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Jeopardy! Whiz Becomes Encarta Spokesman

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the riddle-me-this dept.

Ant writes "BetaNews' story says Microsoft tapped Jeopardy! king Ken Jennings, who recently finished his 75-game run on the show, to become the spokesman for its Encarta product line. Jennings will embark on a nationwide media tour called 'Quiz the Whiz' that challenges news desks to stump the human encyclopedia with questions from Microsoft's Encarta Reference Library Premium 2005."

2 of 339 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why Encarta? by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, name 100 names from Wikipedia's "List of Jews" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jews

    Or how about the wonderful list of "Blood Libels against Jews".
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blood _libels_ against_Jews

    Wonderful super-anti-semit-troll propiganda, eh? Why the flying fuck do you need a "List of Jews" in an encyclopedia other than to pronounce anti-semitism?

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  2. What's he going to do first? by blair1q · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Will he go over to the dark side, or will he spend the next 10 years fixing all the stupid errors in the Encarta encyclopedia?