Supportive host! Did Ken Jennings think that Jamie Ding would beat him on the Jeopardy! Leaderboard? Well, yes.
Ding, a law student and bureaucrat from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, won 31 games and $888,605 after getting the second-place prize of $3,000 in his last game. If he had won game 32, he would have been tied with James Holzhauer on the Leaderboard of Legends at number four for most consecutive games won.
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