Julia Collins Talks About Investments with CNBC
20x Jeopardy! champ Julia Collins appeared on CNBC where she got some investment advice on her big $428,100 win. That’s what they talk about, but Julia has already spent some of that dough on a trip to Paris. Her student loans are paid off, and it’s probably safe to say that the taxman got his cut.
Speaking of cuts, they cut out the part where they asked their panelists to answer the question that took Julia down, and where they asked her to answer two questions. One was to name the company that is famous for the hashtag. Duh! The other was an airline company. We don’t really blame them for cutting it out. It was a bit lame.
Here is a link to the Steve Kornacki segment Tom is talking about in the comments below where Julia got trounced on current events:
Julia was on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki” this morning in his quiz segment, which is like Jeopardy in that the three contestants buzz in and lose money if they give a wrong answer. It’s different in that it’s question/answer, not answer/question, and there’s no final question.
The questions are all current events.
So how did The Great Julia do? She stunk. Her final score was a resounding zero and she hardly ever buzzed in first (or buzzed at all).
OK, maybe Current Events isn’t her thing (but then why go on?) But her dismal performance was just another in a long line of suggestions that her Jeopardy reign had something fishy about it.
And this isn’t woman bashing, as a sensitive woman here has suggested. As I keep saying, men have outperformed women on every one of the syndicated Jeopardy’s first 30 years. This year women are outperforming men — substantially, as this week has shown, for instance.
So what changed? Did women suddenly develop faster reflexes, faster brains and more knowledge than men? Of course not. My theory is that what happened was a little mild rigging, like giving a woman champion weak male competition, or categories that it’s known she’s good in (or even making her buzzer a fraction of a second faster!)
On the show this morning, with no motivation for any rigging at all, a guy made a total ass out of Julia, and I felt sorry for her. It had to be embarrassing.
I found a link to the video of the game on Julia’s twitter and put the video in the post. She retweeted it so she can’t be too embarrassed about it. It’s probably more embarrassing that she’s wearing the same dress in both these videos.
Great addition. The crickets were hilarious. I think that Julia was probably making two, three or more appearances a day. For a girl, though, who knew her “power-colors”, she should’ve given more thought to her wardrobe choices.
My understanding, per her tweets last week, is that she was in New York only Monday and Tuesday. Therefore she had multiple appearances to make. Probably not enough time to change in between her appearances. Although some of the shows did not air until this weekend.
I just don’t know, Tom. Certainly, she wasn’t in her element: in some ways, it is probably forever ingrained in her to wait for the question to be finished. It does seem more civil.
At times, she showed a little game: her answer of Shaq, although wrong, was better than bowtie guy’s of LbJ (who has never played center in the NBA). I think the reason she went on is she’s in minute fourteen of her Warhol fame.
I think Julia is a nice woman who was able to use her good skills for a greatness (of quantity at least). I think that she knows that she doesn’t have the mind of the truly great ones (Jennings, Rutter, Madden, at least), and in that light, I really don’t how she could have handled the situation any better.
Let’s hope, though, that the producers at Jeopardy are finished with this engineering.
P.S. I don’t know how many of you guys have seen the really old Jeopardy s where the contestants only had to wait for the clue to be exposed to buzz in. The bell was ringing just before you see the clue: annoying. Changing that is one successful bit of game engineering. I found some old examples under the heading “vintage jeopardy” on YouTube.
Eric you and I must be twins separated at birth. I was watching the same videos to compare to today. Art Fleming was the host and it appears that the contestants just buzzed in whenever they darn pleased. Today’s Jeopardy is clearly an improvement over that type of Jeopardy. The Trebek hosting is much, much better. He is highly intelligent and knows the background info of most clues.
Nice.
I don’t know what to make of Trebek: he gets to the show about four hours before the tapings. It’s hard to tell how much coaching goes on then. As he talks with the contestants, he is really only mildly entertaining (I assume that he has some idea of what they’re going to say in advance). Although he has some talents, I also think that he has found his niche.
As far as intelligence goes, the show that I really liked was (win? ) Ben Stein’s Money. Of course, it was aided by being augmented by Jimmy Kimmel. It was a bit campy, but certainly entertaining.
These dog and pony appearances are almost guaranteed to be lame. Just once I’d like to see someone on a PR run like Julia actually saying something “off script”.
For instance, if we’re talking about investing, it would be a breath of fresh air if Julia began to lay out the basic facts of a stock market floating (ultimately) soufflé-like on the thin, hot air of the US Government’s currency printing presses!
Yeah, that’ll happen.
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She should put some of her money on Commanding Curve on Saturday. No, wait. That will bring the payoff down. She should bet on California Chrome. I’ll bet on Commanding Curve.
Lol. The horse was dead last. The kick I saw in the last furlong of the Kentucky Derby did a Scott Norwood. Something must have happened to him. Well, at least I didn’t say California Chrome.
California Chrome’s owner is livid. He was clearly confident he would get a triple crown. The guy needs to calm down. There are no guaranteed wins at the Belmont.
Huge baby.
Since none of them had a correct response for the Jeopardy clue they did not want the embarassing footage on the Internet. So they cut that segment.