Former 'Jeopardy!' Champ Brad Rutter Reveals The 3 Categories You Need To Master To Have A Leg Up In Winning The Show
justjared.comBrad Rutter is spilling some trade secrets about Jeopardy! During a recent interview with Tyler Boronski, the past champion opened up about what you need to win the show – and it all comes down to knowing just about everything about three categories. Keep reading to find out more… During his interview, Brad recommended getting up to speed on three categories that come up a lot on the show – Presidents, World Capitals and Shakespeare. “There is a lot of stuff that comes up all the time… there are some things you can memorize and be pretty confident that at least one of them is going to come up in some way.
And that is Presidents, World Capitals, and Shakespeare,” he said, before dropping some tips for future contestants. Brad says that knowing all the U.S.
Presidents by number in order, every capital on the planet, and trying to get a basic knowledge of all the Shakespeare play titles with characters will give you a “big advantage going in.” He also notes though, that the buzzer is still something you will have a learning curve on.
There is “nothing else quite like the Jeopardy! buzzer,” he says, and added that “the returning champion has a big advantage every show just because they have played at least one full game with that buzzer, and the other two people haven’t.” Just recently, another Jeopardy!
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