Posted on 06/04/2019 7:13:04 AM PDT by EdnaMode
For weeks, the “Jeopardy!” phenomenon James Holzhauer had been unstoppable.
He set the record for the most money won in one episode, holds the second spot on the list, and the next 14. Eleven times during his winning streak, he went a whole game without buzzing in incorrectly. For fans, the question was not whether he would surpass the $2.52 million Ken Jennings won during his record 74-game winning streak in 2004, but when.
The correct response:
What is never?
In the prerecorded episode that aired on Monday, Holzhauer’s “Jeopardy!” reign came to an end with his 33rd game, a tantalizing $58,484 shy of Jennings’s mark. The number of the day turned out to be $22,002, the amount that separated him from the winner, a librarian from Chicago named Emma Boettcher.
The surprising end caused even the famously dispassionate host to practically lose his composure.
“What a game!” Alex Trebek exclaimed after Boettcher’s final score popped up. “Oh my gosh!”
Holzhauer walked over to give Boettcher a high-five.
“Nobody likes to lose,” Holzhauer said in an interview. “But I’m very proud of how I did, and I really exceeded my own expectations for the show. So I don’t feel bad about it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Where did you drag that out from? I merely mentioned the sex of the individual who won..........Why are YOU bringing up the sex aspect?
Here, let me rephrase the statement:
Then you read too much to think that turned the tide in favor of the CONTESTANT.......
Do you feel better now?
Sure
Touche’
Did he throw the game to cash in on a bet?
I thought that the questions were, overall, easier than they usually were with James was a contestant. Jeopardy can obviously make the questions as hard or easy as they want. The two week special contest with the teachers, while quite entertaining, definitely had questions of a very different level of difficulty. Perhaps the producers realized that making the questions more challenging only gave James more of an edge.
Bingo !!
Good point. I should’ve inserted legally! LOL
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