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Not many computer science students command a lot of attention, especially from the American public.
But Matt Amodio, a student at Yale University, is on a streak. He has persevered (at last count) 36 consecutive times on the wildly popular and geeky game show “Jeopardy!” where the goal is to know more than your fellow contestants and win a lot of money.
Amodio is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in computer science at the Ivy League university in New Haven, Connecticut. He ranks second in number of games won (36) on "Jeopardy!" to Ken Jennings, who won 74 consecutive times in 2004, and third in total winnings: $1,417,401 for Amodio; $2,520,700 for Jennings. And Amodio is still going.
“It feels incredible,” Amodio wrote in an email to the Yale Daily News, the nation’s oldest daily college newspaper. “I don’t feel like I’m good enough to be considered [among] the greats, but I try to imagine what it would be like for me to read my stats as if they were somebody else’s. I know I would be impressed by someone doing what I’ve been doing, so I try to let myself feel proud of that.”
The long-running game show has a unique format, in which three contestants vie to be the first to supply the question to an answer they are given. If an answer is, “It’s where the world’s largest mall is located,” the correct response would be, “What is China?”
In a question-and-answer with the university, Amodio said reading is the key to his knowledge, specifically the online free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
“I have to credit my love of reading,” Amodio said. “I spend most nights starting somewhere on Wikipedia. I read everything there, but also get 10 or 15 links from that article to other things that I’m interested in. That cascades to more and more, and before I know it, the night’s over and I still have thousands of things I still want to read. And it just starts over the next day."
The "Jeopardy!" champ graduated from Ohio State University with honors in 2012 with his bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, then earned his master’s in applied statistics there in 2012 before gaining a second master’s degree in 2015 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in artificial intelligence. He is continuing his work in artificial intelligence at Yale.
He said two challenges in playing "Jeopardy!," in addition to recalling information and reacting before his competitors do, are adjusting to a taping schedule that starts at 7 a.m. and ends about 7 p.m., and thinking of a clever anecdote that contestants say during their on-air introduction.
“I was actually just as stressed about that part of the show as I was about the questions and answering part of the show,” he told Yale. “What am I going to say, how am I going to say it?”
Amodio and Yale did not respond to VOA’s questions through email and phone calls.
It looks like Queen Sandra Diaz-Twine is coming out of her “Survivor” retirement.
The Daily Mail reports that the two-time winner from “Pearl Islands” (Season 7) and “Heroes vs. Villains” (Season 20) has been cast in the upcoming installment of “Australian Survivor.” The show is filming now in North Queensland, Australia and will air at a later date.
“Sandra is a big deal in the ‘Survivor’ world and is confident she’s more tenacious than anyone else they’ve had on the Australian show,” a source tells the publication. “She’s been in Queensland for a few weeks now and has been instructed to keep a low profile and not post about why she is in Australia.” Other rumored contestants for this “Blood vs. Water” cycle include Samantha Gash and Mark Wales, both of whom competed on the 2017 Australian version.
Sandra is one of the most well-known people to ever play the game of “Survivor.” After being the first castaway to win the CBS reality TV series twice, the 47-year-old dubbed herself the “Queen,” a nickname that stuck. (Tony Vlachos has since joined her in the two-timers club.) Sandra returned to play again in “Game Changers” (Season 34) and “Winners at War” (Season 40), but she was voted out both times. She also served as a mentor on “Island of the Idols” (Season 39) alongside Rob Mariano.
During the third episode of “Winners at War,” Sandra shocked audiences when she declared, “Here I am for the fifth time, and once this is over I’m retiring from the game. So this season I’m going to switch gears. I want to prove my word to this tribe.” She was ousted soon after and given the chance to return via the “Extinction Island” twist, but instead she raised the white mast in defeat and left the island. At the time, 42% of “Survivor” fans said they were sad Sandra was retiring from the show.
“The Voice” is known for its countless squabbles amongst its superstar coaches, but one disagreement we never thought we’d see was over the quality of the 2003 rom-com “From Justin to Kelly.” One of the film’s stars, Kelly Clarkson, joked about the box office flop during the October 4 episode of NBC’s reality TV show. She was trying to nab a powerhouse vocalist for her team, 20-year-old Ryleigh Plank from Fort Myers, Florida, and decided to bond over the girl’s home state. “I’ve been to Florida, made a horrible movie in Florida,” Clarkson declared while laughing.
That’s when new coach Ariana Grande chimed in, “That movie’s a classic. That movie’s iconic.” For the record, Grande was only 10 years old when the PG-rated musical was released in theaters, so her memory may be faulty.
“From Justin to Kelly” stars Clarkson and Justin Guarini, aka the winner and runner-up of “American Idol” Season 1, as love interests who meet during spring break and connect over their love of music. Directed by Robert Iscove, the beach movie made just under $5 million at the box office and received disastrous reviews from critics, earning a 14/100 score at Metacritic. “It’s like ‘Grease: The Next Generation’ acted out by the food-court staff at SeaWorld,” Owen Gleiberman wrote at the time for Entertainment Weekly.
Florida talk aside, Clarkson tried to woo Ryleigh onto her team by calling her “rad as hell” and showing her a stylish teal jacket. “Wouldn’t it cute on you?” the coach teased.
That’s when Grande decided to “bribe” Ryleigh with her lunchbox that contained “vocal health supplies that will not only treat but prevent fatigue or swelling of the vocal cords.”
Ryleigh readily admitted that she was a fan of both women, having grown up on their music. After a brief deliberation, she decided to go with the “From Justin to Kelly” superfan, picking Team Ariana. “I love Ryleigh so much,” Grande told the camera. “I am obsessed with her voice. She almost brought me to tears with her performance. I am honored that she came to my team.”
You are the Twitchhead of the month for October of 2021. You get an imaginary plaque to hang on the wall, bragging rights and what else, Colbi King?
Colbi: A San Jose Sharks jersey. Not to watch actual sharks play hockey, but to see actual athletes play hockey. Over to you, Gordie No-How.
Me: um........alright. We'll return next month to see who else suffered a shark bite with purple blood.
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and we'll end with The American Sirens.
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