‘Jeopardy!’ titan TV’s top winner
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From Associated Press
Quiz-show king Ken Jennings has broken another record on “Jeopardy!”
Jennings won $45,099 on the episode that aired Wednesday night, bringing his total earnings to $2,197,000 to make him the top TV game-show winner ever. He beat the previous record of $2,180,000, set by Michigan engineer Kevin Olmstead on ABC’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” in 2001.
Jennings, a 30-year-old software engineer from Salt Lake City, began his 66-appearances-and-counting streak on the episode that aired June 2.
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