‘Jeopardy!’ Player Reveals Ongoing Cancer Battle in Dramatic Game — See Ken Jennings’ Reaction

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Tuesday, November 19 episode of Jeopardy!]

Paul Clauson, a tax analyst (on unpaid depart) from Madison Heights, Michigan, was the one to beat. He entered with a two-day complete of $36,300 after back-to-back runaways. He confronted Chris Burge, a highschool instructor from Farmers Department, Texas, and Mikey McCullough, a librarian from Baltimore, Maryland.

Through the interviews, Ken Jennings requested Burge, “I perceive you’re dealing with a well being problem proper now that you just wished to speak about.” The participant replied, “Yeah, I’ve been preventing Stage IV colon most cancers since Could.” Jennings responded, “Oh wow.”

“Underneath younger grownup diagnoses have elevated rather a lot in recent times,” he continued. “Positively encourage individuals to not ignore any sort of signs. Positively push to get examined, particularly when you have any household historical past of it.”

“That’s an ideal phrase to get on the market,” Jennings concluded. “Thanks a lot, Chris.”

Within the Jeopardy! spherical and after the transferring second, Clauson hit a velocity bump lacking the primary Each day Double. Burge led when the smoke cleared with $6,400, McCullough had $4,200, and the champ had $2,600.

In Double Jeopardy!, Clauson’s streak seemed unsteady as he trailed for a lot of the clues. Finally, McCullough discovered the second Each day Double having mounted a large lead whereas Clauson chipped away on the clue board to double digits. Nonetheless, with an opportunity to place the sport away, she solely guess $2,000, getting it appropriate, she had an excellent wider lead however not the runaway. Clauson might have used the final Each day Double, however didn’t discover it; Burge did so with only a few clues left and missed it dropping out of competition.

This left the sport between Clauson and McCullough going into Closing Jeopardy, with him at $11,000, her at $20,200, and Burge at $1,600

The “Sports activities & The Metropolis” clue was, “At 800 West Predominant & 700 Central on this metropolis are an organization & a venue each concerned in Triple Crowns.”

Solely Burge was appropriate in writing “Louisville” from a distant third. Clauson dropped to $0 with an incorrect response, ending his two-day run, and McCullough solely dropped $2,000 to develop into the brand new champ with $18,200.

Followers flooded the Reddit thread for the episode, praising Burge for his unbelievable anecdote and reacting to the brand new champ. Many identified that her DD2 wager would have misplaced her the sport had the outgoing champ Clauson been appropriate in Closing Jeopardy.