Bazinga! Jeopardy! followers assume the brand new two-time champion, Liam Starnes, appears precisely like Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) from The Huge Bang Concept. Some followers assume he might even be Sheldon’s youthful brother. His two-day whole is $52,802, and he can be again on April 22 for his third recreation.
Starnes, from Barrington, Illinois, is an undergraduate scholar on the College of Chicago, in keeping with his LinkedIn. There, he research information science and statistics. Starnes can also be the vice chairman of the school bowl and made the dean’s listing in 2022.
The sport present contestant revealed on Monday’s (April 21) episode that he had a Jeopardy!-themed party when he was youthful. He stated all of the decorations have been Jeopardy! themed, and the party-goers performed a spherical of the sport. Host Ken Jennings additionally revealed Starnes was born when he had his first run on Jeopardy! 20 years in the past. In his first episode, Starnes revealed that he has {a photograph} of himself on the Worldwide Area Station.
Starnes was a semi-finalist within the 2017 Illinois Nationwide Geographic State Spelling Bee. He was additionally a semi-finalist in 2014.
Nonetheless, probably the most interesting factor followers take into consideration him is that they assume he appears like a younger Sheldon Cooper.
“I assumed Liam bears a resemblance to Dr. Sheldon Cooper,” a Reddit person stated.
“I stated the identical factor,” one other person wrote.
“That is the remark I got here right here for,” stated one other.
“I by no means doubted teenage Sheldon for a minute! Congrats Liam #jeopardy,” an X person wrote.
“Liam appears like an actual life Sheldon Cooper #jeopardy,” tweeted one more on social meda.
“Liam appears like Sheldon Cooper’s little brother. #Jeopardy,” stated one other. Nonetheless, Sheldon solely has an older brother, George, so Liam might be the right youthful brother.
“Huge time Sheldon Cooper vibes from Liam #jeopardy,” tweeted a fan.
“Liam jogs my memory of Sheldon copper in probably the most loving method,” a Reddit person on one other thread wrote.
“My dad thought that, which is humorous, as a result of Maja jogs my memory of Mayim Bialik (Amy). Bob doesn’t remind me of any BBT characters, although,” a fan replied to them. Bialik was cohost with Ken Jennings earlier than getting fired from Jeopardy!.