Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions is getting more cutthroat by the episode, with the people we expect the least losing their place in the high-stakes competition.
Juveria Zaheer’s time on the game show concluded on Thursday. She was knocked out of the match despite starting the episode with an early lead on competitors Kevin Belle and Luigi de Guzman.
The lead included the psychiatrist racking up an impressive $11,400 after answering 15 clues correctly.
To put it in perspective, Belle had $2,200, and Guzman had $1,600 at the same point, so where did it all go wrong for Zaheer?
Things got dicey when Guzman found both Daily Doubles and doubled up on them to take the lead, but it was still very close.
Zaheer took the lead back heading into Final Jeopardy! with a pretty $23,400, compared to Guzman’s $22,000 and Belle’s $5,800.
The final answer ruined Juveria Zaheer’s chances of winning
The...
Juveria Zaheer’s time on the game show concluded on Thursday. She was knocked out of the match despite starting the episode with an early lead on competitors Kevin Belle and Luigi de Guzman.
The lead included the psychiatrist racking up an impressive $11,400 after answering 15 clues correctly.
To put it in perspective, Belle had $2,200, and Guzman had $1,600 at the same point, so where did it all go wrong for Zaheer?
Things got dicey when Guzman found both Daily Doubles and doubled up on them to take the lead, but it was still very close.
Zaheer took the lead back heading into Final Jeopardy! with a pretty $23,400, compared to Guzman’s $22,000 and Belle’s $5,800.
The final answer ruined Juveria Zaheer’s chances of winning
The...
- 3/1/2024
- by Paul Dailly
- Monsters and Critics
Jeopardy!‘s Tournament of Champions is turning into the Tournament of Death as it continues to deliver devastating results. Another fan-favorite front-runner was knocked out of the competition on Thursday night (February 29). Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada, won fans over during her impressive underdog run through the Season 40 tournaments. Having lost to super-champ Hannah Wilson during her original Season 39 game, Zaheer returned to the Alex Trebek stage, where she won both the Second Chance and Champions Wildcard tournaments. Having earned her Toc spot in dominant fashion, fans had high hopes for Zaheer ahead of Thursday’s episode. She faced off in a tense showdown with Kevin Belle, a trail planner from Silver Spring, Maryland, and Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia. Zaheer got out to an early lead, picking up right where she left off in the Wildcard by being super quick on the buzzer.
- 3/1/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s strike-delayed Tournament of Champions is getting celebritized.
Sony announced Tuesday that this year’s contest — which kicks off Friday, Feb. 23 — will feature among its contestants Celebrity Jeopardy! breakout Ike Barinholtz. This will be the first time ToC will welcome a champion from ABC’s starry primetime spinoff.
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Barinholtz,...
Sony announced Tuesday that this year’s contest — which kicks off Friday, Feb. 23 — will feature among its contestants Celebrity Jeopardy! breakout Ike Barinholtz. This will be the first time ToC will welcome a champion from ABC’s starry primetime spinoff.
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Barinholtz,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Michael Ausiello and Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the May 4 episode of Jeopardy!] Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois, is impressing viewers after just two episodes of Jeopardy! — but how long could she go? Hannah went up against croupier Warren Grace and translator and editor Marie Claude Dussault, and that came after Hannah defeated a three-game winner (Kevin Belle), responding correctly to 24 clues, as host Mayim Bialik noted. She continued to dominate in her second game, answering 17 correctly in the Jeopardy round and 16 in Double Jeopardy. Hannah also found all three Daily Doubles (after uncovering two in the previous game). She was leading after both rounds; Warren was closest to her after the first, then Marie Claude heading into Final Jeopardy. Hannah then got the last clue, in the category “Bodies of Water” (“Formed some 10,000-15,000 years ago & with an average depth of only about 150 feet, it’...
- 5/4/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the May 2 episode of Jeopardy!] Current Jeopardy! two-day champion Kevin Belle went head to head against costumer Amanda Hendrickson and attorney/Seinfeld expert Paul Guelpa to defend his title and his winnings of $24,398. However, the episode’s highlight didn’t come from the Final Jeopardy, but a blunder that cost a contestant the correct answer until the judges backstage reconsidered. Going into Double Jeopardy after the commercial break, Kevin had $3,600, Paul with $4,600, and Amanda at negative $1,200. A little after the game resumed, Amanda went for the category “Mythology” for $400, with the clue reading: “This God of love hid psyche & visited in secret until she found out who he was.” Paul hit the buzzer first and responded with “Eros,” to which host Mayim Bialik replied, “No.” Amanda picked up the question and responded with “Cupid,” for which she was rewarded $400. However, by the time Kevin received the second Daily Double, Bialik revealed there’...
- 5/2/2023
- TV Insider
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