Posted on 01/18/2023 10:07:11 AM PST by montag813
by Becca London
All three contestants on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" failed to solve a very simple clue about a midwestern state referenced in a popular movie classic, and the interaction went viral on social media.
The video showed contestant Torrey DeVitto, a TV actress and model, pick the category "The Fifty States" for $300.
"In 'Field of Dreams' a question is asked, 'Is this heaven?' - No, it's this midwestern state also known as 'the corn state,'" read host Mayim Bialik.
DeVitto guessed Wisconsin and was shot down.
Candace Parker, a WNBA player, offered Nebraska, which was also wrong.
Comedian Patton Oswalt, a third contestant who is considerably older than the other two, also bizarrely had no idea, but wisely kept silent until the beep.
The answer?
DUH!
Here's the video of the clue that was circulated on social media:
(Excerpt) Read more at rightnewsnow.org ...
Just wow
Famous Big Ten team The Iowa Corn-huskers.
Good gosh.
No,it’s Rhode Island!
Are they really celebrities for $500 alex?
Corn? When did I eat corn?
Last fall I watched a couple of episodes of the college/university Jeopardy.
One thing I noticed what that the contestants went blank on several seemingly easy category answers that referred to American culture pre-2000.
They were usually quick to respond correctly to current culture items.
Wow. No one knew Iowa is the corn state?!
Don’t know the other two but Patton Oswalt is a obnoxious arrogant liberal. No surprise he could name anything to do with middle America.
Not really. Whoever said that “Celebrities” are required to be SMART?
Just overpaid STUPID entertainers.
Calling them ‘celebrities’ is quite generous.
Many people think we here in Iowa are known for the potatoes we grow.
We have to tell them there are other I states.
I would have guessed Nebraska too.
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/pdf/bluebook/11-19.pdf
Nebraska has had two official state names: the “Tree Planters’ State” and the “Cornhusker State.”
Nebraska was designated the “Tree Planters’ State” by legislative action in 1895. Nebraska’s claim to tree-planting fame includes the founding of Arbor Day in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska City, the Timber Culture Act of U.S. Sen. Phineas W. Hitchcock in 1873 and the millions of trees planted by early settlers as windbreaks, woodlots and orchards.
The 1945 Legislature changed the official state name to the “Cornhusker State,” thus repealing the 1895 act. The name is derived from the nickname for the University of Nebraska athletic teams, the Cornhuskers. The term “cornhusker” comes from the method of harvesting or “husking” corn by hand, which was common before the invention of husking machinery.
Iowa is flyover country to them, so they wouldn’t know or care. Which makes that a perfect stumper question for Celebrity Jeopardy.
I thought their motto was “land of queers and steers”
“Comedian Patton Oswalt”
In a word.......NOPE
Idiots and morons on parade.
A tipsy Jean Arthur belts it out in the Billy Wilder movie "A Foreign Affair", set in post war Berlin. Unforgettable.
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