The people in the Jeopardy! circles that I run in, the general opinion is that it’s actually not that much harder than regular tournament play. There haven’t been that many of what they call “triple stumpers,” when all three players miss the question. Everybody knows all of this stuff, so it’s just buzzer timing and gamesmanship, really.Įven with the questions at this higher level. These three guys-and really any set of three competitors on Jeopardy!-are pretty evenly matched. So the surprising thing for me has been to see Brad struggle, but I’m not particularly surprised that Ken is doing as well as he is. Stephanie Hull: My money was on Brad, personally, because Brad had the distinction of never having lost to a human before. Slate: What were your expectations going into the Greatest of All Time tournament? Did you think that one of these three players had a big advantage? Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Hull, now a professor of philosophy in Sedalia, Missouri, was funny, honest, and still emotional about the lows and the highs of her game-show experience. I wanted to know what it was like to achieve a lifelong dream only to have it turn into a nightmare, and what the owner of the WOAT score thought about the GOAT tournament. I spoke to Hull, who’s never given an interview in the nearly five years since that fateful episode aired, on Tuesday afternoon, just before Jennings’ final triumph aired.
Those three contestants got on the show because they were record-setters: Jennings with the longest streak of wins, Holzhauer with the largest single-game score, and Rutter as the all-time earnings champion in the show’s history.īut among the many people watching the tournament with great interest was another Jeopardy! record-setter, one whose title is more ignominious: Stephanie Hull, who, on March 12, 2015, ended the game with the lowest score in Jeopardy! history, -$6,800. Tuesday night, Ken Jennings won the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time tournament over James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.
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