LAST WARNING, SPOILERS FOR THE 7/13 SHOW ARE BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeopardy airs early in Lubbock at 11:30am. Ken Jennings went on a roll again, especially in the Double Jeopardy round, and won with $32,000 giving him an amazing total of $1,004,960. He is the 2nd contestant to earn over $1 million dollars, and today was Ken's 30th show.
Sounds like Jeopardy desparately trying to get their rating up by bringing in not so bright contestants against this guy.
I watched the first couple of minutes of yesterday's show and the dude ran the first 3 categories. Neither of the other two contestants attempted to answer a question before the first commercial break.
That makes this feat even MORE impressive to me. Soundly thrashing ten people in one day during five consecutive games must be mentally freakin' draining!!! I bow humbly before the Jeopardy King.
Actually I read somewhere (may have been the other thread) that he is at home right now. But that can be attributed to the fact that they tapes their seasons worth of episodes last February.
How could someone else have already won a million if they just recently dropped the rule about consecutive appearances?
Yea I read they had a one million dollar jackpot or something...so technically that's the highest added in with other winnings.
BOLD PREDICTION! read somewhere that he is scheduled to be on the late night shows and morning shows next week, like monday. which means he will lose THIS WEEK. you know they can only start interviewing people after they are off the show, like AI and Apprentice. anyway... just a random prediction by me.
Sorry, but incorrect. I heard an interview with the guy on a local radio station here so that must not be a rule
Yeah, not true. The late night dudes only CHOOSE to interview them after they leave the show because it is a "television event" when they leave, and they want to cover it. They could have interviewed Jesse Palmer whenever he wanted, and I heard him on tons of radio programs talking about his show throughout the course of the airing. They choose NOT to interview them while they are televised on the show b/c all of their answers are "I can't say" or "I'm not allowed to answer that." Once they're booted off the show, they can say whatever they want, except for disclosing the eventual winner.
i've never seen a guy roll two people like i saw today. about a week ago, one person was negative going into final jeopardy and the other was barely positive, and then the next day, one guy answered the very last question, otherwise both the other contestants would've been negative (which i guess means ken would've just bet against himself in final jeopardy). now, he ties the one day record two days in a row. two days ago he ties the record simply b/c he wouldn't bet enough in final jeopardy (had 37k, only bet 15k), then yesterday he stomped them again but only bet enough to tie the record (34.6k, bet 17.4k). those 4 performances don't even compare. today was just ugly. 46,000 to 6,400 going into final jeopardy. could have bet up to 33,200 without losing the game! that's absurd. granted, it seemed like i was answering every single question in double jeopardy too, but he still had to beat the other people on the buzzer. he did miss final jeopardy, but the first two rounds were more domination than i have ever seen. i've gone from rooting for him to lose to still wanting him to lose but enjoying the dominance at the same time. just amazing.
Yeah I saw the other day when he was kicking ass on the alcoholic drink answers, and he's mormon - they aren't supposed to drink! I also saw him last night on Letterman. Then I saw his show today when he broke a million. I've seen more of him this past week than I have his entire Jeopardy career.
