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  "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### Jamie Ding ‘Jeopardy!’ hot streak continues\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 27 wins under his belt.\n\n>        View this post on Instagram            \n\nHe won his 27th game on April 21, bringing his winnings to $753,000, per “Jeopardy!” archives.\n\nThose stats now place him No. 5 for most consecutive wins in show history. Ding recently surpassed “Jeopardy!” great Mattea Roach, a 23-game champ, and is currently five games away from reaching the legendary James Holzhauer’s 32-game feat back in 2019.\n\nDing still has just under 50 games to go before reaching Jennings’ streak — a record that has remained untouched for 22 years.\n\nDuring a recent “Jeopardy!” taping, Jennings told the studio audience he “would be very excited” if Ding beat his record, as the Deseret News reported.\n\n“I’m of course perfectly impartial every game, but I actually believe that my record can be beaten,” he said in a clip shared on the official “Jeopardy!” Instagram. “I just hope I am hosting when it happens.”\n\nThe newest ‘Jeopardy!’ super-champion is inching toward Ken Jennings’ record. Can you answer 15 clues he’s missed?\n\n### What ‘Jeopardy!’ clues has Jamie Ding missed?\n\nOn the “Jeopardy!” Leaderboard of Legends, Ding is also now ranked fifth for highest winnings in regular season play. He recently surpassed 21-game champ Cris Pannullo by roughly $5,000 to reach that feat.\n\nOf the 27 games Ding has played (so far), 21 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\nGoing into his 27th game, Ding had correctly answered 839 clues and only missed 64, per The Jeopardy Fan website.\n\nHere are 15 clues he’s missed during his last few games, per “Jeopardy!” archives. 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. **1826** : “Construction of this artificial waterway connecting Ottawa to Lake Ontario begins in Canada.”\n  2. **Medical bill** : “William Osler brought teaching beyond the lecture and wanted the epitaph ‘I taught medical students in’ these, large rooms in a hospital.”\n  3. **Americana** : “This city, the seat of Montana’s Cascade County, was named for some watery obstacles encountered by Western explorers.”\n  4. **State government** : “Local governments mostly have two tiers: cities and towns, aka municipalities and counties, which in Alaska are called these.”\n  5. **Country name** : “In the 1850s it was part of the Granadine Confederation; today it’s named for a man who never set foot in the country.”\n  6. **Start me “up”:** The title of this classic British TV series and its later revival refers to the living quarters of the wealthy versus the servants.\n  7. **Historic documents** : “Article 1 of the first of these, from 1864, says, ‘Ambulances and military hospitals shall be recognized as neutral.’”\n  8. **Novelty architecture** : “Henry Ford is among the notables who visited Lucy the Elephant in New Jersey and climbed the 130 stairs to this seat on her back.”\n  9. **Masterpiece on PBS** : “A massive scandal implicating the British government is the subject of the 2024 Peabody-winning series ‘Mr. Bates vs.’ this.”\n  10. **20th-century nonfiction** : “‘Stop Fuming and Fretting’ and ‘I Don’t Believe in Defeat’ are chapters 6 and 8 in this book.”\n  11. **A fine romance** : “On April 5, 1953, the Atlanta Daily World announced the engagement of this pair who met in Boston.”\n  12. **Leveling up** : “In 1826, this city became a state capital, taking over for Murfreesboro.”\n  13. **Leveling up** : “In 2010, John Lindsey joined MLB’s Dodgers from Albuquerque at this level of baseball, having spent 16 years in the Minors.”\n  14. **Woolly for you** : “The oldest surviving homestead in this country, Elizabeth Farm played a major role in establishing the wool industry there.”\n  15. **Bride of the Yankees** : “It seems Ellen Marcy loved future Confederate general A.P. Hill more than this man whom she married, getting a name that rhymed.”\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. the Rideau Canal; 2. the wards; 3. Great Falls; 4. boroughs; 5. Colombia; 6. “Upstairs, Downstairs”; 7. the Geneva Conventions; 8. a howdah; 9. the Post Office; 10. “The Power of Positive Thinking”; 11. Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King; 12. Nashville; 13. Triple A; 14. Australia; 15. McClellan)_",
  "title": "This ‘Jeopardy!’ player is on a hot streak — and could soon dethrone some legendary players"
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