Jeopardy is in the mood for love, and that is how they are starting off 2023. They asked the contestants if they knew the famous movie lines from five romance films. And they did.
And I didn’t. That makes me realize I need to switch from Horror to Romance so my life will be more like the latter than the former.
Jeopardy wanted to see if the contestants knew who these Music Icons are, and they got them all right. Why? Because it is easy enough for people like us to know who they are. Did you know them as well as we did?
Us Americans know these movies as Ghostbusters and Grease, but in other countries, they are known as something else. So, Jeopardy wanted to see if the contestants can guess the correct title of a movie from the States in other places like China or Mexico. Did you do better than they did? I didn’t!
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?”
