Michigan native Jamie Ding cracks the top 5 after his 23rd straight win on Jeopardy!
Danger! Champion Jamie Ding is set to break the Top 5 for consecutive games won by any contestant on the longest-running game show.
Ding took his 23rd straight win on Tuesday, April 14, to climb into fifth place with Mattea Roach, who secured 23 wins in 2022.
Ding walked away with $16,400 on Tuesday to push his 23-day bankroll to $644,000.
He remains sixth on the regular-season money list behind fellow New Jersey native Cris Pannullo, accumulating $748,286 with 21 wins in 2022.
On Tuesday’s humming episode, Ding’s opponents were Iain Carpenter, with a health care background from Mahomet, Illinois, and Stephanie Rice-Hoffner, a former car wash technical manager from NYC.
Ding had already secured the triumph before when Final Jeopardy arrived. He had $18,400 to Carpenter’s $5,400.
While Rice-Hoffner ended play in the hole at -$800, ending her run.
What was the final danger!?
Final danger! asked for the book with chapters 6 and 8, ‘Stop shaking and fretting’ and ‘I don’t believe in defeat.’
The clue was The power of positive thinking, but nobody got it right and Ding lost $2,000.
Danger! first hit the airwaves in 1964 and ran until 1975 before returning in 1978-79 and then again in 1984 and continuing.
