December 13, 2022
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Philadelphia resident Dan Rosen, right, will compete Wednesday on 'Jeopardy!' He'll look to replicate the success of Ryan Long and Cris Pannullo, two contestants from the region who pulled off lengthy winning streaks earlier this year.
An accounting clerk will look to become the next "Jeopardy!" contestant from Philadelphia to make waves on the game show.
Dan Rosen will compete on the quiz show Wednesday against Mollie Cowger, a puzzle and games assistant editor from San Francisco, California. The third contestant will be decided during Tuesday's game. The show is broadcast at 7 p.m. on ABC.
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The current champion, Sean McShane, who works in the nonprofit sector, has one victory under his belt and $20,600 in total winnings. McShane, of West Islip, New York, will compete Tuesday against Brett Myer, a writer from Los Angeles, California, and Ellen McRae, a realtor from Falls Church, Virginia.
Rosen will be the latest in a string of contestants from the Philadelphia region to appear on "Jeopardy!" this year. Ryan Long, a former ride-share driver from the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, won 16 straight games during the summer, winning more than $300,000. He later lost in the first round of the Tournament of Champions.
Last week, Cris Pannullo, an Ocean City, New Jersey resident, had his 21-game winning streak snapped. He won $749,286 during his run, the fifth-highest total in the game show's history.
Earlier this year, a pair of college students – Mehek Boparai, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Mitch Macek, of Villanova University, competed against 34 other undergraduates in Jeopardy! National College Championship.
In July, Erica Weiner-Amachi, a fourth grade teacher at KIPP Philadelphia Public Schools, held the lead entering Final Jeopardy, with $12,800, but she lost the game after incorrectly answering a clue about cloned apple trees. She also competed during a second chance tournament, but did not win.
"Jeopardy!" just wrapped its 38th season in syndication, averaging more than 20 million weekly viewers.
