“Jeopardy!” champion Cris Pannullo is opening up in regards to the finish of his 21-game profitable streak — and shading the contestant who beat him.
Pannullo, 38, ended his profitable run final Tuesday with a winnings whole of $748,000. He misplaced to Andy Tirrell — who ended up dropping the next night time.
The fan-favorite from New Jersey admitted on the “Inside Jeopardy!” podcast that he nonetheless feels “unimaginable” and the present is barely over for him “for now.”
“Everyone loses on ‘Jeopardy!’ however very, only a few individuals win 20 video games, only a few individuals win three quarters of one million dollars, or a half-million dollars, or 1 / 4 of one million dollars or 100 thousand dollars,” Pannullo instructed producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss. “I can’t be something apart from ecstatic even having simply misplaced.”
When requested about his ideas on Tirrell — who was an alternate in the course of the “Professors Event” — Pannullo appeared to throw just a little shade.
“I liked his hair and his glasses,” he quipped.
“He did have a really sturdy school professor look and ended up being a extremely sturdy participant.”
“His thoughts was just a bit extra open than mine at that second,” Pannullo added in regards to the second he misplaced to Tirrell in Remaining Jeopardy!
“If I had opened my thoughts a bit extra and never gotten so pigeonholed in there I feel I could have provide you with it, however you possibly can’t provide you with all of it,” the champ confessed.
Nonetheless, Pannullo isn’t fairly achieved with “Jeopardy!” but.
He’ll be returning for subsequent yr’s “Event of Champions” — and host Ken Jennings is already saying the match shall be “fascinating” given Pannullo’s sixth-place spot on the all-time record.
“It makes it much more optimistic for me simply understanding that I’ll be again, and this isn’t the top,” the operations success supervisor mentioned. “I've a number of finding out to do, and I’ll be watching ‘Jeopardy!’ shifting ahead, scouting my opponents.”
The victor of this yr’s “Event of Champions” was Amy Schneider — who was the primary brazenly transgender contestant to compete within the match. She received after six video games and claimed the $250,000 grand prize.
Foss wished to know what Pannullo’s favourite a part of his “Jeopardy!” journey was, and Pannullo jokingly responded “the cash.”
“On daily basis has been outstanding and only a true dream,” he conceded.
Pannullo added that he wished his “Jeopardy!” legacy to be an “thrilling” participant who “wager huge when it mattered and made the best selections . . . Somebody value watching from starting to finish.”
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