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By Dave O'Connell Rappahannock News Staff Wnt*r
tf you want to stump Culpeper resident and “Jeopardy!’* champion Milt Hathaway just ask him one - of the questions he aced in his Thursday night appearance on the syndicated quiz show
“It was amazing because even watching it, I was still missing questions,** said Hathaway “l was there. I should remember, but I was tike ‘Dam. when did this category come up? What the heck is that supposed to met in .’"'
In the end. his knowledge of French tapestries, television robots and other trivial matters meant a $38,401 payday and newfound celebrity status at Eastern View High School, where the 62-vear old works as a librarian.
'Thekicfe have been excited.'* said Hathaway. 'They ask me. 'How do you learn that stuff? Do they give you the categories ahead of time?'' No. t had extraordinary teachers, ail the way from a little kid up to grad school.’*
One of those teachers was his father. Jeffrey Hathaway an Air Force technical sergeunt who raised Milt and his three other children in a bythe-book fashion.
“Hed use a vocabulary word at the table that we didn't know and all us kids eating supper would go. 'What does that mean'.**, said Hathaway “And we’d bring the dictionary over and ten the whule family. It got us thinking about words and how they relate."*
This set Huthaway an the path to his current buv-thebook existence, a skill which came in handy Thursday when host Alex Trebek read what turned out to be Milt’s first money-winning clue.
“I’ve been reviewing major authors of the world
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