Day one of Jeopardy's hugely anticipated Greatest of All Time tournament goes to...Ken Jennings
Frasier vibes in the middle. Photo: Eric McCandless/ABC via Getty Images Ready, set, buzz! The first match of Jeopardy!’s hotly anticipated Greatest of All Time tournament aired on Tuesday evening, with ultimate smarty boys Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, and Brad Rutter duking it out in the intellectual battle of the ages. Match One ended with Jennings as the victor by a very slim margin, which was made possible, unsurprisingly, by those fickle mistresses known as Daily Doubles.
First Place: Ken Jennings, $63,400 In the first game, Jennings, aided by locating a Daily Double and making it “true” , went into the Final Jeopardy round with $33,200. He and his fellow opponents answered the Presidents and Bible category correctly, with him earning $45,000 in total. Jennings’s second game was a bit more modest thanks to a lack of Daily Doubles, and he went into Final Jeopardy! with $18,400.
Second Place: James Holzhauer, $63,200 Shockingly, Holzhauer didn’t find any Daily Doubles in this match, but was still nearly able to pass Jennings by a $200 margin. He went into the first Final Jeopardy with $16,600 and busted out his all-in moves to double it to $33,200. Holzhauer’s second round was also similar, with $15,000 being doubled to $30,000, giving him a socloseithurts total of $63,200.
Third Place: Brad Rutter, $10,400 Daily Doubles were Rutter’s kryptonite throughout the entirety of the match: Despite landing on three , Rutter answered them all incorrectly and bet them “true” each time. Because of this, his considerably trailed his opponents the entire hour. He went into the first Final Jeopardy round with $5,200 and successfully doubled it to $10,400.
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