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Jeopardy! has seen a string of mega-champions over the past year, from Matt Amodio to Amy Schneider and Mattea Roach. Now some fans say they are beginning to tire of the dominant winning streaks. One of the game show’s long-time viewers posted a thread on the Jeopardy! Reddit on Saturday, July 9, asking, “Does anyone else enjoy new champions on the regular?” While the fan noted that mega-champs are “great,” he added that he enjoys “seeing a daily or regular turnover of champions,” pointing to Yungsheng Wang’s recent short tenure as champion and how it “made the whole game more enjoyable.” Wang, a Public Defender from Los Angeles, California, won just three games before he was knocked off the top spot. Despite Wang’s brief run, the series has seen several mega-champs in recent months, starting with Yale doctoral student Amodio, who amassed 38 wins and more than 1.5 million in prize money last year.

The January 6 hearings have dominated the news cycle over the past few weeks and now have made their way over to Jeopardy!, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by viewers. Two harmless clues on the Wednesday, July 6, episode of the long-running game show had some Jeopardy! fans wondering if the show was getting political. Both clues related to members of the January 6 Committee, Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson. The clues appeared under the category “The Representative From…,” the first being, “Wyoming: This woman starting in 2017, taking the seat her dad had won nearly 40 years before.” Contestant Yungsheng Wang buzzed in with the correct answer, stating, “Who is Liz Cheney?” This was followed by the clue, “Mississippi: Bennie Thompson who chairs the select committee investigating the events of this date in 2021,” which was quickly answered by contestant Alicia O’Hare, who correctly said, “What is January 6th?” “#January6thCommittee @BennieGThompson was just...

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Ni Kuang, the prolific Hong Kong writer behind the Wisely series of sci-fi novels as well as over 300 film screenplays including the classic martial arts films One-Armed Swordsman and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and the Bruce Lee hits Fist of Fury and The Big Boss, has died. He was 87.

The South China Morning Post reported that Ni died Sunday at his home in Hong Kong. Local media reported that the cause of death was skin cancer. In a double blow to Hong Kong’s cultural landscape, Ni died on the same day as legendary director and screenwriter Alex Law.

A giant of Chinese literature, Ni’s shadow looms large over the genres of science fiction, wuxia fiction and martial arts, but he also wrote extensive non-fiction pieces, newspaper columns, satirical pieces and dabbled in the romance and detective genres. It has been...