# $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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/41 "2002-09-10T14:46:17Z")
Congrats to **The Man Who** - it’s one thing to be a trivia weenie, it’s another thing entirely to get it correct under pressure! And we’re not talkin’ _Who Wants to Be a Millionaire_, here - fewer questions - over-hyped drama… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/42 "2002-09-10T16:39:46Z")
See, the difference between _Jeopardy_ and _Millionaire_ is speed. It’s one thing to answer questions at your own pace, in a comfy chair, with Regis encouraging you. It’s another matter entirely to not only answer _right_, but _first_ and right. All the stress on _Millionaire_ is over in the Fastest Finger. In other words, way to go, Myron! By the way, shouldn’t his second episode have aired by now? How’d he do? ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/43 "2002-09-10T18:45:46Z")
In my media market, the Friday show was pre-empted by tennis, and I haven’t talked to anybody who saw yesterday’s show (my girlfriend, who clued me in to his record-setting day, missed it). Anyone see the show? ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/44 "2002-09-10T21:55:18Z")
I understand that, sadly, Myron lost. And the new winner won the second-largest amount in Jeopardy history. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/45 "2002-09-10T23:01:05Z")
And I think that the Final Jeopardy question had to do with Deion Sanders in some respect. Which explains the comment on “boning up on your sports trivia.” What with the next show resulting in the second-highest payday ever, It was a pretty impressive week on Jeopardy. ---
**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 11, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/46 "2002-09-11T02:24:42Z")
**rogerb** Since my inglorious defeat on September 24, 2001 in the Tournament of Champions, I have stopped watching Jeopardy! I see bits of it occassionally, but I just don’t feel like watching it. Partly out of boredom with the game, partly out of jealousy that they doubled the prize money so soon after my appearances. ---
**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 11, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195/47 "2002-09-11T02:33:16Z")
**rogerb** Since my inglorious defeat on September 24, 2001 in the Tournament of Champions, I have stopped watching Jeopardy! I see bits of it occassionally, but I just don’t feel like watching it. Partly out of boredom with the game, partly out of jealousy that they doubled the prize money so soon after my appearances. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-000-on-jeopardy/127195.md?page=2)