In the midst of a Seattle Mariners winning streak in September, the sports anchor Aaron Levine Was running a little on his own as a contestant on “Jeopardy!”
The episodes aired this week, and Levine, sports director “Seattle sports anchor” for FOX 13 in Seattle, managed three straight wins before bowing out on Thursday night’s episode of the popular game show.
Levine taped four of his games for about four hours, with a 15-minute break between them to change clothes in the “champion’s changing room.”
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“It’s kind of annoying to win a game and then go back to change, and all of a sudden you’re pretending it’s a brand new day,” Levine told GeekWire on Friday. “There’s no doubt that there’s an emotional aspect to it. I have a newfound respect “Seattle sports anchor” for anyone who can win multiple games in one day, let alone survive an entire day, and then move on to the next tape day.”
A self-professed trivia geek, Levin majored in history at Stanford University and considers that department to be his strongest. That’s why he’s kicking himself for not getting Thursday’s final Jeopardy question (about Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello) right in the “Historic Houses” section.
Elsewhere in Thursday’s game, Levine seemed to “Seattle sports anchor” have some softball Seattle clues, specifically about the Seahawks that he got right. But he fails to hum a clue about the legacy of billionaires and their children – who is Bill Gates?!
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Earlier in the week he got a daily double question about Stanford right, and he was particularly pleased Shouts out to his alma mater With a “go cardinal” fist pump.
And along the way this week, he gave a fun nod to a classic “Key and Pill” sketch The way he carved his name — “AA Ron” — into his podium screen.
Growing up in Los Angeles, Levine “Jeopardy!” have seen Every night with his family and always wanted to be the show’s teenage tournament. She made an appearance on “The Price is Right” at age 18, but by “Seattle sports anchor” the time she got to college, trivia wasn’t a part of her life.
Levine landed on TV again in 2004 when he was the national runner-up on the ESPN reality show “Dream Job,” a search for a new “SportsCenter” anchor.
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Until he lived in Gig Harbor, Wash., he began going to trivia nights, winning free meals at restaurants and “Jeopardy!” started to see Again and he started making his note cards in 2019.
Numerous boxes of index cards They look like something out of a library’s filing system, and they serve as flash cards to test Levin’s knowledge of various subjects – literature, music, art, geography, religion, etc.
In decades that “danger!” aired, many Seattleites showed up. CEO of Good Thinking Games David Erb A notable past champion, and Amazon employee Stephanie Hubley, received a shout-out from Jeff Bezos for her appearance in 2016.
Levine also enjoyed visiting Seattle-based host Ken Jennings during the limited time, where Jennings interacted with the contestants during commercial breaks.
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“You don’t get a lot of time to talk to him, but I felt a kind of familiarity and kinship with him, knowing that he’s not only from Seattle, he’s a big Seattle sports fan and he’s a huge Mariners fan,” Levine said. “It was also great because he was familiar with my work on TV here in Seattle.”
Levine’s three wins was a far cry from what Jennings achieved (74 games won), but his goal was to win just one game going into the experience, and he came away with “a lifetime of memories.”
“To be able to walk off that stage and say, ‘Hey, I’m a ‘Jeopardy!’ Champion’ and to do it three times and qualify for a postseason tournament is beyond my wildest dreams,” Levine said. “I hope I didn’t embarrass myself too much on stage.”
There’s nothing embarrassing about the money he walked away with — about $50,000 — and what he plans to do with it.
“It’s going to a college fund for my son,” Levine said of her 8-year-old. It’s very comforting to me to just have some money that can hopefully grow for the next 10 years.”