Top 5 ‘Jeopardy!’ champions with most consecutive wins
Here is a look at the Top 5 champions who recorded the most consecutive wins on the game show “Jeopardy!”
- Jamie Ding won $36,360 on Tuesday’s show to top the half-million mark with $530,372.
New Jersey’s Jamie Ding shows no signs of slowing down as his impressive run on “Jeopardy!” continued on the Tuesday, April 7 show.
The Lawrenceville resident easily won his 18th straight game on the long-running ABC game show. Ding remains in 10th place on the “Jeopardy!” consecutive wins list, according to Jeopardy.com.
Ding won $36,360 on Tuesday’s show to top the half-million milestone mark with $530,372. He remains in eighth place on the regular-season money list and improved to 17th place on the all-time money list, according to TheJeopardyFan.com. (See lists below.)
Ding’s opponents were: Divya Srijay, a student originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Kevin Iannone, a trivia host from Flagstaff, Arizona.
Once again, Tuesday’s game was over before Final Jeopardy. Ding had $28,000 to Iannone’s $5,000. Srijay was eliminated with -$1,000, TheJeopardyFan.com reported.
The Final Jeopardy was: “A piece of mountaineering equipment at the International Spy Museum in D.C. was used to kill this man in 1940.”
Ding risked $8,360 and knew the correct response: “Who is Leon Trotsky?”
Who is Jamie Ding?
Ding, who works for the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, has secured a spot in the season-ending Tournament of Champions.
He has a supporter in New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who posted applauding Ding after he set an impressive record on the show that began 62 years ago.
On the March 17 show, Ding set the mark for highest Coryat score with with $42,400, topping the record of $39,200 achieved by now “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings back on June 10, 2004, according to TheJeopardyFan.com. On the April 1 show, Ding tied Jennings with at $39,200 Coryat. A Coryat score, named after a former contestant, is the sum of the natural value of any clues without Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy.
Sen. Andy Kim has also tweeted out congratulations to Ding during this impressive run on the show.
While Sen. Cory Booker tweeted on April 1: “Jamie Ding! Making New Jersey proud! This Lawrenceville resident spends his days helping fund affordable housing across the Garden State, then goes on national TV and dominates. The man answers trivia on @Jeopardy and houses people for a living. New Jersey does not miss. Keep buzzing, Jamie.”
Originally, Ding is from the Detroit area, having graduated from Grosse Pointe North High School in 2009. He graduated from Princeton University in 2013.
Ding told his alma mater that being on the show is “phenomenal.”
He and his sister have a Instagram account where they review General Tsos chicken at restaurants called: @attorneygeneraltsos. Ding talked about it on the show.
Top 10 ‘Jeopardy!’ consecutive wins
Here are the Top “Jeopardy!” contestants in terms of consecutive wins, according to Jeopardy.com:
- Ken Jennings, 74 games, 2004
- Amy Schneider, 40 games, 2022
- Matt Amodio, 38 games, 2021
- James Holzhauer, 32 games, 2019
- Mattea Roach, 23 games, 2022
- Cris Pannullo, 21 games, 2022
- Julia Collins, 20 games, 2014
- Jason Zuffranieri, 19 games, 2019
- David Madden, 19 games, 2005
- Jamie Ding, 18 games, current
Top 10 ‘Jeopardy!’ regular-season money
Here are the Top “Jeopardy!” contestants in terms of money won during regular-season play, according to Jeopardy.com:
- Ken Jennings, $2,520,700
- James Holzhauer, $2,462,216
- Matt Amodio, $1,518,601
- Amy Schneider, $1,382,800
- Cris Pannullo, $748,286
- Mattea Roach, $560,983
- Jason Zuffranieri, $532,496
- Jamie Ding, $530,372
- Scott Riccardi, $455,000
- David Madden, $430,400