Jeopardy is an educational show, and you are bound to learn something new if you watch it.
Case in point, yesterday, for the Final Jeopardy round Ken Jennings asked the contestants this Musical Theater answer, “The pair at the center of tumult in this long-running show were originally to be a Jewish girl and a Catholic Boy.”
My first thought was Fiddler on the Roof, but Chava falls for a non-Jewish man. So it can’t be that show. And then a lightbulb goes off in my head, and in a New York Jewish accent, I said aloud to myself, “West Side Story.” And I was correct.
Now, I want to see that version of the musical. Not that there is anything wrong with the one we saw with the Jets vs the Sharks. But the music would be so different. Oy, it would be so much different. Plus, it would be fun to see Barbara Streisand and Bette Middler fight for the lead role that will go to Rita Moreno.
One last note, I is smarter than Jennings, who didn’t know that Fiddler already had a mixed marriage. If I were a rich girl…
Amy Schneider is the Queen of Jeopardy. She won 39 consecutive games and $1.3 million during her reign on the game show.
Over the last week, she returned to compete in the Tournament of Champions, and she was the grand champion winning an additional $250,000 to her total.
Therefore, you would think she can win any trivia game. And you would be wrong. That is because she celebrated her Jeopardy win by going out. “Tonight I went out to bar trivia for the first time since my first Jeopardy appearance,” she wrote. “My team came in third.”
I am sure that all of the people who lost to her love reading that. I know it makes me feel better because my team won the last I played! I is smarter than her. However, if we played Jeopardy against each other, it would be like “Loser,” and I would be like, “Who is me?”
While you and I would totally destroy a category about Celebs on Jeopardy, the three contestants they had on yesterday could not. Matt, John, and Sam missed three of the answers in the category. I missed one. How many did you get correct?
If Jeopardy has more categories like this, then I might apply to be on the game show because I would finally have a chance of not ending the game with like -$1,000,000.
Yesterday, it was two years since we lost the wonderful Alex Trebek. Jeopardy didn’t want that to go unnoticed, so they gave him his own category on the show.
We learned things about him that even he didn’t know. But the one thing we do is that he was looking down from heaven, smiling over the contestants, answering stuff about him. And happy they didn’t know the answer to the $1,000 question either!
Long live Alex Trebek’s memory. The show will never be the same without you! Thank you for all the happy memories we have of you.
