WARNING: JEOPARDY! SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT SCROLL DOWN UNLESS YOU’VE WATCHED THE NOV. 12 EPISODE OR WANT IT SPOILED!
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On Tuesday, James Holzhauer completed his second Jeopardy! game back since his 32-game winning streak ended in June, a semi-final contest in the show’s 2019 Tournament of Champions. A win would clinch a spot in the final to have a rematch with Emma Boettcher, the Chicago librarian who ended that win streak.
So how did he do? As we did last week, we’ll bring back our Holzhauer tracker and tell you what happened (and again: SPOILER ALERT! Everything is below this awesome photo of Holzhauer and Alex Trebek):
Did he win?
He did! He defeated Steven Grade and Rachel Lindgren to move on to the finals.
Win streak
He’s won two in a row in the tourney, so he’s won 34 of his last 35 Jeopardy! starts.
Cash totals
He won $30,156, but a reminder: he doesn’t keep that money as he goes for the $250,000 that goes to the ToC winner.
Final Jeopardy!
Holzhauer went into Final Jeopardy with $30,466, while Grade had $11,400 and Lindgren had $7,200. The category was U.S. Demographics and here was the clue:
In 2018 Forbes said this “belt’s demographic delight is” this other “belt’s demographic dilemma”
The correct answer?
What are sun and rust?