# $50,000 on Jeopardy! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195 "2002-09-05T21:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/21 "2002-09-06T12:03:37Z")
\ They tape one show a day? I thought most game shows did all 5 shows in one day. As far as prizes go, it always bothered me that Jeopardy! has lower earnings that “Wheel of Fortune”, tho obvioulsy the former is tougher. (And it is almost as popular). Glad they doubled the amounts. Oh, and I repeat my “I’m not worthy” Brian ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/22 "2002-09-06T12:25:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > \*\* > Now, as for Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points. The game was between the Philadelphia Warriors and the New York Knicks, to demonstrate your true trivia studliness, what city was it played in? \*\* Hershey, Pennsylvania, I thought… ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/23 "2002-09-06T13:20:19Z")
Holy farking snit! OF COURSE the one-day Jeopardy record holder would be a Doper. Give 'em hell, Myron. I’m taping today’s show. You are my Short Duration Personal Savior! ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/24 "2002-09-06T13:24:49Z")
**Myron** Your Daily Double bet on “Rocks & Minerals” was awesome. “Red”…leaves a red streak…Wow. Especially, had you missed it you’d have squandered an already hefty lead. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![J.J\_Snider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@J.J\_Snider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J.J_Snider)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/25 "2002-09-06T13:28:36Z")
I dont like Jeopardy. Some (see: MOST) of the questions seem to hard for my 15 year old mind. I used to watch it sometimes, learn something new. I even got some questions one time “This pro-wrestler became the governer of Minnesota” “WHO IS JESSE THE BODY VENTURA!!!” I yelled at the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/26 "2002-09-06T13:59:50Z")
Choosing the Wilt Chamberlain 100 point game isn’t a bad comparison, but it is pretty darn comparable. So, while you may not have known who did it, you did pick a pretty good record as your basis of comparison. Wilt’s game = 100 2nd highest game (also done by Wilt) = 78 Rate of increase = 1.28 Jeopardy high score = 50,000 Jeopardy 2nd highest = 39,999 Rate of increase = 1.25 However, Wilt’s game of 78 occurred in triple overtime. Since Jeopardy can’t go into overtime, let’s throw that one out and go with the 2nd highest NBA score without the use of extra time. That drops the number to 73 (done twice by Wilt Chamberlain and once by David Thompson). Using that number, the rate of change becomes 100/73=1.37 which is less comparable. A better comparison would be career wins in MLB: Cy Young - 511 Walter Johnson - 417 Rate of change = 1.23 Mmmm, math and sports together rules! ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/27 "2002-09-06T14:50:41Z")
Congrats, Myron. $50 large is no small feat. I have to admit I stopped watching Jeopardy when the questions got ridiculously easy. The icing on the cake was the Final Jeopardy question about what company’s website was [bluelight.com](http://bluelight.com). Some idiot actually wrote WalMart as his answer. Maybe I’ll start watching it again. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/28 "2002-09-06T16:52:53Z")
No, Sony-TriStar doesn’t tape one **Jeopard!** show a day. They tape five shows per day (3 before lunch, 2 after), two days in a row. Then they take two weeks off, during which contestant tryouts are held. The episodes are broadcast about two months after they are taped. So I am guessing that Myron’s shows were taped in early June. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/29 "2002-09-06T19:23:11Z")
**Juanita** - I definately remember seeing the one that you’re talking about but IIRC it was Kids Jeopardy. They make those questions **alot** easier, I’ve never gotten a wrong question on kids or celebrity Jeopardy (whereas I’m a bumbling idiot during some normal Jeopardy shows.) ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/30 "2002-09-06T19:36:37Z")
DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak is to me the appropriate comparison. Cy Young’s win record is marred by his loss record. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/31 "2002-09-06T22:03:17Z")
Cisco, I only wish it was kids’ Jeopardy! Trust me, it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/32 "2002-09-06T22:04:30Z")
Wow, I even found a [cite](http://users.ev1.net/~Babu/archives/05242001.html)! (Search for bluelight to find the relevent text.) ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/33 "2002-09-07T00:32:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Man Who \* > \*\* > And yes, you should bone up on your sports trivia. 😃 > > \*\* Ahh, _now_ that makes sense! Kudos on the 50K. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/34 "2002-09-07T00:51:49Z")
Congrats, Man Who! ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/35 "2002-09-07T02:25:39Z")
Congratulations, **Myron** it took me 5 episodes to win $50,703 on Jeopardy! Of course that was under the old rules. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/36 "2002-09-07T15:22:55Z")
**Man Who** is **Myron** , what are your tips for successful ass-kicking on Jeopardy!? (besides “be real smart”, that is) -vibro, who thinks Col. Steve Austin ran the first four-minute mile. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/37 "2002-09-09T19:21:00Z")
Wow, and a fellow Minnesotan to boot! (Owatonna’s a nice town. I have a friend from there.) Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/38 "2002-09-10T01:44:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vibrotronica \* > **-vibro, who thinks Col. Steve Austin ran the first four-minute mile.** I think Roger Bannister kinda beat him to the punch on this one, since Bannister ran the mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds in 1954 but _The Six Million Dollar Man_ didn’t debut until 1972. However, Colonel Steve Austin **did** run the first \*\*one-\*\*minute mile. Not bad for someone who also has an Apollo moon mission on his resume! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/39 "2002-09-10T14:08:15Z")
Ok, I’m a two-time champ (old rules), I’m from MN too. I guess I just HAD to post here. What does that make, four of us on this thread now? Let me ask you guys, have any of you bothered to watch Jeopardy since you were on it? I’ve seen it maybe twice in the four years since I won. For a long time I just couldn’t watch it. Maybe because I answered the same questions so many times about the show (What’s Alex like? Do they tell you what the questions will be in advance?) Still, it was a lot of fun! ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/40 "2002-09-10T14:14:47Z")
I didn’t see the episode, **The Man Who** , but did you at least plug the SDMB? Zev Steinhardt [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195.md?page=3)