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26 Wins in a row on Jeopardy
Topic Started: Jul 8 2004, 03:01 PM (175 Views)
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGQC7SL431.DTL


He is up to 38 wins in a row with a total of over $1.3 million in winnings. On Friday, July 23, he broke the record of total winnings in one show on Jeapardy with $75000. The bad news, the show goes on hiatus til September and will have reruns shown for the rest of the summer. So, he won't be back until September to continue his streak.
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That's disappointing, you'd think that they might at least extend their season by ONE week, considering he's just 3 wins away (I believe) from breaking the world record for most consecutive wins on a game show... or something like that.

EDIT: Sorry, guess it's 46... I missed the post on the previous page. But either way, sucks that he has to wait until September!
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He was on vh1īs best week ever.
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Man, he must be getting so popular to be on VH1. Best Week Ever, it has been a good month for him to get over $1.3 Million. I had heard that the ratings for Jeapardy have been up 50% since he started on his streak.

They should have continued it since he was so close to the record. Now he has to wait. They could have gone 2 more weeks and started next season a little later. But this gives Jeapardy more time to promote that guy.
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i donīt know if they are happy that he is winning all the money or i they are not, but if they arnīt then they should be happy about ratings.
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I think they are happiest about the ratings, and that will bring in more money to make up for all that money he makes.
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The show is back from hiatus.

The Jeopardy guy just won his 41st in a row tonight.
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The guy has finally lost, after 75 straight wins. Not sure when that episode will air... probably sometime in October... but I'd like to see the guy to manged to outsmart this guy!
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They say he ends at 75 shows. But, they never said that he got beat. He might have said that was enough and left. But if he got beat, it will be cool to see who ended up beating him.
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An update on Ken Jennings.

As of Friday November 5, he has now won 67 consecutive shows.

Money won: $2,272,600

It is confirmed that he does lose after 75 wins. So, the week of the 15th, he will finally lose. It will be interesting to see how he loses and to who.
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So they pre-tape it all? I didn't know that.
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Yeah, I think I read that they tape 3 or 4 shows a day
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that makes it harder having to play that many games in one day.
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Exactly... which makes this streak even more amazing!
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