Alex Trebek/Jeopardy Tribute Thread

This pleases me.

Whenever I see Leary, I think of him lifting a good portion of his early material from Bill Hicks. Then I think of what Hicks had to say about it.

"I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."

 

I always found it amusing how they would play it straight with his occupation:

“Our first contestant is a nuclear physicist from Springfield, Mr. John Smith.

Our second contestant is a brain surgeon, from Shelbyville, Ms. Jane Doe.

And our champion, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada ...”

 

I thought he was throwing in the towel, but my girlfriend is a three-time Jeopardy winner (who hates the guy), and she thought that was the smart move. I would've bet enough to pass the leader's total going into Final Jeopardy in case she didn't know and decided to zero it. (My bar trivia team has won several times by zeroing a ridiculous multipart final question when we've had a lead, figuring no one would get it. We've gotten burned once.)

 

Emma looks pretty good, but she's not going to get leads as big as James (who answered 1,100-plus clues correctly and missed all of 36!) did in each of his victories. I could see her winning 5-10 games or more, but I can also see her getting beaten tomorrow.

 

She bet nothing in final jeopardy. We deserve better champions

 

It's all Weird Al's fault

The eerie coincidence between James Holzhauer's ‘Jeopardy’ loss and Weird Al’s 'Jeopardy' song

And nice pic on his Twitter page

James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) | Twitter

 

unworthy

 

Unless I'm misunderstanding, your trivia team knows the question before making a final wager. Jeopardy contests don't. They only know the topic, which is usually generic, so your strategy wouldn't apply.

Second, if James had wagered everything, Emma still could have passed him and won. She bet $1 more than double his score. So even if he had wagered it all, her wager would have given her the win if they both got it right.

His only play, as he's detailed, was to block out the third contestant with a modest wager and hope that Emma had a correct response.

 

It may be boring, but it was the right play if she felt uncomfortable with the topic.

Wagering zero locks in her pay day of $24,600, a sizeable sum for those who didn't play like Holzhauer. More importantly, it protected her from second place, as the max total second could have earned was $22k.

 

I know, man. I was being facetious.

 

My bad. I've been pushing back against the "he threw the game, she didn't deserve to win" conspiracy so much that I missed that.

 

Why does she hate the guy?