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Amy Schneider is an American engineering manager and game show contestant. She had a 40-game winning streak on the game show Jeopardy! from November 2021 to January 2022, the second-longest win streak in the show's history, behind only Ken Jennings (74 games), who hosted the show as she competed. She is the most successful woman ever to compete on the show, in terms of both her streak and her $1.3 million in winnings.

Schneider is known for her skill in the Final Jeopardy! round, having responded correctly 30 out of 41 times in her run. She lives in Oakland, California. Across all American game shows, she is the 11th highest-earning contestant of all time.

Schneider grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and attended Chaminade-Julienne High School. In eighth grade, she was voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!" by her classmates.

Throughout her run on Jeopardy!, she expressed admiration for past champions Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Matt Amodio, and Julia Collins (the first woman to win 20 games in a row, at the time Jeopardy's second longest streak). On a January 2022 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Schneider said that she hoped Jennings would become the permanent host of the program, citing his comforting and empathetic presence.

Schneider has a cat named Meep; during the 17th game, when host Ken Jennings asked why the cat had this name, Schneider responded, "It was the name they gave her at the shelter, because the only noise she would make was 'meep'. Me and my girlfriend said we would find another name for her, but she kept making that noise, and we realized it was the right name."

Schneider is a trans woman; she completed gender transition in 2017. On January 19, 2022, Schneider was awarded a GLAAD Special Recognition honor for her Jeopardy! performance.

Schneider's first victory occurred on the November 17, 2021, episode, dethroning five-day champion Andrew He. In the following 14 games, she only missed one Final Jeopardy! question. She missed a second in her 16th win. In total, Schneider has won over $1 million on Jeopardy!, the fifth-most winnings of any contestant on the show in all play. Schneider is the first openly transgender contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. Her winning streak came one year after the first openly transgender contestant, Kate Freeman, competed and won on the show. Schneider, who viewed Freeman's victory and several other trans contestants' losing appearances on the show as inspiration, has described the significance of having a trans identity: "The fact is, I don't actually think about being trans all that often, and so when appearing on national television, I wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately: as important, but also relatively minor."  After surpassing Matt Amodio's 38-game winning streak in the January 24, 2022, episode, Schneider took second place for the most consecutive wins in Jeopardy! history at 39, only behind Jennings's 74 consecutive wins.

End of streak Schneider was defeated in her 41st episode, aired on January 26, 2022, finishing second behind Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, Illinois. The "Final Jeopardy!" clue was, "The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous.". Talsma responded, "What is Bangladesh?", which was correct, putting him ahead of Schneider who had no response. Her winnings totaled over $1,300,000, ranking her fourth in most money won in regular-season play behind Jennings, Holzhauer, and Amodio.

Schneider has explained that when she sees a category where she is weak, she gets it "out of the way first. That way, if there were any doubles in that category, they would come up when there wasn't as much money to be wagered." Later, she described her wagering strategy in a runaway game with little competition: "round up the second place score to the nearest thousand, double it, subtract it from my score, and then subtract another thousand in case I'd messed something up. Schneider said that doing crossword puzzles helps her think of words "as both a concept and a collection of letters at the same time".

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Sunday, January 09, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: CALL ME KAT (CTV) 8:00pm PIVOTING (CTV) 8:30pm HOME TOWN (HGTV Canada) 9:00pm EUPHORIA (HBO Canada) 9:00pm THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES (HBO Canada) 10:00pm SMILING FRIENDS (adult swim) 12:00am WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (Season 3) (PBS Feed) NORTH TO HOME (Premiering on January 14 on W Network at 8:00pm) TRAPPED BY MY SUGAR DADDY (TBD - Lifetime Canada) LOVE'S SECOND CHANCE (TBD)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CRAVE TV EUPHORIA (Season 2, Episode 1)  THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONE (Season 2, Episodes 1-2) JFL GALA 2021: RITA BAGA AND JEAN-THOMAS JOBIN PART 2

CURLING (SN) 1:00pm: Alberta Provincial Championship: Women's Final (SN) 6:30pm: Alberta Provincial Championship: Men's Final

NFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 1:00pm: Bears vs. Vikings (TSN/TSN3) 4:00pm: Jets vs. Bills (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 8:15pm: Chargers vs. Raiders

NHL HOCKEY (SN1) 2:00pm: Stars vs. Blues (SN1) 3:00pm: Ducks vs. Avalanche (TSN3) 4:00pm: Jets vs. Knights (SN) 7:00pm: Flames vs. Chicago

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN4/TSN5) 6:00pm: Pelicans vs. Raptors (SN Now) 7:30pm: Bulls vs. Mavericks (SN1) 8:30pm: Cavaliers vs. Warriors (TSN4/TSN5) 9:30pm: Grizzlies vs. Lakers

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (CBC) 7:00pm: Skeldale House descends into chaos with the arrival of Siegfried's wayward brother Tristan; Mrs. Pumphrey throws a party.

THE CHASE (City TV) 8:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): James Holzhauer returns as the chaser as three new contestants face off against him.

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE (Makeful) 8:00pm: Three finalists start working on a boy's kilt, then they transform party dresses and finally they construct glamorous gowns as they compete for the title of Britain's best amateur sewer.

PRETTY CHEATERS, DEADLY LIES (Lifetime Canada) 8:00pm:  After being tricked into a compromising situation by her cousin Madison, Hanna thinks she can stop her cousin's blackmail scheme by taking her college entrance exam for her.

KEVIN HART'S MUSCLE CAR CREW (Discovery Velocity) 8:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE):  Kevin Hart and his Plastic Cup Boyz want to make their passion for cars legit, but they need a serious education about cars and car culture; they search for an builder and hire Lucky Costa; The Club decides to spend 20K on upgrading their cars.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND: DRILLING DOWN (History Canada) 8:00pm: Matty Blake "Drills Down" with the Laginas and the Fellowship of the Dig on how they strive to preserve Oak Island while working to unravel its centuries old treasure mystery.

MACGRUBER (Showcase) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): After serving eleven years in prison for the murder of his former nemesis, MacGruber is recruited by General Fasoose for one last suicide mission.

BEYOND OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE):  Rick and Marty Lagina, along with Matty Blake, head to Florida and join Gary Drayton to hunt for millions in gold, silver and jewels from the shipwrecks of the famed 1715 Spanish treasure fleet.

OUTBACK OPAL HUNTERS (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm: The Rookies finally hit treasure; Aaron and Greg bring in an old monster about to self-destruct; the Cooke brothers race to beat the worst drought in a decade.

A.P. BIO (Showcase) 9:45pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A tornado puts the school on lockdown and Helen believes it's coming specifically for her; the kids pass the time by writing fan fiction, "shipping" various combinations of faculty members; Mary, Stef and Michelle devise a plan to escape the school. CLAWS (CTV Drama) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE):  With the casino gone, Desna is prepared to return to her roots as a money-laundering nail mogul, which proves to be more difficult than expected, propelling her and the crew further into a world of criminality.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm:  While evidence of an ancient Portuguese presence piles up, a mysterious artifact discovered deep in the swamp may reveal that the theory Fred Nolan proposed half a century ago may be correct.

ALEX VS AMERICA (Food Network Canada) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Host Eric welcomes three talented shellfish experts from Louisiana, Maine and Hawaii to challenge chef Alex Guarnaschelli in two intense rounds of cooking; first, the chefs seal their fate by choosing the ingredients they and Alex will cook with.

CODE 404 (Showcase) 10:50pm (SEASON PREMIERE):  When a scientist from Millikan Biotech goes missing, DI John Major and DI Roy Carver are forced to face their problems head-on and reignite their friendship.

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Ranking The Jeopardy! Guest Hosts

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When Jeopardy! GOAT contestant Brad Rutter spoke to Den of Geek earlier this year, he shared his opinion that there is only one perfect Jeopardy! host to replace the departed Alex Trebek. 

“Alex,” Rutter said. “But we can’t do it, unfortunately. That’s one of the terrible things about it. I can’t even really imagine what it’s going to be like.”

Alex Trebek was about as irreplaceable as a TV personality can be. As the host and quiz master of Jeopardy! for 37 years, the Canadian entertainer was the perfect combination of studious, professional, and playful. Following Trebek’s death from pancreatic cancer in November 2020, Jeopardy!’s producers realized there was no point in replacing the TV giant with only one host. That’s why they ultimately decided to go with a roster of multiple guest hosts for the show’s 37th season.

This was, in part, to pay tribute to Trebek’s genius but also to audition his replacement…or so they said. For, as we all know now, the open tryout seemed to be a little more close-ended than viewers were initially led to believe. Executive producer Mike Richards ultimately won the top job (with Mayim Bialik getting some primetime Jeopardy! gigs as well), which immediately called into question how fair the competition was. Richards maintained that he had no part in the selection process, but journalist and Jeopardy! expert Clair McNear with The Ringer confirmed that Richards was in charge of selecting the episodes to send to focus groups for each host including himself.

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Then there were the podcasts…oh the podcasts. Through 41 episodes of Richards’ “The Randumb Show” podcast, the erstwhile host said some decidedly offensive and spicy things. Eventually Trebek’s replacement resigned after having filmed the first five episodes for season 38.

Like we said: it was a whole thing. But while Jeopardy!‘s guest hosting experiment was underway, it was certainly fun to take in. So much fun in fact that we decided to rank all 16 guest host in realtime. Granted, some of these picks haven’t aged particularly well. Still, it’s fun to look back on a simpler time when we all entertained the notion it was possible to replace Alex Trebek because clearly it’s not.

Jeopardy! will begin a new guest hosting process soon. In the meantime, here are our picks for round 1 of the saga.

16. Dr. Mehmet Oz

Show Air Dates: March 22, 2021 – April 2, 2021

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15. Robin Roberts

Show Air Dates: July 19, 2021 – July 23, 2021

ABC’s Good Morning America host Robin Roberts’ stint as Jeopardy! host wasn’t a disaster. The games began and concluded largely without a hitch. The studio did not catch on fire. No one was injured. And yet, her relatively poor performance underlies what a sensitive beast the Jeopardy! hosting position is.

Robin Roberts quite simply did too much. She was a bit too chatty and discursive at the top of the episodes and during the interview segments. She interjected a bit too frequently amid answers. All in all, she hosted Jeopardy! the way I suspect that I myself would host Jeopardy! – as someone completely jazzed to be there and unable to stop remarking on the surreal joy of it all. That’s fine, and ultimately endearing to Roberts as a person. But this show requires a sturdier hand than that.

14. Anderson Cooper

Show Air Dates: April 19, 2021 – April 30, 2021

Anderson Cooper is a good journalist and compelling TV presence. When it comes to Jeopardy!, however, he’s definitely not the right man for the job. Cooper is somewhat fortunate that human trainwreck Dr. Oz hosted first and gobbled up the lion’s share of bad Jeopardy! host press. Otherwise people may have noticed that Cooper did fairly poorly in his two-week stint.

Cooper seemingly didn’t prepare as intensely as Trebek or the other guest hosts as there would frequently be awkward pauses following contestants’ answers while the host checked if they were right. As a result, the number of Jeopardy! rounds not completed under Cooper’s tenure was unusually high. It’s a small issue, but an impactful one.

13. Savannah Guthrie

Show Air Dates: June 14, 2021 – June 25, 2021

Savannah Guthrie is an amiable and professional TV presence in her day job as the co-anchor of NBC’s Today. In her time as a Jeopardy! host, however, she came off as essentially filler. As is the case with most of the entrants on this list (save for the quack above), Guthrie was perfectly fine as Jeopardy! host. But while she got the job done, she did so without any particular distinction.

Guthrie also interjected a bit too frequently after contestant’s answers. Though that’s an admirable attempt to interject some of her sunny personality into the proceedings, the role of Jeopardy! host often calls for less rather than more. As such her two-week run as host is likely to be the end of the line for her hosting quest.

12. Katie Couric

Show Air Dates: March 8, 2021- March 19, 2021

Couric’s tenure as Jeopardy! host was the victim of bad timing. She had the tough act of following two guest hosts who were extremely steeped in the show’s history in culture in official Greatest of All Time Ken Jennings and executive producer Mike Richards. 

The longtime media personality ultimately did a fair job as host, with her only major flaw being interjecting a bit too frequently during rounds. Unfortunately, she doesn’t stack up well to the pros that preceded her.

11. Joe Buck

Show Air Dates: August 9, 2021 – August 13, 2021

As legendary sports broadcaster Joe Buck began his weeklong guest hosting tryout, recent Jeopardy! superstar James Holzhauer engaged in some classic Holzhauerian ball-busting.

Jeopardy says whoever hosts full time will have to quit their other job, so I’m crossing my fingers it’s Joe Buck

— James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) August 9, 2021

Holzhauer is joking (or maybe not, it’s hard to tell with him) about how many sports fans despise Joe Buck as a broadcaster. Some combination of Buck’s voice, face, and dalliances in nepotism (his father was equally legendary sports broadcaster Jack Buck) rub people the wrong way. That’s all perfectly understandable. But it’s also wrong. Joe Buck is pretty great at his job!

He’s not great, however, at hosting Jeopardy! Buck seems like we would make for a good Jeopardy! host. He’s polished, well-read, and very comfortable on camera. Something about the experience just felt off though – like using a hammer on a screw. A hammer is a perfectly fine tool, but it probably shouldn’t be applied to everything.

So there you have it – Joe Buck: a perfectly fine tool.

10. George Stephanopoulos

Show Air Dates: July 12, 2021 – July 16, 2021

George Stephanopoulos faces a bit of an uphill battle on this list for a similar reason to Dr. Oz. Simply put: I just don’t like the guy. George’s case differs from Oz’s though. For while I’m morally opposed to Oz and his snake oil shenanigans, I just find George to be merely bad at his job as Chief Anchor ABC News.

Having said all that, it turns out that Stephanopoulos is quite good as a Jeopardy! host. While other guests got to enjoy a full two weeks to catch their stride, the Good Morning America anchor only had a week and used it quite well. Stephanopoulos was polished from the get-go, interjecting very little, and running some good, clean games. Ultimately, my personal distaste for Stephanopoulos’s journalistic performance keeps him lower on this list, but he performed well enough to rank even higher.

9. LeVar Burton

Show Air Dates: July 26, 2021 – July 30, 2021

Like many other millennials, my choice for Alex Trebek’s replacement before this whole guest host thing even started was LeVar Burton. Thanks to his work on as an educator on Reading Rainbow, Burton is one of the few TV presences with a level of learned gravitas approaching Trebek’s. He was a natural choice to get a guest host stint to try his hand at replacing the Canadian legend. How did he do? Well, it would appear there’s a reason Jeopardy! is opting for tryouts in the first place.

There’s really no way around it: Burton was fairly rough and unpolished as a Jeopardy! host compared to the top options on this list. While he did a superb job of respecting the format and not interjecting too much, there were several times in which he left the contestants hanging and forgot to prompt them to choose another category. It turns out that Jeopardy! contestants are helpless children when there isn’t a firm hand to guide them through the game.

Ultimately, errors like that are fixable and Burton’s warm, authoritative presence translated well to the Jeopardy! hosting format. As such, I still believe he would be a fine choice to succeed Alex Trebek. But in the spirit of judging these hosts on solely their performance, Burton lies near the middle of the pack.

8. Aaron Rodgers

Show Air Dates: April 5, 2021 – April 16, 2021

While the presence of a NFL star may seem like a desperate ratings grab from Jeopardy!, Green Bay Packers quarterback and former Celebrity Jeopardy! champ Aaron Rodgers is apparently dead serious about wanting the full-time hosting job, telling The Ringer that he could easily fit the show’s shooting schedule into his NFL obligations. 

Rodgers’ eagerness was evident over the first week and led to him coming across as a bit too excitable. He really settled into the role in his second week though and projected the correct balance of expertise and personability. 

7. Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Show Air Dates: June 28, 2021 – July 9, 2021

Perhaps this is a simple observation, but it’s really something to see how natural and poised TV veterans are on television. As CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has plenty of experience in front of a camera. And that experience absolutely came through in his two-week stint as Jeopardy! host.

Gupta did little to distinguish himself from the favorites to take over hosting job later on this list, but there were absolutely no hiccups during his tenure – just two weeks of excellent Jeopardy! that also happened to feature the season’s most fearsome contestant yet in seven-time winner Courtney Shah.

6. Bill Whitaker

Show Air Dates: May 3, 2021 – May 14, 2021

In contrast to Aaron Rodgers, Bill Whitaker apparently has no interest in holding down the full-time Jeopardy! job, telling The Philadelphia Tribune that he enjoys his current gig as a CBS journalist. That’s a shame as Whitaker came off as quite a natural during his two-week stint. 

Soft-spoken and consistent, Whitaker was such a steadying presence in his time as host to the point that the novelty of there even being a guest host began to wear off. Ultimately he might be a little too one-note for a full-time Jeopardy! host but his time on the dais was well spent. 

5. Ken Jennings 

Show Air Dates: January 4, 2021 – February 19, 2021

In the Jeopardy! canon Ken Jennings is the only figure that approaches the quiz show sainthood of Alex Trebek himself. Jennings is the most impressive and successful Jeopardy! contestant of all time, winning 74 consecutive games, amassing over $4 million in earnings, and taking home the title of Jeopardy! GOAT in 2020. When he was brought aboard as a consulting producer on Jeopardy! last year, many naturally assumed he was being groomed for the hosting role.

Sure enough, Jennings was announced as the first guest host of 2021 and got the year started on the right track with over a month of excellent hosting. Jennings has said that part of the key to Trebek’s success with Jeopardy! was his intuitive understanding that the star of the show wasn’t any host or contestant, but rather the show itself. Jennings put that understanding to good use, using his wealth of experience to make the game show feel both friendly and satisfyingly competitive. 

Jennings would be a fine choice for Jeopardy! host. Perhaps his only real weakness, however, is…the tweeting, as it always seems to be. Jennings has tweeted jokes that toe the line between bad taste and offensive in the past, something that he apologized for last year. The issue with Jennings on Twitter  though isn’t the risk of future offensive tweets but rather his continued use of Twitter at all along with the rest of us plebs.

Jeopardy! seemingly exists outside of time itself. Save for improved graphics and Trebek’s graying hair, the show has remained largely the same since it premiered. The Platonic ideal of a Jeopardy! host would seem like he or she was spawned from the set itself, returning backstage to sit on their trivia throne and contemplate the mysteries of life between tapings. 

4. David Faber

Show Air Dates: August 2, 2021 – August 6, 2021

David Faber’s brief hosting stint on Jeopardy! provides compelling evidence that Alex Trebek’s replacement really should be a “nobody.” No disrespect intended for Mr. Faber, who is clearly somebody, but in terms of audience recognition the CNBC number cruncher is not particularly well-known.

And yet, Faber turned in a really compelling and fun week of guest hosting. Like any good Jeopardy! host, this former Celebrity Jeopardy! champion just sort of blended into the background and let the show be the real star. In place of flashiness, Faber offered up solid articulation of answers, clean games, and a steady presence. Based on his positioning in the guest host parade, Faber is unlikely to get the real Jeopardy! job. But should he grow bored of analyzing the markets at CNBC, he should consider hosting his own quiz show.

3. Mayim Bialik

Show Air Dates: May 31, 2021 – June 11, 2021

Mayim Bialik was a real pleasant surprise in her stint as host. In fact, she’s the best Jeopardy! guest host yet who was not previously affiliated with the show. Bialik leaned more toward the friendly end of the familiar/authoritative Jeopardy! hosting ratio, which is particularly impressive given her academic background as a literal neuroscientist. She kept up that energy throughout but was able to establish a nice balance in her second week.

As a longtime Big Bang Theory cast member, Bialik certainly doesn’t need the Jeopardy! hosting gig to pay the bills. But her experience in front of a live-studio audience and a clear passion for learning could prove useful in the position.

2. Buzzy Cohen

Show Air Dates: May 17, 2021 – May 28, 2021

On the flip side of Bill Whitaker, Buzzy Cohen may at first seem like too dynamic of a personality to work as a Jeopardy! guest host. His fun nickname, distinctive eyewear, and trendy haircut are at odds with such an ancient and venerated TV institution. 

As host of Jeopardy!’s Tournament of Champions, however, Cohen was consistently great. Due to his time as a Jeopardy! champion himself, Cohen empathizes with contestants easily and keeps things going at a rapidly appropriate pace for the competitive tournament known as “The Nerd Super Bowl.”

Could Cohen still succeed in shepherding the game show when played by its more “normal” contestants? He certainly deserves some consideration to do so.

1. Mike Richards

Show Air Dates: February 22, 2021- March 5, 2021

Alex Trebek would occasionally be asked in interviews who he’d like to replace him. It was not a question he frequently answered because who would want to speculate about an event that would presumably only occur after their death. He often joked that Betty White should because she was a close friend. But in the few instances he did consider the question seriously, he offered up Los Angeles Kings play-by-play announcer Alex Faust, Turner Classic Movies host Ben Makiewicz, and CNN legal analyst Laura Coates. Ultimately, Trebek told journalists at the Television Critics Association press tour that he “would leave it up to the people in charge.”

As we now know, the “people in charge” royally botched that decision. Jeopardy!‘s producers inability to properly vet their candidates led to an ugly situation for a harmless, syndicated show that has no business being involved in ugly situations.

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It must be said, however, that all that ugliness aside: Richards’ two-week tenure as guest host was great. Despite the stuffy connotation associated with the job “executive producer”, Richards was the most outwardly bubbly and joyful guest host yet. He still projected an air of authority and trivia mastery, likely due to his comfort and experience with the format. Richards was also an attentive interviewer, and well-researched – his shows were among the smoothest this season thus far. 

Now some of those good qualities seem slightly more sinister in context. Richards would obviously not be our (nor anyone else’s) choice to replace Trebek today but you don’t get a chance to change your Final Jeopardy! wager once the answer is in.

The post Ranking The Jeopardy! Guest Hosts appeared first on Den of Geek.

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Odds to Be Next Host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings Listed as the Heavy Favorite added to SmartSport on Trello

Smart Sport added the card Odds to Be Next Host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings Listed as the Heavy Favorite to the Odds to Be Next Host of Jeopardy! – Ken Jennings Listed as the Heavy Favorite list in the SmartSport board at November 13, 2020 at 02:24AM Odds to Be Next Host of Jeopardy! – Ken Jennings Listed as the Heavy Favorite https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/news/entertainment-props/odds-next-host-jeopardy-ken-jennings-listed-heavy-favorite/ With news of long-time Jeopardy! host Alek Trebek’s passing this week, the game show is searching for its next host Before his passing, Trebek pre-recorded episodes that will run through the rest of 2020 See below for odds on the many options for Trebek’s successor including good longshot bets The world lost a great on November 8 when Alek Trebek passed away. As the long-term host of Jeopardy!, Trebek charmed television audiences for over 35 years. With Trebek’s passing, the silver screen landscape has a huge void to fill. Naturally, while fans mourn Trebek, producers are scrambling to decide who should succeed the beloved host. A plethora of options would make worthy candidates. Previous Jeopardy! champions, renowned hosts of other programs, and various celebrities fill the list of odds. Let’s look at the list a bit further and see who actually has a chance to be the next Jeopardy! host. Odds for Next Host of Jeopardy! Host Odds Ken Jennings +100 George Stephanopoulos +325 LeVar Burton +900 Neil deGrasse Tyson +1400 Pat Sajak +1600 Alex Faust +1800 Laura Coates +1800 Ryan Seacrest +1800 Tom Bergeron +1800 Jimmy Kimmel +2000 Katie Couric +2000 Mina Kimes +2200 Jane Lynch +2500 Neil Patrick Harris +2500 Trevor Noah +2800 Wolf Blitzer +2800 Drew Carey +3300 Chris Harrison +4000 Howie Mandel +4000 Jon Stewart +4000 Piers Morgan +4000 Steve Harvey +4000 Erin Andrews +5000 Nick Cannon +5000 Al Michaels +6600 Joe Rogan +6600 Rosie Perez +6600 Oprah Winfrey +10000 James Holzhauer +25000 Donald Trump +100000 Odds taken Nov. 12 From Contestant to Host Ken Jennings presently has the best odds to succeed Trebek as the host of Jeopardy! Many fans of the game show will recognize Jennings’ name as one of the show’s most notorious contestants. Jennings first rose to notoriety as a Jeopardy! contestant in 2004 with a record-breaking streak. He went on to become the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time. Jennings has become synonymous with the show, and his likelihood of being the next host makes sense. Why Ken Jennings? He’s beloved in the Jeopardy! universe. Given how much fans loved Trebek, producers of the show are looking for the next best thing. They clearly want to emulate that fan-host bond as much as they can in the shadow of Trebek’s absence. Considering The Options Mere hours after Trebek’s death became public knowledge, there were already articles online guessing the next host. Former White House staffer and current ABC News journalist George Stephanopoulos is apparently gunning for the job. Stephanopoulos isn’t the most likely choice on paper, but his desire for the position have made his odds a lot more likely. But wanting something isn’t exactly enough. Given that Jennings is more associated with Jeopardy! he would make a better fit. But to find the next host, perhaps studio execs should listen to the person who knew best– Trebek himself. In a 2018 interview, Alex Trebek said he thought either LA Kings announcer Alex Faust or CNN legal analyst Laura Coates would make worthy hosts. 93rd Academy Awards Odds Tracker Read More Worthy Long Shots While there are definitely some familiar hosts whose names appear on the list of odds, there are some unlikely celebs here. Certain stars have poor odds for a reason– can you really imagine the sarcastic quip of Jane Lynch or nasty snark of Donald Trump being plugged in following Alex Trebek? Other stars have made interesting transitions to the game show world. Drew Carey famously replaced the also-beloved Bob Barker on The Price is Right. Steve Harvey has equally excelled on Family Feud. But these stars are too tied up for the gig. Neil Patrick Harris doesn’t have the best odds, but he’s a consistently appreciated celebrity with the chops for the gig. Betting on him could end up being a good bet. Similarly, Jon Stewart has been a strong beacon of light for television fans in the past, and he could make a great host despite his weak odds. Pick: Ken Jennings (+100) The post Odds to Be Next Host of Jeopardy! – Ken Jennings Listed as the Heavy Favorite appeared first on Sports Betting Dime. via Sports Betting Dime https://www.sportsbettingdime.com November 13, 2020 at 01:50AM https://tructiepbongda8.com/ https://tructiepbongda8.com/link-sopcast-bong-da/ View on Trello https://tructiepbongda8.com/ https://tructiepbongda8.com/link-sopcast-bong-da/

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What Is The End Of An Era?

Trebek Remembered For Grace That Elevated Him Above Tv Host

George Alexander Trebek has been the host of Jeopardy! since the syndicated debut of America's Favorite Quiz Show® in 1984. He has become one of television's most enduring and iconic figures, engaging millions of viewers worldwide with his impeccable delivery of “answers and questions.”

— By Lynn Elber | Associated Press | November 8, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alex Trebek never pretended to have all the answers, but the “Jeopardy!” host became an inspiration and solace to Americans who otherwise are at odds with each other.

He looked and sounded the part of a senior statesman, impeccably suited and groomed and with an authoritative voice any politician would covet. He commanded his turf — the quiz show’s stage — but refused to overshadow its brainy contestants.

And when he faced the challenge of pancreatic cancer, which claimed his life Sunday at age 80, he was honest, optimistic and graceful. Trebek died at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said.

The Canadian-born host made a point of informing fans about his health directly, in a series of brief online videos. He faced the camera and spoke in a calm, even tone as he revealed his illness and hope for a cure in the first message, posted in March 2019.

“Now normally, the prognosis for this is not very encouraging, but I’m going to fight this and I’m going to keep working,” Trebek said, even managing a wisecrack: He had to beat the disease because his “Jeopardy!” contract had three more years to run.

Trebek’s death came less than four months after that of civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, also of advanced pancreatic cancer and at age 80. Trebek had offered him words of encouragement last January.

In a memoir published this year, “The Answer Is ... Reflections on My Life,” Trebek suggested that he’s known but not celebrated, and compared himself to a visiting relative who TV viewers find “comforting and reassuring as opposed to being impressed by me.”

That was contradicted Sunday by the messages of grief and respect from former contestants, celebrities and the wider public that quickly followed news of his loss.

“Alex wasn’t just the best ever at what he did. He was also a lovely and deeply decent man, and I’m grateful for every minute I got to spend with him,” tweeted “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings. “Thinking today about his family and his Jeopardy! family — which, in a way, included millions of us.”

“It was one of the great privileges of my life to spend time with this courageous man while he fought the battle of his life. You will never be replaced in our hearts, Alex,” James Holzhauer, another “Jeopardy!” star, posted on Twitter.

Recent winner Burt Thakur tweeted that he was “overwhelmed with emotion.” When he appeared on Friday’s show, Thakur recounted learning English diction as a child from watching Trebek on “Jeopardy!” with his grandfather.

The program tapes weeks of shows in advance, and the remaining episodes with Trebek will air through Dec. 25, a Sony spokeswoman said.

“Jeopardy!” bills itself as “America’s favorite quiz show” and captivated the public with a unique format in which contestants were told the answers and had to provide the questions on a variety of subjects, including movies, politics, history and popular culture.

They would answer by saying “What is ... ?” or “Who is .... ?”

In November 2019, one contestant expressed what many Jeopardy! fans were feeling: For his "Final Jeopardy!" answer, Dhruv Gaur wagered $1,995 on his answer: "What is We ❤ you, Alex!"

Trebek, who became its host in 1984, was a master of the format, engaging in friendly banter with contestants, appearing genuinely pleased when they answered correctly and, at the same time, moving the game along in a brisk no-nonsense fashion whenever people struggled for answers.

“I try not to take myself too seriously,” he told an interviewer in 2004. “I don’t want to come off as a pompous ass and indicate that I know everything when I don’t.”

The show was the brainstorm of Julann Griffin, wife of the late talk show host-entrepreneur Merv Griffin, who said she suggested to him one day that he create a game show where people were given the answers.

“Jeopardy!” debuted on NBC in 1964 with Art Fleming as emcee and was an immediate hit. It lasted until 1975, then was revived in syndication with Trebek.

Long identified by a full head of hair and trim mustache (though in 2001 he startled viewers by shaving his mustache, “completely on a whim”), Trebek was more than qualified for the job, having started his game show career on “Reach for the Top” in his native country.

George Alexander Trebek began hosting Jeopardy! in 1984. He is shown above in his Los Angeles home in 1988. Alan Greth/AP

Moving to the U.S. in 1973, he appeared on “The Wizard of Odds,” “High Rollers,” “The $128,000 Question” and “Double Dare.” Even during his run on “Jeopardy!”, Trebek worked on other shows. In the early 1990s, he was the host of three — “Jeopardy!”, “To Tell the Truth” and “Classic Concentration.”

“Jeopardy!” made him famous. He won five Emmys as its host, including one last June, and received stars on both the Hollywood and Canadian walks of fame. In 2012, the show won a prestigious Peabody Award.

He taped his daily “Jeopardy!” shows at a frenetic pace, recording as many as 10 episodes (two weeks’ worth) in just two days. After what was described as a mild heart attack in 2007, he was back at work in just a month.

He posted a video in January 2018 announcing he’d undergone surgery for blood clots on the brain that followed a fall he’d taken. The show was on hiatus during his recovery.

It had yet to bring in a substitute host for Trebek — save once, when he and “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak swapped their TV jobs as an April’s Fool prank.

In 2012, Trebek acknowledged that he was considering retirement, but had been urged by friends to stay on so he could reach 30 years on the show. He still loved the job, he declared: “What’s not to love? You have the security of a familiar environment, a familiar format, but you have the excitement of new clues and new contestants on every program. You can’t beat that!”

Although many viewers considered him one of the key reasons for the show’s success, Trebek himself insisted he was only there to keep things moving.

“My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best,” he said in a 2012 interview. “And if I’m successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star. But not if I try to steal the limelight!”

In a January 2019 interview with The Associated Press, Trebek discussed his decision to keep going with “Jeopardy!”

“It’s not as if I’m overworked — we tape 46 days a year,” he said. But he acknowledged he would retire someday, if he lost his edge or the job was no longer fun, adding: “And it’s still fun.”

Trebek said he hated to see contestants lose for forgetting to phrase their answers as questions. "I'm there to see that the contestants do as well as they can within the context of the rules," he told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1987. Above, Trebek poses on the set in April 2010. Amanda Edwards/Getty Images

Born July 22, 1940, in Sudbury, Ontario, Trebek was sent off to boarding school by his Ukrainian father and French-Canadian mother when he was barely in his teens.

After graduating high school, he spent a summer in Cincinnati to be close to a girlfriend, then returned to Canada to attend college. After earning a philosophy degree from the University of Ottawa, he went to work for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., starting as a staff announcer and eventually becoming a radio and TV reporter.

He became a U.S. citizen in 1997. Trebek’s first marriage, to Elaine Callei, ended in divorce. In 1990, he married Jean Currivan, and they had two children, Emily and Matthew.

Trebek is survived by his wife, their two children and his stepdaughter, Nicky.

The Order of Canada (French: Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. Alex Trebek was awarded on November 17, 2017

Trebek was proud of the Peabody Award received by Jeopardy! in 2012 (left), Trebek at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, on March 31, 2007 (right)

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‘Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time’ also gave us GOAT-level trash talk

What’s worse than coming in a distant last on “Jeopardy!”? Getting viciously trash talked in the process.

Until Tuesday night, Brad Rutter had a legitimate claim to being the best Jeopardy! player of all time. No one in game show history has won more money than him. The player who had perhaps the next best claim to being the greatest ever, Ken Jennings, had lost to Rutter three times in Jeopardy!’s tournament of champions format.

But during the show’s Greatest of All Time event, Rutter never even became a factor in the competition. He flubbed some early Daily Doubles that put him in point deficits from which he never recovered, and he also seemed slow on the buzzer until there were only lower value clues left. He didn’t win a single game in the first-to-three wins tournament.

Rutter’s performance in a primetime event was embarrassing on its own, but perhaps no moment was as humiliating — as utterly cruel, gleefully savage, or gut-punchingly funny — as when the third competitor, James Holzhauer, sent this barb at Rutter between the first and second halves of Tuesday’s tournament finale.

If you're Brad you've got go see James backstage or in the parking lot right after the show. Third place still wins enough for bail money.pic.twitter.com/jmetcjEsL9

— Chris Rosenthall (@ChrisRosie22) January 15, 2020

A big part of Rutter’s struggles throughout the competition might have been Holzhauer, who is arguably the most impressive (if not quite the “greatest”) player in Jeopardy! history. He owns every record that Kennings or Rutter don’t, including the highest single-game winnings of $131,127. Holzhauer is a professional sports gambler, and is known for his hyper aggressive strategies, which include selecting high-value clues first and betting big whenever he has an opportunity to wage on a Daily Double.

In short: He was Rutter’s kryptonite. Rutter, a mild-mannered former quiz bowl savant from Pennsylvania, admitted in a taped segment that he was worried that he might be past his trivia prime. Holzhauer did everything to confirm those fears, repeatedly shit-talking the distant third-place finisher both during the tournament and online.

I’m of two minds on this.

The first is, how dare Holzhauer? Rutter had four bad days of trivia, but some of that was due to dumb luck. And Holzhauer didn’t have to kick the man when he was down. For example, Jennings gave Rutter a gracious shoutout on Twitter, pointing out that “for over a decade, [Rutter has] really had the only credible claim as the Jeopardy GOAT.” Holzhauer, who was the tournament’s first loser, doesn’t really have any right to comment on another player’s performance.

On the other hand: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL TALK THAT SHIT DORK. Something like the Greatest of All Time tournament may never happen again, so why put on airs? Why be anything other than wholly yourself? Great competitors taunt, and there’s no question that Holzhauer is one of the best, even if Tuesday proved that he isn’t the best. Even Jennings, the newly-crowned GOAT, laid down some vicious smack.

Rutter has been doing game shows for a long time, and has been in Holzhauer’s position far more often than not. He should be able to take trash talk in stride. And if he was seething on the inside, then that’s his fault for not building up the callous layer around his heart that all true champions have.

(And for the record: Rutter did get in a decent, though understandably less pointed, clap back at Holzhauer on Twitter.)

In a way, the moment was a perfect encapsulation of the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time tournament itself: the inherent silliness and fun of playing trivia for money, and the seriousness and competitiveness one needs to be that good at it. And at the very least, Rutter can take umbrage in the fact that Holzhauer felt he was worth the breath. Among the best, wanting to humiliate your opponent is maybe the truest sign of respect.

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I Finally Made it to ‘Jeopardy!’ and Was Beating James Holzhauer. Then He Got Rolling.

I’m standing on a set that’s as familiar to me as my own living room — because of all the times I’ve seen it from my own living room. I’ve just landed on the first Daily Double. And I have a chance to take the lead.

I’m not sure what my face is doing, because I’m still not sure I believe this is happening. I give my answer: “What is the glass ceiling?” Now I have $5,800 and the lead.

After all those years shouting answers at the TV screen, half a dozen attempts at the online tryout, and one very tense morning in the studio waiting for my turn, this is it. I’m going to be the one who takes down Goliath.

Goliath, in this case, is James Holzhauer, the 22-time winner (through Friday) whose record-smashing run on “Jeopardy!” has turned him into a household name. He’s a speed demon on the buzzer who regularly nails all three Daily Doubles with sky-high wagers. He’s catching up to Ken Jennings, and he’s doing it fast.

[How did James Holzhauer turn ‘Jeopardy!’ into his own A.T.M.? We asked him.]

As a kid, I used to watch Jeopardy! with my grandfather. Well, I’d watch — he would be “resting his eyes.” I started trying to get on the show in college, and over the years, I would twice make it as far as the in-person auditions before, this January, the stars aligned and I got The Call.

You get one chance to make your mark on “Jeopardy!” and I wasn’t going to waste it. Before flying to Los Angeles, I relearned everything I’d forgotten about United States presidents and world capitals, read up on Final Jeopardy betting strategy, and watched the full catalog of the Tournament of Champions. I wasn’t going to be one of those players who was just happy to be nominated. Especially not when I knew I’d be the show’s typical lone woman, facing off against two men. No, I was going to win.

In any game of “Jeopardy!” there’s a returning champion. So when I arrive at the studio at 7 on a Monday morning, filled half with adrenaline and half iced coffee, to hear that our guy has already won twice, I just think: he seems … normal?

Then we actually get to watch him play.

The show tapes five episodes every day that it’s on set, and you don’t know which game you’ll be playing until they call your name, minutes before your turn. The rest of the time, all you and your comrades/opponents have to do is watch. It’s supposed to be fun: you’re playing a game. But that morning, it felt like we’d stumbled into a war zone.

Three games went by. In the second one, his final total was $110,914, beating the previous one-game record by more than $30,000. (He has since broken his own record, with $131,127, and has won $1.7 million so far.)

I remember someone joking, “Who’s next into the meat grinder?” I couldn’t decide if I wanted it to be me. At least then the wait would be over. My mother was in the audience, and you’re not allowed to talk to your guests during the taping, but her face said it all.

[What is life like for Ken Jennings and other former “Jeopardy!” stars?]

Lewis Black, a lawyer from Salt Lake City, and I are the first ones out of the trenches after production breaks for lunch. It’ll be a Thursday episode, April 11. We step onto marked-off squares that have built-in elevators that rise up to make it look like we’re all the same height. Lewis and I give each other a look. I try to remember that we’re playing against each other, too, but it doesn’t feel that way. It feels like we’re in this together. And someone, somehow, has got to take this guy down.

It’s not like I didn’t realize that was unlikely. In a strange way, though, the long odds felt liberating. The numbers on the game board stopped being real money and became nothing more than points in a game. A game I was still going to try to win, because Goliath or not, this was my one shot.

Most of James’s strategies aren’t new to the show — starting from the high-value clues at the bottom of the board, jumping from category to category, hunting for Daily Doubles. What makes him a “Jeopardy!” machine is all of that and his impeccable timing on the buzzer. It’s unreal.

I had thought that mastering the buzzer would be the easy part. I’m a millennial! I grew up playing video games! In reality? It felt impossible. You can’t buzz in until Alex is finished reading a clue; if you’re too early, you get locked out for a fraction of a second. You can try to time it by listening to him or you can watch for the white lights on either side of the game board, which turn on the moment the system is armed. I tried it all in our rehearsal rounds, but I never got the hang of it. And James had already had five games’ worth of practice.

There’s only one way to succeed against a player who uses James’s strategies, and that’s to make sure you use the same aggressive style. I manage to rack up some early momentum. I get the first Daily Double, and wrestling one away from James — a rare occurrence — already feels like an achievement. The category is “Idioms” and Alex reads the clue: “Management consultant Marilyn Loden says she coined this phrase for a barrier to female success in 1978.”

My editor’s brain starts crafting a narrative in the background: If I beat a five-time champ by shattering the glass ceiling, how incredible would that story be?

As it turns out, the James machine is inexorable. He gets the next Daily Double, and the next one, and our game starts taking a trajectory that, to Lewis and me, has gotten a little too familiar. One that goes straight downhill.

In the end, I’m happy with the fight Lewis and I put up against one of the show’s winningest players. I’m thrilled to have been a small part of a show that’s been part of my life since I was too short to see over one of its podiums. And I’m grateful to have had the chance to meet Alex Trebek.

If you have to lose at a game you love on national television, I will say it’s nice to have an ironclad excuse. Sure, I lost. But I lost to the guy who keeps finding new places to add his name to the record book.

And now, at least my friends still believe me when I say that on any other day, I could have won.

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Earlier this month, Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings was crowned the “Greatest Of All Time” champion after besting fellow competitors “Jeopardy James” Holzhauer and Brad Rutter — and he says it wasn’t at all easy keeping the big win a secret.

“I told my wife, but nobody else knew,” Jennings, a former computer programmer that lives in Seattle with his wife and kids, tells PEOPLE about the tournament, which had actually taped a month prior to airing. “I knew it was going to be a thrilling series, so I wanted people to watch on TV. My kids in particular were a little annoyed. My son was like two years old when I was first on Jeopardy!, but now he’s 17 and did not like being kept in the dark.”

As for besting former champs Holzhauer and Rutter, he says they were fierce competitors. “Brad is the most tenacious Jeopardy! player I’ve ever seen — best I’ve ever played. He just never got his footing. It may be just as simple as the fact that he found a ton of very hard Daily Doubles. Like, I would have missed a lot of those too. He just happened to be the one to who took the bullet.”

For more from Jeopardy!’s Ken Jennings, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday

(When Rutter landed yet another Daily Double on the third episode, keeping it safe from high-stakes better Holzhauer, he turned to Jennings, 45, and said, “You’re welcome!”)

As for challenging professional gambler Holzhauer, who rose to fame last April by betting big (and winning nearly $2.5 million) during his 32-game winning streak, Jennings says he had to study his method closely before this tournament.

RELATED: Jeopardy!’s James Holzhauer Loses Points to Honor Alex Trebek During Greatest of All Time Night 3

“You have to bet big,” he says. “That’s the only way to beat him. I watched so many James Holzhauer tapes, just to prep for this. It’s a tribute to how he’s changed the game, his dominance. … Brad and I just knew intuitively that whoever would win was going to do it by doing their best James Holzhauer impression.”

Still, despite the friendly competitiveness, he says he and Holzhauer have actually become close friends. “We actually met briefly in Seattle, when I hosted a trivia night at a local music festival, although I didn’t remember,” Jennings says. “But he reached our after his show and had some questions about Jeopardy! fame. And yeah, we’ve actually become very good friends, even though we have very different Jeopardy! styles.”

Jennings does think that the show will start seeing plenty more Holzhauer imitators in the near future — but isn’t sure they’ll be able to pull off big wins like he did.

“You’re definitely going to see a lot of cocky, young, would-be stars. The problem is his strategy is very high risk. So I think it’s going to backfire on a lot of people. But it’s going to be really entertaining TV,” he says. “People have definitely been betting too small on Daily Doubles all these years.” He adds with a laugh, “I could be a Jeopardy! life coach I think. There’s my new job.”

RELATED: Ken Jennings on His Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time Win: ‘I Just Remember Feeling Shock’

Jokes aside, Jennings does talk about how being on the Alex Trebek-hosted show 17 years ago changed his life forever — and for the better.

“I was kind of a borderline unhappy, unskilled computer programmer before I went on the show, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Thanks to Jeopardy!, I turned it around,” he says. “I’m now a freelance writer, which I love, and speak on a podcast twice a week.”

Most importantly, he got to be there to watch his kids (son Dylan, 17, and daughter Katie, 14) grow up.

“I got to be home with my kids the whole time they were growing up, which is utterly priceless,” Jennings says. “I mean, that means more to me than any Jeopardy! check, honestly.”

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Jeopardy! Makes a Great Choice for Host, But Not the Right One

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When Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards guest hosted the long-running quiz show, it seemed as though he was just doing the series a solid while it scrambled together to find other, more high profile guest hosts.

The loss of longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek was a massive one and the producers of the show decided to go with a fittingly massive tribute for the season that followed his death. The show cycled through 15 big name guest hosts (with one more, Joe Buck, still to come) to try their hand at the job that Trebek perfected. In addition to honoring Alex, Jeopardy! pitched this gambit as a legitimate “tryout” for the job.

Imagine everyone’s surprise then when the apparent placeholder already associated with Jeopardy! won the whole thing in the end. According to several reports (first by Variety), Mike Richards is in advanced talks to become the full time Jeopardy! host. It’s a great decision. But it also might not be the right one.

If Jeopardy! was sincere about this being a tryout, then it’s hard to argue that Richards didn’t win the job fair and square. We’ve been ranking the performances of the guest judges over here and Richards claimed the first spot early on and never relinquished it, despite spirited efforts from Buzzy Cohen and Mayim Bialik. Richards is quite simply a natural in the role. Despite only joining the Jeopardy! team in 2019, Richards has a deep understanding of what makes the show work and it’s certainly not the star power of the host. He runs an efficient, effective game and only interjects his personality at the most appropriate moments. Richards’ performance was well-received elsewhere as well, and EW notes that only Ken Jennings’ lengthy stint as guest host received higher ratings.

In a vacuum, Mike Richards is the right choice to replace Alex Trebek. The issue is: we don’t live in a vacuum. The choice of Richards brings some unnecessary baggage to the TV institution that has successfully operated without baggage for years. Richards has a controversial tenure at his former job as producer on another game show. In 2012, Price is Right model Brandi Cochran won a discrimination lawsuit against the show for being sidelined and harassed after she became pregnant. Cochran singled out Richards as a producer who gave her less work following the pregnancy. The legal win was later wiped out by a judge due to the jury not receiving proper instructions.

There’s also the fact that the choice of a Jeopardy! executive producer throws some cold water on the notion that this was ever really an open audition. Mike Richards was involved in the hosting search and it would appear that he chose himself. Jeopardy! GOAT contestant James Holzhauer sums up the conflict of interest in one perfect WWE tweet.

pic.twitter.com/ySS10RZZit https://t.co/imkQSCIfQO

— James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) August 5, 2021

It’s possible the folks at Jeopardy! thought that Richards’ superb performance would lay to rest any accusations of a rigged audition. The issue is that, while Richards was excellent, this whole guest hosting experience revealed something quite surprising about the role of Jeopardy! host: it actually doesn’t appear to be that hard.

Alex Trebek will forever be synonymous with Jeopardy! and a major part of television history. No one can approach him in terms of gravitas, experience, and dedication to the wonderful game. Based on this Jeopardy! guest hosting experiment, however, plenty of other hosts can still do right by the game while not reaching Trebekian levels. Of the 15 guest hosts thus far, only five or so were noticeably ill-suite for the role. TV personalities like George Stephanopolous, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Bill Whitaker all did a fine job. As did Jeopardy! vets like Ken Jennings and Buzzy Cohen. Even the wild card choices like Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers and Big Bang Theory actress and neuroscientist Mayim Rialik performed admirably. 

Richards may have been the best of the bunch but he wasn’t the only option…and factoring in the bad taste of him spearheading the search for a replacement and settling on himself, he may not have been the right option. 

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One other factor that it’s hard to ignore is that, like the papacy or a Supreme Court seat, Jeopardy! host is likely to be a lifetime gig. In terms of North American quiz show hosting roles, there is nothing above Jeopardy! Mike Richards is a relatively young man at 46 and his stint as host is likely to run decades. Forgive me for the grim task of predicting a man’s death, but if Richards hosts into his 80s like Trebek, then the host of Jeopardy! will have been a succession of handsome straight white men for 91 consecutive years. When viewed through that historical prism, it’s easy to understand why some were  eager to see a Black man like LeVar Burton (who struggled in his stint but can grow into it) or a woman like Bialik (who was great, full stop) get the gig. 

Choosing the next Jeopardy! host wasn’t just about fulfilling a role, it was about choosing who we see on our living room televisions five times a week for the next half century. Now it appears that we’re going to see Mike Richards. There’s no doubt he’ll do a fine job. It’s just a small shame that someone else wasn’t given the opportunity to do an even better one.

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Breaking Brad: Why Brad Rutter Is Losing Jeopardy’s GOAT Tournament

After three episodes of Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time (GOAT) tournament, the question on everyone’s mind is: Why is Brad Rutter losing?

It has to do with Daily Doubles, the clues that let you wager your entire score—or up to $1,000 in the first round or $2,000 in the second round, whichever is higher.

Rutter, the person who has won the most money in all of American game-show history, has managed to snag 50 percent of the 18 Daily Doubles across six games in the first three matchups. However, he’s answered correctly just one-third of the time. In the GOAT tournament, Rutter has lost games of Jeopardy to human opponents for the first time in his career. (He has $4,788,436 in earnings from five regular-season episodes, five tournament wins, a third-place to IBM’s Watson, and $100,000 from other game-show appearances.)

Update: Ken Jennings has won the entire tournament.

Of his opponents, Ken Jennings (the biggest regular season winner with the longest run of shows) has grabbed four DDs and been right on each. The third grandmaster, James Holzhauer (just shy of Jennings’s winnings and at over twice the earning pace), has picked up five DDs and was correct on four of those five.

We need to be kind to Rutter, as my family is when we watch at home—this is Jeopardy at its highest level, and with immense pressure. While he’s beaten Jennings several times, he’s never played against the equivalent of two Kens at once.

What is out of my depth, Alex?

I played Jeopardy in 2012 and won twice—and let me add, by the skin of my teeth. I was happy to go home with over $30,000 and a picture of me and Alex Trebek.

I learned before and during my games that Jeopardy is not just about trivia. Contestants are selected in part for knowledge, and usually two or three of the players know a given answer. At the GOAT level, outside of Daily Double and Final Jeopardy stumpers, all three champions likely know the answer.

This is where betting and odds knowledge come in as a critical additional aspect. With control of the board, all three players are hunting for those DDs, as only the player with the ability to select can answer a Daily Double.

The producers typically place DDs as the third or higher of the five clues for each category (the $600 position in the Jeopardy round and $1,200 in Double Jeopardy). As clues disappear, the GOAT players are balancing their knowledge of a category with the potential to block a competitor by grabbing a DD and even betting on the low side if they aren’t confident, or to obtain the advantage by betting high and winning. (Arthur Chu gained a lot of enmity for aggressively playing across the board and hunting DDs, because some viewers decided it wasn’t a “fair” way to play, though given white players had chosen that route starting in 1985 and employed it since without much controversy, it seemed a lot more about race.)

In normal play, contestants may be hesitant when the Daily Double razzmatazz sound plays, one of the few sound effects Jeopardy employs. When you’re behind, it’s easy to fear a wrong answer would cost you the game; while ahead, wagering conservatively could advance your lead if correct while not knocking you out if in error.

Holzhauer went for broke nearly every time in his regular-season games. He bet most or all of the amount he had on the board, a strategy employed most aggressively previously by Roger Craig, an all-time champ who beat Jennings’ one-day score of $75,000 by racking up $77,000. Holzhauer across his weeks of play took the one-day title, too—he now holds the top 16 positions with his highest being $131,127.

That’s required Jennings and Rutter, never shy in the past from all-in bets, to hit hard when they capture a Daily Double question. It’s like watching a set of sharks hunting a small school of tuna: the first one in gobbles them all, leaving the others hungry.

The questions so far have been GOAT-worthy, especially Rutter's Daily Doubles. Watching the first game of the first day’s match, I was gobsmacked by how few clues I could answer in the form of questions, even as contestants whipped out answers faster than I could read them.

In the first game on that first day, Rutter had the clue in the “Dancing with the Czars” category: “‘We understood each other…& let the others prattle,’ said Catherine the Great of this longtime adviser & less longtime lover.” Rutter struggled for an answer and came up with Vronsky, a fictional character from Anna Karennina. The correct response was, “Who is Grigory Potemkin?”

In the second game, Rutter reasonably choked in Double Jeopardy on Daily Doubles for “Born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong performed songs named for these 2 local “B” streets” (Bourbon and Basin; he said Bourbon and Beale, as I did, though I knew Beale Street was in Memphis) and “This double-first-name philosopher born in 1842 said that the value of a concept is in its practical consequences” (William James). These two incorrect responses reset his score to zero—twice! Even still, he clawed his way back to 10,000 points by Final Jeopardy, within striking distance of the other two players.

Because Rutter had cleared out so many DDs, Jennings and Holzhauer are engaged in a fight to grab toeholds in a rock face they’re climbing instead of taking an elevator to the top. And when they have gotten DDs, both Jennings and Holzhauer have capitalized in a way Rutter hasn't.

Just as important as finding and correctly answering Daily Doubles is finding them at the right time. Rutter has only been correct on Daily Double wagers at times when he had little to bet, often not even the 1,000- or 2,000-point alternate bet for each round.

Buzzer Timing

Rutter has seemingly demonstrated an additional disadvantage, one not seen in his previous gameplay. In addition to getting Daily Doubles wrong, Jeopardy is a game of millisecond-level reflex response. Press the button on the signal device before a producer has decided Alex has finished reading the clue and unlocked the “buzzers” (signal devices, really) and you’re briefly locked out. Click a millisecond too late in the GOAT gathering, and another of your razor-sharp competitors has won the race and gives the answer.

When the producer presses their button, lights illuminate to the left and right of the stage game board out of view the television audience’s frame. Jennings and many other champions say they rely on Trebek’s cadence to buzz in; I followed that advice, notably from the book Prisoner of Trebekistan, by another multi-tournament champion, Bob Harris. Holzhauer followed a previous champion’s advice and looks for the lights.

In the six games played so far in this tournament, Rutter has won the buzzer toss-up by far the least. With 57 questions up for grabs in each game—30 plus 30 less three Daily Doubles—Rutter has answered 10 to 12 questions for five of the six games. Jennings and Holzhauer have on average divided the rest with a slight advantage in each direction, depending on the game.

That brings us to the last overlooked element of Jeopardy play: ringing in without being sure you had the correct answer. With a Daily Double, you can bet as little as $5 if you hate the category, but few people do, and none of the GOAT contestants can afford to. (I won my first game of Jeopardy because the returning champion spoiled her run-away win by betting too much on a late-game DD—she should have wagered $5.)

With other clues, you have a moment while Trebek reads the text to figure out if you should ring in. If you answer with the wrong question, you lose that dollar amount, which can put you into the negative. Rutter’s has been wrong on 11.4 percent of his regular-question responses, while Holzhauer is at 8.1 percent and Jennings at 6.8 percent. That slight difference, coupled with Jennings's 100 percent correct responses for the Daily Doubles he’s hit tells the story of how the competition is going, though not why.

I stood at the podium three times, winning two games and a meager $31,000 or so by grandmaster standards, and I can tell you that each game is a fresh challenge and a fresh terror. I guessed my first Final Jeopardy correctly—ironically, “Who is Karl Marx?”—by elimination of other choices. I had the wrong answer but enough cash remaining to prevail in the second Final Jeopardy, vexing the only one of us three who was correct. I sealed my doom in my third game when I misspoke in a Daily Double and said “Who was George Sands?” rather than “George Sand.” (Trebek: “Ooo, sooorey.”)

I flailed in my third game, because I’d simply run out of steam. Jeopardy typically tapes five games a day, two days in a row. I had won games four and five of my first day in Culver City, and then lost game one of the second. My brain’s answering chemistry felt depleted. I saw a picture of a hibiscus, recognized it as that flower, and bizarrely said, “What is an orchid?” My sympathetic wife, who has a degree in horticulture, was supportive.

It’s an endurance contest in the best of times, and starting off on a bad pace can keep you down. We don’t know how rapidly they taped episodes for this tournament. In a typical tournament, even the final three players compete in no more than three games a day. With the two-game-per-match structure, it’s likely they taped two episodes a day or four games, to avoid the mental exhaustion of a fifth and sixth game in a row at this calibre.

They already got their GOATs

Without any advance knowledge, what’s happened so far makes it likely Jennings will win. With a slight edge in accuracy and maintaining a vigorous balance with Holzhauer on signaling, he only needs to win either one of the next two if Holzhauer prevails again, or in a dramatic showdown, Jennings can win any game up to the seventh match if Holzhauer wins just one more and Rutter picks up two.

My family is “#teamken,” because Jennings is local to us and I’ve met him a couple of times. He graciously gave me his insight in person before my first game, as did another local top winner, writer and bookstore owner Tom Nissley. But I always love the underdog, and would love to see Rutter fight back to his obvious potential.

If Jennings wins this tournament, he would also take the title of all-time American game-show cash winner from Rutter with $5,223,414 to Rutter’s $5,138,436, as Jennings has won bundles on other programs.

Nonetheless, Rutter, Jennings, and Holzhauer should each keep the GOAT mantle after this competition. The next runner-up in each of their scoreboard categories at Jeopardy are far behind, as great as that tranche of players are.

Regardless of who wins, Jeopardy GOAT has been a lot of wholesome fun. Trebek revealed he was in treatment for pancreatic cancer in early 2019, and that he had to resume treatment later in the year, making this tournament and all we Jeopardy contestants’ experiences all the more tinged with worry and nostalgia. His last games are approaching or maybe already quietly taped, too.

Producers guessed viewers wanted to know who was the ultimate winner, but I think getting to see the pinnacle of modern quiz-show performance provides just as corny and lovable an answer as the tradition of Jeopardy itself: It’s us, the viewers. We’re the winners.

Glenn Fleishman is a two-time Jeopardy champion and a veteran technology reporter who contributes to the Economist, Fast Company, Macworld, and many others. He’s also a type historian, currently assembling a set of one hundred tiny type museums, sets of historical and modern printing artifacts. He can be found at @glennf on Twitter and glog.glennf.com on the web.

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Alex Trebek hopes his ‘Jeopardy!’ legacy is showing people ‘the benefits of knowledge’

Alex Trebek tried to deflect the compliments and praise lobbed at him on Wednesday at the Television Critics Association press tour and even shied away from giving too much thought to the fondness TV viewers have for him, the man invited into their living rooms almost daily for the past 36 years.

He was, however, crystal clear about what he hopes viewers have taken away from him and the show during his years as the host of “Jeopardy!”

“The benefits of knowledge,” he said. “Even though you are not going to use a particular bit of knowledge, information that you acquire — even though you’re not going to be able to use it in a practical way in your daily life or in your work life or at home, whatever — it becomes part of you. It enriches you and makes you a better human being and, I think, a more understanding human being.”

He added: “The more you know, the easier it will be to understand everything else that’s going on in the world. If you have limited knowledge, then you’re approaching other people from a limited point of view, and that can be disastrous, as we have discovered.”

Trebek was sharing the stage with three of the most knowledgeable people to walk on the “Jeopardy!” stage — James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Executive producer Harry Friedman was also present.

They were on hand to promote the ongoing “Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time” competition. (Jennings won the first night of competition, while Holzhauer won night two.) Tried as they may have to stay on task, much of the discussion was aimed at Trebek, who is currently fighting a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Questions on his legacy, his eventual retirement, and his place in television history dominated their time on stage. Though, he tried to stay humble.

“You’re very kind,” he told one reporter, who told him that he was at the “top of your game.” “Keep in mind that my success to a great extent has depended on the success of the game. You could have put somebody else in as the host of ‘Jeopardy!’ 36 years ago … and if the show had lasted 36 years, they would be enjoying the same kind of favorable reviews and adulation that I have enjoyed in recent years.”

He also, as he did at the daytime Emmys last year, dismissed some of the adulation as being a result of what he called a “pity factor.”

“People have been so kind, sending prayers and good thoughts and all of that. So I’m not unaware of that,” he said.

Trebek continues his duties at the show through his chemotherapy treatments. He admitted, “some days are better than others.”

“They’ve got me off one of my chemo drugs, which was killing me. And I won’t know till tomorrow (when) I go in for some tests, and then maybe another week or so before I find out where things stand,” he said.

When the time does come for him to step down — and he doesn’t see that “moment coming up in the near future” — Trebek knows what he’ll miss most of all.

“I tell audiences who come to our tapings that the thing I enjoy most about the show is the 30 minutes I spend onstage with the contestants, because I love spending time with bright people. And with these three, it was particularly enjoyable,” he said pointing to the champions with whom he shared the stage. “I hate spending time with stupid people.”

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James Holzhauer: 5 Things To Know About ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Competing In GOAT Tournament

James Holzhauer went on a 32-game winning streak on ‘Jeopardy!’ in 2019 and now he’s competing against other top contestants to determine who’s the greatest of all time. Here are five things about him.

James Holzhauer, 36, became the third-highest-earning American game show contestant of all time after he went on a 32-game winning streak on Jeopardy! from April to June 2019 and won again in the Tournament of Champions in November 2019. In addition to earning a whopping total of $2,714,416 in the Jeopardy! games, he won an additional $250, 000 for the Tournament of Champions and it’s led him to compete for the ultimate win in the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time contest, which starts on Jan. 7. The impressive young man will be competing against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the other two top contestants from Jeopardy!, in the highly anticipated competition.

Ken leads the pack in the number one spot of all time after he won 74 consecutive Jeopardy! games in 2004 earning him $2,520,700 . James’ winnings put him in the number two spot, and Brad caps it off in the number three spot due to winning five consecutive games back in 2000, when they were limited to five game wins at a time. He still, however, has the most earnings at $4.7 million due to tournaments.

James’ success on Jeopardy!, which is hosted by Alex Trebek, last year helped him become the contestant who broke the record for most money won during a single episode of the long running game show on Apr. 17 so his participation in the upcoming GOAT contest is sure to be impressive. As we all get ready to excitingly watch in anticipation of which intelligent contestant will win the ultimate prize, here are five things you should know about James.

1. He’s a professional gambler from Las Vegas. James grew up in Naperville, Illinois, according to Heavy.com, where he developed a competitive spirit and a love for games. He reportedly helped lead the Naperville North High School to a first-place finish in the Illinois State Finals Academic Challenge. James has turned his talents and skills into a lucrative career as a competitive bridge player. In 2016, he moved to Las Vegas to become a professional sports gambler.

2. This isn’t the first time he was on a game show. His record-shattering run on Jeopardy! is not the first time the game show world has gotten a look at James. He appeared on The Chase in 2014, an adaptation of a British game show. “I think being on The Chase made me better prepared for the pressure of the cameras and lights, and it boosted my confidence going in to Jeopardy! since I knew I was capable of winning on a big stage,” he told The Naperville Sun.

3. His wife was also on a game show. James’s spouse, Melissa Holzhauer, won $28k during an appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in 2014, according to Heavy.com. The money must have bought a lot of diapers, as he and Melissa have a five-year-old daughter.

4. He has a distinctive playing style. “My theory is that you need to be betting very aggressively on Daily Doubles and in Final Jeopardy,” James told Vulture. “I guess I’d call it strategically aggressive. I didn’t model my strategy after anyone in particular. My basic thoughts going in were, ‘Okay, I want to have some money before Daily Doubles, and if this helps take my opponents off [their] game, that’s just a bonus.’ Some players in the past have said they bounced from category from category on purpose to throw everyone. I wasn’t trying to do that at all, it wasn’t my goal. I was just trying to get as much money I could before the big bets came in to leverage that.”

However, as Wired notes, his style of “darting around the board” is a variation of what Jeopardy! fans know as the “Forrest Bounce,” named for Chuck Forrest, who pioneered the technique to throw his opponents off their game.

5. He sends messages to his family with his bets. James bet $38,314 on the April 16th episode (which was odd since he had $72, 600 going into Final Jeopardy) but there was a hidden message in that. Adding up his winnings from the first two rounds, it came out to $110, 914 – which is his daughter’s birthday (11/09/14) “What Is Berlin Jack, who was born on March 26, 2008.

 “As for the shout-outs, family will always be more important to me than money or winning on Jeopardy! and the bets were a fun and unconventional way for me to show them that,” he said.

Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time premieres on ABC on Jan. 7 at 8/7c.

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James Holzhauer Beats Emma Boettcher in ‘Jeopardy!’ Rematch

He scored big with a Daily Double clue about the first multipurpose charge card. After a commercial break, she hunted down the next Daily Double, a clue about the film that made Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to win an Oscar for directing. (The answers are below.)

Much of the game that aired on Friday played out as a fierce back-and-forth between James Holzhauer, the sports bettor from Las Vegas who dominated “Jeopardy!” for 32 straight games earlier this year, and Emma Boettcher, the librarian from Chicago who had unseated him as champion.

By the end of the game, Boettcher had whittled down Holzhauer’s big early lead, but not by enough. He took first place in the show’s Tournament of Champions and the grand prize of $250,000; she was runner-up, winning $100,000. Francois Barcomb, a high school physics teacher from New Paltz, N.Y., was third, winning $50,000.

Holzhauer, 35, said in an email that he didn’t view the tournament as a “chance for redemption,” but many of his loyal fans were eager to see him come out on top after the loss in June that prevented him from surpassing the $2.52 million Ken Jennings won during his record 74-game winning streak in 2004.

“It became clear that Emma and Francois were the two toughest players in the field,” Holzhauer said, “so I knew the final would be a slugfest.”

Holzhauer captivated “Jeopardy!” fans starting in April with his dominant strategy and high-value bets. He set the record for the most money won in a single episode and then surpassed that total three more times. Holzhauer seemed poised to beat Jennings’s record before Boettcher picked up the buzzer and put her own skill on display.

Boettcher, 27, studied meticulously for her first appearances on “Jeopardy!,” keeping a notebook with her scores from playing along with the show at home. For this month’s tournament, she tried to study up on categories she knew she was weaker at, like pop and folk music. (Boettcher lost her fourth game in June because of a Final Jeopardy clue for which the correct response was Woody Guthrie.)

Boettcher said in an interview that her favorite moments on the “Jeopardy!” stage were not the clues that she studied hard to get right but the ones that reminded her where and when she learned the piece of trivia.

“I know some of them because I’ve studied, but more often I’ll know them because of a person or a conversation I’ve had,” she said. “There’s a clue about Bernoulli that I got and I know that primarily because I remember my dad trying to explain it to my sister and me when we were little.”

(The clue: “This Swiss mathematician’s principle says the pressure in a fluid moving horizontally decreases as its velocity increases.”)

In the Tournament of Champions, recent big winners on “Jeopardy!” face off against one another. Close watchers of the show had debated online whether Boettcher’s winnings earlier this year, which amounted to just under $100,000, were low for a champions contestant, and some speculated that the show chose her for the potential ratings bump that would come with a rematch. But her victories in the first two rounds of the tournament, which began with 15 players, quieted any doubts.

Boettcher said that she was indeed surprised about being chosen for the tournament, but that she didn’t pay attention to the commentary. “At that point I was focused on studying,” she said.

Holzhauer said that the backlash against Boettcher had “little to do with her merits as a player” and that he thought sexism was a factor.

“Also there seems to be some resentment from fans who are upset that she took me off the show,” he added.

The final round of the tournament played out over two games. Holzhauer won the first by $23,000 and Boettcher won the second by $11,000, giving Holzhauer the overall victory. (They took home their prize money, but not the dollar totals won during the final games.)

Holzhauer’s $250,000 first prize bumped his total winnings on the show to $2.7 million. That still situates him well behind Brad Rutter, who garnered $4.7 million in all-time winnings, including tournaments; and Jennings, who won $3.4 million. Holzhauer has the potential to add to his winnings if he appears in future all-star games.

“I will definitely be back on the ‘Jeopardy!’ stage, if they’ll have me,” Holzhauer said. “It might be sooner than you think.”

(Answers: What is Diners Club? What is “The Hurt Locker”?)

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"Jeopardy!" Gained the Rankings Sport When Champ's Streak Ended

http://tinyurl.com/y5kyja3f A case might be made that Jeopardy! savant James Holzhauer is likely one of the yr’s greatest TV stars, though a short-lived one. An estimated 14.5 million individuals watched him on June 3, when the skilled gambler from Las Vegas misplaced for the primary time after 32 consecutive wins and $2,464,216 in prize cash, the Nielsen firm mentioned. He left with the 16 highest one-day scores within the present’s historical past. The tv scores additionally put him in good firm. Actually, no tv sequence this season (soccer excluded) averaged extra viewers per episode on the primary night time they aired. Not The Big Bang Theory, not NCIS, not even Game of Thrones, though all these reveals achieve extra viewers when time-shifting is figured in. Actually, the preliminary airing of the Sport of Thrones sequence finale on HBO, thought-about the largest occasion of the yr in tv, reached 13.6 million individuals, Nielsen mentioned. The primary 4 video games of the NBA Finals between Toronto and Golden State all had fewer viewers within the U.S. than Chicago librarian Emma Boettcher’s take-down of Holzhauer. Shut Jeopardy! watchers had a touch that June Three was Holzhauer’s final present as a result of information of his defeat leaked on the Web earlier than the present aired. Jeopardy! is taped nicely prematurely, and present producers knew for weeks when Holzhauer’s defeat would air however stored it secret till the day earlier than. It’s laborious to argue, nonetheless, that the leak considerably elevated the present’s viewership. Holzhauer was nearing the present’s all-time document for winnings, and two of the episodes that aired the week earlier than his defeat gathered greater than 13 million viewers, Nielsen mentioned. Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek punted when requested at Wednesday’s NHL Awards in Las Vegas who would win in a match between Holzhauer and all-time cash winner Ken Jennings. He famous that one other Jeopardy! champ, Brad Rutter, had by no means misplaced to a different human being (Rutter was topped in a contest with an IBM pc). 4 of Holzhauer’s episodes ranked among the many 10 most-watched leisure packages of the yr, a listing topped by the 18.5 million who tuned in to the sequence finale of The Huge Bang Concept. Once more, the numbers don’t embody individuals watching on subsequent days. It was the largest viewers for the present in 14 years, since 18 million individuals watched on the night time that Jennings’ 74-game profitable streak was snapped. Jeopardy! is well-liked even with out a dynamic participant. The present averaged round 9 million viewers for per week in March earlier than Holzhauer made his debut. It received’t be the final time viewers see him, nonetheless. Jeopardy! has an annual match of the yr’s finest gamers, and it’s laborious to think about him not being there. “Our scores have been nice when James was doing nicely,” Trebek mentioned, “so it’s very doubtless you’ll see him once more, people.” Extra must-read tales from Fortune: —Past the lineup: Bonnaroo’s elevated campground experiences —Radiohead acquired hacked—and made the most of it —Unique: Quibi taps Mellody Hobson, Roger Lynch for board of administrators —Salesforce’s Tableau buy made a Toy Story Oscar winner a billionaire —Take heed to our new audio briefing, Fortune 500 Daily Follow Fortune on Flipboard to remain up-to-date on the most recent information and evaluation.   Source link

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- All good things must come to an end, and on Thursday night, the run of "'Jeopardy!' James" as he's lovingly called was over.  James Holzhauer captivated jeopardy watchers with his big bets and Vegas Strong remembrances, but during his last episode of the trivia game show, he met his match. 

Alex Trebek, 'Jeopardy!' host: "His wager?  (James shows wager) A modest one for the first time. Let's go over to Emma.  Did you come up with the correct response?  (Emma shows answer) You did.  Your wager? (Emma shows wager) Oh gosh.  20,000.  What a payday!" 

The odds are, it was a finish that millions of 'Jeopardy!' viewers didn't bet on for James Holzhauer who was in the hunt for setting the all-time record winnings in the least amount of games for one of American's favorite game show. 

"I did expect to do pretty well when I was on the show, but I thought maybe I could win maybe six, seven episodes; certainly not 32, and certainly not this level of money," Holzhauer said. "Gosh, it was really mind-blowing.  If I had to go out, I wanted to go out against a top player who beat me in a straight up contest."

Thirty-two games of mind-blowing risky bets and right answers racked up a final second place grand total of $2.4f64,000. He has become a Jeopardy phenomenon.

"I think the amount of attention its gotten has surprised me," Holzhauer said. "I will say once the introductions started getting into the millions of dollars you can see my honest reactions of things like this are (motions that his head explodes) as they read off the money."

So what was his secret ace in the hole? 

"I'd say the biggest preparation was the buzzer, but just kind of keeping it in my head that this is game, money, it's gambling; just like you do at work," Holzhauer said.

Holzhauer says his signature moves weren't always by the 'Jeopardy!' rule book either.

"I liked it as an opportunity to let my personality shine up there," he said. 

And viewers loved it. The more Holzhauer won, the bigger the following the show and James gained. 

When he was asked about not being able to break Ken Jennings' record for the all-time number one spot at just over $2.5 million, Holzhauer said, "You know, I'm no less proud of myself than if I had made it there. I know Ken's achievements are incredible and it would have been no less incredible if I had won a couple of extra games."

The one thing James didn't know was that Thursday was his big 'Jeopardy!' payday. 8 News NOW's Sherry Swensk had the honor of showing him the money. 

Sherry Swensk: "I can't tell you how privileged I am to have this honor after watching you for 33 games, James. But on behalf of Jeopardy, it is the honor of 8 News NOW in Las Vegas to hand you your check for over two million dollars and to say congratulations!  You have more than earned that check, and we are so proud of you.  Holzhauer: "Thank you, Sherry."

Sherry had one "final 'Jeopardy!'" question for James. It was a two-part question: Has he changed the game of 'Jeopardy!' forever? And will he always be known as "'Jeopardy!' James?"

"I think among the people who know me best I'll go back to being James or Uncle Jamie to my nephews and nieces, but I think there will always be a segment of the population who doesn't forget about this," he said.  "I don't think I've changed the game of Jeopardy forever, but I'll have to watch future episodes to see if everyone is playing this style now."

Before the interview wrapped up, Holzhauer had one last message for the community that has supported him.

"Las Vegas, thank you for the support. It's been a great ride. Go Knights, Go!"