{"id":185048,"date":"2026-04-04T01:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:39:09","slug":"nj-resident-on-jeopardy-hot-streak-goes-viral-after-ripping-into-ny-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185048\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ resident on ‘Jeopardy!’ hot streak goes viral after ripping into NY housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The self-described \u201cfaceless bureaucrat\u201d of New Jersey, who is currently on a record-setting \u201cJeopardy!\u201d winning streak, went viral for trash talking New York over a lack of housing. <\/p>\n

Jamie Ding of Lawrenceville, NJ, won his 15th consecutive game of \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 on Thursday night \u2014 the 12th longest streak in the show\u2019s storied 62-year history, according to NJ.com.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

But despite his record-setting ways, Ding \u2014 who works for the Garden State\u2019s Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency \u2014 made headlines this week after he roasted the Empire State for not building enough housing. <\/p>\n

\u201cNew Jersey\u2019s doing really well, we\u2019re ahead of New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. If you\u2019re from one of those states, then shame on you, build more housing,\u201d the Jersey resident lambasted during the March 23 \u201cJeopardy!\u201d episode. <\/p>\n

\"JamieJamie Ding went viral after he trash-talked New York for not building enough housing in a March 23 episode of \u201cJeopardy!\u201d instagram\/jeopardy<\/p>\n

The Princeton University grad then doubled down saying \u201cthere\u2019s always room for improvement\u201d in his home state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ding\u2019s scathing remarks<\/a> came after \u201cJeopardy!\u201d host Ken Jennings asked the self-described \u201cfaceless bureaucrat\u201d what he does at his \u201cbureaucratic job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ding went on to win the episode of \u201cJeopardy!\u201d \u2014 scoring $33,000 in his seventh win in a row at the time.<\/p>\n

\"Ken\u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 host Ken Jennings holds the record for most consecutive \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 games won in a row. Disney via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Garden State native has been on a winning streak for weeks, scoring praise from New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and was praised as \u201cone of Jersey\u2019s finest\u201d by Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u201cfaceless bureaucrat\u201d has walked away with more than $428,000 in total prize money to date \u2014 and will tie for the 10th longest win streak in the game show\u2019s history if he is victorious on Friday.<\/p>\n

However, he still has a long way to go before reaching the top of the leaderboard for most consecutive games won, a title held by current host Ken Jennings, who set the record over 20 years ago by winning 74 games in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The self-described \u201cfaceless bureaucrat\u201d of New Jersey, who is currently on a record-setting \u201cJeopardy!\u201d winning streak, went viral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[433,74396,74397,74398,57,1066,9,24,55,54,56,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-185048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-game-shows","10":"tag-jeopardy","11":"tag-ken-jennings","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-jersey","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-city-news","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}