Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy"

[Terryray]

WARNING: SPOILER BELOW

WARNING: SPOILER BELOW














Info leaked in Sept reveals that Jennings will lose tonight (Tues), attempting his 75th consecutive win.


This has been confirmed from other sources and the dude who runs the weblog linked above actually had audio of the loss, but Sony lawyers forced him to remove it.

 

[DR STRANGELOVE]

any books out there taking wagers?

 

[ScreaminPain]

I heard he loses on the Final Jeopardy question.

He missed it and "Nancy" or someone gets it right. The question has something to do with "what company uses 70,000 workers for 4 months of the year.....It's not FedEx!

Sketchy info, in know, but thats about all I heard.

 

[ballplayer8]

This is how it goes down . . .

This is how it goes down . . .

Business and Industry proved Jennings's undoing:

Alex Trebek: "The category is Business and Industry and here is the clue, ladies and gentlemen: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year. You have 30 seconds. Good luck."

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"Nancy, you wrote down your response rather quickly, I thought. I hope it's correct," Trebek told someone apparently named Nancy, who appears to be Jennings's only opponent by the Final Jeopardy round, meaning his other competitor already had flamed out in red ink.

"What is H&R Block," Nancy had written. She got it right. Nancy had wagered $4,401. She now had $14,401, giving her a $1 lead over Jennings, who went into the Final Jeopardy round with a puny $14,400



Back to Trebek:

Trebek: "And his final response is . . . "

(Much gasping and groaning appeared to come from the audience.)

"FedEx," Trebek read. "His wager was $5,601; he winds up in second place with $8,799."

 

[bjfinste]

Final Jeopardy just concluded on TV here... Nancy looked like she was going to faint when Trebek read "Fed Ex".

 

[KotysDad]

He had to have been paid off to miss that question. The guy knows the chemical composition of moon rocks for petes sake and he misses a question most high school contestants would know.

I dont buy the validity of that showdown.

 

[Bif "The Hat"]

Wow! Thats a shocker!

 

[twofingers]

I agree. The powers who be decided his run was over.

 

[oldschoolcapper]

he has missed a few final jeopardy questions before. i didn't get to watch it though. the webblog that posted the video belongs to one of my fiancee's high school classmates.........small world. his site should get a lot more hits now that he posted this.


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