‘Jeopardy!’ champ Matt Amodio lands No. 2 spot on all-time wins list

Matt Amodio kept his “Jeopardy!” hot streak alive Friday — reaching another milestone on the game show with his 33rd victory. That put him in second place on the all-time consecutive wins list after only Ken Jennings, who holds the record at 74.

Amodio, a fifth-year computer science Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, is only the third person in the show’s history to earn more than $1 million in regular-season play. He’s still well behind Holzhauer ($2,464,216 in total winnings) and Ken Jennings ($2,522,700).

"Ken’s always been the face of ‘Jeopardy!’ to me, so when I think of ‘Jeopardy!,’ I think of him," Amodio said in a statement when asked about Jennings. "To [be] right behind him is a surreal experience."