Jerome Vered (born March 13, 1958) is a Studio City, California writer, publicly known for his record-setting success as a contestant on the U.S. television game show Jeopardy!. Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Studio City is a four-square-mile district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the During Vered's original five-win run in 1992, he shattered the one-day record for dollar winnings, earning $34,000 in one episode. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Adjusting for the 2001 doubling of dollar values, Vered's record (which would be $68,000) stood for twelve years, until Ken Jennings broke it by winning $75,000 in his 38th game. Kenneth In over two decades of Trebek-era Jeopardy!, only six players have won at least $30,000 (pre-November 2001) or $60,000 (post-November 2001) in a single day, and Vered's 1992 win is still second on the all-time list.
In the 2005 Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, Vered won five games to advance to a three-game final match against fellow Jeopardy! legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The Ultimate Tournament of Champions was a special fifteen-week Single-elimination tournament on the syndicated Game show Jeopardy! Kenneth Winnings dispute There is a discrepancy between sources as to Rutter's total Jeopardy! winnings stemming from the prize structure of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions Vered finished in third place. Behind Rutter and Jennings, respectively, he is the third highest-earning contestant in Jeopardy! history, having won a total of $496,602 in his original five wins, the 1992 Tournament of Champions, and the Ultimate Tournament of Champions.
Although Vered is best-known for his Jeopardy! prowess, he has also dominated in other quiz-show formats, including Win Ben Stein's Money, during which he recorded the first-ever sweep, and became the first to take home the full $5,000 of Ben Stein's money. Win Ben Stein's Money was an American television Game show that ran from July 28 1997 to December 31 2002 on the Comedy Central cable network Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25 1944) is an American attorney political figure and Entertainment personality who in his early career
His game show winnings total $501,602. As of now, he has the 39th-highest cash winnings total in US game show history.
Vered collects postcards and is an enthusiastic explorer of unusual and exotic restaurants in the Los Angeles, California, greater metropolitan area. A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick Paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an Envelope and Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.
He received a B.A. in History from Harvard College in 1979 and an Master of Fine Arts in cinema-television production from USC in 1988. Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a Private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) is a Graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly
| Preceded by Mark Born |
Biggest Jeopardy! winners by season 1991-1992 |
Succeeded by Edward Schiffer |
| Preceded by Mark Born |
Biggest one-day winners on Jeopardy! by season 1991-1992 |
Succeeded by Mike Boyd |
| Preceded by Lou Pryor |
Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions second runner-up 1992 |
Succeeded by Marilyn Kneeland |
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