"Once I got on the show, I didn't worry as much about the things I didn't know. ![]() It was her best preparation and what she recommends to other trivia players. I read widely: periodicals, newspapers, websites, novels, history books, everything" she says. Her favorite trivia categories are literature and art. Making the case for art and history majorsĬollins majored in art and history at Wellesley College. Related: Can you keep up with Julia in trivia? Prior Jeopardy record by a female player: 7 wins Recognized by strangers in New York City: Once. A father in the show's audience tried to set her up with his son. The information on each player comes from a mix of Jeopardy's Hall of Fame website and the J! Archive for the more recent winners.Dating offers: One - sort of. That does include Ken Jennings in Utah, though, so in terms of total winnings it's likely a wash. In all, the area east of the Mississippi River dominates, with just five all-star winners out west. That pulls above the area's weight as about 17 percent of the population of the U.S. to Boston contains eight of the 28 all-stars, about 29 percent of the winners. Smart people live in areas with prominent college institutions.īosWash domination: The area stretching from Washington D.C. For example, there's Jared Hall, a graduate student in Austin, TX Joon Pahk, a Harvard physics professor from Somerville, MA and Keith Whitener, a researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory in Charlotte, NC. Although the countries share most of the same cultural and historical knowledge, Canada just can't keep up with the big boys to the south.Ĭollege towns: It should come as little surprise that many of the locations surround local universities, given that many of these contestants are graduate students or professors. are the only two countries eligible to compete, but America is pitching a shutout at the moment. No Canadians: Sure, Jeopardy! is based in America, but it's surprising that no one from Canada has ever won more than five games in a row. We included some basic data on each, including what season of the show they participated, the length of their win streak, their total dollars won on that streak, and their average winnings per match. View Jeopardy 5+ Winners in a full screen map Each individual location on the map below represents the hometown of the big-time winners, and you can click on each for more information. Jeopardy only allowed contestants to win more than five games beginning in season 20, about eleven years ago. Combined with Stephanie Jass's seven-win streak last season, women appear to be entering the male-dominated scoreboard with slightly more regularity. ![]() Notably, Collins is just the fourth woman to reach more than five consecutive wins, coming less than two weeks after Sandie Baker's six-game streak. ![]() We decided to map the hometowns of those 28 all-stars to see what we can learn about the best of the best.Ĭollins' sixth win raised her winnings to just shy of $125,000, among the lower half of winnings among the group both by total and per-game average. Julia Collins won her sixth straight game on Jeopardy on Monday night, making her just the 28th person to surpass that five-game barrier, and the first from Illinois. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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