It’s been sixteen years since Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings won 74 consecutive games, incomes $2,520,700 in 2004.
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Since turning into the classic game show’s most recognizable winner, the previous software program programmer give up his day job and moved on to extra profitable aspirations.
His ‘Jeopardy!’ run and winnings
The Washington-state born Jennings created a brand new report in his 2004 run on the sport present. His 74-game streak rewarded him with winnings of over $2.5 million.
“When the streak lastly ended, there was kind of conflicting feelings,” Jennings mentioned in a 2004 ABC News interview. “On the one hand, I used to be relieved to lastly know the way the story got here out, and however, I used to be slightly bit unhappy ’trigger it’s enjoyable to play Jeopardy!”
And in a Feb. 2020 interview with Interview, Jennings expressed his enjoyment of having appeared on a recreation present that had been his childhood favourite.
“It’s actually simply been essentially the most pleasant a part of the entire thing—and has been from the start—simply that it was all the time legitimately my favourite present. Simply to win as soon as was adequate, you recognize? I felt like, ‘Now I’m good. It doesn’t matter what else occurs, I died a Jeopardy! champion.’ “
Jennings’ podcast, books, and initiatives
Along with his 2004 Jeopardy! win, the daddy of two went on to win the present’s Biggest Of All Time (G.O.A.T) match in Jan. 2020, sealing his affiliation with this system.
He advised USA Today on the time, “I really advised Jeopardy! I didn’t wish to do it. They had been very persistent. They didn’t need the empty podium.”
Jennings has stored himself busy with the Omnibus podcast, which he started co-hosting with indie musician John Roderick in 2017. The podcast web site calls the present “an encyclopedic reference of strange-but-true tales compiled as a time capsule for future generations.”
The 45-year-old has additionally been writing books for kids on the U.S. presidents, geography, and Greek mythology. For his grownup viewers, Jennings has written As a result of I Stated So!, Ken Jennings’ Trivia Almanac, Brainiac, and Planet Humorous.
He’s additionally appeared on NBC’s 1 vs. 100 in 2006 incomes $714.29; Recreation Present Community’s Grand Slam in 2007, incomes $100,000. His 2008 look on Are You Smarter Than a fifth Grader? netted him $500,000. And in 2014, his participation on Who Needs to Be a Millionaire? earned him $100,000.
Presently, he’s starring on Recreation Present Community’s Master Minds trivia recreation present with host Brooke Burns.
Ken Jennings’ present web price
Ken Jennings’ estimated web price, according to Celebrity Net Worth, is $4 million.
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He has been paid to advertise Microsoft’s Encarta Encyclopedia software program and Cingular Wi-fi.
In March 2020, Jennings co-created and launched, with Richard Garfield, a board recreation referred to as “Half Reality,” a recreation combining trivia with betting.
“I’ve been in a position to watch individuals taking part in “Half Reality” nearly in the course of the pandemic,” he advised Publishers Weekly in Might 2020. “They usually’re enthusiastic about it, as a result of they’ll’t go wherever.”
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