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^ Yeah..until he bet almost all and got the FJ wrong and lost. Although I must say that the 2 day champ really brought it the last few categories.

The FJ question - it was said that there were really 3 choices to choose from for educated guesses:
1) GE
2) AT&T (the right answer)
3) ??

Anyone know the 3rd? I came up w/ my own answer and it was neither of the 2 listed and am curious to see if I was even in the right ballpark. I clearly won't share my answer...yet since it may be ridiculous stupid.

This is somewhat disturing yet not too far from the vibe in this thread during her run....
Oh and if they don't TAPE the ToC til Jan does that mean Larissa won't air til like April/May of next year???
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'Jeopardy' champ a sudden star
By John Simerman
Contra Costa Times
Article Launched: 05/30/2008 10:45:01 PM PDT


Here's how it goes when you're a young quiz whiz with a soft lilt, a sweet smile and a sledgehammer betting strategy that helps you land among the top three "Jeopardy!" winners ever:

Game show zealots pick apart your game in a spray of Internet rants.

Fans howl your praises. You could be a new pop idol for academically minded girls, the Kelly Clarkson of quiz. So quirky and cute and soft-spoken, they say. So smart.

And random men - lots of them - profess mad love.

"Larissa Kelly is total hotness," RJ wrote.

"What a woman!" Dino added.

"I fell in love with her right away," said Steve Hall, 50, of San Francisco, who took to calling her "Chuckie" for her reddish hair, puffy cheeks and terrorizing play. "She was so soft-spoken, so quiet. But she was so ruthless in her pursuit of the game. You'd think butter would melt in her mouth."

And because you're Kelly, an El Cerrito resident and UC-Berkeley doctoral candidate specializing in 19th-century Mexican history, you take it all in remotely from Mexico, where the former Cal Quiz Bowl competitor has spent most of the academic year. With the end of her winning streak Wednesday, her vow of secrecy was lifted, and Kelly wrote by e-mail of her success, the hype, and the $223,597 in loot that made her the iconic TV show's top all-time female player.

"I didn't realize that the game totals were that unusual until Alex Trebek mentioned it at the beginnings of games six and seven. I was fairly surprised, but tried not to think about it too much and just concentrate on the game," said Kelly of the February taping. "I never expected to get that far."

Kelly, 28, said she found a cable channel in Mexico City that airs the show at midnight, so she could watch herself win, win, win, win, win, win and, finally, lose. Friends pointed her to some of the flaming Web chatter, where fans called her inspirational, "loooovely," and "preciously bashful."

Some bemoaned that she is married. Her husband, Jeff Hoppes, appeared on Jeopardy! in 2004, losing to all-time champion Ken Jennings.

A few diehard fans charged the show's producers with stacking the deck when Kelly lost. One ripped all the praise, calling her "warm as a cold blanket."

From the border of Belize, Kelly kept her distance from the chatter.

"I've been happy that, as a whole, the responses to my games were fairly kind," she wrote. "The main thing that I've been trying to keep in mind is that, whether positive or negative, people's comments aren't actually about me but about a television character with whom I share some characteristics."

Bay Area ratings for the show flew among the 18-24 crowd during Kelly's run, rising 57 percent, according to KGO-TV. Mint Bhetraratana, a member of the Campolindo High Quiz Bowl team, said she couldn't help but cheer for Kelly and her bold bets.

"We were very impressed by her performance. Then we found out she was a Cal student. That made us root for her even more," said Bhetraratana, a 17-year-old junior from Moraga. "She really does inspire us because not only did she present herself very well, but in such a humble way."

Kelly lost Thursday the way she won, betting hard on Daily Doubles, when players can wager up to their entire pot on one question. She got stumped for $4,000 on the lowest rung of the French Legion of Honor (right response: What is Chevalier) and then for $8,000 on the city of Noordeinde Palace (correct response: What is The Hague).

"Well, there are definitely regrets about answering both Daily Doubles in the last game incorrectly," she wrote. "In general I don't regret being aggressive on Daily Doubles, though, since I think it probably helped more than it hurt."

The couple plans to stash the winnings until they're ready to buy a house. They also plan to donate to Doctors Without Borders and other charities. The fame should soon ebb, Kelly predicted. "Any attention should have evaporated by the time I come back to the U.S. at the end of the summer," she wrote.

Then again, her 15 minutes could draw an encore. In January comes the taping of "Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions" - otherwise known as Chuckie Goes to Vegas.