I lost on Jeopardy

[Alistair]

$131k win tonight. Set a new one day win record. This guy is crazy.

 

[peeonme]

He is so darned good.

 

[Thad1527]

Thad have you been practicing ringing in? I think that is one of the keys to James success. He does know everything but he is lightning quick buzzing in. You don't even see him do it.

At the interview, we got to use the clickers used on the set. They're like ballpoint pens. So, yes, I've been practicing.

You don't ever see James' hands.

I worry all my weaknesses will become categories when I am called. I fear mythology, Shakespeare, Ariana Grande, and English royalty.

 

[m1thousand]

I dont like his smile / eyes

 

[m1thousand]

I dont like his smile / eyes

The poor guy. He's on a show to make money and he is getting critiqued about his smile. Shame on me ;-)

 

[Alistair]

Another $80k tonight. $851k for 12 days.

 

[Cormac135]

Another $80k tonight. $851k for 12 days.

Is there a limit to how much he can win and how many shows he can be on ?

 

[Alistair]

No. As long as he keeps winning he keeps playing. And he'll come back in the tournament of champions shows.

Ken Jennings competed in 74 games and won $2.5 million

If James can match Ken's shows he'd earn over $5 million at his current 70,800 daily average.

 

[Alistair]

At the interview, we got to use the clickers used on the set. They're like ballpoint pens. So, yes, I've been practicing.

You don't ever see James' hands.

I worry all my weaknesses will become categories when I am called. I fear mythology, Shakespeare, Ariana Grande, and English royalty.

Tonight's final jeopardy was an English royalty question. It was easy tho.

 

[m1thousand]

winnings on Jeopardy . . .

Jeopardy! also used to limit contestants to $75,000 in winnings, with the balance donated to charity. The cap was gradually raised over time and abolished entirely in 2003. The removal of the winnings cap coincided with the removal of the five-day limit imposed on returning champions; since 2003, any Jeopardy! contestant can stay on as long as he or she keeps winning, and keep all money earned. The very next year, a certain young man named Ken Jennings took full advantage of this rule.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GameShowWinningsCap

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ken-jenningss-jeopardy-streak-is-safe-for-the-rest-of-time/

Record holders
Jeopardy!'s record for the longest winning streak is held by Ken Jennings, who competed on the show from June 2 through November 30, 2004, winning 74 matches before being defeated by Nancy Zerg in his 75th appearance. He amassed $2,520,700 over his 74 wins and a $2,000-second-place prize in his 75th appearance. At the time, he held the record as the highest money-winner ever on American game shows, and his winning streak increased the show's ratings and popularity to the point where it became TV's highest-rated syndicated program.[144] Jennings later won the $500,000-second-place prize in the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, the $300,000-second-place prize in the IBM Challenge, and the $100,000-second-place prize in the Battle of the Decades.

The highest-earning all-time Jeopardy! contestant is Brad Rutter, who has won a cumulative total of $4,355,102.[145] He became an undefeated champion in 2000 and later won an unprecedented four Jeopardy! tournaments: the 2001 Tournament of Champions,[146] the 2002 Million Dollar Masters Tournament, the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions,[147] and the 2014 Battle of the Decades. Rutter broke Jennings's record for all-time game show winnings when he defeated Jennings and Jerome Vered in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions finals. Jennings regained the record through appearances on various other game shows, culminating in an appearance on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? on October 10, 2008. In 2014, Rutter regained the title after winning $1,000,000 in the Battle of the Decades, defeating Jennings and Roger Craig in the finals.

The holder of the all-time record for single-day winnings on Jeopardy! is James Holzhauer. On the episode that aired April 17, 2019, Holzhauer amassed a score of $71,114 after the game's first two rounds, then wagered and won an additional $60,013 in the Final Jeopardy! round, finishing with $131,127.[148] Holzhauer now holds the top four largest single-day winnings.

The record-holder among female contestants on Jeopardy! for wins in regular play is Julia Collins, with a total of $495,767. She won $428,100 in her 20 games as champion, plus $1,000 for finishing third in her twenty-first game.[149] Additionally, Collins won $50,000 for her third-place finish in the 2014 Tournament of Champions, and $16,667 in the All-Star Games (one-third of the $50,000 awarded to Team Julia - herself, Ben Ingram, and Seth Wilson - for being eliminated in the first round). Collins also achieved the second-longest winning streak on the show, behind Jennings. The streak, which was interrupted in May by the Battle of the Decades, was broken by Brian Loughnane.[150][151] The all-time leading money winner among women is Larissa Kelly, with a total of $660,930; $222,597 in six regular-play games, $100,000 for second place in the 2009 Tournament of Champions, $5,000 in the Battle of the Decades, and $333,333 (one-third of $1,000,000) as part of the winning Team Brad (herself, Brad Rutter, and David Madden) in the All-Star Games.

The highest single-day winnings in a Celebrity Jeopardy! tournament was achieved by comedian Andy Richter during a first-round game of the 2009–2010 season's "Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational", in which he finished with $68,000 for his selected charity, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.[152]

Four contestants on the Trebek version have won a game with the lowest amount possible ($1). The first was U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Darryl Scott, on the episode that aired January 19, 1993;[153][154] the second was Benjamin Salisbury, on a Celebrity Jeopardy! episode that aired April 30, 1997;[155] the third was Brandi Chastain, on the Celebrity Jeopardy! episode that aired February 9, 2001;[156] and the fourth was U.S. Navy Lieutenant Manny Abell, on the episode that aired October 17, 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!#Winnings

 

[gsdx]

I dont like his smile / eyes

If I'm not mistaken, his grandmother was Japanese.

 

[m1thousand]

I did not know his grandmother was Japanese.

He probably already has a Wikipedia page . . .
. . . nope

But there is a website . . . https://kingjamesholzhauer.com

In the google search, someone posted:

"James Holzhauer, if you’re reading this and you’ve run out of people to say hi to, my birthday is on July 20." https://twitter.com/NickMcIlwain1?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Hey look, its that guy on Jeopardy

https://kingjamesholzhauer.com

 

[gsdx]

I did not know his grandmother was Japanese.

He talked about it during one of his interviews with Alex. A few days earlier, he dedicated Final Jeopardy! to his 'gran'. She came over from Japan when James was a child to take care of the kids. She didn't speak English but she watched Jeopardy! every day with James. She died, but James didn't say when.

 

[m1thousand]

Its so sad that she died before seeing him on Jeopardy.

 

[G-Lexington]

A friend of mine was on Jeopardy, and actually won. One of his opponents the next day was ...Ken Jennings. So, y’know.

Lex

 

[peeonme]

I usually do pretty good at 'arm chair' Jeopardy, this might sound odd, but I seem to be quicker now since James has become champion. It's as though there is a certain energy, or are the categories just better? Most of us try to come up with the right questions, do you seem to do better now?

 

[Kulindahr]

I love that Weird Al song (though it says "video unavailable" in the link!) -- I remember floating on inner tubes down a river once, half-drunk and singing that as we drifted.

Maybe I can get a link to work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ

{it won't allow embedding the video -- oh, well}

 

[Cormac135]

Is he still on it Al ?

 

[Alistair]

Works for me kulindahr. I like that song too.

Yes he is Cormac. It comes on in a half hour.

 

[Cormac135]

Works for me kulindahr. I like that song too.

Yes he is Cormac. It comes on in a half hour.

Oh fuck, i've never seen him on it and i kinda hate him.