| Mehrun Etebari | |
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| Birth Hometown: | Durham, New Hampshire |
| Occupation: | Graduate student of international relations |
| Known for: | Appearances on Jeopardy! |
Mehrun Etebari is a graduate student of international relations.
Jeopardy! Run[]
| Game No. | Air Date | Final score | Cumulative Winnings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 24, 2007 | $17,900 | $17,900 | Mehrun's first win from second place |
| 2 | May 25, 2007 | $10,500 | $28,400 | Mehrun's first runaway game. |
| 3 | May 28, 2007 | $32,800 | $61,200 | |
| 4 | May 29, 2007 | $37,900 | $99,100 | |
| 5 | May 30, 2007 | $29,000 | $128,100 | Mehrun's second runaway game. |
| 6 | May 31, 2007 | $6,500 | $130,100 | Mike Donner ends his streak and goes on to win one more game. |
Tournament of Champions[]
In the quarterfinals, he went up against a 5-time champion Cathy Lanctot and a 4-time champion Chris Mazurek, answered twenty responses correctly, but he got three of them wrong. However, in the FJ!, he didn't come up with the right response and it wasn't enough to make it to the semifinals, taking the $5,000 and the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System.
Trivia[]
- He appeared as a challenger on two episodes of ABC's 500 Questions on 2015-05-27 and 2015-05-28. He was unable to eliminate Season 21 player Adam Villani.
- His turn against IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer Watson was featured in a video posted along with a New York Times Magazine article published June 14, 2010. Mehrun played against Watson and Season 22 5-time champion Maria Wenglinsky. The final score shown in the video was Maria: $19,200; Watson: $3,200; Mehrun: $42,400.
- He won 1 game playing with Alan Lin and $10,000 on 25 Words or Less.
- He won $1,000 on Master Minds on January 9, 2023.
- Before Cris Pannullo, he was a participant who had not made it to the ToC semifinals among the top-seeds.