Everyone loves this colorful, new 'Jeopardy!' champion

发布时间：2025-04-27 05:27:14

Every few years, a Jeopardy! champion seizes the public's imagination.

This time, it's Austin Rogers. The New York City bartender is on a nine-day winning streak, having raked in $332,400 as of Friday.

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But more than the money, it's Rogers' trivia acumen, rhetorical flourishes, wild head of hair, and dance moves that are building up a major fanbase, much of which has rallied around the hashtag #austinonjeopardy.

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Rogers is helping out by live-tweeting his own appearances, too. He filmed the show in April and initially set the goal to win two rounds.

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“I guess I got a good learning regimen from college, but the specific information utilized in answering correctly is mostly from my extracurricular reading, documentary watching, and general nerdery,” Rogers said on the show.