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Kelly returned to participate in the Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades tournament in 2014, but was eliminated in the first round, winning $5,000. She also appeared on Jeopardy! All Star Games in February 2019, as a member of Team Brad Rutter with David Madden; her team won and split $1,000,000. [17]
Larissa Kelly. • Top 10 regular season winnings. • Co-founder of National Academic Quiz Tournaments. 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of $1,000,000 split three ways with Brad Rutter and David Madden. 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000.
Mar 18, 2009 · Larissa Kelly, the diminutive UC Berkeley graduate student in history who swept to game show triumph last spring, has returned to compete again. And so far she’s up to her previous standard, winning decisively in her first round of the quiz show “Jeopardy!”’s tournament of champions.
Larissa Kelly is an American multiple-time champion on the U.S. game show Jeopardy!, currently resident in Richmond, California. She is a writer and academic.
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Larissa Kelly (born February 10, 1980) is a noted American multiple Jeopardy! winner, currently residing in Richmond, California. She is a writer and academic.
Kelly grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and attended Newton North High School where she helped lead the science bowl team to national competition. She graduated from Princeton University in 2002 and completed a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the history of archaeology in 19th century Mexico. She played quiz bowl at both Pr...
She is one of three members of her family to have played on Jeopardy!, all between 2004 and 2008, and the only winner of the three. Her husband was defeated by Jennings in Jennings' 70th game as champion. Her sister Arianna was defeated in her initial Jeopardy! appearance, in part due to questionable calls that prompted Standards and Practices to b...
•Kelly is a science fiction author, who has had one story published at Strange Horizons.
•She was the first person other than Ken Jennings to get 10 Final Jeopardy clues correct in a row, as well as the first person overall to have gone 10-for-her-first-10.
Oct 22, 2019 · Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Female Music Superstars) for Tuesday, October 22, 2019 (Season 36, Episode 32): With more than 30 top 10 albums since 1963, this singer-actress ranks no. 1 among the Billboard 200’s Greatest Women Artists of All Time
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Dec 28, 2021 · Jeopardy! contestant Amy Schneider just became the show's highest-earning woman, beating Larissa Kelly's previous record. The multiple-time champion had nothing but praise for the newly-minted...
