# Can You Answer What KenJen could not? (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168 "2004-11-29T17:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/1 "2004-11-29T17:10:21Z")
. . . . . . . . . . . . . According to [this site](http://www.kottke.org/04/11/ken-jennings-audio) , the date for Ken Jennings to lose on Jeopardy is: Tuesday November 30. The Final Jeopardy Answer on his loss is: Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year.. The correct question, which Ken missed, is Who is H&R Block? That never occured to me, so I would have missed it too. Would you have gotten it right? [Fixed to prevent spoilers showing up in preview. -JMCJ] ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/2 "2004-11-29T17:20:33Z")
Woot! I got it right. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/3 "2004-11-29T17:23:12Z")
Yep, got it. Not sure if I was within the Jeopardy time limit, but close. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/4 "2004-11-29T17:37:29Z")
**buffs nails** ho hum, I got it too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/5 "2004-11-29T17:38:43Z")
I’m the only one besides Ken to blow it? Now I feel like an idiot! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/6 "2004-11-29T17:42:12Z")
I didn’t get it. Did you know that if you don’t put a bunch of returns before your spoiler box the spoiler shows up unboxed in the mouseover preview? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/7 "2004-11-29T17:45:32Z")
To make it clear- Otto posted his statment before I fixed the OP to prevent that. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/8 "2004-11-29T17:45:58Z")
Thanks to John Corrado for fixing it- it looked fine on my screen. John or Otto, what the dickens is a mouseover preview? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/9 "2004-11-29T17:46:48Z")
Yep - I got it. Pretty quickly… ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/10 "2004-11-29T17:52:36Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Thanks to John Corrado for fixing it- it looked fine on my screen. John or Otto, what the dickens is a mouseover preview? If you hover over the link in the forum’s listing, it will pop-up a brief snippet of the OP. Unfortunately, spoilers aren’t spoilered in the preview box, and are plain to see. Entering a bunch of line breaks like \*\*John Corrado \*\* did moves the spoilered content out of the range of the preview box (it only shows the first few lines of the post.) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/11 "2004-11-29T17:58:01Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > If you hover over the link in the forum’s listing, it will pop-up a brief snippet of the OP. Unfortunately, spoilers aren’t spoilered in the preview box, and are plain to see. > > Entering a bunch of line breaks like \*\*John Corrado \*\* did moves the spoilered content out of the range of the preview box (it only shows the first few lines of the post.) I see! Thanks for clarifying. And sorry that I messed up. Now I know better. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/12 "2004-11-29T18:52:20Z")
I got it! ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/13 "2004-11-29T19:00:21Z")
Got it right away, but I wasn’t on TV and worn out by months of playing the damn game. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/14 "2004-11-29T19:13:36Z")
I guessed EF Hutton, but I was thinking about H&R Block. I bet he might have guessed [spoiler]another tax preparer, or maybe a Christmas-heavy company like, say, “Toys R Us” (although the “white collar” should lead you away from that). He’s from Utah. Maybe he was thinking of some summer and/or winter-centric travel company, an airline or travel agency or something. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/15 "2004-11-29T19:44:14Z")
Woohoo! I got it as well. Boy, that KenJen sure is dumb! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/16 "2004-11-29T19:46:42Z")
I was on the right track, but didn’t think about the word “firm”. So I went with the IRS. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/17 "2004-11-29T19:47:28Z")
Nope. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/18 "2004-11-29T19:49:02Z")
I was really really close. I guessed the IRS ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/19 "2004-11-29T19:49:32Z")
I got it in two seconds. What a maroon. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/20 "2004-11-29T20:50:16Z")
Wow, I got that one right away thanks to “white collar”. Which is funny, because I often miss the Final Jeopardy questions. Weird. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168.md?page=2)