Sask. Jeopardy! contestant wins $66,101 on five-day streak

You look marvelous. Ryan. What is SNL? It is. Answer, who is Ryan Robertson? After winning 66,101 U.S. dollars last week, Ryan joins us now to talk about his journey from the town of Outlook to the big stage in Los Angeles. Good afternoon, Ryan. Hello, how are you? I'm great. Well, how are you feeling about that run? I'm feeling good. I mean, obviously, as someone who loves the game of Jeopardy, I wish I was keep playing in perpetuity, but I mean, you have got to lose at some point, I guess. That is true. So walk us through the five day streak that you had. How did it start? So, yeah, I mean, it's pretty intense, the taping days. So there's five episodes in a day and they shoot Monday through Friday. and my first game was uh the thursday episode and uh yeah i actually got off to a kind of roaring start there um and was able to kind of secure the game before uh before final jeopardy uh the second game um was one of the tightest ones and most exciting games uh in history according to the to the lady at least sitting in the stands by my wife uh but just winning that meant i got a nice four-day break before the next taping day uh and then obviously came in a lot more relaxed um that was a monday morning uh yeah came in a lot more relaxed and kind of rattled off a couple of um nice wins and then uh yeah it just uh it's actually kind of physically and mentally grueling so that third game i just yeah kind of things where brain was getting a bit mushy and then uh it's kind of was an uphill battle but uh yeah it was obviously a couple of the most uh fun and exciting days of my life. That's for sure. So you have four kids at home and you applied for Jeopardy. So tell us, how did you actually get on the show? Yeah, it was actually kind of a long haul. So I've been trying to get on for about 15 years. And so it starts with a quick online sort of test. They call it the Jeopardy Anytime Test. Yeah, you can just go on online and take that anytime, but it's super, super rapid fire. So it only takes like 10 minutes or something it's 50 questions and um assuming you meet whatever threshold minimum threshold they have there you get invited to another audition uh which used to be in person and because i've been trying for a while uh i had um i had had two in-person auditions and kind of they went on to an online format and yeah this latest fourth one was probably actually summer of 2024 and i thought i was kind of out of the window of uh eligibility but i got the call at the end of june um saying hey you want to come down to la um what's your availability like for the end of august and i said i'll make myself available so how did you prepare for all of these tough trivia questions um well it's kind of been like a lifelong process where uh even when i was a kid uh my parents were reminding me of this i used to have this like book of knowledge i'd call it and any kind of interesting thing i'd learn i would kind of make note of it and uh go and review um just to kind of lock it in my memory and then uh yeah that over time became digitized at some point and because i am a software developer i did uh develop an app that kind of now if i'm on wikipedia or something and i see something super interesting i'll just bookmark it and it kind of gets added in there uh even using ai now so and it will create these questions and kind of review me um at uh later on down the line just to kind of lock it into my memory so it's uh yeah Just nerdy stuff like that, I guess.