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‘Jeopardy!’ titan TV’s top winner

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From Associated Press

Quiz-show king Ken Jennings has broken another record on “Jeopardy!”

Jennings won $45,099 on the episode that aired Wednesday night, bringing his total earnings to $2,197,000 to make him the top TV game-show winner ever. He beat the previous record of $2,180,000, set by Michigan engineer Kevin Olmstead on ABC’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” in 2001.

Jennings, a 30-year-old software engineer from Salt Lake City, began his 66-appearances-and-counting streak on the episode that aired June 2.

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