LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – A Metro Detroit native continued his historic run on Jeopardy! on Monday night after beating a pair of fellow Michiganders.
Jamie Ding, a 2009 graduate of Grosse Pointe North High School, once again won in runaway fashion.
Ding has now won 22 straight games, one game shy of tying the record for the fifth-longest streak in the history of the longstanding game show. You can watch him go for a 23rd straight win Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. on WILX.
As Ding extended his streak to 22 straight wins on Monday’s episode, both contestants joining him on the Alex Trebek Stage also hail from the Mitten State — Erik Bubolz of Okemos and Catherine Hoffman of Clarkston.
During his introduction, Bubolz gave a shoutout to Michigan State University, professing to be a lifelong Spartans fan – particularly MSU basketball.
Despite getting Monday’s Final Jeopardy question wrong, Ding finished the game with $18,600, bringing his total winnings to $627,600, the sixth-highest regular season total in Jeopardy history.
He still has quite a ways to go before cracking the top five in total winnings, as Chris Pannullo racked up just under $750,000 during his 21-game winning streak in 2022.
Now-host Ken Jennings holds the records for longest winning streak in Jeopardy! history at 74 games and highest regular season winnings at $2,520,700.
Ding is identified on the Jeopardy! website as a bureaucrat and law student who now lives in Lawrenceville, NJ. He entered Monday’s episode having answered 685 questions correctly and just 49 incorrectly during his streak, according to TheJeopardyFan.com.
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