History Awesome / JEOPARDY

* January-March 2024: Juveria Zaheer not only makes it out of her Second Chance Tournament and into the first Champions Wildcard tournament, she also wins "that" tournament to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. Though she would ultimately narrowly lose in the quarterfinals, this was still her version of MyGreatestSecondChance, as she needed six consecutive wins to get there, which was more than many of the people who qualified straight to the Tournament of Champions, and all of her wins were against strong players.

* Ben Chan's run has been nothing short of incredible. After his third win, he was forced to miss tapings for a month because an illness prevented him from traveling. But he came back on May 15, 2023, where he beat eight-day champion Hannah Wilson in a [[CurbStompBattle runaway]] [[TheWorfEffect victory]]. Then, the next day, not only did he win his fifth game in a runaway, securing his spot in the next Tournament of Champions, but he also became the first contestant to win all of his first five games in runaways since ''2001,'' before contestants could win more than five games. And he did this despite a month's gap and a change in hosts.
* January-March 2024: Juveria Zaheer makes it out of the Second Chance Tournament and into the Wild Card Tournament. She then wins the Wild Card Tournament to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. Though she would ultimately lose in the first round there, this was still her version of MyGreatestSecondChance, as she needed 6 consecutive wins to get there, more than many of the people who qualified straight to the Tournament of Champions, and all of them against strong players.
* April 9, 2024: The finals of the first Jeopardy Invitational Tournament consists of Amy Schneider and Andrew He, two Tournament of Masters competitors and some of the greatest contestants on the show. Stuck in the middle is a relative unknown, Victoria Gross, who, having not competed in ''Jeopardy!'' since the 1980s, would pull a DarkHorseVictory over these two top-tier players and win the entire Jeopardy Invitational Tournament.

* January-February 2024: Juveria Zaheer makes it out of the Second Chance Tournament and into the Wild Card Tournament. She then wins the Wild Card Tournament to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. Though she would ultimately lose in the first round there, this was still her version of MyGreatestSecondChance, as she needed 6 consecutive wins to get there, more than many of the people who qualified straight to the Tournament of Champions.

** Set what was then the show's 5-day winnings record...at the end of his '''fourth''' game,

* Final Jeopardy in the Celebrity Jeopardy 2022-23 final. It was a pretty close game before FJ, but the ending is what takes the cake. Patton Oswalt wagered double his money for the final, ending up with 72,000. However Ike Barinholtz, who had 50,000, ended up wagering 22,001, which was enough to beat Patton by one point.

* November 20, 1987: Bob's victory in the '87 Tournament of Champions in a Moment of Awesome in itself for three reasons. One--Going into the second game, he was in third place. Two--He came up with the correct response in Final Jeopardy! after changing it midway. [[labelnote:Here's the Final Jeopardy! clue and Bob's response.]](The clue was "He said, 'I am the last President of the United States.'" Bob wrote down UsefulNotes/FranklinPierce, then crossed that answer out and replaced it with the correct one--UsefulNotes/JamesBuchanan.)[[/labelnote]] Third--He wagered just enough to win the tournament by ''a single dollar!

* November 20, 1987: Bob's victory in the '87 Tournament of Champions in a Moment of Awesome in itself for three reasons. One--Going into the second game, he was in third place. Two--He came up with the correct response in Final Jeopardy! after changing it midway. [[labelnote:Here's the Final Jeopardy! clue and Bob's response.]](The clue was "He said, 'I am the last President of the United States.'" Bob wrote down UsefulNotes/FranklinPierce, then crossed that answer out and replaced it with the correct one--UsefulNotes/JamesBuchanan.)[[/labelnote]] Third--He wagered just enough to win the tournament by ''a single point''!

* Final Jeopardy in the Celebrity Jeopardy 2022-23 final. It was a pretty close game before FJ, but the ending is what takes the cake. Patton Oswalt wagered double his money for the final, ending up with $72,000. However Ike Barinholtz, who had $50,000, ended up wagering $22,001, which was enough to beat Patton by one dollar.

* November 20, 1987: Bob's victory in the '87 Tournament of Champions in a Moment of Awesome in itself for three reasons. One--Going into the second game, he was in third place. Two--He came up with the correct response in Final Jeopardy! after changing it midway. [[labelnote:Here's the Final Jeopardy! clue and Bob's response.]](The clue was "He said, 'I am the last President of the United States.'" Bob wrote down UsefulNotes/FranklinPierce, then crossed that answer out and replaced it with the correct one--UsefulNotes/JamesBuchanan.)[[/labelnote]] Third--He wagered just enough to win the tournament by ''a single dollar''!

* November 19, 1992: The first of the two Final games in the Tournament of Champions was a rapid-fire affair with very few incorrect answers, and Jerome Vered, Leszek Pawlowicz and Bruce Simmons accumulated $25,400 as a group going into Final Jeopardy. Unfortunately, FJ was very difficult, with all three players losing substantial amounts of money.

* March 16, 2007: With his two opponents tied at $8,000 and within reach of his $13,400, Scott Weiss figured they would risk it all. So ''he'' bet for a tie instead of the win, which led to the show's first and only [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zn2KODSsY nonzero three-way tie]] and a very interesting [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xpQqyGy8Is intro by Johnny Gilbert]] on the next episode. And as Alex explained in that next episode, Scott did that because he overheard a boy asking Alex before Final Jeopardy! if a three way tie had ever happened. Alex told him no, so Scott set up the $2,600 wager hoping it'd force the tie. Everybody wins!

** Worth noting that the second game would have been a pretty solid runaway for Mattea under normal circumstances. However, James had about a 9,500-point buffer from game 1, and Mattea’s game 2 lead didn’t cover both that and a double-up from James. This and the triple stumper in the second Final is what saved it for James (who had only bet a token 119 points to force Mattea to be right to win).

** Worth noting that the second game would have been a pretty solid runaway for Mattea under normal circumstances. However, James had about a 9,500-point buffer from game 1, and Mattea’s game 2 lead wasn’t enough to cover it. This and the triple stumper in the second Final is what saved it for James (who had only bet a token 119 points to force Mattea to be right to win).

* November 1985: Jerry Frankel, who won $32,650 in his original five-day run, winning the first ever Tournament of Champions. He was also the only player to write down the correct response in his deciding game.[[labelnote:The Final Jeopardy! clue and correct response.]](The clue was "Westernmost national capital in the Americas." Jerry wrote down "Mexico City", the correct response, while his opponents answered "Quito" and "Managua")[[/labelnote]]. After Alex announced that he had won, he pointed out that Frankel's victory was nothing short of impossible—[[DarkHorseVictory he had the lowest score among wild-card qualifiers]].