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Jeopardy! had a “reality of TV” category last night as part of the Teen Tournament, and its answers included Survivor and The Amazing Race. TAR 16 winner Jordan Pious tweeted , “My brother and I were a clue on Jeopardy tonight! This is crazy!” The clue, he wrote , was “In 2010 Siblings Dan & Jordan hit the finish line in San Francisco to win this CBS show’s $1 Million prize.” That was deemed a harder question than the one that included Survivor Tocantins’s final two. Its runner-up, Stephen Fishbach, tweeted that being included in a clue was “the single greatest moment of my life.” The $200 clue, which he photographed , was: “J.T. outwitted, outplayed & outlasted Stephen & all the rest to win $1 mil. on the Tocantins edition of this show.” View the original article here

« Dancing With The Stars: Jennifer Grey Has Foot Surgery | Home | Celebrity Apprentice: Star Jones Responds To NeNe Leakes » February 15, 2011 12:00:53 by Ryan Haidet While the epic battle of Survivor: Redemption Island doesn’t begin until tomorrow night, a current war of man against machine has America talking.  This week, the producers of Jeopardy have brought a challenge to a pair of its most-celebrated winners in the show’s history.  Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter are up against an IBM computer system by the name of Watson.  And this is one smart computer that knows all sorts of things — including Survivor . Watson, which is made up of nearly 3,000 computers, was nailing nearly every question on Monday night’s premiere of the three-night competition.  But Watson’s smarts weren’t so successful during its development.  When creators of the computer genius were testing Watson’s man-made knowledge, the machine was giving incorrect answers to some simple questions. Af...