An insurance adjuster originally from Chicago, Illinois...

David Shapiro

Season 4 player (1987-09-22): Hotpoint refrigerator + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version.

Father of conservative political commentator, media host, and attorney Ben Shapiro. Ben recounted the story his father's Jeopardy! appearance (while misremembering some of the details, including the number of wins of the returning champion, the occupation of the other challenger, his father's performance in the game, and the year) at around 56:30 of the 2019-08-16 episode of The Ben Shapiro Show (podcast). Regarding his father's prize, which Ben's mother desired Ben's father to win, Ben said, "That refrigerator was in our house for a solid 15 years."

David appeared in the following archived game:
#697, aired 1987-09-22 Roy Holliday vs. Peggy Friedman vs. David Shapiro Roy Holliday game 2.

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