Jeopardy!

[murielm99]

My daughter will be on Jeopardy this week. Please watch on Wednesday if you can. Her name is Joanna.

[Throck]

1. Love that show.

Been a fan forever. Tell her good luck.

[murielm99]

4. The shows are taped a few months in advance.

This was taped in August. We went. It is a great experience.

[Throck]

6. Quick, what are the answers?

So I can one up my wife.

Shhhhhh.....

[Phentex]

2. We watch every night...

How exciting for her. And you! And now us.

[True Dough]

3. Cool! Maybe she can get some insights from this guy

[murielm99]

5. He was fun, wasn't he?

[True Dough]

7. Judging by the responses here at the DU

Austin was an acquired taste.

[Freedomofspeech]

10. We enjoyed him!

[left-of-center2012]

8. Couldn't stand him

a-hole

[Freedomofspeech]

9. How exciting...

We watch it every night!

[rurallib]

11. Well, muriel, who does she take after? Mom or Dad?

[blaze]

12. Bumping for game day! :) nt

[murielm99]

13. Thank you!

[liberaltrucker]

14. Congrats!!!!

[blaze]

15. And on to day two!!

Fun stuff!

[Fla Dem]

16. Wow, come from behind WIN!

Three very quick and smart contestants. Manny was pretty self assured and it burned him in the end. But glad it worked out for your daughter. Smart and very poised.

[murielm99]

18. I think Manny's win of

$1.00 that still left him as the returning champion threw him for a loop. No one can remember a win of $1.00 that resulted in the contestant being the returning champion! His Final Jeopardy bet in the game with Joanna was strange.

My husband thought he was trying to recoup his loss from the previous game. The amount he bet was the same, or close to the same amount he had just lost.

Manny was very tired. They tape three days a week and they tape five shows a day. He had been playing since early morning. It is fun, but it is a very high pressure situation.

Joanna bet the way she did because she wanted to hear Johnny Gilbert roll the amount out in his impressive announcer's voice: $9,999.00. Johnny Gilbert is in his nineties and he still sounds so great. He just won an award from the Guiness Book of World Records for the longest tenure as announcer on the same game show.

Joanna is poised. I think it comes from her years as a professional musician. She is used to performing in front of an audience.

I felt my stomach drop to my toes when she made her come from behind win.

[edbermac]

17. Jeopardy: all I think about is SNL and Weird Al.

[GallopingGhost]

19. I didn't see this in time,

but congrats to her. That's really cool.

And go Cubs!

[murielm99]

20. The Cubs won today, too.

It was a good day at my house.

[GallopingGhost]

21. I've loved baseball my whole life.

I first read about Sianis & Murphy when I was eight. Never thought the day would come!

I could not stop screaming and jumping up and down and crying. Kids thought I'd gone insane.

They need to take it again this year. That way people won't say it's a fluke, and they deserve it. They've waited so long and endured a lot of jokes and humiliation.

Dodgers haven't won since '88, though, so LA's pretty stoked.

[murielm99]

22. We need all the good news we can get

in today's world. My daughter's Jeopardy appearance and the Cubs' win have been a welcome distraction for me. I feel like a weight has been lifted, at least temporarily.

The Jeopardy shows Joanna appeared on taped in August. We went to L.A. for the taping. It was great fun. I have had to keep quiet about this for a while.

[GallopingGhost]

23. I can only imagine how

proud you are of her! It's something to brag about for sure.

I can't wait for tomorrow's game.

[murielm99]

24. Here is the local newspaper coverage:

http://www.saukvalley.com/2017/10/18/polo-native-has-been-jeopardized-and-she-couldnt-be-happier/ay3snci/

[True Dough]

25. Just read the article

and, naturally, there are some comments from readers who are bummed that the news coverage "spoiled" the program for them. Good article though!

I'm happy for you and yours, muriel. A win for the librarians of the world!

[MLAA]

26. This is so cool! Congrats to your whole family...

I read the local article and sure sounds like her siblings helped her practice all those years ago after school!

[lunamagica]

27. I just saw this. Congratulations Muruel, you must be so proud!