Jeopardy! Season 40 is within the second week of its Second Probability Match, and digital journalist Matt Walks, who performed within the March 18, 2021 sport of Season 37, revealed that his final time on the present wasn’t a whole loss.
Through the interviews after the primary business break of the September 18 sport, host Ken Jennings famous that Matt has Jeopardy! and particularly visitor host Katie Couric to thank for his present relationship. “That’s proper. I had a terrific visitor host in Katie. And there was a lady in Oregon who was watching the present particularly for Katie and although I didn’t win, I obtained a terrific comfort prize as a result of she tweeted at me, and now we’ve been relationship for 2 years, and she or he’s within the viewers,” Matt shared.
“It takes numerous confidence to be watching Jeopardy! and assume, ‘I’m going to slip in that contestant’s DMs,’” Jennings remarked. “She shot her shot,” Matt identified, and Jennings agreed, including, “and it labored out.”
Couric was one in every of a sequence of visitor hosts for Jeopardy! following Alex Trebek’s demise in November 2020. Different visitor hosts, in addition to Jennings and Mayim Bialik (who would go on to separate everlasting internet hosting duties, till Bialik stepped again out of solidarity for the writers’ strike) included: Bill Whitaker, Savannah Guthrie, Sanjay Gupta, Anderson Cooper, Aaron Rodgers, Mehmet Oz, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, LeVar Burton, David Faber, and Joe Buck.
Couric visitor hosted from March 8 by way of March 19 in 2021, making Matt’s first look one in every of her final episodes. He ended that sport in second place, with a ultimate rating of $1,599 to, on the time, two-day champion Morgan Briles’ $16,400. (Morgan misplaced in her third sport.) Matt as soon as once more got here in second place within the September 18 sport.
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