Ken Jennings
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Ken Jennings holds the record for the longest winning-streak on the game show Jeopardy!.
Including shows aired through July 2, 2004, Jennings had won $755,360 through 23 episodes. Since the show is taped months in advance, additional results have been determined but are not yet publicly known.
In the fall of 2003, Jeopardy!'s rules were changed to allow a contestant to remain on the show for as long as he or she continued to win. Previously, contestants could not return after winning five-consecutive games. After the rule change, and until Jennings's run, the record winning-streak was seven games, set by Tom Walsh in January 2004.
From Salt Lake City, Utah, Jennings is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a graduate in computer science and English of Brigham Young University, where he played on their quizbowl team for three years. He currently writes and edits literature and mythology questions for NAQT, a quizbowl question-writing company. He is now a software engineer for a healthcare-placement firm.