Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

Wow Semret. Ease off on the buzzer there

Dawn you're jumping categories & not going in order. Making it Hard for Alex... and all the viewers playing along at home!!!!!!

what are Alex Trebeck's favorite foods?

I wonder how Alex Trebek would do as a contestant?

I think he'd get steamrolled.

how much repetition has there been in Jeopardy questions over the years? zero? a bit? what % of questions in an episode would he have heard before as host? not that he'd necessarily know or remember, i just wonder.

7% of all questions are about the Etruscans

I think Alex would do pretty well as a contestant

I bet he knows a lot more about state capitals and birds than most Canadians.

chu talks about how he studies the topics that come up most often (states and presidents etc) and that apparently gives him an edge, no doubt alex has that shit seared into his brain

you don't think he's just on autopilot up there

or got his mind on his cornball repertoire instead of on the cluez

Maybe. But he's seen more Jeopardy shows and strategies than anyone else. Even if he forgot half of it he'd have an edge.

chu talks about how he studies the topics that come up most often (states and presidents etc) and that apparently gives him an edge

but lots of jeopardy contestants do that. they're pretty much expected to at this point, aren't they?

didn't rosie perez study?

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but lots of jeopardy contestants do that. they're pretty much expected to at this point, aren't they?

― fact checking cuz, Monday, March 3, 2014 1:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not sure! obv i don't mean that it's the only thing that's given him an edge, he's obv a very smart dude and his strategies seem to be working out, but from that AVC interview he made it sound like he took an extra step or two with the most common categories

so no chu this week?

yup, i will skip "'90s Week"

is blossom a contestant is that what that means

Vedder vs. Corgan vs. Weiland

Arthur is back tonight!

Could be wrong on this, but I do believe that if Arthur wins tonight he will move into sole 3rd place all time for longest Jeopardy streaks, after Ken Jennings at 75 games and Dave Madden at 20. Nobody else is higher than the 10 games Arthur is at now.

too close!

do a lot of people really go for the +$1 bet?

Today's clues seemed harder than usual, but then they ended with one of the easiest Final Jeopardy clues I've seen in ages (I'm assuming that at least most of us on ILX would have gotten it).

Definitely note one of the easiest FJ clues in ages. Earlier in Arthur's run, I remember "Dating from 1973, this 4-letter suffix indicates a person or thing that has become associated with public scandal". Now that's an easy FJ. I can't imagine anybody who is able to qualify for Jeopardy missing that.

erg, definitely NOT

Fine, second easiest. Or maybe I'm just overestimating the answer's popularity (come on, people who qualify to get on this show must know who he is, at least).

Chu never does well on the music questions. One clue was "J.D. _____ co-wrote 'Best of My Love,' 'Victim of Love,' and 'Heartache Tonight.'" Chu guessed Salinger.

And last night he guessed Franny and Zooey for a question about Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (I think it was).

Chu never does well on the music questions. One clue was "J.D. _____ co-wrote 'Best of My Love,' 'Victim of Love,' and 'Heartache Tonight.'" Chu guessed Salinger.

Not knowing anything about the Eagles is an admirable plus in my book.

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@arthur_affect Bruno also read the Bible randomly, seeking daily doubles of perceived wisdom, a grave heresy.

lol

Just found out another Clevelander, this one someone I know, is going to be on the Mar. 24 episode.

lol I couldn't ID those titles as Eagles songs much less name an Eagle aside from Don Henley

But would you assume "Heartache Tonight" was a Salinger short story?

should've guessed "(The Other) J.D."

Terrified of missing the episode when someone beats Arthur.

he mentioned something about "flying back out" i think on twitter yesterday which leads me to believe he's safe for this week of shows, but maybe i read into that incorrectly

should've guessed "(The Other) J.D."

― Doctor Casino

If he'd guessed "J. D. Other" Alex may have given it to him!

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feelin this dude

Hahahaha awesome zing

dude totally said mcdormand. i want that reversed.

"that's one of the weird things about our language" go fuck yourself trebek

man i'm just gonna start leanin on as much shit as i can in honor of arthur

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/03/jeopardy-arthur-chu-social-media-brand.html

But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful

He analyzes his strategies or offers truisms that can sound like Zen koans: “Jeopardy isn’t really a good demonstration of anything but how good you are at playing Jeopardy.”

zen koans, new yorker? really?

Guy born in Albany, New York surely knows a thing or two about Zen Buddhism

Tbh that sounds like something iatee would say

it sounds more like something college quizbowl players say, because they do say it, about playing quizbowl.

of course everyone knows the best teams are wicked smaht but it's still what is said.

Yeah - people also say the same thing about standardized testing

that Frances "McDarmand" thing was a bit nitpicky

still, pretty intense comeback today - he did terribly in the first round, then more or less ran the board and destroyed everyone in Double Jeopardy. looked a little rattled by the end, as he didn't bet to tie, but safely way above

I dunno; I think because it's difficult to talk about(or measure) intelligence, we just go by proxy. For example, having taking some training in test prep, I can fairly assure anybody that standardized testing has jackshit to do with measuring ability or intelligence and entirely everything to do with how you take standardized test.

Nicholas Lemann wrote a book about it, called _The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy_, that I really need to read.

Also, mistaking trivia for knowledge or intelligence, for that matter.