![]() I took a quick online quiz, passed it, and found myself in a Zoom room with the usual assortment of hopefuls, many of whom I recognized from the trivia circuit. ![]() Word began circulating, at the beginning of the pandemic, that The Chase was coming back and would be holding Zoom auditions. ![]() I belong to several online trivia groups. So how did I get on the show? Well, I was on Jeopardy! in 2013, and I’ve stayed active in the scene. The Chase offers bragging rights for the true trivia lover, because it gives us a chance to go up against the best. Jeopardy! is the king, of course, and the current off-air Who Wants To Be A Millionaire offers plenty of prestige. Just know that in the trivia world, The Chase is considered the third leg of a TV trivia triple crown. And unless you’re going to be on the show, they don’t really matter that much. Then if they survive, they go to the “Final Chase,” a timed barrage of questions and…look, the rules are kind of complicated. This builds their bank, and then the Chaser makes that contestant an offer to either raise or lower the bank, and the contestant has to play head-to-head against the Chaser, answering some multiple choice questions. The show has three rounds: In the first, a contestant has to answer some questions. The current version features four “chasers”: Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter, Jeopardy’s “Greatest of All Time” competitors, and Mark Labett, “The Beast,” who appears in the British edition and was the “Chaser” in the Game Show Network version. has aired a few iterations, including a popular one on the Game Show Network. photo and TV courtesy of Jason FranzĮveryone in my small but lively world of semi-pro trivia hustlers knows what The Chase is, and the show certainly has many fans, but doesn’t exist as an immutable part of the public brain like its forerunner, Jeopardy! The Chase comes from the U.K., where it airs almost every day. But in the end, I fought The Chase, and The Chase won. But, in the end, we fell a couple of questions and six seconds short. In the final round, only a Tom Brady-esque performance at the end by Holzhauer prevented me and my teammate, Nellie Kuh from Dallas, from splitting a huge $310,000 prize. I went one-on-one with James Holzhauer, the greatest TV quiz brain in history, in Round 2 of the show, taking him to the rack and banking $250,000 for my team. Now I can finally tell the story, since the network aired my episode last night and I’ve cleared the terms of my Non-Disclosure Agreement. Last May, I went to Los Angeles to tape an episode of the ABC game show The Chase.
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