Just wow
Famous Big Ten team The Iowa Corn-huskers.
Good gosh.
No,it’s Rhode Island!
Are they really celebrities for $500 alex?
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.
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.
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.
I started to lose interest in Jeopardy! years ago, when it became more about catching hints from the questions than about actual knowledge. Since Alex Trebek died, I just don’t bother watching.
And if you’re a regular viewer of Jeopardy, you know how much they dumb down the questions for “celebrities.” The SNL videos with Will Farrell as Alex isn’t far off.
I was in the studio audience for two episodes of “Washington Power Players” celebrity Jeopardy. I observed:
Alex seemed like a genuinely decent fellow.
The questions seemed easier than usual, but the “power players” got fewer of them right than usual. They also left more questions on the board than normal Jeopardy contestants.
Chris Matthews is ignorant, arrogant, and stupid.
I watched the entire program. The women were just eye candy. O salt was fairly sharp and racked up the money. Yes the questions are easier on CJ.
We’d be shocked at the answers to “This War Between the States was fought in which century?”
Or “The New York Yankees play in which city?”