Marko Saric is making a reputation for himself on Jeopardy! — he’s formally on this yr’s Champions Wildcard semifinals — however he’s additionally a giant fan of one other sport present filmed throughout the best way at Sony Photos Studios. Within the Jeopardy! episode airing on Friday, January 17, Saric shared he bought a shout-out from Wheel of Fortune letter-turner Vanna White.
That reveal got here throughout Friday’s contestant meet-and-greet, during which Saric reminded Jeopardy!viewers of the anecdote he shared in his first episode on the present — that he was a Wheel fan who would “mimic Vanna White’s motions as she would stroll throughout the stage” when he was a child.
Seems, phrase of Saric’s fandom reached White, and White reached out to Saric. “I truly acquired a personalised video message from Vanna after that episode,” Saric instructed Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings. “So it doesn’t matter what occurs right here, I can die glad.”
Jennings requested if White’s video message included any suggestions.
“No, ’trigger I feel she doesn’t need anybody coming for her job,” Saric quipped.
“Precisely,” Jennings replied. “She will let you know’re a menace.”
Saric, a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is actually on a menace on Jeopardy! On the finish of Friday’s sport, he defeated Will Weiss, a technical program supervisor from Islip, New York, and Adam Hersh, a lawyer from Brooklyn, New York, in Friday’s episode.
Hersh was within the lead on the finish of Friday’s Jeopardy spherical, however after discovering each Every day Doubles within the Double Jeopardy spherical, Saric emerged in first place by the point Ultimate Jeopardy got here round.
Not one of the three contestants responded with the right query to the Ultimate Jeopardy reply. (It was Alexander Hamilton, it seems, who “wrote of his intent ‘to order & throw away my first fireplace, & I’ve ideas even of reserving my second fireplace.’”) Saric wagered nothing on that spherical and superior to the semifinals; Hersh, in the meantime, guess and misplaced all of his $18,600 rating, a lot to followers’ confusion, and didn’t advance.
Now Saric will face off towards Mehal Shah, a software program engineer from Seattle, Washington, and Paul Clauson, a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan, within the episode airing on Wednesday, January 22. Maybe Vanna White shall be watching!
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