# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/61 "2004-12-01T01:02:26Z")
Well, waddaya know. It was right. That was a good one. Ken was having a bad bad day. Nancy took advantage and now we have a new champ. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/62 "2004-12-01T01:19:53Z")
My answer was the brilliant “some cruise line company.” I also got the two daily doubles Ken messed up on wrong as well. Both seemed harder than usual. However, to my credit, I nailed the last four questions - the ones about Patton’s burial place and the three sports arenas - which no one else got. Here’s hoping Nancy wins at least a handful of games. She seemed like a smart cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/63 "2004-12-01T02:15:37Z")
The question Ken will be asked for the rest of his life. Where you getting your taxes done this year? If I had a dollar for everytime he will hear that joke I’d be rich too. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/64 "2004-12-01T02:28:15Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Yeah, he was very reckless with his betting; that was weird. No, he bet exactly the same way he always did: just enough to bring himself up to a multiple of $10,000 if he got it right. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/65 "2004-12-01T02:29:47Z")
Oh, I forgot: I was stumped by the FJ question, too. Just like my hero, Ken. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/66 "2004-12-01T02:50:09Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > No, but they’d said elsewhere to report the post above or below it, and to tell them what’s up in the Report Post screen. Thanks, **Troy**. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/67 "2004-12-01T03:04:46Z")
> [@Ashkicker](#): > > The question Ken will be asked for the rest of his life. > Where you getting your taxes done this year? If I had a dollar for everytime he will hear that joke I’d be rich too. And according to CNN, he can give the expected answer: > [@](#): > > He’s in a new tax bracket now, and H&R Block is making sure he’ll always remember the company for other reasons: It has offered him free tax preparation for life. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/68 "2004-12-01T03:12:38Z")
Just kinda curious- do you think H&R Block would be a good choice for him? Or will his return likely get so complicated that he’ll need a CPA? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/69 "2004-12-01T03:15:49Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Just kinda curious- do you think H&R Block would be a good choice for him? Or will his return likely get so complicated that he’ll need a CPA? Aside from the temporary tax-season workers, H&R Block does have highly qualified tax specialists that work year round. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/70 "2004-12-01T05:46:32Z")
Just watched the 20/20 special tonight. He had to lead a double life during the taping of the show. He was sworn to secrecy so he’d leave his job (his boss knew) every few weeks to fly to California to tape the show. He stayed in a flea bag hotel because the show doesn’t pick up the tab for the hotel, just the flight. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/71 "2004-12-01T15:26:53Z")
I got it pretty quick. The white collar phrase helped a lot. > [@SlickRoenick](#): > > I don’t get it. How come the short schedule? A friend of mine owns a string of non- H&R tax franchises, and we never see him from January to May of any given year. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/72 "2004-12-01T16:22:13Z")
Someone who watches _Jeopardy!_ a lot more than I will have to answer this, but… Was this question a “repeat”? I seem to recall this question being used before as a Final Jeopardy question, because I remembered the answer having to do with tax preparation. Either that, or I’ve become especially clairvoyant… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/73 "2004-12-02T15:14:40Z")
I saw the episode the night before last. I got the Final Jeopardy question immediately. I can’t believe he missed it. He wrote his incorrect answer down right away, too. My wife and I also wondered if he threw the game. He missed both daily doubles in Double Jeopary _and_ the Final Jeopardy question?! ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168/74 "2004-12-02T15:22:55Z")
> [@robby](#): > > He wrote his incorrect answer down right away, too. No, he didn’t. There was a shot of him looking stright ahead, as if he had already written something, but then he wrote it in the last second or two. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-what-kenjen-could-not-spoilers/277168.md?page=3)