Metro Detroit local Jamie Ding continues to make his approach up the “Jeopardy!” all-time leaderboard, notching his twenty third consecutive victory in Tuesday’s episode.
The win strikes him right into a tie for the 5th maximum within the historical past of the long-running TV sport display.
How a lot has he received?
Ding racked up any other $16,400 in winnings on Tuesday’s display.
He completed forward of Iain Chippie, a well being care IT specialist from Mahomet, Illinois, who ended the episode with $1 after a large bet within the Ultimate Jeopardy! spherical did not pan out. Stephanie Rice-Hoffner, a former automotive wash tech supervisor from New York Town, had a detrimental ranking on the finish of Double Jeopardy! and thus used to be ineligible to take part within the ultimate spherical.
Ding’s newest win brings him to a 23-day overall of $644,000. That ranks him 6th relating to all-time winnings at the display, in line with The Jeopardy! Fan, a web based database devoted to “Jeopardy!” statistics.
What is subsequent?
Ding will opt for win No. 24 in Wednesday’s episode, which in Detroit airs on WDIV-TV (Channel 4) at 7:30 p.m. The display additionally streams on Hulu and Peacock.
Every other victory will damage Ding’s present tie with Mattea Roach, who received 23 instantly video games in 2022, and provides him sole ownership of the display’s fifth-longest win streak, in line with The Jeopardy! Fan.
The document for many “Jeopardy!” victories is held by means of present host Ken Jennings, who received an out of this world 74 instantly video games in 2004, incomes him greater than $2.5 million.
Who’s Jamie Ding?
Ding is a 2009 graduate of Grosse Pointe North Top Faculty, the place he used to be a a hit quiz match player and honor pupil who graduated a 12 months early, in line with a Wayne State College press liberate. Ding’s father, Yuchuan Ding, is a professor of neurosurgery at Wayne State.
Jamie Ding graduated from Princeton College in 2013 with a point in molecular biology.
Now a bureaucrat and legislation pupil, he lately is living in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
mreinhart@detroitnews.com