James Holzhauer game 30.
Lisa Clark — a freelance designer from Atlanta, Georgia
Faizan Kothari — an investment banking analyst from New York, New York
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 29-day cash winnings total $2,254,938)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $8,600 | $10,400 | $43,914 |
$69,033
30-day champion: $2,323,971 |
$31,400
35 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Faizan | $2,800 | $5,200 | $9,200 |
$9,223
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lisa | $800 | $2,000 | $2,800 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,800
6 R, 1 W |
| 1919 | ROBOTS | YOUR TV GOVERNMENT AT WORK | CLOTHES MINDED | I'M READING YOU | LOUD & CLEAR |
|
$200
[30]
The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series over this team that later was found to have lost intentionally
the (Chicago) White Sox
Faizan
|
$200
[28]
i Robot, maker of the Braava robot mop, is better known for this robot vacuum
the Roomba
Faizan
|
$200
[27]
Pawnee civil servant Ron Swanson, on this show:"Fishing relaxes me. It's like yoga, except I still get to kill something"
Parks and Recreation
James
|
$200
[24]
The extra-largepocketon thefront of the hoodieis named for this creature
a kangaroo
Lisa
|
$200
[29]
"Ulysses" & "Finnegans Wake"
James Joyce
Lisa
|
$200
[18]
It's too loud, man--it's this word that begins with a word meaning "unable to hear"
deafening
James
|
|
$400
[21]
Founded in 1919, this Dutch airline is the world's oldest airline still operating under its original name
KLM
Faizan
|
$400
[25]
The company Ozobot makesrobotsthat introduce kids to this activity, the art of writing instructions that direct computers
coding
James
|
$400
[26]
"I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt worship no other god before me. Boy those were the days"--Sheen's 1st line on this drama
The West Wing
James
|
$400
[23]
James Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this, gave his title to the name of a button-down sweater
Cardigan
Lisa
|
$400
[20]
"Notre-Dame de Paris" & "Les Miserables"
(Victor) Hugo
Faizan
|
$400
[17]
Spinal Tap's amps went up to this number
11
Lisa
|
|
$800
[3]
This number amendment was ratified by Nebraska on Jan. 16, putting Prohibition in force
18th
Faizan
|
$600
[22]
With the Lynx robot you can see your home remotely by using this 12-letter mode, from the French for "watch over"
surveillance
Faizan
|
$600
[15]
Illinois governor Peter Florrick turned out to be not the ideal spouse for Alicia, trying to make her way as a lawyer on this drama
The Good Wife
James
|
$600
[14]
This cropped jacket gets its name from a Spanish dance & the music for that dance
bolero
James
|
$600
[19]
"Looking for Alaska" & "Paper Towns"
John Green
James
|
$600
[16]
Prospero threatens Caliban with pain so great that beasts will "tremble at thy" this 3-letter racket
din
Faizan
|
|
$1,000
[1]
In 2019 Germany & other lands have events honoring the 100th birthday of this modernist design school
Bauhaus
James
|
$800
[5]
Robots like the Sunfish have been cleaning up reactors damaged in this 2011 meltdown in Japan
Fukushima
James
|
$800
[11]
First Lady Mellie Grant was set to only appear in 3 episodes of season 1 of this drama, but by the end of season 6, was president!
Scandal
James
|
$800
[13]
Clothes will drape softly when cut "on the" this synonym for diagonal or slant
bias
Lisa
|
$800
[4]
"The Temple of My Familiar" & "The Color Purple"
Alice Walker
James
|
$800
[8]
You must be a necromancer! Your cacophony is doing this, a noisy idiom that refers to a man in Genesis
raising Cain
James
|
|
DD
$2,800
[9]
This informal literary group that included Robert Benchley & Dorothy Parker began meeting for lunch in 1919
the Algonquin Round Table
James
|
$1,000
[6]
As a social experiment, in 2014 a bot traveled 6,000 miles through Canada this way, but in the U.S. in 2015, soon met a bad end
hitchhiking
Faizan
|
$1,000
[10]
Ex-CIA analyst Elizabeth McCord practices both international & domestic diplomacy on this CBS show
Madam Secretary
|
$1,000
[12]
A city in India gives its name to these riding pants
jodhpurs
James
|
$1,000
[2]
"Narcissus and Goldmund" & "The Glass Bead Game"
Hesse
Faizan
|
$1,000
[7]
This Italian superlative tells a musician to play very loud
fortissimo
James
|
| ONE BIG SWAMP | 1980s POP LYRICS | DIFFERS BY A VOWEL | AWARDS & PRIZES | SPACE "EX" | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES |
|
$400
[30]
Africa's giant Al-Sudd Swamp is drained by the headwaters of this river
the Nile
Faizan
|
$400
[29]
"Did I ever tell you you're my hero? You're everything, everything I wish I could be"
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
James
|
$400
[26]
A mixture for making good old-fashioned pancakes & one of the ingredients
batter and butter
Faizan
|
$400
[24]
Named for an owner in this league, the Art Rooney Award honors sportsmanship on the field
the NFL
James
|
$400
[20]
We've yet to get a call from one of these otherworldly beings
extraterrestrial
James
|
$400
[22]
You know the first Black president--well, the guy he defeated the first time--OK, that guy's running mate, the lady
Sarah Palin
James
|
|
$800
[27]
Florida's Big Cypress Swamp borders this marshy national park on the southeast
the Everglades
James
|
$800
[28]
"If you're lost, you can look--and you will find me"
"Time After Time"
James
|
$800
[25]
A place for a picnic & an added work benefit
park and perk
James
|
$800
[23]
In the first year of these awards, the editors of Galaxy & Astounding Science Fiction shared the magazine prize
Hugo (Awards)
James
|
$800
[19]
To astronomers, this isn't the end of a species but the atmospheric dimming of a star when it's low on the horizon
extinction
James
|
$800
[21]
The Swiss guy who shot the arrow--they played his overture for a western hero--that hero's horse...darn it, hi-yo what?
Silver
James
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Take a little R & R in this "T & T" country & visit the mangrove channels of its Caroni Swamp
Trinidad and Tobago
James
|
$1,200
[13]
Michael Jackson:"The word is out you're doin' wrong, gonna lock you up before too long"
"Bad"
Lisa
|
$1,200
[16]
Dried out & thirsty & sat awhile somewhere high up
parched and perched
James
|
$1,200
[17]
Since 1982 skeptics of the paranormal & pseudoscientific have offered outrageous offenders the "Bent" this utensil award
spoon
James
|
$1,200
[18]
A spacewalk is more formally called an EVA, this kind of "activity"
extravehicular
James
|
$1,200
[3]
There's an actress with lots of kids, 3 adopted--before she married that actor, she was married to this other actor, him, with 3 names
Billy Bob Thornton
James
|
|
$2,000
[10]
The name of this big swamp on the Florida-Georgia border is thought to come from a Seminole word for "trembling earth"
Okefenokee
Lisa
|
$1,600
[11]
Bon Jovi:"Take my hand and we'll make it, I swear"
"Livin' On A Prayer"
Faizan
|
$1,600
[12]
A word like at, by or in & a ballot measure
preposition and proposition
James
|
$1,600
[9]
This vaunted trophy is given out each year in the south of France; the first one went to Delbert Mann for his film "Marty" in 1955
the Palme d'Or
James
|
$2,000
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows TRAPPIST-1 on the monitor.) 39 light-years from our sun, a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 has 7 Earth-size these whose orbits are seen here; JPL says3 of them are firmly in the habitable zone where liquid water could most likely exist
exoplanets
Faizan
|
$1,600
[4]
Remember the flood guy in the Bible--it's his son I'm after--no, not those 2, the one who makes me hungry, the middle son
Ham
Faizan
|
|
DD
$11,914
[2]
It comes between "Great" & "Swamp" in the name of a part of Virginia & North Carolina that doesn't sound like a tourist spot
dismal
James
|
$2,000
[1]
Queen:"How long can you stand the heat? Out of the doorway the bullet rip to the sound of the beat"
"Another One Bites The Dust"
James
|
$2,000
[15]
Make silent & a speck of dust
mute and mote
James
|
$2,000
[7]
This Soviet physicist won the Nobel Peace Prize; now a prize for defending human rights is named for him
Sakharov
James
|
DD
$4,000
[5]
The speed of expulsion of a rocket's gas or other propellant is this "velocity"
exhaust
Faizan
|
$2,000
[8]
(Finger snap)--1800s author wrote a book about a kid who runs with pickpockets--so the gal in that book, the one who ends up dead
Nancy
Faizan
|
The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father
Frankenstein