For the Contestants it was Brad Rutter and then Ken Jennings see related links
Sony Pictures Television has made the most money for non contestants.
Rutter will compete alongside Jennings in a special match against IBM's Watson in 2011.
Brad Rutter
Ken Jennings
Aside from them nobody else is close to there amount and Brad Rutter only won it in the tournaments he only won $55,102 playing Jeopardy. Dave Madden won $430,400 the related links list the $50,00 plus Jeopardy winners with Brad Rutter close to the bottom You see in a tournament you don't win the money as you do in Jeopardy by risking it you win a prize that you are not gambling on losing. Jerome Vered won $250,000 for the third place in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions increasing his total to $496,602
You automatically are given 3rd place because you must have won money to play final Jeopardy, except for celebrity Jeopardy where everyone continues to play because the money is going to charity.
Ken Jennings won 74 Jeopardy games in a row, from June 2nd to November 30th, 2004. He won $2,520,700
Unlike Jeopardy contestants keep the money won or get theminimum$1000
Jeopardy does not have teams, but contestants are paid the money won for winning and only $2,000 for second $1,000 for third. If it is like Wheel of Fortune and other game shows a team would split the money
Raya won although everyone missed the Final Jeopardy
Tom Nissley won final Jeopardy with a wager of $7,001
Tom Kunzen got the final Jeopardy wrong and still won the game
The match was won by Christopher Short although none of the contestants solved final Jeopardy
$500 000 000
No you do not. Only the winner keeps the money Second Place gets $2,000 and third $1,000
That information is not available and very little information has been saved on the Art Flemming era of Jeopardy. Only a small number of the 2,753 episodes from the original NBC Daytime version survive, mostly as black-and-white kinescopes of the original color videotapes. see related link