KEN JENNINGS
Ken Jennings
I'm only aware of the top one. Ken Jennings was a contestant on Jeopardy who was champion for 74 games and winning over 2.5 million dollars. Jennings is from Utah and is an IB graduate and currently a software engineer. He appeared on several other game shows to test his intelligence after gaining fame on Jeopardy.
Category: Bestselling Authors Clue: "In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him" Answer: "Who is Michael Crichton?" Note: This episode had only one contestant playing in Final Jeopardy, which is a rarity on the show. And it was the Ultimate Tournament of Champions, no less.
one million dollars
Jeopardy does not have a weekly tournament for May 2010. They had the Celebrity Million Dollar Invitational which ended with Michael McKean winning on May 7 2010. They are also having the 2010 Tournament of Champions this May and the First quarterfinal game was on May 10 2010. A complete record of these tournaments can be found at the Jeopardy Archive. The Jeopardy Archive link can be found below the answer under related links.
a million dollars
Ken is a very smart man. He knows his stuff... he appeared on Jeopardy 74 times before getting beaten on his 75th appearance. His total winning's on Jeopardy was an outstanding.. $2.52 million.
Rutter v. Jennings The following is excerpted from Wikipedia: Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! Jennings won 74 games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on Jeopardy! areUS$3,022,700 ($2,520,700 in winnings, a $2,000 consolation prize on his 75th appearance, and $500,000 in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions). Jennings held the record for most winnings on any game show ever played until the end of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions (first aired on May 25, 2005), when he was displaced by Brad Rutter, who defeated Jennings in that tournament. Ken also appeared as a member of the mob sitting in podium #13 from the new game show 1 vs. 100 in 2006, and in 2007 Jennings was the champion of the first season of the US version of Grand Slam. Bradford "Brad" Rutter (born January 31, 1978) is a Pennsylvania quiz show host, most widely known as a contestant on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy!. As of 2007, he has won more money on a game show than any other person in history. Rutter became an undefeated five-time champion on Jeopardy! in 2000 and has since won an unprecedented three Jeopardy! tournament titles: the 2001 Tournament of Champions, the Million Dollar Masters Tournament, and the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. In the finals of the Ultimate Tournament, Rutter decisively defeated Ken Jennings and Jerome Vered to become the show's biggest money winner to date, with a total earnings of $3,255,102. In twenty games, Rutter has never lost a full match of Jeopardy! (Rutter has trailed at the end of the first game of a two-day match twice-against Rick Knutsen in the first game of the Finals of the 2001 Tournament of Champions, and against John Cuthbertson in the first game of the semifinals of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions-but he ultimately won both of those matches with a higher two-day cumulative score.) Given his unequaled records and crushing victories over otherwise highly successful Jeopardy! champions (such as Jennings, Vered, Eric Newhouse, Bob Verini, Doug Lach, Tad Carithers, John Beck, and Chris Miller), Rutter is one of the best Jeopardy! players of the Trebek era.
About $1.83 million dollars.
David Cook is an American singer/songwriter. This former American Idol contestant has a net worth of over 5 million dollars.
In 2000 season 17 he became a 5 game champion. for $55, 102 In 2001 Tournament of Champions champion for $100,000 2002 Million Dollar Masters tournament champion for $1,000,000 2005 Ultimate Tournament of champions champion for $2,115,000 2011 IBM Challenge Player see related link
It is not as much as you might suspect considering the number of episodes yet less than 50 contestants have won over $100,00 in non tournament games. If you would like you can total the winners who have earned over $50,000 on the related link. These do not include championship matches You might also look to see how often Ken Jennings name appears on the list of highest one day totals
You can,t a million dollars interest from a million dollars but you can get half a million dollars