Celebrity Jeopardy airs during primetime, so the writers are coming up with riskier categories. For example, Ken Jennings wanted to see if Melissa Peterman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Jackie Tohn can Name That “3” Some.
Well, I was hoping it was going to be clues about ménage à trois, throuples, or celebrity triangles. But it was not.
Even though I was disappointed it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be about, I got all of them correct. How did you do?
If you asked most people to name any modern-day scientists, they would mention Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye the Science Guy. We think of them as the two of the smartest people alive. Maybe we were wrong.
The astrophysicist decided to challenge his friend to the Reflex Challenge to see who had better reflexes. The answer is the Pluto demoter. But he had an advantage; he and his brother used to play Slap Jack all the time. So, Bill and Neil decided to try to see who is better at that one. The answer was the same.
Watching these great minds do childhood challenges made me, for the first time, realize that deGrasse Tyson did have the same science teachers as me in junior high school because those are the smartest things I could ever do in science class.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a renowned scientist who is so easy to love. However, he does his best to destroy things we learned in our childhoods.
For example, he demoted poor Pluto to a dwarf planet, proved that the sky in Titanic was wrong, and where Barbieland would be.
So what has he destroyed now? Ever since I was a little kid, I was told if we dug a hole through the center of the Earth, we would come out in China.
Well, the StarTalk host revealed that is not where we wind up. Instead, we would drown because we would come out in the Indian Ocean.
I don’t care what he says; I am still going to say it is China, and Pluto will always be the ninth planet in our solar system.
I have mentioned this before: I went to the same junior high school as him and had the same teachers, but we didn’t learn the same things. I also didn’t learn to dance from the teachers of our other alumni, Alfonso Ribeiro.
Before Neil deGrasse Tyson was telling us how the sun shines, he almost showed us where the sun doesn’t shine.
That’s right. He told Kelly Clarkson on her talk show today that he was a dancer before he was an astrophysicist. And he needed some money. So his dancemates told him he could earn a few extra bucks stripping.
Therefore, he went to check out what they did. For their first dance, they moved their bodies to Jerry Lee Lewis’ Great Balls of Fire. And their balls were literally on fire. At that moment, he decided to tutor math to make extra money. And poor Pluto suffered for that last-minute decision. As did all the ladies who missed out on seeing his planets.
Can I tell I went to the same JHS as him? It never made sense to me because we didn’t turn out smart people. However, now it makes more sense that he went to the same elementary school as Steven Tyler and Alfonso Ribeiro. No offense to them, but we are just more about performing than brains in Riverdale.
