Found it on YouTube. Check it out quickly before it gets deleted.
I hate to sound like every nerd evAr who comments on Jeopardy, but those questions (“answers”) are ridiculously easy.
That’s typical of Celebrity Jeopardy. Celebrities are dumb and they want to look good by giving a lot to charity.
Hooray! I like to make a guess at the answer when they announce the final category. I get it once every bazillion times, but it’s a sweet victory when I do.
They’re even easier than the ones in the kid tournaments. I mean come on, “Two Letter Words”?
“Colors that rhyme with 'urple.”
Wut is laht urple?
“The Pen is Mightier”
Was “S-Words” one of the categories?
This link shows the two boards for this week’s celebrity game.
Never mind! That goes to the 1999 game. I can’t find the one for this week!
Here it is! J! Archive - Show #5749, aired 2009-09-17
It probably bears repeating that Wolf Blitzer wound up 4-grand or so in the hole at the end of Celebrity Jeopardy!
He probably should’ve simply dressed up like Burt Reynolds and gone for broke:
“This is the sound a doggie makes.”
(Chewing gum) “Yeah, who is Scooby Doo?”
“That’s incorrect.”
“No, that’s right. He drove around in a van and solved crimes. Had a little friend. Scrappy Doo…”
That set of questions was embarrassing. I think I knew 95% of them.
Yeah, but DAYAM, girl? Cute with the short cut on China Beach but now with the cascading auburn locks and nerd glasses?
Quick question: does anyone know if any of the celebrities lampooned on the many SNL Celebrity Jeopardy sketches have ever been on it themselves? Or if any of the comedians/actors/musical guests that PLAYED those celebs been on? I’m still waiting for the day either Sean Connery or even just Darrell Hannah.
Captured from Wikipedia before it gets edited:
On September 17, 2009, Richter appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy!, winning against the possibly retarded Wolf Blitzer and Dana Delaney, earning a total of $68,000 for St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis, and becoming the second highest single-day earner in the show’s history, behind only Ken Jennings.
Looking over the list of past contestants they seem to have raised the bar some recently, but the first few years would explain the cliche of doltish players. Well, them and Wolf Blitzer. But I would pwn Melissa Joan Hart or Isaac Mizrahi.
go andy! Go andy! Woot woot! Go andy!
If anybody can find the episode where Eartha Kitt played, I would love to see that again. She wasn’t dumb, exactly; she was . . . I can’t think of a word. “Extraterrestrial” might work, because we could then say “Earth to Eartha, Earth to Eartha.” She was so totally out of it I think her handlers told her she was going to be on Home Shopping Network pitching a new line of blenders.
There is a recap of Eartha Kitt’s 1996 game here. If you hover the mouse over the questions, you can see what each contestant answered. (She had a couple howlers, but so did the other contestants.) Eartha ended up with a negative $2,500, which puts her right at the Wolf Blitzer level (with point values being double what they were). For an Apollo astronaut, Buzz Aldrin didn’t come off as all that bright either. Of course, Aldrin was 66 at the time and poor Eartha was 69. I’m starting to have a hard time remembering things and I’m only in my thirties.
Oh, I’ve *met *Buzz Aldrin. He never came back from the moon.