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Did anyone catch the recent Battle of the Decades tournament? This was quite the tournament, and quite the finals between the three greatest Jeopardy! players in its history.
1 posted on 05/16/2014 11:41:23 PM PDT by ConservativeTeen
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To: ConservativeTeen

https://screen.yahoo.com/celebrity-jeopardy-sean-connery-burt-000000211.html


2 posted on 05/17/2014 12:03:29 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Brad got REALLY lucky that Jennings missed the final question - Brad got the question RIGHT, but bet NOTHING. Ken woulda torched him since he bet a lot of cash. That is, if Ken had gotten it right !!!

The other guy - you had to feel for him. Foolishly bet the farm on the Daily Double the first day and tanked. On the second day, he HAD to bet the farm on the Daily Double again to get back into it - and missed AGAIN !!!

Unfortunately, these were not the three greatest players. Brad and Ken were, but they mentioned in the preliminary rounds that the third best player was not in the tournament since he had previous commitments.


3 posted on 05/17/2014 12:19:38 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: ConservativeTeen

put all three up against the ibm machine and see how they fare. a fourway jeopardy with all of these would be very interesting.


4 posted on 05/17/2014 12:24:21 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ConservativeTeen

There is no such thing as a “Porshe”. /facepalm


7 posted on 05/17/2014 12:40:57 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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“So what is Rutter going to do with the money? It won’t go towards a new Porshe.”

Dude, if you want to buy a new “Porshe” with that million dollars, I’ll sell you one, two or even 10 for just 100k.


9 posted on 05/17/2014 1:22:44 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: ConservativeTeen

Yes, this was good stuff. Questions were definitely a good bit harder than standard Jeopardy fare.


10 posted on 05/17/2014 2:25:29 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I was pulling for Roger. The other two are too cocky, and Roger will go all in, this time it cost him.


12 posted on 05/17/2014 3:52:19 AM PDT by weezel
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I was sure Ken would win. He is amazing. All of them were.
What really got me was the way Ken cruised through the ‘two word , one letter different’ catagory. That took a flash hard drive brain.

Roger blew it on the’Daily Double’, a shame as he came out of obscurity in the game to even up the score.


13 posted on 05/17/2014 4:29:15 AM PDT by Vinnie
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I never watch Jeopardy but I do admire those folks who have total recall. I think that’s the term for people who seem to never forget what they’ve seen or heard that made an impression on them. It must be nice. I’ll bet that college was a breeze to them.


16 posted on 05/17/2014 4:49:29 AM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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