Jeopardy!

[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.