How many times have you watched a game show and thought, “I could do that?”

A teacher in Montgomery County, Maryland, thought so and recently backed it up by winning $15,529 on “Jeopardy!”

“I will be a ‘Jeopardy!’ champion for the rest of my life,” Joe Evans said.

That’s what the seventh grade global humanities teacher at Takoma Park Middle School thought after hearing the show’s host Ken Jennings announce that he had correctly answered his final Jeopardy question.

“I kind of whispered to myself, ‘Is this really happening?'” Evans said. “I felt my mother-in law with me.”

Evans used his late mother-in-law’s birth month and day, May 29, in his Final Jeopardy wagering.

“I think Justine would have really liked seeing me on Jeopardy,” Evans said.

The Final Jeopardy category was literary

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