'Jeopardy!' Whiz Ends 74-Game Win Streak

[Champ]

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - "Jeopardy" whiz Ken Jennings finally met his match after a 74-game run as a pop culture icon who made brainiacs cool, beaten by a woman whose own 8-year-old daughter asked for his autograph when they first met.


As someone who always has prepared his own tax returns, Jennings was tripped up in Final Jeopardy by this answer: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.


The correct reply: "What is H&R Block?" But Jennings guessed Federal Express, ending his remarkable run as the biggest winner in TV game show history with a haul of $2,520,700.


Having an accountant-friend who's nearly impossible to reach at tax time paid off big-time for his conqueror, California real estate agent Nancy Zerg, who ousted the baby-faced killer competitor in the episode airing Tuesday.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&ncid=762&e=1&u=/ap/20041201/ap_en_tv/tv_jennings_loses

[ramapo]

1. Ken seemed a bit off

Got both daily doubles wrong in double jeopardy. The Final Jeopardy question wasn't that hard, guess he just blanked. Maybe he got sick of being on the show.

[Endangered Specie]

3. maybe they had to force him to stage a loss

no one else wanted to play
:tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:


;)

[scarlett1]

2. This made news in KC when it was filmed last September

Kansas City of course is the home of H&R Block.

[ramapo]

5. I never heard the detail

I did see the blurb about him losing back in September but I didn't want to know too much...I thought last night was going to be his last game. The one guy played a strong game and could've won had he got the daily double.

I really don't think he took a dive. He just missed one when it counted.

[oly]

4. Ken Jennings reality TV shaow can't be far off.

[Deja Q]

6. Which might be a good thing. KJ is the biggest dorky nerdy geek...

so how he can get a marriage or even a sex life is something even I would tune in to!

:wow: