Jeopardy! champion Brendan Liaw suffered what one fan known as an “completely brutal” Day by day Double loss, however he isn’t rueing his misfortune. A lot.
Within the episode airing Friday, Might 23, Jeopardy! judges decreed that Liaw stated “Lady with the Pearl Earring” as an alternative of “Lady With a Pearl Earring” in a Day by day Double query concerning the 2003 movie during which Colin Firth performed the artist Johannes Vermeer.
Liaw had guess all of his $8,200 on that Day by day Double, so he dropped to zero, and by the top of the Double Jeopardy! spherical, he was within the purple and subsequently ineligible to affix the Last Jeopardy! spherical. And thus Liaw’s three-game successful streak ended.
@ctvnews Since he was somewhat boy, Brendan Liaw has wished to be a contestant on Jeopardy! “Very early on, I spotted that I used to be getting fairly a couple of of the solutions,” stated Liaw. “And so it shortly grew to become a lifelong objective.” He was a member of a trivia crew in highschool, and has a knack for memorizing data. After two 50-question on-line checks, a mock sport and an interview, the 27-year-old from Richmond was chosen to be a Jeopardy! contestant. He flew to Los Angeles and taped his first episode on March 17. Liaw has a grasp’s diploma from UBC, however thought that description sounded boring. So, when it got here time to speak to host Ken Jennings, he mentioned the title he selected for himself on the present: stay-at-home son. “I determine, , if I lose, I’d as effectively make some folks snigger,” stated Liaw. “I feel it’s good to be enjoyable and never simply, , severe trivia man. In order that was my reasoning behind the title.” #ctvnews #information #canada ♬ authentic sound – CTVNews
In a Reddit remark concerning the episode, Liaw jokingly blamed his loss on Conan O’Brien, whom he’d hailed within the contestant Q&A phase of Friday’s episode, which he apparently filmed again in March.
“So you know the way in theatre they name Macbeth the ‘Scottish play’? I’m beginning to assume Conan ought to be known as the ‘Irish host’ on TV,” Liaw wrote. “[I] invoked his identify on St. Patrick’s Day and instantly received the curse of the Irish/regardless of the reverse of the ‘present of gab’ is.”
Liaw stated that the “fatigue hit” throughout that sport, during which he had “numerous close to misses … and saved forgetting class names.” He additionally recommended his “tremendous educated” rivals, David Crockett, a congressional liaison from Washington, D.C., and Jim Carpenter, a retired music professor and conductor from Charlotte, Vermont.
“Jim and David have been lightning on the buzzer, particularly on these music and regulation clues,” Liaw wrote.
As for that Lady with a Peal Earring Day by day Double? “No regrets in any respect concerning the DD wager,” Liaw stated. “I promised myself I’d play to win and to not play to not lose. That’s what I did — I went out [with] weapons blazing.”
Liaw added that he hopes he makes the Event of Champions outright, however he acknowledged that Season 41 has had “fairly a couple of” champions with successful streaks of 4 days or extra, and the season isn’t even over but.
“I’ll at the very least be again for one thing although, whether or not [Champions Wildcard] or [Tournament of Champions]! It was a dream come true to even win one not to mention three video games, and the three wins weren’t too shabby performance-wise,” he wrote. “Because of all my rivals this week — I really feel we have been a fairly sturdy group total, and everybody was pretty and fascinating and good. Because of everybody who cheered me on, and I’m eternally grateful I received to grace your screens for the previous 4 days.”
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