Jeopardy thought that the contestant would sink their teeth into the category The Cinematic Vampire, with Nosferatu’s Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp asking the questions. However, they sucked, and not in a good way.
In their defense, that category was hard, and not in a good way.
It is almost that time of year when we get to find out which celebrities we are smarter than on Celebrity Jeopardy. Well, most of them, at least.
And it would be nice to know who is competing on the game show this season. Right? Entertainment Weekly revealed that they are: Ana Navarro (The View), Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Ms. Maisel), Neil deGrasse Tyson, Blake Anderson (Workaholics), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place), Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Seth Green (Robot Chicken), Max Greenfield (New Girl), Sean Gunn (Gilmore Girls), Camilla Luddington (Grey’s Anatomy), Natalie Morales (Dead to Me), Melissa Peterman (Happy’s Place), Roy Wood Jr. (The Daily Show), Brian Jordan Alvarez (English Teacher), W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America), Sherry Cola (Joy Ride), Chris Distefano (Benders), Omar J. Dorsey (Queen Sugar), Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Fortune Feimster (The Mindy Project), David Friedberg (All-In), Mina Kimes (ESPN’s Around The Horn), Phoebe Robinson (Everything’s Trash), Robin Thede (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Jackie Tohn (Nobody Wants This).
Who are you rooting for? I want my JHS alum, Neil deGrasse Tyson, to win. This way, I can say my JHS has a Dancing with the Stars champ and host, and a Celebrity Jeopardy champ because we can dance and we’s smart! Well, they can say that, and I can say I went to school with them. And this is all about me.
Celebrity Jeopardy with host Ken Jennings will return to ABC on January 9th.
I always joke that if I ever got on Jeopardy, I would get the worst score ever.
However, this Final Jeopardy clue gives me hope that I could get at least one question correctly.
What was this hard clue that all the contestants missed? It was, “A prop central to the title character on this ’60s sitcom began as a special edition whiskey decanter?”
What is it? One contestant didn’t guess, and the other two thought it was Dick Van Dyke.
How did none of them know that it was I Dream of Jeannie? It was so easy! Especially since the show has been airing nonstop since most of us were born.
So my friend and I have a thing about judging how smart we are. Basically, neither one of us is Jeopardy smart. However, she is Celebrity Jeopardy smart, while I am Jeopardy preschool smart.
Therefore, when we heard that Prime Video was giving us Pop Culture Jeopardy, we were like we have this. After watching the first three episodes, I can admit that I don’t. I lost my Pop Culture Crown, and I am not getting back.
Having said that, I will be watching more episodes. I might be stupid, but I like that feeling. Probably because I am comforted by Colin Jost’s hosting style. You can tell he is a natural at this, and he is having so much fun doing it. Well, not all the time. He didn’t like it when he had to read Rap lyrics. I never heard Alex Trebek or Ken Jennings complain like he did during that category. And that is what makes him funny. He also has a great and natural rapport with the contestants.
Thankfully, I am not a contestant because I don’t think anyone could do as bad as I would. But then again, I can bring two smarter friends with me. Because, unlike Jeopardy OG, they play in teams of three. So, there is always someone to have your back, and they can answer the questions I can’t.
On that note, the categories are interesting and creative. It is just the clues that are hard.
The winning team for each episode will be back to compete in the semi-finals early next year.
New episodes of Pop Culture Jeopardy stream on Wednesdays.
You know a movie is going to be huge when Jeopardy gives it its own category before it comes out. Therefore, Wicked is going to be defying gravity in theaters!
That is because Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, John M. Chu, and Jeff Goldblum all asked the contestants five questions witch, I am which, are related to their magical event.
Were the contestants Perfect with their answers, or is Wicked not Popular for that?
Watch and find out.
And for Christmas, Variety reposts that you will be able to watch a sing-along version of the musical in theaters.
By then, you will probably have seen this masterpiece so many times that you will not need the words on the screen to know every word to all of the songs.
