Tuesday TV Touchbase: Jeopardy!

 

Let's  touchbase on Jeopardy! this week.

The show has had an incredible run by a multi day champion named Jamie Ding.

As of last night the New Jersey resident rang up this 17th win with earnings totalling  $494,012, which 8th on the regular-season money list all-time and 19th overall.

This puts Jamie on Jeopardy's top 10 list of contestants with the most wins.  

Jamie first appeared on Jeopardy! on March 13, 2026.  Some of the games since that time have been close.

For one game, Jamie set the lowest one-game winning score of season 42 in regular-season play with $3,933.

But in this same streak, he also had a game that set a season 42 records for the highest amount won in a single game,  $56,400.

Mostly, Jamie has been a buzz saw against his hapless competitors, frequently ending the game going into Final Jeopardy completely out of reach. A lot of times, the only real suspense is to see who comes in second. 

Jamie Ding certainly has nature and nurture working in his favor. His father is a professor of neurosurgery at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and his mother recently retired as a math teacher.  

Jamie Ding's favorite color is orange and he always wear a shirt or sweater this is all or at least part orange.

Andrea and I are also following Celebrity Jeopardy All Stars with returning season champions Ike Barinholtz, Lisa Ann Walter, and W. Kamau Bell along with 18 other past celebrity contestants who have actually won some games.  

So far the play has been pretty solid with these celebrity players who actually know stuff and act like they know what they're doing. So far, this run of episodes as avoided Emily Hampshire levels of embarrassment.

Recently, Ken Jennings hosted a special game called Jeopardy You Tube Edition featuring Monét X Change, Rebecca Black & Brennan Lee Mulligan as contestants.

For all you AD&D people out there, there is only 1 round, not 2 with a Final Jeopardy round at the end. It clocks in at just a few secs under 20 minutes. 

You can watch the game here! 

Here's the post game discussion.

And for any of you have perhaps forgotten what "Baby Shark" sounds like....

Wait!  What did one of you other there say? Really?!?

No, man! Fuck YOU!

Just for that...

 OK, so that is that for this week's Touchbase.

Next week it's 2nd season wrap ups for St. Denis Medical, High Potential and (at long last) Fallout!

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.