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Larissa Kelly

• Top 10 regular season winnings
• Co-founder of National Academic Quiz Tournaments

2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament
2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of $1,000,000 split three ways with Brad Rutter and David Madden.
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000.
2009 Tournament of Champions first runner-up: $100,000.
Season 24 6-time champion: $222,597 + $1,000.

Larissa was the first female champion to win more than five games, and at the time of her appearance held the regular-play winnings record for a female champion. Larissa was also, when her run ended, the third-highest regular-play earner.

Wife of KJL game 70 Jeff Hoppes, and sister of Season 24 player Arianna Kelly.

Jeopardy! Message Board user name: lkkelly

Larissa appeared in the following 5 archived games:
#7934, aired 2019-02-21 Team Buzzy vs. Team Colby vs. Team Brad 2019 All-Star Games match 1, continuation of game 1.
#7933, aired 2019-02-20 Team Buzzy vs. Team Colby vs. Team Brad 2019 All-Star Games match 1, game 1, Jeopardy! Round only.
#7942, aired 2019-03-05 Team Ken vs. Team Brad vs. Team Colby 2019 All-Star Games final match, game 2.
#7941, aired 2019-03-04 Team Ken vs. Team Brad vs. Team Colby 2019 All-Star Games final match, game 1.
#7935, aired 2019-02-22 Team Buzzy vs. Team Colby vs. Team Brad 2019 All-Star Games match 1, game 2.
Larissa previously appeared on Jeopardy! as Larissa Kelly in the following archived game:
#6808, aired 2014-04-02 Tom Kavanaugh vs. Larissa Kelly vs. Russ Schumacher Battle of the Decades: The 2000s game 3.
Larissa would later appear on Jeopardy! as Larissa Kelly in the following archived game:
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 Leonard Cooper vs. Jason Zuffranieri vs. Larissa Kelly 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

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