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"Peril!" James Holzhauer finished his 33-day career in the televised game show, where he won a total of $ 2,464,216.
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"Jeopardy!" Star James Holzhauer finished his 33-day televised game Monday, earning a total of $ 2,464,216 – just $ 56,484 from Ken Jennings' all time record.

Once the carnage was over, Holzhauer also got Jennings an appropriate tribute to the superhero.

Jennings tweeted a photo of the mighty super villain Thanos, who annihilated half of the Avengers in "Avengers: Infinity War" and continued the carnage in "Avengers: Endgame".

"Real photo of James Holzhauer coming out of the scene at Jeopardy, his reign of destruction completed," Jennings wrote in his tweet.

The respect.

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Holzhauer honored him with a tweet to him.

"You win this round," he tweeted to Jennings. "But if Jeopardy ever gives me 43 parts of the second chance, be careful!"

Jennings was a great sport watching the professional player Holzhauer compete on "Jeopardy!," Going up while approaching his 2004 record. He used words such as "gobsmacked" to describe his feelings while watching Holzhauer compete .

"For 15 years, I thought someone would try their luck with this album because I always knew it could be done – I was there," Jennings told Good Morning. America "last month. "I know it is possible.

"What I did not expect, is that someone can beat the cash register in a third of the time," he said. "It's really amazing, what it does."

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