"While Whitaker was consistently identified as a Terre Haute, Indiana, native, viewers puzzled over his accent, which they maintain is vaguely British, perhaps owing to the fact that he now lives in the U.K. And they had plenty of time to speculate, since Whitaker won an impressive 14 games before being knocked out by challenger Libby Jones on the December 1 episode."
"If Whitaker wasn't born for it, he certainly started prepping early. In one story that host Ken Jennings called (with light shade) "very Jeopardy!-coded," Whitaker revealed that he could recite the American presidents in order before he learned how to read. That lifelong commitment to knowledge helped make Whitaker a dominant player, who has also parlayed his skills into a job writing questions for the British quiz show University Challenge."
""I probably need to do some informal market testing first," Whitaker says. "As much as I love my vision, I think history has proved that it may not be a shared one." Congratulations on an incredible run. We saw it all play out over the course of 15 games, but they were mostly filmed back-to-back. How long were you actually filming for?I believe I filmed my first four games on October 7, and then I came back two weeks after that and"
Harrison Whitaker won 14 consecutive Jeopardy! games before losing to challenger Libby Jones on the December 1 episode. Whitaker became the show's 19th super-champion after his tenth win and set Season 42's single-day winnings record with a $50,000 victory. He is consistently identified as a Terre Haute, Indiana, native, though viewers noted a vaguely British accent and he now lives in the U.K. Whitaker could recite American presidents in order before learning to read and writes questions for University Challenge. He planned to open a bar to run harder trivia but said he may need market testing; filming was mostly back-to-back.
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