Larissa Kelly Cleans Up on Jeopardy!

[sobek27]

Not sure where to post this, or if there is a spot at all to:

Congratulations to Larissa Kelly. As of tonight, she is now a 6-time Jeopardy champion, with winnings over $222K. This makes her the # 3 Jeopardy winner (tournaments excluded), behind Ken Jennings and Dave Madden.

I played against Larissa as well as her husband Jeff Hoppes at Princeton around the year 2000. They were both extremely nice people, and I'm happy to see Larissa doing well.

Adam Fine
Retired, ex-MAQT & JHU

P.S. Congrats to the MAQT as well for taking their first top-level national title in 27 years! The spitoon can finally be buried!

[Mike Bentley]

Wow I didn't know that she was involved in quizbowl, much less Jeff Hoppes' wife. Congrats to her.

[MLafer]

looks like one of WUSTL's old advisors, Steve Frappier, is also on this week.

[Important Bird Area]

And Adam, we have your copy of An Incomplete Education to thank for Larissa running the category in Opera the other night...

[Phil Castagna]

Guess this is the best place to post congrats. Last night's game, coming back in Double Jeopardy with both Daily Doubles gone to retake the lead was one of the more exciting games I'd seen in a while.

Phil Castagna, former Georgetown and Villanova

[AKKOLADE]

Awesome game. Congrats to Larissa.

[sobek27]

And Adam, we have your copy of An Incomplete Education to thank for Larissa running the category in Opera the other night...

Glad to have helped! See, good things happen when you watch "Survivor" :)

Congrats again,
Adam

[QuizBowlRonin]

Larissa ended her run yesterday, with a total of $224,500, third most ever and highest among women contestants. Outstanding work!

http://www.jeopardy.com/announcement_20 ... akelly.php

Steve's up today - and the game today was very good. ^_^

[AKKOLADE]

Congratulations Larissa!

[shlack]

Congratulations, Larissa.
Quizbowlers are slowly taking over the top ten list :
http://www.jeopardy.com/showguide_50kwinners.php

[lasercats]

I really liked Larissa. She seemed completely humble while maintaining an astounding bank of knowledge. The only thing I can think of as an offering of congratulations comes from the Spice Girls- "Girl Power!"