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Matt Jackson, 13-time champion, surpassed Arthur Chu's 11-game winning streak with his 12th win on October 12, 2015. He has also beat Chu in regular season cash earnings with a total of $413,612. [ 111 ] He competed in the 2015 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, finishing second to Alex Jacob.
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or ...
Ken Jennings. Hosting Jeopardy! and Celebrity Jeopardy! Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show host, former game show contestant, and author. He is best known for his work on the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! as a contestant and later its host. Jennings was born in Seattle, Washington but grew up in South Korea ...
Teen Tournament. The Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, which began in 1987, was an annual tournament in which 15 high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 competed in a ten-episode tournament structured similarly to the Tournament of Champions. The winner receives $100,000 and entry into the Tournament of Champions.
James Holzhauer. James Holzhauer (born August 6, 1984) is an American game show contestant and professional sports gambler. [1] He is the third-highest-earning American game show contestant of all time. Holzhauer is best known for his 32-game winning streak as champion on the quiz show Jeopardy! from April to June 2019, during which he set ...
Victoria Groce (née Rubin; born 1981) is an American quiz player and game show contestant.. Initially known for ending the 19-day winning streak of Jeopardy! champion David Madden in 2005, Groce’s increasing success in competitive trivia led to becoming a Chaser on the American version of The Chase in 2022. [1]
Amy Schneider (born May 29, 1979) is an American writer and game show contestant. [4] Winning 40 consecutive games on the quiz show Jeopardy! from November 2021 to January 2022 and the November 2022 Tournament of Champions, she holds the second-longest win streak in the program's history, behind only Ken Jennings (74 games), who hosted the show as she competed and the longest win streak by a ...
Jeopardy! Masters is an American game show hosted by Ken Jennings on ABC. Its first season featured six recent notable Jeopardy! champions competing against each other in a " Champions League -style" format. [1] It premiered on May 8, 2023. [2]