As the former champion of “Jeopardy!” turned game show host Ken Jennings approaches his 50th birthday, let’s take a look back at his time on the show. Jennings joined the show in June 2004, appeared in 74 episodes, and broke the record for the longest winning streak ever. Before Jennings joined the show, contestants could only win five games in a row before being eliminated. Jennings is the contestant who has gone the furthest, though.
Before Jennings came on the show, the contestants could only win five times in a row before they could not return. Jennings is the competitor who has advanced the furthest, even though he was not the first to progress over five games following the rule’s removal.
Jennings was a competitor who won nearly $2 million, but she lost in an episode that aired in November 2004. “Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year,” was the clue that finally got Jennings. Instead of answering properly, which was “What is FedEx?”, he should have answered, “What is H&R Block.”
