Jeopardy! Contestant Gets Second-Lowest Score, But Takes It In Stride
deadline.comErin Buker earned the second-lowest score in Jeopardy! history on Monday. A mother from San Pedro, California, Buker ended her episode with a score of -$7,200, a low that was just in front of contestant Patrick Pearce’s $7,400 in 2021.
But Buker isn’t worried about appearances. On the show’s Reddit forum, she talked about her experience on Jeopardy! “It was a day to forget for Erin indeed!
Unfortunately, they taped what little I was able to forget about it,” Buker wrote. “When it came to the buzzer, I was my own worst enemy, frequently buzzing in midway through the clue as if my thumb had a mind of its own.
There’s something uniquely frustrating about knowing answers, but not having the wherewithal to ring in at the appropriate time to answer them — that was my deficit and I own it entirely.” But still, “it was still a great experience,” she said. “As the alternate for the week before, I got to know all of the contestants who aired last week really well, and they were truly salt of the earth.
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