Frank Spangenberg

Frank Spangenberg

Infobox police officer
name = Frank Spangenberg


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born = Birth date and age|1957|07|26
placeofbirth = flagicon|US New York, New York, USA
nickname =
department = New York City Police Department (NYPD)
serviceyears = 1986 -
rank = 1986 - Commissioned as a Police Officer
Sergeant
Lieutenant
awards =
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laterwork =

Frank Spangenberg (born July 26, 1957) is an New York Police Department police officer who garnered fame in 1990 when he set the five-day cumulative winnings record on the game show "Jeopardy!", becoming the first person to win more than $100,000 in five days on the show.

Spangenberg, at the time a member of the New York City Transit Police Department (which is now the Transit Bureau of the New York City Police Department), won $102,597 in five days. At the time, winners were retired after five consecutive victories. Since the show doubled its dollar values in 2002 his record has been broken several times. However, when winnings are adjusted to match the current values ($205,194), Spangenberg's record holds for any player's first five games. [Though Ken Jennings's best five consecutive games beat Spangenberg's five-day score with a total of $221,200, Jennings also played seventy more regular-season games than Spangenberg did.] Spangenberg also was fourth all time in single day winnings ($30,600) before the dollar values for the clues were doubled. He would be fifth in that statistic, as four of the top five single-day winnings took place before the dollar values were doubled. Since the rule change, there have been thirteen times a player has won an adjusted $25,000 and only once a player has won more than an adjusted $30,000 in a single day (Ken Jennings with the record-setting adjusted $37,500). Shortly after he won his first five games in 1990, he appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman" and played the "Jeopardy!" home game on the show with Dave. He would also later appear on its successor program The Late Show as a member of the New York City Transit Department choir.

Spangenberg won neither the "Super Jeopardy!" tournament nor the 1990 Tournament of Champions, losing to Larry McKnight in the semi-final of the latter tournament, but he did win the show's Tenth Anniversary Tournament in 1993. As a result of winning the 10th Anniversary Tournament, and his tournament-winning Final Jeopardy! response of "Who is Wendy Wasserstein?" he earned an invitation to dinner with the playwright. [ [http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=1132 Frank Spangenberg player page at the J! Archive] ] Wasserstein said that she "wanted to meet the man that remembered her name". In the 2002 "Jeopardy!" Million Dollar Masters tournament, Spangenberg lost in the first round on a wrong Final Jeopardy! response. In the 2005 "Jeopardy!" Ultimate Tournament of Champions, he won two games before narrowly losing a two-game semi-final to Jerome Vered, increasing his total winnings to $254,596.

While Spangenberg officially won $102,597 from his five days, he was restricted by a show cap of $75,000 (since removed), and $27,597 of his winnings was donated to Gift of Love Hospice, operated by the Missionaries of Charity.

In 2007, Spangenberg competed on GSN's "Grand Slam". Seeded #12 in the 16-player tournament, he lost to former all-time game show winnings leader David Legler in his first round matchup.

External links

* [http://www.j-archive.com/showplayerstats.php?player_id=262 J! Archive.com - Frank's scores and the games he played]

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