It’s only night time two of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Match and there’s already beef. Three extra all-time Jeopardy! champs took their locations behind the rostrum on Tuesday, February 18, after Matt Amodio, 2022 Match of Champions semifinalist, gained spherical one, securing his spot within the subsequent spherical by beating Hannah Wilson, an 8-time champion in Season 39 in 2023 and 2024 TOC quarterfinalist, and Doug Molitor, a novelist from Altadena, California.
In recreation two, Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania confronted off in opposition to Jaskaran Singh, a guide from Plano, Texas, and Skyler Hornback, a chemical engineering Ph.D. scholar initially from Sonora, Kentucky. However, Shelton’s beef wasn’t together with her present contestants.
Throughout introductions, host Ken Jennings introduced up the meat.
“I perceive you might be right here as a result of you may have beef. You wish to air grievances,” he mentioned.
“Sure. The final time I used to be right here Brian Chang snaked a query about Pittsburgh out from beneath me,” Shelton knowledgeable Jennings. “Roberto Clemente. I knew it. It was within the palm of my hand to be a hero.”
“A hero for Pittsburgh,” Jennings mentioned.
Shelton agreed with him as the sport present host knowledgeable her that Chang is definitely sitting within the viewers proper now. The digital camera panned to him, he waved, and the viewers laughed.
“Do you know that he was right here simply to shoutout his unfairness?” he requested.
“Oh, Completely,” Shelton mentioned. “We’re in communications.”
“That’s good to know. Properly, if there’s any Roberto Clemente materials, Brian, you aren’t allowed to shout it out from the stands right now. Mums the phrase,” Jennings mentioned.
Shelton and Chang confronted off in opposition to one another within the 2022 Match of Champions, together with Tyler Rhode. Shelton got here in second and Chang got here in third, so regardless of him stealing a clue from her, she nonetheless beat him. Rhode gained the competitors.
Nonetheless, Shelton could have beef with one in every of her present contestants as a result of she didn’t take house the win. In reality, she was in final place after the primary business break with $400. Singh, first Nationwide Faculty Championship winner, was main with $3,600 and Hornback, who was on Jeopardy! Youngsters Week in 2013, had $2,200. Shelton solely answered three questions accurately. By the top of the primary spherical, Shelton weaseled her approach to second place with $2,800, however Hornback was not far behind her with $2,700. Singh had $5,600.
With the way in which the contestants answered the questions (going so as), the Every day Doubles have been buried, Shelton wager an excessive amount of on the third Every day Double, making her too far out of competition if she obtained it flawed, and he or she did.
Going into the ultimate, Shelton was in final place with $6,200. Hornback wasn’t far behind with $7,100. Nonetheless, Singh blew the opposite two out of the water with $21,800. Singh was the one contestant to reply the ultimate Jeopardy! query accurately.
The class was “Supreme Court docket Selections.” “This landmark case was reported within the N.Y. Instances not on the entrance web page however on the ‘information of the railroads,’” was the questions.
Shelton didn’t have a solution and wagered all of her cash, making her last complete $0. Hornback answered incorrectly with “What’s Pullman vs. United States?” and wagered $3,500, making his complete $3,600. Nonetheless, they have been each going house with $5,000 from the present. Singh answered “What’s Plessy v. Ferguson?” and wagered $0. He went house with $21,800 and can advance to the semi-finals.
The competitors continues tomorrow, Wednesday, with three new contestants – Emily Sands, S37 3-time Champion and Champions Wildcard winner, Rachael Schwartz, first feminine contestant to win ToC, and Jonathan Fisher, highest-winning and longest-streaking large killer.
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