James Holzhauer game 33.Emma Boettcher game 1.Emma Boettcher ends James's streak before he can break Ken Jennings's cash winnings total record.
Emma Boettcher — a user experience librarian from Chicago, Illinois
Jay Sexton — a senior research engineer from Atlanta, Georgia
James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 32-day cash winnings total $2,462,216)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $7,000 | $9,000 | $23,400 |
$24,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$23,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jay | $1,400 | $2,600 | $11,000 |
$17,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
13 R, 1 W |
| Emma | $4,200 | $6,400 | $26,600 |
$46,801
New champion: $46,801 |
$18,800
21 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| PICTURE THE IDIOM | LITERATURE | NESTS | JUKEBOX MUSICALS | NIXON SAID IT | I AM NOT A COOK |
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$200
[25]
For an optimistic view of things, take a look through these
rose-colored glasses
Emma
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$200
[26]
Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of" this street of finance
Wall Street
James
|
$200
[27]
Ahoy! It's a lookout perch atop a high mast
a crow's nest
Emma
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$200
[28]
"Escape to Margaritaville":Him
Jimmy Buffett
Emma
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$200
[29]
"The American people don't believe anything's real until they see it" here
television
Jay
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$200
[30]
I'm not a cook, but I can sure toast up these Kellogg Company breakfast treats with the best of them
Pop-Tarts
Jay
|
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$400
[24]
If you have these, it means you're well-organized
your ducks in a row
James
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$400
[23]
In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character
the Prophet
James
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$400
[22]
Made in a series of varying sizes to fit one inside each other, matryoshka are "nesting" these from Russia
dolls
Jay
|
$400
[21]
"Jersey Boys":Them
The Four Seasons
James
|
$400
[20]
Of his 1972 trip to this country, Nixon echoed the famous line "We came in peace for all mankind"
China
Emma
|
$400
[19]
I hum one of his country songs as I pop one of his protein-packed breakfast bowls into the microwave
Jimmy Dean
Jay
|
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$600
[7]
It's what's going on here
comparing apples & oranges
James
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$600
[15]
In "Charlotte's Web", Templeton is this creature
a rat
Jay
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$600
[16]
The creature that provides the marquee ingredient of this Chinese delicacy is endangered
bird's nest soup
Emma
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$600
[14]
"Beautiful":This singer-songwriter
Carole King
Emma
|
$600
[17]
In a 1960 debate Nixon said this man "has asked for my advice... Sometimes my advice has been taken. Sometimes it has not"
Eisenhower (the President)
James
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$600
[18]
I can't bake or mash a potato, so this alliterative Ore-Ida spud product that dates back to 1953 is a godsend to me
tater tots
Emma
|
|
$800
[6]
Greenhouse gas emission due to human activity leaves behind this
a carbon footprint
Jay
|
$800
[3]
In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri
(Albert) Camus
James
|
$800
[13]
Danny DeVito & Christopher Lloyd both had small parts as mental hospital inmates in this 1975 film
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
James
|
$800
[12]
"Movin' Out":This keyboard guy
Billy Joel
Emma
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$800
[11]
In 1969 Nixon asked for the support of a "silent majority of my fellow Americans" in regard to this foreign affairs issue
the Vietnam War
James
|
$800
[10]
I'm a wizard at breakfast with this cereal that now features a new marshmallow shaped like a magical unicorn
Lucky Charms
Emma
|
|
$1,000
[4]
Notethe lovely weather; itmeans to take advantage of an opportunity
make hay while the sun shines
James
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium
The Magic Mountain
James
|
$1,000
[2]
Doesn't sound comfy, but several birds make nests in the giant saguaro cactus, including the Gila variety of this headbanger
a woodpecker
Emma
|
$1,000
[5]
"Ain't Too Proud":This Motown group
The Temptations
Emma
|
$1,000
[8]
In his 1977 interviews with this British journalist, Richard Nixon said, "I have impeached myself"
(David) Frost
James
|
$1,000
[9]
You don't want vegetables cooked by me--have them raw, as this French-named appetizer
crudités
James
|
| CAPITAL "A" | SCIENCE | POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | SOMEWHAT HISTORICAL TV | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA | PLAYING A 3-4 |
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$400
[26]
Add "La Vella" to the name of this Pyrenees country to get the full name of its capital
Andorra
Emma
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$400
[27]
This triangular object can make a mini-rainbow because different colors in light travel at different speeds in it
a prism
James
|
$400
[28]
Paternalism is restricting freedom in our (supposed) best interests, like state taxes on these, which began in Iowa in 1921
cigarettes
Jay
|
$400
[23]
The premiere of this Netflix series sees Philip renounce his foreign titles & agree to a new one, Duke of Edinburgh
The Crown
Jay
|
$400
[29]
Lithuanian Sarunas Marciulionis was the first Soviet in this league when he joined the Warriors
the NBA
James
|
$400
[30]
Proponents of this type of diet say cooking kills nutrients
raw food
James
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1664 the English changed its name from Beverwyck to this to honor James, Duke of it
Albany
Emma
|
$800
[24]
(Mad?) scientists tried to make a frost-resistant tomato by adding a modified one of these taken from an Arctic flounder
a gene
James
|
$800
[25]
Remove 2 letters from "equality" to get this, the idea of giving remedies to the less fortunate to ensure equality
equity
Jay
|
$800
[22]
This History Channel show finds the title northerners raiding Paris, which did happen back in the day
Vikings
James
|
$800
[21]
In 2010 Gori, Georgia took down a statue honoring this once favorite son & moveditinto a museum
Stalin
Emma
|
$800
[20]
It describes a management style where everything flows from the boss, or perhaps a ride in a convertible
top-down
Emma
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Called City of Churches, this capital of South Australia has the country's oldest Catholic cathedral
Adelaide
James
|
$1,200
[8]
New solar & wind farms could bring this to the north of Africa, just like the song from Toto says
rain
James
|
$1,200
[18]
Samuel Pufendorf, he's your friend when things get rough & in 1673 said a nation needs this document; the USA's founders listened
a Constitution
Emma
|
$1,200
[10]
Horror aside, "The Terror" tells of the HMS Terror, a real ship searching for this seafaring route
the Northwest Passage
Jay
|
$1,200
[16]
This man is born in Riga, Latvia in 1898--cut to him directing "Battleship Potemkin" less than 30 years later
Eisenstein
James
|
$1,200
[19]
This style of design marked by geometric motifs & streamlined forms was all the rage in the 1920s & 1930s
Art Deco
Jay
|
|
$2,000
[1]
The Dutch colonized this national capital in the 17th century, but the Dutch were Ghana by 1872
Accra
James
|
$1,600
[6]
Some scientists think more than 95% of the universe is made up of what's called this "energy" & this "matter"
dark
Emma
|
$1,600
[17]
St. Augustine's "City of God" asks, without this quality of fairness, "What are kingdoms but great bands of robbers?"
justice
Jay
|
$1,600
[9]
Wyatt & Morgan Earp showed up on this HBO series & Wyatt told Seth Bullock of his lawman days in Dodge City
Deadwood
Jay
|
$1,600
[13]
Chess master Garry Kasparov's first move was made in Baku, now in this country
Azerbaijan
Emma
|
$1,600
[15]
A groaner from this family member--hey, what did the grape do when stepped on? It let out a little wine
a dad joke
James
|
|
DD
$7,600
[4]
It's home to the annual United States Sailboat Show
Annapolis
Emma
|
$2,000
[7]
Nerve cells in your body have axons that are covered by what is called this sheath
myelin
James
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
On book covers from GOP lawmakers Jason Chaffetz & Mike Lee is this phrase for the bureaucracy said to be working against democracy
the deep state
Emma
|
$2,000
[5]
The final season of this FX series begins with episodes set before Reagan & Gorbachev's 1987 meeting
The Americans
James
|
$2,000
[11]
This Ukrainian-born composer created "Peter and the Wolf"
Prokofiev
Jay
|
$2,000
[12]
This powerful type of adhesive is often dispensed with a gun
hot glue
Emma
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The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death
Christopher Marlowe