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Questions asked over the defeat of trivia titan
The Australian ^
| Dec. 3, 2004
| Robert Lusetich
Posted on 12/02/2004 7:28:34 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
"Not H&R Block! Anything but H&R Block!
That's my favorite company!"
To: COUNTrecount
>...
name the firm whose 70,000 white-collar employees were mostly seasonal,
working only four months of the year ... Jennings ... answered "FedEx", for
courier company Federal Express, which prides itself on its 24-hour, 365-days-of-the-year service ...
You've got to admit
that answer is very strange.
But all TV's strange . . .
To: COUNTrecount
I believe Jennings day job was to work as a quizmaster for those student trivia contests. Not only did he blow the last question on his 75th show, but he blew both of his 'doubles', as well. And he had been one who was known for literally guessing among the group of a few possibilities for an answer. Yet he got the three big questions wrong, that day. It really doesn't take a genuis to suspect that he threw the match. But the question is whether it was because he wanted to get paid, finally, or because he was subtlely instructed to do so, or maybe both.
Personally, I never really liked Jeopardy. People thought that 'genius' followed someone like Jennings who could answer out of context trivia questions like some sort of 'human calculator'. It was a freak show. And I won't watch it now. But I did tune in a few times to watch Jennings. And web had given everyone the scoop that he was going to lose on Tuesday's episode. So I made sure to watch.
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:42:16 AM PST
by
sevry
To: COUNTrecount
Of all the questions to get wrong -- H&R Block???? Come on KenJen - you threw the game.... :(
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:43:30 AM PST
by
crv16
To: COUNTrecount
What is "I'm tired of this and want to go home", Alex?
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:45:08 AM PST
by
Blzbba
(Conservative Republican - Less gov't, less spending, less intrusion.)
To: COUNTrecount
Questions asked over the defeat of trivia titan. I thought is was answers provided and we must guess the question.
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:45:53 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: COUNTrecount
I always liked "Jeopardy" although I haven't seen it in a couple of years.
When reading the article, the first thing which came to mind after seeing that question was "UPS". Of course when I saw the correct answer it was obvious.
Still I can see "Fed Ex" as a legitimate answer.
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:48:11 AM PST
by
yarddog
To: Blzbba
"What is "I'm tired of this and want to go home", Alex?"DING DING DING!
I agree. I think that not only was he tired of it but also as far as he was concerned had won enough money and decided to throw the game.
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:53:40 AM PST
by
El Gran Salseron
(My wife just won the "Inmate of the Month" Award! :-))
To: yarddog
I also guessed UPS and was surprised with H&R Block.
UPS hires most of it's permanent employees after htye have worked the Christmas season as temps. 40,000 might be a little low though.
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:54:33 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
To: COUNTrecount
To be fair, I'm pretty good at playing the game from the comfort from my own home, and even there, with no pressure at all, it took me the entire 30 seconds to come up with the answer... and I have a brother-in-law who is an accountant and my father worked for H&R Block one year as a tax preparer...
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posted on
12/02/2004 7:59:59 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.)
To: COUNTrecount
When I heard it initially described on the radio, I was sort of leaning with him. All I heard was 70,000
seasonal
employees. When I asked my wife to repeat what was said, she added white collar and works only four months. Thats when I knew it was H&R Block.
Because about a week ago there was a news clip I read about a company hiring 70,000 seasonal workers but that was UPS, not FedEx.
So initially I was ready to pop up with the UPS answer, but the white collar and four months part ruled that out.
You can see what caused the confusion on my part (other than only hearing select parts of the question) here: UPS to Hire 70,000 Workers for Holidays
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posted on
12/02/2004 8:00:36 AM PST
by
Who dat?
To: kevkrom
I heard yesterday that Ken was going to retire after he won 100 games. Also, the woman that defeated him was defeated yesterday, after her only win.
To: COUNTrecount
I heard yesterday that Ken was going to retire after he won 100 games.
Where did you hear that?
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posted on
12/02/2004 8:09:17 AM PST
by
drjimmy
To: cyclotic
I agree. My first thought was UPS until I saw her H&R Block answer. "Seasonal" makes me think of Christmas time, not tax time.
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posted on
12/02/2004 8:13:08 AM PST
by
HawaiianGecko
(Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results is the definition of insanity.)
To: drjimmy
I believe that I read it in an article yesterday.
To: COUNTrecount
Jennings played a very odd game. It's hard to dispute that. Not only did he answer FedEx when he must have known the company in no way met the criteria of the question (who ever thought of FedEx as a "white collar" company with "seasonal" employees?), he also failed to answer an easy DailyDouble about the Battle of the Bulge. Given the extraordinary breadth of his knowledge, it's very puzzling he didn't know that Bastogne was the crucial fulcrum of the battle. He also got an additional DailyDouble wrong for a total of two, an unprecented fumble in his long reign.
I think it's quite possible Ken figured 2.5 M and 75 games were enough, and he tanked the game. I don't really fault him for it. If he tanked, he did it, as he's done everything else during his long moment in the sun, with a lot of class.
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posted on
12/02/2004 8:18:06 AM PST
by
beckett
To: cyclotic
"40,000 might be a little low though."
Yeah, it's closer to 70,000 permanent employees and they're hired year-round.
UPS also employees about 260,000 (!!) Teamsters to drive their brown trucks year-round.
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posted on
12/02/2004 8:18:36 AM PST
by
Blzbba
(Conservative Republican - Less gov't, less spending, less intrusion.)
To: HawaiianGecko
"Seasonal" makes me think of Christmas time, not tax time. Good point.
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posted on
12/02/2004 8:19:47 AM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: HawaiianGecko
Yeah, but the real clue was "white collar"...FedEX, UPS is
not "white collar"...so you knew it had to be "office-paper work"....and if that doesn't describe seasonal private TAX work, he only other answers would have been IRS auditors, or
democratic insurers of republican democracy vote counters...
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posted on
12/02/2004 8:20:47 AM PST
by
Getready
((...Fear not ...))
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