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His winnings on Jeopardy! totaled $2,464,216, [225] $58,484 behind Jennings' record. [224] Including over $58,000 from a 2014 appearance on The Chase, [226] with Holzhauer's $2.96 million from Jeopardy! (including his Tournament of Champions and The Greatest of All Time prizes), he is #3 on the list of all-time American game show winnings.
At the time of her run on the program, Kelly was the highest-winning female contestant and ranked fifth in all-time in Jeopardy! earnings (excluding tournament winnings). [ 98 ] [ 99 ] [ 100 ] In addition to previously being the highest-winning female contestant in regular play, Kelly broke Ken Jennings 's record for most money won in five days ...
The single day record for shows in daytime television was set in 1984 by Michael Larson, who won $110,237 (equivalent to $334,000 in 2024) [3] on Press Your Luck. Larson achieved this record by memorizing the show's board patterns, repeatedly hitting the board's squares that awarded contestants money and an additional spin, which would, in turn, replace the spin he had just used, effectively ...
In his fourth game, which aired on April 9, he broke the previous single-game Jeopardy! winnings record ($77,000, set by Roger Craig in 2010) by winning $110,914. [ 34 ] During his 33 appearances, Holzhauer exceeded Craig's single-day total 16 times (see table below), including a new all-time record set on April 17, when he won $131,127.
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.
According to the Nielsen TV National People Meter, Jeopardy! 's ratings were 22 percent higher during Jennings's run than they were during the same period the previous year. [23] For several weeks of the winnings' streak, Jeopardy! was ranked as TV's highest-rated syndicated program, [24] with ratings 30 percent higher than before his ...
Fourth game in which he failed to give a correct response in Final Jeopardy! round. Broke record for most winnings lost on Final Jeopardy! in regular play ($37,000). His lowest winning single day total. 12 August 5: $26,000 $394,600 His lowest single day total runaway game with a correct Final Jeopardy! response. 13 August 6: $35,600 $430,200 ...
Her third place consolation prize of $1,000 was added to her winnings to give her a total of $429,100 – at the time, this was the third highest total earnings in Jeopardy! regular play history, only trailing Ken Jennings and David Madden. She trailed only Jennings (74) in number of games won and finished just ahead of Madden (19).