Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

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I didn't, I used a question mark for an ending.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Did he win again?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Dunno, didn't see it.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I read some guy say that episodes are taped way, way in advance and that he had just gone to a recent one and the winning guy won again so supposedly he's going to win like dozens more episodes yet.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 29 June 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

but they try to act like it's taped that day, ie references to current holidays. and I assume they tape a few episodes each day, so when they say "he'll have the weekend to rest and be back on Monday" does he really? or is taping monday's episode directly after Friday's?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to a filming and they filmed two episodes.. they made the contestants change clothes between them

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ALEX TREBEK NEEDS TO GROW HIS MOUSTACHE BACK WTF I'M NOT WATCHING IT UNTIL HE DOES

also: someone answered, "What is Mohammedism?" and they counted it RIGHT WTH

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

in front of everyone?!

xpost

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

dash it, they have a victorian orientalist on.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream last night that he lost.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"what is papism?"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He racked up 40K today, bringing is total to over 660K.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha my dad just bet me $5 today was gonna be the day he lost. I am evil. Thank you internet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they tape a whole week in one day if I'm not mistaken. or at least they used to according to a guy who was on it who used to work with my dad.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

shit. i already forgot the correct response to final jeopardy, otherwise i'd tell you to go double or nothing and give me a cut.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

omgwtf... That's going to be one hell of a 1040 he'll be filing next year. 33 days and no signs of running out of steam. I mean, he outlasted the ILX outage fer crissakes. He's toying with the hopefuls like Bowie's hand model toyed with the ball in Labyrinth.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one of us need to go and challenge that mothafuckah

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This is really impressive. Except for recent music, the guy knows practically everything. The guy answers 40-45 questions right a SHOW! I will bored for the next six weeks at 7pm :(

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard about it on the radio, and am assuming he weara white lab coat and you can see his brain through his skull.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

He's actually surprising normal (excepting the Mormonism.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

thinks he's sooooo hot, does he?. Let's see if he's this good when they put him on the new season of Running Man. Captain Freedom will school his ass.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 25 July 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

On Leno the other night Jennings said he doesn't know much about cars. I expect there will be a car category on the first show of the new season. You know, they might already have taped the beginning of the new season -- the shows in June and July were taped in March.

This was the first time in at least 10 years that I'd watched Leno attempt to interview someone -- he has to be the biggest dumbass on TV.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I've watched a few episodes in this run, and from what I can tell Jennings wins so much because he has such a superior understanding of the subtleties of the game. He wagers conservatively, rarely buzzs in unless he knows the answer, and appears calm and above all prepared. Another thing is at this stage his success probably psychs out his opponents, planting seeds of doubt in their own abilities and slowing their neurological impulse to push the button when they do know the answer. For the apparent finer points of "Jeopardy" it's a bit of a perfect storm.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=16&u=/nm/television_jeopardy_dc

ratings are up up UP

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

New episode today?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh. He only won with just over ten grand. Must hurt.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently he lost

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/08/entertainment2352EDT0227.DTL

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yup, it'll air in october

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow! 75! The original record for consecutive appearances is like 47, isn't it?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Holy crap, he has a Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings

I found this because Alex Trebek asked him tonight if he'd ever googled himself, so of course I had to do it.

He's at $2 247 000 now.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041130/D86MD1T00.html

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah apparently it is tonight! Wowza. Almost 5 months this thing stretched out for.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I could confirm this if I'd watched today (it airs at 11 a.m. here), but I've been so tired of the Ken Jennings show I haven't watched in weeks.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, it ran today. There was sort of an awkward cutaway shot to Nancy, the woman who beat him, who when Ken's incorrect Final Jeopardy question was revealed clasped her hands to her mouth and gasped. it was odd and appropriate.

What's odd is that Nancy won with merely just over $14,000 or so. Ken shot himself in the foot with all the questions/answers that required him to make wagers. It seemed like he was towards the bottom end of every $5,000 bracket (he always bets up to 5, 10, 15, 20, and so on), and, worse, he got them wrong. Nancy doesn't strike me as someone who'll carry the baton of the slayer. She was merely the competent player in the right place at the right time.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

he was slipping last night. if the one guy in the middle hadnt missed his last dailydouble near the en, ken might have lost

― ke[hm, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Bored or just reaching the limits of his trivia knowledge?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

or was the fix in?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yah someone gave him 20,000.00
any one of you would have done it.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

he looked bored last night and there were some easy answers he seemed to skip

― ke[hm, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the western where the best in the west is tired of killing the young bucks who come to challenge him? yeah.

i haven't watched any of this at all, but I heard quite a long time ago (popbitch maybe?) that this was ovah. they film a bunch of episodes at a time a long time in advance, so it's not like ppl are going back to burbank every day to play again.

I assumed he would just quit voluntarily, all his laurels meaningless, and wander the earth like a trivia miyamoto musashi.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, sitting in the corner of a BW3's watching pub trivia in silence with his hat pulled low, until some young up-and-comer recognizes him and tries to get him to come back to the game. He's reticient, but agrees to train the youngster when his family is defeated by marauding trivia thugs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Ken was bored" theories don't hold up ... he destroyed the competition in the two games last week and won $50K+ each time. And yesterday he faced a tough competitor who was probably smarter than the woman who won today.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

but ken was bored. ok, not im given this shit up bored but just too tired to play 100% all of the time bored. fucker wore out on the whole 'click the button and then think of the answer' method. trying to steal brokaw's light. what was up with alex and the whole 'a woman would know that" comment? or was i hearing wrong? then she came back and dropped him with the easy easy final question

― ke[hm, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

What was the Final Jeapardy question he lost on? I missed it.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Expect the H&R Block commercials starring Ken Jennings to begin airing next March.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it would be funny if it was also true of fedex and he was right and he had to come back on and it went on forever. that would actually not be that funny.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

How the hell could they keep his loss "secret" for 2 months? Swear every studio audience to silence?

That Trebek scares me, I'm sure he killed the Kennedys.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"How the hell could they keep his loss "secret" for 2 months? Swear every studio audience to silence?"

They didn't. It leaked onto the web almost immediately.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The SF Chronicle leaked it almost 3 months ago (see upthread September 9th, 2004 entry).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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