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Jerome Vered

Jerome Vered (born March 13, 1958) is a Studio City, California writer, publicly known for his record-setting success as a contestant on the U.S. television game show Jeopardy! ...

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Jerome Vered (born March 13, 1958) is a Studio City, California writer, publicly known for his record-setting success as a contestant on the U.S. television game showJeopardy!

Biography

Vered graduated from Harvard College and the USC School of Cinema-Television.[1] He took the Jeopardy test four times (in 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990) before being called to the show as an alternate in March 1991. He was not used in any of that day's tapings, but he did return the next year, and became a five-day champion,[2] with winnings totaling $96,801, second to Frank Spangenberg's $102,597. During that run, he shattered the one-day record for dollar winnings, earning $34,000 in one episode.[1]

After his five-day run, Vered returned for the 1992 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, finishing in third place and winning $7,500.[2]

In the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, Vered won five games to advance to a three-game final match against fellow Jeopardy! record-setters Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Vered finished in third place, earning $250,000.[3] Of the three finalists, he was the only one not to get a bye in the tournament, as Rutter got a bye into the second round and Jennings got a bye into the finals.

Vered again appeared on Jeopardy! on February 7, 2014 as a contestant in the Battle of the Decades tournament. He faced Tom Cubbage and Bob Verini in a "1980s bracket" game, failed to advance to the next round, winning $5,000 when he finished second to Cubbage. At that time, this placed Vered behind Rutter and Jennings, respectively, as the third highest-earning contestant in Jeopardy! history, having won a total of $359,301 across his original five wins, the 1992 Tournament of Champions, 2005's Ultimate Tournament of Champions, and 2014's Battle of the Decades.

Although Vered is best known for his Jeopardy! prowess, he has also dominated in other quiz-show formats, including Win Ben Stein's Money, during which he recorded the first-ever sweep, and became the first to take home the full $5,000 of Ben Stein's money.[4] He would later become a researcher on the show's staff.[5] Vered's game show winnings thus total $364,301.

En 2009, Vered fue utilizado como comodín en la ronda final del especial del décimo aniversario de ¿ Quién quiere ser millonario?, cuando Ken Basin, de Los Ángeles, California, lo llamó para pedirle ayuda con su pregunta de 500.000 dólares en el último episodio del décimo aniversario.

En 2009, Vered se convirtió en la primera estadounidense en entrar en el top 10 de un Campeonato Mundial de Quizzing con un octavo puesto. [ 6 ]

En 2017, compitió en un torneo de bares de toda la ciudad de Los Ángeles como parte del Equipo del Encanto (junto con Brian Fodera, Matthew Frost, Pam Mueller, Brad Rutter y Hans von Walter), llevándose a casa su parte de un premio de 10.000 dólares.

Referencias

  1. 1 2 Wharton, David (22 de mayo de 1992). "Y la pregunta es... ¿Un escritor de Studio City encabezará el total de ganancias de Jeopardy! esta noche?". Los Angeles Times . pág.  19A.
  2. 1 2 Veronique de Turenne. "Los ganadores de Jeopardy dicen que es un buen trabajo si puedes conseguirlo". Seattle Post-Intelligencer . 27 de noviembre de 1992. pág. 39
  3. ↑ Lawrence Van Gelder (27 de mayo de 2005). "Artes, brevemente: ¡Los titanes de 'Jeopardy!' se enfrentan!" . New York Times . Consultado el 4 de octubre de 2010. El segundo puesto del Sr. Jennings le reportó 500.000 dólares, y el tercer clasificado, Jerome Vered, recibió 250.000 dólares.
  4. ↑ Bob Harris. Prisionero de Trebekistán . Crown Publishers, 2006. pág. 221
  5. ↑ " Jerome Vered: el gran asterisco de Jeopardy ". Salón de la Fama de las Curiosidades. Consultado el 20 de junio de 2013.
  6. ↑ Resultados del WQC2009 deIQA.be.
  • Artículo en el Salón de la Trivia de Paul Paquet
  • WQC 2009