'Jeopardy!': Six things to know about champion Harrison Whitaker

Harrison Whitaker, 27, is dominating the competition on "Jeopardy!" after his third win on Nov. 13. While fans know that he “ate the board” during his second game, they may not know much about his personal life.

Whitaker, from Terre Haute, Indiana, has a three-day total of $91,801. He beat out Allegra Kuney during her fifth game.

From his job to his love of trivia, here is everything to know about Jeopardy! champion, Harrison Whitaker.

Whitaker does his research

Harrison Whitaker is a freelance researcher at Lifted Entertainment, according to his LinkedIn. He had held the position since September 2024. Lifted Entertainment is based in London, England, and is home to some of the biggest TV shows in the world, including "Love Island," "Dancing on Ice," "The Voice" and "I’m A Celebrity."

Before this job, he was a supervisor and seminar leader at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his Doctorate of Philosophy in Film and Screen Studies in 2024. Before that, he earned his Master’s degree in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Whitaker’s other jobs included an associate lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and a writer at Relevance.

He has been on a trivia game show before

Whitaker sprang to fame across the pond earlier this year as a contestant on the long-running game show "University Challenge," which has aired on TV since 1962. The show features two teams of four students from different British universities competing against each other in a knockout competition.

Whitaker captained Cambridge’s Darwin College team, and they made it through to the semifinals. Viewers were amazed by Whitaker’s impressive knowledge and it seems the show bosses were, too, as he now has a job writing questions for "University Challenge."

“It’s thrilling — and a bit strange — to go from answering questions on one series to writing them for the next. I just hope that I can play some small part in future contestants and teams having as much fun on the show as I did with Darwin,” he told Darwin College.