HE INVENTED THE LYRE AND GAVE IT TO APOLLO; APOLLO GAVE HIM THE CADUCEUS IN RETURN: Such was the third Double Jeopardy! answer provided yesterday to Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware, en route to his setting a new one-day record of $77,000 won on the show. [Of the 60 answers on the boards, he answered 39 correctly, 4 incorrectly, with five second-round answers not revealed.]
You can see both boards here, and video of Final Jeopardy! here. As the latter link notes, he's just 72 games away from tying Ken Jennings' consecutive wins streak.
Not that it mattered, but why did they accept the second-place answer of "Bridge over the River Kwai"? That's more wrong than pronunciation errors that they routinely reject.
ReplyDeleteI think because they weren't asking for the title, just the object, which was a bridge over the River Kwai.
ReplyDeleteI saw Monday's show also, where Roger iced the win with a $12,000+ "true Daily Double". Wish I could watch him dominate for a little while longer, but I'm DVR-less for a while. Though I suppose if he'd won 25 games in a row, we would have heard spoilers about that by now?
I caught last night's show and he really did rock that board. I was just proud of myself for getting a math question correct. Totally forgot to watch/DVR tonight. Whoops.
ReplyDeleteCaught him last night and was impressed. He dominates the board, and rarely guesses wrong. He lost $10,000 on a daily double question in the Double Jeopardy round, went into the final without having enough of a lead to make it a sure thing, and won by being the only one to get Final Jeopardy right. Good player, but I'm not ready to compare him to Jennings yet.
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