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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2004, 01:46:09 AM »
Another win for Ken.  He just broke 400k.
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2004, 07:06:00 AM »
its a few days old but here's a press release on it:

http://www.jeopardy.com/gena.pjw?cont=_kenjennings&cat=contestant
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2004, 05:59:02 AM »
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2004, 08:09:22 PM »
There was an article in the newspaper recently about a guy from Idaho Falls who will appear on Jeopardy July 16th.  Here's a quote from the paper:

 His confidence was a little shaken though, he said, when he saw whom he was going up against.  "Jeopardy," Tim Crockett said, "recently changed its rules so that now a chanpion can stay on longer than just five times."
 "I went up against a really strong champion," he said.  "I was a bit disnayed when I saw who I would be competing against."
 But if you want to know who Tim Crockett competed against, you'll have to wait and tune in July 19.

That can't possibly be Ken, can it?  That'd be, what?  Almost a month on Jeopardy?!  BTW, he won again today, is about $700, 000 total.
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2004, 09:00:04 PM »
They were talking about him on the radio here in Boston yesterday.
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2004, 09:07:46 PM »
Ken made Slate and Slashdot today.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103548/
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #21 on: July 08, 2004, 09:10:30 PM »
*shakes head in amazement*

Have you been keeping in contact with him? How is he reacting to all of this?
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #22 on: July 08, 2004, 09:26:03 PM »
The Jeopardy guy is a TWG-er??

Holy crap.  This guy is amazing.
Congrats to you, Micah.  Hot DAMN am I impressed!

I know a woman who was on about a year or 2 ago, and she did well, but she wound up finishing second (a late run by the eventual winner did her in).  I got a chance to look at the test to take just to get to the first qualifying stage.

This is amazing.  I'm so damn jealous! :)
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2004, 09:32:34 PM »
Well, not quite a TWG-er.  His brother was one of us for a while (Kid Kilowatt; he ran our RPG section before SE took over.)  Ken was my roommate for about a year, and we were moderately good friends.  I only see him a couple times a year now, since he god married and move to Salt Lake.  

(I'm Brandon, by the way.  Micah is my roommate--and he, coincidentally, also lived with Ken.)
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2004, 10:40:44 AM »
Some people have all of the luck.

Congrats to Ken.
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2004, 01:37:44 PM »
That MSN Slate article was great. I remember talking to EUOL about Ken a couple weeks ago, saying that it'd be nearly impossible for him to actually reach $1 million. Now he's on, what, day 28 and at over $800,000? Yikes, looks like he might make it after all.
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2004, 08:07:33 PM »
Wow, a million dollars!  Now the question remains, who is gonna get him off the show?  Doesn't he have to return to a job or something?  Is he gonna be a professional Jeopardy player for the rest of his life?

Congrats to him!
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2004, 09:22:56 PM »
If he can make a million in a month, I'd wager that if he's wise with his spending and invests well he could live for a couple decades without working.
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2004, 09:46:28 PM »
Did you just post a spoiler, Tek?  Remember, it doesn't show down here until 7:30....
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Re: Smartest man in the US
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2004, 10:10:07 PM »
Eep!  Sorry about that.  Forgot that you watch it a little later than here.
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