What is…Not the Mueller Report?

(The category was Big News and the answer was: James Holzhauer’s $1.7-million Jeopardy! run, now the most anticipated ongoing story of the spring.)

Let’s get down to business. Pick up your signaling buttons.

Category: Analytics.

Answer: This web site, apparently beaten to the punch by James Holzhauer, posted a chart on the frequency of where the Jeopardy! Daily Doubles have been located over the past 18 years.

What is…Fivethirtyeight.com?

Category: Close But No Cigar.

Answer: Brandeis University sports information direction Adam Levin got within this much money—closer than anyone else—of beating James Holzhauer so far.

What is…$18?

Category: Sour grapes.

Answer: Former non-winning Jeopardy! contestant Charles Lane’s description of James Holzhauer in a Washington Post column.

What is…a “menace”?

Category: Curmudgeon at Large.

Answer: Vanity Fair’s Daniel D’Addario’s take on James Holzhauer’s Jeopardy! dominance.

What is…“boring” and “deadly dull television”?

Category: Believe It or Not.

Answer: James Holzhauer’s winning strategy, according to the satiric “news source” The Onion.

What is…Threatening other contestants with a nail-studded baseball bat during commercial breaks?

Category: Not Hair Brained.

Answer: Washington Post columnist Norman Chad wrote that James Holzhauer outranks Albert Einstein’s IQ because Holzhauer is this.

What is…a “buzzer genius”?

Category: Sports.

Answer: James Holzhauer’s stated dream job, according to an interview posted by The Athletic.

What is…Major League Baseball general manager?

Category: Homophones.

Answer: A Jeopardy! contestant closely related to James Holzhauer’s adventure.

What is…kin Jennings?

Category: Nostradamus. DAILY DOUBLE.

(I’ve always wanted to say this, Alex: Let’s make it a true Daily Double.)

Answer: The most likely person to finally beat James Holzhaeur.

Who is…Not me?