All good issues should come to an finish, together with a Jeopardy! profitable streak. Mark Fitzpatrick discovered that out the exhausting approach on Friday’s (October 11) episode of the sport present, which introduced an finish to his five-game profitable streak.
Though he can nonetheless look ahead to the Event of Champions (and luxuriate in over $100,000 in money winnings) as the primary five-game winner of Season 41, he nonetheless had a really self-deprecating message to share with followers after the airing. On Reddit, Fitzpatrick wrote of his efficiency in his newest sport, “It took 6 video games however I lastly reverted to my true trivia id: an overconfident, overthinking, scorching mess.”
Certainly, Fitzpatrick did wrestle considerably greater than he had in his earlier video games. This time, he confronted off towards challengers Eamonn Campbell, a lawyer from Vermont, and Dot White, a medical psychologist from Maryland.
The primary spherical was brutal for Fitzgerald, as he missed a number of clues (together with the Every day Double) and located himself deep within the crimson, solely narrowly pulling himself out of it earlier than the midway mark. Going into Double Jeopardy, he had simply $200, in comparison with White’s $3,200 and Campbell’s $3,000.
The second spherical wasn’t significantly better, as he missed a second Every day Double (getting the third right) and ended with simply $4,800 to Campbell’s $12,200 and White’s $10,400.
For Last Jeopardy, solely Campbell knew that Margaret Thatcher’s opponents in her 1975 management race have been William Whitelaw and John Peyton, whereas Fitzgerald used his board to problem a goodbye message: “Who’s Thanks for a enjoyable day.”
In his deal with to the Reddit thread, Fitzpatrick provided, “Congrats to Eamonn on the win and in addition to Dot for a powerful second.”
Followers responded to his word by telling him he was “improbable” and congratulating him on his “very spectacular run.”
“These fifth video games in a single tape day are brutal, so nothing however respect and empathy from me,” Alison Betts, who additionally misplaced out in sport six, wrote within the thread.
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