He had the lead going into the Final Jeopardy! round, in the category "Sports and the Media". Craig lost to North Carolina sportswriter Jelisa Castrodale in his seventh appearance. Prior to Craig, the single-day record of $75,000 was held by Ken Jennings. In his record-setting appearance, he had a score of $47,000 after the game's first two rounds, then wagered and won $30,000 in the Final Jeopardy! round. Appearances Original run Ĭraig set his record of $77,000 on the second day of the 2010–2011 Jeopardy! season on the episode airing September 14, 2010. I think the main reason both universities helped so much is that they cover just about all spheres of learning in extraordinary depth. Let's face it, for Jeopardy!, the name of the game is breadth not depth.
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Ĭraig believes his attendance at the two universities helped the most in his success: Before his Jeopardy appearances, he played numerous Jeopardy scrimmage matches against his friends with quiz bowl experience. Ĭraig played quiz bowl as a student at both Virginia Tech and the University of Delaware. Using data-mining and text-clustering, he identified the topics most likely to occur in game questions, then used the spaced repetition program Anki for memorization and tested himself using his own program.
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Jeopardy! Preparation Ĭraig prepared for Jeopardy! by studying the online archive of past questions maintained on the J! Archive website. Craig was a guest on KFC Radio of Barstool Sports on August 23, 2012. He is the founder of Cotinga, a company which performs data analyses and creates learning applications for smartphones. Īs of November 2011, Craig was living in Newark, Delaware, and working as a computer scientist. In his scholarly career, Craig has published eight papers in the field of bioinformatics, specifically on topics of combinatorial protein synthesis and protein-protein prediction. He was working on his doctorate at the time of his first appearance on Jeopardy!, and completed the degree later in 2010. in computer science from the University of Delaware. Ĭraig holds a first degree in biology and biochemistry from Virginia Tech, and a master's degree and Ph.D. He grew up there and later in Virginia, where he graduated from Annandale High School in 1995. In 2014, he competed in the Battle of the Decades tournament, finishing third overall behind Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings.Ĭraig, who was 33 years old at the time of his initial Jeopardy! appearance in 2010, is a native of Ferndale, Pennsylvania. In 2011, Craig returned to win the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. He held the record for highest single-day winnings on the quiz show Jeopardy! from Septem(surpassing Ken Jennings) to Ap(when James Holzhauer surpassed him). Roger Alan Craig (born 1976/1977) is an American game show contestant and computer scientist. American computer scientist, businessman and game show contestant
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