Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

I went on a gameshow to finance my Transatlantic relocation. I even posted about it on ILX.

SEE?

ILXers, I need your help...A gameshow thread

What my dad might lack in speed he makes up for in loud passion and being right a lot.

NAME/SEASON/TOTAL
Tom Walsh 20 $ 184,900
Brian Weikle 19 $ 149,200
Arthur Gandolfi 20 $ 137,300
Sean Ryan 20 $ 123,797
Chris Miller 20 $ 123,597
John Beck 19 $ 117,099
Scott "Renzo" Renzoni 20 $ 112,998
Seth Alcorn 19 $ 106,400
Frank Spangenberg 6 $ 102,597
Tom Baker 20 $ 102,300

xpost you think I'm up that early?!?

Seriously though, good question. I don't know as I don't think I've paid attention while they interviewed him. I'll get back to you on it.

Apparently the clues were all written before the strike, and there were only a few episodes left to film. I can see why it's maybe not a good look to go forward with production, but does that count as crossing the picket line? (I genuinely don't know.)

yeah it does

ugh this clue on celeb jeop tonite:

"when she performed 'crazy for you' in the high school wrestling film 'vision quest,' this pop star was virtually unknown"

i assume these episodes were written pre-strike, but maybe the jeopardy fact checking dept already had a foot out the door? (she had the #1 album in the u.s. the week the movie was released, had recently scored her first #1 single, and was well on her way to superstardom.)

Julia Markham Cameron returns today for the Champs Wildcard Tourney for those who celebrate.

For a second I read that as Julia Margaret Cameron.

That would be an achievement.

Yet another feather in the crown of AI.

Trying to remember the James Blish story about that in all the anthologies.

I did remember it correctly, just checked, “Common Time.”

Nope, it’s a different one, with art in the title, “A Work of Art,” maybe.

Hehheh, Queens of The Stone Age uploaded Julia's new contestant interview as a Facebook Reel yesterday.

that's cool! I saw her talking about her mosh pit incident which was a nice change of pace from the boring shit usually discussed (lol who tf moshes to QOTSA but i digress)

Mayim is out

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/15/mayim-bialik-no-longer-jeopardy-host/71938407007/

She wasn’t a great fit, sad to say

she was an awkward host who never seemed comfortable running the actual game. i won't miss her. but she refused to cross the picket line last season and i'll always respect her for that. (and i'll always be suspicious of ken for not doing the same.)

I found out about this via a Jim Jarmusch post on Instagram (which he appears to have deleted). Claimed she was the best Jeopardy host of all time.

Real head scratcher, that.

Jeopardy!'s official Facebook account posted a response (which they even formatted like one of their answer screens) that explained Bialik is only out as a syndicated host, reasoning that they wanted more consistency or continuity next season, and said they hope she will be back as a prime-time special host. (Also I guess they consider the exclamation point in their show's name to be mandatory, leading to some awkward looking punctuation in their response.)

Possible Jarmusch deleted that post simply because he found out she wasn't actually out of the show altogether.

FWIW, here's the Facebook post.

Ike Barinholtz on today's Champ tourney installment

*SPOILER ALERT*

Plain vanilla Jeopardy finally returns tomorrow.

Did anybody see the bizarre quadruple correction on tonight's episode that led to Isaac going from several thousand behind to having an almost five thousand dollar lead?

Very VAR like

TOC winner seemed pretty intense to me. Kinda glad he won as I feared he might’ve melted down otherwise.

He’s a beast!

"What is 'Because of course he would...'?"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/mike-richards-daily-wire-ceo-1236221478/

Mike Richards, the veteran TV producer who briefly succeeded Alex Trebek as the host of the quiz show Jeopardy!, has landed a big job in conservative media.

Richards has joined The Daily Wire as its next president of Daily Wire entertainment and chief content officer, leading all the entertainment operations of the conservative media company founded by Ben Shapiro.

...

“We knew the answer was, ‘Who is Mike Richards?’ And now we can say ‘he’s an integral part of The Daily Wire’ was the question,” said Gloria Taylor, a rep for The Daily Wire. “He’s won 5 Emmy’s, produced over 4,000 hours of network programming, and run some of the most iconic shows the world has ever known. Thank you to the purple hairs. Please ‘cancel’ more creative geniuses.”

hell yeah, new Jeopardy eps to stream on Hulu and Peacock this fall: https://www.theverge.com/news/679056/jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-hulu-peacock-streaming

despite having been on the show (insert link here to JAYMC ON JEOPARDY thread), I haven't actually watched the show regularly since I was in high school because it airs at 3:30 pm in Chicago

Jeopardy doing promo for cape movies and other crap is always a bummer.

I wonder if that one guy is pissed because "Suicide Squad" and "The Suicide Squad" have to recognized as separate things.

Should lose money for knowing that.

What do you think the odds are that the guy who is the greatest player in the history of Jeopardy also happens to possess the very specific (and hard-to-find) skills needed to host the show?

That's insane!

Has anyone ever written/talked about this?

So this Scott guy...

...is cute, possibly queer, and definitely killing it!

Johnny Gilbert is 97??

Yup, and he tapes his stuff at home in Arizona (IIRC), which they dub in during post.

god bless. Don Pardo had a similar arrangement, I believe -- also in Arizona.

What do you think the odds are that the guy who is the greatest player in the history of Jeopardy also happens to possess the very specific (and hard-to-find) skills needed to host the show?

That's insane!

Has anyone ever written/talked about this?

― alpine static

probably... i'm not that engaged with jeopardy fandom. it occurs to me, tho, that there might be some overlap between the very specific and hard-to-find skills needed to host the show and the very specific and hard-to-find skills needed to be a top-tier jeopardy! player...

I never realized or came across the fact that Rod Serling co-wrote the adapted screen-play for "The Planet of the Apes".

Final Jeopardy answer today...

I really like this cutie whose on a roll right now…

He's rolled through quite a few games, but he had a couple tough one's early on. I think it was the 3rd game in the streak both him and the person that finished second doubled up hitting on final jeopardy. That was the high dollar total for a single game and I think it was by far the biggest 'loser', which often means they are in the 2nd chance series.

Harrison (the new streaker) rules.

it occurs to me, tho, that there might be some overlap between the very specific and hard-to-find skills needed to host the show and the very specific and hard-to-find skills needed to be a top-tier jeopardy! player...

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, July 31, 2025 6:22 AM (three months ago)

what overlapping skills would those be? just, like ... being sharp and good at everything he tries?

This new thing of including celebs in championship games without softball questions clearly isn't working too well.

in anyone watching current mega-champ jamie ding? he's been destroying all challengers for the past month with weirdly conservative/cautious daily double wagers, several missed final jeopardys and an almost endearing lack of charisma. he's the only jeopardy player i've ever heard introduced as a "bureaucrat" and he has a personality to match. and he's an absolutely merciless killer.

(also in the one game in his streak where he was in second place going into final jeop and then whiffed on the clue, he won by displaying an understanding of final jeop betting strategy that continues to elude countless jeopardy players, including lots of champions. that's the game where i fell in love.)

hes cute he does the hand motion thing @ times when answering that the canadian girl champ did, blanking on her name

i also lold on the 1 final jeop that he wagered where he couldve hit 100k in one game and he got it wrong, i think it was an easy clue

he loves those hand motions!

:(

yeah :(

wildly impressive for someone to beat him in that fashion

i got too deep into jeopardy subculture but apparently that guy (and the guy who played a really close game last week) are both members of an online trivia game called learnedleague (invite only)

the other crazy thing about the guy who beat him, greg shahade, is that jamie used a clue-hunting strategy he called "knight moves" -- after the chess piece -- and greg is a professional chess player. you couldn't script that any better.

the other crazy thing about the guy who beat him, greg shahade, is that jamie used a clue-hunting strategy he called "knight moves" -- after the chess piece -- and greg is a professional chess player. you couldn't script that any better.