Jeopardy is an educational show. But most of the stuff they teach me I don’t care about. However, thanks to the category Musical Act Etymology, I was actually interested in the lesson that they taught me.
I learned that a singer from one of the rockingest bands came up with their name while reading books on UFOs. How out of the world is that? Do you know which band it is? I am not going to tell you. You are just going to have to watch the video above to find out.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the most successful Broadway producers of all time. Therefore, it would make sense that Jeopardy would give him his own category.
And if the producers of the game show are smart enough, they will ask him to read the answers to the contestants. And if Webber is smart enough, he will say yes. So they asked and he agreed to do it.
Yesterday, he made his Jeopardy debut, just like he made his Broadway debut in 1971. Can you guess which show was the first one of his to hit the Great White Way?
Ken Jennings is pretty serious on Jeopardy. However, on Jeopardy Masters, that is a different story.
The other day they had a category on the show called Recent Events. One of the answers was, “Subheads in a piece on this N.Y. Rep.: ‘Lied about where he went to…college’; ‘Allegedly swindled a disabled vet whose dog was dying’.”
The answer was George Santos, of course. Then Jennings added, “I don’t get to say this very much, ‘But George Santos is correct.'”
Me and ow. I felt that diss! And I love it. I can see Alex Trebek smiling down from above when he heard that!
Michael J. Fox has a documentary about his life on Apple TV+ called Still. We learned a lot about the beloved actor, but how much do we know about him?
That is what Jeopardy wanted to know. So they had him ask the contestants five questions about his career. How well do they know him? Alex P. Keaton was able to stump all of them once.
I have mentioned this before, but I am going to do it again. I went to the same Junior High School as Neil deGrasse Tyson. We might even have had the same science teachers. But only one of us barely passed that subject. And that was me.
So while we both went into the study of stars, his knowledge is much more important and interesting. That is why Jeopardy asked him to give the answers on the show with a category that is dedicated to the things he knows better than most people on Earth, The Universe.
It was not an easy category for the Jeopardy Masters and an impossible one for me. So while he went to PS 81 and had to travel to Manhattan to go to the Hayden Planetarium. My elementary school, PS 24, on the other end of Riverdale, had its own! Therefore, na-na-na! And yet he is the one that went into science and makes millions, and I only graduated because no teacher wanted to have me again!
Oh, and can we talk about the way he says Uranus? He says your-en-es, it is your-anus. Am I right?
