{"id":19897,"date":"2022-09-27T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=19897"},"modified":"2022-10-03T12:38:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:38:50","slug":"walla-walla-priest-four-day-jeopardy-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/walla-walla-priest-four-day-jeopardy-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alumnus four-day &#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217; champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University chemistry alumnus turned Episcopal priest David Sibley &#8217;07 M&#8217;08 competed again on &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; Friday, Sept. 30, when the streak for the longtime trivia quiz show enthusiast ended. His winning run began Monday, Sept. 26. Several news outlets covered his success and eventual demise, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/news\/sc-natives-4-day-jeopardy-win-streak-comes-to-an-end\/article_f5f92434-410f-11ed-8051-a720496c9a92.html\">The Post and Courier Greenville<\/a>, NBC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcrightnow.com\/news\/walla-walla-priest-competing-on-jeopardy-tonight\/article_2c2741ce-3dd4-11ed-a4ae-f3c9a175987a.html\">KNDO 23\/KNDU 25<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblog101.com\/who-won-jeopardy-tonight-september-28-2022-wednesday\/\">The Blog101<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetoughtackle.com\/gaming-who-won-jeopardy-tonight-41271\/\">The Tough Tackle,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.union-bulletin.com\/news\/local\/sibley-s-jeopardy-streak-hits-four\/article_ec6a07ba-4107-11ed-982a-87da687139a3.html\">Union-Bulletin<\/a> (subscription required), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdjonline.com\/tribune\/regional\/jeopardy-streak-continues-for-walla-walla-episcopal-priest\/article_78deb437-6074-5409-b233-fe2651538a4f.html\">Marietta Daily Journal<\/a> (subscription required), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.episcopalnewsservice.org\/2022\/09\/27\/episcopal-priest-in-shock-after-winning-jeopardy-episode-defends-title-on-sept-27\/\">Episcopal News Service<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ampgoo.com\/priest-contestant-on-jeopardy-incorrectly-guesses-euphoria-question\">ampgoo.com<\/a>. Rev. Sibley is rector of St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Walla Walla, Washington. He earned a bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s in chemistry from Furman and received his M.Div. from The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry alumnus and rector of St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal in Walla Walla, Washington, David Sibley &#8217;07 M&#8217;08 had a successful four-day run on &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; Several news outlets followed his progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":19899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1617,53,92,1618,43,6,1608,1609,116,1610,1,1616],"tags":[1613,1611,1612],"class_list":["post-19897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-ampgoo-com","category-chemistry","category-chemistry-graduate-studies","category-episcopal-news-service","category-graduate-studies","category-in-the-news","category-nbc-kndo-23-kndu-25","category-the-blog-101","category-the-post-and-courier","category-the-tough-tackle","category-uncategorized","category-union-bulletin","tag-game-show","tag-jeopardy","tag-quiz-show"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}