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Ken's shocking loss ended a 75-game appearance, winning 74 times, guessing the correct answer 2,700 times and amassing $2.52 million in winnings. Did Ken Jennings compete on Jeopardy! after his ...
Tournament of Champions, the 2002 Million Dollar Masters tournament, and the $2 million Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005 Ken Jennings: Jeopardy! champion, winning more than $2.5 million over 75 games. In his initial run as champion Jennings set a new all-time winnings record. His 74-game winning streak remains a show record
As a result, for only the 10th time in 75 games, Jennings did not have an insurmountable lead going into the Final Jeopardy! round. [20] Only Jennings and Zerg, who ended Double Jeopardy! with $10,000, were able to play Final Jeopardy! as third-place contestant David Hankins failed to finish with a positive score after the Double Jeopardy! round.
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!
Jennings registered his third win in four games to beat opponents Brad Rutter and James Holzhauer and get the $1 million cash prize. The longest winning streak record holder, with 74 games, had ...
After four nights of competition, we finally know who the greatest player in "Jeopardy!" history is.
Shortly after Jennings’s run as champion ended, Rutter was one of the many former champions invited back for the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, where two of the former champions in the field would face Jennings in the final match for $2 million. Rutter defeated Jennings and Jerome Vered in the final to win the tournament, and the ...
Rutter, Vered, and Jennings then competed in a three-game cumulative score final match for the top prize. Rutter, who had the highest total in all three of the games, finished with $62,000 and won the $2,000,000 prize. Jennings finished second with $34,599 and collected $500,000, while Vered finished third with $20,600, and took home $250,000. [36]