ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
But Jeopardy is not 'every conceivable subject'. The questions are the stars..and they are designed to flatter the ego of the audience..and keep them watching. There is definitely a Jeopardy demographic..and they are the ones who pay the bills.Holtzhauer gets 97 percent of the answers correct and he plays with confidence he will know the answer
He is also amazingly fast on the buzzer as you watch other contestants frantically trying to buzz in
His opposition plays like losers. When they get a late Daily Double, instead of going for a double will say....$2,000 Alex
The whole point is NOBODY knows 97 percent of every conceivable subject.
A rigorous study of the questions asked..over 20 years...provides a clear indication of what areas are most likely to be explored..the rest is study and native intelligence--as well as a killer brand of gamesmanship.
That's all well and good, but the flash cards being used contain most of the answers to the questions. Tonight's episode reminded me of a WWE wrestling match as Holzhauer did not predictably get all the Daily Doubles and then wagered so low in final that he was destined to lose.
I'm guessing that the reason he wagered so low was that he was in second place going into Final Jeopardy, and he knew that if she got the answer right, she had enough money to beat him by a dollar, and, looking at what she wagered for final, that is exactly what she was doing. He figured she was going to know it (she had done so well in the previous rounds), and wanted to bow out gracefully.