Cris Pannullo is the most recent tremendous champion on “Jeopardy!” Jeopardy Productions Inc.
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Who's Cris Pannullo on ‘Jeopardy!’?
Cris Pannullo is the most recent “Jeopardy!” tremendous champ, with 19 victories to his title as of Dec. 1.
Pannullo, a buyer success operations supervisor from Ocean Metropolis, New Jersey, is now No. 7 — tied with Jason Zuffranieri and David Madden — on the present’s Leaderboard of Legends for many consecutive video games received. He additionally ranks No. 5 for highest winnings in regular-season play, most not too long ago surpassing 23-game champ Mattea Roach with $600,000-plus winnings.
But it surely’ll doubtless be some time earlier than he can transfer increased in that latter rating — No. 4 for highest common season winnings is 40-game champion Amy Schneider, who accrued $1,382,800 throughout her large run.
At the same time as he’s risen by means of the present’s rankings, Pannullo stated he hasn’t felt an excessive amount of strain.
“I believe it in all probability impacts my opponents extra to listen to they’re going in opposition to somebody with an enormous streak as a result of to me, it’s mainly the identical factor each time,” he not too long ago instructed “Jeopardy!”
Pannullo — who has drawn numerous comparisons to “Jeopardy!” nice James Holzhauer for going straight to the highest-valued clues and making giant wagers — has already secured a spot within the subsequent “Jeopardy!” Match of Champions, per TV Insider. This 12 months’s event, honoring champions from Season 38, concluded in November, with Schneider taking the victory in an exhilarating six-game finals, the Deseret Information reported.
“Jeopardy!” isn’t Pannullo’s first brush with TV recreation reveals — he appeared on “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire?” in 2018, TV Insider reported. Not like “Jeopardy!” although, his winnings on that present stopped at $5,000.
‘Jeopardy!’ clues Cris Pannullo has missed
To this point throughout his run, Pannullo has missed the next seven Ultimate Jeopardy clues, per statistics supplied on TheJeopardyFan.com:
(Solutions are supplied on the backside of the article.)
- Earlier than they had been authors: “Whereas working for British naval intelligence throughout World Struggle II, he was code-named 17F.”
- Asian nation names: “Just like the T-U-V in Tuvalu, this landlocked nation has three consecutive letters in its English title in alphabetic sequence.”
- Journey: “The 1948 version of this publication stated, ‘There will probably be a day ... within the close to future when this information won't need to be revealed.”
- Authors: “That includes a statue of a person escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 journey novel.”
- Musical theater: “The pair on the middle of tumult on this long-running present had been initially to be a Jewish lady and a Catholic boy.”
- Kids’s authors: “Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie however spent a lot of her life in New England.”
- Flags of our hemisphere: “The celebs on this nation’s flag symbolize states, 26 of them; not like the USA’s, its ‘federal district’ will get its personal twenty seventh star.”
(Solutions: Ian Fleming; Afghanistan; Inexperienced Ebook; Jules Vernes; “West Aspect Story”; Sarah Wheaton from “Sarah, Plain and Tall”; Brazil)