{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "bskyPostRef": {
    "cid": "bafyreihy7ib2ichvm54ubhsroxtrqfnhprunww3hkidthkvrytruolexci",
    "uri": "at://did:plc:ynwa33gtvzflpay5wzazrv2i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3k22hsjsk2"
  },
  "coverImage": {
    "$type": "blob",
    "ref": {
      "$link": "bafkreihglniaz4ofqj5uwkgzb72y4jhxy4bbnktjoqzk3hp4louu4l7yvq"
    },
    "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
    "size": 46316
  },
  "path": "/entertainment/2026/04/09/jeopardy-jamie-ding-updates/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-09T18:52:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.deseret.com",
  "tags": [
    "Ken Jennings’",
    "all-time record of 74 wins",
    "Ken Jennings opens up about his new book — and why he’ll (probably) never play ‘Jeopardy!’ again",
    "Leaderboard of Legends",
    "4 big moments from Ken Jennings' legendary 'Jeopardy!' run",
    "The Jeopardy Fan",
    "Ken Jennings says Latter-day Saint upbringing helped him amid rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ fame",
    "I’m conflicted about ‘Pop Culture Jeopardy!’ — and not just because the show didn’t want me"
  ],
  "textContent": "A new “Jeopardy!” contestant is rising through the ranks of the show’s top players — and steadily inching his way toward Ken Jennings’ all-time record of 74 wins.\n\nKen Jennings opens up about his new book — and why he’ll (probably) never play ‘Jeopardy!’ again\n\n### Did Jamie Ding win on ‘Jeopardy!’ again?\n\nContestant Jamie Ding, who is described on “Jeopardy!” as a “bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey,” is making a splash on the quiz show.\n\nWith his 10th win, he officially became a “Jeopardy!” super-champion.\n\nNow, Ding, who currently studies law at Seton Hall University, has 19 wins under his belt — and nearly $540,000.\n\nThose stats place him No. 7 on the “Jeopardy!” Leaderboard of Legends for highest winnings in regular season play — roughly $20,000 behind 23-game champ Mattea Roach; and in a three-way tie for the No. 8 spot for most consecutive wins, alongside Jason Zuffranieri (2019) and David Madden (2005).\n\n4 big moments from Ken Jennings' legendary 'Jeopardy!' run\n\nOf the 19 games Ding has played (so far), 13 of them have been runaways, meaning he had such a large lead going into the Final Jeopardy round that he couldn’t be caught.\n\nBut Ding’s most recent win, which came on April 8, had him in a rare second place going into the Final Jeopardy round.\n\nFor a brief moment, it looked like Ding’s “Jeopardy!” run would come to an end.\n\nGoing into the final round, he had $14,400; Dominex Kovacs, a software engineer from Sacramento, California, was in first with $17,600.\n\nIt all came down to the Final Jeopardy clue in the category “Pop Culture People”: “Adopted in 1979, this name reflected size and strength as well as a promoter’s wish to appeal to Irish-American fans.”\n\nNo one came up with the correct response: “Who is Hulk Hogan?”\n\nKovacs’ $11,201 wager brought him down to $6,399. Ding’s $5,199 wager lowered his total to $9,201 but gave him enough to secure the come-from-behind victory and keep his winning streak going.\n\nThroughout his dynamic run, Ding has correctly answered 588 clues and only missed 38, per The Jeopardy Fan website.\n\nHere are 15 clues he’s missed. Can you answer them? _(All answers are at the bottom of the article. Feel free to share how many you got right in the comments section.)_\n\n  1. **The great wealth transfer:** “The corporation of this immigrant who died in 1919 says his fortune has supported insulin’s discovery and ‘Sesame Street.’”\n  2. **2 “B”:** “The first issue of this magazine in 1894 was focused on advertising; music came later.”\n  3. **Don’t cost much:** “Amid inflation in 2024, burger chains promoted this five-letter type of ‘meal’ or ‘menu’; at Wendy’s, it was the Biggie Bag.”\n  4. **Writers on writers:** “Jane Austen called this English poet ‘infallible.’”\n  5. **Celebrity memoirs:** “In the title of a 2023 memoir, Dame Judi Dench calls him ‘the man who pays the rent.’”\n  6. **A tunnel of fun:** “Travel through the continental divide at over 11,000 feet in elevation via the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel in this state.”\n  7. **A little literature:** “Appropriately, this 1953 Raymond Chandler novel runs 53 chapters and ends with Philip Marlowe saying a farewell.”\n  8. **The Kennedys’ Nobel Prize dinner:** “JFK called the 49 Nobel winners the greatest gathering of talent and knowledge at the White House since this man dined alone.”\n  9. **Artist of the portrait:** “Norman Rockwell’s painting of Norman Rockwell painting himself graced the cover of this magazine on Feb. 13, 1960.”\n  10. **Sister cities:** “In 2001, Lublin, Wisconsin, population 118, got sisterly with Lublin in this country, population 330,000.”\n  11. **Historic settlement:** “Near an English settlement called a hillfort is the Uffington White this, carved into a chalk hillside 3,000 years ago.”\n  12. **Fabulous furniture:** “Sofas go by many names, like Chesterfield and this name of a maker from Massachusetts, not Iowa.”\n  13. **Geographic missing links:** “At least since 1890 plans have existed to link these two islands across the North Channel; a 2021 estimate ranged around $450 billion.”\n  14. **International geographic:** “Situated among mountain peaks, this small country has the highest average elevation of any in Europe at about 6,600 feet.”\n  15. **The calendar:** “Mark Twain wrote the quip that on this day of the year, ‘We are reminded of what we are on the other 364.’”\n\n\n\nKen Jennings says Latter-day Saint upbringing helped him amid rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ fame\n\nI’m conflicted about ‘Pop Culture Jeopardy!’ — and not just because the show didn’t want me\n\n_Answers: (1. Andrew Carnegie; 2. Billboard; 3. value; 4. Alexander Pope; 5. William Shakespeare; 6. Colorado; 7. “The Long Goodbye”; 8. Thomas Jefferson; 9. The Saturday Evening Post; 10; Poland; 11. horse; 12; Davenport; 13. Britain and Ireland; 14: Andorra; 15. April Fools’ Day)_",
  "title": "The newest ‘Jeopardy!’ super-champion is inching toward Ken Jennings’ record. Can you answer 15 clues he’s missed?"
}