Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

one of us need to go and challenge that mothafuckah

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

New episode today?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

yup, it'll air in october

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Bored or just reaching the limits of his trivia knowledge?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

or was the fix in?

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

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

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― ke[hm, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken Jennings knows better. Like, wtf, Fedex has "seasonal employees"? Yeah. Shit was THROWN.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I was disappointed by the lack of fanfare at the end of his streak. They just ended the show like normal - no balloons dropping from the ceiling - no tears - no fireworks - not even a little peck on the cheek from Alex!

― The boobs previously known as Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I was sort of hoping he would go on forever. I mean, sure, it'd be kind of boring for the first four or five years, but just imagine how moving it would be when you were sixty-five and he passed away on stage!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

It was disappointing in the sense that the proper, movie-worthy ending would have seen the supergenius Ken get vanquished by an even bigger supergenius. But that's not what happened at all -- Ken dominated the game just like he always does. If he'd gotten even one of the two Daily Doubles then he would have won. Most important for Nancy -- she didn't make any mistakes. In a lot of other games the players knew what they were up against and ended up taking unneccessary chances by making low-confidence guesses on big-money questions. Nancy didn't do that.

But in the end, Ken did more to lose than she did to win, although Ken -- characteristically -- won't admit that when asked in interviews.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost but fedex might have christmas employees or something! or employees that only work when there's lots of birthdays.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

On Good Morning America they were treating Zerg as Jenning's equal (which seems a bit much given that she has won only one game) Given that the show is taped months ahead of time could producers be pimping her because she goes on a monster run of her own? It would be odd for her to do the circuit knowing she gets shellacked by some anonymous nerd the next night.

― Carl Simon, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/1220000/1229829.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.xmission.com/~layne/starcraft/images/zerg.jpg

"Oh my, I won?"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.quake.spb.ru/strategy/starcraft/protoss.jpg

"Hell, no - I threw that shit!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

His loss was leaked on this thread, you guys!

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

-- Ed (dal...) (webmail), September 9th, 2004 8:36 AM. (dali) (link)

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yup, it'll air in october
-- cinniblount

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

nancy lost tonight.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:53 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Did anybody watch the Ultimate Tournament of Champions?

I was happy to see Brad and Jerome in the final. I remember Jerome very well from his initial run -- he was one of the most dominant players I ever saw.

Brad was a more than deserving winner. He crushed his competition in the semifinal, and cruised in the third day of the final. Ken and Jerome actually looked lost out there.

As discussed upthread, "Jeopardy" could learn a thing or two about fanfare. Alex was like "we'll be back tomorrow with regular games". Brad won the match and he reacted like he'd just been congratulated on his tie. DUDE, YOU JUST BEAT LIKE 150 PEOPLE AND WON TWO MILLION DOLLARS. BE HAPPY.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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