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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 ...
events. American Gladiators is an athletic competition game show where contestants, referred to as "contenders", competed against the show's titular Gladiators in a series of physical games called "events" with the goal to be crowned the Grand Champion at the end of the season and win thousands of dollars in cash and prizes.
Bargain Hunters (1987) The Baron and the Bee (1953–1954) Battle Dome (1999–2001) Battle of the Ages (1952) Battle of the Ages (2019; unrelated to above) Battle of the Network Stars (1976–1985, 1988, 2003, 2017) Battle of the Sexes (1938–1943) Battlestars (1981–1982) and its revival, The New Battlestars (1983) Beach Clash (1994–1995)
Ken Jennings is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, having accumulated a total of $5,296,214 over the course of twenty years. He took the record back from Brad Rutter as the highest-earning contestant (a record Rutter had held since 2014) by virtue of his victory on January 14, 2020, in the Jeopardy!
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 ...
Celebrity Name Game is an American syndicated game show that premiered on September 22, 2014. Based on the board game Identity Crisis (created by Laura Robinson and Richard Gerrits), the series was developed by Courteney Cox and David Arquette's Coquette Productions and was originally pitched as a primetime series for CBS with Craig Ferguson as host.
Wheel of Fortune (often known simply as Wheel[b]) is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show has aired continuously since January 6, 1975. Contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those in hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel. The current version of the series, which airs in ...