Jeopardy!: $2 Million Dollars+ Winner - Ken Jennings!

How fair was that through? The final Jeopardy question was about Shakespeare and Ken is an English major! :stuck_out_tongue:

I had no idea he was an English major. Since he worked for a software company (right?), I incorrectly thought that he must have majored in computer science or something hehe.

I didn’t know either until today, they were talking about it at the beginning of the show (he and alex were).

Ah! I missed all of the show except for final Jeopardy. Luckily I remembered the Shakespeare I had sparknoted…err studied, so I got that right :slight_smile:

I got it right too, but I guessed on one of them (Macbeth), but I knew Julius Caesar as we read that Freshman year hehe.

ESPN has written an article about him (pointed out to me by a friend [moose] who also watches Jeopardy!):

[u][color=blue]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/040721[/color][/u]

Will the JG ever lose? I see it ending like Gagne’s save streak – a close game, then some sort of fluke and everyone standing around in disbelief. Either that, or one of the other contestants pummels him to death. ā€œI can’t even look at him anymore,ā€ the Sports Gal hissed last week. ā€œHis face is so punchable.ā€ But isn’t that the point? We need villains, even if they come in the form of a wispy computer geek!
(JG = Jeopardy Guy for those who didn’t read the article :P)

wow, that’s pretty harsh. but i have to agree.

This is just amazing. A guy from the future has come back to play Jeopardy instead of curing cancer or MS… he’s not a very nice person that’s for sure.

What am I going to do with myself for, what, five and a half weeks? With no JG to liven up the afternoon, the day is going to seem so… empty. I, for one, am eagerly awaiting the next season, along with the return of the JG.

Ken Jennings won today for the 42nd time! His total winnings are now: $1,402,461

I wonder if he will ever lose :nat:

:a: It hasn’t shown here yet, don’t spoil it!

wow, seriously?!? that’s amazing man…

What the…

That’s still going on? :h:

yeah man, didn’t know that either, i still remember about 2 months ago he was on a 15-times winning streak, but right now i’m truly amazed…

The reason not much was mentioned about him for the past month was that they were having the College Jeopardy, Kids Jeopardy, Celeb. Jeopardy, etc. They basically took a one month break from the regular programming to start the new season…which started this Monday :stuck_out_tongue:

so are they looking for more Kennon fodder candidates to be beaten by Jennings now?! :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah, the summer’s all reruns. Fortunately, I have a better memory than most of my family and was able to impress them by knowing a few questions before seeing the answer. :stuck_out_tongue:

did u guys here? he lost on episode 70 or something like that. not sure when we’ll get to see it though :frowning: they tape them all in advanced :frowning:

i guess he didnt reach his erm his goal to be in i think it was like 2997 games or something :confused:

I’m not really familiar with how the show works, but if he loses, does he keep his money? And if so, how much? He’s got to be loaded by now.

Yes, he gets to keep all of his money. He has like 1,400,000 some.