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The potential payoff from hundreds of hours of buzzer practice and textbook review will be on full display Wednesday night when Calgarian Ujal Thakor's appearance on the hit game show Jeopardy! airs.
Thakor's path to Jeopardy!, which ended a nearly two-year long streak without any Canadian contestants, began with him watching the show at his grandparents' home and culminated in the surreal moment of stepping onto the stage.
"I watched Jeopardy!, like a lot people, from a young age," Thakor told CTV Morning Live Calgary in an interview conducted ahead of the airing of his debut episode. "From the floor of my grandparents' house, through growing up. What I found is at the end of every show, if I was watching with my parents, my dad would turn to me and say 'Why don't you just go on the show if you know so many of the answers?'
"About five years ago, I wrote the online test and heard nothing. Right now, the number's around 300,000 people per year who write the test. The second time I wrote it, about two years ago, I did get an email saying we want you to read the second test, which is on Zoom and it's a test that's about 50 questions, 15 seconds a piece, where you just have to type in your answer as quickly as possible and, with a passing score on that, a certain subset of those people are invited for a Zoom audition."
The pre-show jitters arrived well before the filming date and made for a stressful holiday season after months of radio silence regarding his status as a potential contestant came to an end.
"I'd say all the nerves just came from preparation, from the initial call, the interviews and auditions that we go through over about 18 months, up until the call I got right before Christmas, which gave me four weeks (of preparation) before the tape date."
Thakor said he altered his tactics and approach to training several times.
"Once I got the call, I bought about 30 textbooks from junior high to university level on all the topics I felt I needed strengthening — geography, U.S. presidents, the industry revolution, Shakespeare, Greek mythology, you name it — all the categories that over time as you watch you realize where your strengths or weaknesses are."
He later embraced a website that archives Jeopardy! answers from more than 8,000 episodes and, after running through hundreds of examples, patterns began to emerge.
"Rather than needing to know really in depth about every single president or every Shakespeare play, you look for keywords and trigger words," explained Thakor. "Any time you see a certain character in a play, you know that that's The Tempest by Shakespeare, or a certain state capital has keywords that trigger it.
"What I did is focus my studying on trying to find those trends and keywords and really just getting those as mental flashcards in my brain."
Having aired for four decades and thousands of episodes, Wheel of Fortune has “solved the puzzle” of word-based game shows, succeeding where others like Scattergories and Boggle have failed.
And the show has evolved along the way. Twenty-five years ago, for example—on February 24, 1997, to be exact—Wheel of Fortune introduced its touchscreen puzzle board. That upgrade meant Vanna White only needed to touch the board to reveal a correct letter that Pat Sajak had solicited from a contestant, instead of spinning a trilon. (After revealing the new puzzle board in that game-changing episode, Sajak joked, “I’ll betcha a dollar it don’t work.”)
THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT - CBS' top-rated game show, hosted by Drew Carey, returns to primetime with special guest Emmy Award winner Rachel Brosnahan ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"), who will "come on down" Monday, April 25 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT).
Was there anything I missed? Oh yeah, let's award a certain somebody......
You are the Twitchhead of the month for March of 2022. You get an imaginary plaque to hang on the wall, bragging rights and what else, Colbi King?
Colbi: A pack of Uno Cards. Every party always ends up with a pick up game of Uno to keep the party going. Uno. More than Dos, it's muy caliente!
Me: Uh, thank you Colbi for the spanish. Tune in next month to see who else is a senor or senorita of gaming.
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Four months after Jonathan Goodwin narrowly escaped death while competing on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent: Extreme,” the stuntman announced on Instagram that he has been released from the hospital.
“Four months later… finally out of hospital,” he posted on Feb. 20 alongside a picture of himself and fiancée Amanda Abbington. “My birthday today… can’t think of a better way to spend it than with my love.”
On Oct. 15 of last year, Goodwin was rehearsing a daredevil stunt in which he was to escape from a straitjacket while hanging upside down between two cars suspended 70 feet in the air. If the stunt had gone as intended, he would have freed himself and dropped onto an air mattress waiting below. While Goodwin managed to pry himself loose from the straitjacket, he was jammed between the cars, causing an explosion. He hit his head and lost consciousness, after which he was airlifted to a hospital and rushed into surgery.
Production on the series came to a halt two days later. “In order to focus on the wellbeing of our crew,” a spokesperson told E! News on Oct. 17, “We will be temporarily pausing production on America’s Got Talent: Extreme and will resume the last few days of filming at a later date. The health and safety of our cast and crew continue to be our priority.”
Goodwin, a recurring contestant in the “America’s Got Talent” franchise, posted an update on his recovery a few days after the accident.
The Talk co-host and former NFL football player Akbar Gbajabiamila is headed back to The Bold and the Beautiful this week, recurring as Forrester Creations executive Max. A devoted soap opera viewer, Gbajabiamila doesn’t take lightly his visits to the half-hour soap, which is set to celebrate its 35th anniversary later this month.
WHAT'S THE PRIZE ALREADY!!!???????
On last night’s episode of Wheel of Fortune, host Pat Sajak made a very noticeable mistake as he completely forgot that the puzzle solved was a prize puzzle. When one of the contestant’s solved the puzzle and read out “Dazzling Double Rainbow”, Sajak should have proceeded to tell her what she had won; however, he began to introduce the triple toss up round instead.
That is when you can hear the producers and directors in the background start yelling “prize puzzle” to try and get Sajak’s attention and have him read the prize.
After the prize was announced, Sajak joked about how they will take a break and go to commercial so he can “read the rules of the show”.
This is not the first time the ABC game show has been in the news recently. On Tuesday’s episode of Wheel of Fortune, one of the puzzles completely stumped contestants, which has since gone viral as it is frustrating fans.
After the Wheel of Fortune contestants filled in a majority of the puzzle, the board read “Another feather _n yo_r _a_.” The wheel wasn’t kind to some of them as they spun “lose a turn” or “bankrupt”, but others were trying to solve the puzzle by guessing “Another feather in your lap” and “Another feather in your map”.
This went on for approximately two minutes before one of the contestants finally solved the puzzle, which was “Another feather in your cap”.
Game Stars in their Eyes.........and in one infected ear.
Gamestar+, the world’s first interactive streaming board game platform, has announced that they have secured the exclusive rights to some of America’s most prominent titles across gaming, film and television, the first of which includes Family Feud, Jeopardy!, Deal or No Deal, and Scene It? Gamestar+ will also feature the most popular celebrity game show hosts, including Steve Harvey, Mario Lopez, and Ken Jennings.
Gamestar+ is a pioneer in the nascent Streaming Games on Demand (SGOD) platform. The Gamestar+ platform takes the convenience of streaming, the magic of Hollywood, and delivers the social experience of board games – and delivers this all in one place. In the same way that streaming forever changed how people watch movies and TV programs, Gamestar+ is revolutionizing game night. This product will combine a physical board game with an interactive streaming component.
Chrisi Tayln Sage. She comes from the windy city but now in Los Angeles to do some acting as well as improv. But what else can she do? She writes. And she's the real reason why Madison on The Air grew out of a love of old time radio shows. In honor of her birthday, this one is on me. Not you, me.
Happy Happy Chrisi, Madison Standish is so proud of you.
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One more segment. This time Madi2theMax and how she celebrated same number day last month.
@madi2themax I manged to actually catch this moment! 🎉🥳 #22220222222pm #ShowUsYourDrawers #MaiselChallenge #greenscreen ♬ TWOSDAY 22222 - FEYER
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