Hari Parameswaran quickly became a fan favorite when he returned last month for Jeopardy!‘s Second Chance tournament, which he won in a pretty dominant fashion, earning his spot in the currently airing Champions Wildcard. Unfortunately, despite high expectations, Tuesday’s (October 31) episode of the long-running game show saw Parameswaran eliminated from the competition in devastating fashion. The hardware engineer from Cupertino, California, faced off against Aaron Craig, an attorney from Toronto, Ontario, and Katie Hargrove, a professional organizer from Redondo Beach, California. Craig was a former 2-day champion on Season 37, while Hargrove was a 1-day champion on Season 38. It was a back-and-forth battle between Parameswaran and Craig for most of the game, with both players flubbing on Daily Doubles at various points in the episode. Despite his early Daily Double miss, Parameswaran fought back, giving him the lead with $17,200 heading into Final Jeopardy. Craig stood at $14,000, while Hargrove trailed with $3,600. The Final Jeopardy!
- 11/1/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the September 15 episode of Jeopardy!] The first week of Jeopardy! Season 40 closed out with a major comeback for the first winner of the Second Chance Tournament consisting of Season 37 players. The three finalists from the first week (of three) played with money banked from the September 14 game. Hardware engineer Hari Parameswaran was in third with $1,600, magnetic engineer David Maybury in second with $6,728, and operations manager Jill Tucker in the lead with $19,600. Those scores were added to their September 15 earnings to determine the winner. And since win or lose, this would be the contestants’ last day on Jeopardy! for a while, host Ken Jennings, in lieu of a regular interview, had each thank the people they wanted to in the middle of the first round. Hari thanked his parents, “who have been with me pretty much all the way, helping me get here, asking thousands of hours’ worth of questions. Without them, I would ...
- 9/15/2023
- TV Insider
[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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