Fame is relative, apparently

[ed4ourgirls]

Was watching Jeopardy this evening and one of the clues was a picture of Paige. Who was she?

One contestant guessed Caitlin Clark. The other two contestants declined to hazard a guess.

(sigh)

 

[OldSchooler]

That was a shock. We tend to think Paige has one of the most recognizable faces in America. But not true. Only to nerds like us.

 

[Jaydumo20]

There are two types of people in the world: those who laughed when the heard the name Eva Longoria and those who laughed when they heard the name Evan Longoria.
The former would recognize Paige.

 

[CL82]

That was a shock. We tend to think Paige has one of the most recognizable faces in America. But not true. Only to nerds like us.

Or alternatively, not to nerds like jeopardy contestants.

 

[cwh20]

Was watching Jeopardy this evening and one of the clues was a picture of Paige. Who was she?

One contestant guessed Caitlin Clark. The other two contestants declined to hazard a guess.

(sigh)

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.

There are some brilliant Jeopardy contestants who have zero knowledge of sports. A famous episode had the contestants, all men, finish the first five categories with scores going higher and higher before having to pick the sports category. All six sports clues were read consecutively without one of them buzzing in once. Alex Trebec laughed about it. After the fourth question he asked if they really needed to bother to continue. The easy question being who coached the Cowboys for the first 28 years and featured the silhouette of Landry in his hat to the hardest being asked to come up with ‘The Purple People Eaters’ as the Vikings famed defensive nickname in the 70’s. Crickets all the way.

 

[oldude]

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….

 

[cancontent]

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….

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.

 

[oldude]

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.

Yes, but I fantasize being able to run the table on both “Baseball” and “English Literature?”

 

[BBallF]

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….

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.

 

[cancontent]

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.

Oh man, that would be something.

 

[meyers7]

Yes, but I fantasize being able to run the table on both “Baseball” and “English Literature?”

Ok George.

 

[Forego]

Clark is probably the only female basketball player the contestant ever heard of and took a guess. If the clue was a picture of a horse 99% of the contestants attempting an answer would say Secretariat because that is the only horse they ever heard of. The other 1% would probably answer Seabiscuit. Sixty years ago if you asked someone in the US to name a soccer player their answer would overwhelmingly be Pele.

 

[Vancat]

Or alternatively, not to nerds like jeopardy contestants.

and man, are they nerds.

 

[oldude]

and man, are they nerds.

I’m told that nerds are both cool and sexy these days…….

 

[Vancat]

I’m told that nerds are both cool and sexy these days…….

not the ones on Jeopardy!

 

[oldude]

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.

Of course Jennings has such an incredibly broad range of knowledge that I would expect he would know who Paige Bueckers is.

 

[Vancat]

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

 

[oldude]

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.

Now Oppenheimer did have a really big bomb………

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[BBallF]

That's insane. Caitlin Clark is probably the only womens basketball player he ever heard of.

 

[Blond D.]

Let us not forget, Jeopardy is not taped on the same day it is shown. Those shows could have been taped months in advance to allow the family and friends of the contestants to make plans to attend the taping. It might have been taped before Paige took the WNBA by storm.

 

[MooseJaw]

That was a shock. We tend to think Paige has one of the most recognizable faces in America. But not true. Only to nerds like us.

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.
James is an exemption to the nerd trend on Jeopardy. And yes, we are nerds of a different ilk. I'll take being a Husky nerd any day over being a Jeopardy nerd. We had a Jeopardy nerd in the family; it was like having a person from another country in the house.

 

[MilfordHusky]

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.

Now Oppenheimer did have a really big bomb………

Oppenheimer was The Bomb!

 

[MilfordHusky]

Let us not forget, Jeopardy is not taped on the same day it is shown. Those shows could have been taped months in advance to allow the family and friends of the contestants to make plans to attend the taping. It might have been taped before Paige took the WNBA by storm.

The taping is typically about 6 weeks in advance. It was likely early in the WNBA season, but obviously after the draft.

 

[cancontent]

Oppenheimer was The Bomb!

Someone finally said it!