Related: CNN quiz: How well do you know Jeopardy? I feel like it can be done, but the odds are against me even doing it," Jennings said last week. "It's been 10 years and nobody has passed 20. Ken Jennings has also spoken out on Collins' phenomenal run. "The days of men ruling Jeopardy are over," Chu wrote on Friday. Her style is very different from that of Arthur Chu, who won 11 games earlier this year and generated a lot of media attention for his controversial "game theory" tactics where he would jump around the game board and bet odd amounts on Double Jeopardy questions.Ĭhu has congratulated Collins on Twitter many times, calling himself part of "Team Julia." She was too busy doing interviews to tweet during her final show appearance on Monday, but she sent a big thank you to her more than 9,000 Twitter fans. 'remember'" she tweeted about a hard Final Jeopardy question on Thursday. "Alex's tip: 'This was easy if you remember what a bromeliad looks like.' Yeah. ![]() She tweets from as her shows are live, often trying to explain to people why she didn't know a seemingly easy answer. Related: Meet Julia Collins, Jeopardy's top female champįans have taken to her humility. Being Jeopardy champ and having host Alex Trebek's touts for employers to hire her certainly helped. In the midst of a career transition, she says she has received several job offers. Collins majored in art and history - two subjects that prepared her well for the show - and went on to build a career in supply chain management and consulting. ![]() She is keen to learn more about investing and jokes that she knew the question that came up on the show about managerial accounting. "Having this big windfall isn't something I've ever expected to have," the 31-year-old said. "Jeopardy!" doesn't pay winners until about four months after their shows air. She isn't ready to buy a house yet and is fortunate to have paid off her student loans from Wellesley College and MIT. Related: Play Jeopardy with champ Julia CollinsĬNNMoney was one of the first major media outlets to interview her last month after she won 10 games, putting her an already exclusive club and breaking the record for most wins by a female player (the prior record was seven).Ĭollins plans to invest a good amount of her prize money. While Collins says literature is her favorite trivia category, the question that ultimately stumped her was about John Irving and "The Cider House Rules." The clue was, "The New England writer who in 1999 became the last person to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel as a screenplay."
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