{"id":26586,"date":"2019-06-05T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26586"},"modified":"2019-08-10T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:18:04","slug":"jeopardy-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/05\/jeopardy-james\/","title":{"rendered":"JEOPARDY!<\/i> AND MATH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I like<\/strong><\/span> the woman who beat James Holzhauer on Jeopardy!<\/em> Monday night. I think she\u2019ll go far. (If she lost last night, please ignore this paragrah.)<\/p>\n

When my kid Ted \u2014 he was 23 at the time \u2014 won on Jeopardy!<\/em>, our family had to keep his wins a secret for a few months. If the news got out, Ted wouldn\u2019t get the money, for one thing. Jeopardy!<\/em> tapes its shows a couple months in advance. How does Jeopardy!<\/em> keep the taping results a secret? [Maybe Robert Knecht Schmidt will read this “Klezmer Guy” post and tell us. He\u2019s a former J!<\/em> contestant and expert.]<\/p>\n

Relevant to this — today\u2019s date, June 5. For Ted\u2019s second game, the Final Jeopardy category was Middle Eastern Affairs, and the “answer” was “The Arab-Israeli War that started on June 5, 1967, ended with a cease-fire on this date in Israel.”<\/p>\n

Ted knew<\/strong><\/span> about the Six-Day War, and so did the two goys who rounded out the panel. I — watching at home — did some easy math; I added 6 to June 5 and got the answer: June 11.<\/p>\n

Wrong, Pops. It\u2019s June 10. (Use your fingers to figure out the right answer, and while you’re at it, check out the math concept \u201cfencepost error\u201d on Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

Ted answered correctly, and the others got it wrong. I have never been more flabbergasted.
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I like the woman who beat James Holzhauer on Jeopardy! Monday night. I think she\u2019ll go far. (If she lost last night, please ignore this paragrah.) When my kid Ted \u2014 he was 23 at the time \u2014 won on Jeopardy!, our family had to keep his wins a secret for a few months. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kinder-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26665,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions\/26665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}