James Holzhauer and Ken Jennings appear to be at war once more.
The Illinois native, 38, played a round of “Jeopardy! Masters” on Monday with Jennings, 48, because the host, and the 2 hilariously trolled one another in the course of the tournament.
Within the Final Jeopardy! segment, Holzhauer was within the lead and the clue read: “Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown.”
Once the primary two contestants scribed their responses, Jennings stated that Holzhauer had already begun to put in writing down his answer while the previous was still reading the hint.
“What bridge did he consider?” Jennings wondered.
Holzhauer didn’t write down his reply to the query, nonetheless, he did pen the statement: “Stop ducking a rematch, Ken.”
The trivia show emcee couldn’t help but burst into laughter and shot back: “You recognize how much work I needed to go to to get all the best way over here at this lectern and avoid having to play you again, James?”
Holzhauer then referenced the “ducking” little bit of his remark, noting: “That is autocorrected, by the best way.”
Holzhauer and the Washington native are each big champs of the long-running game show, having gone head-to-head within the ABC series’ “Jeopardy! The Biggest of All Time” tournament back in January 2020.
Jennings had emerged victorious by winning three games, with Holzhauer scoring one match.
“Jeopardy! Masters” saw the return of several of the show’s most triumphant champions, including Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach, Andrew He, Sam Buttrey and Holzhauer.
Jennings and Holzhauer also went at it on Twitter last yr, jokingly feuding on the social media platform.
Holzhauer tweeted a snap of the Indianapolis Colts leading by 33 points at halftime against the Minnesota Vikings in December.
The Colts wound up scoring 39 points to win the sport on the time, and it was considered the largest comeback within the NFL.
“Eerie photos taken just before tragedy hit,” he wrote on Twitter of the uneven halftime rating.
Jennings then couldn’t keep his fingers off of his keyboard and felt the necessity to gleefully answer back his old rival.
He posted a photograph of himself and his co-player within the replies section of the tweet from the “Biggest Of All-Time” game.
The photo was taken before the “Final Jeopardy!” round of the primary contest of the second match of the trivia bout.
Holzhauer won that match with 32,400 points and Jennings had just 22,000. Despite Holzhauer’s first match win, Jennings then went on to overcome your complete trivia event.
The skilled sports gambler currently has the title for highest single-game winnings, but falls behind the “Brainiac” creator in most consecutive games won, in keeping with Jeopardy! records.
