He's Made Geeks Chic

[Jeanway 0]

Jennings, the 30-year-old Utah software engineer, has earned $1,321,660 during his nearly two-month stint. He's become an unlikely TV star, visiting Jay Leno on the Tonight show Thursday, and made geeks chic.

 

Jeopardy! goes into reruns starting next Monday. But new shows will resume on Sept. 6, and Jennings will be there to defend his championship.

 

Three times, Jennings purposely tied the one-day record of $52,000 with carefully calculated wagers on Final Jeopardy. On Friday, he approached the Final Jeopardy question having already earned $51,400.

 

Asked to name two of the four Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear onstage, Jennings correctly answered Hamlet and Richard III.

 

Then he revealed his bet: $23,600.

 

"Will it never end for this talented young man?" host Alex Trebek said. "We'll have to wait awhile to find out."

 

Jennings, who lives in Salt Lake City and is married with a 1-year-old son, is a Mormon who has already promised to tithe 10% of his winnings to his church.

 

Jeopardy! used to require its champions to leave after winning five times, but last year changed its rules to allow players to continue until they are beaten. Jennings has beaten 76 challengers.

Edited July 25, 2004 by Jeanway

[scaleman 0]

While he has made an impact on people when it comes to how smart people look, i think the overall impression he's given is your 30 minutes of fame. The odds are in the air over whether people will even give notice when the show returns for normal competitions.

 

I think the people that go up against him from now on (or anyone like him, for that matter) deserves at least a runner up prize for the attempt, like a $100 or such.

[WEAREBORG4102 0]

They used to give out runner up prizes but that stopped. Back then, if you won 5 they'd give you a car. I think it was a jaguar.

 

BTW JEOPARDY GEEKS RULE!!!!! :) :) :)

Edited July 30, 2004 by WEAREBORG4102

[Rivendells_king 0]

Pull him off whats the use there is no compatition on that show anymore since he came on thats why I stoped watching it.

[WEAREBORG4102 0]

Well you do have to consider he writes questions for the Academic Challenge questions for high schoolers.

 

NERD SQUAD RULES!!!! :blink:

[Rivendells_king 0]

remebers this dumb quote from a show.

 

person number 1 *people who wear glasses are nerds*

 

Person number 2 * naha we arent nerds because we have glasses*

 

Person number 2 to person number 3 * hey I am having a dugeouns and dinosaur game at my house and after that we are watching the discovery channel.

 

Person number 3 *that sounds cool*

 

but anyways if he plays D&D than hes cool

[WEAREBORG4102 0]

You mean Dungeons and Dragons...

[Rivendells_king 0]

dungeons and dinosaurs was used in the show. but anyways D&D= dugeouns and dragons

[WEAREBORG4102 0]

yes, I play and I have two of the core rulebooks here on my desk.