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| It was fantastic being at the champion's podium for game 2. It was also fun being the one everyone knew they had to beat. Backstage beforehand, I kind of reveled in the feeling by acting friendly but very aloof. If anyone talked to me I was fine, but otherwise I sat by myself and tried to look unapproachable. I don't think I was trying to psyche anyone out — I was just on a high and felt like adopting this weird, mysterious persona. |
| Whoa! I was as shocked as anyone by how far ahead I pulled in this game. These were the scores part of the way into round 2. It certainly helped that I hit all three Daily Doubles, bet increasingly large on each one (and guessed them all right), and had some serious rhythm going on the buzzer. |
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 | For this third Daily Double, I had a large enough lead to bet aggressively ($4,000) and still be safe if I answered incorrectly. That was basically my strategy the whole time — to just go for it and hope for the best, which was part of the reason why my score snowballed so fast. In this case, I was lucky I'd made myself a list of many of the presidents and the colleges they attended — and memorized them all. |
| The scores at the end of Double Jeopardy. I felt kind of bad for my opponents; they were good players, but things were just all going my way in this game. Before Final Jeopardy, Alex mentioned I had a chance to break the all-time one-day record, but I decided to play it safe and bet the maximum that would still guarantee me a win — which, fortunately for me, was still a lot of money. |
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 | The Final Jeopardy category was the U.S. Government. I had devoted a bunch of studying to this popular category — the cabinet, branches of government, agencies, etc. — so again I was pretty confident. And again I managed to abate panic when the solution didn't come to me right away. Then I remembered what U.S. government regulatory agency was the first to be established. (If they'd phrased it that way, I probably would have known much faster.) |
| This was the game that placed me in the Jeopardy list of top one-day winners. Winning that first game felt incredible, but this one was a greater accomplishment. |
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