Mina Kimes‘ degree in English from Yale served her well in the finale of “Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars”: The ESPN football analyst correctly answered the show’s game-deciding trivia question to win the $1 million top prize for her charity.
The show’s final episode, which aired Firday evening on ABC, featured Kimes squaring off against actor-comedians Ike Barinholtz and Steven Weber.
Going into Final Jeopardy!, Kimes had a score of $12,500; Weber followed with $10,500; and Barinholtz stood at $5,100. The clue in the category, “Name’s the Same,” was: “It’s the name of an 1873 novel subtitled ‘A Tale of Today,’ a period of U.S. history & a TV drama that debuted in 2022.”
The correct (spoiler) answer: “The Gilded Age,” which was the novel penned by Mark Twain as well as the HBO show of the same name. Barinholtz had the correct response and doubled his score, but he couldn’t catch Kimes, who also got the Final Jeopardy! question to win the tournament.
Kimes won $1 million for L.A.’s SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, while Barinholtz won $200,000 for the Noonan Syndrome Foundation and Weber won $200,000 for New Directions for Veterans.
