Posted on 06/06/2021 7:13:09 AM PDT by gattaca
Viewers and fans of the popular "Jeopardy!" quiz show were dismayed when none of the contestants were able to answer the clue based on very elementary knowledge of U.S. History.
The show aired Tuesday and was being hosted by "Big Bang Theory" actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik.
During a round of Double Jeopardy, contestant Robin Lozano chose the "Quotations" category for $800. Bialik gave him the clue from a very famous speech.
"'Government of the people, by the people, for the people' is from the end of this brief but powerful speech," she said.
The seconds ticked away before the buzzer sounded without any of the contestants offering even a guess at the solution to the clue.
The famous line came from the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863.
Many viewers were shocked and surprised that none of the contestants knew this very simple factoid in U.S. History.
"Not know the Gettysburg Address?? Worst showing ever. None of these 3 deserved to win tonight. If they'd been asked to add 3 + 2, they'd have looked around like confused squirrels," said one critic.
"I'm gonna pretend like I just didn't see ALL THREE contestants miss 'the Gettysburg Address' just now," replied another.
"How did #Jeopardy manage to find three contestants who don't recognize the closing line of the Gettysburg Address? This isn't Elementary Jeopardy, folks," mocked another critic.
"Wow, no one knew The Gettysburg Address. That made me sad," responded another.
Some made reference to Alex Trebek, the former host of the show who passed away from pancreatic cancer in November.
"That sound you hear is Alex Trebek spinning in his grave," tweeted one
Here's a video of Mayim Bialik as host of Jeopardy!:
we really shouldn’t be surprised, all they teach in schools these days is “social justice” and “everything is racist”.
From the headline, I was expecting it to be one of those episodes that had celebrities and/or media figures.
Yet somehow they are familiar with the most obscure pop music and hip hop crap since 1980.
I had a cashier once who didn’t know what happened on July 4, 1776.
I’m not the least bit surprised. A few years ago, as Independence Day was approaching, Sean Hannity sent a young girl reporter out onto the streets of New York City to ask passersby what we celebrate on July 4. Not one of her interviewees gave the correct answer—which she herself didn’t know.
They had a BBQ?
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How is that cashier supposed to know the date of my moms gallbladder surgery?
Learned it in grammar school. Can still recite it by word and I am 68 years old.
So much for little noted not long remembered.
Did you see the one where Katie Couric was hosting? I forget what the question was, but the answer was “liver,” as the organ in your body. When the contestant answered it correctly, Katie said something to the effect...wow, I just learned something. I didn’t know the liver was an organ.
I almost wrote to Jeopardy, but I refrained.
Must have been Flipper.
Thanks for the link—youtube will probably ban it since it insults a protected class—idiots!
Seems to me they’ve spent their lives watching movies and TV, and have absorbed that as “reality”.
I had a Southern belle Spanish teacher who even had us memorize the Address in Spanish. You know, because you never know when that will come up in Jeopardy.
Well, they picked the best cancel-culture white-privilege me-too guest host for this particular fiasco.
Welcome to the reality of American education. Not knowing stuff like this is the norm with people under 40. However, every last one of them has been taught “black history” and that homosexuals were “oppressed”.
PS - read the standard textbooks of K-12. Sad to say these are the books used in almost every private school too.
Who can for get Wolf Blitzer’s epic fail on Jeopardy?
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