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Ever since he could answer the $200 questions at age 10, Patrick Tucker said, it’s been a childhood dream of his to appear on “Jeopardy!” He did more than that recently – the soon-to-be William & Mary graduate student not only appeared on the show but took home $100,000 for winning the 2009 Jeopardy! 大学冠军。 决赛在5月15日播出。
“I thought I was done for going into … ‘Double Jeopardy’ of the last game,” Tucker said in the show’s online video blog. “I got lucky with the presidents (category). That is just my forte.”
对于总统历史爱好者来说，塔克来对地方了。 He is planning to continue his studies at the nation’s second oldest college and will attend graduate school at William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy. 塔克是密苏里州圣路易斯市人，他在圣母大学完成了本科学业。
“I chose William & Mary's Jefferson Program in Public Policy for its strong reputation,” Tucker said in an email following the show. “Being a political science major who wasn't resigned to law school, I wanted to apply some of the material I'd learned over the past four years. Also, a friend of mine was a recent graduate of the program and did a good job selling it.”
这个受欢迎的游戏节目由主持人亚历克斯·特雷贝克为参赛者提供各种类别问题的答案。 然后选手们开始提问。 塔克在一年一度的大学生锦标赛中晋级，这场比赛由来自全国各地的15名大学生参加。 最终，塔克击败了来自埃默里大学和密苏里大学的学生，赢得了最后三名。
With the win Tucker earns an automatic bid into the show’s Tournament of Champions 下一个 year. He’ll receive his $100,000 for the college championship in September.
“I have no immediate plans for it,” Tucker said. “Shortly before I went to L.A., I made a list of out of the way places to visit, like Sri Lanka and the Mitchell Corn Palace in South Dakota. I think the latter is more feasible.”
He added that friends haven’t treated him differently since news hit about the big win.
“I think they may ask me to pick up a few more dinner checks, but they know I won’t be handing out any $10,000 loans any time soon,” he said.