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Roger Alan Craig (born 1977) is an American game show contestant who holds the all-time record for single-day winnings on the quiz show ''Jeopardy!'' In 2011, he returned to win the ''Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions''. Later, in 2014, he competed in the Battle of the Decades tournament, finishing third overall behind Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. ==Early life and non-game-show career== Craig, who was 33 years old at the time of his initial ''Jeopardy!'' appearance in 2010,〔〔(Graduate Student Roger Craig Surpasses Ken Jennings as Highest One-Day 'Jeopardy' Winner ), CBS press release, September 14, 2010〕 is a native of Ferndale, Pennsylvania. He grew up there and later in Virginia, where he graduated from Annandale High School in 1995.〔("Local native winning big on 'Jeopardy!'" ), ''The Tribune-Democrat'' (Johnstown, Pa.), September 15, 2010; accessed April 3, 2014.〕 He holds an undergraduate degree in biology and biochemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a master's degree and earned his Ph.D in computer science from the University of Delaware. He was working on his doctorate at the time of his first appearance on ''Jeopardy!'', and completed the degree later in 2010.〔〔〔 In his scholarly career, he has published eight papers in the field of bioinformatics, specifically on topics of combinatorial protein synthesis and protein-protein prediction.〔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〕 As of November 2011, he was living in Newark, Delaware, and while working as a computer scientist.〔(UD alumnus Roger Craig returns to 'Jeopardy!' for tournament ), ''Newark (Delaware) Post'', November 2, 2011.〕 He is the founder of Cotinga, a company which performs data analyses and creates learning applications for smartphones.〔(Jeopardy! champ uses computer skills ) by Wade Malcolm, ''Delaware News Journal'', November 30, 2011. 〕 Craig was a guest on KFC Radio of Barstool Sports on August 23, 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KFC Radio Episode 11 – Jeopardy Champs And Bon Jovi In A Cage Match )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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