![]() ![]() Given that "Jeopardy!" is ill-equipped to allow us to get to know its competitors, we've learned just about everything we're going to about Collins - that when we tune in each night, the game's likely to be an utter rout. But it's reached its endpoint as interesting TV. ![]() Collins has had 20 days of practice using the "Jeopardy!" buzzers, an incumbency advantage that, if it's not insurmountable, would take a pretty extraordinary competitor to overcome.Ĭollins's feat is certainly extraordinary - though it's up for true "Jeopardy!" lovers to determine whether it's more or less impressive that she's playing the game according to its unwritten rules rather than jumping around the board and wagering erratically as Chu had. And like Jennings's, her ongoing success seems to build upon itself. There's nothing to say about it - she's just the best one out there. Like Ken Jennings before her, Collins is just dominating in a manner at once remarkable and banal. She replied "Oh, boy," and then Trebek said he'd recently learned that Collins's high school mascot had been the snail. (Trebek, when it came time, asked Collins what she wanted to talk about. I don't know what to talk about in the conversation segment," host Alex Trebek joked in his opening remarks during Collins's most recent appearance. Unlike, say, "Survivor," won or lost on the basis of personal interactions, "Jeopardy!" in almost all cases measures straightforward skills - reaction time when buzzing in, broad-based knowledge, strategic wagering.Īnd so it is that, twenty wins into her reign, Julia Collins has given the "Jeopardy!" audience little to grab onto but her sheer mastery. ![]() "Jeopardy!" has many strengths, but its ability to let us get to know personalities isn't really one of them. The five-game cap should be reintroduced to the game. There's something compelling in Collins's sheer mastery, but it's about time we made "Jeopardy!" competitive again. At this point, tuning into "Jeopardy!" is rather like watching the Harlem Globetrotters, and every player not named Julia Collins is the Washington Generals. Collins, a business consultant from suburban Chicago, in most cases has accumulated such a lead by Final Jeopardy that she's mathematically impossible to defeat. Schneider selected the “Aviation” category, but it was a fellow contestant who buzzed in first and replied to the following clue: “At over 220 feet, the wingspan on a 747 is longer than this pair’s first flight in 1903,” correctly naming Wilbur and Orville Wright.Chu's 11-win streak earlier this year has already been overshadowed by Julia Collins, a player who's now won 20 consecutive games - second only to Ken Jennings - and whose style returns the game to its fundamentals. “I didn’t get in on the Wright Brothers clue! I’m so sorry Dayton, please don’t ban me from the city!” she tweeted about the Dec. There also was a missed opportunity involving Dayton’s iconic sons that left Schneider begging for forgiveness. ![]() Explore RELATED: ‘Jeopardy!’ features a double dose of Dayton She said as an eighth-grader, her classmates voted her most likely to appear on “Jeopardy!” She made good on their prediction, and on Monday correctly responded to a Dayton-centric clue: “GBV can only be this indie band led by former Ohio schoolteacher Robert Pollard.” Schneider correctly answered Guided By Voices, Dayton’s own indie band that formed in 1983 and has produced 33 albums. “Congratulations to Amy on becoming the woman with the highest overall earnings in the show’s history!”įollowing each day’s show that airs she gives a recap on Twitter of her performance on the latest episode, shares more about her experience taping five shows a day, her favorite books, answers fan questions and has even posted about her cat Meep. “Well, it was fun to hold a Jeopardy record for a few years … but it’s been even more fun to watch set new standards for excellence, on the show and off,” Kelly posted on Twitter. That game bumped her earnings total to $706,800, which surpassed Larissa Kelly whose winnings stand at $655,930 after regular play in 2019. She has held that position since her 18th consecutive win on Christmas Eve. Her 23-day winnings are $855,600, which puts her in fifth place for all-time winnings, including tournaments. Schneider, a Chaminade-Julienne graduate, also made history as the top woman earner in the game’s history. Amy Schneider ties Julia Collins' record for consecutive games won - the sweater was lucky, indeed! /KLlh0mTdU2- Jeopardy! December 29, 2021 ![]()
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