Jeopardy! contestant Nikhil Joshi may be making the game show look easy, but he didn’t have the easiest road to get here. The one-day champion took home only $5,400 during his first game after his opponent said that his mental health got the best of him .

Joshi, from Montville, New Jersey, played against Elizabeth Hawkins, from Oakland, California, and Brian O’Heron, from St. Louis, Missouri, on Friday, June 6.

“My brother and I would watch Jeopardy! pretty much every night growing up. We’d always talk about getting on the show, but I never thought it would happen,” Joshi, a veterinarian, told his alma mater, University of Maryland , where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology. “It was always one of these dreams I never thought would come true.” But his dream did come true an

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