[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the June 27 episode of Jeopardy!]
Jeopardy! followers had been moved to tears through the June 27 episode of the present when contestant Chris Ban mentioned that he deliberate to donate any winnings he acquired from competing to a rowing membership in honor of his late brother, who died from most cancers.
Ban, an oral and facial surgeon from Pennsylvania, was clearly emotional and pointed to heaven as he went on to clinch victory, taking dwelling $13,000 from his debut on the syndicated sport present. Followers quickly reacted to the touching second on social media.
Am I the one one who simply shed a tear when Chris Ban simply received tonight on #Jeopardy ? All executed for his late youthful brother.
pic.twitter.com/WUwvjQ55iq — Lil Rush (@LilRushe) June 28, 2023
After the present, Ban opened up about his late brother Michael, who died final yr of mind most cancers. You’ll be able to see his on-line obituary right here.
The surgeon, who’s affiliated with Pennsylvania’s Heritage Valley Well being System in Brighton Township, plans to donate his winnings to the North Allegheny Rowing Affiliation’s boathouse. He’s a category of 2001 alumnus of the group, and his brother was a 2004 alum, in keeping with the affiliation’s Fb web page.
Ban explains his emotional second on Reddit by way of a candid story about his brother.
“My brother Michael cherished Jeopardy,” he begins off the put up. “After we had been rising up, we cherished the jungle ebook tales and Rikki Tikki Tavi particularly. When he was sick w mind most cancers, he mentioned don’t fear, he was the mongoose that was going to kill this snake. I acquired him an artist’s rendering of a mongoose killing a snake to hold in his toilet that I’ve now in the identical place in my home.”
Ban continued, “Each morning of his chemo or radiation therapies I’d ship him an image of a mongoose killing a snake over textual content. When it turned clear he wasn’t going to kill the snake within the “standard” sense, he received and nonetheless killed it by dealing with the tip with dignity and sophistication.”
He went on to elucidate how his late brother helped him through the sport. “Once I was down within the first spherical I appeared up and mentioned “hey man, I might use a little bit assist right here.” This in all probability didn’t present on television. It might be simply be superbly poetic as a substitute of supernatural, however he confirmed up. As quickly as I learn that ultimate jeopardy reply I mentioned: bingo. Kipling. I crossed out Rudyard bc I used to be so nervous that I’d perhaps spelled it unsuitable.”
He explains, “that’s why I used to be so emotional on the finish.”
He additionally confirmed, “the highschool has already mentioned if and when the boathouse is constructed, it will likely be the Michael McNaughton Ban Memorial Boathouse. Constructed by Jeopardy!”
Ban returned to compete on the June 28 present towards lawyer Vic Goel from Virginia, and a senior regulatory compliance analyst, Bryan White, from California.
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