Ken Jennings took supposedly friendly jabs at Mr. Trebek and the format of Jeopardy in a letter on his personal blog. Personally I think he went a little over the line with calling Alex a robot. But I suppose that's just the type of humor he has.
And maybe he has a small point about the categories, then again if the categories were dumbed down as he thinks they should be. It just wouldn't be Jeopardy I think part of what makes it so interesting is the challenge. Anyway just my 2 cents.
Now for those of you who don't know who Ken Jennings is you've obviously been living under a rock lol. Ken Jennings is the most famous Jeopardy contestant. Who through his 74-game winning streak won a total of 2.5 million in cash. There hope that clears things up;).
Check out a couple of articles on the topic
http://www.chortler.com/24966trebek.shtml
This first one has a snippet about the categories I have to admit it is pretty funny.
And the second one is a hilarious journalist response to what he thinks about dumbing down the categories. Be sure to check it out
http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/10216/C94/L94/
http://www.ottawasun.com/Showbiz/Television/2006/07/26/1702528-sun.html
And this last one contains an apology of sorts regarding the robot comment
If you are interested in seeing the aforementioned Jeopardy related letter then check out Ken Jennings Blog here: http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=70
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