8/13/2023 0 Comments Julia collins jeopardy hot![]() ![]() The fate of women on Jeopardy! isn’t a frivolous matter, fans of the show insist. What’s more, of the 63 people who have won more than $100,000 in the 30-year run of the show, only ten are women - and four of them did it either this season or last. But on the male side of that ledger was Arthur Chu, who attained some notoriety for an aggressive playing style and rumpled clothing, and whose 11-game winning streak accounts for nearly half of this year’s male wins. Aside from Collins’s monster run, two others, Sandie Baker and Sarah McNitt, have enjoyed long streaks, too. Of the 73 non-tournament matches that have aired so far in 2014, female players have won 45. Yet while Collins’s success is obviously an aberration for any contestant, she’s also now the most visible evidence that women have finally begun making their marks on the program. Then she can consider setting her sights on the 74-game record set in 2004 by the legendary Ken Jennings. Tonight, the 31-year-old Wellesley alum with a master’s from MIT guns to tie the 19-game streak enjoyed by Dave Madden when he took home $430,400 in 2005. She long ago surpassed the prior top female money winner, Larissa Kelly, and now she’s won more games in a row than all but two players in the game’s history. The current champ, Julia Collins from Wilmette, Illinois, rolls cheerfully into Thursday’s show on a 18-game winning streak, during which she has amassed $391,600. Since then, women have been on an unprecedented run on a program that has long been a target for complaints from feminists and other critics wondering why, for three decades now, the vast majority of players and winners have been male. Probably should not veer off to that topic, for fear of PPB issues.On April 8, an environmental compliance manager from Baltimore named Derrick Shivar hauled in $22,800 on Jeopardy! His triumph would be otherwise unremarkable in the annals of the storied game show except for this: That was was the last time a man won a match on the show. I don't get the race and gender issues, but maybe I am missing something. Regardless, he definitely went off on a rant on social media.He didn't seem all that happy when he was playing, but I assumed it had to do with his buzzer issues. Some are calling him a sore loser, but he says he had those thoughts before going on the show (and he did win three times). I hope he is not on the second chance tournament. With quotes like this I can understand why. Regardless, he definitely went off on a rant on social media.He is getting trashed on all of the Jeopardy boards for his arrogance and attitude. It is fundamentally incompatible with incentivizing the next generation of quizzers to excel, and it is fundamentally incompatible with true social justice." It's bad for women and POC who want to be treated with the same level of dignity as their White male counterparts. "Jeopardy! is a fun show but putting it on a pedestal is an objectively bad thing. He throws out an analogy that Jeopardy is to quizzing as Holey Moley is to golf. Yogesh getting flack for "trashing jeopardy" now.saying it's not a real quiz show and is a "glorified reality show" and is responsible for "real quizzing" not being popular/allowing racists to thrive in it. It will be interesting to see how he does. Apparently Troy has been the top US finisher in the World Quizzing Championships and is a multi-time champion of a popular online quiz community called LearnedLeague. My foray into reddit/Jeopardy! world also informed me that Thursday's episode will feature Troy Meyer, another (even more?) prominent figure in the quizzing world. More evidence that the game isn't just about how much you know. On Monday, in particular, he seemed visibly frustrated as he was frantically smashing the buzzer while another contestant got to answer. I suspect that he wasn't very good with the buzzer timing. ![]() Yet, all of four of his games were pretty competitive and he entered Final Jeopardy trailing twice. For the first time ever, I checked out reddit/Jeopardy! and learned that Yogesh is apparently well known in the "quizzing world". He appeared to have a strong knowledge base and all of his personal anecdotes seemed to be (not-so) humble brags about how good he is at trivia (won 2 HS quiz bowl state championships vs James Holtzhauer, beat Ken Jennings at something called "Mr. We'll see how it plays out with a larger sample size.I was a bit surprised to see Yogesh lose on Monday. Compared to recent contestants, even the multi-day winners since 21-day champ Cris Pannullo, he had a noticeable confidence and a seeming lack of any "weak spot" category that all but the best players usually have. I honestly thought the same thing after his first game Wednesday night. ![]()
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