Former Notre Dame lacrosse player Taylor Clagget wins on ‘Jeopardy!’
2023 is turning out to be quite the year for Notre Dame men’s lacrosse. First, the program wins its first national championship. Now, one of the program’s former players is a “Jeopardy!” champion. Is another former player going to win a Nobel Prize next?
Taylor Clagget, who graduated from Notre Dame in 2008 and now is a marketing director in addition to an assistant coach for the Dutch men’s national team, started out slowly. He then made a late surge in the Jeopardy! round to tie for the lead going into Double Jeopardy!, which he led for most of the first half. He then slid back into second place, and while he missed the second Daily Double, he wagered only $1,200 on what had been a $1,600 clue. The result was going into Final Jeopardy! still in second with a score of $5,400, only $4,000 off the lead.
The Final Jeopardy! category was “Numbers Old & New”, and it provided this clue:
“Expressed in today’s numbers, it’s the sum total if you add the 7 Roman numerals together”
With one-day champion Nik Berry a distant third, the game came down to the final responses of Clagget and fellow challenger Ben Sasamoto. Clagget correctly came up with “What is 1,666?”, which is the sum when you add together the Roman numerals of M, D, C, L, X, V and I. He doubled his score with his wager, putting him in front at $10,800. Sasamoto’s response was “What is 666?”, clinching the title of “Jeopardy!” champion for Clagget.
We at Fighting Irish Wire will continue to track Clagget’s “Jeopardy!” progress as long as he remains on the show. Hopefully, he has a nice run in him, but if the run goes beyond next week, he’ll be off for a bit as next week is the last of the season. In the meantime, you can take a deep dive into Clagget’s winning game here and see how you would have done.
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