Friday, June 27, 2008

Oh, Jeopardy...

Earlier this week Jeopardy had a category named "On the beach". All the questions were about Rio de Janeiro.

First of all, some of the questions were video questions, and the caption read "Rio de Janiero" under the name of the person speaking. Tacky! Nobody noticed? There were, like, 3 video questions, all with the same error!

Oh, and one of the questions was about the "celebration that happens every year in january" and the answer was Carnaval. Except that carnaval happens in February. Occasionally, VERY rarely, it could fall on January or March.

A while ago, they had drinking cheers around the world, and the word was "Nazdrowie". The woman said "what is Polish" and they said she got it wrong. They said the answer was Russian. Except that Nazdrowie IS Polish (hubby's family is Polish and always toast like that), plus Nazdrowie in Russian is not used as a drinking cheer!

For a trivia question that rewards incredibly smart contestants, that show is really letting me down. They should do better research!

Update: just found this.

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