The 20 games before that, I'd been in first place, and so this was kind of new territory for me. But, you know, I'd never been in second place going into Final Jeopardy before. "If I had to do it again, I might not have bet quite so much. On betting it all in her last Final Jeopardy question The question that eventually took her down, reducing her day's winnings to zero, was "This New England writer is the last person to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel." Collins talks to Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson about her winning strategies and her preparation for the show. Julia Collins was vanquished last night after accumulating more than $400,000 in winnings and enjoying the second-longest streak in Jeopardy! history and the longest streak ever for a woman contestant. Her eighth grade yearbook predicted, “Julia Collins will be the ‘Ten Time Jeopardy Champion’ winning each tournament twice.”Īudiences will be watching Monday night to see if that forecast didn’t go far enough.The streak has ended for "Jeopardy Julia" - the 31-year-old Chicago-area woman who won 20 "Jeopardy!" games in a row. “The only board game I’ve ever been good at is Trivial Pursuit,” she says. She had actually tried out years earlier but didn’t get called. All three contestants were women in that episode.Ĭollins says her goal was only to get on the show and win one game. There were times when I was sure I was in first, but Alex called her name,” says Lara Brenckle of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, who competed against Collins on May 21. 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.” “Alex’s tip: ‘This was easy if you remember what a bromeliad looks like.’ Yeah… ‘remember'” she tweeted about a hard Final Jeopardy question on Thursday. She tweets from as her shows are live, often trying to explain to people why she didn’t know a seemingly easy answer.
“Having this big windfall isn’t something I’ve ever expected to have,” the 31-year-old said.įans have taken to her humility. 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. Her total winnings are a whopping $428,100 … and she’s still going.ĬNNMoney 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 said at the time that she planned to invest a good amount of her prize money and indulge in some travel. She trails only Ken Jennings, Jeopardy’s grand master who won 74 straight non-tournament games a decade ago. “When I say I love everything about being on Jeopardy, this moment was high on the list!” Collins tweeted after her 20th consecutive win on the show.Ĭollins is now the second longest winning streak in the show’s history. NEW YORK - As Julia Collins walked off the Jeopardy stage on Friday, the song “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys filled the set.
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