Speaking of Jeopardy!

[Robot_Arm]

Only person to win two Academy Awards for the same performance.

Harold Russell

[terentii]

I’m suitably impressed!

[kaylasdad99]

@terentii

One I can’t seem to forget, from maybe ten years ago:

ALEX TREBEK: You had scurvy when you were in college?

YOUNG FEMALE CONTESTANT: Yes. I had :bleeding gums. But I ate an orange and it went away.

When my high school crush went to University in 1975, she was on the meal plan, with the concession held by an institutional food supplier that owned a lot of restaurant chains. And she, along with a LOT of her fellow freshmen, actually GOT scurvy. This was before HIPAA, so the doctor didn’t hesitate to share the fact with her.

[kaylasdad99]

@jsc1953

I can speak from experience: if you give them 3 “interesting” anecdotes or details about yourself, they’ll pick the one that you don’t want to talk about on TV. And you don’t know which one they picked until the cameras are rolling.

Can you lie about your anecdote and just make something up?

[jsc1953]

I don’t see why not…I doubt they do serious vetting like a Cabinet nominee.

[MrAtoz]

I think that Ken Jennings has admitted that after awhile, he ran out of anecdotes and just made things up.