Mister Jeopardy

[JediMAC]

Tonight is the 75th show...

Yep, looks like you're definitely right Bobb, based on the Jeopardy story on the front page of CNN.com right now.

Though I knew Ken was toast, I read a little too much of the article and pretty much spoiled what was left of the "surprise".  Kinda bummed that I did.  If you're wanting to watch it unfold with an element of the unknown still, don't click that link there.

[DSJ™]

$2,520,700, pretty impressive. So now he's the biggest game show winner in history.

[Deanpaul]

$2,520,700, pretty impressive. So now he's the biggest game show winner in history.

On Monday he was the biggest game show winner in history. Technically, today he's the biggest game show loser. From a certain point of view anyway.

Insert Weird Al's "I Lost on Jeopardy" here:

Ohhhhhh...
I was there, to match my intellect, on national TV,
Against a plumber, and an architect, both with a Ph.D.
I was tense, I was nervous,
I guess it just wasn't my night.
Art Fleming gave the answers,
Oh, but I couldn't get the questions right-ight-ight
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
Well I knew I was in trouble now,
My hope of winning sank,
'Cause I got the Daily Double now,
And then my mind went blank.
I took Potpourri for one hundred,
And then my head started to spin.
Well, I'm givin' up. Don Pardo,
Just tell me now what I didn't win,
Yeah, yeah.
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
That's right Al--you lost! And let me tell what you didn't win: a
twenty-volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle
Wax, and a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat. But
that's not all! You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of
millions of people! And you brought shame and disgrace on your family
name for generations to come! You don't get to come back tomorrow! You
don't even get a lousy copy of your home game! You're a complete loser!!
Don't know what I was thinkin' of,
I guess I just wasn't too bright.
Well, I sure hope I do better
Next weekend on The Price Is Right-ight-ight
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby...

[DSJ™]

So what does that all work out to after taxes?

[Deanpaul]

Dunno, but I read an atricle that noted his intention to pay one tenth of it as tithing.

Is that one tenth gross, or net Ken?

[DSJ™]

Jennings will probably owe about $1.04 million in federal and Utah taxes on the winnings, Byers said, citing preliminary calculations by H&R Block.

Meanwhile, Kansas City, Mo.-based H&R Block Inc. capitalized on the chance for a little publicity by offering him free tax and financial services for life, which Jennings accepted.

'Jeopardy!' Whiz Ends 74-Game Win Streak

Isn't it ironic that the right answer that killed him collects! 

[Jesse James]

So what does that all work out to after taxes?

Old Cap'n Sweater is the Accountant, but judging by my accounting days...  A **** load of $.

He'll eat a lot from Uncle Sam unless he finds a way to finegal it like through charitable donation or gift-giving.  I'm not sure how winnings in a game, gameshow, etc. are handled by the government.  If they will just count it as income or what.  He may be able to make some of it back though depending on how he disperses it and then claims it at the end of the year.

At first though, it's gonna take a huge bite out of him.

[Sprry75]

Dunno, but I read an atricle that noted his intention to pay one tenth of it as tithing.

Is that one tenth gross, or net Ken?

Hey DP, at least I didn't have to click on the link 

I recommend that he pay gross; that way he doesn't have to pay again when he gets his tax return.

[Deanpaul]

Hey DP, at least I didn't have to click on the link 

Yup, you, me and a few others around here.

On my own gross vs. net I'm again trying to decide if the S-Corp I run should tithe as a business. I'm the only employee, so obviously my "salary" is considered, but the last few years we've just paid on the net of the company without separating myself as an individual from the corporation. We've got a good accountant, so I guess I should add this to the list of questions to clear before year end.

[stormie]

Thought I'd bring up this thread again since ol' Ken has been back on Jeopardy the last three nights as part of the final for the $2 Million Ultimate Tournament of Champions. Anyone watch?

He had a bye into the finals, but the other two fellas had to go through several rounds of elimination to get there. I thought no one would have a chance against him, but I was wrong. Over the course of the three-day final, he got his ass handed to him by a former $1 Million Tournament of Champions winner. He came in either second or third every day, and finished in second place overall.

It must be the predictability of it or something, but I wish he would've won.

[John C]

Makes you wonder how long some of those other champs would have gone on if they had no limits like Ken.  I thought they should have put him in the initial rounds just to see how he'd do, but I suppose they were afraid he would lose.

[Famine]

But he made another  500,000 bucks, and we didn't.

Kevin

[Matt]

Mister Jeopardy gets testy!

NEW YORK - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show — and dapper host Alex Trebek.

"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site.

"Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."

Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format.

"You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think `change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."

A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.

Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts.

"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a `cyborg,' not a `robot.'"

******' Mormons.

[Matt_Fury]

Why would he get all uppity about Jeapordy?

[Dressel Rebel]

He got a couple million from being on the show.  And that's why he should shut up.