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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.
Ken Jennings won the tournament in four matches, with James Holzhauer winning one match and Brad Rutter winning none. As the tournament winner, Jennings was named "The Greatest of All Time", won the $1 million prize, and reclaimed the top spot for most money won on a game show. Rutter and Holzhauer, the two runners-up, received $250,000 each.
Register is the highest-earning game show contestant who has only appeared on one game show and the first woman to win more than one million dollars in a game show. 9 David Legler $1,765,000 Twenty-One, $1,765,000 [44] Legler earned $1,765,000 over six wins on the 2000 revival of Twenty-One, making him the show's biggest winner. 10 Matt Amodio
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 ...
January 14, 2020. (2020-01-14) Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time is a special tournament limited-run series of the game show Jeopardy! that took place in January 2020. The tournament was produced for ABC and aired on the network in prime time. This was the second time a Jeopardy! competition aired on network television (regular shows air in ...
Matt Amodio’s 38-game Jeopardy! win streak came to an end Monday. The Yale Ph. D. student was a dominant competitor and racked up more than $1.5 million during his impressive run. Whether it was ...
Children. 2. Website. ken-jennings.com. Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show host, former 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 and Singapore.
Bradford Gates Rutter (born January 31, 1978) is an American game show contestant, TV host, producer, and actor. With over $5.1 million in winnings, he is currently the second-highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, behind Ken Jennings, and still the highest-earning contestant (primarily from special tournament events) on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy!