{"id":837401,"date":"2026-07-31T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837401\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:17:07","slug":"another-jeopardy-champ-and-ben-affleck-won-1-million-on-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837401\/","title":{"rendered":"Another \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 champ (and Ben Affleck) won $1 million on \u2018Millionaire\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ASYARRK5LVC7RK7EAROE7UHSHQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cJeopardy!\u201d champion Jamie Ding just can\u2019t stop winning money on TV.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ATOGAVRMRRHEBN5PK5CFNJTPPI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">This past spring, the New Jersey state government employee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DXhGMgUjAdE\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DXhGMgUjAdE\/\">deemed<\/a> \u201cthe nicest \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 champion of all time\u201d racked up $882,605 on the quiz show, becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/track\/leaderboard-of-legends\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/track\/leaderboard-of-legends\">fifth-highest earner<\/a> (behind Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider) after 31 wins in a row. On Wednesday night, Ding teamed up with Ben Affleck on ABC\u2019s \u201cWho Wants To Be a Millionaire\u201d and triumphed yet again, landing the rare $1 million prize.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJeopardy!\u201d champion Jamie Ding just can\u2019t stop winning money on TV. This past spring, the New Jersey state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-837401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}