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| Name: | Daniel Pawson |
| Known for: | 9-time Jeopardy! champion and S25 ToC winner |
Dan Pawson is the Jeopardy 9th straight champion and S25 ToC winner.
Jeopardy! Run[]
Dan was a 9-day champion on Jeopardy! between December 27, 2007 and January 9, 2008. He accumulated $170,902 throughout his run.
He later returned for the 2009 Tournament of Champions, where he won the $250,000 grand prize against Larissa Kelly and Aaron Schroeder.
He also returned for the Battle of the Decades, where he won his 2000s invitational match against Maria Wenglinsky and Keith Whitener. However, he lost his quarterfinal match to Brad Rutter's runaway. He took home $10,000 as a result.
In 2024, he made his first appearance in a long time at the Jeopardy Invitation championship.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?[]
He won $30,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on January 20-23, 2017.
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Trivia[]
- He isn't the top seed of the ToC leaderboard that is among participants with the highest regular game prize money (Larissa Kelly (6x) - $222,597 > Dan Pawson (9x) - $170,902)[1].
- Among regular games, he is the one with the most consecutive wins among the participants who came from 3rd place before FJ.
- If the co-winner had bet on FJ in a 3-game winning streak, or if he had corrected FJ in a 10-game winning streak, he would have become the super champion with an unprecedented record of 3 consecutive wins and a record of 2 consecutive wins.
- He is first player to win under $1,000 (7th game, $200) among champions with 6 or more wins in a row[2].
- He and Amy Schneider are the two ToC winners whose airdates spanned over two years, in Dan's case, 2007-2008.
- Until James Holzhauer of S36 came out, he was the longest winning streak among ToC winners, like S34 ToC winner Buzzy Cohen.
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References[]
- ↑ Amy Schneider will set the same record (Matt Amodio (38x) - $1,518,601 > Amy Schneider (40x) - $1,382,800).
- ↑ In 2022, 6-times champ Megan Wachspress won a fifth game for $401.