Jerome Vered

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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!. During Vered's original five-win run in 1992, he shattered the one-day record for dollar winnings, earning $34,000 in one episode. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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