They Killed Ken!

kwings writes "SF Gate (via the AP) is reporting that your pal, Ken Jennings has been beaten after his 75th(!) game. I fully expect Mr. Trebek to hold a wake, or to keep calling the champion 'Ken' for the rest of the season. :) Since they're only up to airing game 41, it will be an interesting few months (or 34 shows)."

You Bastards!

[Anonymous Coward]

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so who beat him

[DarkLox]

Man...the guy/gal that was smart enough to beat ken....Im willing to bet that they will go undefeated for....eternity.

Obligatory SNL Quote

[StevenHenderson]

"I'll take 'The Rapists for 500, Trebek!"

Re:that was a good run though

[LiquidCoooled]

from the article: walking away after his 75th straight game with about $2.5 million overall in cash and prizes.

Thats a whole lotta prizes.

Categories that Ken lost on...

[bje2]

- How to please a woman
- Things to do outside
- Post 1970's pop culture


in all seriousness, i think his run has been great...obviously it's helped jeopardy's ratings...heck, jeopardy has even made it onto my TIVO season pass list, so i can follow the exploits of Ken Jennigs each day...

Re:so who beat him

[LittleGuy]

If God/Fate/Time/Karma/CoyboyNeal has a sense of humor, it's someone named 'Barbie'.

In other news

[tuxter]

Utah is currently in mourning, and salt lake city has ground to a standstill.

Re:Obligatory SNL Quote

[farlcow]

"And it appears Ken Jennings has changed his name to Turd Ferguson"

Future Movements

[two-tail]

After taxes that will be approx. $380,661. His agent, who mysteriously appeared overnight and has not had a chance to speak directly with Mr. Jennings, reports that the impromptu star will be regaining the $1 indirectly through endorsements for life insurance and denture adhesives.

After the endorsements have been completed he will be closeted in the mountains practicing by playing the Jeopardy computer and board games (which he still had to buy himself) until the Tournament of Champions is held. He will also be preparing a few choice remarks for Sean Connery in Mr. Jennings upcoming appearance on SNLs "Celebrity Jeopardy".

Re:Obligatory SNL Quote

[Whalou]

Other classics:
Anal bum cover (An album cover)
Penis mightier (Pen is mightier)

Outsourced

[rlp]

He didn't really lose - they just brought in someone from overseas who agreed to win less money. :-)

Dumb question, but I gotta ask.

[blcamp]

I presume he will be in the Tournament of Champion... but hasn't he already won? He'd be the only one there! :p

(Note - "Champion" singlular intentional)

Re:And what about Barbie ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, Barbie's last name is Roberts [wikipedia.org]

posting AC to preserve my dignity.

In other news...

[HungSoLow]

Alex Trebek was seen torching the SFGate offices, screaming obsenities and cursing their poor reporting ethics!

My buzzer was failing!

[michael path]

It should be noted that during the taping of this episode, Jennings said "Mr. Trebek, I don't believe my buzzer is working correctly."

Re:Spoilers?

[strictfoo]

Anakin is Darth Vader!

And they surf lava! It's like Teenage Mutant Ninja Jedi or something

Re:Spoilers?

[digitalsushi]

He dies in the chamber along with the Lone Gunmen

Re:Jeopardy rules

[Jaysyn]

You mean those aren't real people in the audience?

Jaysyn

Re:Spoilers?

[dema]

Why not just start posting all the endings for upcoming movies?

Main character stops bomb from exploding WITH ONLY 2 SECONDS LEFT, then takes female lead into bedroom. Start Barry Manilow music and......credits!

Done.

Re:So what...

[multipartmixed]

> Alex Trebek knows ALL of the answers

Yes, but does he know the questions?

TIAJ

[pjt33]

Local thing? Are you saying that the US is a [i]proper[/i] subset of the world? Mod this guy down as a troll!

They killed kenny???

[eric_ste]

Don't worry, He'll be back tomorrow.

Re:Obligatory SNL Quote

[pragma_x]

Trebek: And now for Final Jeopardy! Write down a letter in the alphabet... any letter at all, like 'A' or 'X'.

Trebek: Okay, lets see what you wrote down. Jeff you wrote, a '2'...?

Jeff Goldblum: Uh.. what is the /letter/ 2... yea.

Trebek: I hate all of you.

Re:Spoilers?

[Anonymous Coward]

And Rosebud is a sled.

Re:Spoilers?

[Jonboy X]

Oh, and the soccer game ends in a scoreless tie.

Re:You Bastards!

[Reducer2001]

Shit man, you ruined it for me. I was waiting until Episode III before watching the original trilogy. Thanks.

Re:You Bastards!

[SB5]

You would have to hide in a cave to avoid a story like this - it's already on CNN and (presumably) a zillion other news outlets...

I live in my parent's basement you insensitive clod!

Re:You Bastards!

[Paulrothrock]

I do hide in a cave* you insensitive clod!

*cave = my darkened cube, my basement laboratory, my total lack of interest in any news.

Re:Obligatory Cheers Quote

[lucabrasi999]

From the episode where Cliff made it onto Jeopardy

Alex: "And the categories are, `Civil servants' `Stamps from around the world', `Mothers and sons', `Beer', `Bar trivia' and 'Celibacy'?

Re:Spoilers?

[Overzeetop]

If it's NOT up for a "best picture" Academy Award:

The guy gets the girl, the aliens are defeated, and world is saved.

If it IS up for a "best picture" Academy Award:

The guy gets the girl, and one or both of them die. The safety of the world isn't even part of the story.

You can mail me 1/2 your movie money, or I can take paypal ;-)

Re:Categories that Ken lost on...

[B3ryllium]

He has a wife. He has 1.3 million dollars (and going). I think he at least knows how to please a woman. :)

Re:Spoilers?

[dr_dank]

I know some people who would be horridly offended if you were to tell them the results of every football/baseball/basketball/soccar/nascar/rugby/w ater polo/cricket/volleyball/bullfighting .... etc. before the event was ever aired on TV.

I wouldn't be. I'd just like to know how they got that copy of Grey's Sports Almanac away from Biff.

Re:You Bastards!

[Anonymous Coward]

ObJoke:
Don't other countries allow US made TV shows on their TV systems?
Not if they have good taste.

Re:Categories that Ken lost on...

[sehryan]

You know what he can do with all that money?

Two chicks at the same time.

Re:Spoilers?

[iabervon]

Oh, man. I'm definitely not going to see Fahrenheit 9/11 now...

Re:Categories that Ken lost on...

[sehryan]

So then I guess he is already doing two chicks at the same time.

Re:You Bastards!

[hpavc]

They forget an american trivia show wouldn't play well over seas. While things like south park can be obtained on dvd or seen in a movie theater.

Q: What is the captial of Georgia?
A: Atlanta

Thats correct, however we would have accepted

A: Tbilisi

Re:Spoilers?

[mosch]

Actually the front page of cnn.com says "Is Ken Jennings' 'Jeopardy!' run over?"

It doesn't say that it is, and on which game.

Whoever modded my original post redudnant can eat a bag of cocks. Of course it was redundant, Michael and the other editors need to have it drilled into their heads that this was an enormous fuckup for those of us who decided to start watching Jeopardy for the streak.

weird al

[nuggetman]

That's right, Ken--You lost. And let me tell you what you didn't win: a twenty colume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a yeard's supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat. But that's not all. You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people. You brought shame and disgrace to your family name for generations to come. You don't get to come back tomorrow. You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game. You're a complete loser!

Re:Jeopardy rules

[dasmegabyte]

Oh, they'll figure out who did it. It just might take them a while, since when they're interrogating suspects they can only ask questions in the form of an answer.

Interrogator: This man leaked the ending of the Ken Jennings winning streak.

Suspect: It wasn't me!

Interrogator: *sigh* For the last time, it's "Who is "not me?""

The Final Jeopardy that beat Ken [spoiler warning]

[quantaman]

This is the final Jeopardy question that ended Ken's streak.

Topic: Life, the Universe, and Everything
Answer: 42

Unfortunatly a freak power outtage stopped the answer from being displayed once they gave their answers but afterwards an odd robot came out and told everyone that they were all simpletons and they along with the show were incredibly dreary and pointless and they all got the question wrong anyway but it didn't really matter because Life, the Universe, and Everything don't matter. The robot then talked to Mr. Jennings for a couple minutes after which Mr. Jennings announced in a depressed sounding voice that he didn't really see any point in going on so he was retiring from the show. A spacecraft then landed and an alien then came out and called Mr. Jennings a nerd then flew away.

Well there ya have it, the end of Ken Jenning's streak.

Re:You Bastards!

[Negadecimal]

A: Atlanta

If it were only in the form of a question...
Tsk.

Re:Categories that Ken lost on...

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't the Mormons invent that?

Re:You Bastards!

[coyote_oww]

Q: What is the captial of Georgia?

A: Atlanta

Thats correct, however we would have accepted

A: Tbilisi

Only if you can pronounce it correctly.

Jeopardy doesn't worry me

[superpulpsicle]

I swear there is a conspiracy going around making Americans look stupid.

We aired Baywatch. A show about a beach full of drama, where millions of people drown everyday at the same beach.

We aired Southpark. Enough said.

We aired who wants to be a millionaire. The contestants are absolutely no comparison to Jeopardy contestants.

We aired A-Team. No one can hit a target from 5 feet even though they were all vietnam vets.

Re:You Bastards!

[Paulrothrock]

News for nerds is as much about news as it is about wasting time at work.

Re:Jeopardy doesn't worry me

[peacefinder]

We aired A-Team. No one can hit a target from 5 feet even though they were all vietnam vets.

Dude! The A-Team always missed on purpose. It takes real skill to fire a fully-automatic weapon aimed right next to folks and just scare the bejeezus out of 'em. Not to mention blowing up all those cars without actually hurting anyone.

It's the bad guys who are lousy shots!

(Yes, I'm kidding.)