Given that the Most Illuminated One need not stoop to the level of mere mortals, the question still gnaws at my conscience: Why not petition the Master to demonstrate his powers before the masses, even if under a ‘nom de plume’ ? A current Jeopardy champion has won almost a MILLION!! Cecil could ab-solutely C-R-U-S-H the competition, while simultaneously enhancing the already rarified air of the SDMB. I posted here in the dim hope that it might filter up. Let’s face it, $$ talks. If this is to be THE Great Board, we need some capital, and this could be too easy.
(As an aside, who says the current champ AIN’T the current Cecil? :dubious: )
Exactly. The “intelligence” people see in Jeopardy winners is very thin. The smartest man in the world is not the one who knows everything, but rather the one who knows where to find the answer to everything.
I have to say, it’s pretty pathetic that within your first 3 posts you’ve already decided to suck up.
This isn’t a workplace, if you kiss ass you will not get a raise. No need to be a brown nose.
And like already mentioned, Ken Jennings is a trivia whiz that recalls small things immediately through memory, while Cecil Adams spends days or weeks researching 1 - 3 questions for each thorough column.
You can also know more random facts than anybody else out there, but if you’re not good with timing your buzzing in, you’ll never make a dime at Jeopardy. (I happen to suck at the timing thing, and did badly with that part of Jeopardy tryouts a couple of years back, although I easily made it past the knowing-lots-of-random-facts part.) It’s fairly tricky, in that your buzzer isn’t always on - there’s a guy offstage who activates them when Alex is finished reading the question, meaning that you have to time it to that guy’s reflexes rather than just buzzing in as soon as you’ve figured it out.
Cecil could ab-solutely C-R-U-S-H the competition, while simultaneously enhancing the already rarified air of the SDMB. I posted here in the dim hope that it might filter up. Let’s face it, $$ talks. If this is to be THE Great Board, we need some capital, and this could be too easy.
