“The Chase” is a fast-paced, high-stakes game show, which means contestants like Donohue have little time to think about their answers. (Photo courtesy of ABC/Ron Batzdorff.)
When Daniel Donohue sat down for a Skype audition for ABC’s new primetime show, “The Chase,” he never anticipated he would get the chance to compete head-to-head with his childhood idols.
Beginning his journey with the “Jeopardy!” College Championship, to now battling Brad Rutter, James Holzhauer and Ken Jennings some of the biggest names in “Jeopardy!” history Donohue has skillfully mastered his way up the trivia game show circuit.
The first-year Gould School of Law student is set to play a high-pressure game on the newest episode airing Thursday. The aim is to answer trivia questions faster and more accurately than the champions, who are dubbed the “chasers.” The game is fast-paced and high-stakes, with questions even valued at $25,000 each.
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For the past few years, I’ve had the luxury of starting the new year with a happy pronouncement about how great things are.
Obviously, I won’t be doing that this year.
To be fair, Georgia has had an incredible decade-long run of historic successes. Per capita state taxes in Georgia are next to the lowest in the nation. We have the second-best Bond Rating. Our public schools have never had better SAT, ACT, and K12 scores…or a better graduation rate. Our university system is one of the best in the nation; as UGA and Georgia Tech are ranked among the top-20 in public, and Emory is among the best private universities. Before COVID, we had the lowest unemployment rates in history. Even during the pandemic,
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Alex Trebek, the host of the popular quiz show Jeopardy, passed away on November 8th after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
After 36 years of hosting, Trebek’s last episodes aired Friday, January 8th.
Londyn Lorenz, a Perryville native now attending the University of Mississippi, competed in the 2020 Jeopardy College Championship, which recorded in February and aired in April.
She joined KRCU’s Clayton Hester to talk about the legacy of Alex Trebek, as well as her own history as a Jeopardy fan and contestant.
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2020 in review: Here is a look at the top news events that dominated this past year in Minnesota.
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At the beginning of the year, 28-year-old Monique Baugh a local realtor and mother of two young daughters
Charges were filed against a 41-year-old man in connection with her death.
On Jan. 7, Waseca police officer Arik Matson, 32,
was shot in the head during an encounter with a 37-year-old man. This is the worst nightmare a law enforcement agency can face, Waseca Police Chief Penny Vought said at the time.
A day later, the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners
Shows from earlier in the month:
Premise: Nick Kroll co-created this animated comedy about middle schoolers going through puberty and coming of age. This season focuses on going to a summer camp while the kids mature into having crippling “anxiety” for the first time.
The show is, first and foremost, a comedy but makes sure to have nuanced and diverse takes on the terrors of puberty as well ― a rarity in American culture.
The show has earned four Emmy nominations so far, including a win for Maya Rudolph in “Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.”
Setting: New York City suburb
Netflix descriptors: “Raunchy,” “witty” and “quirky”