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Including the $1.27 million he had won in his previous Jeopardy! appearances (five regular season games, a Tournament of Champions win, the Million Dollar Masters win, and three matches in the earlier rounds of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions which were worth $115,000), Rutter's total stood at $3,270,102, [55] while Jennings was now second ...
[3] [4] [5] The shot was part of a promotion that offered 1 million dollars to any fan who could make a 75-foot shot through the basket from the free-throw line at the opposite end of the court. [6] [7] At the time, Calhoun's shot was reportedly the first time anyone had ever made a three-quarters promotional shot. However, a spectator had ...
He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer who won $1.12 million on another U.S. quiz show, Twenty One. [2] On the November 19, 1999, episode of Millionaire, Carpenter proceeded to advance to the million-dollar question without using any lifelines. He then used his ...
Josina Reaves - Missed the million dollar question on September 25, 2013. Reaves became the first contestant to play a million dollar question in the "shuffle format", and became the second person in the history of Millionaire to miss the million dollar question. However, in this case, Reaves only lost $75,000 as she had used both Jump the ...
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Anargyros Nicholas Karabourniotis [2] (Greek: Ανάργυρος Καραβουρνιώτης; November 1, 1950 – September 7, 2024), commonly known as Archie Karas, was a Greek-American gambler, high roller, poker player, and pool shark famous for the largest and longest documented winning streak in casino gambling history, simply known as The Run, when he drove to Las Vegas with $50 in ...
Bloomberg gave $19 million to Biden's top super PAC, FF PAC, while The Washington Post reported that he gave $929,600 more to Biden's joint fundraising committee. (That group doesn't have to file ...