Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy! has asked his last.
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What is aw shit -
That sucks. I kinda hope he’s not replaced.Comment
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I think hoe was a perfectly cromulent answer.Comment
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UK viewers might just recognize the opening music.
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Bummer.
I used to work with a guy who was on Jeopardy, who we'd tease mercilessly once we found out his Final Jeopardy question and answer (it was of the "if you don't actually know the answer writing something...anything...down is better than nothing" sort).Comment
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"Who are 3 people who've never been in my kitchen?"Comment
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"I'll take Air Shuttle Disasters for $40."Comment
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It was a correct answer, really.Originally posted by WOM View Post
Until today, I was unaware there'd been versions of Jeopardy! before Trebek started doing it. I also didn't know it started in 1984. I really had no idea. You could have told me any year between 1975 and 1990 and I would have believed it. I don't recall being aware of it until the late 80s, but people talked about it like it had just always been there.Comment
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1964
With Art Fleming on NBC
The 1984 version is a reboot of the originalComment
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My peak gameshow watching period was roughly 1977-1983, so I missed it.Comment
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This has me very sad, especially knowing that he didn't record a farewell message. He wanted to keep on working, and didn't have any sense that he was going to be finished before he recorded what turned out to be his final episodes.
I'm sad that I never got to meet him--I've auditioned three times to be on the show. This most recent time was in early March. I had taken the test not that much before then, and got an invite to audition much more quickly than I did the prior two times. In the audition, they mentioned that they would be calling people the following week, as they were clearly scrambling to continue filming, but people from other parts of the country were not able or were unwilling to travel out to LA while the pandemic was breaking out. I think they stopped filming the following week, but ever since new episodes have started, you see that almost all of the contestants are from Southern California. Still, I haven't been called in. I don't know if I didn't do well on the written test in the audition or if they didn't like my look or personality. I wouldn't have thought this for Jeopardy as much as other shows, but they want people to be really peppy and smiling while auditioning (you certainly see people on the show that are wet blankets). Not sure if I want to keep trying to get on if there isn't much hope.Comment
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I’m so sorry. I suspect it may be kinda arbitrary. Can they tell you why you didn’t make the cut yet?Comment
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No, they don't give feedback at all.Comment
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Four-letter words? That's a bit racy for daytime.Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post1964
With Art Fleming on NBC
The 1984 version is a reboot of the original
My brainless US game-show-watching period was roughly the same time as HP's (starting a shade before) - the favourite of mine and my sister's was probably Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall, which seemed to rip the p*ss out of the whole genre.Comment
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And gave rise to a "paradox" much loved by probability enthusiasts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problemComment
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It became famous as a question from a reader's letter quoted in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990....After the problem appeared in Parade, approximately 10,000 readers, including nearly 1,000 with PhDs, wrote to the magazine, most of them claiming vos Savant was wrong.Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
That may prompt a few double-takes amongst UK and Irish posters.Comment
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Just read that - and I really wish I had a better head for probability.
For example, I understand that the odds of drawing any six random lottery numbers are exactly the same as they'd be for drawing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. But surely in the latter scenario these numbers are also consecutive (and, in this case, the first-possible six in order) so therefore you're adding a far greater contingency to the original condition of 'any six numbers' - which must have an effect on the overall odds? (I reckon I'm approaching this problem from the wrong angle, but be gentle - it took me two goes to pass maths 'o' level.)
Anyway, I digress.Comment
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Amusingly though, in the first week of the national lottery, over 10,000 people picked 1,2,3,4,5,6 as their numbers, almost certainly smugly pointing out to their friends that they had exactly the same chance of winning as any other combination of numbers. Unfortunately, however, if those numbers had come in, each person would have won only ?100 each, around the same amount as the average 4-number winners got back in those days.Comment
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Yeah, that happened on a New York daily lottery that was held on 9/11, 2002.
5,631 people bought 911 as their number and it won. They each went home with $500.Comment
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Monty Hall....also Canadian.Comment
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What were the odds?Comment
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Of him being Canadian?
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