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If Obama, Jessica Simpson, and Wolf Blitzer were contestants on Jeopardy! this is pretty much how the show would play out....

I don't know her name, but it was funny, my wife turned around and said "Post that on Freepers" she's in the red and everybody is positive, can she break Wolfee's record?

CNN's Wolf Blitzer flunked out on the "Jeopardy! Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational" Thursday where he wound up $4600 in the hole. From the Politico with video included. He apparently didn't know as much as he thought he did.

As if evidence of the state’s fiscal straits wasn’t stark enough, consider Assembly Bill 91, which would create pilot project in Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Tulare counties where persons convicted of drunk driving would be required to install an interlock device on their vehicles. New Mexico, Texas, Washington, among other states, use the devices which the bill’s author, Assemblyman Mike Feuer, a Los Angeles Democrat, says can reduce DUI recidivism by as much as 95 percent. The length of time the device would stay on a vehicle varies depending on the number of offenses. A first offense would require...

It was a rough night for CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday night's "Jeopardy!" The "Situation Room" anchor came in last — and even in the red before Final Jeopardy — and lost to Dana Delany and Andy Richter.

I don't wanna ever hear how smart this guy is, Wolf Blitzer with the lowest negative score I've ever witnessed in 15 years of watching Jeopardy, he was up againt Andy Richter...

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer did not look so happy as he competed with actress Dana Delany and comedian Andy Richter in a round of “Celebrity Jeopardy.� The photo shows the scores at the end of the first two rounds. For “Final Jeopardy,� Alex Trebek was nice and wiped out that nasty negative number, credited him with $1,000 and Wolf nailed that final answer with the correct question.

It was a rough night for CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday night's "Jeopardy!" The "Situation Room" anchor came in last -- and even in the red before Final Jeopardy -- and lost to Dana Delany and Andy Richter. (see video)

Wolf Blitzer - Genius OK, I know, it's not really an IQ test or anything, but to do this badly on Jeapordy, on a "Celebrity Panel" against two TV stars, you have just GOT to be dumber than two rocks. If you saw it, you know what I mean, if you never watch, think it's stupid, whatever, OK...but this was amazing. I wonder how many jokes about Sara Palin's IQ this prink has told? Jeapordy does a show with celebrities and they ask questions like "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb" and it's all for charity, which is nice of...

Jeopardy is having a once monthly celeb show leading up to a million dollar prize for the winner's charity. Andy Richter went absolutely nuclear today and won around $70K for St. Jude's, competing against Wolf Blitzer and Dana Delany (who also beat Wolf's arse). Wolf was SO inept he had to be given house money to compete in Final Jeopardy, and Alex tried to make the excuse that he didn't get the signaling device motion - no, he was standing there like the ignorant, arrogant ass he is. At the end when Andy won, he folded up his arms -...

WASHINGTON (May 20) — The nation's top geography whiz breezed through questions about mountain ranges, rivers and world capitals Wednesday, but he was stumped when National Geographic Bee host Alex Trebek asked him to name one of his weaknesses. "Um ..." said Eric Yang, 13, pausing. The Texas teen had just revealed to the "Jeopardy!" host how he crafts his own chess strategies and plays the piano. "That's OK," Trebek replied. "You remind me of a former president, but we won't get into that."

I'm a big fan of Jeopardy, but lately (lately as in 'under the Obama regime') the show's liberal bias has gone from mild and tolerable to in-your-face and highly irritating. The latest stunt was having uber-leftist witch Maureen Dowd read a clue that bashed Ken Starr. I wonder if this is Jeopardy's future. * * * "I'll take 'Politicians' for $200, Alex." "This vice-presidential candidate claimed that she could see Russia from her house." "Who is Sarah Palin?" "Correct for $200. Aren't we self-proclaimed intellectuals so much smarter than her?" * * * "I'll take 'Religion' for $400, Alex." "The...

Double jeopardy in before US Supreme Court HOUSTON A former Enron Corp. executive is hoping a little known component of the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause will help him avoid a retrial on charges related to financial fraud at the once mighty energy giant. Attorneys for F. Scott Yeager are set to present oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday on the issue of whether double jeopardy prevents prosecutors from retrying individuals after a jury votes not guilty on some charges, but fails to reach a verdict on others that share an element with the acquitted charges. Prosecutors...

On yesterday's "Jeopardy" show, there was an entire category dedicated to Barack Obama trivia. The rules for the category were similar to the normal way the game is played, except that all money given to contestants in this category was paid for by taking away the money that will be won by contestants on subsequent episodes. Judges hired to make sure the game was played fairly were all former contestants who were caught cheating on Jeopardy. At the end of the game, the contestant with the most money had to give half of it to the judges and the other...

Anyone been watching Jeopardy! recently? The current champion, Larissa Kelly, has won 5 games in a row with a total of $179,797 (averaging almost $36,000 a game). Will she be the next Ken Jennings? Her 5-day total is a new Jeopardy! record for most cash won in a contestant's first 5 games (although it is not a record when adjusted for the increase in clue values). For comparison, Ken won $156,000 in his first 5 games.

"Jeopardy!" is a polished, crafted piece of Americana, from the men and women's powdered faces to the set's elaborate plaster trappings of academia to the crowd's exuberant applause. And this year's filming of the "Jeopardy! College Championship" was no different. Over 120 "Jeopardy!" crew and tons of equipment traveled to Madison for two days of filming five shows that would decide the winner of intellectual bragging rights and a $100,000 prize. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's own Suchita Shah and Danielle Zsenak of Marquette University were competing Friday and today among a group of 15 peers. Media were asked not to...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek was hospitalized Tuesday after a minor heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said. Trebek, 67, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center late Monday night and was expected to remain there about two days for tests and observation, said show spokesman Jeff Ritter. "Thankfully it was a minor heart attack," Ritter said. He did not give other details. A post on the official "Jeopardy!" Web site said Trebek was "resting comfortably in a Los Angeles hospital, and he will be back in the studio for the next scheduled tapings in January."...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek was hospitalized Tuesday after a minor heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said. Trebek, 67, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center late Monday night and was expected to remain there about two days for tests and observation, said show spokesman Jeff Ritter. "Thankfully it was a minor heart attack," Ritter said. He did not give other details. A post on the official "Jeopardy!" Web site said Trebek was "resting comfortably in a Los Angeles hospital, and he will be back in the studio for the next scheduled tapings in January."...

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President Clinton is a big fan of "24" even though "an uber right-wing guy" produces the Emmy-winning political thriller. Clinton told TV advertisers Friday that his favorite show is the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," and he appreciates "Boston Legal" for the dynamic between William Shatner and James Spader. "It's something to behold," he said. As for "24," which was co-created by noted Republican Joel Surnow, Clinton said he enjoys the fact that conservatives and liberals alike can be the bad guys in the show. "They're trying to be fair," Clinton said. His other must-see TV shows include "All in the...

NEW YORK — All those years of answers and questions, and it's never happened before on "Jeopardy!" What is a three-way tie, Alex?

"Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings says recent comments he posted on his Web site about the long-running game show and host Alex Trebek weren't "bashing." NEW YORK (AP) -- "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings says recent comments he posted on his Web site about the long-running game show and host Alex Trebek weren't "bashing." "I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings said of Trebek in a July 19 letter titled, "Dear Jeopardy!" Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak on "Jeopardy!" in...

NEW YORK (AP) - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show - and dapper host Alex Trebek. "I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site. "Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)." Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and...

Dear Jeopardy!, Hey, I hope you remember me. It’s been a while since we talked. We were a bit of an item a couple years back, in all the papers, but I think we both know that was just a summer thing. The last time we saw each other…well, the magic just wasn’t there. That’s why I don’t mind when I see you with a new special someone. Or two. Nearly every night! … I’m sorry, is this sounding passive-aggressive? I don’t mean to badger you. I remember that, when we were together, it seems like all I ever did...

FORT HUACHUCA — The answer: This Arizona military installation is home to B Troop, 4th U.S. Cavalry Regiment (Memorial). The question: What is Fort Huachuca? Although the answer and question will not be part of any future “Jeopardy!,” some things that happen on the post and in the Army will. Tuesday, the “Jeopardy!” Clue Crew was on the post, filming video answers for the give-us-the-right-question television game show. Between the Hollywood production, group and the military, the answers are classified so future contestants will not have an advantage. The show’s Clue Crew is in its fifth year, traveling around the...

Although a small number of wrongfully convicted individuals have been exonerated by post-conviction DNA testing recently and released from prison. For example, Thomas Doswell of Pennsylvania who spent 19 years behind bars and Luis Diaz of Florida who spent 26 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit. Now Peter Rose, who served 10 years in a California state prison, fortunately and rightfully so, after a finding of "factual innocence," which clears the way for him to collect compensation from the state, as much as $100 a day for the time spent in prison, which adds up to more...

Ken Jennings, the most successful "Jeopardy!" player in the show's long history suddenly earned as asterisk next to his name Wednesday night: He was badly beaten in the final round of the "Ultimate Tournament of Champions," losing to Brad Rutter, who now stands as "Jeopardy's" leading money winner. By winning Wednesday night, Rutter earned $2 million, which - added to his previous winnings on the show - means he's got a grand total of $3.1 million. Jennings, who came in second, earned $500,000, and that added to his record total of $2.5 million won last fall means he's at $3...

WHEN Kenneth W. Jennings III, '00, first learned he had been selected to compete in the long-running television game show Jeopardy!, the Murray, Utah, software engineer had three weeks to prepare. He began by watching the program while standing behind his recliner to get the feel of a podium and working on his timing by holding a child's toy about the same size as a buzzer. That simple strategy offers a small glimpse into the seemingly mild- mannered but highly competitive player who, in an unmatched six-month winning streak, became a game-show legend, smashing a bevy of records and sending...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - If winning more than $2.5 million wasn't enough, ``Jeopardy!'' whiz Ken Jennings will have a shot at winning an additional $2 million - but the competition will be tougher this time around. Bring It On! "I can't wait to see who I'll be up against in the finals," says 'Jeopardy' king, Ken Jennings. Producers of the game show announced Tuesday a ``Super Tournament,'' which will pit Jennings in a final match against two survivors of a competition between nearly 150 past five-time winners. Host Alex Trebek called the tournament the ``quest for Ken.'' ``Ever since Ken...

Following his remarkable run as the "Jeopardy!" whiz, Ken Jennings is famous enough to be trailed by a fan in the subway, is penning a book and, of course, has $2,520,700 in winnings to decide how to spend. What he doesn't have anymore, after his 74-game winning streak came to an end in an episode televised Tuesday, is a chance to play his favorite game. "I miss it quite a bit," Jennings told The Associated Press. "It didn't really hit me that that was going to be the hard part. I thought the hard part would be the loss." He...

Is it final Jeopardy for Jennings? - 11-30-2004 The soft-spoken software engineer Ken Jennings, who is Jeopardy!'s longest-running champ, could finally get beaten and booted off the pre-taped show tonight after a record 75 appearances, according to numerous Web reports. With $2.5-million in his back pocket, the 30-year-old Jennings has earned the title of highest-earning player ever on a syndicated quiz show. Yesterday, a two-minute audio clip was circulated on the Web, including the question that is reported to have stumped this king of quiz. Sudbury, Ont.-native Alex Trebek, Jeopardy!'s host, can be heard saying, "The category is business and...

The woman who ended "Jeopardy!" whiz Ken Jennings' 74-game winning streak is a California real estate agent whose own 8-year-old daughter asked for his autograph when they met. But having an accountant-friend who's nearly impossible to reach at tax time paid off for Nancy Zerg -- big time. In a victory telecast Tuesday, Zerg beat a pop-culture icon who had achieved an aura of invincibility. Jennings won $2,520,700, a record for a TV game show contestant, since his first appearance June 2. During his streak, Jennings usually had opponents so thoroughly beaten that the Final Jeopardy question was meaningless to...

Here are the answers: 1. Over $2,500,000 (How much did he eventually win?) 2. A woman named Nancy. (Who finally defeated him?) 3. By a very small margin. 4. Because we live in the future here in Asia. 5. Sorry. For that one, you'll have to watch the show.

This morning, KOGO reports that the Jeopardy episopde that shows Ken Jennings two-million+ winning streak come to an end will be aired tonight. The show was taped some time ago.

Leo Durocher got a bad rap. He didn’t quite say, “Nice guys finish last.” Besides, sometimes nice guys do finish first. No, I’m not talking about any politician, or pro athlete, or entertainer. Nope, I’m talking about someone you all know, and I’m certain you’re all rooting for. Ken Jennings is a nice guy, and he’s already finished in first place. His incredible run is rumored on the Internet to have gone about 71 consecutive shows and about $2.6 million in winnings. The trade press says the show where he loses has already been taped, and will air in about...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Arlen Specter move up to chairman of the committee that handles the president's judicial nominees is on the line this week when lawmakers return to the Capitol to clean up the unfinished work of this Congress and prepare for the next one. Following their election triumphs, Republicans are eager to wrap up the lame-duck session as quickly as possible, to clear the path for President Bush's second-term initiatives of tax simplification, Social Security overhaul and lawsuit limitations. But before ending the 108th Congress, lawmakers must deal with spending bills covering most federal domestic programs for the fiscal...

Quiz-show king Ken Jennings has broken another record on "Jeopardy!" Jennings won $45,099 on the episode that aired Wednesday, bringing his total earnings to $2,197,000 to make him the top TV game show winner ever. He beat the previous record of $2,180,000, set by Michigan engineer Kevin Olmstead on ABC's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" in 2001. Jennings, a 30-year-old software engineer from Salt Lake City, began his 66-appearances-and-counting streak on the episode that aired June 2. Since then, he has richly profited from a rule change made only last year, at the start of the syndicated game show's...

"Jeopardy!" champ Ken Jennings is now the $2 million man. The game show's all-time winner increased his total to more than $2,006,000 on Monday's show. It was his 59th straight winning Jeopardy appearance. Jennings also has the longest winning streak in game show history. The Utah software engineer could be on Jeopardy a while longer. The trade publication TV Week reported last month that Jennings lost in an episode that has already been taped, but hasn't been aired yet. His reported total for 75 shows: $2.5 million

Warning: spoilers. Well, since it's all over the news today (there's an AP story that was picked up by just about everyone -- USA Today, SF Gate, Miami Herald, Washington Post -- but no love to kottke.org for breaking the story...TV Week is getting all the credit), there's no further harm in revealing that Ken Jennings does in fact lose on Jeopardy at some point in the near future. But there's more. Super-tipster Phillip has graciously provided us with the Final Jeopardy answer and question from Ken's final show. If you'd like to know what it is, highlight the redacted...

Has Ken Jennings 'Jeopardy!' Run Finally Ended? LOS ANGELES -- Has Ken Jennings ended his "Jeopardy!" streak? A report posted Wednesday on TV Week's Web site said the brainy software engineer lost in a show taped Monday, walking away after his 75th straight game with about $2.5 million overall in cash and prizes. The magazine cited unidentified sources and said the show would air later this fall. A spokesperson for the show told TV Week that it would not disclose whether Jennings lost. The 30-year-old Jennings of Salt Lake City began his record-breaking run June 2. After winning the show...

So he's mortal after all: Ken Jennings, arguably the most famous game show contestant since Charles Van Doren, ended his record run on "Jeopardy!" during a taping Wednesday. Jennings' loss was reported by TV Week, a respected industry trade publication, which said he ended his run with total winnings of "around $2.5 million in cash and prizes," or roughly double his total when "Jeopardy!" wrapped its season in July. The show tapes a couple of months in advance of airing, and the magazine reported that Jennings had lost his 75th game. Because the program's fall season began Monday, that means...

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) It turns out that the recent "Jeopardy!" ratings bump had little to do with viewers rediscovering their love for answers phrased in the form of questions and everything to do with their devotion to a certain geeky Mormon millionaire. In its first week of a summer rerun cycle, "Jeopardy!" saw its viewership plummet. After four consecutive weeks on top of the syndicated ratings charts, "Jeopardy!" fell to third for the week ending Sunday, Aug. 1. After pulling in a 9.6 rating and nearly 14.3 million viewers for the week ending July 25, "Jeopardy!" slipped to 6.0 rating...

An Answering Machine on Hold 'Jeopardy!' Juggernaut Ken Jennings Goes Home For the Summer With His Record Streak Intact By Tamara Jones Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 24, 2004; Page A01 The Man Who Ate "Jeopardy!" took a breather yesterday but is still licking his chops. Which left viewers with this $1,321,660-and-still-counting question: After eight weeks, 38 episodes, 76 opponents and more than 1,300 questions in more than 450 categories, just how long is Ken Jennings's record winning streak going to last? The one-man geekathon by the boyish software engineer from Salt Lake City has sent ratings for the...

Ken Jennings is pretty darned smart. By Friday, he had won more than $1 million over 33 straight shows on "Jeopardy,'' making him the game show's top money winner and longest-lasting champion. And he's still going strong. You've got to be bright and quick to win at "Jeopardy." You have to know a lot of things. And although the game is not chess in terms of complexity, or even checkers, there do seem to be some elements of strategy. But while everyone would agree you need smarts, is that the same thing as intelligence? For that matter, what do we...

Tuesday 20th July, 2004 'Jeopardy' champ at $1,135,460 Big News Network.com Tuesday 20th July, 2004 Salt Lake City software engineer Ken Jennings brought his Jeopardy total to $1,135,460 Monday, adding $35,000 for his 34th straight win. Host Alex Trebek, noting Jennings initially prepared for his appearances by studying flashcards, asked Jennings, How do you prepare for games now? Don't be offended but I try to never watch 'Jeopardy' ... I read the paper and see if that helps, Jennings said. It hasn't so far, but you never know. The 30-year-old Brigham Young University graduate bested Beverly Herter of Portsmouth, R.I.,...

Television's seemingly unbeatable answer man — or question man — has passed the $1 million mark on "Jeopardy!" Ken Jennings, the whip-smart software engineer from Salt Lake City, won his 30th straight contest on the syndicated game show, in an episode televised Tuesday. That brought his earnings to $1,004,960. He's long since blown past the previous record for a "Jeopardy!" contestant, excluding special tournaments. Tom Walsh of Washington, D.C., set that record of $184,900 over seven days last winter.

~snip~ But the real TV story this week has to be the undisputed 25-game reign of Jeopardy! supercontestant Ken Jennings. As of yesterday, the 30-year-old software engineer from Salt Lake City had won a total of $788,960, beating the previous record-holder, Tom Walsh, by a margin of over $600,000. Granted, this unprecedented victory streak was also made possible by this season's change in Jeopardy! rules—the term limits have been lifted, as it were, so that the run of a winning contestants may continue indefinitely, instead of being stopped after five consecutive games. But Ken is no mere beneficiary of this...

I hope everyone gets to watch tonight's Jeopardy. These guys, Tim Russert, Christie Whitman and Tavis Smiley are so incredibly stupid it's worth a good laugh. It's especially fun watching Russert since he acts so smart on his show but we see on it that he doesn't even know that DC stands for direct current.

Al Frankin and Keith Obbermman on Jeopardy