Iowa City native Paul Nelson will be back at the button, hoping to come up with the right questions in the “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions. Taping started in mid-January and the episodes begin airing Feb. 13, 2013. Nelson, now 24, had a successful six-episode run on the venerable game show back in November, winning $54,900. [...]
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Update: Third time is still a charm for Iowa City native Paul Nelson, as his “Jeopardy!” winnings climbed to $45,400 Tuesday morning (11/6/12). He’ll have a two-week break while the popular answer-and-question game show goes into its Teachers’ Tournament. After that, Nelson, 23, a legislative correspondent in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Washington office, will be back [...]
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Iowa City native Paul Nelson, 23, a legislative correspondent in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Washington, D.C., office, became the new “Jeopardy!” champion Friday with a wave to his parents, Scott and Tracy Nelson of Iowa City. Clueless on the Final Jeopardy category, he wagered nothing and wrote “thanks Mom and Dad” for his answer, preserving his [...]
continue »Christine Havens of Waterloo will probably never look at Arkansas the same way. Havens, a parish administrator from Waterloo, missed the final “Jeopardy!” question Tuesday, placing third on the popular television game show. She was in second place going into the final round, but lost on this question: Name the only one-word U.S. state that [...]
continue »Christine Havens of Waterloo will be a contestant on ‘Jeopardy!’ today, Jan. 19, according to KWWL reports. The episode airs at 2:30 p.m. on Channel 7 in Eastern Iowa. A viewing party will begin at 2 p.m. in the Bourre Lounge at Roux Orleans, 501 Sycamore St., downtown Waterloo.
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