Watson Week! The Kentucky Derby…

Thank you to our good friends over at the J! Archive…

All right, all right, ya’ International Business Machines loversz! Just as everyone knows in their heart of hearts they are the best handicapper on the face of the Earth, everyone also knows deep down that they are the world’s greatest player of a little televised quiz programme developed by that noted (but, sadly, now deceased) Thoroughbred racing aficionado Mr. Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr., no matter his “orientation”. Wheel! Of! Fortune!

To mark the start of Watson Week here at the Weblog, here’s a brief five-question spin through “The Kentucky Derby”. Check it here, from a game originally broadcast on July 16, 2003, CE.

The players got ’em all, and Mr. Leonard was particularly impressive on his higher-value responses. Not something you would expect from a gentleman hailing from a state where pari-mutuel wagering is unlawful! (Can you imagine hitting a trizacta at the Atlanta Motor Speedway? Cazart!)