Who Wants to be a Millionaire before Jeopardy

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Who Wants to be a Millionaire before Jeopardy

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I have a general question about contestants who have appeared on both Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Mostly from what i have seen is that most people who have been on both appear on Jeopardy first, and then have appeared on Millionaire. Has there been anyone that has appeared on Millionaire, and then appeared on Jeopardy? I was curious what you boardies think about this. I definitely want to be on Jeopardy above all else in the world, but i definitely have watched Millionaire since its inception. Just curious, is there a preference as for which to do first, or is it mainly just how the cookie crumbles for most people?
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By coincidence, there's at least one case in particular that I know of:
Jennie Floyd won $64k on Millionaire in 2009, and then was on Jeopardy on 27 Sep 2017.
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Trevor Schultz appeared in the 2009 version and won $100K before his appearance on Jeopardy! last season. Here was his WWTBAM episode, in 3 parts:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOQ1TDJUdLs
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjf5mdSQSkw
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81HGA6p9xM
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It's just how it worked out for me; I was on Jeopardy! in 2013, saw fellow J! alum Hans Von Walter on Millionaire, said to myself, "Hey, that looks fun and doable," and auditioned for Millionaire in 2014.
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Brian Fodera was on Jeopardy not too long ago. He was on Millionaire back in 2000.

Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows. He's the only person to win $125,000+ on both shows.

I believe both are members here.
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To answer your question, it's just how the cookie crumbles. It's really hard to get on either show, so you should try for each one constantly, and when your big break comes, go for it. I can't see any advantage to having gone on one before the other.
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I was on Millionaire in 2003 and then Jeopardy in 2008 and 2009.

There was no grand plan to do one and then the other. I'm not sure there's an advantage to either order. They are very different experiences - for me, Millionaire was more intense and Jeopardy was much more fun.
kprather895 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:30 am Brian Fodera was on Jeopardy not too long ago. He was on Millionaire back in 2000.

Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows.
If you include my $2000 consolation prize when I lost the fifth J! game, there are four. 125K on Millionaire, 100,901 on J!. (I"d say, "Not to brag," but that would be disingenuous.)
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Thanks for all the responses, yea I was just curious if there was a method to the madness but it really is just circumstance, so yea I will continue to try both until then!
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pastor_dave wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:30 am
kprather895 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:30 am Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows.
If you include my $2000 consolation prize when I lost the fifth J! game, there are four. 125K on Millionaire, 100,901 on J!. (I"d say, "Not to brag," but that would be disingenuous.)
Dave, you're the third. I've got you, Ken, and Bill. Is there someone else I'm missing?
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kprather895 wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:30 pm
pastor_dave wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:30 am
kprather895 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:30 am Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows.
If you include my $2000 consolation prize when I lost the fifth J! game, there are four. 125K on Millionaire, 100,901 on J!. (I"d say, "Not to brag," but that would be disingenuous.)
Dave, you're the third. I've got you, Ken, and Bill. Is there someone else I'm missing?
https://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?p=235284#p235284
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cheezguyty wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:00 pm
kprather895 wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:30 pm
pastor_dave wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:30 am
kprather895 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:30 am Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows.
If you include my $2000 consolation prize when I lost the fifth J! game, there are four. 125K on Millionaire, 100,901 on J!. (I"d say, "Not to brag," but that would be disingenuous.)
Dave, you're the third. I've got you, Ken, and Bill. Is there someone else I'm missing?
https://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?p=235284#p235284
*scrolls down* I knew I had posted Dave as a six-figure winner on both shows! Upon reading his quoted post, I tried to find one where I had mentioned it, but I forgot that my post comprised just a quote and a link.

Also, it's hilarious that we've got kprather's post answering kprather's question.
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cheezguyty wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:00 pm
kprather895 wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:30 pm
pastor_dave wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:30 am
kprather895 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:30 am Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows.
If you include my $2000 consolation prize when I lost the fifth J! game, there are four. 125K on Millionaire, 100,901 on J!. (I"d say, "Not to brag," but that would be disingenuous.)
Dave, you're the third. I've got you, Ken, and Bill. Is there someone else I'm missing?
https://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?p=235284#p235284
Bingo! I remembered Dave, but somehow I forgot Jeff Richmond being the newest member of the club. My apologies to Jeff.

I remember that discussion, and I was looking for that very thread too, but I was searching the wrong board for it. Thanks for finding it!
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I won 32K on Millionaire back on the Regis Philbin prime time show in 2000, then 72K on Jeopardy! in 2011. I had actually got the call to try out for Jeopardy in June, 2000, but couldn't make it to the testing time. It was a last minute invite as I guess someone cancelled: I was called on Thursday for a Saturday test and was right in the middle of my three days in a row night shifts. Then I got through on the phone lines and did the fastest finger prelims in July, 2000, for WWTBAM.
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kprather895 wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 11:03 pm
cheezguyty wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:00 pm
kprather895 wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:30 pm
pastor_dave wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:30 am
kprather895 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:30 am Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows.
If you include my $2000 consolation prize when I lost the fifth J! game, there are four. 125K on Millionaire, 100,901 on J!. (I"d say, "Not to brag," but that would be disingenuous.)
Dave, you're the third. I've got you, Ken, and Bill. Is there someone else I'm missing?
https://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?p=235284#p235284
Bingo! I remembered Dave, but somehow I forgot Jeff Richmond being the newest member of the club. My apologies to Jeff.

I remember that discussion, and I was looking for that very thread too, but I was searching the wrong board for it. Thanks for finding it!
I was on Millionaire in 2011. I *hope* to join this elite club someday. :roll:
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Jason Thweatt was on Millionaire in 2001 and won 32k before being on Jeopardy at the end of 2007.
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cheezguyty wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:00 pm
kprather895 wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:30 pm
pastor_dave wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:30 am
kprather895 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:30 am Same goes for Bill MacDonald. He was on Millionaire in 1999, and later made a run on Jeopardy. To date, he's one of only three people to win at least six figures on both shows.
If you include my $2000 consolation prize when I lost the fifth J! game, there are four. 125K on Millionaire, 100,901 on J!. (I"d say, "Not to brag," but that would be disingenuous.)
Dave, you're the third. I've got you, Ken, and Bill. Is there someone else I'm missing?
viewtopic.php?p=235284#p235284
Fritz Holznagel will try to be the next one tomorrow.
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seaborgium wrote: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:28 pm
Fritz Holznagel will try to be the next one tomorrow.
Retroactive good luck to him!

Has Dan Melia done Millionaire? If he does, that'll create another Jeopardy episode where all three contestants were, or became, Millionaire alums. To my knowledge, this is the only such game.
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kprather895 wrote: Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:48 pm
seaborgium wrote: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:28 pm
Fritz Holznagel will try to be the next one tomorrow.
Retroactive good luck to him!

Has Dan Melia done Millionaire? If he does, that'll create another Jeopardy episode where all three contestants were, or became, Millionaire alums. To my knowledge, this is the only such game.
Well technically this game holds too: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3508
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Jeopardy! in 2003, Millionaire in 2016, and four figures on both. Though I was a Kids Week J! player, so there's no way I could've done Millionaire first.

However, add Jason Block to the "Millionaire before J!" list. 125K on Millionaire in 2000, 4x J! champ for 36K+ the following year.
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Rick Terpstra's Millionaire episode.

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