Adieu to Ken Jennings

IllogicalStudent writes "The Toronto Star is reporting that the episode of Jeopardy where Ken Jennings (a.k.a. 'The Jeopardy Guy') finally loses aired this evening. It came down to a 2-person finish (3rd had -2600 at the end of Double Jeopardy, and was eliminated) between Ken and opponent Nancy Zerg, with the final category being Business & Industry. Ken answered 'Fed Ex' to the question 'Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year,' when the correct answer was 'H&R Block.' Ken finished his record-streak with just over $2.5 Million."

Re:Hey now

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh, EST and CST aren't most time zones. You've still got MST and PST, plus Alaska and Hawaii.

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Re:FedEx?

[standards]

Does anyone else think he just got burned out and decided to be done?

Nah. Ken did well during the last round, and he looked a little sad to go. Ken missed two daily doubles (they were tough), plus the final jeapordy answer didn't come to him. Ken wasn't obliterated during the match in any way, but missing both daily doubles PLUS the final jeapordy question did him in.

That being said, the woman who won clearly played a great game. She deserved to win this one. She didn't answer many questions, but when she did they were the high-value questions.

Ken can go home with all that money and the pride that comes with being such an incredible champion.

Congrats to "today's" new champion. She outplayed Ken on today's match.

Missed three critical questions

[miltimj]

For all those who said he got beat bad, 0wn3d, or intentionally lost, you obviously didn't see the show.

He bet big like he usually does on two Daily Doubles, and lost about $6K on each... they both were more difficult than average questions (IMO), and it seemed that he just didn't know them. If he would've bet 1/2 what he did, he would've been statistically unbeatable going into the final jeopardy question.

(He was leading $14,400 to $10,000 going into the final answer)

ReplayTV

[miltimj]

If anyone has a ReplayTV, missed the episode, and wants it, let me know and I'll send it to you...

Re:Said he's going to keep his job

[ka55ad]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings [wikipedia.org] Wikipedia he works for a company called CHG. They are a health care placement firm.

Re:threw the game

[Radish03]

Interestingly, this ties him for the record of most consecutive appearances on a game show, and puts him one win shy of most consecutive wins on a game show. (in the records section here [wikipedia.org].)

Also interesting is that he was hesitant in the past to break other records, such as the most one in a single game (he tied it several times before he beat it by quite a bit.). So I wouldn't be sure whether or not he just decided it was time to stop or not.

Re:Did Ken Give Up?

[Anonymous Coward]

How many of us would sell our souls for a job that paid $150,000 a week to work one (long) day with paid travel and lodging, and the other 6 days off?

They film several episodes a day for a few weeks. The show isn't live, that's why we knew months in advance.

Re:Was The Game Show Rigged To Get Ratings?

[Anonymous Coward]

thats the movie Quiz Show. [tinyurl.com]

Please put your response in the form of a question

[imidan]

The person who submitted this doesn't seem to watch much Jeopardy!. Otherwise, it would be clear that "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year" is really the *answer* and not the question.

Re:FedEx?

[Zorilla]

So if she is smarter than Ken then we can expect her to beat Ken's 2.5 Million dollar record?

I'm apparently getting the Jeopardy shows several hours earlier while in Japan (AFN) than people are stateside. I've seen it and can tell you that she loses to the lady on the right by a big margin.

Re:FedEx?

[The-Bus]

H&R Block has offered a lifetime of financial services to Ken Jennings, and he has accepted. Don't know whether that means we'll see commercials with him or not, but they probably get to mention him a lot.

This was from an ABC interview he did this morning. The champion was there too. She said her 2nd grader was able to keep the secret that her mom won for a couple of months.