When most Jeopardy! contestants get the decision to be on the sport present, they instantly start learning, or they sometimes have a previous data of trivia. This wasn’t the case for present champion Jim Carpenter.
Carpenter, from Charlotte, Virginia, defeated three-day champion Brendan Liaw on Friday, Might 23. Liaw made dangerous wagers on his Day by day Doubles, leading to him having -$1,600 by the tip of the sport. He couldn’t compete in Ultimate Jeopardy. Carpenter gave the right reply leaving him with a complete of $25,601 and made him the winner. He returned to compete in his second recreation on Monday, Might 26 and was defeated by “beast” Judith Friedman, ending his time on the present.
Now, the retired music professor is talking out concerning the odd method that he ready for the sport present. In an interview along with his native NBC5 station, Carpenter mentioned, “I haven’t actually achieved quite a lot of trivia. There was a reasonably quick time between getting the decision and after I needed to be on the market for the taping. So at that time, I simply determined I do know what I do know.”
Nonetheless, he did develop up watching Jeopardy! along with his dad. “My father was a specific devotee of the present, so we might watch collectively and attempt to beat one another to the appropriate solutions,” Carpenter instructed the outlet.
Regardless of not being a trivia whiz, the contestant shared that he had been taking the web anytime quiz for years. When he lastly obtained the decision to be on the present, he mentioned it was “surreal.” “I really checked out my cellphone, and it was a California quantity that I didn’t acknowledge, and I mentioned, nicely, perhaps that is spam from California. My spouse mentioned to me, ‘That is likely to be Jeopardy! Why don’t you reply it?”
The conductor shared with the outlet that his expertise in entrance of crowds and with college students helped him on the present. “I believe in all probability one of many issues that helped essentially the most when it comes to getting by means of the method was a long time of doing issues like New York Occasions crossword puzzles, and simply studying in quite a lot of totally different topics, quite a lot of totally different areas,” he ended.
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