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December 26, 2018 by Nina Malkin · Arts & Culture

Our Kind of Renaissance Woman: Rock Star, Lawyer, Writer, and now…Jeopardy!Champ

Recent Jeopardy! champ, Jackie Fuchs, has another claim to fame? Bass guitarist in the teen girl group The Runaways with Joan Jett.

If you caught Jackie Fuchs’ $87,000 Jeopardy! winning streak last week but tend to channel surf during Alex Trebek’s contestant Q&A, you might’ve missed when the brilliant blonde attorney dropped a bomb. Make that a Cherry Bomb! Asked about her rock and roll past, the champ revealed that she’d been the bassist in the Runaways. Yep, Fuchs was a teenaged Merit Scholar granted early admission to UCLA but blew it off to join the fledgling girl band that paved the way for, well, just about every gutsy guitar-driven female artist on your playlist for the last 40-something years.

Fuchs believes being older than the other contestants helped her in some categories.

“I told the producers that I wouldn’t talk about it unless I made it to day three, because there’s more to me, and I wanted people to get to know my more fun, quirky side,” Fuchs—who went by Jackie Fox back in the day (1975 through 1977)—told online music mag Pitchfork. “But I had to talk about it because we have some really great fans and I thought it would be nice to acknowledge them in that way.”

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