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1970s rocker now a 4-time Jeopardy champ

Posted at 4:34 PM, Dec 20, 2018
and last updated 2018-12-20 16:34:10-05

Jackie Fuchs, aka Jackie Fox, played bass in the all-female rock band The Runaways as a teenager in the late 1970s. But “I don’t want that to define me,” she says.

Mission accomplished: Per LA Weekly, Fuchs became a four-time Jeopardy champion during a Wednesday taping in Culver City, Calif.

“This is redemption for me,” she says of her $87,089 in winnings, which come after less-successful runs on The Chase and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2013. “I left it all out on the field, as they say,” adds Fuchs, now a Harvard-educated entertainment lawyer and writer. “It really saps your brain energy … I was so brain-dead by the end of shooting that I got lost in the parking lot for about a half-hour.”

Her Jeopardy run began with a $14,200 win, per Fox News. She nabbed $19,889 in her second showing, and $24,600 in her third. She got better in her fourth, betting $14,000 on the Final Jeopardy question to take home $28,400.

She’s had a few flubs, including missed questions on law and music. But “I got a Daily Double in Norse mythology,” Fuchs tells <em>LA Weekly</em>. “People wouldn’t expect me to know this old stuff, but I love it.”

Of her switch from rock music to writer and attorney, she told host Alex Trebek, “I just get bored easily, I guess.”

Fuchs, whose success comes after years of trying to get on the show, has been commentating on Twitter. Per <em>LA Weekly</em>, her tweets “are often just as entertaining as the game itself.” She’s set to appear on Thursday night’s episode. (In 2015, Fuchs recounted a traumatic ordeal.)

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