Friday, May 9, 2014

Ken's good too

After Brad's impressive performance in quarterfinal game 3, we witnessed another dominant win in game 4 (unsurprisingly, I suppose) from Ken Jennings.  The speed with which he mowed through the Roman numerals category was one of the most impressive things I've ever seen on the show.  I would've come up with most of these with maybe 5 seconds to think about it, but Ken seemed to figure them out in about half a second.  (These wordplay kinds of categories are one of his many great strengths.)



That said, I still can't figure out how he knew the "Humpty Dance" but not "Sabotage" in the "90s rap songs" category (and at least he owned up to it):

Brad and I had to pile on a little bit:

Even with Ken's domination, Tom and Rachael were able to build up decent scores going into FJ, and a relatively easy final brought them up to good positions: Tom secured a wild-card spot (and Leszek now also has one locked up) and Rachael made her way into the 4th spot with one game to play...

Current wild-card standings:
Tom C $19,500
Leszek $15,000
Pam $14,798
Rachael $7,600

The last quarterfinal game features Chuck Forrest, probably the first truly famous and great player in the show's history; Mark Dawson, who had one of the most impressive performances in the preliminary round; and Colby Burnett, who's still never lost a game.  This game will set the field for the semifinals next week!

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