October 02, 2004
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.
ps2. If you can't see the screenshots (which are cached by Coral): please wait a minute and refresh the page, or try this (less-interactive) page. If that doesn't work, leave a comment below...I'm interested in knowing whether Coral is working properly all the time. If you know something about caching services and browser configuration, and can explain why the images don't show up for everyone, please leave a note about that, too. Thanks.
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TV, Technology
posted by adm at October 2, 2004 11:40 AM
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Comments
Mostly good questions, except for that last one. Is [she] now considered a blogger of consequence, or were the Jeopardy research folks just looking for any recognizeable entertainment celebrity who has a blog?
Posted by: Susanna ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://thousandrobots.com/blog/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 4, 2004 04:17 PM
Various users reported problems viewing the images. If refreshing after a minute doesn't help, this page should:
http://thousandrobots.com/blog/files/jeopardy/backup.php
The caching service runs on port 8090, so if your firewall blocks that port, it might have blocked the images.
Thanks.
Posted by: ADM at October 4, 2004 05:06 PM
Your Coral stuff isn't working for me [...]
[fluffy: thanks...see explanation and "orginal files" link on backup page mentioned above. -adm]
Posted by: fluffy at October 4, 2004 11:55 PM
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.
Posted by: Tristan Reveur at October 10, 2004 06:49 AM
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..
Posted by: Stef at November 19, 2004 09:17 PM
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.
Posted by: the buck at November 24, 2004 12:52 PM
correct... it's Margaret Cho... Celebs are getting into it more and more.
Posted by: krinkvs at December 1, 2004 02:51 PM
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