Jennings holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. game show Jeopardy! with 74 consecutive wins. He also holds the highest average correct responses per game with 35. 9 during his original run and 33. 1 overall. Jennings is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time. He will host the show as the first of a series of guest hosts after Alex Trebek’s death on November 8, 2020.
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Jennings holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. game show Jeopardy! with 74 consecutive wins. He also holds the highest average correct responses per game with 35. 9 during his original run and 33. 1 overall including tournaments and special events. Jennings is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time. He will host the show as the first of a series of guest hosts after Alex Trebek’s death on November 8, 2020. Jennings was born in 1974 in a suburb of Seattle, Washington. His father was a lawyer employed internationally, and Jennings spent 15 years growing up in South Korea and Singapore where his father worked. Jennings attended the University of Washington and Brigham Young University. He played on the school’s quizbowl team, at one point serving as captain, and graduated in 2000. He was a volunteer missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he was assigned to serve in Madrid, Spain. Jennings’ run began with the June 2, 2004, episode of the 20th season. He unseated two-time returning champion Jerry Harvey, and continued into season 21 into the first episode. In that episode, Jennings’ entire winning streak nearly ended before it even began before the answer was, ‘She’s the first female athlete to win five different medals in five different events at a single Olympics’ If the response had not been accepted, Jennings would have finished in third place and challenger Julia Lazarus would have won the game.
In September 2020, he signed on as a consulting producer of JeopardY!, a job that will include an on-air role reading categories. His first episode is scheduled to air on January 11, 2021. His book Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, published in 2006, explores American trivia history and culture. He is married to his longtime girlfriend, the former Nancy Zerg, and they have two children, a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law. The couple have a son and a daughter. Jennings has been a member of BYU’s Quiz Bowl Team since 1996. He has appeared on several other game shows, culminating with his results on an October 2008 appearance on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, though Rutter retained the record. He once again faced off and won against Rutter, as well as James Holzhauer, in a special primetime series called Jeoparding! The Greatest of All Time. He won a total of USD 4,522,700, consisting of: USD 2,520,700 over his 74 wins; a USD 500,000 second-place prize in the Jeopardi! Ultimate Tournament of Champions; and a USD 1,000,000 first-place Prize in theJeopardy!: The Greatest Of All Time tournament. His total was surpassed by Rutter who defeated Jennings in the finals of the Jeperty! Battle of the Decades’ tournament, addingUSD 2,000,.000 to Rutter’s existing Jeopardo! winnings.
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