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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
I distinctly remember that game... he was on fire. He hit the first 16 questions before another contestant even rang in for the first time (and was wrong), and it took until question 21 or so for someone else to get one right.
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