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The Best Place for Ken Jennings Jeopardy news: tvgameshows.net

After Jeopardy was pre-empted in my local market one day this week, I had to get my fix on the status of the Ken Jennings juggernaut. The site below is an incredibly wonky site for everything that you could possibly want to know about tv game shows.

FYI - At this writing, Ken is at $868,960, and at his current rate, he is a week away from $1 million. Is he the all-time Jeopardy winner? Actually, no. In 2002 there was a special $1,000,000 tournament of champions that was won by Brad Rutter, who was then a 24 year old record store employee. Brad's total winnings stand at $1,155,102. In the broader game show universe, Ken is still in third place in total number of appearances behind two contestants from Tic Tac Dough, Kit Salisbury at 36 and Thom McKee at 43. Thom Mckee is treated as a game show legend even though I had never heard of him.


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