[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'242755\' date=\'Jun 18 2010, 10:12 PM\']Touché. Still, it turns the question around: What kind of question is not a gimme for the computer, is reasonably gettable for one of the humans and is also good televison?[/quote]
I don't know, but I also don't care, and I'll tell you why: if the material isn't bog-standard Jeopardy! fare, no different than three humans would face, then I have officially lost any shred of interest in this experiment.
If I were to go on the show, I would not expect a board of "Hockey," "Video Games," "Television Game Shows Of The 1970s," "European Board Games," "Cooking," and "Pr0n." (Wait, what?) These folks at IBM claim to have developed a machine that can play Jeopardy! and want to prove it. That does not mean Pseudo-Jeopardy!-Written-With-The-Machine-In-Mind. That means Jeopardy!. If the material is jiggered to be "good TV," then it's no longer an interesting experiment and I could give two tin ones how ol' Watson does.