![]() ![]() 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. 28, 2021.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. 29, 2021): This story has been updated to reflect Schneider breaking the record set she previously tied on Dec. Whatever it is you want to do, it can be done,” she told GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocacy group.ĮDITOR'S NOTE (Dec. “That just because you haven’t seen anybody do it yet doesn’t mean somebody isn’t going to do it. Schneider said in a recent interview that she hopes her appearances on the classic show inspire future trans contestants. ![]() She will have to win 12 more games to top Holzhauer’s 2019 third-place record of 32 consecutive wins. Schneider is in fourth place for highest winnings in regular-season play and in consecutive games won, trailing Amodio, Holzhauer and Jennings. She had already broken the record for highest overall earnings by a woman on the show earlier this month - topping Larissa Kelly’s $655,930 total earlier this week. I think being trans is really cool!"Īs of Wednesday night, Schneider has earned $806,000, up from her Tuesday night total of $768,600. ![]() "While it’s gratifying to know that people didn’t necessarily know I was trans until they read about it, I do want people to know that aspect of me. But I also didn’t want it to seem as if it was some kind of shameful secret," she said at the time. "The fact is, I don’t actually think about being trans all that often, and so when appearing on national television, I wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately: as important, but also relatively minor. She’s previously said that she didn’t want to make her appearances on the show "too much about being trans" but she is "proud" to be a trans woman. ![]()
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