Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

Alex once ate got accidentally high on pot brownies and, even more shockingly, likes The Bucket List the best out of all of his cameo appearances.

ate

tournament of champions is my jam.

great win for buzzy cohen last night, and two of my faves lilly chin and tim aten are up tonight. who ya got?

Semifinal 1: Andrew Pau v. Austin Rogers v. Lilly Chin.

Andrew's gotta be the favorite after his impressive win on Friday. It looks like he's the #1 seed considering he doesn't have another quarterfinal winner in his group -- but this is still a very tough group! Andrew and Austin overlap in their humanities expertise so Lilly should be able to dominate the science categories. Austin clearly wasn't prepared for how fast Alan was on the buzzer in the quarters, leading to some unforced errors, but no Alan there this go-around, so Austin may be able to use his buzzer speed to his advantage.

new champion donna brown met her husband when they were both college radio djs at the univ of georgia. she did the '80s show, he did the noise show. they argued a lot. "noise," she explained to alex, "is a kind of music that's experimental, so there are themes and motifs and everything, um, less structure." but everything's good now: "our marriage has structure." she's very bubbly. i like her a lot.

also, she had the only correct answer on final jeop: "this label, home to u2 and bob marley, was created, fittingly, in jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling."

...is this where I should say that Donna is an ILX vet? Because she is. That makes two of us that have been on the show!

that’s awesome!!! she had a very very big first win!

(is she on this thread?)

donna!

I thought at least three ILXors have been on the show, no? I remember it mentioned in this thread somewhere, once upon a time. Congrats to Donna

^ yes

also

JAYMC on Jeopardy! TODAY! (SPOILERS Y'ALL)

(more Donna talk specifically at that link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MjOuI4Z92M

a) - i'm glad alex is okay
b) omg that grampa living room

He should have Longmont Potion Castle on the show for the next Celebrity Jeopardy. They can black out his face or something.

you're allowed to wear leather jackets on jeopardy now???

Forget candy hearts – send one of these to your valentine! pic.twitter.com/5G2EiJtRny

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) February 12, 2018

He must be better, he's doing this

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/jeopardy-alex-trebek-2018-election-moderate-pennsylvania-gubernatorial-debate-20180221.html

7-day winner Josh Hill's old website
http://www.bucktowntiger.com/index.html

Respect

I don't get to watch Jeopardy much these days but this looks fun, hopefully I can catch some of it:

https://www.jeopardy.com/contestant-zone/2019/all-star-games

WHO IS BACKROLLS?

He must be better, he's doing this

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/jeopardy-alex-trebek-2018-election-moderate-pennsylvania-gubernatorial-debate-20180221.html

― Ned Raggett,

This was so bad. He was nearly booed him off the stage:

https://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/10/jeopardy_host_alex_trebek_went.html

i feel bad for trebek. he grew up francophone in the duplessis era, which was some seriously bad shit nobody in america even knows about. (yeah, he's from ontario, but still.)

i thought this group was sort of ironic but i think dude just really hates alex trebek

https://www.facebook.com/IHateAlexTrebek/

Alex interviewed by Vulture

was that photo taken at a model home in a new suburban residential development?

The Jeopardy teen tournament intro has a dabbing thinking man statue and I am ready for the sweet embrace of oblivion. pic.twitter.com/iqAydCHNFF

— Matthew D'Ambrosio™ (@drmattdambrosio) November 14, 2018

stephin merritt cruised a guy off of jeopardy. what a legend pic.twitter.com/gmnpyhtbV7

— chat noir 🙀 (@zrok_) November 14, 2018

the current running champion was the bassist for the runaways!?

yes, Jackie Fuchs (Fox). I haven't watched any yet, but have been seeing it mentioned on fb. She's the one who accused Kim Fowley of raping her while other band members did nothing.

alex has a crush on her. he asked her if she was married in one of the contestant-interview segments.

http://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*DOJ2reSC5LVMYJyhBEIhXQ.jpeg

The category modeled after “88 Lines About 44 Women” from a couple nights ago was pretty cool. Can’t find a video link anywhere, but the clues themselves are listed here: https://archive.fikklefame.com/jeopardy-clues-1-10-19/

sad news: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jeopardy-host-alex-trebek-diagnosed-pancreatic-cancer-1192747

Discussed more here Alex Trebek suffers 'minor heart attack'

very sad, had an uncle pass from it and it was brutal and nasty

i suspect we're going to have to get used to james for a while

https://deadspin.com/jeopardy-contestant-crushes-single-game-winnings-recor-1833928180

wound up with $110,914, which is his daughter's birthday (11/09/14), that's really cool

That was crazy, prior to final alex told him "you're $4400 short of the one day record" and he was up by like 65k so I was honestly surprised he didn't bet more - the birthday thing explains it.

Pitchfork is proud of playing their part:

https://pitchfork.com/news/record-breaking-jeopardy-contestant-correctly-answered-a-clue-with-what-is-pitchfork/

That's an expensive birthday shout out! Ken Jennings only spent $400 to make his hoe joke.

finally got to watch this guy as it aired. one, holy shit this guy is good. two, I'm pretty impressed by how well the show gives the illusion that it's current - there was the Earth Day category, Trebek opening the show with "unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about this guy James...", and James making the M in his name into a Las Vegas Golden Knights logo (the Knights are about to play a playoff Game 7), all in an episode which probably taped two months ago

NYT interview with current Jeopardy dynamo James Holzhauer.

won by $18 today!!

that was intense

absolutely...not ready for this dude to lose yet.

hes good enough to run off a huge streak but it just takes one bad answer at the wrong time

The week after next begins the round of tournaments that ends the season. What happens if he is still champion at the end of this? Is he eligible for the Tournament of Champions, or does he have to wait til next season?

xp yeah he always goes all in on daily doubles. I've watched about 5 games and he never missed one though. crazy.

on the first one, yeah, but in Double Jeopardy he often bets a large, seemingly random amount, though there might be some symbolism there. yesterday he bet "10117" as tribute (I'm assuming) to the victims of the Vegas shooting. he does "11914" (his daughter's birthday) a lot.

fun stat about last night's game

According to Saunders on The Jeopardy Fan, Levin’s $53,999 is the highest-ever regular-play, nonwinning score in the history of the show, and is the 21st-highest final score of all time. Holzhauer’s $54,017 is 20th.