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The Man Who Knew Too Much
theodp writes "For thrilling competition, Slate says the Tour de France pales next to the 25-game reign of Jeopardy! supercontestant Ken Jennings. The 30-year-old software engineer has won a total of $788,960, beating the previous record-holder by a margin of over $600,000. Watching KenJen play is like witnessing any great athlete in top form: He's the Michael Jordan of trivia, the Seabiscuit of geekdom, and his antics have once again made Jeopardy! required viewing. (Update: 26 wins and $828,960: 'When Jennings ran the Marvel comics category during the second round, host Alex Trebek asked: Have you done anything besides read comics? It pays to be a nerd, Jennings responded.')"
There are more hens & chicken that humans on earth.
Oh lord, I hope they don't make a movie about this guy forty years from now and expose him as some kind of patsy in an elaborate scheme to sell more vitamin juice for old people.
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...and bow before him for he is the Alpha-Nerd!
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Can you imagine what a Beowolf cluster of KenJens would be like?
...welcome our new trivia overlords.
Once you lick the lollipop of mediocrity, you'll suck forever!
And he'd give it all up for a kiss from a girl :(...
"Here's a spoiler: You're will die alone."-Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
If our culture is headed down the path of having high esteem for people who appear and do successfully on game shows--boy are we screwed.
Yeah, we need to get back to the traditional values of throwing a ball and running fast.
Suck it, Trebek! - as Sean Connery on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
This is the Internet. You can say "fuck" here. - AC
For example, I know that if you are standed at the North Pole and are starving and are ... and
a) foolish enough to try and kill a polar bear
b) lucky enough to succeed
do NOT eat the liver as it will kill you because it is loaded with Vitamin A (as discovered by some hapless explorers many years ago!).
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On Millionaire, who the heck would he call for his Lifeline?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Forget who he'd call -- this guy is the ultimate "phone a friend".
Afraid of the Canadian Linux user groups/lynch mobs?
Nope, you get frostbite.
You have to take your gloves off to remove the foil.
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I think the obvious answer is the simplest one:
He is a cybernetic mutant from the future that was programmed to have all of the answers to a series of game show questions so that he could be sent back in time, win the prize money, and then use said money to fund his killing spree which eventually allows the robots to rise up and take over the earth while only a handful of humans remain plotting to overthrow the robot regime and one day reign supreme again.
And hookers. He is going to blow a ton of that cash on whores.
I know I would.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Slate says the Tour de France pales
That's Tour de Freedom if you please.
For example the conclusion: "Fighting a war on two fronts is bad", could be reached either by abstract reasoning along the lines of how a two front war would divide one's resources and increase the chance of loosing the war. Or you could form an analogy to Germany loss in WWI.
The way I see it, they compliment eachother.
Abstract Reasoning: Why Analogy, what a nice dress you're wearing today!
Analogy: Abstract, where did you get that scarf? You always show such remarkable taste.
When I watch Jeopardy!, I childishly yell out "Triple Stumper!" whenever I know the correct response and all three of the contestants either get it wrong or don't respond, and I'll sometimes do a little dance.
And if that happens during Final Jeopardy, I yell out "Final Jeopardy Triple Stumper!" and I'll break into an extended, elaborate dance, not unlike a wide receiver dancing in the endzone after a touchdown. I get maybe one of those every three months. The evening when I performed that dance while watching Jeopardy! with my girlfriend and her parents is particularly memorable.
Then there was a friend of mine who got a "Ultimate Mega Final Jeopardy Triple Stumper," where he correctly guessed the response before the clue was even given, knowing only the category, and all three contestants got it wrong. As I recall, his head exploded. That was quite a day.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
If you're going to reliably answer a question about who happened to be president in a given year, then you pretty much have to know the entire chronology of the presidency
Just like if you had a towel then you pretty much have to be in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc.
My best Wheel of Fortune guess was:
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I walked in when this puzzle flashed on the screen and I said, "Senator Barry Goldwater" and it was. No letters at all.
Back in high school I was captain of my school's Scholar's Bowl team. In our championship game, we were really nervous and had too much caffeine before the match. The moderator started the game:
"Toss up number one: Sher..."
My finger slipped and I pressed my button. We had to answer or the other team could hear the entire question. So I said, "Robin Hood" and got it right. We won the match -- I think the other team got a bit demoralized.
-- stream of did I lock the front door consciousness
If I was on millionaire and lost on one question, I'd totally be like "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
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his winnings for that day were only $14,000, which was his lowest in all 25 games.
Yeah, I really felt bad for the poor guy that day.
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You think the audience members get out of the studio alive? Where do you think Soylent Green comes from?
I'm glad there's someone to put Trebeck in his place
Well, there are always Norm MacDonald...
"Turd Furgusen... it's a funny name"
Here's one for you, along the same vein...
...and it was right. Unfortunately, we got smoked that round.
We were at the state Knowledge Bowl tourney and, somewhere in the middle of the 2nd round, we were in a 4-5 question set of "parts of speech" or somesuch. I accidentally hit the buzzer before the reader could completely get out the "what" at the start of the question. My team-mates glared at me, thinking that, for certain, I had blown the point. I said the first thing that came to mind...
"Past Participle"
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