March 27, 2026, 7:28 p.m. ET
- Jamie Ding is in 18th place on the ‘Jeopardy!’ regular-play money list and is now tied for 18th place on the regular-season consecutive wins list with 11.
New Jersey’s Jamie Ding keeps on winning in impressive fashion.
The Lawrenceville resident won his 11th straight “Jeopardy!” game on Friday, March 27 on the long-running show.
Ding on Friday’s show locked up another game before “Final Jeopardy!” against opponents: Brent Wilson, a manager research analyst from Toronto, and Tanya Iyer, a student originally from Lisle, Illinois.
Heading into the final, Ding had an comfortable lead with $19,800 to Wilson’s $9,400 and Iyer’s $6,200, according to TheJeopardyFan.com.
The Final Jeopardy was: “In the title of a 2023 memoir, Dame Judi Dench calls him ‘the man who pays the rent.’ “
None of the contestants knew the correct reponse: “Who is William Shakespeare?”
Ding risked only $790 to finish with $19,010 to bring his 11-game total on the show: $291,820.
He remains in 18th place on the “Jeopardy!” regular-play money list and is now tied for 18th place on the regular-season consecutive wins list with 11, according to TheJeopardyFan.com.
Who is Jamie Ding?
Ding, who works for the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, already has secured a spot in the season-ending Tournament of Champions.
Originally, Ding is from the Detroit area, 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 show is “phenomenal.”
He and his sister have a Instagram account where they review General Tsos chicken at restaurants called: @attorneygeneraltsos. Ding talked about it on the show.
He has a supporter in New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who posted applauding Ding after he set an impressive record on the long-running ABC game show.
On the March 17 show, Ding set the mark for highest Coryat score with with $42,400, topping the record of $39,200 achieved by now “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings back on June 10, 2004, according to TheJeopardyFan.com. A Coryat score, named after a former contestant, is the sum of the natural value of any clues without Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy.
Sen. Andy Kim has also tweeted out congratulations to Ding during this impressive run on the show.