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Suresh Krishnan

Birth Hometown: Suwanee, Georgia
Occupation: Networking engineer
Known for: Appearances of Jeopardy!

Suresh Krishnan is a networking engineer from Suwanee, Georgia. He appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy! starting in June 2023.

Jeopardy! Run[]

Game No. Air Date Final score Cumulative Winnings Notes
1 June 6, 2023 $10,600 $10,600
2 June 7, 2023 $10,499 $21,099
3 June 8, 2023 $17,100 $38,199
4 June 9, 2023 $15,800 $53,999 Suresh's first win from first place and runaway game.
5 June 12, 2023 $28,195 $82,194
6 June 13, 2023 $14,401 $96,595 Suresh's second win from first place.
7 June 14, 2023 $5,200 $98,595 Holly Hassel ends his streak.

Tournament of Champions[]

In the first quarterfinal game, he faced Champions Wildcard Diamonds winner Emily Sands and 4-day champion Mathew Marcus. He gave ten correct responses and five wrong responses (including two DDs). He finished Double Jeopardy with $0 and was eliminated. He and Matthew took home $5,000.

Trivia[]

  • Among men's champions with six straight wins since Dave Leach, he is the champion with a career prize of $100,000, and the first five years since Gilbert Collins to have won five or more in a row.
  • He is the other player to win four of his six games from second place. The other player was in Season 28 Joel Pool.

References[]

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