Who Is Greg Lindsay, Jeopardy Champion.

And we have a new champion

With a final answer of “Galileo,” Greg Lindsay completed an unlikely comeback and added yet another line to his ever-growing resume: Jeopardy champion.

Surrounded by friends and family — including wife Sophie Donelson, lead cheerleader Will Leitch, Lockhart Steele, Dan Shanoff and mediabistro.com’s own Laurel Touby (who bought drinks) — at Barrow St. Alehouse in the West Village, the real life Lindsay looked nervous to watch his TV self perform. He said he prepared to face Alex Trebek by talking with former champions he knew, although he admitted he never “got the buzzer cadence down,” and by playing along to the

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