The Ken Jennings juggernaut

This past season, the game show Jeopardy! changed their rules such that a defending champion can keep coming back until he or she is defeated. Good move: all of America is riveted by a Mormon named Ken Jennings who, as this Slate article notes, is “the Michael Jordan of trivia, the Seabiscuit of geekdom.” Tonight, he won another $40K for his 28th victory in a row, putting his grand total just one win shy of $900K. Wow.