Step 1 : Introduction to the question "John McCain appeared as a contestant on which TV game show in 1965?"
John McCain appeared on the classic quiz show, “Jeopardy!” in 1965, two years before becoming a prisoner of war in Vietnam and many years before his election to Congress. McCain, well-read and a trivia buff, won the first day's competition but lost the next day by failing to answer the Final Jeopardy question correctly. So, what was the Final Jeopardy question that tripped him up? The category was Literature, and the question was: “Cathy loved him, but married Edgar Linton instead.” Emily Brontë buffs know that the answer is Heathcliff. However, McCain could only recall the name of the book and answered incorrectly as such: “What is Wuthering Heights?” John McCain died Saturday after battling brain cancer. He was 81.