Arthur Chu, a 30-year-old compliance analyst currently living in Broadview Heights, Ohio, won his tenth JEOPARDY! game today and became the third person in history to reach that milestone. With this win, he passed nine-time winners Jason Keller and Dan Pawson on the JEOPARDY! all-time consecutive wins list, and only Ken Jennings (74 wins) and Dave Madden (19 wins) have won more games than he has. Chu will face two new challengers on tomorrow’s episode of America’s Favorite Quiz Show as he attempts to add to his $277,200 in total prize winnings.

“I decided very early on to view JEOPARDY! as a problem to be solved rather than some objective test of how smart I was,” Chu said. “There are plenty of very smart people who do very poorly on JEOPARDY! because they aren’t prepared for its specific set of challenges. I knew I would only get one shot at this, and no matter what happened, I wanted to say I’d done everything I possibly could with the limited resources I had.”

Chu’s JEOPARDY! strategy has attracted a significant amount of commentary from JEOPARDY! viewers nationwide. He has adopted a technique known to fans as the “Forrest Bounce,” a style of play named for contestant Chuck Forrest, who won the 1986 Tournament of Champions and is currently participating in JEOPARDY!’s Battle of the Decades Tournament.

“When you have control of the board, bouncing around throws your opponents off-balance,” Chu said. “It means you already know what the next category is and are already prepared for it when everyone else is making the mental adjustment from English monarchs to Oscar™-winning movies. That split-second edge, on JEOPARDY!, is everything.”

Chu hasn’t yet decided how he will spend the money he’s won so far, though he plans to use some of it to take a trip to China and Taiwan, and some will go to charity.

“My wife and I said before I went on the show that we didn’t want to make any huge lifestyle changes as a result of any unlikely windfall I managed to get,” said Chu. “The thing we value most about the money is the flexibility it gives us to make decisions in the future. We weren’t sure how long we could keep on surviving on just my income while she finishes working on her novel; now that worry is a lot farther away than it was.”

As lucrative and successful as Chu’s streak has been, he says the best part of the experience is the chance to return to JEOPARDY! for more game play.

“Honestly, the thing that makes me happiest is the possibility of being in the Tournament of Champions in the future,” he said. “As stressful as preparing for JEOPARDY! is, the hardest thing about it is developing a skill and knowing it will become useless after my last game. The chance to keep playing more, no matter what happens, it’ll be awesome to have that opportunity.”

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Dean Rogers

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I knew early on that I wanted to take my place among the stars. One day, my mother saw me reading The Washington Post at a very young age. Who would have known that it would be the building blocks of my journey? Since that day, I dedicated my life to learn all that is learnable. I read everything from encyclopedias, to books, to dictionaries, to magazines. I’m also an avid consumer of television, with my favorite genre being game shows. If you’ve seen me on Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Wheel of Fortune, then you know that this interest has served me well!

My unique style of reporting began back in junior high school, when I started to chronicle the events that shaped my life. Whether it was the annual family vacation or the local science fiction convention, I shot numerous pictures and recorded my thoughts so I could truly appreciate the history. During my senior year at Friendly High, I wrote what was to be my first masterpiece, “Advanced Space Academy – A One Week Journey.” I sent the eleven-page article back to the U.S. Space Camp staff. The article was highly praised for being “one of the best written articles in the history of U.S. Space Camp.” From then on, I knew what I wanted to do for rest of my life — to be a reporter.

Since then, I have trained in Broadcast Journalism at Bowie State University (2008) in Bowie, MD earning a B.S. in Communications. I gained experience in news production and editing through field experiences with Bowie Community Media Corporation, Prince George’s Community Television, and Bowie State University Television. I also wrote scripts for a variety of quiz shows for over five years.

As a lifelong movie buff, I now see close to 100 films every year. I took this love of movies to the next step when I became a co-host for Eclipse Magazine TV in the fall of 2005. While at EMTV, I interviewed celebrities, worked red carpets, and attended a wide variety of movie screenings. In January 2009, I took a leap of faith and started my own entertainment news magazine, The Rogers Revue. Shortly afterward, my life-long journey of studying the silver screen and writing about what I learned finally earned me a place in the Washington Area Film Critics Association.

All of this has led me here, giving you the latest entertainment news for the DMV and the entire nation, and I am truly excited for whatever will come next.

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