An operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri...

Kevin Keach

Hi, I'm Kevin, and you're watching me on jeopardy.com.

How long have you been watching Jeopardy!?
I can remember watching Jeopardy! in the original incarnation with, um, Art Fleming back in the 1960s, but I've watched it religiously now since uh, for the last fifteen or sixteen years. You know, I tape it to make sure that I can see every episode.

How did you prepare for being a contestant?
Prepared for this tournament, um, by mainly trying [unintelligible] on the buzzer. Um, I--I had quite a few shows in the can (or in the box) that I could watch, so I watched a lot of those, and, oh, I did some--just general stuff... Shakespeare, and, um, the Bible, which aren't particularly my strongest categories.

Have you been recognized since being on Jeopardy!?
I was eating, uh, at Arby's this one afternoon and this woman kept staring at me, and I really wasn't thinking about it, um, and just got up and walked over to me and said, "Aren't you--I think you're named Kevin and weren't you on Jeopardy! a few months ago?" And I said, "Yes I was, yes, thank you very much."

GOOD LUCK, Kevin!

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