One of my former students won $35,000 on Jeopardy tonight!

[Freedomofspeech]

We used to play trivia with her at a local pub...obviously she was a bit of an asset! Talking redneck SW, PA. Let's hear it for public schools and her parents did not have to bribe anyone for her to get into Columbia!

[2naSalit]

1. WHAAAAT!?

That's gotta feel pretty good!

[Freedomofspeech]

2. You have no idea....

[Blue Owl]

3. That's gotta feel good!

[oasis]

4. Nice, very nice.

[mountain grammy]

5. That's great!

I had a friend who got on the show in the late 60’s with Art Fleming. I’ve never forgotten the final jeopardy question that she missed and used it many times playing trivia. Her total was around $180.

[Freedomofspeech]

6. How great is that?

That $180 was quite a fortune back tnen.

[mopinko]

20. my sister was on wheel of fortune.

she won $6400. not too shabby. she was happy to have it.

i learned from this how to get on a game show-
what they look for is the little stories that they tell when they introduce you. my sister had a lulu- the old chatty cathy doll was named after her. srsly.

[mountain grammy]

21. Haha. No kidding?

[mopinko]

22. nope. no kidding.

had a cousin who worked for j walter thompson, and mattel was one of his accounts.

[CatMor]

7. She was really good ...

I was rooting for her to win.

[Freedomofspeech]

8. Thanks...so proud of her!

[MaryMagdaline]

9. Bravo!

[rufus dog]

10. Congratulations

and thank you for being a teacher.

[Freedomofspeech]

19. I was actually the her high school librarian...

Best job ever!

[Honeycombe8]

11. Woo hooo! You must've been one very good teacher!!!! nt

[Stonepounder]

12. Congrats to you and her.

You for keeping her interested in learning and her for learning and for her success on Jeopardy.

[Demovictory9]

13. nice

[yankeepants]

14. I watched (as always) she was burning it up!

[dlk]

15. Very Cool - Congratulations!

[Ilsa]

16. I liked her story about having facial recognition problems.

in one of her Columbia grad classes, She struck up a conversation with a person she couldn't recognize, and it turned out to be Chelsea Clinton.

Very quick, very smart lady!

[malaise]

18. I chuckled at that

[malaise]

17. She flew out of the gate

I just knew she would win

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. I missed the $35k win. Some grandstanding meteorologist spent the half hour ...

expounding on some big storm moving through S.E. Michigan, as if that had any importance at all.

Fortunately, I saw the $20k second night win.

She didn't seem like a redneck, just a very nice Pittsburgh girl. And very smart.

[Freedomofspeech]

24. She is not a redneck but the area is...

She is sweet and brilliant.

[malaise]

25. Damn Lindsey Shultz is good - spoiler

She's awesome - four day winner and we haven't had Final Jeopardy yet

[underpants]

26. Of all the nights we didn't watch Jeopardy

[Freedomofspeech]

27. So proud of her...

Over 100,000 now!

[malaise]

29. Loved it

[Chin music]

28. To Sir w Love.

Nice!

[Ohiogal]

30. Wow that is fabulous

Not far away here in NE Ohio

You must be so proud! All I caught tonight was the Final Jeopardy question.

[osaMABUSh]

31. My son is 'waiting list' for Jeopardy

He scored high enough on the online to test to be invited to Los Angeles for an audition. The audition entailed another computer based test, interviews and some mock Jeopardy rounds. Once they establish that you are pretty intelligent then they are more interested in determining if you have stage presence and won’t fall apart during an actual game. He felt he did fairly well. Now it is waiting game. All they say is within 18 months you may get the call for an actual show and if not you can redo the whole process. You only get to be on Jeopardy once in your lifetime so he is OK with the idea of not making this go around. He is under 30 and told him he may be better off later after he has absorbed more trivia that us Baby Boomers grew up with.

[Freedomofspeech]

32. All the best to your son...

Cannot imagine how proud and excited you must be.

[CatMor]

33. I have watched her every night ...

she's great. I'm sure we'll be seeing her in the Champion Tournaments too. I look forward to seeing her many more nights.