Are ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestants Really That Bad At Questions About Sports?
There’s a stereotype about Jeopardy! contestants: They can name the stars of 18th-century operas, but not the starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. It comes up again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. Despite 40 years and nearly 10,000 episodes, this 2018 clip, one of the most viewed Jeopardy! videos out there, may have the largest cultural footprint:
A lot of the appeal in this clip is certainly in how the late Alex Trebek, a former sports correspondent, needled the three contestants for their collective inability to make even one guess. But I think people also love the War of the Worlds irony of it all: These geniuses weren’t stopped by our toughest geography questions, but they couldn’t survive a simple question about the Minnesota Vikings.
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