Turns out the San Francisco Gate was right: Ken Jennings lost after 75 consecutive appearances on Jeopardy.
Because he didn’t know diddly squat about sports.
I think I coulda smoked all three of tonight’s contestants on that question bank.
Heh.
EDIT: woops. The number of wins was 74; the number of appearances was 75. And Slashdot has picked up the story.
Sports? I thought the losing question pertained to workers at H&R Block versus FedEx.
Oh, it did.
But the category that Ken could have used to pull away in the Double Jeopardy round was “Sports Arenas,” all of which were fairly easy questions (to a casual sports-watcher as myself).
The two daily doubles he missed were also, IMO, NOT something he should have missed.
I’m glad to see he got beat, rather than simply hanging it up after 75 games, though.
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