[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the September 13 episode of Jeopardy!] The semi-finals for the first week of Jeopardy!‘s Second Chance Tournament are complete, and the Wednesday, September 13 game delivered a Final Jeopardy upset that saw the third-place player pull ahead for the win. Competing in tonight’s game was Hari Parameswaran, a hardware engineer from Cupertino, California; Donna Vorreyer, a writer and retired educator from Willowbrook, Illinois; and Matt Wierman, an aerospace engineer from La Palma, California. At stake for the winner was the last slot in the two-day finals, where the winner will play against the September 12 winner, David Maybury, and the September 11 (Season 40 premiere) winner Jill Tucker. Whomever has the highest dollar amount in winnings after the Friday, September 15 game wins Week 1 and will return to compete against the winners of Weeks 2 and 3. After some early moments in the red, it looked as if Matt would walk away victorious. He was in the lead with $15,000 ...
- 9/13/2023
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! Season 40 kicks off on Monday, September 11, but like the rest of Hollywood is affected by the ongoing writers (and actors) strikes, meaning there will be quite a few changes. So, will everyone be watching as usual? The game show returns with Ken Jennings as its host — he closed out Season 39 after Mayim Bialik stepped away out of solidarity with the writers, before the actors went on strike — but with no new contestants and questions written before the strikes. Instead, starting on September 11 is a Second Chance Tournament with players who appeared in Season 37. The winners of that tournament will then take on champions from Season 38 in Champions Wild ...
- 9/7/2023
- TV Insider
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