{"id":2442842,"date":"2026-06-03T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2442842"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:13:06","slug":"mina-kimes-wins-celebrity-jeopardy-all-stars-final-landing-1m-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mina-kimes-wins-celebrity-jeopardy-all-stars-final-landing-1m-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mina Kimes Wins &#8216;Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars&#8217; Final, Landing $1M for Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/mina-kimes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mina-kimes\" data-tag=\"mina-kimes\">Mina Kimes<\/a>\u2018 degree in English from Yale served her well in the finale of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/celebrity-jeopardy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_celebrity-jeopardy\" data-tag=\"celebrity-jeopardy\">Celebrity Jeopardy!<\/a> All-Stars\u201d: The ESPN football analyst correctly answered the show\u2019s game-deciding trivia question to win the $1 million top prize for her charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show\u2019s final episode, which aired Friday evening on ABC, featured Kimes squaring off against actor-comedians Ike Barinholtz and Steven Weber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGoing into Final <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jeopardy-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeopardy-2\" data-tag=\"jeopardy-2\">Jeopardy<\/a>!, Kimes had a score of $12,500; Weber followed with $10,500; and Barinholtz stood at $5,100. The clue in the category, \u201cName\u2019s the Same,\u201d was: \u201cIt\u2019s the name of an 1873 novel subtitled \u2018A Tale of Today,\u2019 a period of U.S. history &amp; a TV drama that debuted in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe correct (spoiler) answer: \u201cThe Gilded Age,\u201d 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\u2019t catch Kimes, who also got the Final Jeopardy! question to win the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKimes won $1 million for L.A.\u2019s SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, while Barinholtz won $200,000 for the Noonan Syndrome Foundation and Weber won $200,000 for New Directions for Veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKimes 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\u2019s \u201cNFL Live\u201d and provides football analysis on \u201cSportsCenter,\u201d \u201cFirst Take\u201d and other programs. Kimes graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a bachelor of arts in English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cCelebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars\u201d tournament featured 21 contestants. Those were the winners of the three seasons of \u201cCelebrity Jeopardy!\u201d \u2014 Barinholtz, Lisa Ann Walter and W. Kamau Bell \u2014 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 with episodes available the next day on Hulu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cJeopardy!\u201d is produced by Sony Pictures Television and executive produced by Michael Davies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mina Kimes\u2018 degree in English from Yale served her well in the finale of \u201cCelebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars\u201d: The ESPN football analyst correctly answered the show\u2019s game-deciding trivia question to win the $1 million top prize for her charity. The show\u2019s final episode, which aired Friday evening on ABC, featured Kimes squaring off against actor-comedians Ike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[393498,354659,477209],"class_list":["post-2442842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrity-jeopardy","tag-jeopardy","tag-mina-kimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mina-Kimes-Wins-Celebrity-Jeopardy-All-Stars-Final-Landing-1M-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442844,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442842\/revisions\/2442844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}