Jeopardy category: Blogs + [now with audio]
Friday night was the final round of Jeopardy's Tournament of Champions. I was surprised to see that one of the categories for Double Jeopardy was "Blogs." Here are screen caps of each of the "answers"...read it, think of the correct question ("Who is...", etc.) and then click to see if you are correct. They're pretty easy if you know what a blog is, and not too hard even if you don't.
The contestant named Russ answered most of the questions ("questioned most of the answers?") in this category and went on to win the game and the entire tournament.
ps. Some people have suggested this is a hoax. It's not. Here's an mp3 to prove it.
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Various users reported problems viewing the images. If refreshing after a minute doesn't help, this page should:
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The caching service runs on port 8090, so if your firewall blocks that port, it might have blocked the images.
Thanks.
Your Coral stuff isn't working for me [...]
[fluffy: thanks...see explanation and "orginal files" link on backup page mentioned above. -adm]
Well you ain't Bad Santa, but you will do just fine in the meantime. Danke for the post and write on. tt- T.R.
Nope, definitely not a hoax! I remember flipping channels and stopping dead in my tracks when I heard "Blogs for $200"! Haha, it was a bit of a laugh..
The last image is not a screen shot of the Jeopardy answer; it's a photo of a woman of Oriental extraction holding her head with both hands, one top and one bottom.
correct... it's Margaret Cho... Celebs are getting into it more and more.