He won five consecutive games from September 30 to October 4, 1985, winning a then-record $72,800 and qualifying for the 1986 Tournament of Champions, which he won, earning another $100,000. Forrest is widely regarded by other elite Jeopardy! players as one of the most formidable contestants ever. The show's producers regarded him as one of the best and most memorable contestants of the 1980s. John McCain Ĭhuck Forrest (born June 3, 1961) held the record for the largest non-tournament cash winnings total from 1985 to 1989, and the largest all-time winnings from 1986 to 1990. Cameron competed in the fifth quarterfinal game, where he finished second (by one point) and won $5,000. In 1990, when Jeopardy! creator Merv Griffin produced Super Jeopardy!, a separate weekly prime time network version based on the Trebek version of Jeopardy! to air Saturday nights in the summer on ABC, he invited Cameron to compete as the only player from the Fleming era. Cameron is cited as one of the best players of the Art Fleming era of the show.
He finished second and won $700 for charity. Cameron also appeared on the 2,000th episode in 1972, an all-time-best game in which he faced Elliot Shteir and Jane Gschwend, two 1969 contestants who had surpassed his total in their five-day runs. Cameron won the third annual Tournament of Champions in 1966, in which he won $4,040. Burns Cameron īurns Cameron (Decem– June 12, 2023), billed as "a businessman from Larchmont, New York" during his original run and "a realtor from Standish, Maine" on his 1990 appearance, won $11,110 in his appearances on Jeopardy!, including a then-record five-game total of $7,070 in December 1965. Thompson noted that her husband was initially wary of her participating in a televised quiz show, as it had been only six years since the quiz show scandals had tarnished the medium's reputation. She won $8,590 over the course of her run on Jeopardy!, including $5,080 during her main run and $3,510 (plus a vacation to the Virgin Islands) in the tournament. 1935), a housewife and alumna of Swarthmore College, was the first Tournament of Champions winner. senator and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.ġ964–1979 Terry Thompson Other contestants have been better known for their accomplishments elsewhere, such as John McCain, a one-day champion in 1965 who later became a U.S. Many contestants in the show's history have received significant media attention because of their success on Jeopardy!, particularly Brad Rutter, who has won the most money on the show and was undefeated by a human until 2020 James Holzhauer, who holds several of the show's highest overall daily scores and Ken Jennings, Amy Schneider, and Matt Amodio, who have the top three longest winning streaks. Its format is a quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general-knowledge clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses as questions. Jeopardy! is an American television game show.
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