“Jeopardy” star James Holzhauer kept his incredible run alive with his 18th win on Monday night but it was also his closest, as he won by just $18 bucks.
Wow.
The man who almost took him down was Adam Levin, a 46-year-old sports information directer at Brandeis College in Massachusetts.
Holzhauer finished with $54,017, edging Levin who had $53,999. The win brings Holzhauer’s 18-day total to $1,329,604.
ESPN has the details on the finish:
Monday’s episode was the second time during his streak that a competitor went into Final Jeopardy! within striking range of Holzhauer. Levin, a 46-year-old spokesperson for the athletic department of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, trailed Holzhauer by $6,517 heading into Final Jeopardy! Holzhauer wagered $20,500, and Levin bet $26,999 on the category “Organizations.”
Both competitors came through with the correct response to, “The oldest of these business booster groups, formed in Marseille in 1599, uses ‘de’ instead of ‘of’ in the name.” Each wrote: “Chamber of Commerce.”
Fans were freaking out down the stretch, as this might have been as intense as Sunday night’s “Game of Thrones” episode:
