CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA: With Season 39 coming to an end soon, 'Jeopardy!' has crowned another brand new champ in tonight's episode. Julie Sisson managed to take over the title with her impressive gameplay as two-day champ Taylor Clagett failed to defend it.
Sisson faced the returning champ Clagett and a psychologist resident from Portland Oregon named Andrew Knowles. In the next episode, she will be competing for the title of 'Jeopardy!' champ again with Lucas Partridge, a school counselor from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Alex Muhler, a policy analyst from Oakland, California.
Who is Julie Sisson?
Sisson's 'Jeopardy!' profile lists her as a Library Circulation Assistant from Everett, Washington. She is a 49-year-old who has been working at the Evergreen branch of Everett Public Library since 2008. Sisson has a wife named Debbie Barbay. She received her college education from Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri, which is a private college for women.
Sisson has an active Instagram account where she often shares pictures of her latest hobbies which range from knitting to baking, solving big puzzles, and of course, reading. According to Herald Net, she revealed that she reached the Alex Trebek stage because of her issues with insomnia. While she couldn't sleep one night, Sisson decided to take up the Anytime Test that has to be taken if you wish to become a contestant on 'Jeopardy!'.
How did Julie Sisson win?
Sisson took dominance behind the podium from the very start of the first round of clues. Although she wasn't in the lead when moving into the final round, she managed to keep the gap small, with Clagett holding $9,700 while she held $8,200. It was because of her good wager that she managed to come out as the winner of the night even when her fellow contestants more or less knew the answer.
The Final Jeopardy clue was from the category Compound Word Origins and said: "This compound word meant an astronomical object of exceptional brightness in 1910; it was soon applied to actors and athletes." The correct answer was "superstar" and both Knowles and Sisson were able to put it down, but Knowles made quite a small wager which didn't affect his score much. Clagett, on the other hand, only answered with "star," presumably forgetting that the question asked for a compound word. He lost a major amount because of his wager, landing him in the third spot. Sisson's final winnings added up to $11,210.
