Last time, on "Jeopardy! Masters"...
James, you've got your record on your lectern, in one.
Truth hurts, Ken.
Yeah, it's better than the record last time I played you.
James Holzhauer, if I remember correctly, Shakespeare,
not your favorite Final Jeopardy category.
You wrote down, "Who is Richard II?"
No, this character in Henry IV is Hotspur.
So you're gonna lose 908.
But that's good enough for first place tonight.
Three more match points go to you,
and one for Mattea in second place.
Century, 16.
The answer there... is the other Daily Double.
Well, this may very well be the last time I ever say this,
- but 13,200. - Wow.
Going all-in twice in a row.
What's...Hicks?
You did it. 26,400 points.
32,800 for Matt.
Three match points
for digging down and getting this win
when he really needed it.
James Holzhauer, we know, is making it to the finals.
Matt, thanks to that win,
moves into second place with three.
Andrew earns one match point,
pulling him into a tie with Mattea.
We go to the relevant tiebreaker here.
Mattea, you gave us 50 correct responses in the semifinals.
Andrew He gave us 45.
By a margin of just five responses,
Mattea Roach is headed to the final.
Andrew He,
I'm afraid we have to say goodbye to you here.
One of the greatest tournament players
in recent "Jeopardy!" history.
Six "Jeopardy! Masters"
battled in an elite competition.
Only three remain.
James Holzhauer,
Matt Amodio,
Mattea Roach.
Tonight, one will be named the champion.
It's the final of "Jeopardy! Masters."
Introducing our three finalists.
A writer and podcaster
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mattea Roach.
A Postdoctoral Researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Matt Amodio.
And a self-described game show villain,
from Las Vegas, Nevada, James Holzhauer.
And now here is the host of "Jeopardy! Masters"
Ken Jennings.
Thank you, Johnny Gilbert.
And welcome, everyone, to the culmination
of "Jeopardy! Masters."
It all comes down to this two-game final.
At the end of the hour, one of these three players
is going to be crowned the first-ever
"Jeopardy! Masters" champion,
taking home half a million dollars
and the inaugural Trebek Trophy.
In addition, "Jeopardy!" will be donating $100,000,
in honor of the winner to a cause meaningful to them.
Now before we begin, I have good news for all three of you.
By virtue of qualifying for the "Jeopardy! Masters" final,
all three of you are also guaranteed slots
in next year's "Jeopardy! Masters."
But first, we got to figure out who's gonna win this one.
We have a little bit of business first.
Good luck to all three of you.
Let the race for the title begin
with these categories.
So You Think You're Pretty Good at This.
Then we have In the World Capital,
Recent Events,
followed by Composers,
Some Hard Words,
and Cops & Robbers TV.
There's a Daily Double in this round, of course.
If the home audience cares to know,
look at your television screens right now.
There we go.
James, start the round.
In the World Capital, 1,000.
Well, there you go.
You kept the suspense for almost five seconds, James.
I know.
I love that little preview you give them.
1,000, please.
Here's your clue. In the World Capital.
The Zytglogge Tower and Astronomical Clock,
which inspired Einstein and his special theory of relativity.
James?
What is Prague?
No, I'm afraid Einstein was studying in Switzerland.
What is Bern?
You're in the red. We don't see that very often.
- Select again. - Capital, 8.
- Mattea. - What's Kingston?
- Yes. - World Capital, 6.
- James. - What's Cairo?
- Right. - Capital, 4.
Seen here, the city's most visited attraction,
Schonbrunn Palace.
- James. - What's Vienna?
- Yes, it is. - Capital, 2.
- Mattea. - What's New Delhi?
- Of course. - Recent Events, 1,000.
What's the Wagner Group?
- Mattea. - Recent Events, 8.
- Mattea? - Who is George Santos?
I don't get to say this very much,
but George Santos is correct.
Back to you, Mattea.
Recent Events, 6.
- Matt. - What's Alzheimer's?
- Yes. - Composers, 1.
- James. - Who was Rimsky-Korsakov?
- Yes. - Composers, 8.
- Mattea. - Who is George Gershwin?
- Yes. - Composers, 6.
- James. - Who is Handel?
- Right. - Composers, 4.
- Matt. - What's Paris?
- Yes, don't mess with Satie. - Hard Words, 1.
What is adamant?
- Matt? - Hard Words, 8.
- Mattea. - What's hard-boiled?
- Correct. - Hard Words, 6.
- Matt. - What's...callous?
You're correct.
Pretty Good, 1,000.
That would be pro se.
- Back to you, Matt. - Pretty Good, 8.
He fought the chimera and was on top of the world riding Pegasus,
but rode him too high and fell to Earth.
- James. - Who was Bellerophon?
- Yes. - Pretty Good, 6.
- James. - Who are the Baltimore Colts?
- That's correct. - 400, Pretty Good.
- Mattea. - What's Enron?
- Right. - Pretty Good, 2.
- Matt? - What's Spanish Armada?
That's correct. And I apologize to James
for a whole category about great upsets.
It's not what he wants to see. Back to you, Matt.
TV, 1.
- Matt. - What's Ironside?
- Well done. - TV, 8.
- Matt. - What's "Cold Case"?
- Yes. - TV, 6.
- James. - What's "Peaky Blinders"?
- Right. - TV, 4.
- Matt. - What is Bada Bing?
- Right. - Composers, 2.
- Mattea? - What's a rag? I don't know.
- No, I'm sorry. - No.
James or Matt?
It was a concert waltz we were hearing.
Matt, five clues left.
Hard Words, 4.
- James? - What's cast iron?
- Yes. - Hard Words, 2.
- Matt. - What's Herculean?
- Yes. - TV, 2.
- Matt. - What's Cagney and Lacey?
- Correct. - Events, 4.
- James? - What is Turkiye?
- That's right. - 200.
- James? - What is Amsterdam?
That gives you the lead,
but all three of you very evenly matched
in the first round of this two-game total point affair.
Well done. Double Jeopardy is up next.
Stay with us.
Now as you three have already heard,
at the end of this hour,
Jeopardy will be donating $100,000
in honor of the winner
to a charity that's meaningful to them.
I wanted to ask each of you.
Mattea, what charity is meaningful to you?
Yeah, so a charity that's meaningful to me
is the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
One of my younger brothers has been living
with type 1 diabetes for the past 11 years.
And so what the JDRF does, essentially is--
you know, there is no cure for type 1 as yet.
So they fund advancements in research,
both to make managing life with type 1 diabetes a bit easier,
but also in the hope of finding a cure for it someday.
Wow. That's fantastic.
Matt, what about you?
What's a charity that's meaningful to you?
The Best Friends Animal Society
does a lot of great work to help
for the life on this planet
that Homo sapiens share it with.
And they help shelters coordinate with each other
to achieve a goal they all want to achieve,
which is to become no-kill.
And it's something that we can all actually contribute to,
even without monetary donations,
by not shopping, instead adopting.
That's a great public service announcement.
Thank you, Matt.
James, what about you?
I talked a couple of weeks ago about Project 150,
an organization in Las Vegas that helps housing-insecure
high school students.
They do lovely work.
But my charity executive director actually reached out
and said, after I mentioned them on "Jeopardy! Masters,"
she got some calls from people in other states
who want to set up their own, similar organizations there.
So wonderful to know that we're sending out
a ripple into the universe.
James, you're going national. Congratulations.
A lot of good to be done with unhoused kids in a lot of cities.
Well done.
All right, you can all pick up your signaling devices.
Mattea will be selecting first in the Double Jeopardy round.
Here are the categories we have for you three.
First, National Historical Parks,
then Furniture & Furnishings--exciting--
3-"Sy"llable Words, each one beginning with S-Y.
After that, Horror Movies,
British Authors,
and then, What's All This?
The two Daily Doubles in this round could prove pivotal.
If you want to know at home where they are,
take a look right now.
We're showing you.
There we see them.
Mattea, what strikes your fancy?
Historical Parks for 16.
- Matt. - What's New Bedford?
- You got it. - British Authors, 12.
- James? - Who is Thomas Hardy?
- Yes. - Historical Parks, 12.
- James. - Who was Rosie the Riveter?
- You're right. - Parks, 8.
- Mattea. - What's the Mexican-American War?
- You're right. - Historical Parks, 2,000.
Matt.
- What's Everett? - I'm sorry. No.
James or Mattea?
It's called the Hanford Nuclear Site.
Back to you, Mattea.
British Authors, 16.
- James. - Who was Chesterton?
- You're right. - Authors 8.
The answer there is a Daily Double.
Your competitors were close, but you found it, James.
OK.
All the chips. 8,600 points on British Authors.
First and last name of the lesser-known sibling
who wrote the semi-autobiographical,
"Agnes Grey."
Who is Anne Bronte?
That's the right Bronte, yes.
You have widened your lead.
What's All This? for 12.
- James. - What's the Southern Cross?
No.
Matt or Mattea?
In fact, it's the Northern Cross.
- James? - Can I have a second guess?
What's All This?, 16.
They make up Mongolia.
- James, select again. - What's All This?, 8.
- James. - What is an ozone molecule?
- That's right. - What's All This?, 2.
Those are the parts of T.S. Eliot's, "The Wasteland."
Tough category. James, where to?
Furniture, 12.
You can also have cable or cable-knit carpets.
My wife is very disappointed.
Furnishing, 16.
From the French for female gardener,
it's a large, ornamental container, as seen here.
- Mattea. - What's jardiniere?
- Right. - Furniture, 8.
- Matt. - What's Murphy bed?
- Right. - Furniture, 2.
- James. - What's a cabriole?
Well done. 2,000 for you.
3-Syllable, 12.
- Mattea. - What's Syracuse?
- Right. - 3-Syllable, 16.
That would be a sybarite.
- Mattea. - 3-Syllable, 2,000.
You guessed right.
That's the Daily Double.
What'll it be, Mattea?
All of it. All of it.
- Good form. - Yeah.
I like it. Well done.
3-"Sy"llable Words. Here's your clue.
A lack of blood flow to the brain
and a drop in blood pressure cause this,
the medical term for fainting.
What is syncope?
Syncope is it, yes.
We got a game going.
All right, Horror Movies, 2,000.
- Mattea. - What's "Eyes Without a Face"?
- Yeah, good job. - Horror Movies, 16.
She stars in "Fresh,"
which seems like a rom-com at first.
But thanks to Sebastian Stan,
she soon learns there's more on the menu.
That actress is Daisy Edgar-Jones.
- Mattea? - Horror Movies, 12.
It's a Sam Raimi movie.
- Mattea? - Horror, 8.
- James. - Who is Mandy?
- It is Mandy. - Horror, 4.
- James. - Who is Jason?
- That's it. - British Authors, 2.
- James? - Who is Mitchell?
Very good.
Authors, 4.
- Matt. - What's Dahl?
- Yeah. - Syllable, 8.
S for systemic.
- Four clues left, Matt. - Parks, 4.
- James. - Who were the Wright brothers?
- That's it. - Furniture, 4.
- Matt. - What's IKEA?
- Yeah. - What's All This?, 4.
- Matt. - What's "Beethoven's 9th"?
Yes, it is. And the last clue.
- Mattea. - What's sycophant?
Sycophant is correct.
You have 16,800,
not too far off James's lead.
You will be playing two Final Jeopardys on tonight's show,
the first after this game. Your category will be...
Africa.
We're headed to Africa in a moment with the clue.
Join us then.
Tonight's "Jeopardy! Masters" final is,
as Alex used to say, a two-game, total point affair.
Whatever our players wind up with after this game
will be added to their score in 30 minutes' time,
after the second game.
Our Final Jeopardy category right now is Africa.
Here's the clue.
30 seconds. Good luck.
All three of you were writing very quickly.
I think all three of you might have been complete
with your response before the music started.
We'll begin with Matt Amodio and his 6,000 points.
He wrote down, "What is Dar es Salaam?"
Yes, the capital of Tanzania for a long time
before it moved to Dodoma.
So you're gonna add to your 6,000-- you wagered all of it.
You'll double that to 12,000 points.
Mattea Roach in second place with 16,800.
Did they know it was Dar es Salaam?
They're right.
The wager?
8,000 points,
bringing them to 24,800
and for the moment, the lead.
James had 22,400 points.
Is the response correct?
"What is Dar es Salaam?" Yes, it is.
Interesting. Does he bet it all here?
Eh, holding back a little.
11,914 brings him to 34,314.
Take note of these scores.
They'll be added to whatever our players earn
in our next game,
which begins right after this break.
We'll see you back on the Alex Trebek stage
after these messages.
Welcome back to "Jeopardy! Masters".
Before we begin the last game of this prime-time event,
here's a reminder of what's at stake for our three finalists.
The winner of "Jeopardy! Masters" will receive $500,000.
There's a $250,000 prize for second place,
$150,000 for third.
The scores you see on the contestant's podia right now
are what they earned in the first half of this game.
We're gonna zero those out now.
And we'll re-add them to their scores
in just under 30 minutes' time.
Let's begin the last game of "Jeopardy! Masters,"
where these are your categories.
First, The 1960s.
Then we have Common Bonds,
"P" is For Poetry,
then Nom Nom Nominations,
the Grammar Police,
and finally...
I'm Michael J. Fox.
You know, I'd like to think I've mastered
a few kinds of acting over 40 years.
I'll have clues about my career.
There's one Daily Double in the Jeopardy round.
Here it is. Take a look.
James, start us off.
1960s, 1,000.
The answer there...
I give up. I give up, James.
- 1,000. - I thought it might be.
Here's your clue in The 1960s.
U.S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin
was its general counsel
and is credited with smoothing the prose in its 1964 report.
- I don't know-- - Time, I'm afraid.
It was the Warren Commission.
Smoothing the prose in the Warren Commission report.
- Select again. - '60s, 8.
Last name of Henry, a 19th-century governor.
It follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area
where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry.
- Matt. - What's Castro?
No.
Although he might not have been crazy about that either.
James or Mattea?
It's the Haight district, Henry Haight.
Back to you, James.
1960s, 6.
"We want Black power."
I'm starting to think you all are a little young for the 1960s.
- James. - '60s, 4.
It was a decade of rising youth.
Bernadette Devlin, of Northern Ireland,
became the then-youngest-ever female one of these.
- Mattea. - What's member of parliament?
- That's correct. - You're the only one with points.
All right, 1960s, 200.
- James. - What's a heart transplant?
- Right. - "P" is for Poetry, 1,000.
- James. - Who is Pindar?
- Yes. You're out of the hole. - Poetry, 8.
- James? - What's the Pushkin Prize?
- You got it. - Poetry, 6.
- Matt. - What's Pound?
- Yes. - Common Bonds, 1.
Those are all bands.
Matt?
Nominations, 1.
- Mattea. - Who's Nigella Lawson?
- Yes. - Nominations, 8.
- James. - Who's Bobby Flay?
"Beat Bobby Flay," yes.
Nominations, 6.
- Mattea. - What's bananas Foster?
- Yes. - Nominations, 4.
- James. - Who is Emeril Lagasse?
- Correct. - Nominations, 2.
- Mattea. - What's salmon?
- You got it. - Grammar Police, 1,000.
- Matt. - What's splice?
A comma splice. Yes, you're out of the hole.
Bonds, 8.
- Mattea? - What are things you burn?
- Yeah, they all get burned. - Common Bonds, 6.
- Mattea. - What are things you crack?
- Correct again. - Common Bonds, 4.
- James. - What are lights?
- Yes, they are. - Bonds, 2.
- Matt. - What's cup?
- Yes. - Grammar, 8.
- Matt. - What's participle?
- Yes, or modifier. - Grammar, 6.
- Mattea. - What's a preposition?
- Correct. - Grammar, 4.
- James. - What's agreement?
- Good. - Grammar, 2.
- Mattea. - What's a run-on sentence?
- Yes, it is. - Michael J. Fox, 1,000.
Here's Michael J. Fox.
In 1988, I starred in the movie "Bright Lights, Big City,"
based on the novel this man famously wrote
in the second person.
- James. - Who was McInerney?
- Yes. - Fox, 8.
When I began acting, someone had the name Michael Fox.
So I added the J. to my name to honor this Michael J.
Whose work I loved in "Bonnie and Clyde."
That actor's name? Michael J. Pollard.
- James. - Fox, 6.
Back to Michael J. Fox.
An inspiration for my character in "The American President"
was this advisor to Bill Clinton.
A spin doctor in his own right,
he also made a cameo on my show "Spin City."
- James? - Who is Stephanopoulos?
- That's correct. - Fox, 4.
As a judge for the battle of the bands,
this singer had a cameo in "Back to the Future."
We noodled over the course of his hit "Power of Love."
- James. - Who is Huey Lewis?
- Yes. - Fox, 2.
One more time to Michael.
The song "At This Moment"
became a hit after it was the backdrop on this show
to show the romance of my character Alex P. Keaton
and Ellen played by Tracy Pollan,
who, at this moment,
has been my wife for almost 35 years.
- Aw. James? - What's "Family Ties"?
- Yes. - Poetry, 4.
- James? - Who was Prometheus?
Yes.
And the last clue.
- Mattea. - What's a pancake?
That is correct, pulling you to within
1,000 points of James's lead.
Double Jeopardy is up.
This is the game that's gonna decide it all.
Don't go away now.
We've now spent 10 nights with our Masters finalists.
We've gotten to know them.
You've had them in your homes.
I wanted to ask them if there's anyone they would like to thank
during their last open-mic time,
here on "Jeopardy! Masters."
How about you, Mattea?
Yeah, I could do a tight five about how much I love my mom.
When I was originally on the show last year,
apparently, numerous extended family members and friends
said that I talked not enough about my mother.
Like, a lot about my dad and not enough about my mother.
And I think she deserves some love.
She has been the absolute rock of our family
for my whole time growing up.
She's a rock for her parents, who are both still with us.
And she managed to make it down to Culver City
to watch these last games.
And I love her so much.
And I'm so grateful to have her in my life.
Thank you for being with us
and for sharing Mattea with us.
How about you, Matt? Are you thanking people?
Yeah, you don't get to this stage
without having sacrificed time to do other things
that you could have done.
And so I want to thank my mom, my dad, my brothers,
my extended family, my girlfriend,
everybody for their patience and support
through the ups and downs of this tournament.
I mean, there's not that many downs.
They know a "Jeopardy!" master.
That's got to be exciting, right?
I mean, what are the downsides
of you preparing for this tournament?
Well, I would say downs of my emotion
when things don't look so hot at the moment.
- They're your therapy animals? - Yeah, exactly.
I appreciate that.
James, what about you? Who would you like to talk about?
I talk about Las Vegas a lot,
but I don't really shout out my childhood home
of Naperville, Illinois, where I still have
a lot of friends and family rooting me on.
Last time I went to visit there, actually,
I was out to lunch with my brother,
and a fan came up to the table.
And I was, like, bracing myself, like, OK, we can do this.
And then he came up and said, "Excuse me,
are you Ian Holzhauer, Naperville City Councilman?"
And this was, like, the-- it made his life, like--
Are you related to Ian Holzhauer, Naperville City Councilman?
You're just now finding out about this?
Exciting.
Well, you know, we have a little bit of time.
I don't know how big a place Naperville is.
But if you want to thank everyone in the city by name--
How about my dad, and my brother,
and my nieces and nephews, my sister-in-law,
and my friends, and--yeah.
That's a good start.
You've made a real Naperville dent.
My step-mom-- I've left my step-mom out.
Please put her in.
I think you just did.
All right, it's time for Double Jeopardy now.
Matt, you'll be selecting first.
Pick up your signaling devices,
and let's take a look at the categories
that may decide this game.
We'll begin with Nature.
Then we have Crossword Clues "AE,"
followed by 3-Named People,
then In This World,
It's Just Us,
You Know it's Not the Same As it Was.
There are two Daily Doubles on the board.
You know the drill by now.
If you want to know where they are,
keep looking.
All right, Matt, you're in third place. You begin.
Nature, 16.
The fragrant flowers of this plant
turn toward the sun, hence its name.
It's also the name for a shade of purple.
- Mattea. - What's heliotrope?
- Yes. - Nature, 12.
- Mattea. - What's mica?
- Yeah. - Nature, 2,000.
The answer there...
is a Daily Double.
You've pulled ahead of James, Mattea.
I think I had 7,400 last half, so we'll go 7,400 again.
All right.
Doubling up, if you're correct, in Nature,
here's your clue.
Malay gives us the name of this marine mammal
that's similar to a manatee.
What is a dugong?
Dugong is right.
And you widen your lead.
OK, In This World, 12.
- James? - What is the Ross shelf--
- Ross Ice Shelf? - That's right.
3-Named people, 12.
- Matt? - What's Goodwin?
Doris Kearns Goodwin is right.
In This World, 16.
- Mattea. - What's Asmara?
- Yeah. - 3-Named People, 16.
- James. - Who was Gould?
- Stephen Jay Gould. You got it. - 3-Named People, 8.
Stop the presses.
Here's a picture of this newspaper publisher.
- Matt? - What's Hearst?
William Randolph Hearst, right.
In This World, 8.
- Matt. - What's Mindanao?
- Right. - In This World, 2.
Well, that's the other Daily Double, Matt.
Now, the good news is, you kept them from James.
Unfortunately, you split them. What'll it be, Matt?
- 4,600. - I assumed so.
Here's your clue. In This World--
Guadalcanal is a Pacific island.
The same six letters start the name of this river
that flows through Southern Spain.
What's...
Guadaluivir?
No, I'm sorry. You missed a consonant.
There's a Q, Guadalquivir.
You were within one letter, but that drops you down to zero, Matt.
- I'm sorry. Select again. - 3-Named People, 2.
- Matt. - Ooh, um...
what's, uh, Turnbull?
No, I'm sorry.
James or Mattea?
That artist is Charles Willson Peale.
Back to you, Matt.
AE, 2,000.
- James? - What's the Aemir?
No, I'm sorry.
You were close, James. What are the Aesir? With an S.
- Matt? - AE, 16.
Windy type of harp, seven letters.
- James. - What's Aeolian?
- That's it. - AE, 12.
- Mattea. - What's the Aegean?
- Yes. - AE, 8.
- Matt. - What's aerosol?
- Correct. - It's Just Us, 2.
Sometimes it feels like "You and Me Against the World."
- Matt? - It's Just Us, 16.
This late singer and songwriter gave us
the classic songs of friendship, "Lean on Me"
and "Just the Two of Us."
- Mattea. - Who's Withers?
- Bill Withers. Right. - Just Us, 12.
- Matt. - What's "Warm Bodies"?
- Yes. - You Know, 2.
- Matt. - What's microbiome?
- Yes. - You Know, 16.
- Mattea. - What's an intimacy coordinator?
- That's the job. - Not the Same as it Was, 12.
It's now in more-diverse South Carolina.
- Mattea? - Not the Same as it Was, 8.
- Mattea. - What's objectivity?
- Right. - Not the Same as it Was, 4.
- James? - What's a clock?
- Yeah. There's a pitch clock now-- - Just Us, 8.
- Mattea. - What's "The Last Man on Earth"?
- Correct. - Just Us, 4.
- Mattea. - Who's Brooke Shields?
- Correct again. - This World, 4.
- Matt. - What's Olduvai?
- Yes. - Nature, 8.
Some clownfish have a mutualistic living
arrangement with this type of sea creature, seen here.
- Matt. - What's anemone?
- Yes. - Nature, 4.
- James. - What's tundra?
Still beating Mattea to the Canadian stuff.
AE, 4.
- James. - What is "Aeneid"?
- Right. - Bring it!
Final clue, 3-Named People.
- James. - Who is John Paul Jones?
John Paul Jones, yes, bringing you to 9,600.
But Mattea has quite a lead...
As we head into Final Jeopardy.
Now this is a two-game total point affair, of course,
so wagering can be tricky.
Let's remind the home viewers the scores you all earned
in the first half of tonight's episode.
All right, there they are.
Your Final Jeopardy category,
the last one of the Masters Tournament, will be...
Latin in Literature.
One more time, you'll make your wagers.
One more time, we'll take a break.
And then we'll return with the clue.
It all comes down to this.
Everything depends on our contestants' responses
in the category Latin in Literature.
Let's show them the clue.
30 seconds, masters. Good luck.
We'll begin with Matt Amodio, in third place, with 3,200.
His response, "Who will win?"
Matt's building the suspense.
I think--yeah, the third-place contestant should always be
a hype man in Final Jeopardy.
I like it. We can't give you credit, Matt.
You wagered...
nothing at all.
So you'll stay at 3,200 in this game.
And when we add in the 12,000 points you earned
in the previous game,
that brings you to 15,200.
James Holzhauer, well behind in second place,
with 9,600 points.
His response?
Who is T.H. White?
No, I'm sorry.
It's too early for T.H. White. So your wager of...
119 points will drop you down to 9,481.
But when we add in the 34,314 you earned
in the first half of tonight's match,
that brings you to 43,795.
Mattea Roach had a big lead, 22,800.
But they're shaking their head a little bit.
Their response?
Who is Chaucer?
No, I'm afraid that's incorrect.
Rex quondam, rexque futurus means
the once and future king,
talking about King Arthur.
This is Thomas Malory on the Arthurian legends.
So let's see what you wagered, Mattea.
Their bet, 5,915,
drops them down to 16,885.
When we add the 24,800 they earned in the first half,
it's not quite enough.
That brings them to 41,685.
James Holzhauer, they tested you to the limit.
But you are our first-ever
"Jeopardy! Masters" champion.
You played amazingly. Your dad's so proud of you.
- Your mom too. - Yeah.
Thanks.
Come join me over here, James,
the first-ever winner of the Trebek Trophy.
Congratulations.
And a $500,000 prize.
Mattea Roach finishes in second place
with 250,000 American dollars.
And it's $150,000 for Matt Amodio in third place.
It was an honor to watch you three play.
What a match. Congratulations.
That's "Jeopardy! Masters". Thank you so much for joining us.
These three will be back next year.
I'll be with you as well.
We'll see you then. So long, everyone.