Scott Frost shares Jeopardy story about older brother Steve, a three-time champion
At the conclusion of his pre-camp press conference, UCF head coach Scott Frost fielded one final question. It wasn’t about quarterbacks, the offensive identity or the Knights’ progress under his direction.
UCFSports.com contributor Kevin Reis tossed a curveball to end the session: Did Frost, a known trivia enthusiast, enjoy watching Jeopardy?
“You know, it’s funny you ask about Jeopardy because I kind of have a little bit of fear of watching Jeopardy,” Frost said. “My brother is a three-time Jeopardy champion. I don’t know if you knew that. He went on Jeopardy and won three times, and we did a lot of trivia when I was growing up, and I never won.
“So it kind of makes me feel a little small to watch it, knowing that I can answer a lot of the questions, but nothing like my brother Steve. So to be honest, I don’t watch a lot of that. Just reading and memorizing things is more my deal, and I leave the trivia to my brother.”
Steve Frost appeared on Jeopardy in 2002, winning three games and earning around $40,000 before falling in his fourth appearance. Scott, who at the time was playing in the NFL, said he was in attendance for the taping and got to meet legendary host Alex Trebek.
Frost said his brother dazzled with his command of classic categories.
“He answered all these questions about French literature, English monarchs, stuff that I wouldn’t know,” Frost said. “But ironically, I’m a geography guy, and the final Jeopardy he missed was a geography question, and I knew it. If I could answer that one for him, he probably would have won a lot more.”
What was the question?
“Something to the effect of the first two countries alphabetically that contained parts of the Andes,” Frost said.
Both played at Stanford in the mid 1990s, Steve as a long snapper, and Scott as a quarterback before he transferred home to Nebraska. Today, Steve is a technology executive and also serves as the public address announcer for Stanford Football.
When mentions of Scott’s Jeopardy story made its way to Twitter, Steve couldn’t resist chiming in.
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