You know, the other guys could read the questions ahead of time but this guy has to wait for Alex to finish reading. That was one thing he had to work on beforehand.
On the first day that Eddie was a contestant, Alex Trebek made a point that, aside from the braille card of the categories, there were no special accomodations made for Eddie’s blindness. So was it just a coincidence that, in five days of Jeopardy, there was not one “Video Jeopardy”? Stay tuned for the “Tournament of Champions”; I predict you won’t see any “Video Jeopardy” questions, so long as Eddie is still a contestant. I smell a fix…
TT
“Believe those who seek the truth.
Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide
I don’t know what to say about this…
I’m on the West Coast, where the segments of Jeopardy are run a day later–to accommodate Monday Night Football. 
(Thus the Friday segment is shown on Saturday out here).
I was too lazy to read the whole thread to see if someone else made the same comment, so I apologize in advance if this is a repeat.
The choice of the Camaro as the prize is not decided based on its suitability, but due to Chevrolet paying to be a sponsor.
I expect that they would have to give him the cash equivalent, though, since he couldn’t register the car without a driver’s license.
I only got to see one of the nights and I was amazed that he got nearly all the answers right when the category was something like “Movies of the '80s” or something. In ten years of working in the theater exhibition industry I’ve only seen one blind person go “see” a movie in a theater. Maybe people are always telling him about movies they’ve seen or maybe he follows the Oscars or something. He must have some kind of amazing memory. I was even more impressed when I found out that he only had a card with the topics. I assumed he’d have some sort of way of keeping track of what values were left, because the show I watched he was calling them by dollar amounts and didn’t make any mistakes. Although, I’m not sure but he may have started with $1000 for the new categories and worked his way down, then automaticly picked the next in a catagory when someone else missed. He’s great, though…I’m not a regular Jeapordy watcher so could someone post when he’s going to be on the Tournament when it rolls around?
If you win a car you still have to pay for license, registration & taxes. Most people sell them anyway, cause that’s thousands of bucks.
I probably should have started a new thread for this, but there was a request in this thread to make it known when Blind Eddie Chiltlin (not trying to be a smartass, just found it funny that people kept calling him “blind Eddie”)was appearing on Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions.
As a faithful Jeopardy watcher and equally impressed fan of Blind Eddie, I am happy to report that he was in a TOC match last week and yes, he won!!! 
So he’s back this week for the semi-finals and finals. He was not on last night’s show (I was distracted throughout but surely couldn’t have missed him), so he’ll be on tonight or tomorrow night in the semi-final round. If he wins, he’ll be back Thursday-Friday for the two-day final round.
GO EDDIE!!
::whisper:: By the way, I’m trying out for Jeopardy tomorrow. In the unlikely event that I pass the audition, I’m guessing that, with my luck, I’ll get on the show only to end up in a match against next season’s equivalent of Blind Eddie and be lucky to end up with $200 and some lovely parting gifts.
P.S. I knew a blind girl who said she was always pleased to be included in an invitation to see a movie, because most people assume that blind people can’t (don’t want to) go to films since they can’t see them. She said she always enjoyed a movie (after all, the movie “experience” and huge popcorn tubs are part of the fun), and just relied on companions to help narrate the action when the audio was not adequate alone.