Word: jeopardyã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...writers. In the recent press accounts, the athlete is portrayed not only as the down-home charmer whose dog wears a bandana around its neck, but also as the conscientious bookworm who falls asleep contemplating chaos theory or what the most money you could win on “Jeopardy?? is, if all the Daily Doubles came at the end of the rounds. We are admonished for our “misconception” that these athletes only got into Harvard because they could “dribble a basketball.” But no one thinks that...
...hours learning about such obscurities. But a few pieces of truly context-free comic brilliance managed to shine through. The first was a running comparison of professors’ ratings on HotOrNot.com, and another was a rip-off of Saturday Night Lives’s “Celebrity Jeopardy?? with well-known professors in puppet form playing the brain-dead celebrity roles...
...keep their audiences tuning in. Luckily for “Jeopardy,” a condescending Canadian host and intelligent guests have made it the number one quiz show for 769 weeks. But, apparently, the big wigs are starting to freak out. This season, “Jeopardy?? is determined to make a splash running with its secret weapon: the Clue Crew. Instead of the regular text, a few times per show, a video clip featuring a member of the four-person crew will pop up on the screen. They’re cute, they?...
...looking into I-banking and consulting,” she says. “But I also knew that I loved to perform.” As she sat in the Barker Center drinking coffee one day a friend told her about the “Jeopardy?? contest. Instantly she set about making her three-minute videotape. She set up the camera by the Charles and, while getting strange stares from passersby—showed off her question asking talents. “I had someone hook me up to a static electricity machine to make the clue...
...singing skills to use for the show. “I’m loving it. We’ll see if the American people like it too,” says Lidskog, who vows to hold onto the job as long as “Jeopardy?? wants her around—although the former government concentrator does eventually want to become a political commentator, or combine politics and entertainment in some...