferred", is probably the most famous poem by this man
Langston Hughes
James
|
$2,000
[18]
The Imperial Palace in this city was destroyed in air raids during WWII, but rebuilt in the 1960s
Tokyo
James
|
$2,000
[11]
Thissinger & actress honors her roots with her signature black & white fashion choices
Janelle Monáe
|
$2,000
[6]
He was a master of chiaroscuro, the use of light & shadows to add drama to hiscanvases, as in"The Denial of Saint Peter"
Caravaggio
James
|
When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over
The Game of Life