# Has Anyone on Jeopardy! Ever Wagered $420? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 14, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950 "2013-06-14T00:33:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/1 "2013-06-14T00:33:46Z")
You know. For the lulz. Today a guy wagered $5 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/2 "2013-06-14T04:05:57Z")
I’m guessing anyone who was in a state where they’d find that humorous wouldn’t have won the money to wager. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/3 "2013-06-14T10:58:43Z")
I’ve seen some dumbasses bid $420 for an Item Up For Bid (IUFB) on _The Price is Right._ There was one moron who bid $420 on an IUFB, $69 for another IUFB, and $2,000,000 on another. The $2 million bid wasn’t meant to be his real bid for that item, but by that point, Drew Carey had had enough of the guy’s bullshit, and the bid stood. ---
**Author:** ![Ottoerotic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ottoerotic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ottoerotic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/4 "2013-06-14T11:07:18Z")
In Ken Jennings book brainiac, he mentions that one of the people he played against smoked a bowl or two before the show to help the guy relax. He didn’t do well. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/5 "2013-06-14T11:16:13Z")
For this non-American who has never watched _Jeopardy!_ (but has a reasonable understanding of how the game works), can anyone explain the significance of the $420 figure? ---
**Author:** ![Tracijo67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@Tracijo67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracijo67)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/6 "2013-06-14T11:46:11Z")
It is a term referring to the pot-smoking subculture. I think it is a time reference, such as, toking up at 4:20 in the afternoon . ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/7 "2013-06-14T13:57:55Z")
It’s also Adolph Hitler’s birthday, so there’s always the ambiguity as to whether you’re a stoner or neo-Nazi. I’ve seen people bet $0 or sub-$100 on Final Jeopardy. Usually runaways where they were just barely double the next player’s total, and clearly had no confidence in the category. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/8 "2013-06-14T14:49:35Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I’ve seen some dumbasses bid $420 for an Item Up For Bid (IUFB) on _The Price is Right._ There was one moron who bid $420 on an IUFB, $69 for another IUFB, and $2,000,000 on another. The $2 million bid wasn’t meant to be his real bid for that item, but by that point, Drew Carey had had enough of the guy’s bullshit, and the bid stood. [Here’s one guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHdjqsSSa_A) from the Bob Barker days, with the guy bidding $420 repeatedly (well, almost. He alters his plan on the second item, bidding $1420. The irony of this is he would have won, had he stuck with his $420 plan.) ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-on-jeopardy-ever-wagered-420/660950/9 "2013-06-15T00:05:03Z")
[This guy’s wager was really leet.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faCvYS1nsHg)