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The Jennings Jeopardy! Run
June 2: Jennings first appears on Jeopardy!
June 10: With $231,000 in total winnings, Jennings sets the record for Jeopardy! winnings in regular-season play.
July 13: In his 30th episode, Jennings' total reaches $1,004,960, making him the first regular-season Jeopardy! millionaire.
July 20: Jennings' 45 correct questions are the most ever in a single game.
July 23: Jennings wins $75,000 in a single episode, shattering the old record of $52,000, and tops the second-place contestant's score by $73,200.
Sept. 13: Jennings' 44th victory breaks a 24-year-old record of consecutive wins on a TV game show.
Nov. 3: With total winnings at $2,197,000, Jennings passes the all-time single-game-show record set on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Nov. 24: Jennings offers his 2,500th correct question.
Nov. 29: In his 74th-consecutive victory, Jennings' winnings pass $2.5 million.
Nov. 30: Jennings is defeated when he names FedEx insead of H&R Block as the company with 70,000 seasonal employees who work only four months a year. Subsequently, H&R Block offers Jennings free tax preparation and financial services for the rest of his life. He accepts.
Sources: tvgameshows.net, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings
Hey, he put Utah on the map. For a while, anyway. :-)