The Tournament of Champions in the Art Fleming era of Jeopardy!

[Roadgeek Adam]

Some more:

Allan Shepard, a sales manager for the Boston and Maine Railroad, at the time the highest winning total in Jeopardy history.

William (Bill) Martin, a music teacher from Ronkonkoma, New York, is mentioned here

Rosemary Travis, of Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, is mentioned here.

[Robert K S]

Can you post the remainder of the 1971 article you found? Thanks!

[Roadgeek Adam]

I checked, there isn't.

[Robert K S]

Back in the days where if there weren't any more column-inches, tough.

[Roadgeek Adam]

New article found on Jane Gschwend. It doesn't add much that you didn't already have, but it notes the 2000th show for charity and the winner would get a 1000-book library. Did note though that she was the all-time record holder in winnings in April 1969. The 2000th Show is now on YouTube as well as of September 2019.

The article is from the Sunday News of Lancaster, February 6, 1972. Unfortunately the copy does not have the other part. Given she died at age 77 on October 14, 1997, it is reasonable to assume she was 49 during her run in 1969.

Susan Smith of the 1971 TOC won $4,970. (Binghamton Press, October 28, 1971)

More on Rosemary Travis [1973] here, but not much. (The Terre Haute Tribune, November 13, 1973). Also some more specifics on the 1973 TOC charities and Greece trip. (The Mercury of Pottstown, Pennsyvania, November 10, 1973)

[Robert K S]

Thanks for these!

New article found on Jane Gschwend.

The article notes she spoiled the outcome (she was the winner of Fleming show #2000) and then said nobody had told her not to. I guess there were no NDAs back then.

Susan Smith of the 1971 TOC...

The article says she qualified in October 1971 for the 1971 ToC that taped and aired in November 1971, but, in fact, she didn't appear until the 1972 ToC, which taped and aired in November 1972.

I don't know when or how our culture evolved to call women by their husband's names but man am I glad we've moved beyond that in all but a few holdout sectors of society.

[Bamaman]

That was odd considering she was billed by her own name on the show.

[Roadgeek Adam]

The article says she qualified in October 1971 for the 1971 ToC that taped and aired in November 1971, but, in fact, she didn't appear until the 1972 ToC, which taped and aired in November 1972.

I don't know when or how our culture evolved to call women by their husband's names but man am I glad we've moved beyond that in all but a few holdout sectors of society.

Just a typo on my part. Apologies.

Unfortunately, many of the female TOC members have their hubby's names instead. It has caused some headaches

[Robert K S]

Cross-posted from another thread, the obituary of 1974 Grand Champion Denny Golden, who died in 2017. https://fergusonfuneralhomesnj.com/book ... ituary.php

[tagNV]

Since no one has mentioned it yet...

Hutton "Red" Gibson, 1968 Jeopardy! Grand Champion (though better known for his views on the Catholic Church and even better known as the father of actor Mel Gibson) passed away on May 11th at the age of 101 (b 26 Aug 1918).

Obituary

As far as I know, he is/was the only J! contestant to be a centenarian. Are there any others?

[Bamaman]

The original show ran for over ten years so I am sure there would be others. The current show maybe not. Maybe someone from an early Seniors Tournament in the Alex era?

[Robert K S]

Since no one has mentioned it yet...

Hutton "Red" Gibson, 1968 Jeopardy! Grand Champion (though better known for his views on the Catholic Church and even better known as the father of actor Mel Gibson) passed away on May 11th at the age of 101 (b 26 Aug 1918).

Obituary

As far as I know, he is/was the only J! contestant to be a centenarian. Are there any others?

Thanks for posting, I hadn't seen anything in the media about this.

Say what you want about his theology, but you have to give him props for the ultimate sedevacantist punny book title, Is the Pope Catholic?

Also he's in kind of a weird category of people independently famous (perhaps to different subsets of followers) for three totally unrelated things. I wonder how many others can be put in that category. Perhaps Ben Franklin (inventor, statesman, author/publisher, father of imprisoned loyalist colonial Governor of New Jersey), but all his facets of celebrity (except, perhaps, William) are sort of inextricably tied up in his lifelong self-promotion. Even Hedy Lamarr didn't gain substantial notoriety for her invention of frequency hopping during her lifetime.

[Bamaman]

I found this on YouTube. It is an audio of the 10/30/1969 TOC game.

https://youtu.be/btdaw3rBOPU