![]() ![]() And that’s what happened nobody really paid much attention to me until I won more than ten games. I remember we were sitting in the Sony commissary during our lunch break and seeing him on CNN, thinking, I don’t think I’m going to get this level of attention because I’m not really doing anything out of the ordinary as a player. Not after just three games. Did you watch that with any sense of dread? There was a whole conversation going on and I don’t understand what was happening.īy the time you were taping your episodes, some of Arthur Chu’s games had been on and there was all this backlash against him. Yeah, I have no idea what that was about. I don’t really have a ton of things to say to the Twitter universe.ĭid you see that a winner of Big Brother snarked at you last night on Twitter that winning $428,000 was nice but he’d won $500,000? I don’t even think I’m going to keep tweeting very much. You were really interesting, in part because you were live-tweeting your matches. But I also wasn’t sure if there would be a bit of Jeopardy! media fatigue from Arthur Chu earlier this year and the Battle of the Decades finale. I’ve been fortunate that I’ve been getting overwhelmingly positive feedback from strangers. It was a little strange to know you were going to be out there and people were going to feel safe to say anything that popped into their minds online. The closer we got to the airdate, the more apprehensive I was. ![]() How do you prepare three months in advance for overnight notoriety? Given that these shows were taped in January and February and didn’t start airing until May, it must have been a surreal couple of months for you. I think I felt like I was beyond the point where I could be jinxed by something like that. But then I didn’t get a chance to wear all my outfits this week. I had other outfits planned to deviate from the tired formula because I thought I was getting a little bored. I did wonder if you lost because on Monday you stopped wearing your signature sweaters and necklaces! I was just trying to be comfortable onstage. But I feel like I got a little more attention for what I was wearing than was necessary. Well, people talked about Arthur’s clothes, too, because they were always a mess. Male contestants all wear the same thing, which is the same thing every man wears in every white-collar workplace. One that was funny - somebody made a Twitter about my sweaters? So, even in this objective competition, a lot of conversation has been about my clothes, and that’s something that’s a very gendered thing. I’ve gotten some nice emails from girls who tell me they sometimes feel like they have to dumb themselves down. What’s Behind the Unprecedented Run of Female Jeopardy! Winners?Īre you comfortable with being glamorized for having brains? You’re a role model now … I had friends who sent me pictures like that, but somebody I didn’t even know and has other things to do with her time, that was pretty cool. If she still had a show, I would have gone on it! That would have been so much fun. What was it like for you when somebody like Rosie O’Donnell tweets a photo of you on her television in her house? I’m not a huge movie buff, actually, and Brian, who is a the new champion, he said the only reason he knew was because it was about New England and he lived in Boston. So, yeah, you never really know what you’re going to end up knowing. There was a category on NBA nicknames, and I was all over a bunch of those. I tried to answer the questions I knew regardless of the category. You went down on an Oscars question - and to a man! Does this put to rest the debate over whether there are “feminine” and “masculine” categories, and increasingly more of the former? I try to steer the conversation towards the bigger picture - that I’m in second place of any player who’s ever played. How sick are you of talking about the fact that you’re a woman? (It was John Irving.) She departs the show in second place for most consecutive victories, after Ken Jennings, who won 74 straight games in 2004 she also takes home $428,100 in winnings, the third-highest total ever, which makes Collins the winningest female Jeopardy! champion of all time by a wide margin. That distinction, as well as her cheerful personality, earned her legions of fans, a sharp contrast to another recent Jeopardy! star, Arthur Chu, who was widely villainized during his 11-game streak earlier this season for his aggressive style and rumpled appearance. Vulture reached Collins, 31, on Tuesday morning to discuss her victorious run and what the out-of-work supply chain manager plans to do with her winnings. Julia Collins’s monster Jeopardy! winning streak ended at 20 yesterday, when she let a customarily large lead vanish and then missed the Final Jeopardy clue asking for the name of the author who won an Oscar for adapting his own novel into a screenplay in 1999. ![]()
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