# Life imitates an SNL skit; or, the utter idiocy of Celebrity Jeopardy! contestants **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-an-snl-skit-or-the-utter-idiocy-of-celebrity-jeopardy-contestants/415077 "2007-08-09T23:31:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-an-snl-skit-or-the-utter-idiocy-of-celebrity-jeopardy-contestants/415077/61 "2007-08-14T19:40:35Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] That was hilarious. I don’t remember who he was playing against, but as I recall they were a couple of old school Rock veterans who kept looking at each other in exasperation as McGrath proceeded to kick their asses. [/QUOTE] I remember it too. One of them was Joe Walsh (like George Clinton, he was just a little too fried to keep up). I can’t remember the other. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-an-snl-skit-or-the-utter-idiocy-of-celebrity-jeopardy-contestants/415077/62 "2007-08-14T21:03:24Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Just out of curiosity, was this before or after she got sober? [/QUOTE] Long before. She still had a career. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-an-snl-skit-or-the-utter-idiocy-of-celebrity-jeopardy-contestants/415077/63 "2007-08-14T21:05:50Z")
[QUOTE=Typo Knig] If you want to see **real** Jeopardy action, watch the College Tournament. Those kids are playing for scholarship money, and they do not mess around. They go right for the throat - and for the highest values clues. No watered-down questions here! [/QUOTE] What’s ironic is that they’ll hardly ever miss a question about Oppenheimer or Thomas Aquinas on the College Tournament but “gimme” questions about _PotC: World’s End_ or _My Chemical Romance_ will often go through the cracks. Very logical of course: to the kids who’d be selected for College Tournament the harder liberal arts knowledge is a fresh memory while they don’t have time to watch movies or listen to CDs. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-an-snl-skit-or-the-utter-idiocy-of-celebrity-jeopardy-contestants/415077/64 "2007-08-14T23:45:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] What’s ironic is that they’ll hardly ever miss a question about Oppenheimer or Thomas Aquinas on the College Tournament but “gimme” questions about _PotC: World’s End_ or _My Chemical Romance_ will often go through the cracks. Very logical of course: to the kids who’d be selected for College Tournament the harder liberal arts knowledge is a fresh memory while they don’t have time to watch movies or listen to CDs. [/QUOTE] Sports questions are always particularly funny, they could not be more out of their element. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-an-snl-skit-or-the-utter-idiocy-of-celebrity-jeopardy-contestants/415077/65 "2007-08-15T01:14:55Z")
I’d love to see CJ with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver as contestants–no dumbed down questions there! And Nancy Grace said “flamingo”–what a tool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-an-snl-skit-or-the-utter-idiocy-of-celebrity-jeopardy-contestants/415077.md?page=3)