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Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - Spiny_Norman - 11-02-2022
I had the pleasure to be in the audience for the taping of the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions which started airing this week and will continue next week and the week after. It's a terrific tournament featuring some of the all-time best Jeopardy players. Fans of the show should find it exciting and compelling.
There is a Stanford connection. 2 of the 21 players in the field are Stanford alumni - Andrew He (who won his quarterfinal last night) and Brian Chang (who plays his quarterfinal tonight). In fact, I learned from chatting with Brian that he was Andrew's RA in Roble when Andrew was a freshman! And then after Stanford they both would appear on Jeopardy, each win over $150,000 in their respective runs and qualify for the ToC. Amazing.
But wait, there's more! In fact, there's more specifically for Stanford sports fans. I won't say anything beyond than that for now. I did have to sign an NDA.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - cardcrimson - 11-02-2022
(11-02-2022, 09:17 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote: I had the pleasure to be in the audience for the taping of the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions which started airing this week and will continue next week and the week after. It's a terrific tournament featuring some of the all-time best Jeopardy players. Fans of the show should find it exciting and compelling.
There is a Stanford connection. 2 of the 21 players in the field are Stanford alumni - Andrew He (who won his quarterfinal last night) and Brian Chang (who plays his quarterfinal tonight). In fact, I learned from chatting with Brian that he was Andrew's RA in Roble when Andrew was a freshman! And then after Stanford they both would appear on Jeopardy, each win over $150,000 in their respective runs and qualify for the ToC. Amazing.
But wait, there's more! In fact, there's more specifically for Stanford sports fans. I won't say anything beyond than that for now. I did have to sign an NDA.
Who are Toby Gerhart, Andrew Luck, Christian McCaffrey, and Bryce Love?
Who are Bernard Muir and David Shaw?
Answers to both are pretty obvious. . . .
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - French Rage - 11-02-2022
Jeopardy contestants who went to Stanford are the coolest ones out there!
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - winflop - 11-02-2022
(11-02-2022, 10:29 AM)cardcrimson Wrote: Who are Toby Gerhart, Andrew Luck, Christian McCaffrey, and Bryce Love?Four people who belong in the Stanford Hall of Fame
(11-02-2022, 10:29 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:
Who are Bernard Muir and David Shaw?Two people who should not be employed by Stanford University by Jan 1, 2023
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - Mick - 11-03-2022
(11-02-2022, 02:09 PM)French Rage Wrote: Jeopardy contestants who went to Stanford are the coolest ones out there!
Def. agree. My cousin (great guy) was both Marquess' team manager and managed to win over $50k on Jeopardy. He got 56 out of 60 questions correct. Did very well.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - terry - 11-04-2022
(11-02-2022, 09:17 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote: I had the pleasure to be in the audience for the taping of the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions which started airing this week and will continue next week and the week after. It's a terrific tournament featuring some of the all-time best Jeopardy players. Fans of the show should find it exciting and compelling.
There is a Stanford connection. 2 of the 21 players in the field are Stanford alumni - Andrew He (who won his quarterfinal last night) and Brian Chang (who plays his quarterfinal tonight). In fact, I learned from chatting with Brian that he was Andrew's RA in Roble when Andrew was a freshman! And then after Stanford they both would appear on Jeopardy, each win over $150,000 in their respective runs and qualify for the ToC. Amazing.
But wait, there's more! In fact, there's more specifically for Stanford sports fans. I won't say anything beyond than that for now. I did have to sign an NDA.
Good story about the connection between Andrew He and Brian Chang!
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - Spiny_Norman - 11-09-2022
Andrew He won his quarterfinal game and plays in the semifinals this Friday, November 11.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - Gary86 - 11-09-2022
(11-02-2022, 02:09 PM)French Rage Wrote: Jeopardy contestants who went to Stanford are the coolest ones out there!
Thank you.
Baez87 - Baez87 - 11-09-2022
Is current WBB team player, Haley Jones, doing a guest sport on the tournament series or on the regular program? The Stanford WBB FB Group made an announcement today on FaceBook saying that she would be presenting a guest category on women’s sports for Jeopardy.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - Spiny_Norman - 11-09-2022
She reads a category on a Tournament of Champions game tonight.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - lex24 - 11-09-2022
Category: Stanford Athletics. Haley Jones reads the answers. Everyone here would have run the category….
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - dabigv13 - 11-09-2022
How'd the contestants do?
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - AxeMan89 - 11-09-2022
(11-09-2022, 08:15 PM)dabigv13 Wrote: How'd the contestants do?
No wrong answers. Pretty easy stuff as has been said above ["questions" were Tiger Woods, Cal, Voldemort Trophy, College World Series, Kerri Walsh] . Nice exposure for Haley! She did great.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - CompSci87 - 11-09-2022
Anyone have a link to a replay of Haley's segment?
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - lex24 - 11-10-2022
(11-09-2022, 09:25 PM)AxeMan89 Wrote:(11-09-2022, 08:15 PM)dabigv13 Wrote: How'd the contestants do?
No wrong answers. Pretty easy stuff as has been said above ["questions" were Tiger Woods, Cal, Voldemort Trophy, College World Series, Kerri Walsh] . Nice exposure for Haley! She did great.
You mean no wrong questions. :)
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - msqueri - 11-10-2022
Of course, such a category would be incredibly easy for folks on this board. I was musing to my wife during it that it is perhaps the single category in all the world I would be most confident in getting every question right, and it would be a fun get-to-know-you question for the many time winner contestants what that category would be for them. Jeopardy questions by their nature have to be hard enough to have some challenge but mainstream enough that a somewhat random sample of smart people/trivia mavens have a chance of answering them. Degree of difficulty ticks up in the Tournament of Champions but only to a point. This category was always going to be more Tiger Woods/H.e.i.s.m.a.n/Cal/Kerri Walsh/College World Series than Notah Begay/Jim Plunkett/Stanford beat USC in the Greatest Upset Ever/Nnemkadi Ogwumike/Ed Sprague. Folks on this board could get the higher degree of difficulty, but that's not how these categories are formulated. That got me to wondering what the categories are that these great Tournament of Champions contestants would get right no matter how hard they were.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - French Rage - 11-10-2022
(11-10-2022, 07:49 AM)msqueri Wrote: That got me to wondering what the categories are that these great Tournament of Champions contestants would get right no matter how hard they were.
Certainly for Amy/Matt/Mattea it would be hard to find many categories where they would get more wrong than right.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - bl82 - 11-10-2022
(11-10-2022, 09:36 AM)French Rage Wrote:(11-10-2022, 07:49 AM)msqueri Wrote: That got me to wondering what the categories are that these great Tournament of Champions contestants would get right no matter how hard they were.
Certainly for Amy/Matt/Mattea it would be hard to find many categories where they would get more wrong than right.
We need Phogge and Bobbk to write the questions...
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - msqueri - 11-10-2022
(11-10-2022, 09:36 AM)French Rage Wrote:(11-10-2022, 07:49 AM)msqueri Wrote: That got me to wondering what the categories are that these great Tournament of Champions contestants would get right no matter how hard they were.
Certainly for Amy/Matt/Mattea it would be hard to find many categories where they would get more wrong than right.
Indeed. But I'm talking about questions you could make REALLY hard and they'd still get right. Like, for me you could ask questions about the high schools of Stanford football players from 15-20 years ago who never started even though their teams were so bad as to never go to a bowl and I'd still get that right. I imagine there's something for Amy/Matt/Mattea for which there is basically no bottom to their knowledge.
RE: Stanford at Jeopardy Tournament of Champions - 82lsju - 11-10-2022
the Stanford Athletics Facebook page has a short clip from the show
https://www.facebook.com/stanfordathletics/