Jeopardy! contestant whose heartfelt tribute made Alex Trebek choke up visits Ellen

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Dhruv Gaur told Ellen DeGeneres his Tournament of Champions taping happened in mid-September, shortly after Trebek announced he was re-entering chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. “Obviously I wasn’t going to win the game or anything, so I could try to figure out the right answer or I could do something for this person who might need it right now," he said. Gaur lost $1,995 of his $2,000.