Why is he so successful?
What does he know?
Almost everything.
Lots of people who went on "Jeopardy" who seemed to know about as Holzhauer but couldn't be
able to compete with him.
So what does he have that they didn't?
Let me try to give you some perspective:
I appeared on "Jeopardy" in 1972.
In the old days.
In the pre-Alex Trebek days.
In the Art Fleming days.
Art Fleming was the original host of "Jeopardy".
He was a very congenial man who was way less hip than Alex Trebek.
The show was done in New York.
I had taken the test for it about a year-and-a-half before they called me with an invitation to appear.
They gave me a date to show up two weeks hence.
At that point, I was just out of college and planted myself in front of the TV every weekday morning at 11:30 to play "Jeopardy" against the TV contestants.
I'd usually win.
This all coincide with my spec script being well received by "The Odd Couple" TV Show.
A job was in the offing.
My life was probably about to change.
I showed up at 30 Rock to appear on "Jeopardy" on schedule.
They taped 3 shows a day.
I was not on the first show.
I was in the audience for the first game.
I was able to check out my potential competition.
The champion was a middle-aged woman who was a great player.
This was her fourth appearance.
She won about a thousand dollars for each of the first three appearances.
A thousand dollars in those days was very big money for "Jeopardy".
It was daunting.
She knew more than I did.
But I was much faster in my strong categories, which were anything related to show business.
So I employed a strategy.
I would every category that played to my strength, hope that I would get the Daily Double, bet it all,
and see if that could carry me.
Oh, in those days, everybody kept whatever they had at the end of the game.
Not just the winner.
So I had a goal.
I had no money. So I wanted to win a thousand dollars.
That was my top priority.
What happened in the game, I'll save for Part Two.
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