After 12 games as reigning champ, Arthur Chu's run on "Jeopardy!" finally came to an end last night. Chu, whose controversial style of playing the game drew criticism, lost on Wednesday following an 11-day streak in which he accumulated winnings of $297,200.
Chu ended up in third place after losing an all-or-nothing
BET on Final Jeopardy, after being The tripped up with the answer: "He was the last male monarch who had not previously been Prince of Wales." Contestant Diana Peloquin, from Ann Arbor, Mich., was the only one who knew the question ("Who was George VI?"), and went home with $15,700.
Ohio's Chu's winning streak began on Jan. 28, but had to be put on hold for the show's decade-focused champions tournament, which caused his 12 shows to be stretched out for more than a month. He quickly became a subject of controversy on the Internet for his strategy of "hunting and pecking" through categories for key Daily Double clues and what some believed was a robotic on-camera persona.
He responded to those criticisms while live-tweeting the episodes, and re-tweeted some comments that slammed him.
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