Alex Trebek/Jeopardy Tribute Thread

I thought of this guy:

 

Sweet Fancy Moses, the Siskel & Ebert tweet right below that one.

 

Where do they find these idiots? Your best guess about two state capitols at high elevation and connected by a north-south interstate is Boston and Albany?

 

I was more annoyed that none of them knew any Beatles songs.

Bur yeah, Albany and Boston aren’t too close to Denver.

 

I noticed that, but it's just a function of time. The last Beatles album was what, 1970? That was 53 years ago.

If you asked some 30 year-olds in 1970 about the top musical act of 1917 (53 years from 1970) how would they do?

 

Good point. But if Jeopardy! is still around in 2523, those players better brush up on the Beatles just like today’s players cram on the works of Shakespeare.

 

That's always the comparison that jars the hell out of me.

We're as close to 1973 as 1973 was to 1923.

Whether it's songs or movies or TV shows, hardly a day goes by that I don't introduce a part of 1973 (or earlier) into my life. I watched Leave It to Beaver this morning. Caught some of an Andy Griffith Show episode last night. My all-time favorite song (Bridge Over Troubled Water) is from 1970.

We recently had a "Greatest sitcom episode of all time," thread, and my offering was one from 1965.

Were people my age in 1973 reminiscing about some great plays or books or songs from 1915? Hell, maybe they were.

 

I use that comparison as a measure of my life all of the time.

 

Her wager was actually dumber than her guess.

Also, the first placed person was up $2,500 with one $2,000 clue left. The only thing she needed to do was not guess wrongly and of course she buzzes in but the second placed contestant didn’t take what was a risk free shot.

 

Well, "The Sting" re-introduced Scott Joplin's rags to an entirely new audience. And Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation of "The Entertainer" ended up on the Billboard Charts. But no, for the most part, the '50s -- American Graffiti/Happy Days -- were sort of our idea of retro at the time.

And yes, when I talk about seeing Reggie Jackson and Tom Seaver in their primes, that's very much like listening to my grandfather talk about seeing Tris Speaker and Walter Johnson play.

 

This has been some of Chuck Klosterman's material lately, based on some guy on YouTube that does videos about time. That basically, over the long run of human history, everything compresses until eventually, you get like one musical act representing entire decades, or even centuries. For the 1900s, it's probably going to be The Beatles or Elvis.

 

I like the Stones much better than the Beatles.