Regular Play[]
- She began her original run on April 21, 2014. She won $428,100 over 20 consecutive victories from between April 21 and May 30.
- On June 2, her run came to an end as she was defeated by challenger Brian Loughnane. She finished the game in third place after wagering her entire daily total in Final Jeopardy! and failing to provide a correct response. Her third-place consolation prize of $1,000 was added to her winnings to give her a total of $429,100 – at the time, this was the third highest total earnings in Jeopardy! regular play history, only trailing Ken Jennings and David Madden. She trailed only Jennings (74) in number of games won and finished just ahead of Madden (19).
- She would later be surpassed in both categories by James Holzhauer, who won 32 consecutive games in 2019, and she would also be surpassed by Jason Zuffranieri in the cash category the same year, giving her the third longest winning streak and fifth highest total earnings in Jeopardy! regular play history. She is currently second-longest female winning streak (20) then Amy Schneider as of December 28, 2021 (Schneider surpassed Collins' total money winnings of $428,100 on her 12th game, with a total of $483,000).
Game No. | Air Date | Final score | Cumulative Winnings | Notes |
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1 | April 21, 2014 | $15,605 | $15,605 | The defending 2-time champion, Frédérique Delaprée, had previously defeated 6-time champion Sandie Baker. |
2 | April 22, 2014 | $21,000 | $36,605 | Julia's first runaway game. |
3 | April 23, 2014 | $16,500 | $53,105 | |
4 | April 24, 2014 | $20,005 | $73,110 | Julia's second runaway game. |
5 | April 25, 2014 | $29,700 | $102,810 | |
6 | April 28, 2014 | $22,000 | $124,810 | |
7 | April 29, 2014 | $20,100 | $144,910 | Julia's third runaway game. |
8 | April 30, 2014 | $25,700 | $170,610 | Julia's fourth runaway game. |
9 | May 1, 2014 | $28,100 | $198,710 | |
10 | May 2, 2014 | $21,900 | $220,610 | Julia's fifth runaway game and is the first-ever female 10+ times champ and all-time 4th 10+ times champ. After that, she had to wait for two weeks for The Battle of the Decades tournament to finish. |
11 | May 19, 2014 | $10,700 | $231,310 | |
12 | May 20, 2014 | $14,300 | $245,610 | |
13 | May 21, 2014 | $15,800 | $261,410 | Julia's sixth runaway game. |
14 | May 22, 2014 | $22,690 | $284,100 | Julia's seventh runaway game. |
15 | May 23, 2014 | $30,800 | $314,900 | Julia's eighth runaway game. |
16 | May 26, 2014 | $22,800 | $337,700 | Julia's ninth runaway game. |
17 | May 27, 2014 | $35,000 | $372,700 | Julia's tenth runaway game. |
18 | May 28, 2014 | $18,900 | $391,600 | Julia's eleventh runaway game. |
19 | May 29, 2014 | $18,400 | $410,000 | Julia's twelfth runaway game and ties with David M. for second-longest winning streak. |
20 | May 30, 2014 | $18,100 | $428,100 | She becomes female longest winning streak and second-longest winning streak. |
21 | June 2, 2014 | $0 | $429,100 | Brian Loughnane ends her streak. She was awarded the standard $1,000 prize for finishing third place. |
Tournament of Champions[]
Collins was invited to the 2014 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, where she finished second in her quarterfinal game against Joshua Brakhage and 2013 College Champion Jim Coury but reached the semifinals as a wild card. She then won her semifinal game, advancing to the finals, where she finished third, behind winner Ben Ingram and second-place finisher Arthur Chu.
All-Star Games[]
In the 2018 All-Star Games draft show, she still remains friends with Ben Ingram and picked him as her first pick and Seth Wilson for her second pick. In 2019, they finished in third place in the second match against Team Ken and Team Austin and split $50,000.