The annual Jeopardy Teen Tournament is on before SYTYCD and I’m watching it, both because i like Jeopardy and because I’m eating my dinner (which is a salad today) and I am pleased to report that these kids – who were effortlessly nailing all the answers and generally doing everything but wearing signs saying “One Day Soon I’m Going To Be Pretty Fucking Important And You’re Lucky That’s The Case” – did not know a single answer in the “Teen Choice Awards 2008” category. Like, not one of them at all. Multiple wrong guesses on every question.
Isn’t that terribly encouraging? I think that’s encouraging.
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Long ago, when dragons ruled the twilight sky and stars were bright and numerous, Jeopardy had categories like “Geography” and “Chemistry”.
sigh
It’s always cool to be a geek. Unless you actually try and talk to the cool people. Then that’s not cool.
Damn cool people.
Nice that someone finally mentioned Tasty Oreos name on the show.. kinda
I’d think that they put such categories in as a “gimme” for the odd normal kid that made it on the show. Except…
Normal kids do not end up on teen jeopardy. they just don’t.
Meh. I subscribe to the Stephen Fry philosophy that says you can know your Abba and your Mahler.
I felt sorry for that poor kid who answered Annie Frank.
What the hell is a Potent Potable anyway?
@PaulW: I think it means alcohol. Could be wrong.
Re: PaulW + RobotKeaton:
Yes. Alcohol.
“Potent” = Powerful
“Potable” = Something drinkable
I’ll take famous titties for four hundred.
Screw Jeopardy.
How many people (kids included) these days could answer a single question of Brady Physics on Remote Control?
you lucked out with that one then. i was watching an episode some time last week, and they absolutely NAILED all the current popculture questions.
Andrew W: the fact that I have “Song of the Earth” and “Gimme Gimme Gimme” on my youtube favorites suggests you may be right….
I always thought those pop culture categories mainly existed as ego boosts for the unwashed masses watching at home. “Well, these kids may be really smart and about to go off to some prestigious university and will likely start off making three times what I do, but at least I know stuff the don’t!”. These kids will answer any sort of chemistry, literature or physics question with ease, but you don’t want the show to feel like it’s too far beyond their target audience so you throw them a bone.
I remember watching the teen tournament as a kid and seeing the ‘gimme’ category as comic books… the kids were failing at simple questions like “This famous comic book spun off into the title ‘Fantastic Force'”. It wasn’t until later that I realized why they did it.
–Rawr
What is The Fantasic Four? I’ll take Comic Books for 400 Rawrasaur.
Fantastic Force? Wasn’t that the one with Franklin Richards aged to 20 years old and going by the name of Psi-Lord?
Also, I think a better FF question would be: “Which comic book character has a catch phrase of “Riiiiichaaaaards!”? Mainly because I think it would be funny to see Trebeck shout that.
This just reminded me of an, up till now, mostly repressed memory from elementary school, 4th or 5th grade, I think. We were having a class-wide trivia game, I think in teams, and I had known every answer up until my turn. I got the first audio question, which I imagine was supposed to be a gimme, “Name this song.” I was absolutely clueless. Never heard it before, I recognized the artist from his single that was always on the radio, but I didn’t own any contemporary albums (my house was a Beatles house, or musical theatre, or 70’s rock) so I didn’t know this one. I guessed, knowing it was wrong, and found out it was Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, by MC Hammer. At least I think that was the title, to this day I’ve never heard anything my MC Hammer except for “You Can’t Touch This.”
I’m fairly certain I got beat up later that day.
Blarg: “I’m fairly certain I got beat up later that day.”
That may explain the memory loss.