Before answering tonight’s Final Jeopardy! question, Trebek said that the defending champ had a chance to set a new one-day record. He came into Final Jeopardy! with a total of $31,000.
What is the current one-day record? Anyone know?
The spirits are puzzling me tonight. Wait, it’s coming. Hold on – they’re telling me that it was something less than $62,000. 
Seriously, according to this:
According to this page, the record is $52000, set by Brian Weikle in 2003.
Hey, Myron is (or was, maybe he didn’t want to spend his winnings on the subscription fee) a doper. I mean, Brian What’sHisName may have won $2,000 more, but did he fight ignorance?
Remember that the values for each question were doubled a couple of years ago. The first round questions ranged from $100-500, while the second round questions ranged from $200-1000. Now, the first round questions range from $200-1000 while the second round questions range from $400-2000. So you really should adjust for that when comparing amounts.
So… according to the Jeopardy! link supplied above, the dude with the highest total before the doubling is some schmuck who got to $34,000. So I suppose we should adjust his total so that he’d have $68,000?
In my company newsletter, there was a little blurb about a coworker from Indiana who is going to appear on Jeopardy sometime in July. He did a little interview and while he couldn’t say if he won or not, he did say that the guy he played against was a 25 time champ.
I wonder if it’s this guy… he wiped the floor with Hippie Chick and Hawaiian Dude tonight. Can you imagine, a 25 (or more!) time winner?
Great heavens. Maybe Merv mistook the airdate by a couple weeks when he was talking about something amazing starting on the 20th?
This subject really should read, “This is the one day record on Jeopardy.”
To be fair, yes.
This thread deals with the Doper (Myron aka The Man Who) who got the $50,000.
Heck, I remember when people used to get $20 and $50 dollars for correct answers. I think the dollar amount may have been as low $10, but I really can’t remember exactly…
Yes, during the original 1964-1975 run of “Jeopardy”, the dollar amounts were between $10 and $50 in Jeopardy, and $20-$100 in Double Jeopardy.
Yeah, but to REALLY be fair, you have to adjust for inflation!
Say, have you two ever met? Quinn, this is Finn. Finn, meet Quinn. Shake hands and come out singing.
In the Art Fleming version, Jeopardy questions went from $10-$50. Double Jeopardy went from $20-$100. And the set was better. Why is it that every single game show (Family Feud, Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune) has sets that get crappier with time and/or each new version?
You’re all wrong!
[sub]Becasue you didn’t put your answer in the form of a question…[/sub]
So how did he do? I’m sure he was well out of reach of his opponents, so he had the option of either betting big so that even if he missed he could have come out at least a dollar ahead of his nearest opponent ,or winning really big if he got it right; or he could have bet small to keep his already big win.
Have any champions won with a final amount of only one dollar?
What champion answered the fewest clues? I guess theoretically a person could answer one question (correctly) in one of the first two rounds, wager zero dollars for the Final Jeopardy round, and then not write down anything for last question, but could still be champion because the other players wagered everything but got the last question wrong.
Also, it would be fun to know the name of which contestant got the most “in the hole”. Probably somebody with an amazingly fast button finger who rang in on everything, but who just didn’t know many answers.