Contents

A Champion’s Philosophical Reflection

KEN JENNINGS

Acknowledgments

A Quiz Show, Some Fans, and a Lot of Fun: What Is Jeopardy! and Philosophy?

SHAUN P. YOUNG

I’ll Take Popular Culture, Alex

I. America’s Favorite Quiz Show

1.Jeopardy! and American Exceptionalism

DANIEL F. MELIA

2.Are all Jeopardy! Contestants Created Equal?

SHAUN P. YOUNG

3.What Makes Jeopardy! a Good Game?

BRENDAN SHEA

4.Cliff Lost on Jeopardy!, Baby

FRANKLIN ALLAIRE

I’ll Take Slogans, Alex

II. The Jeopardy! Moment

5.Dumberer and Smarterer

TIMOTHY SEXTON

6.Jeopardy! Monkeys Ain’t Smart

ROBERT ARP

7.I, for One, Welcome Our New Computer Overlords

NICOLAS MICHAUD

8.What Is Jeopardy!?

RANDALL E. AUXIER

9.Not a Buzz Threshold but an Aha! Moment

RICK MAYOCK

I’ll Take Twentieth Century, Alex

III. You Control the Board

10.Truth in the Form of a Question

DANIEL WANLESS

11.It’s Been an Education

MATT KOHLSTEDT

12.Democracy’s in Jeopardy!

JOSEPH J. FOY

13.Survivor Has More to Do with Intelligence than Jeopardy!

ELLEN SORG

14.This Question Is False

GEORGE A. REISCH

I’ll Take Potpourri, Alex

Meet the Clue Crew

Watson’s Words