AKRON, Ohio — Akron resident Terry Heard Jr.’s tenure as “Jeopardy!” champion unfortunately was short.

Heard, who won big on Friday, had $8,400 in the first round to lead challengers MacKenzie Jones ($7,400) and Tom Ellison ($2,200) in Monday night’s game. But Jones took over in Double Jeopardy! with aggressive Daily Double gamble, eventually finishing with $26,400 and easily defeating Heard and Ellison.

Still, it was a good effort from Heard, an aircraft maintainer from Akron resident, who finished his two-day run with $19,663.

In Monday’s game, Heard looked strong in the first round, quickly finding a Daily Double under the category “Hyde.” He bet his entire $3,200 on the clue “Anne Hyde was the mother of two British queens, Anne and this woman who married William III.” Heard correctly answered “Who is Mary?" to double his score to $6,400 and give him a $4,200 lead over Jones.

However, by the end of the first round Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, Oklahoma, trailed Heard by only $1,000. In Double Jeopardy!, she found a Daily Double in the category Art Subjects and with $13,800, she bet $13,000. The clue: “Anna McNeill was arranged in gray and black for a work by this artist, her son.” Jones correctly responded “Who is Whistler?”

Final Jeopardy was a foregone conclusion, with Jones at $26,400, Heard at $10,800 and Ellison at $4,600. The category was Screen and Stage, with the clue “This 2007 movie came to Broadway with an all-female creative team, including book and direction and with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles.”

Heard was stumped, so he responded “What is the answer to this clue?” He bet only $420 and finished second with $10,380. Ellison didn’t answer and finished with $263. Jones correctly responded “What is ‘Waitress?’” but risked nothing with the win guaranteed.

Heard won Friday’s game after a rough start ... early in the game he was $1,400 in the hole, and he trailed the leader by $2,000 after the Jeopardy! round. However, he rallied during Double Jeopardy! and took the lead for good with a daring bet on a Daily Double.

Under the category Trees Grow on Money, Heard bet $9,800, correctly responding to this answer: “A former Italian lire coin shows Minerva grasping one of these four trees big in Italian agriculture.” The question: “What is an olive tree.”

Heard incorrectly answered the Final Jeopardy! question, but it didn’t matter because he had a commanding $12,000 lead. He finished with $17,663.

“Jeopardy” airs each weeknight at 7:30 p.m. on WOIO Channel 19 in the Cleveland area.