Being bold paid off for new B次元官网网址淛eopardy!B次元官网网址� mega-champion Ken Jennings, while it didnB次元官网网址檛 for his opponents.
Jennings won his third match in the B次元官网网址淛eopardy!B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址淕reatest of all TimeB次元官网网址� contest televised on Tuesday, an event thatB次元官网网址檚 been a prime-time hit for ABC. He pocketed $1 million by dispatching James Holzhauer, who won one match, and Brad Rutter, who came up empty.
The gamesmanship between the three men considered the most-accomplished and best-known in the showB次元官网网址檚 modern history proved entertaining while containing all the tension of a major sporting match.
Jennings took a strong lead in the first game of TuesdayB次元官网网址檚 match by borrowing a strategy popularized by Holzhauer, twice betting all of his points on a Daily Double and winning. He signalled his intention by imitating the gesture of a poker player pushing all of his chips to the centre of the table.
In a B次元官网网址淔inal JeopardyB次元官网网址� question about Greece, Jennings bet all 32,800 of his points on the clue: B次元官网网址淭his area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; itB次元官网网址檚 a setting for VergilB次元官网网址檚 shepherd poems the B次元官网网址楨cologues.B次元官网网址� He correctly answered, B次元官网网址淲hat is Arcadia?B次元官网网址�
Holzhauer was leading in the second game of the match, where the B次元官网网址淔inal JeopardyB次元官网网址� question asked the competitors to identify the non-title character in a Shakespearean tragedy with the most speeches.
Jennings correctly answered, B次元官网网址淲ho is Iago?B次元官网网址� But he bet none of his points.
That left an opening for Holzhauer to take the match if he bet all of his points and got it right. He bet all of his points, but answered, B次元官网网址淲ho is Horatio?B次元官网网址�
At the end, Hozhauer and Rutter hoisted Jennings on their shoulders in honour. The losers each took home $250,000.
is a player so dominant that, when he took on the strongest players ever in his sport, they both had to adopt his exact style of play just to contain him. THAT's a once-in-a-generation talent.
B次元官网网址� Ken Jennings (@KenJennings)
got some tough breaks in this tourney, but real Jeopardy-heads know him as the guy who beat me in three straight tournament finals. For over a decade, he's really had the only credible claim as the Jeopardy GOAT.
B次元官网网址� Ken Jennings (@KenJennings)
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