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[idledandy]

Maybe it was a "make-up call" for the clue yesterday that said that bile was made in the gall bladder.

I noticed that! I was screaming at my TV. I was going to write in, but hey, you won anyway.

"Bile-producing" was problematic wording. However the bear's liver is not the bile-associated organ that gets sold for that amount in Chinese pharmacies. Or at all, for that matter. Hence the ruling as it went.

How does that work, though? "Liver" may not have fit the rest of the answer, but "gall bladder" didn't fit all of it either. When a question is misworded, I don't think anyone should be penalized.

Of course, my big thing with penalizing contestants is instances of "be more specific." I think in these cases, if the person doesn't know the specific answer, they should not gain money, but not lose it either. Unless of course it's obvious that the answer should have been more specific (such as Ken's hilarious attempt at "Who is Ford?" a few days ago. I said the same thing in my living room.)

And I got FJ tonight!

Hey, Toomanyblondes, I remember that! Hence, I remember you. I agree with you about the recent leniency with regard to pronunciation. It's not like it's the Celebrity Tournament.

This post has been edited by idledandy: Jul 8, 2004 @ 11:27 pm.

[Distant Sun]

[small voice]It's DC. I shouldn't know that.[/sv]

The comic-book nerd in me thinks everyone should know that. I also thought FJ was extremely easy. The "No. 720" part effectively eliminated every other possibility -- especially considering Archie was flirting with both Betty and Veronica.

[idledandy]

I thought of Betty and Veronica first, but the fact that it could have been either of them told me it was neither of them. Did that make sense?

[zoici]

Where they did give Ken a break was with Dr. Scholls. It should have been Dr. Scholl.

I gotta agree with you there. I can't remember how the actual question was phrased,

Category: That's My School

AT: We Wonder If his Famous Sandals Are Required Footwear At The Chicago School of Podiatric Medicine Named For him

Ken Jennings: Who is Dr. Scholl? (no " 's ")

but I remember looking it up later and seeing that I'd screwed it up. . .

[two little kids arguing]Nuh-uh! Did not![/tlka]

[sirhcmeister]

re:boring anecdotes

As mentioned earlier in the thread, not everyone's got a story to tell that will cause the comatose SonyStudio™ audience to giggle. That is probably why I'd not got picked to be on the show: Nothing Interesting has ever happened to me either.

[beezer]

Heh, I loved the "I've been in an institution," idea for show chat. That's the first thing my friend asks when I say I watched Jeopardy, about what the heck Ken found to discuss that night.

OK, I cannot verify the veracity of this spoiler, but it was related to me as a spoiler. It's not a single-game spoiler, or category spoiler or such so please don't look if you don't want to know. I read back into last month and didn't see it, so sorry if someone already posted.

I'm serious, it's a spoiler, last warning.

Supposedly, Ken wins through July 22, amassing over 1.5 mil, before the show goes on hiatus. He's apparently home, waiting to go back to tape new shows in August.

This post has been edited by beezer: Jul 9, 2004 @ 6:25 am.

[Hercules Q. Eins...]

OK, I'm sure he must be a very nice guy in person, but that dude in the middle tonight might have been the dullest Jeopardy contestant ever with the dullest personal anecdote ever.

I'm guessing he had a better version planned out in his head but the way Alex led him into it threw him off. My roommate & I were like "That's it?! A blind date that turned south?! I've had about one hundered of those, but at least I got a used air conditioner out of one."

[Bklyndeb]

I never thought of using my blind date horror story for Jeopardy (if I ever get on), but it was pretty bad. I went out with the guy (he was a podiatrist) who was a friend of a friend. We went to dinner in Bay Ridge and after dinner, while driving me home, he suddenly pulls off the road under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, gets out of the car, implores me to do likewise and takes out a guitar. He started serenading me with a love song. I thought I was going to either die of embarrasment or be found 8 years later, washing up somewhere in Staten Island. Fortunately, he drove me home.


Think it's amusing enough?

[Dani257]

Oh, lordy. Through my hysterical laughter, I managed to call out the first four correction questions in “Shakespeare the Sitcom.”

Yeah, that was a fun category. I think I got the first four, too.


I doubt the spoiler is true. I've read that Ken's been back home for awhile now. Besides, how would they know he won through July 22? It's only the 9th.

[RedBliss]

Think it's amusing enough?

YES! That's the kind of ending I was looking for.

[collee]

Re. the boring anecdote:
Yes, it was boring, and I was rolling my eyes along with the rest of you. But in the guy's defense, doesn't he have to submit a bunch of stories and then a staffer selects which one is used? So, maybe the date story was low on his list, just to fill space, but a production assistant liked it.

Or maybe he's just dull. I can't point fingers, though; I'd certainly have trouble coming up with enough stories to fill the list.

That makes me wonder, though...How many anecdotes did you have to come up with, Ken? I know they eventually ran out of things to ask you about, but did they ask you for additional topics, once they'd exhausted the initial supply?

[Sean C]

He made quite a large wager though for Final Jeopardy- kinda surprised me.

I actually predicted his $10,200 wager heading into the commercial break. Ken's apparent obsession with round, pretty numbers is getting easy to read.

I actually wavered between "Lois Lane" and "Catwoman" during FJ, but settled on Lois before the contestants' answers were shown. If I recall, Batman is up past issue 700 now (or maybe it was 600; I know there was a milestone the last year or two). I don't think the Batman/Catwoman flirtation went all the way back to the beginning, so I assumed Lois Lane and Superman had to be the answer.

[catndahat]

Sorry to be tardy to the party..

belated love to M. Darcy for her great turn- I thought you had it there for a while. Did you ever remember the name of that MAC lipstick?

Word on the lackluster anecdotes some of these people have.. one of these days I want Alex to say "So Ken, apparently you once killed a man using only your mind."

If Ken keeps going like this he's (you're? Oh, don't know which person to use!) going to end up signing his name Nek just for some variety.

[Dani257]

one of these days I want Alex to say "So Ken, apparently you once killed a man using only your mind."

Me, too! If anyone else ever gets on Jeopardy, just ignore the anecdote they pick for you to talk about. Say, "Well, that's a pretty boring story, but you know I once killed a man using only my mind."

Yeah, the men in the white coats are coming for me.

[iMissEthan]

I swear I don't normally judge people by first impressions, but when the contestants are introduced, I take one look at them and decide whether or not they could possibly beat Ken. Last night at my house, around 7:01pm "Nope. Nope. He'll be there tomorrow."