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They Killed Ken!

Posted by michael on from the fall-of-a-champion dept.

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)."

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  1. You Bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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    1. Re:You Bastards! by alSeen · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They are bastards for putting this on the main page.

      Some of us like to be surprised by things. Now slashdot has decided to take it upon themselves to ruin the next 30 shows for their readers that have been watching Jeopardy.

      Thank you oh so much /.

      Please take this off the main page or reword the article so no one else has to have their enjoyment ruined.

    2. Re:You Bastards! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Insightful

      First we complain thats theres no news.

      Then we complain thats the news is duped.

      Now we complain that we didn't want to see the news!

      (I'm actually 100% behind you on this, im not even American, and have never seen the show, but giving out spoilers on the main page is just bad m'kay!)

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    3. Re:You Bastards! by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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...

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  2. Spoilers? by Capt_Troy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's up with this? Why not just start posting all the endings for upcoming movies?

    1. Re:Spoilers? by Jearil · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I agree with the parent,

      It does seem a bit rude to those of us who watch Jeopardy as if it were a national sport. 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. It sort of takes away from watching these things when you know the end result.

      I know that for the whole last season I'd feel myself compelled to gravitate towards the TV whenever I heard that Ken was on... even if I was in the middle of something else, I found I couldn't concentrate until I watched the damn show. Mostly it was because I wanted to see if that night would be the last night for Ken or not. A few times there was at least a chance he could lose, and finding out by watching was the big event of the evening if nothing else was going on.

      So please keep away from the spoilers.. I'm still hoping he's going to go on until Trebek gets sick of him and retires from the job :)

    2. Re:Spoilers? by strictfoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Anakin is Darth Vader!

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

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  3. Categories that Ken lost on... by bje2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    - 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...

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  4. Re:so who beat him by LittleGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. What "Game" ? by e2ka · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could you at least put the subject of the article somewhere in the description?

    Sure, I agree with RTFA, if I can determine it is worthwhile...

  6. wiki wiki wiki by tuxter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some info here.

  7. Outsourced by rlp · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  8. My buzzer was failing! by michael+path · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  9. The losing Final Jeopardy question of Ken Jennings by jkottke · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks to a tipster, I broke this story on my site yesterday morning...AP and /. have no love for weblogs? ;). This morning, that same tipster has provided the Final Jeopardy question/answer which cost Ken his streak. If you don't mind the spoilers, click through to find out.

  10. Don't count on it Indeed by MarkPNeyer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everyone should RTFA here - big time. This whole thing is based on something that showed up on this 'TV Week' website, and the company is not confirming the story...


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