Fisher, who grew up on Coral Gables and attended St. Stephen's Episcopal Day School before arriving to RE, answered 10 questions after his 10th victory to help members of the RE community learn more about him.

Q: Are you a lifelong Jeopardy! fan – how in the world did you get on the show?

 I've definitely been a fan for a while – my earliest memories of the show were during Ken Jennings' run in 2004, but I definitely watched before then. I've taken the online test every year since 2018, and finally got an in-person audition ... in March 2020, shortly before production (and the world) shut down. I took the test again early this summer, had a Zoom audition in August and got the call in September to go on the show about a week and half later. It's been a whirlwind! My best advice to get on Jeopardy! is to watch the show every day! You really get into the rhythm of how the game works and the more practice you have, the better.

Knowing that Matt Amodio [who had a 38-game winning streak] would still be playing on my tape day actually took the pressure off quite a bit – I didn't think I had any kind of chance to beat him and so I went in with the attitude that I was there to have fun playing and have a great experience. Once that first game was over, everything else really has been icing on the cake, so that's helped me maintain that sense of fun and low-stakes mentality that keeps the game fun to play, rather than turning it into a stressful, high-pressure situation.

 Being able to finally share this whole thing with people has been a blast. My first tape day was about a month before the first episode aired, so it was pretty agonizing to have to keep a lid on both my appearance and the fact that I ended Matt's record streak, and a huge relief to finally let the cat out of the bag!

After Northwestern, my partner and I lived in Providence, Rhode Island, for three years while she completed her MFA through Brown, and I was heavily involved in the local theatre scene there. Once she finished her degree, she booked a role in the live Frozen show at Disney California Adventure, which took us to Southern California, where we've been since and where I've been working in theatre consistently.

I had a great drama career at RE, primarily due to the amount of experience I was able to have performing in plays. In my six years at RE (middle and upper) I got to be in 10 fully rehearsed and produced plays – as an actor, the best way I know to learn performance skills is by doing them, over and over and in as many ways as possible. It's definitely a lifelong process, but I'm glad I got such a good start at RE. Shout outs to Ms. [Kate] Denson, Mr. [Stephen] Bonnell, Mr. [Sean] Bryan, Ms. [Gina] Montet and Mr. [Eric] Nelson for steering the ship with grace, humor and no shortage of over-the-top theatrics, which in my book is a necessity for drama!

I had so many wonderful teachers at RE that I couldn't possibly name them all. Dr. [John] King's (DK!) classes were always informative and a little offbeat, particularly his Latin American Studies class, which was immersive and interesting in really great and unexpected ways. I have to shout out Dr. [Tom] Dughi, who I had English with for at least two years if not three – he was so great in everything from facilitating meaningful discussions in class, to prompting better and more specific essay writing, to interesting and sometimes offbeat reading selections that paired really well with the more traditional or canonical entries. And I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the man, the myth, the legend Mr. Cesar Bermudez, who swooped in from study hall at the last minute with his clandestine Classics Degree to teach our doomed AP Latin classes my junior and senior years. He would bring us a copy of The New York Times crossword puzzle every day and spend some class time teaching us how to do them and relating the thinking skills required to learning and translating complicated Latin passages. My success on Jeopardy! has come from a lot of places over my lifetime, but Mr. Bermudez's Latin class looms large among them.

Aside from the ones I've mentioned above, a couple of my most vivid memories are getting to go out onto the bay, either in canoes in PE in ninth grade as preparation for Outward Bound, or on the boat for Biology or AP Environmental Science. I can't imagine there are many other schools that give students that kind of opportunity, much less multiple times over the course of four years, and it's one of the reasons why RE is such a special place.

Oh man so many places – the Pagoda was always a nice peaceful retreat to sit and read or play a card game with friends; I spent an inordinate amount of time in the computer lab (which I think is now gone, or at least transformed!), so much so that my friend and I missed an assembly in which we received our National Latin Honor Society certificates because we were in the computer lab on break and the bell didn't ring there; and of course I have a huge soft spot for the performing arts building and auditorium, where between rehearsals, performances, tech theatre class and assemblies, I'm sure I spent more time in than any other place on campus.

They've been loving it! I've been in close touch with family not only in South Florida but in California, Minnesota and Upstate New York, and friends everywhere from Chicago to Rhode Island to all the way in the UK and Ireland! So it's been so fun hearing from people from all parts of my life and getting to share this wild thing with so many.