| David Madden | |
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| Name: | David Madden |
| Born: | June 13, 1981 |
| Birth Hometown: | Ridgewood, New Jersey |
| Occupation: | Game show contestant Historian Academic competitor |
| Years active: | 2004-present |
| Known for: | Biggest Jeopardy! money winner of season 22 in regular-season play 2nd super-champion in Jeopardy! history 9th biggest Jeopardy! money winner in regular-season play 8th biggest Jeopardy! overall money winner 8th-longest winning streak in Jeopardy! history (tied with Jason Zuffranieri) Losing to 2-time Jeopardy! tournament winner Victoria Groce |
David Madden (born in Ridgewood, NJ, June 13, 1981) is an American game show contestant, historian, and academic competition organizer. He is best known for being a 19-day champion on Jeopardy! in July 2005. He is not to be confused with the late actor David Madden from The Partridge Family.
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Career[]
Work as an academic competition organizer[]
In 2010, he founded the National History Bee and Bowl, two academic quiz competitions for students with a history focus (the Bee is for individual students, the Bowl is for teams). David oversees all aspects of NHBB and has expanded the competitions to include colleges and middle schools in the USA and high schools in over twenty foreign countries. The ones outside the USA are known as the International History Bee and Bowl.
In 2012, he organized the National History Bee Middle School Competition, whose National Championships were filmed in May 2012 for broadcast on History.
Also, in 2012, David founded the US Geography Olympiad, which serves as the qualifying competition for students in the USA who are looking to attend the International Geography Olympiad. At the 2014 International Geography Olympiad, David served as head coach for the American team, which included the overall champion, James Mullen of Cupertino, California.
In 2015, David founded the International History Olympiad, which brought 111 students from 14 countries together for its inaugural competition, held at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
In 2016, he founded the United States Academic Bee and Bowl, the National Science Bee, and the National Humanities Bee, all of which are currently directed at students in eighth grade and younger. The inaugural National Championships for all of these events got held in Arlington, Virginia, in May 2016.
In 2017, David founded the International Geography Bee is a worldwide geography quiz competition. The inaugural IGB World Championships were held in 2018 in Berlin in conjunction with the 3rd International History Olympiad.
Other work[]
David is a co-author of the 2010 catalog raisonné of the American artist Richard Anuszkiewicz.
From July 2007 to February 2008, he hiked the length of the east coast of the United States as a fundraiser for the Fisher House Foundation, which is a charity that provides free accommodations for family members of veterans at American military hospitals.
In 2020, David launched the website and fundraising platform Demoquiz.org, which organizes online quiz evenings on behalf of Democratic candidates for office in the USA.
In 2025, David competed on the third season of The Floor with the category of European Geography.
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Trivia[]
- Before Mattea Roach came out, he was a champion with a history of winning by coming from behind after finishing in second place going into Final Jeopardy! at least two times among champions who had won more than 10 consecutive games[1].
- After his departure, there were no super-champions (champions with more than 10 wins) in nine years until Arthur Chu had 11 wins. The best results in between were from 9-day champions Dan Pawson and Jason Keller.
- Victoria Groce, who defeated him, starred in the role as the Chaser in the game show The Chase from May 2022, alongside Buzzy Cohen and Brandon Blackwell. She also showed off her spirit by winning the 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, allowing her the opportunity to compete against past champions like Matt Amodio and James Holzhauer in the 2024 Jeopardy! Masters tournament. She then showed her spirit by competing against other past champions like Brad Rutter and Roger Craig in the 2025 Jeopardy! Masters tournament, finishing as the second runner-up in the finals, behind runner-up Juveria Zaheer and winner Yogesh Raut.
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References[]
- ↑ Among the super-champions, he has came from behind to win a regular-season play game, others include Seth Wilson, Amy Schneider, Mattea Roach, Ryan Long, Ray Lalonde, Adriana Harmeyer, and Scott Riccardi.