Good night, you princess of Jeopardy, you queen of TV-trivia shows: The second-longest run in Jeopardy! history came to an end Monday when Julia Collins got the final question wrong -- about The Cider House Rules -- on her 21st appearance.
Collins, 31, ended her streak with $428,100 – the most of any woman, and the third-biggest prize total after past contestants Ken Jennings and David Madden.
Collins, who lives near Chicago, plans to spend much of her winnings on traveling, since she’s not interested in buying a home and has no student-loan debts, she told CNN Money this week. She plans to spend her first month in Paris, and at some point return to work as a management consultant.
Massachusetts investment-operations manager Brian Loughnane had a $1,000 lead on Collins heading into the Final Jeopardy! round. She bet it all and lost it; he walked away with $22,000.
Collins couldn’t correctly identify the last writer to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel as a screenplay (it was John Irving for the 1999 film The Cider House Rules).
Collins holds the no. 2 spot for most-consecutive wins behind all-time "Jeopardy!" champ Ken Jennings, who won an eye-popping 74 straight games for a total prize of $2.5 million.
Uh, what is a record that will probably never come close to being broken?