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Affleck and Jeopardy! Champion Win $1 Million on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

The prize will fund Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative after a lifeline sequence in which host Jimmy Kimmel suggested the correct final answer.

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WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? – “In The Hot Seat: Larry David & Cazzie David / Ben Affleck & Jamie Ding” – Larry David teams up with his daughter, Cazzie David, while Ben Affleck joins game show champion Jamie Ding, as the celebrity duos take the hot seat, test their trivia knowledge and compete to win up to $1 million for charity. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 (8:00-9:01 p.m. EDT) on ABC.

Overview

  • Affleck and Jeopardy! champion Jamie Ding clinched the $1 million top prize for charity by locking in “Spaghetti & Meatball” on the final question during Wednesday’s episode.
  • The decisive moment came after the team used Ask‑the‑Host and then Phone‑a‑Friend; Kimmel offered the guess and Ding’s caller failed to give a confident answer before time ran out.
  • Earlier in the episode the pair used a 50:50 lifeline to narrow the $500,000 question to two choices and correctly selected the first airplane flight.
  • The $1 million will be donated to Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, which he said he has worked with for about 15 years and cited as responding to an Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC.
  • The win continues a recent producer trend of pairing Jeopardy! champions with celebrities and marks the fifth celebrity million‑dollar victory during Jimmy Kimmel’s hosting run, while raising visibility and funding for the charity’s work.