Talk:Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Spelling of contestants' names

Someone has changed the spellings of the names John Habnek, Paul Krosher, and Nathan Walpole to John Hannatt, Paul Crozier, and Nathan Walpolw. I found no relevant results in search engines for "Nathan Walpolw", so I reverted that name. Plus, that spelling may be highly unlikely because "w" and "e" are next to each other on the keyboard. But with "John Hannatt" and "Paul Crozier" I found results only in a message board (Sony Pictures). As for the original spellings, I found results from that message board and oddchange.com, which seems to be a blog. These are not reliable sources, so I will keep the two changed names for now.

If anybody has reliable sources, this issue will be resolved. This also goes for the rest of the article. Tinlinkin 05:34, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Burns Cameron

Burns is listed as the '65 Grand Champ. In Super Jeopardy!'s second semifinal, Alex Trebek mentions that Burns is the '66 ToC winner. Which is it? Robert K S 01:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Since the time of the above posting, this has been corrected. Burns Cameron won in 1966. Robert K S (talk) 11:36, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Pimping Atlanta

Why do we need to point out the 2000 tournament was held in the "Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Georgia"? - dcljr (talk) 05:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Because that is, notably, the only time a Tournament of Champions has been taped outside of the Sony lot. Next year, I imagine the results table will similarly note Vegas. 271828182 (talk) 19:20, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

1985 winner Jerry Frankel cause of death

Regarding this edit, which demanded an appropriate source, here's the word from a former Jeopardy! writer/producer: "The winner, however, was an underdog, Jerry Frankel, a musician originally from Buffalo. In the quarter-finals, Jerry was the lowest-scoring of the four wild-card players to go on to the semi-finals. In the end the entire Tournament hung on the last Final Jeopardy clue, which was in the category World Capitals. The clue read, 'It is the westernmost national capital in the western hemisphere.' Jerry was the only one of the three finalists to get it right. The correct response: 'What is Mexico City?' ¶ Just a year or two later, we were saddened to learn that Jerry Frankel, our first Tournament of Champions winner, had died of AIDS. Newsweek, in a feature story, included his picture among those of 100 prominent individuals who had succumbed to the disease." Eisenberg, Harry. Jeopardy!: Behind the Scenes at TV's Top Quiz Show (revised edition), page 81. 1995. ISBN 0-8119-0806-2. Lifetime Books, Hollywood, Florida. Robert K S (talk) 04:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't agree that Mexico City is the westernmost capital in the western hemisphere. Two that are further west are Apia, Samoa (longitude 171°45′W) and Nuku'alofa, Tonga (longitude 175°12′W). In the most natural sense of "western hemisphere", the correct response is Nuku'alofa. If you define "western hemisphere" based on the International Date Line then the correct response is Apia. Obviously you can make up some convoluted definition of "western hemisphere" that includes Mexico but not Samoa or Tonga, but why would you? --Mathew5000 (talk) 23:29, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

The author misremembered; the Final Jeopardy clue asked for the westernmost national capital in the Americas. 71.105.75.243 (talk) 11:28, 22 August 2010 (UTC)