Someone has won over $900K (US) over 30 days on Jeopardy...
Someone's name is Ken, I believe.
This guy is unbelievable, he has been on for, what seem a month and has racked up $700K. He simply knows every fact, from princes of england, to pop star names of the 80s, to the name of the characters on F-Troop ... he knows everything!
This guy is unbelievable, he has been on for, what seem a month and has racked up $700K. He simply knows every fact, from princes of england, to pop star names of the 80s, to the name of the characters on F-Troop ... he knows everything!
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Is he jepardizing the 700K each day? Can he loose all that money?
Ken Jennings is Google (with a butt).
P.S. Someone with power should change the title of the thread to over "900K"
updated title as requested -- Buon
Originally posted by xterra48
they changed that rule sevral years ago now the dont get a car after 5 days but they do get to keep going. Ken is a "software designer" so he probly hates macs.
Actually, the rule change happened this season. Ken is like the 2nd or 3rd person since the change to make it past 5 games.
Seriously, they must have some sort of security procedure for devices like that now that computers are wearable.
Maybe it's those glasses that can display a computer screen!
Originally posted by Anders
Small implant morsing the answers to him with small shocks.
That's what I was thinking. He is a software engineer, maybe he has a cybernetic implant feeding him the answers!
[/conspiracy theory]
P.S. as of 7/14/04 episode Ken is at $1,022,460 USD or close to it
Originally posted by Aquatic
He has an earpiece or something somehow connected to Google.
Seriously, they must have some sort of security procedure for devices like that now that computers are wearable.
Maybe it's those glasses that can display a computer screen!
or the questions are fixed....you dont see the questions until a contestant chooses the dollar value and it pops up. they could easily give him easier questions than other contestants if they wanted to.
this has been the best thing to happen to the show ever, the ratings are through the roof....they dont want this guy to lose. i think it would be absurb not to think he might be being slipped a few questions that he's more likely to know the answer of. his streak dies, the ratings die
i want to know why it took them this long to get rid of that dumb 5 night rule. clearly they must have thought that if anyone had a long streak it would mean higher ratings.
Originally posted by applenut
i want to know why it took them this long to get rid of that dumb 5 night rule.
This is why. It seems dangerous to have no time limit on a champion. Think about it. He's going to play until someone better than him comes along to beat him. But Jeopardy isn't such a game of chance. It's not "any given Sunday". He's proven he can beat just about anyone else. So how good is the guy gonna be who finally beats him? Good enough to put together a similar, if not longer, streak. Ditto for the guy who beats him. And on. In fact, it's probably even worse than that, since playing for such a long streak gets you very used to the buzzer, and probably makes you more comfortable with being on stage and questioning the type of answers told. It's like if you do the Times crossword every day, you start to catch patterns and "in" clues. So being on longer makes you even harder to beat, which means the guy who finally does beat you has to be that much better, and will be that much harder to beat himself.
Someone needs to come up with a mathematical model for this.
Originally posted by Towel
This is why. It seems dangerous to have no time limit on a champion. Think about it. He's going to play until someone better than him comes along to beat him. But Jeopardy isn't such a game of chance. It's not "any given Sunday". He's proven he can beat just about anyone else. So how good is the guy gonna be who finally beats him? Good enough to put together a similar, if not longer, streak. Ditto for the guy who beats him. And on. In fact, it's probably even worse than that, since playing for such a long streak gets you very used to the buzzer, and probably makes you more comfortable with being on stage and questioning the type of answers told. It's like if you do the Times crossword every day, you start to catch patterns and "in" clues. So being on longer makes you even harder to beat, which means the guy who finally does beat you has to be that much better, and will be that much harder to beat himself.
Someone needs to come up with a mathematical model for this.
someone wins anyway, it isn't costing them more money. so who cares.
he'll fall eventually......no one is perfect