An academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey...

David Madden

• 19-game champion
• 3rd longest winning streak

2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of $1,000,000 split three ways with Brad Rutter and Larissa Kelly.
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 21/22 19-time champion: $430,400 + $2,000.

David's 19-win streak was, at the time, the second-longest in Jeopardy! history after that of Ken Jennings (74 wins, $2,520,700). David's performance in terms of number of wins was surpassed by the 20-win run of Julia Collins in Season 30, but with winnings of $428,100, Julia did not top David's $430,400 cash winnings.

During David's Jeopardy! run, he resided in Berlin, Germany as a student pursuing a master's degree in international relations.

Jeopardy! Message Board user name: herrmadden

David won $10,000 on Season 3 of The Floor and was not eliminated until 2025-04-23.

David appeared in the following 5 archived games:
#7942, aired 2019-03-05 Team Ken vs. Team Brad vs. Team Colby 2019 All-Star Games final match, game 2.
#7935, aired 2019-02-22 Team Buzzy vs. Team Colby vs. Team Brad 2019 All-Star Games match 1, game 2.
#7941, aired 2019-03-04 Team Ken vs. Team Brad vs. Team Colby 2019 All-Star Games final match, game 1.
#7934, aired 2019-02-21 Team Buzzy vs. Team Colby vs. Team Brad 2019 All-Star Games match 1, continuation of game 1.
#7933, aired 2019-02-20 Team Buzzy vs. Team Colby vs. Team Brad 2019 All-Star Games match 1, game 1, Jeopardy! Round only.
David previously appeared on Jeopardy! as David Madden in the following 2 archived games:
#5002, aired 2006-05-16 David Madden vs. Bill MacDonald vs. Kevin Marshall 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.
#4999, aired 2006-05-11 Michael Falk vs. David Madden vs. Bob Mesko 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.
David would later appear on Jeopardy! as David Madden in the following 2 archived games:
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 Amy Schneider vs. Jennifer Quail vs. David Madden 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinal game 1.
#9067, aired 2024-03-26 MacKenzie Jones vs. Arthur Chu vs. David Madden 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

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