That headline is NOT hyperbole.
Matt Amodio, known mostly for answering “What is …” or “What’s” to every question on Jeopardy! and driving fans and grammar sticklers nuts, is now a 14-time champion after winning again on Monday night as Joe Buck hosted.
Despite crossing out the right answer on Final Jeopardy (it was “Who is Magellan?” and hey at least he writes the answer grammatically correct in the final round!), he is now up to $440,600 in earnings so far.
That already put him fourth on the all-time regular season winnings list, just under $100,000 behind Jason Zuffranieri. If he wants to crack the top-two? That might take a while given James Holzhauer’s $2,462,216 won.
He’s also sixth in win streaks, five games behind David Madden’s 19 contests won in 2005 and Zuffranieri’s same streak in 2019.
So yeah, he needs to be listed among the all-timers already … and there might be more wins in store for the Ph.D student at Yale.
