Jeopardy! priest Kevin Laskowski pulls off rare season 41 move and secures ToC spot after ‘botching’ pricey Daily Double
Despite failing a costly Daily Double, JEOPARDY! champion Kevin Laskowski has made an extremely rare move for season 41 by securing a highly sought-after invitation.
The three-day champion will formally partake in the forthcoming Tournament of Champions after winning Wednesday’s match, something that few players have accomplished this year.
The Falls Church, Virginia Episcopal priest entered today’s match as a two-day winner with $39,400 in earnings.
He faced Drew Wheeler, a high school social studies teacher from Athens, Georgia, and Julia Schan, a stay-at-home mother from Pleasanton, California.
Drew got off to a great start and gained a lead early on, which grew even more when he discovered and accurately predicted the first Daily Double.
Drew led with $2,900 going into the first break, but Kevin and Julia trailed far behind with $600 and $200, respectively.
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By the DoubleJeopardy! round, Kevin was able to catch up, though.
While Julia improved her score to $1,600, the defending champion finished in second place with $3,400, only $100 behind Drew.
In a startling bet, Kevin almost lost everything after discovering the second Daily Double in the $1,600 clue under E BOOKS.
“Poverty and Profit in the American City” is the subtitle for this Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction work; it describes the experiences of numerous families, hostsJennings, Ken.
What is Evicted? was a question the contestant couldn’t accurately guess. – lowering his score by three thousand.
Like her opponent, Julia missed the third Daily Double, which only cost her $1,000.
Julia rose to the top and took the lead going into Final Jeopardy as her opponents ultimately lost a number of daring bets!
The players made their bets as host Ken, 50, announced the last category as State Songs.
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According to Ken, two of its fifteen official state songs make reference to moonshine, and three of them are performed in 3/4 time.
Both Drew and Kevin accurately wrote down: What is Tennessee?
After a string of costly errors, Kevin won with $13,599, while Drew finished his game in second place with $8,700.
Julia had the lead going into the last round, but she was the only one to make a mistake with her response, which dropped her to third place with $3,599.
Kevin achieved a significant milestone with his third victory, something that very few players have done in season 41.
Jeopardy! Contestant Rules
It’s challenging enough to pass Jeopardy!’s online Anytime Test, but once players reach the stage, they have to abide by a number of rules:
- The returning champion is always at the leftmost podium and keeps playing until they lose.
- Contestants don’t have to say who is or what is in the first round but must do so in Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy.
- Contestants can change their responses as long as Ken Jennings or the judges haven’t made a ruling.
- The minimum wager for a Daily Double is $5. The minimum wager for Final Jeopardy! is $0.
- Written responses in Final Jeopardy! do not have to be spelled correctly, but they must be phonetically correct (the judges decide this).
- If there s a tie after Final Jeopardy, the tied players enter a bonus clue shootout, and whoever buzzes in first correctly wins.
- If all three contestants wager everything in Final Jeopardy! and are incorrect, leaving them with $0, there will be no returning champion (it’s happened before six times).
Jeopardy, usually! To receive an invitation to the Tournament of Champions, a spinoff special that brings back previous winners for an even greater prize, participants must win five straight games.
However, competitors who win just three games this season will be eligible to attend the renowned event because so few players are able to accomplish it.
One viewer exulted when Kevin in the TOC let go.
Another, however, provided further context: That means that the CWC has two available places and one TOC spot remains unclaimed.
(Or one, even if we don’t have complete proof on Adam, might he truly have missed by $200?). There are just six qualifying matches remaining.
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All of them, but Kevin in particular, blew their Daily Doubles. One admirer said, “That one hurt.”
We may all be happy that a champion made it to day three of the slowest season in recent history. Well done, Kevin! Someone else wrote.
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