Sentence examples for jeopardy won from inspiring English sources

Jennings, a computer programmer and the most famous contestant in the history of "Jeopardy!," won seventy-four straigamesames, in 2004.

SATURDAY'S PUZZLE — So by now we all know that Joon Pahk ripped through Jeopardy!, won an ungodly amount of (pre-tax) money, qualified for the Tournament of Champions, and generally made us all proud, yes?

Jeopardy! won best game show for a 13th time and NBC's Today show won best morning show, beating rival Good Morning America.

And he (forgive me) will have to buzz in fast enough and with sufficient confidence to beat Ken Jennings, the holder of the longest unbroken "Jeopardy!" winning streak, and Brad Rutter, an undefeated champion and the game's biggest money winner.

"This is the first game show I haven't been able to get on," said Ms. Michaels, a San Francisco trivia buff who has been on "Jeopardy!" "Win Ben Stein's Money," and other shows.

By correctly naming "The Bridge on the River Kwai" as the title of the David Lean film based on the similarly titled Pierre Boulle novel, Roger Craig, a 33-year-old graduate student, set a new one-day earnings record on "Jeopardy!," winning $77,000 at the end of Tuesday's broadcast.

Anyway, the Jeopardy win got the technology community excited that a threshold moment had been passed on the computing roadmap set out by the late British genius, Alan Turing.

It's pretty scary when you think about it, 75% of the Jeopardy win can be attributed to the fact that the thing can simply push the button faster.

But then he appeared on "Jeopardy" and won $6,000, mostly by answering sports and history questions.

As we saw when the computer Watson played two human rivals on "Jeopardy!" and won, computers will do better on tests than will people.

I.B.M. claims that although the human contestants lost on "Jeopardy!," humanity won, because a question-answering machine like Watson will be a boon in business, education, and medicine.