Cris Pannullo, a former professional poker player and current customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey, started his 21-game Jeopardy! winning streak on the show in September. Pannullo walked away with $748,286 and is now fifth highest in winnings and in sixth place with the highest number of consecutive games won for Jeopardy’s! regular season.
It was close to the very end with Pannullo edging out his next competitor, Andy Tirrell, a San Diego professor, by just $700 by the time Final Jeopardy! came.
The final question was in the category “Plays” and was: "A 1609 story in which an exiled king of Bulgaria creates a sea palace with his magic may have inspired the plot of this play.