![]() ![]() Getting the Daily Double is so important because it's not just a chance for you to double up the money that you have, if you don't know the daily double, it's a chance for you to bet small and take away an opponent's chance to double up their money. He told us back in February why he did that.īRIDGID CHU: The main thing is that if you get the Daily Doubles early, those are the points in the game where the game can swing really heavily one way or another. ![]() One of the things he did was to jump around the board looking for the Daily Double. HOBSON: Now, unlike Arthur Chu, who had an 11-game winning streak, you did not use the kind of controversial tactics that he did. And that was kind of what I expected him to do. He bet to have more than double my money. And, you know, it kind of didn't matter that I bet it all because he was going to win with the right answer regardless. And then Brian, who is the new champion, he did. And, you know, some days I did and some days I didn't.Īnd, you know, unfortunately for me I didn't know the answer. I think of it as the Ricky Bobby, "Talladega Nights" approach - if you're not first, you're last.īut, you know, I went into Final Jeopardy every day thinking, I'm going to get the question right. And so this was kind of new territory for me.Īnd I know there's the right ways and the wrong ways to wager in that kind of situation, and I picked what I think a lot of people would consider the wrong way. The 20 games before that, I'd been in first place. But, you know, I'd never been in second place going into Final Jeopardy before. HOBSON: Did you worry about putting so much up there for the Final Jeopardy question?ĬOLLINS: If I had to do it again, I might not have bet quite so much. What happened there?ĬOLLINS: You know, it just takes a couple questions that you get wrong or somebody else gets right and the balance of the game shifts. HOBSON: Well, you were doing so well last night. Julia, welcome to HERE AND NOW and congratulations. HOBSON: Well, Julia Collins joins us from NPR's New York studios. John Irving, the author of "Cider House Rules." And he is our new champion with $22,600. He had the lead at $12,600 and he wrote down the correct response. So it's going to cost you everything you had as we go to Brian Loughnane. And her response was Michael Shaven - is incorrect. The question that took her down was this - Winning for 1999, this New England writer is the last person to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel.ĪLEX TREBEK: We come to Julia Collins now, our champion. Julia Collins lost last night after accumulating more than $400,000 in winnings. ![]() After passing Julia Collins' consecutive wins, Holzhauer has just two contestants ahead of him in any of the categories.Īs Holzhauer approaches Jennings' record of most regular season winnings, let's take a look the stats and where he and other all-time best contestants stand.And the streak has ended for Jeopardy Julia, the 31-year-old Chicagoan woman who won 20 games in a row on "Jeopardy," making her the game's longest winning female contestant ever. "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek said weeks ago that James Holzhauer had challenged his belief that Ken Jennings could never be beaten.īut what exactly does it mean to beat a past contestant on the show, and how close is "'Jeopardy!' James" to becoming the greatest of the great? The Jeopardy Hall of Fame has four categories: consecutive wins, regular season winnings, single-game winnings and all-time winnings. On the May 20 episode of ''Jeopardy!,'' James Holzhauer snagged his 23rd straight win and continued his march towards Ken Jennings' records. ![]()
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