“Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings, left, stands with contestant Tom Zulewski, who's from Washington, Utah. Jeopardy! Productions, Inc.
Though he gained $50,000 on “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire?” Tom Zulewski wasn’t content material with closing the sport present chapter of his life simply but — he nonetheless had his eye on one other common present that rewards its contestants for possessing a love of all issues trivia.
And on Friday — roughly 5 years after his look on “Millionaire” — it lastly occurred. Zulewski, a sports activities author and creator from Washington, Utah, made his long-awaited debut on “Jeopardy!”
Tom Zulewski seems on ‘Jeopardy!’
Final Friday’s recreation coated all the pieces from nation singers to James Bond to atomic numbers. Within the first spherical, Zulewski landed on the Day by day Double early on and opted to wager $1,000 on the next clue: “The subtitle to this H.G. Wells novel is ‘A Grotesque Romance.’”
He didn’t give you the reply host Ken Jennings was in search of — “The Invisible Man” (he supplied up “The Skinny Man”) — and was within the gap. However after getting a couple of right responses, Zulewski made it again on the board forward of the primary industrial break.
However going into the second spherical, Zulewski was nonetheless far behind with $800 — Alex Gordon, a medical scholar from Somers, New York, was in first with $6,600; and Raquel Stewart, an accountant from Austin, Texas, was in second with $3,800.
The momentum would stay in Gordon’s favor for the rest of the sport. Gordon was the one contestant to get a Day by day Double proper, and by the point Last Jeopardy got here round, the contestant had $16,300 and couldn't be caught (Stewart, in second place, had $7,800; and Zulewski — who appropriately answered two questions on nation singers back-to-back on the final second ) — completed with $2,400).
The Last Jeopardy clue fell below the class “Historical past and Nature”: “In March 1519, these have been once more seen in mainland North America for the primary time in 10,000 years with the arrival of 16 of them.”
The reply: Horses.
Together with his victory secured, Gordon wagered solely $200 and introduced his recreation complete as much as $16,500, and two-day complete to $41,500, in response to The Jeopardy Fan web site.
Gordon misplaced his third recreation Monday evening.
The clues that stumped all three contestants on ‘Jeopardy!’
Final Friday’s recreation was pretty powerful — in response to “Jeopardy!” archives, the next six clues stumped all three contestants (solutions will be discovered on the very backside of the article):
Class: I’ve bought your atomic quantity.
Clue: It’s important to smartphone batteries.
Class: A bridge too far.
Clue: A bridge over 200 years outdated throughout a canyon in Málaga, Spain, is named this, harking back to one in Paris that’s over 400 years outdated.
Class: A bridge too far.
Clue: The information on this bridge constructed within the 1590s is making espresso on the steps by the Grand Canal can get you a hefty tremendous.
Class: We stay in a society.
Clue: This French thinker’s multi-volume ‘Historical past of Sexuality’ discusses energy dynamics in society.
Class: Behind the Bond.
Clue: A fan letter calling the Beretta ‘a girl’s gun’ prompted Fleming to modify Bond’s gun to this German sort.
Class: Just one consonant.
Clue: On the ocean backside, globigerina is a kind of this gooey mud containing useless organisms.
Plenty of Utah contestants on ‘Jeopardy!’ this season
Zulewski is the most recent in a string of Utah contestants to look on “Jeopardy!” this season, together with Jordan Davis, a non-public music instructor and choir director from Draper; and Suzanne Zgraggen, the Educational and Group Applications supervisor at Utah’s Hogle Zoo.
Zulewski’s episode, which was filmed in Could, was initially imagined to characteristic host Mayim Bialik, however Bialik stepped down in the course of the closing week of filming out of assist for the continuing writers strike, the Deseret Information beforehand reported.
The Utah contestant lately opened up about competing on “Jeopardy!” in a chunk shared July 10 on Iron County At the moment.
“It’s a terrific factor to win a recreation, but it surely’s an excellent better factor to have the ability to overcome some very lengthy odds simply to be within the second,” he wrote, noting that he'll present particulars on this third-place end at a later date.
For Zgraggen, getting on “Jeopardy!” took 15 years. And though she didn’t win, like Zulewski, she loved each second.
“Each single person who I met throughout this course of — all the ‘Jeopardy!’ employees and crew and each one of many contestants — was simply actually, very nice, prime to backside,” she beforehand instructed the Deseret Information. “It was such a enjoyable expertise. It was far more enjoyable than I assumed.”
(Solutions: 1. cobalt; 2. New Bridge (Puente Nuevo); 3. Rialto Bridge; 4. Michel Foucault; 5. a Walther; 6. ooze).