It’s been since then that Rutter has set records and proven he is easily one of the best players of all time. Rutter was a 5-day Champion who had to retire during his first run back in 2000.
So, at number one is someone you might not have expected: Brad Rutter, a record store employee from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, whose 5-day cash earnings total $55,102. He was eventually named a permanent co-host, sharing duties with The Big Bang Theory actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik. Following Alex Trebek’s death in November 2020, Jennings was the first guest host to take over in a long line of celebrity auditions to find the icon’s replacement. Ken Jennings has parlayed his Jeopardy! celebrity into a career, writing trivia books, appearing on other game shows, and co-hosting a podcast called Omnibus with John Roderick. He was the first person to really take advantage of the rule change that allowed champions to keep competing until they were beaten, rather than being limited to five games. Ken Jennings was the first true Jeopardy! celebrity contestant, expanding his popularity beyond just the show’s hardcore fans and into pop culture when he went on his almost unfathomable 75-day run in the summer of 2005. Adding the $2,000 consolation from the loss in his 75th-consecutive game puts him with a take-home total of $4,372,700. As the 2019 All-Star Games captain whose team was first runner-up, he won $100,000, got another $100K from the 2014 Battle of the Decades first runner-up and won $150,000 as first runner-up in the 2011 IBM Challenge.
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The mighty Ken Jennings! A computer scientist from Seattle, Washington, compiled 74-day cash winnings totaling $2,520,700 plus another $500K for a second-place finish in the 2005 Tournament of Champions and $1 million and the title of “Greatest of All Time” in 2020’s GOAT Tournament. Adding in the $2,000 consolation from his regular-season loss, he took home a total of $3,464,216. He went on to add $250,000 as the 2019 Tournament of Champions winner, another $250,000 as the runner-up in the 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time tournament, and $500,000 in the 2023 Jeopardy! Masters tournament. James Holzhauer set the record for the highest single day total an astonishing 16 times over his 33-day run and finished with 21 of the 25 highest single-day scores, including winning $131,127 in one game on April 17, 2019. The same thing happened in Final Jeopardy, when he would usually be so far out in front of his two competitors that he would be in a position to bet huge amounts and again, virtually always answer correctly. Holzhauer was not the first to use the style of bouncing around the board until the Daily Double was revealed, but he was especially good at keeping control of the board until he found it, when he would inevitably make his bet a “True Daily Double” and double his money when he virtually always answered correctly. James Holzhauer ($3,462,216)Ī sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada, whose 32-day cash winnings total $2,462,216, Holzhauer took the Jeopardy! world by storm in the winter and spring of 2019, bringing in record ratings with his swashbuckling style and the odd, but daring, amounts of his bets on Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy. He placed third in the 2023 Jeopardy! Masters tournament to win $150,000, and in addition to the $10,000 for his appearance in the 2022 Tournament of Champions, and the $1,000 consolation prize from his regular-season loss, he has taken home $1,679,601 to date.
He also caused a bit of controversy with his answering strategy, responding with “What is…” or “What’s…” regardless of if the clue was in reference to a person, place, etc. During his run, Amodio competed under six different hosts, and that’s likely a record that will never be broken. Both Amodio and Schneider were supposed to appear on the game show before Alex Trebek’s death, but when COVID shut down production, each was given more time to study, which probably helped Amodio, as his time on the show came when Jeopardy! was auditioning guest hosts to find Trebek’s replacement. Matt Amodio’s winning streak ended just a couple of months shy of Amy Schneider’s first appearance, and while his 38-game win streak was two shy of hers, he came out with a higher amount of cash winnings ahead of the Tournamentn of Champions, earning $1,518,601.
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