I’ve noticed a sudden increase in hits related to Jeopardy! contestant Larissa Kelly, and now I see why. The Tournament of Champions from March is being rerun. Tomorrow they’ll have the show with Larissa’s loss to Dan Pawson.
2 comments September 3rd, 2009
Jeopardy! fan-favorite Larissa Kelly will return for the Tournament of Champions, airing March 11-24. Meanwhile, here’s a surprise from Larissa. A piece of speculative fiction she has written, called “Engines of Survival,” that you will find at Strange Horizons Fiction:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20081222/engines-f.shtml
Now that Sarah Palin’s star has faded (although I doubt permanently), Larissa is once again the #1 reason — ahead of Alizée! — why people find this blog, so take note that she has included an e-mail address. There’s no reason to assume this isn’t really Larissa, and you have to promise me that if you write to Larissa you will be civil, respectful and well-behaved! And remember, boys, she’s married. (“For all of you youngsters,” as Ed Sullivan used to say, I should explain that “Sorry Boys, She’s Married” is a play on a famous moment in Beatles history.)
Add comment December 23rd, 2008
Last month, this blog saw a ten-fold increase in its hit count, thanks to my posts about Jeopardy! champ Larissa Kelly. A comment from Anonymous that you’ll find back here says that UC Berkeley has done “a big splash” about Larissa. Click here. You can tell the article was written at a university — it includes footnotes! Thanks for the tip-off, Anonymous. I read a lot of your poems in English Lit.
1 comment June 18th, 2008
Well, I guess the May ratings sweeps period is over, now that Larissa Kelly is no longer on Jeopardy!, and my hit count will fall to its usual level. It was sad seeing Larissa lose Wednesday night, because if she hasn’t been the best known person in America for the past week, she’s probably been the most liked. But hey, if she had to lose, at least it was to a bald guy.
Here is a 20-minute video of Larissa’s complete seventh, and last, appearance on Jeopardy!, until we see her in the Tournament of Champions. To me she seemed to be getting tired towards the end, and that’s certainly understandable.
Wannabe Jeopardy! contestants would do well to heed Larissa’s advice.
I think the main advice I would have for future contestants is to practice playing past games at www.j-archive.com, and to not look too much at the scores while playing, unless you need to make a wager. The questions come so fast that looking up and keeping track of how you’re doing can be very distracting.
Add comment May 29th, 2008
Well, it sure was fun while it lasted! Larissa Kelly gave it a good run, but her reign as Jeopardy! champion has come to an end. Larissa is the first female to win more than five games, and she’s the #1 woman for money won in regular games. As my friend SamJay has pointed out elsewhere, she will undoubtedly be back for the Tournament of Champions. We look forward to seeing Larissa then. Here she is winning Tuesday’s show, and tomorrow I’ll wrap-up with her loss.
This video is from an SD recording. The previous two videos were taken from Verizon FiOS HD. Even in this greatly reduced format I think the difference in brightness and color quality is apparent. The picture below is a cropped snapshot of my HD screen, as taken with a digital camera. Click to enlarge.
Best wishes to Larissa and her husband Jeff! With the real estate market the way it is for the foreseeable future, they should have no trouble making the most of turning Larissa’s winnings into a down payment on a home.
10 comments May 28th, 2008
In just twenty hours, my post about Jeopardy! phenomenon Larissa Kelly accounted for nearly 15% of the 100,000+ hits this blog has seen over the entire month. I know a good thing when I see it, so with Larissa being our all-time ratings champion, here are a couple of minutes from Monday’s show. A physician was one of the contestants, yet surprisingly he failed come up with the health-related Final Jeopardy question.
Add comment May 27th, 2008