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Posted Monday 6/03/19 at 10:07AM EDT
James Holzhauer: My daughter now cries when I win Jeopardy!
The Jeopardy! champ responded on Twitter to a Washington Post column titled "Quit rooting against James Holzhauer’s must-watch Jeopardy! run.
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Posted Saturday 6/01/19 at 8:34AM EDT
James Holzhauer is poised to break Ken Jennings' Jeopardy! record on Monday
Holzhauer, who averages just under $77,000 per game, needs only $58,485 on Monday to break Jennings' winnings mark for regular-season...
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Posted Saturday 5/25/19 at 2:28AM EDT
Who Wants to be a Millionaire, "the most consequential game show in television history," paved the way for the reality TV boom and Jeopardy!'s James Holzhauer
The syndicated version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire was canceled last Friday just three months shy of the...
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Posted Tuesday 5/21/19 at 7:37AM EDT
Ken Jennings is rooting for James Holzhauer on Jeopardy!, but acknowledges it's different competing in the social media age
"We are seeing history made in front of our eyes, the Jeopardy! equivalent of a basketball player notching 70-point games...
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Posted Monday 4/29/19 at 9:53AM EDT
Jeopardy! players are banned from making wagers referencing sex (69), Satan (666) and Nazis
Ken Jennings tweeted of wagering $69: "this is officially forbidden on Jeopardy now, as of last year.
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Why James Holzhauer is bad for Jeopardy!: His domination makes for deadly dull TV
Holzhauer joined Ken Jennings on Tuesday night in becoming the second player to cross the $1 million mark.
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Posted Monday 4/22/19 at 11:47PM EDT
James Holzhauer on his Jeopardy! critics: "I assure you that everything you see on TV is kosher"
Some Jeopardy! fans have taken to calling themselves "Holzhauer Haters" in response to Holzhauer's streak.
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Posted Friday 4/19/19 at 11:27PM EDT
James Holzhauer could become the game-changing "Serena Williams" of Jeopardy!
If Holzhauer continues dominating Jeopardy!, he will have effectively turned Ken Jennings "into Steffi Graf, a generational talent, and crowned...
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Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!'s James Holzhauer: "It's absolutely insane what he's doing"
"First of all, I’m just gobsmacked by James," says Jennings, the all-time Jeopardy! champ, of Holzhauer, who is approaching his...
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Posted Tuesday 4/09/19 at 8:33PM EDT
Jeopardy! contestant smashes the single-day cash winnings record
The record for single-day winnings now stands at $110,914, up from the previous record of $77,000.
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Posted Monday 3/11/19 at 10:04AM EDT
Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek: "Our generation's Cronkite"
The Jeopardy! champ describes Trebek as "a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a Perry Ellis suit" in a...
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Posted Friday 3/08/19 at 1:39AM EST
It's impossible to think of Jeopardy! without Alex Trebek
The Jeopardy! host is a national treasure, Claire McNear says in reaction to his stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
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Posted Wednesday 2/13/19 at 11:37PM EST
Jeopardy! tournament to bring together 18 elite champions
Ken Jennings and Austin Rogers are among past champions competing as part of teams vying for $1 million.
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Posted Tuesday 7/31/18 at 4:36AM EDT
Alex Trebek's picks to succeed him on Jeopardy! respond, but a superfan says Anderson Cooper makes the most sense
Trebek named Los Angeles Kings announcer Alex Faust and CNN legal analyst Laura Coates in his interview on Fox News'...