Regular Jeopardy! viewers are currently enjoying a welcome respite from the frenetic trivia stylings of Arthur Chu, a three-day champ whose game-play strategy is really smart but really annoying to watch; more on Chu in a minute.
The show's annual College Championship airs this week and next, and last week Jeopardy! presented the first installment of its Battle of the Decades, a tournament that brings back the best players from each of the three previous decades and pits them against one another. It's a fun enough idea—even though I don't remember any of the contestants, it's entertaining to see which ones are worse for the wear, which ones have since abandoned their earlier-in-life aspirations, and so on.…
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