Or alternatively, not to nerds like jeopardy contestants.
The two guy contestants were not sports fans at all. The woman knew a little. The question after they clearly didn’t know Paige was how many points is a safety worth? Guy 1: A very not confident “3?” No. Guy 2: “1?” No. Woman: “2?” Yes. but she didn’t say it with confidence either.
Neither in my opinion. The amount of people who don't have basic knowledge of popular sports in North America is a lot larger than one may believe. I come across examples of this consistently.So I watch Jeopardy sometimes and like most people I try to answer the questions. I’ll know a question every now and then until it comes to a sports category where I know almost all the questions. At the same time, I am often dumbfounded at how often the actual contestants know absolutely nothing about sports. But honestly, I’m not sure if that reflects badly on them or on me….
Yes, but I fantasize being able to run the table on both “Baseball” and “English Literature?”
Definitely on you....perhaps you should consider spending some time during the off season boning up on your physics, world geography and Medieval literature to provide us with more erudite post game analyses...I mean, it's very relevant....... just saying.So I watch Jeopardy sometimes and like most people I try to answer the questions. I’ll know a question every now and then until it comes to a sports category where I know almost all the questions. At the same time, I am often dumbfounded at how often the actual contestants know absolutely nothing about sports. But honestly, I’m not sure if that reflects badly on them or on me….
Oh man, that would be something.
Ok George.Yes, but I fantasize being able to run the table on both “Baseball” and “English Literature?”
and man, are they nerds.
I’m told that nerds are both cool and sexy these days…….
not the ones on Jeopardy!
Au contraire mon Ami. Ken Jennings, former Jeopardy Superchampion, and current Jeopardy host, is wildly popular among women, even though he is the married father of 2.
I guess everyone has different tastes! lol
If you ever watched the movie or read the book about J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the smartest individuals who ever lived, someone who was also, skinny, nerdy and odd looking with his corncob pipe and pork pie hat, he was both adored and pursued by 100’s of women throughout his adult life.
From time to time there will be a player that is sports savvy. For the most part the participants are big time nerds, who rarely take time to watch or care about sports. One of the biggest winners James Holzhauer, my spelling may be off, lived in Vegas and makes his living betting on sporting events, he has millions won on jeopardy I think his bets may have a few more zeroes now.
Someone finally said it!
A few years ago my wife and I invited a couple, relatively new friends of ours, over for dinner and to watch the Super Bowl. They readily agreed but did inform us that they weren’t big fans.
You think they are going to know anything about the WNBA?
A couple brothers I knew in high school were on Jeopardy. The oldest, I don't think won. The middle one won a couple games. Not sure if their younger brother was ever on it. (Didn't really know him, he was a few years younger.) Really smart family, IIRC their parents were college professors/teachers. Nerdiness increased from oldest to youngest.Has anyone on the Boneyard ever been on Jeopardy?
I have not, although one of my friends growing up was, many years ago. He did really well although he did not win. It was fun watching him. As a kid I never thought of him as especially knowledgeable and smart but he probably didn’t think I was the sharpest knife in the drawer either.
