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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."

6 of 339 comments (clear)

  1. Mistaken Identity by BarryJacobsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I searched for myself once and turned up all sorts of erroneous information...One seemingly reputable and authoritative page even had my name wrong!"

    Just a guess, but maybe they were talking about someone else?

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  2. That's it? by fearanddread · · Score: 5, Funny
    75 shows and then he gets to be the Encarta spokesman? Seems a bit of a letdown somehow.

    I'd like to see a Texas cage match between Jennings and Trebek.... winner gets Jeopardy hosting duties.

  3. Re:Stumpers by fireman+sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just thought of a better question:

    "What is a General protection fault 0x4700AF2D in KERNEL32.DLL:MessageBoxExA+046 EAX 0x00000000 EIP 0x00000000 EDX 0x000010FA"

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  4. Re:In Case It Be Dotted by marktaw.com · · Score: 5, Funny
    answering 2,700 Jeopardy! questions
    Don't they mean "questioning 2,700 Jeopardy! answers" ???
  5. Obligatory Jepordy answer by CrazyJim0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    42

    See if he knows the question.

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  6. Strange by Azathfeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never thought I'd hear of a man making millions of dollars and then deciding to become an encyclopedia salesman.