Ken Jennings' winning streak on Jeopardy

[Imparcticle]

Ken Jennings!

Ken Jennings is a contestant on Its Jeporady!. He's won about $500,000 on the show and is currently a 13 day champion! Anyone watch Jeporady here? If so, then you've seen the master mind in action. If you haven't, you should.

 

[Chrono]

I saw the one when he answered all questions on insects. Seriously, guys, I know some people are interested in it but, I don't know, I just don't think he does have much of a life. I mean, I'm probably 89% dumber than he is, and I don't have any kind of life.

Jon

 

[Chrono]

I'll tell you what, he'll have as much of a life as he could want with that kind of money.

Jon

 

[enigma]

I wonder how he'd stack up with some earlier big winners if they hadn't have changed the rules.

There was one guy who won IIRC $100K+ in 5 days (when that was the limit before you were booted). The answers were also worth half as much back then. I remember he had a funny looking beard.

My high school guidance counselor won on Jeopardy three days in a row. He lucked out in final Jeopardy each time.

 

[Monique]

A high school geology teacher of mine once participated in the wheel of fortune.. and left the show with 0 guilders in his pocket.. he didn't tell anyone about the show, but the whole school soon found out :P

 

[Njorl]

I find that people with very broad bases of knowledge have lives. People retain knowledge that is interesting. One of the strongest motivators of interest is the interest of other people. I think some people are just jealous .

Njorl

 

[Imparcticle]

We don't know Ken well enough to come up with conclusions like that. Unless of course other people around here do know him as a friend. I agree with Njorl.

 

[cookiemonster]

I have a secret... I am Ken Jemming! Er... Jenning... Jennings, yeah, that's it.

cookiemonster

 

[Chrono]

I have a secret... I am Ken Jemming! Er... Jenning... Jennings, yeah, that's it.

cookiemonster

Really? Could I borrow a dollar?

 

[The_Professional]

And the $500,000 dollar question is: What would you do if you have $500,000?

 

[Imparcticle]

Well, to update you guys as of today, he won about $622,000.
Anyway, he plans on going to France, England, Spain.

Hey, hey, hey cookiemonster! Good ol' bud! Gee you're such a nice guy...don't mind lendin' a good ol' pal of yours (yeah, we go back over 60 days! that's friendship man!) a few hundered thousand bucks? I'm just askin' you from the goodness of my heart...you know, just to help you out there with all that $$$money$$$.

 

[Njorl]

I'm curious. At what point would you quit? Here he is with a lot of new money, but he is stuck in LA taping Jeopardy! Sure, he's making $30,000 a day, for a half-hour's work, but eventually, it won't be worthwhile.

I should have problems like that.

Njorl