A new “Jeopardy!” contestant is rising through the ranks of the show’s top players — and steadily inching his way toward Ken Jennings’ all-time record of 74 wins.
Jamie Ding ‘Jeopardy!’ hot streak continues
Contestant Jamie Ding, who is described on “Jeopardy!” as a “bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey,” is making a splash on the quiz show.
With his 10th win, he officially became a “Jeopardy!” super-champion.
Now, Ding, who currently studies law at Seton Hall University, has 25 wins under his belt.
He won his 25th game on April 16, bringing his winnings to $702,000, per “Jeopardy!” archives.
Those stats now place him No. 5 for most consecutive wins in show history. Ding recently surpassed “Jeopardy!” great Mattea Roach, a 23-game champ, and is currently seven games away from reaching the legendary James Holzhauer’s 32-game feat back in 2019.
Ding still has just under 50 games to go before reaching Jennings’ streak — a record that has remained untouched for 22 years.
On the “Jeopardy!” Leaderboard of Legends, Ding is also ranked sixth for highest winnings in regular season play. He’s a little under $50,000 away from surpassing 21-game champ Cris Pannullo to reach No. 5 in that feat.
Of the 25 games Ding has played (so far), 19 of them have been runaways, meaning he had such a large lead going into the Final Jeopardy round that he couldn’t be caught.
Going into his 25th game, Ding had correctly answered 783 clues and only missed 61, per The Jeopardy Fan website.
Here are 15 clues he’s missed during his last few games, per “Jeopardy!” archives. Can you answer them? (All answers are at the bottom of the article. Feel free to share how many you got right in the comments section.)
- 1826: “Construction of this artificial waterway connecting Ottawa to Lake Ontario begins in Canada.”
- Medical bill: “William Osler brought teaching beyond the lecture and wanted the epitaph ‘I taught medical students in’ these, large rooms in a hospital.”
- Americana: “This city, the seat of Montana’s Cascade County, was named for some watery obstacles encountered by Western explorers.”
- State government: “Local governments mostly have two tiers: cities and towns, aka municipalities and counties, which in Alaska are called these.”
- Country name: “In the 1850s it was part of the Granadine Confederation; today it’s named for a man who never set foot in the country.”
- Start me “up”: The title of this classic British TV series and its later revival refers to the living quarters of the wealthy versus the servants.
- Historic documents: “Article 1 of the first of these, from 1864, says, ‘Ambulances and military hospitals shall be recognized as neutral.’”
- Novelty architecture: “Henry Ford is among the notables who visited Lucy the Elephant in New Jersey and climbed the 130 stairs to this seat on her back.”
- Masterpiece on PBS: “A massive scandal implicating the British government is the subject of the 2024 Peabody-winning series ‘Mr. Bates vs.’ this.”
- 20th-century nonfiction: “‘Stop Fuming and Fretting’ and ‘I Don’t Believe in Defeat’ are chapters 6 and 8 in this book.”
- A fine romance: “On April 5, 1953, the Atlanta Daily World announced the engagement of this pair who met in Boston.”
- Leveling up: “In 1826, this city became a state capital, taking over for Murfreesboro.”
- Leveling up: “In 2010, John Lindsey joined MLB’s Dodgers from Albuquerque at this level of baseball, having spent 16 years in the Minors.”
- Woolly for you: “The oldest surviving homestead in this country, Elizabeth Farm played a major role in establishing the wool industry there.”
- Bride of the Yankees: “It seems Ellen Marcy loved future Confederate general A.P. Hill more than this man whom she married, getting a name that rhymed.”
Answers: (1. the Rideau Canal; 2. the wards; 3. Great Falls; 4. boroughs; 5. Colombia; 6. “Upstairs, Downstairs”; 7. the Geneva Conventions; 8. a howdah; 9. the Post Office; 10. “The Power of Positive Thinking”; 11. Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King; 12. Nashville; 13. Triple A; 14. Australia; 15. McClellan)