“Jeopardy!” champ James Holzhauer has comely broken one more bid.
On Tuesday’s episode, the 34-year-extinct surpassed $1 million in the shortest time ever. His $118,816 prefer put his total take dangle of at $1,061,554 million after 14 games.
That is the third separate bid Holzhauer has shattered since he began competing on the game point to. Closing Wednesday, he won the episode with a total of $131,127, topping the one-day bid he assign earlier in his breeze of $110,914.
‘JEOPARDY!’ CHAMP BREAKS 1-DAY RECORD A SECOND TIME
James Holzhauer shattered one more “Jeopardy!” bid. (Jeopardy Productions, Inc. through AP, File)
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Earlier than Holzhauer got here along, the one-day bid was once held by Roger Craig on September 19, 2010, when he took house $77,000 in a single recreation.
What was once even more thrilling was once that Holzhauer’s first bid-breaking prize, $110,914, held a decided numerical significance — or not it’s his daughter birthday. She was once born on November 9, 2014 (11/09/14).
“I said all along that I needed to interrupt Roger Craig’s one-recreation bid and I did it,” Holzhauer said.
Fox News’ Jessica Napoli contributed to this bid.
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