Ken Jennings Loss Video Clip

[shinyam]

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2658065?ifilmp=99&refsite=6761

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.

He must have a really bad day to lose both double jeopardy's and the final jeopardy.

A very likeable guy, and his winnings are well deserved.

Do you think he lost on purpose like some people said? He may have had enough. The answer was pretty obvious, even I knew it.

 

[Keebler Elf]

At first, I thought he lost on purpose b/c he had made $2.5 million and it was something like his 75th show. I suspected the show gave him some hush money to leave since having the same guy win every night is not good for ratings in the longrun.

HOWEVER...

That was before I actually saw the show when he lost. I don't think he set it up at all. He blew his chance, not in final Jeopardy, but right before when he screwed up the Daily Double that cost him close to $5K. That put the woman back in the game. Making matters worse, there were few questions left at the time and most of them were sports arena name questions; which all three players sucked at (none of them got any right). So there wasn't enough time or questions for him to get his money back.

On a normal night for him, he would still have won even after getting the last question wrong. But on that night he didn't have the cushion and getting the last question wrong cost him the game.

 

[VincenzoTurismo]

I don't really watch this show but all along I was thinking they should ask him more sports questions. I knew this was his final show because they said so in the Toronto Sun so I watched about half of it. During that time I saw 3 sports questions. One of them was about "what is the zero score in tennis called." I know the answer is "love" but he obviously didn't. They also asked the names of where the NY Islanders play (Nassau Coliseum) and the Detroit Red Wings (Joe Louis Arena). He couldn't get those either.

It was only a matter of time before he'd get beat and the person who beat him lost the next night, but he obviously did well. I knew all along though that he most likely never followed sports, but pretty much everything else. The girl out-smartened him in the end with a question that was made for him.

Ciao,

VT

 

[n_v]

He was bored.

 

[jackryan02]

Don't think he lost on purpose. My guess is that he lost in due course, but that Jeopardy!'s producers dragged it out so that his loss would fall sometimes during the networks' November sweeps period. Did you notice how there have been more Teen Tournaments and College Tournaments at the beginning of this season? And how the exact date was leaked a while ago. I'd be curious to see what the advertising rates were for that show as compared to other recent shows.