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Adieu to Ken Jennings

Posted by timothy on from the he's-not-dead-he's-a-millionaire dept.

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."

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  1. FedEx? by Malevolyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:FedEx? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But none of that would require white collar workers.

    2. Re:FedEx? by ckaminski · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't think ANY bookie in his right mind would ever take a bet in which the bettor was a principal capable of affecting the outcome. No FSCKING way.

    3. Re:FedEx? by secondsun · · Score: 4, Insightful

      October November December Janurary

      Trust me, if the retailers could stretch it further they would.

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  2. Re:Thanks by elsilver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes we knew it was coming, but didn't know when, or how.

    Some kind of spoiler alert would have been nice. Although I'm not sure how to do that. What is the headline? What's the lead paragraph? How do you attract people to the article without letting them know that tonight is the night?

    Well, I've got two hours to think about answers to those questions (or is it questions for those answers?) before it airs.

  3. Good choice for a Slashdot interview? by JLyle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't know if he reads Slashdot but it might make for an interesting interview.

  4. Re:A moment of silence... by the+pickle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hero?

    Did you actually *watch* that one? He actually *explained* the whole "1337" thing, and *he was serious*.

    That guy is the biggest dork I've seen on that show in five years.

    And that's saying a LOT.

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  5. Re:Ken and I were roomates by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ken Jennings was my roomate freshman year at Brigham Young University.

    We had both drank a lot - Ken said on the show he is a teetotaler.

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    I work on LAMP software and deploy to customer's websites.

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    I'm sorry, but I've got to call your bluff here. You've claimed to do to much stuff and to know too many people. If all this is true, it's quite impressive and you have a life history to be proud of; if not, you need to stop claiming to be so many different things if you want people to take you seriously.

    Besides, unless you're claiming that Ken got more moral after leaving BYU - a Mormon institution - you're attributing behaviors to him that the KenJen of the brief show interviews would not have done.