Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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.

4 comments:

  1. isaac_spaceman9:50 PM

    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. 

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  2. I think because they weren't asking for the title, just the object, which was a bridge over the River Kwai.

    I 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?

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  3. 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. 

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  4. Caught 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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