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.')"

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The Man Who Got First Post

[Anonymous Coward]

Is me!

w00t

Re:The Man Who Got First Post

[Anonymous Coward]

I was just trying to think of an example of someone failing it, then you showed up.

Re:He's fast on the button

[hal2814]

My dad does that whole I'm-guessing-but-I-always-get-it-right thing playing Trivial Pursuit. It gets a little annoying after hearing the tenth "I don't know, is it [insert correct answer here]?"

Did you 'loose' your dictionary?

[Anonymous Coward]

My GOD, when will the insanity stop?!? It's lose not loose.

Example

I think Joe Blow will lose on tonites Jeopardy

I set loose the bird I was keeping.


After ripping on your post, I have to say your sites pretty cool. I still have my Brass Nelson and a semi-functional SMG:)

Re:Proud?

[Anonymous Coward]

goatse ?

(5...4...3...2...1...post is go!)

Re:Job Interview?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wrong! He played Jango Fett.

Re:Constantly Recording

[shadowcabbit]

The Slashdot community can't even spot duplicate posts within a day or two in the same portal!

Interesting theory here about dupes (and yes, this is flagrantly off-topic and responding to a troll, I should sacrifice karma, blah blah): People don't report dupes because they don't realize they read it on /. originally. Honestly, Slashdot doesn't have a whole lot in the way of original content-- it's mostly links to other stuff-- so if I see an article that looks familiar, my first instinct is that I saw it somewhere else, unless I know for certain that I saw it on Slashdot first.

that could be the mechanism for geek learning - if you see it repeated on Slashdot then it eventually sticks...

That's the mechanism for all learning. Sadly, the number of repetitions required for non-geeks tends to be exponentially higher than for geeks... Heh, retronym time:

NERD: No Excessive Repetition Desired

Re:Nerds != well-rounded-educated

[Anonymous Coward]

In your case my friend, since you are willing to beg, reality must really hurt a lot.

Re:memory

[proj_2501]

i think you'd better provide a link to that effect, sonny

You forgot one...

[Anonymous Coward]

For example, I know that if you are standed at the North Pole and are starving and are

I hear elves taste pretty good roasted....

Re:Coaching?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not that the modding system is crap, but how the hell can a post be modded "over-rated" when no fucker's even rated it yet?

Re:The New Jeopardy

[Anonymous Coward]

He used to seem more antagonistic to him. It's like Alex has Stockholm syndrome now that his show has been taken hostage by Ken. I wonder if the people who select the questions will deliberately start stacking the questions to exploit his weakspots or maybe they won't given the ratings boost he's bringing them.

Stockholm syndrome is the exact opposite of that: [It] is a psychological state in which the victims of a kidnapping, or persons detained against their free will - prisoners - develop a relationship with their captor(s). This solidarity can sometimes become a real complicity, with prisoners actually helping the captors to achieve their goals or to escape police.