Mina Kimes wins ‘Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars Finale, Landing $1 Million for Charity
Mina Kimes’ English degree from Yale served her well in the finals of “Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars”: the ESPN football analyst correctly answered the show’s game-changing trivia question to win the $1 million grand prize for her charity.
The show’s final episode, which aired Friday night on ABC, pitted Kimes against actor-comedians Ike Barinholtz and Steven Weber.
When Kimes’ Final Jeopardy! going into it, he had a score of $12,500; Weber followed with $10,500; and Barinholtz amounted to $5,100. The clue in the “Name is the same” category was: “It is the name of an 1873 novel subtitled ‘A Tale of Today,’ a period in American history and a TV drama that debuted in 2022.”
The correct (spoiler) answer: “The Gilded Age,” the novel written by Mark Twain, as well as the HBO show of the same name. Barinholtz got the answer right and doubled his score, but he couldn’t catch Kimes, who also got the Final Jeopardy! ask to win the tournament.
Kimes won $1 million for LA’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.
Kimes is an NFL analyst, senior writer, podcast host and television contributor for ESPN who first joined ESPN The Magazine in 2014. She appears on the network’s “NFL Live” and provides football analysis on “SportsCenter,” “First Take” and other programs. Kimes has graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a bachelor of arts in English.
The “Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars” tournament featured 21 participants. Those were the winners of the three seasons of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” – Barinholtz, Lisa Ann Walter and W. Kamau Bell – plus the following: Mark Duplass, Rachel Dratch, Andy Richter, Macaulay Culkin, Cynthia Nixon, Margaret Cho, Ray Romano, Katie Nolan, Mina Kimes, Steven Weber, Sean Gunn, Roy Wood Jr., Patton Oswalt, Robin Thede, Mo Rocca, Timothy Simons, Jackie Tohn and Mira Sorvino. The show aired on ABC and the next day the episodes were available on Hulu.
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