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| Name: | David Madden |
| Born: | June 13, 1981 |
| Occupation: | American game show contestant, historian, and academic competition |
| Years active: | 2004-present |
| Known for: | His appearances on Jeopardy! |
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! 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). Madden 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, Madden 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, Madden served as head coach for the American team, which included the overall champion, James Mullen of Cupertino, California.
In 2015, Madden 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, Madden 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[]
Madden 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, Madden launched the website and fundraising platform Demoquiz.org, which organizes online quiz evenings on behalf of Democratic candidates for office in the USA.
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Trivia[]
- Before Mattea Roach came out, he was a champion with a history of winning from behind after finishing 2nd before FJ at least two times among champions who had won more than 10 consecutive games[1].
- After his departure, there were no superchampions (champions with more than 10 wins) in nine years until Arthur Chu had 11 wins. The best results in between were from 9-day champs Dan Pawson and Jason Keller.
- Victoria Groce, who beat him, is starring in the role of Chaser from May 2022, alongside Buzzy Cohen and Brandon Blackwell. She also showed off his spirit by winning the Invitation tournament, giving him the opportunity to compete against past champions such as James.
References[]
- ↑ Among the champions who have won 10 or more so far, he has come back to second place in regular games, including him, Seth Wilson, Amy Schneider, Mattea Roach, and Ryan Long.