April 7, 2026Updated April 8, 2026, 2:10 p.m. ET
- Jamie Ding received $36,360 on Tuesday’s present to prime the half-million mark with $530,372.
New Jersey’s Jamie Ding exhibits no indicators of slowing down as his spectacular run on “Jeopardy!” continued on the Tuesday, April 7 present.
The Lawrenceville resident simply received his 18th straight game on the long-running ABC game present. Ding stays in tenth place on the “Jeopardy!” consecutive wins checklist, in response to Jeopardy.com.
Ding received $36,360 on Tuesday’s present to prime the half-million milestone mark with $530,372. He stays in eighth place on the regular-season cash checklist and improved to seventeenth place on the all-time cash checklist, in response to TheJeopardyFan.com. (See lists beneath.)
Ding’s opponents had been: Divya Srijay, a pupil initially from Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Kevin Iannone, a trivia host from Flagstaff, Arizona.
Once once more, Tuesday’s game was over earlier than Final Jeopardy. Ding had $28,000 to Iannone’s $5,000. Srijay was eradicated with -$1,000, TheJeopardyFan.com reported.
The Final Jeopardy was: “A piece of mountaineering equipment at the International Spy Museum in D.C. was used to kill this man in 1940.”
Ding risked $8,360 and knew the proper response: “Who is Leon Trotsky?”
Who is Jamie Ding?
Ding, who works for the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, has secured a spot within the season-ending Tournament of Champions.
He has a supporter in New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who posted applauding Ding after he set a powerful report on the present that started 62 years in the past.
On the March 17 present, Ding set the mark for highest Coryat rating with with $42,400, topping the report of $39,200 achieved by now “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings again on June 10, 2004, in response to TheJeopardyFan.com. On the April 1 present, Ding tied Jennings with at $39,200 Coryat. A Coryat rating, named after a former contestant, is the sum of the pure worth of any clues with out Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy.
Sen. Andy Kim has additionally tweeted out congratulations to Ding throughout this spectacular run on the present.
While Sen. Cory Booker tweeted on April 1: “Jamie Ding! Making New Jersey proud! This Lawrenceville resident spends his days helping fund affordable housing across the Garden State, then goes on national TV and dominates. The man answers trivia on @Jeopardy and houses people for a living. New Jersey does not miss. Keep buzzing, Jamie.”
Originally, Ding is from the Detroit space, having graduated from Grosse Pointe North High School in 2009. He graduated from Princeton University in 2013.
Ding told his alma mater that being on the present is “phenomenal.”
He and his sister have a Instagram account the place they assessment General Tsos rooster at eating places known as: @attorneygeneraltsos. Ding talked about it on the show.
Top 10 ‘Jeopardy!’ consecutive wins
Here are the Top “Jeopardy!” contestants in phrases of consecutive wins, in response to Jeopardy.com:
- Ken Jennings, 74 video games, 2004
- Amy Schneider, 40 video games, 2022
- Matt Amodio, 38 video games, 2021
- James Holzhauer, 32 video games, 2019
- Mattea Roach, 23 video games, 2022
- Cris Pannullo, 21 video games, 2022
- Julia Collins, 20 video games, 2014
- Jason Zuffranieri, 19 video games, 2019
- David Madden, 19 video games, 2005
- Jamie Ding, 18 video games, present
Top 10 ‘Jeopardy!’ regular-season cash
Here are the Top “Jeopardy!” contestants in phrases of cash received throughout regular-season play, in response to Jeopardy.com:
- Ken Jennings, $2,520,700
- James Holzhauer, $2,462,216
- Matt Amodio, $1,518,601
- Amy Schneider, $1,382,800
- Cris Pannullo, $748,286
- Mattea Roach, $560,983
- Jason Zuffranieri, $532,496
- Jamie Ding, $530,372
- Scott Riccardi, $455,000
- David Madden, $430,400
