The risk management program manager at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles who is originally from Rugby, North Dakota. Who is Josiah Jenkins?
As reported by a local Fox affiliate in Minot, North Dakota, Mr. Jenkins on Wednesday fulfilled a lifelong dream of being a contestant on the television game show “Jeopardy.”
“I hope I did everyone back home proud, because I did feel like, OK, I have to show up well for all my teachers and everyone back in Rugby who really made it possible for me to be here in the first place,” Mr. Jenkins told a reporter.
Mr. Jenkins did not win, but as runner-up managed to take home $2,000, courtesy of GEICO, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The owner of DERBY-PIE — which holds a federal trademark for a “well-known chocolate nut pie” — finished out of the money in his lawsuit against a Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper that published a recipe for the popular race-day dessert, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in dismissing the suit.