Rhee on a Strong 'Jeopardy!' Run

Jay Rhee will need to dig deeper into his collection of humorous anecdotes when he makes yet another appearance Thursday night on Jeopardy!

He has already told Alex Trebek and a national TV audience about his money-eating dog, a regrettable over-exposure at Red Lobster, and a less than perfect first date with his future wife.

But this is a good problem to have.

Rhee, an oncologist at Anne Arundel Medical Center, will compete again on Thursday night’s broadcast of Jeopardy! having won for the third straight time Wednesday night. Rhee took home an additional $25,601 for a three-day total of more than $70,000.

The competition from Washington, DC’s, Kartik Venguswamy and Kate Sparich from New Jersey was formidable, especially in the early round. Rhee, of Cape St. Clair, pulled ahead by answering the entire category about former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.

The second Double Jeopardy round continued to go back and forth with Venguswamy pulling ahead with a correct answer on a Daily Double about Styx mythology. (The Styx they referred to is a river in mythology separating the earth from the underworld, not the rock band.) 

Rhee built another lead late in the round and answered the Final Jeopardy question on literary characters with “Who is Rhett Butler?” to secure the win and another night on the program.  

Rhee can be seen on Jeopardy! tonight at 7 p.m. on WMAR.