I truly believe she was picked because Richards did not want someone doing the tournaments that could outshine him. She was the worst choice with a chance thus she won.
Would like to see a closeup of Matt when Tracyās answer was revealed.
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That had to be one of the easier double stumpers ever.
I thought so. I got it the instant I saw the word ādipā.
Canāt believe Matt missed that DD today (heās a comp sci phd candidate), he could have hit $100k today (and his vet sizing was clearly aimed at that).
Looks like if he had gotten the DD right and wagered the max to guarantee he covered he would have ended with 99599.
At least it would have been enough to stop James from having all the top 10 games of all time. He probably wonāt break James all time record of 131127, but hoping he at least cracks the list
Lmao Amodio thinks people put makeup on their ears?
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What happened? We had a mass shooting at a local grocery store so my local channel pre-emoted jeopardy for wall to wall coverage of āwe are standing outside the grocery store and trying to find out what happened, there are a lot of police carsā
Really close most of the way, but Eraserhead doubled through on DD3 and that was pretty much all she wrote. The challengers were faster on the buzzer than pretty much any of his other opponents.
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Iāve tried watching this a bit during the run and I justā¦canāt. It reminds me of everything terrible about trivia / quiz bowl games from my school days, specifically the narrow and Victorian focus on particular topics. Hereās what Iām talking about:
English Literature / Novels / Authors, Poets & Playwrights, Theater, Opera, Classical Music, Western European History & Geography, British Monarchy, U.S. Presidentsā¦
Thatās a Whoās Who of the whitest mothafuckinā categories youāve ever seen (not of dentistry). I know these people and am familiar with their thinking b/c I was deep into this shit all throughout school. Itās the style of questions and topics you get from privileged white people who are petrified by the idea of English professors using rap lyrics in class and who recoil in horror at the ābarbaricā sport of boxing. Lot of slave drivers in that group who force kids onto pianos and shit.
Trebek opined back in 1995 when Maya Angelou boycotted the show:
Trebek says contestants on the show are indeed overwhelming white - and male - but through no lack of effort to recruit people of color.
āIt may well be that our (screening) test, which is made up of 50 questions, is culturally biased in favor of whites and against African Americans and other minorities,ā Trebek said.
Ya think?
"But I donāt know how you change that. Our audience is primarily Middle America, and that is primarily white. We have trouble attracting blacks to the program.
Uhhh. Well I have one idea Iāll come back to at the very end.
"We have placed ads in black newspapers, we have set up booths at NAACP conventions, trying to get people to just come out and take the test, but they donāt do it.
Hahaha.
āEven though we are not successful in attracting blacks to the program as contestants, we feature on a regular basis categories about famous black people,ā he said.
Lol what? The problem isnāt lack of some token Know Your Black Person category. Itās the fact that like 80% of the questions are white Western European influenced shit written by sticks-up-their-asses white people.
āWe are trying our darnedest to make America in general more aware of the accomplishments of black people in this country,ā he continued.
They have a complete misunderstanding of what the cultural bias is. Iām not a fan of SNL, but they do have an amazing ability to nail this stuff. Trebek couldnāt seem to figure out that the questions donāt just attract white people but a certain type of person. And no, I donāt mean racists, Iām saying the show selects for people who have learned that focusing on all of this super white trivia bullshit is how theyāll be rewarded. Itās a commentary on question selection in the same way the SAT and similar exams get shit on constantly these days.
Check out this episode of college Jeopardy!:
Or this embarrassing cricket symphony:
I like how the one lady says theyāre just ābook smartā because thatās exactly it:
We guessed that most of the authors would be white, but we were shocked by the extent of the inequality once we analyzed the data. Of the 7,124 books for which we identified the authorās race, 95 percent were written by white people.
Letās meet our writers shall we?
Look at this totally diverse crew. I can easily imagine a round that has two categories about Steve Jobs coming from this bunch. You know what I still canāt envision? A black host.
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Iām gonna assume for that Chappelle clip all 3 contestants were white, but I really wish we got to see for sure.
Thanks.
Matt got $83k today, does not come close to cracking the top 10.
Noticed Ken is listed as a āconsulting producerā.
He did at least break the non-James record.
Yeah, he started in that job last year before Alex died.
Lol, there was an Eraserhead clue today
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Thursdayās Final Jeopardy:
Total horseshit ruling
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Can you explain it? Normally they dont take off for misspellings, and it doesnt change the pronunciation really.