"A: He's the all-time 'Jeopardy!' champ"

Ken Jennings has been winning on Jeopardy since June 2 and is less than $80,000 away from a million.

Apparently, Jeopardy lifted its five-day limit for contestants at the beginning of this season (another guy had a 7 day run in January) and Jennings has been making the most of it.

If you remember the early run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it's my opinion that people were fascinated because of the show's ability to perpetually beat its contestants. So, when that first million-dollar contestant used his final lifeline simply to announce to his father that he had beaten the machine, the show reached its unsurmountable apex.

Ken Jennings' Jeopardy run has the potential to rekindle the phenom of Jeopardy in a very similar yet fundamentally opposite way. Here is a person the machine (and other people) simply cannot beat. As remarkable as the success will be, the climax of this story is going to be his defeat. That is what we are watching for however much we respect/adore Jennings himself. As such, his humble and human approach to his winnings (telling his wife the money would be going solely to DVDs, for instance) is probably the healthiest thing for him.

...I may be renting Quiz Show this week.