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Take Part posted:Leonard Cooper took a big risk in the final minutes of the Teen Jeopardy Tournament. With $18,200 and only $4,000 remaining on the board in the second round, Cooper chose American Lit for $800 and hit the Daily Double. The $4,600 lead over his nearest competitor would leave him vulnerable in Final Jeopardy, but he still went for the win. http://www.takepart.com/video/best-...rdy-answer-ever This has got to be one of the best responses to final Jeopardy I think I've ever heard. Whats the real winner is if the first kid up there had waged his whole stash and gotten it correct, he would have actually beat Leonard, and an amazing win would have turned into a very embarrassing defeat. Edit: I should probably have explained this first. The scores were cumulative over the course of two days. Leonard had only 3500~ from the first day, while the other two kids had somewhere around $14k each. If the first kid (who wagered 7000 and lost) had wagered %14k and gotten the correct answer, then he would have had a total of $28k + $14k = $42k which would have been $2000 more than Leonard's final total. tl;dr: Leonard is bad a math and would have lost if the first kid was more knowledgeable than he turned out to be. Would anybody else have the guts to do something like that on a game show? I sure wouldn't. Kasan fucked around with this message at Mar 3, 2013 around 16:46 |
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I don't get it. If he was wrong, how did he still win?
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Saint Celestine posted:I don't get it. If he was wrong, how did he still win? He didn't wager anything. How do these chumps not know about Eisenhower? He was only the greatest commander and president in history! 
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Saint Celestine posted:I don't get it. If he was wrong, how did he still win?
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If you've still got more money than everyone else when it's over, you win. You can miss the final Jepoardy question and not have wagered everything you have.
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If he knew it was some guy in Normandy, he should have just gone with Eisenhower and would have been right.
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How does he know Normandy but not know that that's a Churchill quote? That's one of the most famous WWI quotes around - it's in the ending credits for Band of Brothers for Pete's sake..
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Omnicarus posted:How does he know Normandy but not know that that's a Churchill quote? That's one of the most famous WWI quotes around - it's in the ending credits for Band of Brothers for Pete's sake..
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Omnicarus posted:How does he know Normandy but not know that that's a Churchill quote? That's one of the most famous WWI quotes around - it's in the ending credits for Band of Brothers for Pete's sake.. Well done, well done.
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I watched this as it was broadcast and was very happy that Leonard triumphed over College Republican and Dorkus Supreme.
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Frijolero posted:He didn't wager anything But if he didn't wager anything, how did he win $75,000 after going into the final round with $37,000?
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exquisite tea posted:I watched this as it was broadcast and was very happy that Leonard triumphed over College Republican and Dorkus Supreme. He's from Little Rock Arkansas too. Score one for the "uneducated" South.
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MrChupon posted:But if he didn't wager anything, how did he win $75,000 after going into the final round with $37,000? At the risk of a double post: $75k was the first place prize. All you needed was more money than the other kids to win it.
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MrChupon posted:But if he didn't wager anything, how did he win $75,000 after going into the final round with $37,000? That was the prize if you won first place, it wasn't normal Jeopardy, they were offering minimum prizes for first, second and third place.
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Wait, was it Jerpardy or Jepardy? Jerpardy loving rules, but Jepardy? Meh.
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Omnicarus posted:How does he know Normandy but not know that that's a Churchill quote? That's one of the most famous WWI quotes around - it's in the ending credits for Band of Brothers for Pete's sake.. Dude, it was an Eisenhower quote. And WWII. And the scores were cumulative over two days. The freshman, Nilai, had like a $15,000 lead going in to day 2 of the tournament-- which is why Leonard wagered so much, so he could he viable in Final Jeopardy. If you care enough, there's a Jeopardy thread in TVIV where we all basically watched this unfold live, and you can see our unfettered delight at the ballsy move by Leonard Cooper. Currently, a goon's girlfriend is a 3-day champion on the show, she's coming back on Monday to hopefully win some more. So it's a pretty happening thread. Here is a loving video to show you what's up, and Leonard Cooper's greatest hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccf_3QYjMJ4 escape artist fucked around with this message at Mar 3, 2013 around 16:59 |
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MrChupon posted:But if he didn't wager anything, how did he win $75,000 after going into the final round with $37,000? Minors can't gamble so teen Jeopardy is more like a scholarship contest with 3 tiers. First place was the 75k regardless of whether his show "winnings" were a dollar or a billion dollars.
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How did Terbek respond?
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Kasan posted:He's from Little Rock Arkansas too. Score one for the "uneducated" South. The forums try not to hate southerners, but we hate Republicans and people who look like them, so Leonard seems alright in our book.
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That's cool, though this is better. Everyone loses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3tb-DVow0 Jerpardy. double negative fucked around with this message at Mar 3, 2013 around 17:23 |
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escape artist posted:Dude, it was an Eisenhower quote. And WWII. You're no fun. 
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Jeopardy underscores the true evil inherent in the capitalist system. The man with no answers but all the money wins at the end. 
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double negative posted:That's cool, though this is better. Everyone loses. The best part about this is, Leonard would not have even made it to the Finals, if it weren't for these three idiot kids. Like I said before, it took a perfect storm of circumstances for Leonard to win. And it was glorious.
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double negative posted:That's cool, though this is better. Everyone loses. Derpady.
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It's absolutely beautiful that he won by virtue of betting nothing, and the only reason he was there is because three other kids had wagered everything and lost.
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escape artist posted:The best part about this is, Leonard would not have even made it to the Finals, if it weren't for these three idiot kids. Like I said before, it took a perfect storm of circumstances for Leonard to win. And it was glorious. Haha, not one of them left it so they had $1.
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Giggily posted:The only reason he was there is because three other kids had wagered everything and lost. Maybe he was a Daoist master, just waiting to strike. Action through inaction and all that.
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The best Jeopardy had Andy Richter pummeling Wolf Blitzer, who went into final Jeopardy with a negative score so he was credited up to $1000 so he could participate.
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Philthy posted:Haha, not one of them left it so they had $1.
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Giggily posted:It's absolutely beautiful that he won by virtue of betting nothing, and the only reason he was there is because three other kids had wagered everything and lost. To his credit, a minute before this had happened, he took a pretty big risk by wagering everything in an $18k Double Jeopardy.
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"Your mother Trebek" would have been a better response.
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What is "Voted 1?" Jerpardy. I still don't understand what happened.
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poo poo, the title is the best part of the thread. I like that the OP got it wrong twice in two different ways, just in case you gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed it was a typo.
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How is this noteworthy in any way? He was just really lucky the questions weren't the other way around. He would just look like an idiot for losing everything for not knowing the most famous quote by the most famous general of the most famous military conflict of the last century.
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All I could think of was the "Ermagerd" girl when I read the thread title.
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Xachariah posted:How is this noteworthy in any way? He was just really lucky the questions weren't the other way around. He would just look like an idiot for losing everything for not knowing the most famous quote by the most famous general of the most famous military conflict of the last century. Excuse me I think you are forgetting "I came I saw I conquered" by Sun Tzu in the Korean War.
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Xachariah posted:How is this noteworthy in any way? He was just really lucky the questions weren't the other way around. He would just look like an idiot for losing everything for not knowing the most famous quote by the most famous general of the most famous military conflict of the last century. I too have a database of famous quotes in my brain. I had to excise my libido to get it in but god drat it I rule at trivia.
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Yes I spend all my time exhaustively memorising obscure quotations and most certainly didn't just remember a fragment of the pilot episode of Band of Brothers.
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double negative posted:poo poo, the title is the best part of the thread. I like that the OP got it wrong twice in two different ways, just in case you gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed it was a typo.  For some reason spell check doesn't apply to thread titles in Firefox.
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Xachariah posted:Yes I spend all my time exhaustively memorising obscure quotations and most certainly didn't just remember a fragment of the pilot episode of Band of Brothers. He is probably too young to remember Band of Brothers. You're probably getting to the age where your cultural references aren't going to be understood by younger people.
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