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Ginger Is A ConstructJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 10:40am
Celebrity Jeopardy questions are almost as dumbed down as high school Jeopardy questions and. yet. Michael Steele didn’t know PAKISTAN!!?!?!?!

It’s also interesting to see how celebrities who are famous for being “smart” react to being wrong, versus how “plebe” Jeopardy contestants react. The celebs clearly feel a lot more is at stake and get weirdly faux-humble (Frantzen) or defensive (Logan, Cooper) about what they get wrong. We get it Coop, you don’t speak Portugese. But the question is super basic.

In all my time watching Jeopardy I have NEVER seen anyone get as defensive with Trebek as Anderson Cooper did. Trebek chided Cooper for not answering in the form of a question (Cooper actually had) and Cooper aggressively shot back that he had. I turned to my partner (who is a teacher, like myself) and remarked that Cooper must have been an insufferable student.

ETA: And later this week Louis C.K. and Lewis Black are set to appear.
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  Ginger Is A ConstructGinger Is A Construct
  5/18/16 10:44am
  AND the charity Cooper was playing for was money for injured police dogs?!?!
  
  Sorry, I had a LOT of feelings about this, apparently.
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  VoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriverGinger Is A Construct
  5/18/16 10:48am
  Are you upset that was his charity? It’s not the police dog’s fault human cops can be racist shitheads.
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SideEye3Joanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 10:41am
When I was a teenager, my mom used to try to get me to sign up for Teen jeopardy. I never did. I was convinced I’d end up forgetting everything I know and looking like an idiot.

No ragrets.
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  Zyna-katSideEye3
  5/18/16 10:55am
  Everyone who's been on the show says it's less about what you know (because lots of people know lots of stuff) and more about how well you perform under pressure, and how well you recover from a wrong answer. Which means I would verily suck at Jeopardy.
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  Nom de pixelSideEye3
  5/18/16 11:22am
  I was always afraid of stage fright and the idea of screwing up in front of those cameras. Teenage me had self-confidence issues.
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artless.dodgerJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 10:50am
JF: I’ll take Quotable Quotes for $1,000, Alex.
AT: “The sleek warm neatness of her turds.”
JF: What is, Terrible Sex Scenes by Jonathan Franzen?
AT: <nods, leaves building, jumps off bridge>
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  Ginger Is A Constructartless.dodger
  5/18/16 10:54am
  I didn’t think that was real and then I googled it and I am so upset now.
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  artless.dodgerGinger Is A Construct
  5/18/16 10:59am
  I’m so sorry to have done that to you.
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Kate DriesJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 12:33pm

Do better friends.
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  Snacky_OnassisKate Dries
  5/18/16 1:49pm
  the buzzer is a bitch? next he’ll be saying he he the buzzer friendzoned him.
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  K8ridKate Dries
  5/18/16 3:10pm
  I agree completely with Michael Steele: the buzzer is a bitch. At least it was when I was a contestant earlier this year. Still, greatest experience of my life.
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VoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriverJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 10:42am
I thought it was hilarious when Steele couldn’t answer questions about the White House of The Chosen One, Ronny Regan. I expected Cooper to be able to do well on those political questions as well but he didn’t seem to know a lot of them.

Tonight we have Louis C.K and I want to know how you twist the definition of “power player” to include him. Dude is a very funny comic with a successful show and has done a lot of work trying to show men and white people who much privilege we have in life. But I don’t know if I would put him in the same level as Chuck Todd, whose TV show can make or break elections.
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  I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
  5/18/16 10:46am
  Normally I would agree, but considering all the supposed “smart” people are doing so poorly, I say he could easily be in their league. Also he probably won’t take it so hard when he gets one wrong.
  
  How great would it be if he beat all these pundits? I would get great joy out of seeing that.
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  Darmok eats Challah at 12NagraVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
  5/18/16 10:46am
  Chuck Todd can make or break elections? :(
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TheTwinzJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 12:28pm
So I was at this taping, and let me tell you - it was BANANAS. They do a practice round before taping officially begins to get everyone acclimated to the format. It became painfully clear immediately that Lara Logan had no idea what Jeopardy was and had never seen the show before. While everyone else was super serious, sprinkling in only a few quips here and there, she was raising her hand to answer questions, buzzing in without knowing the answer, and cracking jokes. She was acting so erratically that my family and I were honestly asking each other if she was doing shots in the green room before taping began - that’s how crazy she was acting.

The audience of D.C. nerds was mummering with concern over the nonsense occurring on stage - there was a serious buzz in the room. Coops took some time to explain the format of the show to Logan (answer in questions, don’t make jokes, etc.). I think that it really threw him off because he was killing it in the practice round, then totally flubbed the actual game.

The whole thing ran over time by about an hour due to Logan’s shenanigans and was painful to witness. Silver lining is that now I can say I was an eyewitness to a Jeopardy taping that was probably as close to one of the SNL Ferrell sketches as anyone will ever see.
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  SmedleyButlerTheTwinz
  5/18/16 2:04pm
  But were you really surprised these people didn’t have a clue?
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  SplatworthyTheTwinz
  5/18/16 2:08pm
  Not at all surprised about Lara Logan.
  
  http://gawker.com/lara-logan-s-h…
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JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 10:38am
Monday evening’s episode featured Chuck Todd, S.E. Cupp, and Jonathan Franzen.

Franzen: “I’ll take ‘Mansplaining’ for $1000, Alex”
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  Ginger Is A ConstructJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
  5/18/16 10:42am
  I was THRILLED when Cupp won. And it was glorious to watch Franzen beat himself up over not getting a Shakespeare question.
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  yousayclamato, joeJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
  5/18/16 10:49am
  Franzen: “I’ll take ‘I’m God’s gift to sexy chicks who wear glasses’ for $1,000.”
  
  Trebek: “Um?”
  
  Franzen: punches nearest woman
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I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 10:41am
I was just thinking that Hillary Clinton would probably do great on Jeopardy. However you feel about her politics, you can’t deny that woman knows her shit and I really feel like she has a photographic memory.
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  Darmok eats Challah at 12NagraI'm Fart and I'm Smunny
  5/18/16 10:46am
  Knows and handles it.
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  BlueBellyI'm Fart and I'm Smunny
  5/18/16 10:49am
  Though she’s brilliant (and significantly smarter than I am), I feel like she’d have a similar reaction to a Pop Culture category as me: Ugh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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The Noble RenardJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 10:46am
HOW DO YOU MICHAEL STEELE NOT GET PAKISTAN ON THE LAST ONE.

I mean for God’s sake they could have just rephrased the question as “Name the country between Afghanistan and India”
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  GELLA - LLAPThe Noble Renard
  5/18/16 10:47am
  he is a celebrity, he has people for that
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  Zyna-katThe Noble Renard
  5/18/16 10:48am
  They still might've missed it.
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LadyGuinJoanna Rothkopf
5/18/16 11:05am
I like plain old Jeopardy! If it’s Teacher’s Week, or Celebrity Week, or College Week, or Children’s Week, I skip it and always have. The difference now is that we have the Buzzr channel so instead of South Park reruns or flipping channels, I can turn into a 6 year old and watch old episodes of Press Your Luck! instead. RIP Peter Tomarkin.
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  KatMarloweLadyGuin
  5/18/16 12:37pm
  Have you seen the Press Your Luck! documentary? Basically, an ice cream truck driver studied video of the show for months, memorized the board’s patterns, and left with a ton o’ cash.
  
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  Sam BKatMarlowe
  5/18/16 12:40pm
  Wow, how did the ice cream truck hit the button without crushing the set
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