Michigan native Jamie Ding ranks in the Top 5 after his 23rd consecutive victory on Jeopardy!
Danger! Champion Jamie Ding is poised to break the Top 5 for consecutive matches won by any contestant on the longest-running game show.
Ding scored his 23rd consecutive victory on Tuesday, April 14, to move into a tie for fifth place with Mattea Roach, who has 23 victories in 2022.
Ding walked away with $16,400 on Tuesday, bringing his 23-day gambling bank to $644,000.
He remains in sixth place on the regular season money list behind fellow New Jerseyan Cris Pannullo, accumulating $748,286 with 21 wins in 2022.
In Tuesday’s buzzy episode, Ding’s opponents were Iain Carpenter, with a health care background from Mahomet, Illinois, and Stephanie Rice-Hoffner, a former car wash technical director from New York.
Ding had already achieved the triumph by the time Final Jeopardy arrived. He had $18,400 to Carpenter’s $5,400.
While Rice-Hoffner finished the game in the hole at -$800, thus ending his run.
What was the final peril!?
Final danger! asked the book with chapters 6 and 8, “Stop Worrying and Worrying” and “I Don’t Believe in Defeat.”
The clue was The power of positive thinking, but no one succeeded and Ding lost $2,000.
Danger! was first broadcast on the airwaves in 1964 and lasted until 1975, before making a return in 1978-79, then again in 1984 and continuing.
