![]() Ken Jennings (captain), Matt Jackson of Washington (No. ![]() (a Tournament of Champions winner and friend of Collins) and Seth Wilson of Chicago, (12-time winner, top 5 in victories all time). Julia Collins (captain), Ben Ingram of Lake Wylie, S.C.(winner of the 2015 Teachers’ Tournament). Buzzy Cohen (captain), Alex Jacob and Jennifer Giles of Longmont, Colo.(top three in 2017 Tournament of Champions). (2000 College Tournament champion, multiple semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions) and Alan Lin of Riverside, Calif. Colby Burnett (captain), Pam Mueller of Culver City, Calif.The teams (mentally, you must now make a boop-boop-boop-beep-boop-beep-boop-boo sound as the board is assembled): (20 victories, top female champion) and Austin Rogers of New York ($461,000 in winnings). Other captains included Colby Burnett of Chicago (a two-time tournament winner) Julia Collins of Kenilworth, Ill. Alex was selected first by Buzzy Cohen of Los Angeles, one of six team captains chosen for their prolific winning and crowd appeal.Ĭohen, who in 2016 won more than $150,000 in a series of blowouts that featured snarky Final Jeopardy answers, joined all time money winner Brad Rutter of Los Angeles ($4.3 million) and Ken Jennings of Seattle, probably the most famous Jeopardy! contestant ever and owner of a record 74-show winning streak from 2004. whose six-game winning streak and Tournament of Champions victory in 2015 won him more than $400,000. 1 draft pick was Alex Jacob of Greensboro, N.C. They were drafted today into six teams, representing hundreds of thousands of dollars in winnings and victory streaks spanning several weeks. I didn’t actually think it was right, which was usually the case in Final Jeopardy - when I wasn’t right, it wasn’t because I thought I was right I just thought “I don’t want to leave it blank.” That’s the way the cookie crumbles.Jeopardy! celebrates its 35th anniversary this February with a two week All-Star tournament featuring 18 of its most popular past champions. I was thinking that was set in New England. I was thinking of Wonder Boys, which came out in a year around 1999. I would’ve thought Stephen King, which frankly would’ve been a better guess than Michael Chabon. He is associated with New England, that’s definitely true, but he’s not the writer I associate most with New England. I probably could’ve stood up there for a lot longer and not come up with the right response. I’ve read other books by him, but I haven’t read Cider House Rules and hadn’t - well, I watched a little bit of the movie after we taped and then had to turn it off, but I hadn’t seen the movie, hadn’t read the book. It never occurred to me that was the answer. It wouldn’t have changed the outcome with that Final Jeopardy clue. ![]() I think if things had gone differently in terms of his response, then I might feel differently, but you can’t change what’s happened. He was going to win with that right response regardless of my wager, so I haven’t beaten myself up about it too much. It was kind of a silly thing, because if he had gotten the wrong response and I had gotten it wrong but bet more modestly, I would still be playing, but as it was, he got the right response and I didn’t. I had talked to him a little bit before we played, and I figured he would bet to win, which is what he did. I think if I had to do it again, I might not have bet the same way, but I don’t feel bad about it. It was something that hadn’t happened, and I guess I just thought I’d go for broke. Every other game that I played, I was in the lead going into Final Jeopardy, so it was a novelty. ![]()
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