Aaron Rodgers is on "Jeopardy!"!
Today, at 4:30 Central (that is, in 20 minutes).
Double exclamation point intended.
UPDATE: Spoiler:
Aaron won, despite his Daily Double loss on an easy question. He connected the name Steve Wozniak to IBM, rather than Apple. He knew the name of the actress who was in "The Princess Bride" — Robin Wright — and both Meade and I thought the look on his face suggested that he knew her... perhaps... really well. One of the other contestants was the husband of Gabby Giffords, and Giffords was in the audience, which made me feel like rooting for him, so she'd enjoy things, but I rooted for Aaron nonetheless. I realized early on that Aaron had an advantage: great hands. You know that buzzing in is key to winning on "Jeopardy!" None of the 3 got the Final Jeopardy answer, which required some lateral thinking. The category was "Business," and we were asked to identify 2 men from the early 20th century. It was a mistake to try to recognize them or just to name 2 important businessmen from that time. The key was that they were in motorcycle sidecars. If they'd just been on motorcycles, I think people would have gotten it, but I guess the show thought that would be too easy. They were Harley and Davidson. None of the 3 could identify Gregory Peck from a photograph, nor did any of them know the comic strip "Dilbert," or the 2 actresses in the movie "The Breakfast Club."
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AR: "I'll take "Football Felons for $200, Alex,"
AT: "The head of this cheesy football outfit also took a Patriotic approach to game balls."
AR: "Uhhhhhhhh....."
Well, he did graduate from UC Berkeley.
Aaron Rodgers, the admitted ball-inflation cheat?
I didn't know that Mark Kelly and Kevin O"Leary were gay.
I'm bummed I can't watch it. Oh well.
Aaron! How could you miss Harley and Davidson?
Just happened on it. Alex Trebek didn't pick up on Aaron picking #12. Rodgers won but blew two easy ones: Steve Wozniak was at Apple, not IBM! And the two turn of last Century dues in motorcycles were Harley and Davidson, Mr. Green Bay Packer.
"Alex Trebek didn't pick up on Aaron picking #12."
There was a category for each of the contestants. Shark Tank for the Shark Tank guy and something about outer space for the astronaut.
@bigfire
Rodgers didn't graduate from Cal. He declared for the draft after his junior year. Still a smart guy, tho.
Name seems familiar; no idea why, and don't care.
I love when folks don't care so much that they feel compelled to take time out of their day to let everyone know how much they don't care.
Yeah — Aaron missing Wozniak, Harley, and Davidson made me feel very... deflated.
The Robin Wright question was a gimme for Rodgers. Check out this article from nfl.com on 1/15/2015, "Aaron Rodgers loves quoting "The Princess Bride": http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000454546/printable/aaron-rodgers-loves-quoting-the-princess-bride
In addition to being a semi-obsessive Jeopardy fan, I'm also a Shark Tank fan (I probably shouldn't admit that). I was hoping for good things from Kevin O'Leary but was sorely disappointed. I noticed that on his name screen, he wrote "Mr. Wonderfull" [sic]. I thought, it's cute that he spelled it like that! After watching the show, I fear he thinks it's actually spelled like that.
Rodgers scored a very respectable 35 on the Wonderlic, the NFL IQ test.
Thanks, Debbie. That's so much more wholesome than what we were saying!
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