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IT'S FINAL `JEOPARDY!' FOR JENNINGS

Ken Jennings, who amassed more than $2.5 million in new income on "Jeopardy!," was taken down by, of all things, a question about taxes.

Jennings's unprecedented winning streak on the game show came to an end Tuesday, 75 shows and $2,520,700 after it began. Nancy Zerg, a real estate agent from Ventura, Calif., became a trivia answer in her own right by correctly answering a Final Jeopardy question that Jennings missed and dethroning the previously unbeatable champ.

The clue, in the category Business and Industry, was: "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." Zerg correctly answered "What is H&R Block?," adding $4,401 to her previous total of $10,000.

Jennings's guess _ "What is FedEx?" _ was wrong, and he lost $5,601 to finish with $8,799.

"Nancy was great ... her timing was just right on," Jennings says in a statement from King World, which syndicates "Jeopardy!" "It was not a fluke. She knew things I didn't know. I thought, `Nancy, good for you, you totally deserve this.'"

That Zerg even had a chance of winning was something of an upset; for much of his run, Jennings so far outdistanced his competition that he didn't even have to bet on the Final Jeopardy clue. Jennings guessed incorrectly on two Daily Double clues during the game to help Zerg stay within striking distance.