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 is now just one victory behind Mattea Roach, who won 23 games back in 2022, for fifth place on the all-time list.
New Jersey’s Jamie Ding won his 22nd straight “Jeopardy!” game on Monday, April 13, moving him within a win of the Top 5 all-time.
The Lawrenceville resident is now just one victory behind Mattea Roach, who won 23 games back in 2022, for fifth place on the all-time list. (See list below)
On Monday’s show, Ding faced off against Erik Bubolz, an attorney originally from Okemos, Michigan, and Catherine Hoffman, a children’s librarian from Clarkston, Michigan. The game was an all-Michigan affair, as Ding is also originally from the Wolverine State.
As has been customary during his streak, Ding had the match locked up heading into Final Jeopardy. He had $34,800 to Bubolz’s $7,200 and Hoffman’s $4,400, TheJeopardyFan.com reported.
The Final Jeopardy was: “In the 1850s it was part of the Granadine Confederation; today is it named for a man who never set foot in the country.”
Only Hoffman had the correct response: “What is Colombia?”
Ding risked $16,200 to finish the game with $18,600 for a 22-game total of $627,600. He remains in sixth place on the regular-season money list behind fellow New Jerseyan Cris Pannullo, an Ocean City native who won $748,286 while winning 21 games in 2022, according to Jeopardy.com
Ding does move up one spot to 16th on the all-time money list, according to TheJeopardyFan.com.
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 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.
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 (Note: Prior to season 20 in 2003, there was a five-game win limit on the show):
- 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
- Jamie Ding, 22 games, current
- Cris Pannullo, 21 games, 2022
- Julia Collins, 20 games, 2014
- Jason Zuffranieri, 19 games, 2019
- David Madden, 19 games, 2005
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
- Jamie Ding, $627,600
- Mattea Roach, $560,983
- Jason Zuffranieri, $532,496
- Scott Riccardi, $455,000
- David Madden, $430,400
