Greenbelter Faces Off For Second Night on Jeopardy

Greenbelter Jessamine Price said she grew up playing Jeopardy along with the TV. It paid off. On Friday she returns as a Jeopardy champion, having beaten four-time champion, David Gard on Thursday.

Price said her family watches the show every night at dinner. She and her family have been yelling out answers to the TV since she was a teenager.

Her past experiences as a school teacher gave her great practice for the show, according to Price.

"Because when you're teaching high school you have to talk to large groups of people and come up with answers fast," she said. "So there are a lot of teachers on Jeopardy because we're used to thinking on our feet."

Price has four years experience teaching history and world religions full time at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, and Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC.

Having a master's degree of philosophy in history from the University of Oxford didn't hurt her game either.

Price talked about the hardest question that she got on Thursday's show.

"I got a Daily Double, and the question was I just thought impossible," she said.

As best she can recall, it was about a word for a bell tower, a word that derives from a town in a region in Italy, whose medal is used to make bells.

She remembers the answer well — Campanile.

The question she said she won the most cash with was the last question in Final Jeopardy. Going into it, she and the other contestants were closely matched. But she emerged as champion, she said — when she responded to a question about two Tony Award-winning musicals from the 1980s that were set in Paris.

She answered "Les Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera" to become reigning champion.

You can watch WJLA ABC Channel 7 tonight at 7:30 p.m. to see how Price fares.