CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Friday
won $50,000 on Jeopardy!, which he donated to the Trevor
Project.
California-based The Trevor Project
focuses on crisis and suicide prevention efforts for gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. The non-profit's Lifeline is
the nation's only 24-hour, toll-free confidential suicide prevention
hotline for gay and questioning young people.
Cooper competed against Thomas
Friedman, columnist for The New York Times, and Kelly
O'Donnell, White House correspondent for NBC, during the game show's
Power Players week. (The video is embedded in the right panel of
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It was Cooper's third appearance on
Jeopardy!
“The first time I did really well,”
Cooper said in a pre-show interview, “It was against Maria
Bartiromo, Kweisi Mfume and a power player. And I destroyed them.
That made me very confident. My second one I went into very
confident and I got destroyed. It was crushed by Cheech Marin.”
After winning, Cooper said he was going
to add that he's a Jeopardy! champion to his business card.
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