After midnight, we will be looking back for real at a long year of Internet froth, adecadeof increasing velocity, acenturyof turmoil (trapped by triumph) and a thousand years where change has been so vast, so profound, that we can scarcely comprehend life Way Back Then.
In a category looking for the name ofa 20th centurydecade, Watson twice either failed to buzz in or gave wrong answers including one absurdity when Watson repeated a wrong answer that zapped Jennings first.