{"id":610723,"date":"2026-04-28T06:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:19:19","slug":"jeopardy-champion-jamie-ding-loses-ends-31-game-winning-streak-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610723\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy! Champion Jamie Ding Loses, Ends 31-Game Winning Streak: Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Ding&#8217;s\u00a0record-breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jeopardy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jeopardy!<\/a> reign has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old&#8217;s historic 31-day winning streak was toppled during the game show&#8217;s April 27 episode, with fellow contestant Greg Shahade earning a runaway before heading into Final Jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>In the last clue of Double Jeopardy, under the category &#8220;The Shape of Things,&#8221; host Ken Jennings read the clue, &#8220;Home to private residences and hotels, the manmade archipelago seen here in Dubai is built is the shape of one of these.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jamie answered &#8220;palm leaf&#8221; instead of the correct &#8220;palm tree,&#8221; losing $400 and putting him at $16,000 to Greg&#8217;s $32,600 before Final Jeopardy. Ultimately, chess champion Greg bested the New Jersey bureaucrat, who has won every single game since his March 13 debut on the trivia series.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie signed off in Final Jeopardy by writing &#8220;TTFN&#8221; (ta ta for now).<\/p>\n<p>In total, he won a whopping $882,605, placing him fifth among Jeopardy!&#8217;s top earners of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Ken still holds the record with 74 consecutive wins, followed by Amy Schneider&#8217;s 40 wins, Matt Amodio&#8217;s 38 wins and James Holzhauer&#8217;s 32 wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Ding&#8217;s\u00a0record-breaking Jeopardy! reign has come to an end. The 33-year-old&#8217;s historic 31-day winning streak was toppled during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-610723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}