Clue: The 1979 Slatington High School graduate who appeared on the TV show "Jeopardy!" Monday and Tuesday.

Answer: Who is Chris Gaiman?Better known in this area by her maiden name of Christine Cunfer, Gaiman not only appeared on the game show Monday but went on to win it, pocketing $14,401. She returned Tuesday, but her run ended there.Her parents, Dean "Chubby" Cunfer and Dorothy "Dolly" Cunfer of 1070 Pine Tree Drive in the borough, are both born and raised in Slatington.Gaiman grew up in the 200 block of Second Street along with younger sisters Susan and Sharon. After high school, she went on to study acting in New York City and, in 1989, met her future husband there in a rather unusual way that she wound up sharing at the show's opening.She said that just three-and-a-half months after climbing into a taxi cab she'd hailed in the city, she wound up marrying its driver, Michael Gaiman, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Longtime "Jeopardy!" game show host Alex Trebek then remarked, "Romance. We love it."Together, they moved to California 20 years ago, where she became a post-production coordinator for several well-known movies, such as "The Proposal" and "Enchanted." The couple now resides in North Hollywood, California with their 11-year-old son Emmett.However, it was not "North Hollywood" that Gaiman wanted mentioned in her short bio at the start of the game. Instead, when game show announcer Johnny Gilbert introduced her, he referred to her as coming "originally from Slatington, Pennsylvania"."I could have made it 'currently living in North Hollywood, (California)'," said Gaiman. "But I thought it would be cool for my parents and all the people I grew up with to mention I was from Slatington."How she got thereGaiman said she never truly intended to become a "Jeopardy!" contestant. Instead, at the urging of her husband and his friend, she had just decided to take the online data test along with them this past January.As the only one of the three to move on, Gaiman then took a written test. However, she had to wait several weeks to learn that she had passed that test as well. By early May, she had also been called in for an in-person, on-camera interview and mock game.Gaiman was one of two local contestants chosen. She said the game show always chooses at least two alternate players from the Los Angeles area in case, for any reason, a contestant from another area is unable to make the show's taping date. She also said she believes approximately 200,000 people signed up to take the online test, with about 2,000 then called back for the in-person interview and then about 400 in total picked for the show's season.Her first callback came in June; however, production company representatives said they did not yet have specific taping date information to share with her. By the end of July, Gaiman said she was called to appear at the end of August but that they wound up not needing her for that day's taping. Finally, she was told that her likely recording date would be Sept. 10 and to again report to the Sony Pictures Studios' Stage 10 in Culver City, Calif.Gaiman explained that, the day of the taping, the studio handles each contestant's makeup, gives them an overview of the game and then rehearses with several mock games before recording begins. Because the show tapes five games in a row, she knew that very day whether or not she had won more than just Monday night's game.Keeping it secretHowever, Gaiman said she was not allowed to tell anyone, including her parents, whether or not she had won or lost while appearing on "Jeopardy!"; she was only allowed to tell them which week her original appearance would air. And she didn't even tell them that until several weeks ago."She was pretty good at keeping it secret," said Chubby Cunfer. But it was still enough information for him to immediately take to all of his family and friends."Everywhere we went, he told everyone," laughed his wife, Dolly."I wasn't especially nervous," Gaiman explained about the taping of her Monday night game show appearance. "I had no expectations." Still, she said she found it to be both "really thrilling and really terrifying".And, she said, the fact that she then went on to win Monday night's show shocked her. "I was surprised by the way I won," she said, noting that the reason that night's returning champion, Greg Buzzard, didn't win was simply because he added an extra syllable to his misspelling of the word "Kazakhstan". She, fortunately, did not. The Final Jeopardy category had been "Big Countries" and the clue had been: "In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia and the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean."The Cunfers said they were ecstatic to learn their daughter would be appearing on the show and were glad she chose to give recognition to her hometown, in part because Slatington rarely gets such widespread happy recognition.In fact, Chubby relayed an anecdote about a friend of a friend, who is also from Slatington but now lives in Williamsport, who had called to say she'd seen Christine on the show.The lossAs the returningwinner, Gaiman then appeared on Tuesday night's show. However, she lost to a young member of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Europe, named Stuart Anderson.She finished second.Tuesday, in the interview portion, she mentioned that she was a knitter and was "going abroad on a yarn crawl to Scotland."Going into FinalJeopardy, the scoring of the three contestants was close. Gaiman had $8,000, thesecond place woman had $8,400, and the first place contestant had $9,200.The question involved the first paragraph of a 1952 novel. Gaiman bet $1,200 but had the answer wrong.Then the woman next to her bet a larger amount and also had it wrong,giving Gaiman hope that she would repeat as the champion.But the military man had the correct answer, "East of Eden."Early Wednesdaymorning, in response to that loss, Gaiman replied that it was "to a military man … as it should be."