# A few questions about Jennings and Ultimate Tournament of Champions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186 "2005-05-23T23:26:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/21 "2005-05-25T02:00:28Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > **Lib** , I disagree that Brad will be hurt by his DD strategy. Ken was always quite conservative with his bets during his run, only going for big money when he was so far out ahead that it didn’t matter. Ken’s a streak hitter and a conservative bettor. In game one we saw that Brad and Jerome could both break Ken’s streaks. The next two days are going to be very interesting indeed. Just thought that I would follow this up with [this local article](http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/14561) concerning Brad’s DD strategy for the first game. He wanted to play it a bit conservatively the first day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/22 "2005-05-25T02:41:40Z")
So, what happened tonight? 😕 Sheesh, my posts die faster than a cockerspaniel in north vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/23 "2005-05-25T02:44:08Z")
> [@me](#): > > If Jennings wins this, he will have SHATTERED the amount of winnings that anyone has ever gotten from a game show! That’s exaggerating- Kevin Olmstead won 2.18? million from Millionare, so he’s only like doubling that- not even- if he wins. Still, that’s quite significant. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/24 "2005-05-25T03:47:23Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > So, what happened tonight? 😕 > Sheesh, my posts die faster than a cockerspaniel in north vietnam. Brad pulled further ahead. He was the only one to get the Final Jeopardy question ahead. Go Brad! ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/25 "2005-05-25T03:48:24Z")
> [@supervenusfreak](#): > > Brad pulled further ahead. He was the only one to get the Final Jeopardy question ahead. Go Brad! oops. Substitute correct for the second ahead… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/26 "2005-05-25T07:08:21Z")
It’ll take a monster performance for Ken to overtake Brad tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/27 "2005-05-25T07:21:07Z")
Oh yeah of course that’s gotta be what he’s doing- playing it safe until night 3. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/28 "2005-05-26T01:38:01Z")
Who won tonight and by how much? That’s all I wanna know, google is a little difficult to use for this, cnn says nothing of course, and I’d rather find out this way. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/29 "2005-05-26T01:41:25Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > Who won tonight and by how much? > > That’s all I wanna know, google is a little difficult to use for this, cnn says nothing of course, and I’d rather find out this way. Brad won. It was a runaway game. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/30 "2005-05-26T02:06:49Z")
> [@supervenusfreak](#): > > Brad won. It was a runaway game. ☹☹☹ Tell me about Brad. Before the ultimate tournament, how many jeopardys did he win? How much money? How old is he? How much more did he win by? Damn… ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/31 "2005-05-26T02:08:43Z")
Wow, how’d I do that? My computer shows that line stretching really far out of the box instead of looping around! ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/32 "2005-05-26T02:37:32Z")
Try [this](http://www.jeopardy.com/howdies/thumbs/UTOC_4771_jiep7/bio_rutter_jiep7.php) for his pre-tournament stats. There are other links in this thread for other info. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/33 "2005-05-26T02:41:21Z")
then there is [this link](http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/002098.html) for those who might be interested in dating him. Hmmmmmmmmm hot chicks huh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/34 "2005-05-26T03:03:31Z")
He’s only 26 or 27, too. Sheesh. It just goes to show you an important thing about life: [ul] [li]No matter how good you are at something, there is always someone better[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/35 "2005-05-26T04:02:59Z")
So this guy is now the only person in history who has never lost on jeopardy then? That’s pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/36 "2005-05-26T04:55:02Z")
> [@drm](#): > > So this guy is now the only person in history who has never lost on jeopardy then? Well, I wouldn’t say that . . . _I’ve_ never lost on _Jeopardy_ either. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/37 "2005-05-26T05:08:50Z")
Well you and him then 😉 …and come to think of it me too but that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/38 "2005-05-26T06:19:20Z")
> [@drm](#): > > So this guy is now the only person in history who has never lost on jeopardy then? Not unless they got every single five-time champ ever to compete in this tournament. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/39 "2005-05-26T06:25:32Z")
You say it was a run away victory. How much difference in scores? ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186/40 "2005-05-26T07:56:03Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > You say it was a run away victory. How much difference in scores? He beat Jennings in all three individual games, and his final total of $62,000 easily eclipsed Jennings’ $34,599. I’m not really upset that KenJen didn’t win, but I was incredibly pissed off that my Yahoo home page spoiled the outcome in a headline title hours before it was scheduled to air here. Fills me with grrrrr. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-jennings-and-ultimate-tournament-of-champions/305186.md?page=3)