How would you have fared on 21? Try these authenic questions
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frog-34 — 21 years ago(February 10, 2005 11:22 AM)
I got four of them wrong: 4, 8, 11, and 12.
And I think on the whole we are getting dumber as a country. Ten and twenty years ago on "Jeopardy" you'd see categories like "The American Revolution," "The Old Testament," "World Literature," "Word Origins," and so forth. I watched "Jeopardy" every day when I was a kid back in the '80s knowing that I would learn something. Today you get categories such as "Teens in the News," "2005 Cinema," and "If Shakespeare Wrote for the WB" (read, of course, by The Clue Crew).
Remember those "Celebrity Jeopardy" pieces they had on SNL a few years back with categories like "Things That Rhyme With the Letter S"? Not too far off the mark were they?
"[M]y fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended."George W. Bush, 1 May 2003 -
mark-1589 — 15 years ago(June 01, 2010 09:44 AM)
To be honest, I knew some (Nos. 7, 8, 12) from the film and from watching parts of the original clip on YouTube, but I would not have known them otherwise. Other than that I got questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10 right. Not so bad.
