will ever establish odds on Ken Jennings?? Just started watching the past few nights....this guy is unreal.
Does anyone know if Vegas....
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You won't see playable odds in LV.
maybe some for "entertainment purposes" like the odds they put out for the academy awards just for fun. No betting. It is against NV state law to book any event that some human knows the answer to.
since these Jeopardy shows are taped weeks in advance, some folks might know the answer soon how long Jennings continues.
offshore has no such restriction and I see that thegreek.com has odds for "The Benefactor" with the out that if answer is leaked out before final show then bets are voided.
I don't see any Jennings odds anywhere, but will probably be some when "Jeopardy" season resumes in early September.
from official site:
“JEOPARDY!”CHAMPION ENDS
TWENTIETH SEASON ON A RECORD HIGH
Ken Jennings’ One-Day Total of $75,000
Smashes Previous Mark
(CULVER CITY, CA) July 24, 2004 — On Friday, July 23, long-running champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City finished the regular season of JEOPARDY! (and his 38th consecutive show) by setting a new one-day record. Jennings won a whopping $75,000, eclipsing the previous high mark set by Brian Weikle of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who earned $52,000 on April 14, 2003.
Friday’s win brings Jennings’ total earnings to $1,321,660 and makes him the highest cumulative winner in JEOPARDY! history. Brad Rutter of Lancaster, Pennsylvania previously held the title after winning the Million Dollar Masters Tournament and a total of $1,155,102.
By all accounts, Ken now holds every JEOPARDY! record for winnings… and he’ll be back to try for more. From July 26 – September 3, JEOPARDY! will present encore shows of some of the highlights from the past year, notably the College Championship from Yale University, the Teen Tournament and Power Players and Kids Week from Washington, D.C. Then, on Monday, September 6, Ken Jennings returns to defend his championship in his 39th appearance, kicking off the 21st season of JEOPARDY!
Jennings, who has developed a celebrity-like following since his June 2 debut, juggles his current job developing software for CHG Companies, Inc., with multiple media requests. He has been featured on the front page of USA Today, presented the “Top Ten List” on Late Show with David Letterman, shared the couch with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show and was named “Person of the Week” by ABC World News Tonight. However, easy-going Jennings says he is just as comfortable staying at home with his wife Mindy and playing with their year-and-a-half-old son Dylan and dog Banjo.
A JEOPARDY! rule change introduced at the beginning of Season 20 allows contestants to continue playing as long as they keep winning. Previously, champions had been limited to five wins.
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stats from June 23, posted at http://pennystock.baltiblogs.com/
Ken Jennings Statistics
Because I can't get enough of this guy, I have to post about Ken Jennings (i.e., THE JG) yet another time.
Via tvgameshows.net, Canadian statistician Andy Saunders has caluclated some stats on Ken Jennings' Jeopardy wins to date:
Games Played: 37
Total Winnings: $1,246,660
Correct Answers: 1,292*
Answers Attempted: 1,400*
Percent Correct: .929*
* - not including Final Jeopardy!
First Ring-ins: 1,263
Pct. First of All Clues Read: .601
Daily Doubles Correct: 67
Daily Doubles Attempted: 78
Percent Correct: .859
Avg. Wager Per Daily Double: 3,458
Total Net Gain on Daily Doubles: $193,699
Average Net Gain per Daily Double: $2,483
Avg. Score after Jeopardy!: $9,649
Avg. Lead after Jeopardy!: $5,959
Avg. Score after Double Jeopardy!: $30,478
Avg. Lead after Double Jeopardy!: $21,846
Pct. of Games Locked Up after Double J!: .865 (32 of 37)
Final Jeopardy! Correct Answers: 25
Final Jeopardy! Attempts: 37
Percent Correct: .676
Avg. Final Jeopardy! Wager: $7,363
High Game: $52,000 (July 9, 12 & 22)
Low Game: $14,000 (July 6)
Avg. Daily Winnings: $33,694
some stuff
You won't see playable odds in LV.
maybe some for "entertainment purposes" like the odds they put out for the academy awards just for fun. No betting. It is against NV state law to book any event that some human knows the answer to.
since these Jeopardy shows are taped weeks in advance, some folks might know the answer soon how long Jennings continues.
offshore has no such restriction and I see that thegreek.com has odds for "The Benefactor" with the out that if answer is leaked out before final show then bets are voided.
I don't see any Jennings odds anywhere, but will probably be some when "Jeopardy" season resumes in early September.
from official site:
“JEOPARDY!”CHAMPION ENDS
TWENTIETH SEASON ON A RECORD HIGH
Ken Jennings’ One-Day Total of $75,000
Smashes Previous Mark
(CULVER CITY, CA) July 24, 2004 — On Friday, July 23, long-running champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City finished the regular season of JEOPARDY! (and his 38th consecutive show) by setting a new one-day record. Jennings won a whopping $75,000, eclipsing the previous high mark set by Brian Weikle of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who earned $52,000 on April 14, 2003.
Friday’s win brings Jennings’ total earnings to $1,321,660 and makes him the highest cumulative winner in JEOPARDY! history. Brad Rutter of Lancaster, Pennsylvania previously held the title after winning the Million Dollar Masters Tournament and a total of $1,155,102.
By all accounts, Ken now holds every JEOPARDY! record for winnings… and he’ll be back to try for more. From July 26 – September 3, JEOPARDY! will present encore shows of some of the highlights from the past year, notably the College Championship from Yale University, the Teen Tournament and Power Players and Kids Week from Washington, D.C. Then, on Monday, September 6, Ken Jennings returns to defend his championship in his 39th appearance, kicking off the 21st season of JEOPARDY!
Jennings, who has developed a celebrity-like following since his June 2 debut, juggles his current job developing software for CHG Companies, Inc., with multiple media requests. He has been featured on the front page of USA Today, presented the “Top Ten List” on Late Show with David Letterman, shared the couch with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show and was named “Person of the Week” by ABC World News Tonight. However, easy-going Jennings says he is just as comfortable staying at home with his wife Mindy and playing with their year-and-a-half-old son Dylan and dog Banjo.
A JEOPARDY! rule change introduced at the beginning of Season 20 allows contestants to continue playing as long as they keep winning. Previously, champions had been limited to five wins.
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stats from June 23, posted at http://pennystock.baltiblogs.com/
Ken Jennings Statistics
Because I can't get enough of this guy, I have to post about Ken Jennings (i.e., THE JG) yet another time.
Via tvgameshows.net, Canadian statistician Andy Saunders has caluclated some stats on Ken Jennings' Jeopardy wins to date:
Games Played: 37
Total Winnings: $1,246,660
Correct Answers: 1,292*
Answers Attempted: 1,400*
Percent Correct: .929*
* - not including Final Jeopardy!
First Ring-ins: 1,263
Pct. First of All Clues Read: .601
Daily Doubles Correct: 67
Daily Doubles Attempted: 78
Percent Correct: .859
Avg. Wager Per Daily Double: 3,458
Total Net Gain on Daily Doubles: $193,699
Average Net Gain per Daily Double: $2,483
Avg. Score after Jeopardy!: $9,649
Avg. Lead after Jeopardy!: $5,959
Avg. Score after Double Jeopardy!: $30,478
Avg. Lead after Double Jeopardy!: $21,846
Pct. of Games Locked Up after Double J!: .865 (32 of 37)
Final Jeopardy! Correct Answers: 25
Final Jeopardy! Attempts: 37
Percent Correct: .676
Avg. Final Jeopardy! Wager: $7,363
High Game: $52,000 (July 9, 12 & 22)
Low Game: $14,000 (July 6)
Avg. Daily Winnings: $33,694
nice piece on the grandma, who lives here in town at retirement center, and is taking herself a a video course called "The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematics."
Ken Jennings has all the answers once again as his grandmother, Georgia Jennings of Eugene, tunes in Friday night. Ken Jennings has won $1.3 million.
Photo: Paul Carter / The Register-Guard
July 24, 2004
Grandson's streak never in 'Jeopardy'
By Anne Williams
The Register-Guard
Along with an estimated 12 million other viewers, Georgia Jennings of Eugene watched a young man with an intense gaze and an uncanny knack for trivia shatter a one-day winnings record Friday evening in his 38th straight appearance on the television game show "Jeopardy!"
But she noticed something others surely did not.
"I can tell by looking in his eyes, he's tired," she said, a frown crossing her face.
Jennings, a resident at Churchill Estates retirement center, is the grandmother of Ken Jennings, an unassuming, 30-year-old software engineer from Utah whose unprecedented "Jeopardy!" winning streak has catapulted him to fame. He's been interviewed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Show With David Letterman" and the network morning shows. A Google search with his name and the keyword "Jeopardy" yields 24,100 hits, including a site called "The Cult of Ken Jennings."
On Friday, he won $75,000, bringing his earnings total to more than $1.3 million, a "Jeopardy!" record. He's clobbered 76 challengers, and will return when the season resumes in September.
His grandmother, a former school teacher with a slight Southern accent and a quick wit, has gained her own kind of celebrity status among her fellow residents.
"I feel like I've been dragged off the streets and drawn into this unfolding drama," she said with a hearty giggle. "The curtain's pulled back, and I don't have a script."
The 83-year-old widow has missed only one episode since Ken Jennings began his rampage two months ago. She watches alone in her room, as she did Friday, and fields the comments and questions the next day at breakfast.
"There's one cute little woman named Millie, and she calls my name and does this," she said, pumping an arm in the air.
Jennings swears her grandson's turn in the national spotlight hasn't been that big a deal at Churchill Estates, but her hairdresser says otherwise.
"Everybody's talking about it," said Nancy Jensen, whose shop is on the center's ground floor.
Georgia Jennings suspected it, but didn't know for sure if her grandson would win Friday. While the show was taped weeks ago, he was sworn to secrecy - not even his father knew, she said.
One of 11 grandchildren, Ken Jennings was always precocious, clever and intensely curious about the world, his grandmother said - "But he's not one who goes around spouting." She remembers him forming words with alphabet blocks when he was not even 2 years old.
Born in Lynnwood, Wash., Ken Jennings spent most of his childhood in South Korea, where his father - Georgia's son, Kenneth, named for her husband - was a successful international business lawyer. Ken, his brother and two sisters attended English-language private schools serving the children of wealthy businessmen and diplomats.
"Kenneth didn't need any urging to learn," Georgia Jennings said. "He learned for the sheer love of learning. His dad was just like that. ... My son wore out an atlas before he ever started school."
Georgia Jennings is no slouch herself. Her coffee table is stacked with American Heritage, Archaeology and Discover magazines, alongside the Bible, the Book of Mormon and a video course she's taking called "The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematics."
"I do the three puzzles in the paper before breakfast," she said.
She grew up in a small town in southern Oklahoma, the daughter of a cotton farmer. She graduated from college in Texas with a journalism degree in the midst of World War II and joined the U.S. Marine Corps, spending most of her time in Mojave, Calif., doing public relations work.
She and her husband married right after the war and settled in Mule Shoe, Texas, where their two daughters were born. The family moved to the eastern Washington town of Richland in 1948, after her husband took a job with General Electric. There, they had a son and converted to the Mormon faith. They later moved to the Seattle area, where Georgia Jennings taught elementary school for 20-plus years.
Their children grown and gone and her husband yearning for some acreage, the couple bought a farm west of Creswell in 1976. Jennings initially planned to volunteer in her retirement but she wound up teaching school for another eight years at Creslane Elementary School. Every summer, Ken and his siblings would visit from South Korea and play on the farm.
"They all plan to come back," she said. "They love Smith (Family) Bookstore."
When her husband died in 1999, Georgia Jennings briefly moved to Utah to be closer to her children. Three years ago, she moved back to Creswell with one of her daughters, who soon returned to Utah. That's when Jennings moved into Churchill Estates, partly to be near hairdresser Jensen, the daughter of a dear friend.
When she's not reading, Jennings often volunteers at the nearby Mormon church or crochets for her 17 great-grandchildren, including Ken and wife Mindy's 18-month-old son, Thomas Dylan. She has no plans to return to Utah, unless her health takes a serious turn. She's had both hips replaced and doesn't drive, she said, but feels fit as a fiddle most days.
Ken Jennings has pledged 10 percent of his winnings to the Mormon church, but his grandmother has no idea how he'll spend the rest.
"The money is overwhelming," she said. "None of us ever had very rich tastes. Buy another book and we think we're in hog heaven!"
She last spoke to him a couple of weeks ago, but talks to his father almost every day.
"I've really never watched 'Jeopardy!' " she confessed. "I'm not much of a TV person. ... I stayed up last night to watch Jay Leno and it's a wonder I'm making it!"
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Ken Jennings has all the answers once again as his grandmother, Georgia Jennings of Eugene, tunes in Friday night. Ken Jennings has won $1.3 million.
Photo: Paul Carter / The Register-Guard
July 24, 2004
Grandson's streak never in 'Jeopardy'
By Anne Williams
The Register-Guard
Along with an estimated 12 million other viewers, Georgia Jennings of Eugene watched a young man with an intense gaze and an uncanny knack for trivia shatter a one-day winnings record Friday evening in his 38th straight appearance on the television game show "Jeopardy!"
But she noticed something others surely did not.
"I can tell by looking in his eyes, he's tired," she said, a frown crossing her face.
Jennings, a resident at Churchill Estates retirement center, is the grandmother of Ken Jennings, an unassuming, 30-year-old software engineer from Utah whose unprecedented "Jeopardy!" winning streak has catapulted him to fame. He's been interviewed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Show With David Letterman" and the network morning shows. A Google search with his name and the keyword "Jeopardy" yields 24,100 hits, including a site called "The Cult of Ken Jennings."
On Friday, he won $75,000, bringing his earnings total to more than $1.3 million, a "Jeopardy!" record. He's clobbered 76 challengers, and will return when the season resumes in September.
His grandmother, a former school teacher with a slight Southern accent and a quick wit, has gained her own kind of celebrity status among her fellow residents.
"I feel like I've been dragged off the streets and drawn into this unfolding drama," she said with a hearty giggle. "The curtain's pulled back, and I don't have a script."
The 83-year-old widow has missed only one episode since Ken Jennings began his rampage two months ago. She watches alone in her room, as she did Friday, and fields the comments and questions the next day at breakfast.
"There's one cute little woman named Millie, and she calls my name and does this," she said, pumping an arm in the air.
Jennings swears her grandson's turn in the national spotlight hasn't been that big a deal at Churchill Estates, but her hairdresser says otherwise.
"Everybody's talking about it," said Nancy Jensen, whose shop is on the center's ground floor.
Georgia Jennings suspected it, but didn't know for sure if her grandson would win Friday. While the show was taped weeks ago, he was sworn to secrecy - not even his father knew, she said.
One of 11 grandchildren, Ken Jennings was always precocious, clever and intensely curious about the world, his grandmother said - "But he's not one who goes around spouting." She remembers him forming words with alphabet blocks when he was not even 2 years old.
Born in Lynnwood, Wash., Ken Jennings spent most of his childhood in South Korea, where his father - Georgia's son, Kenneth, named for her husband - was a successful international business lawyer. Ken, his brother and two sisters attended English-language private schools serving the children of wealthy businessmen and diplomats.
"Kenneth didn't need any urging to learn," Georgia Jennings said. "He learned for the sheer love of learning. His dad was just like that. ... My son wore out an atlas before he ever started school."
Georgia Jennings is no slouch herself. Her coffee table is stacked with American Heritage, Archaeology and Discover magazines, alongside the Bible, the Book of Mormon and a video course she's taking called "The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematics."
"I do the three puzzles in the paper before breakfast," she said.
She grew up in a small town in southern Oklahoma, the daughter of a cotton farmer. She graduated from college in Texas with a journalism degree in the midst of World War II and joined the U.S. Marine Corps, spending most of her time in Mojave, Calif., doing public relations work.
She and her husband married right after the war and settled in Mule Shoe, Texas, where their two daughters were born. The family moved to the eastern Washington town of Richland in 1948, after her husband took a job with General Electric. There, they had a son and converted to the Mormon faith. They later moved to the Seattle area, where Georgia Jennings taught elementary school for 20-plus years.
Their children grown and gone and her husband yearning for some acreage, the couple bought a farm west of Creswell in 1976. Jennings initially planned to volunteer in her retirement but she wound up teaching school for another eight years at Creslane Elementary School. Every summer, Ken and his siblings would visit from South Korea and play on the farm.
"They all plan to come back," she said. "They love Smith (Family) Bookstore."
When her husband died in 1999, Georgia Jennings briefly moved to Utah to be closer to her children. Three years ago, she moved back to Creswell with one of her daughters, who soon returned to Utah. That's when Jennings moved into Churchill Estates, partly to be near hairdresser Jensen, the daughter of a dear friend.
When she's not reading, Jennings often volunteers at the nearby Mormon church or crochets for her 17 great-grandchildren, including Ken and wife Mindy's 18-month-old son, Thomas Dylan. She has no plans to return to Utah, unless her health takes a serious turn. She's had both hips replaced and doesn't drive, she said, but feels fit as a fiddle most days.
Ken Jennings has pledged 10 percent of his winnings to the Mormon church, but his grandmother has no idea how he'll spend the rest.
"The money is overwhelming," she said. "None of us ever had very rich tastes. Buy another book and we think we're in hog heaven!"
She last spoke to him a couple of weeks ago, but talks to his father almost every day.
"I've really never watched 'Jeopardy!' " she confessed. "I'm not much of a TV person. ... I stayed up last night to watch Jay Leno and it's a wonder I'm making it!"
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The guy is amazing, and he's beating smart people too. He makes the other contestants look like they just walked off the set of Wheel of Fortune.
