WARNING: JEOPARDY! SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT SCROLL DOWN UNLESS YOU’VE WATCHED THE JAN. 14 EPISODE OR WANT IT SPOILED!
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A week ago, we saw the first round of Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time, pitting legendary champions James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter against each other in a multi-night battle to declare who’s the GOAT of the quiz show hosted by Alex Trebek. After all the joking trash talk and possible leaks, we finally got to the actual games.
Jennings took the first game, and Holzhauer took the second, and Jennings won the third last Thursday.
Here are the results from Tuesday night — we’ll break it down to the two games the trio played, along with who won the entire second match (and again: SPOILER ALERT! Everything is below this awesome photo of Holzhauer and Alex Trebek):
Game 1
Jennings jumped in to a huge lead at the end of the first round, going up 8,000 over Holzhauer, and Rutter far behind. In Double Jeopardy, Jennings had 15,200 and risked it all (!!!) on a Daily Double … and he nailed it. By the end of the second round, Jennings had 32,800, Holzhauer 22,800 and Rutter had 2,000.
The Final Jeopardy category was It’s All Greece to Me, and here was the clue:
This area of Greece, home to Pan is synonymous with a rural paradise; it’s a setting for Virgil’s shepherd poems the “Eclogues.”
Holzhauer and Jennings (who BET IT ALL!) got it: What is Arcadia?
Their scores after the first game were:
Jennings: 65,600
Holzhauer: 34,181
Rutter: 0
Game 2
Jennings missed a Daily Double at the start, and Holzhauer went on a bit of a run to lead after Round 1. Jennings then got an early Daily Double and got it correct … and while Holzhauer fought to keep up, he found a DD of his own, went all-in with 20,200 and GOT IT to move up to 40,400. After Double Jeopardy, Holzhauer led with 44,000, Jennings had 23,000 and Rutter had 1,400.
The Final Jeopardy category was Shakespeare’s Tragedies and here was the clue:
He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy.
Jennings got the answer (which we’ll get to) and bet nothing. Holzhauer went all in with his 44,000 points (GASP) and missed it: Who is Iago?
Here were the scores after Final Jeopardy:
Jennings: 23,000
Rutter: 1,400
Holzhauer: 0
Overall Match winner
Ken Jennings won and CLINCHED THE TITLE OF JEOPARDY GOAT!!!! He defeated Holzhauer (one match win) and Rutter (zero).
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