The final Jeopardy! response: Who is Laurel Lathrop?
The answer: This contestant eliminated Hanover High School graduate Gabe Brison-Trezise on Friday — one episode after he upset one of the biggest money-winners in the quiz show’s history.
After a dramatic Final Jeopardy win the day before, Brison-Trezise was not so lucky as returning champion. Trailing Lathrop, a graduate student from Florida, after regular play, Brison-Trezise faced the final clue: “From his own 1898 poem, the epitaph of this Irish-born man ends, ‘His mourners will be outcast men, & outcasts always mourn.’ ”
Brison-Trezise wrote, “Who is (W.B.) Yeats?”
Lathrop wrote “Who is Oscar Wilde?” the correct response, punching her ticket to the next episode and leaving Brison-Trezise with a two-day total of $24,400.
In his initial Jeopardy! appearance on Thursday, Brison-Trezise, a Washington, D.C., researcher and former captain of Hanover High’s quiz bowl team, snapped the 19-game winning streak of New Mexico math teacher Jason Zuffranieri, who’d amassed $532,496 in his victories.