Last night a friend of mine (Lori White) was a contestant on Jeopardy. This isn’t a game show I spend much time with, but check it out now and then when there isn’t much else going on and I want to watch something on TV. It was interesting how much more exciting it was with a friend in the contest. I noticed a couple of things of interest. For one, the other two contestants help their hands behind the podium and therefore you couldn’t tell what they were doing to get to answer. Lori had a push button thing in her hand so you could see her attempting to be first to respond. The previous winner was very fast, I couldn’t see any time delay, but Lori was pushing and pushing, but not so often getting in there first. She looked frustrated, and I was VERY frustrated – I wanted to hear her answer the questions, which she did in ways that would be totally impossible for me to compete with no matter how much time I got to try to get my mind focused – but honestly there wasn’t anything to focus on, I knew very few of the answers.

It was an exciting game with the points shifting back and forth with things like “double jeopardy” and other leveling features. In the end she won!!! So I guess she is going to be back tonight (or whenever the next game is aired). I have a ton of questions to ask her when I see her next. Does she get to keep what she won last night? Of does that somehow get wrapped up in the entire series, or maybe it isn’t actually what she makes? If so, it was almost $19,000 – not a bad evening. Also, was it live, or was it recorded some time ago? Was it fun?? She was really excited to go to the show, I sure hope she had a ball.

However that goes, congratulations Lori for a splendid game!