Seattle Jeopardy Contestant Wins His Sixth Straight Game

Thanks to Tom Nissley, we've rediscovered our lost love of drinking beer and watching Jeopardy. Nissley, an Amazon employee and Ballard resident, won his sixth straight game last night, bringing his total winnings to $184,203. He was also the only contestant unafraid to make a real wager.

You can track all the questions from each episode here and read Tom's most recent dispatch from Trebekistan over here.

Nissley, the editor of Amazon's Omnivoracious blog, writes that he's never actually read The Moon and Sixpence, the W. Somerset Maugham novel that clinched his Final Jeopardy win Monday night. He writes:

"Luckily on Jeopardy! all you often need is not to have read the book in question, but just read about it, in, say, a New York Review of Books article about its author, which is, I have to confess, the source of about two-thirds of all my knowledge. But now I feel it is my happy obligation to the game-show gods to actually sit down and read The Moon and Sixpence."

Nissley apparently also has a friend in Philly who said her husband replayed that Final Jeopardy question, "Almost as much as he replayed the punt return that won the Eagles game yesterday."

Last night's Final Jeopardy question wasn't quite the clincher of Monday night's game, but here it is nonetheless: Thomas Huxley & Samuel Wilberforce were among the Oxford Museum speakers debating this theory June 30, 1860

Answer: Darwinism or evolution.

It's so tempting to make Ken Jennings comparisons. Nissley's got a ways to go on that front, so let's ease off with the pressure, mmmkay?