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Roger Craig is a computer science graduate student at the University of Delaware best known for being the all-time record holder for single day winnings on the American quiz show Jeopardy! Craig set his record of $77,000 on the second day of the 2010-2011 Jeopardy! season on the episode airing September 14, 2010. Prior to Craig's mark, the record of $75,000 was held by Ken Jennings.[1]
He now has the third most money won non-tournament on the show behind Jennings and David Madden.
Craig lost to North Carolina sportswriter Jelisa Castrodale in his seventh appearance. The Final Jeopardy category was "Sports and Media". In his seven-day run, Craig earned $231,200,[2] $230,200 of which were from winning episodes. [3] As was the case with Jennings and with Madden, the person who defeated Craig (Castrodale) finished in third place the subsequent day.
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.[4][5].
References
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave (September 15, 2010). "Record Set On 'Jeopardy!'". The New York Times. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
- ^ Clodfelter, Tim (September 22, 2010). "Racking up $$: Winner on Jeopardy is local woman". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
- ^ Roger Craig Game 7
- ^ Roger Craig and Li Liao, Phylogenetic Tree Information Aids Supervised Learning for Predicting Protein-Protein Interaction Based on Distance Matrices. BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:6.
- ^ Roger A. Craig, Jin Lu, Jinquan Luo, Lei Shi and Li Liao, Optimizing nucleotide sequence ensembles for combinatorial protein libraries using a genetic algorithm, Nucleic Acids Research, 2010, Vol. 38, No. 2 e10